"healthiest" poems
Faking Bad
In anticipation of my
Evaluation to be declared
Non Compos Mentos
I slept under a bridge
For three days
"Getting into character,"
But on the morning of
My intake interview
My hair fell perfectly,
I mean I looked like
A ******* rock star.
College girls on the bus
Were giving me their
Numbers and my skin,
Which I'd purposely sunburnt
And caked in the finest filth,
Glowed like an Australian
Chippendale dancer named Weegie
And even the female Assisstant D.A.
Who had busted me for vagrancy
Waved her ******* from
The third story building
Of the Courthouse.
No matter how much I
Tried to speak gibberish
Poetry and philosophical
Tracts spewed from my mouth.
Shuffling past the park
I beat eight
Grand Masters
At chess on move 1
Inadvertently I solved
The Phi Epsilom Theorem
By kicking stones
Into an algorythym.
When I arrived they didn't
Make me wait at all.
My caseworker giggled like
A schoolgirl while I told her
Each day was like an endless shift
In a Chinese fish- gutting
Sweatshop and every one of my fellow
Employees was motivationalist
Richard Simmons.
She ungirdled her enormous
**** and as they spilled
Like fishguts onto the desk
She began to howl
**** me, **** me, oh ****
Me right here in
Front of the open window
On State Street as everyone
Watches me ******* the strongest,
Healthiest, smartest, most popular,
Well-adjusted man in the world.
The rest of the examination was
Also a success.
But as I left the Mental HealthCenter
feeling marvelous
I accidentally bumped
An old woman with the door:
"Watch out you manic-depressive
Schizoid with Socially Avoidant
Features klutz."
-Thomas L. Vaultonburg
Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 5:05 PM UTC
Life has many milestones.
Each bringing a significant change to one's life.
Whether that be a birthday, a wedding, a child.
But it's difficult to admit the sadder milestones that we carry with us.
However these negative moments also have a significant effect on us.
This is my list of milestones I hate to admit.
But they have impacted me tramendously.
It's time I released them so I can look ahead.
Molested by a boy at age 4.
Countlessly ***** by my sister starting at age 5.
***** by my therapist at age 7.
Beat by my sister throughout childhood.
Bribed and verbally abused by my step father to condition me to keep my issues to myself.
Traumatized at 10 by my father and his ex due to a domestic abuse situation.
Almost drowned from my first public panic attack at age 16.
Harassed by a man at a concert at age 20.
Endured the hell that relationships always bring.
Attempted suicide twice at age 21.
And a man attempted to **** me at a party last week while I was intoxicated.
I know I'm not the only one with these difficult memories.
And knowing I'm not alone will always be my comfort.
But I'm letting it all out;
purging out the evil so I can be releaved.
And now my hope is to heal and become whole again in the healthiest way possible.
I can overcome these milestones.
I know I can.
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 12:33 AM UTC
If you visit google's home page today
You will see a Japanese man
Examining noodles with a microscope
Hahaha
Thank you Momofuku Ando!
For inventing Top Ramen
Although not the healthiest choice
Here are the sodium levels for each flavor
Top Ramen Oriental Flavor-- 800 mg 33% daily value
Top Ramen Beef Flavor-- 760 mg 32 % daily value
Top Ramen Chicken Flavor-- 910 mg 38% daily value
Top Ramen Shrimp Flavor-- 860 mg 36% daily value
Top Ramen Picante Beef Flavor-- 780 mg 32% daily value
Top Ramen Chili Flavor-- 760 mg 32% daily value
If you are watching your sodium levels
Stay away from the chicken and shrimp flavors
Lol!
Many college students
Throughout the past few decades
Have relied on Top Ramen
As they crammed for their exams
I have even indulged
And enjoyed Top Ramen
Once or twice
During my early college years
Mar 5, 2015
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
Dear life,
Let these closings of long battles
And roads of new exploration be my new path for a new serene normalcy.
May these paths lead to answers,
Answers of who I am.
It's been so long since I've been the real me it hurts to a pain staking degree.
Trying to remember what once was me.
Nothings normal, all I once knew is now forgotten and gone.
You cannot expect to accomplish a new road in life, without having the knowledge of how to overcome its new and demanding challenges. Simply its obstacles are to great to exceed without knowledge. And even scarier to face. Not knowing the unknowing being thrown to survive in the Lions den.
As a writer I write, my thoughts, feelings and dreams.
I feel like a caged animal
At a zoo, behind glass
Looking at my once life
Now held captive
From this disease.
I miss my old life, I progressed so far.
Able to challenge my strength of mind,body and soul
Each and every day.
Now that is gone.
Grateful yes I am
Sad and ****** off?
You better bet.
Although grateful, I am not in good standing with the life I lead now.
I never asked for this change, I loved my then life and only pleaded for the healthiest body. So I may be the best I could be in all strengths from muscular to mental.
I would love to see the old me and old life I once had.
I would apologize with all my might for whatever I did for it to stop accepting me.
Then maybe I would learn how to live this new resistant relationship I am in.
It's hard to accept that your own body is fighting its every move and with its every move it is literally chipping a little by little of your life and freedom away.
All you can do is wonder why and watch it pay severe tolls each day.
If I cannot return to the past then please may my future be at a level of any normalcy that my present future lacks.
For the sake of my mind and all who are a very important part of it.
Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2016 at 2:46 PM UTC
I feel like I should write
Though I'm not quite sure what to say
It seems like I feel everything so intensely
Until I try to capture it and it's gone
Words don't seem to work well these days
I'm really not even sure how I'm doing
I feel ready to have a successful week
Yet I also feel heavily disconnected from you
Maybe I am finally accepting my feelings for another
Allowing myself to explore the potential new flame
Maybe I felt held back by your distaste towards her
I realize now that it heavily tints my interactions with her
But it's not about her
And It's not about you
It's honestly about me
And the way I've been living
I have been so consumed by
Our love and all of this polyam drama
That I'm forgetting to live as an actual human
Forgetting that I exist without you too
I know it heavily affects you and
Stresses you out far more than I
So maybe this distance is for you too
Then again, you asked me not to pull away
What else can I do though
When you're consumed by another
And I feel empty and alone too often?
These feelings have led my life far too long already
So I'm stepping up my focus
I am working more on myself again
Because if somehow things get rough
I need to have someone to fall back on
For the first time ever
I've found the healthiest opportunity
The most reliable choice I should've made sooner
And it's me
I am my own foundation
My world exists through my own perception
So in the likely event of some sort of chaos
I am finally ready to catch myself
I will be ok regardless of circumstance
And that's extremely liberating
Mar 26, 2018
Mar 26, 2018 at 8:00 AM UTC
Dear Water,
I have found another drink my love. It's not you it's me. I just need some space for awhile. Lately I have been craving other drinks. Flavored drinks... I know fruit punch and lemonade are not the healthiest of choices, but I can't get them out of my head. At first it was just a sip, but one thing led to another and a sip turned into a gulp and a gulp into a 32oz cup.
You will always be my first and I will always remember you and use you as a means to judge my future beverages. After-all I carry with me 70% of you everywhere I go.
Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM UTC
I dream of you -
My skull all draped in leather and
Badly lit,
And your hands punch
The tusk of my cranium
To get me started.
I dream of you
Skulking around a videogame,
Stealing trolleys.
I dream of you,
Talking in a language
That doesn’t translate,
You’re laughing at something I’ve said,
And I’m laughing back,
Because I don't understand
That I don’t
Understand you.
I dream of you cooking a fry up and
saving me from
Spiders,
I dream of you
In all butterfly colours,
Stuck at one age,
Face changing,
Pixels smattering,
Digestive biscuit hair
Crumbling in the wake of
waking.
I dream of you playing dice in the corner,
Or running from bombs.
I dream that you are bigger than me,
Far bigger than you
Really are.
I dream of you,
Wet dreams of you,
******* me from behind
Like a gold shadow that I can’t touch,
And when I wake up,
I feel like I've done everything with you.
(I dream of my sister,
My father,
And you.
I dream of the healthiest people that I know.)
Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 8:08 PM UTC
This ring you gave me,
Why did you do it?
I just keep staring at it,
How can I keep it safe forever?
I know I have to,
Because soon you will be gone,
Why did god choose you?
Why do you have to go so far away?
Just to get even further away?
I watched you cry for the first time today,
As we all said our goodbyes,
You didn't deserve this,
Does grandpa ever cry with you?
Or does he try to stay strong for you?
Last year you were perfectly healthy,
Then suddenly you became sick,
we watch as you get sicker and sicker,
ALS gets worse and worse,
But i grew up with you my whole life,
I don't understand the way god works,
I just want you to be okay,
You deserve a second chance to make things right,
To be the healthiest ever,
Please,
Is it selfish to say,
Don't go?
Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 3:15 PM UTC
Perfection doesn’t exist
It’s a non-existing standard we can define by nothing more than our desperation and pursuit of completion
It’s deluding and is painful to bare, in fact letting of go of it opens up so many pores of acceptance and contentment without hindering ones ambition of aspiration
One shouldn’t go with the other
Perfection is not meant to go hand in hand with ambition
In fact the healthiest more achievable form of ambition is that which exist without the *********** of perfection in its walls and foundation
Ambition is healthy, the idea of perfection on the other hand is dangerous and so mythological that it causes a great deal of inadequacy to those that still hold on to its empty promises.
Let us produce great results, great being the profound collective exchange between good and bad, happy and sad, what is positive and what is negative
These are not opposing forces, that’s what perfection has convinced us of, they are parallel systems of reality that make and break it equally, as one cannot exist without the other in specific instance
Belief in perfection is as dangerous in a mentally ill person’s conviction to jump off a sky scrapper believing he can fly, it’s becomes more damaging the more we believe in it.
Perfection is not peaceful it is stagnant, it’s monotonous and deceptive
In fact perfection is cruel because it convinces is of a reality we seek and pursue when we can’t even imagine
It has no beginning nor an ending because that’d process and progress
Meaning perfection in a reality of progress never was and will never be but doesn’t want you to believe that, in fact the only thing that brought perfection into conception and gave it the nerve to even exist in our reality as the theory it exists on is the falsehood it’s made a home of in our hearts and in our souls, that’s why it’s hard to imagine but even harder to get rid of and eradicate.
Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 at 4:13 AM UTC
Drinking my turmeric tea
makes my mouth taste like vegan chicken soup
I spilled it on myself
so I’m committed for looking suddenly jaundice
Oh, ain’t that what they always what they do?
Mark the healthiest ones
as fatal or insane
Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 11:17 AM UTC
i put my eggs on the bottom of all my groceries.
i did it last time, and i'll do it again,
and i'll still act shocked when i open the carton and they've fallen apart.
i'll watch devastatingly as the yolk slips through my fingers;
i'll mourn for the money lost, mourn for the eggshells on my kitchen counter.
breakfast is the healthiest meal of the day, and mine is spread across my kitchen floor.
everyone walks on eggshells around me,
but i stomp on them.
i pour bacon grease on my legs;
the burn feels good for thirty minutes,
but the blisters become unbearable at thirty-one.
i didn't just spill the milk;
i poked a hole in the carton.
i watched it leak through, like blood seeping through a bandage;
i'm crying over spilled milk.
i'm always crying over spilled milk.
i want to grow out of this never ending stage of self sabotage;
i am the victim,
i am always the victim;
the child cries wolf and no one in town cares anymore;
the wolf can't be found,
because the child has swallowed it.
i am no good.
my kitchen is a mess,
i don't eat breakfast,
and i play the victim card like it's the only one left in the deck.
my groceries are in the dumpster out back;
i'm ravenous --
i'll eat you out of house and home.
Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 3:41 PM UTC
It's yet another virginal autumn
sliding through the
core of my esophagus,
the most bitter medication,
and the healthiest
to some "He" I've never met.
Let us all take a gander
at the undersexed ice queen,
turning his moans
into a frostbitten cackle
heard far past his grave
crafted with the polarizing
limestone of unintentional cynicism.
He sits at the bumper
of your public transportation system,
perfectly positioned in the middle,
so he can play God,
he jokes!
But it's because he loves people watching.
People watching
is not
people knowing;
people watching
is not
people loving.
Judgmental
is a barrier
same as those
elementary PSAs
about saying no to
strangers, also known as
creepy men with toupees
in decades-old station wagons;
these filthy humans,
all know that man,
all are his children,
all his faithful followers,
his filthy, faithful followers,
no sensual thoughts
will creep into my untouched oats
this grimy morning!
I will never
have dreams
in warm Equator-creeping nights
of making friction with their flesh,
even the boy,
the beautiful boy
standing savagely
on this public bus,
making the waves
pumping through this contraption
that makes up my frame
no longer stagnant,
rabid with the saliva
begging to drop
to commemorate
my loss for words
and my panting
need
for action.
His body is eternally dripping
with the juice of a hard man's labor
luminous vibrance through the skin,
the power of the Latin sun
in the drops of salt running
all the way
down his body
and I feel myself
recording his existence,
no name needed,
just his face
and body
in this rhythmic Orlando morning.
Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM UTC
Morbidly we wait
drool drops
Hydration for insects
They gag on the taste
The eyes need illumination
conclusions by way of structure fire
Ash covered and mechanic
These minds crave the edge
purveyors of our time
We breathe easy
glass separates the chaos
Structured and correct
rather observe than interact
When these walls shatter
and we gaze into that abyss once so distant
We finally see the irony of our curiosity
It touches the skin in numbing complexity
A malfunctioning brain spins dizzy
nerves become alien
No control
Still we deny
asking why?
Muscles go slack
eyes glaze for the fun house
Ink filled pages
Tell nights tragedies in the boldest of detail
More looks of longing
coffee over obituary breakfasts
Eyes slightly gleam with glee
victorious in an insect existence
We crave the ***** and the depraved
Even the healthiest of minds stops for the strange
So we wait for the new downfall
Never thinking we could be the ones next observed with primitive pleasure
One billion hungry souls screaming for more
Oct 24, 2016
Oct 24, 2016 at 1:26 PM UTC
Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is admit defeat, call uncle and walk away.
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 7:45 AM UTC
Remember,
people care about you
they think about you far more than you think they do
they see something that reminds them of you on the street or in a store and they smile because you are a great person and they love that they know you
knowing you makes them happy
knowing you might make them sad too, because sometimes people want more from you than you’re willing to give, but you shouldn’t dwell on making them upset because you are still great and you still bring more happiness to them on most days
sometimes people get sad and that’s not your fault
it is not your job to make a person feel better, and changing who you are just to make them feel better is just a false sense of loyalty that you’re showing them; and anyway, it is far more rewarding to nurture other people by being true to who you are because it is simultaneously nurturing yourself.
when you are sick, get as much affection as you possibly can and do not feel bad about it
tell someone you love them because you just do, not because you feel guilty, obligated or crave their approval
it’s not the end of the world if people don’t need you and it’s probably not the healthiest thing if they are constantly depending on you to clean their messy lives up all the time
you will never regret putting “go to the library” on your to-do list, even if you are swamped and stressed with other things to do; there is nothing quite like being among a whole world of books
don’t be embarrassed about your laugh or blowing your nose in public or even turning bright red when you do get embarrassed because there is nothing wrong with any of these things
you can be sincere or you can be manipulative, but remember that you know how it feels to be manipulated too
people **** you over all the time, but that just makes them people and you are just the same as these people because you do it too, so lighten up and see it’s not a big deal, but don’t let them walk all over you time and time again because that is just disrespectful to yourself
learn when to stay and when to walk away
you are awesome
Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 3:05 AM UTC
your laughter is interrupted
and the punch line crumbles onto your lap.
as you answer your phone
the chair hardens
svelte
to skeletal.
every corner in your bones
grinds
against every edge of wood.
as the earpiece exhales
the grey seeps in from the dusty dome
and a wheeze of cloudy cold
floats, foggy, over the sill
and freezes firm your loose lips
before a smile can stretch them.
you rise
and the door evaporates
at your touch
a droplet
to your violent,
expanding
gasps.
the croaking in your ear
feeble
but ‘fine’
traps your tongue
under stacks of pennies.
your heart
singular
sympathetic
beats fast enough for two
bodies.
you stand on frail, fractured leaves
and try to cram crutches
and buttresses
through a receiver,
but your fumbling fingers
won’t speak.
your neck buckles
and bends
under the heavy phone
call.
back inside
teetering on your bony seat
you try to sit on your hands
scoops of your scattered words
‘my leaving
was the healthiest thing
that has ever happened to her–’
foreign and
hollow.
Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 1:10 AM UTC
Hiding how you feel isn't lying.
In fact, for some people,
It's a form of surviving.
It may not be the healthiest way to heal;
Ignoring the pain and feelings
To the point It's not real.
But do whatever it takes
To see tomorrow.
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020 at 8:33 PM UTC
she dreams of him
strangers seated at long tables
repast in her residence
a wake awakening thoughts
eminent signs and symbols
of transitioning
she thought he was calling her
never imagined he would take her son
fourth of five
sixth of nine overall
seemingly the healthiest among them
a year and a month later
a series of medical mishaps
emergency rooms and hospitals
x-rays, ultra sounds and CT scans
tranfusions, colonoscopies and CT colonographies
he returns so often now
strangers in the house
awakening concerns
for a proper last will and testament
she no longer fears him
it's life's sufferings that frighten her
not a welcoming but a readiness
impeding her fight
she feels her time is near
Oct 28, 2011
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:29 PM UTC
"Babe, you were my last thought in 2014, and now you're my first thought in 2015...
I love you."
That's what I texted you last year, at midnight, on New Years Eve.
You replied with, "Aw, thanks."
It's December 28th, 2015, and I haven't gone a day this year without you on my mind.
I don't think anyone understands what I feel towards you, you especially don't.
I feel like at one point you might have loved me. Now I feel like you tolerate me, but even that can only last for so long.
I've spent a year loving someone who didn't love me back. I've spent a year trying to make things work, with someone who never cared to try. I don't think it was the healthiest year for me. But the thing is, I can't blame anyone for it. It's been my choice, and it always has been. I choose to make this year about you, I choose to put you first, I keep picking you.
Will 2016 be another year of you? I guess it's my choice, let's see what I pick.
Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM UTC
Appreciation is the key ingredient to cultivate healthy relationships. Healthy couples always appreciate each other in day-to-day life to show their commitment and love. They never miss an opportunity to give a loving appreciating remark to their partners.
Always Stay In Touch:
Healthy couples maintain their contact no matter how busy their schedules are. In our busy lives an unexpected text message, an admiring note or a phone call can have much deeper effects than we can realize.
Healthy couples always maintain their loving connection and don’t allow distances and busy routines to part them.
Being Happy is Their Priority:
For healthy couples being happy is much more important than being right. Leaving their egos behind they always strive to discover solutions. Instead of playing the blame game they choose compromise and compassion.
They Sleep Together:
Leave your arguments and battles behind before your crawl into bed. There are arguments and tensions but never take them with you to bed. Leave your negative emotions and anger behind.
Healthy couples suggest to always tell your partner that you love them before you go to sleep and this is especially applicable to the nights when u have an argument. A simple hug and a smile can result in sudden release of tension between couples.
Being Intimate:
Being intimate is essential to keep your relation alive. Healthy couples maintain their intimacy to prove that they cherish their relationship. Preserving your physical relation is vital for establishing healthy relation as a couple.
Being Patient And Respectful Towards Each Other:
No one is perfect. Even the healthiest couples are just two imperfect human beings. Being a perfect couple doesn’t mean that they are perfect in every way, in reality it is accepting and being patient to each other’s imperfections.
Healthy couples are always respectful towards each other’s shortcomings and they compliment limitations of their partner in a way that they look perfect as a couple.
Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 6:22 AM UTC
I was seduced by your tongue.
From the menu in it's ripe pink
bequeathed with syllables
of toxic waste pronounced;
production rivaling the healthiest liver
in this materialistic marketplace.
Still it is a delicate decadence
not for the faint-heart by recommendation
can only be served in it's ****** state
never preserved with age nor maturity
for it's zest for life can never be tainted
even when cooked
it still wags on and on....
churning more poison.
I placed my order
may the best man win,
I was not a coward.
Bon appetite.
Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 8:49 AM UTC
Life is of Motion
Even water itself is healthiest with movement
But Stillness
will always be necessary for reflection
Nov 24, 2022
Nov 24, 2022 at 3:49 AM UTC
You were leaving
with the first of the Springtime thaw.
I glued my feet and
now I'm stuck and you know that's all
we ever found
we knew how to do--
was just say fake "goodbyes,"
practice "I'll miss you's!"
We can sleep through our dreams
or die standing up
on the paths of same footprints'
same old sidewalks.
But the equinox came and you went nowhere
quick.
Sick of saying, "It's fine here..."
Think
I'm just sick
'cuz the healthiest ones hated us
and now they're all gone...
...I guess that's just luck.
Dumb luck.
I was leaving
we both knew that I wouldn't get far
before retreating
to you and to this asphalt
I've always walked.
We always knew how
to just fake fake "You're fine's."
Swallow fermented growls.
We'll just sleep through these dreams
of packing our stuff.
Write our hopes on punched tickets--
can't afford the bus.
When the equinox comes and we're still here--No
shit?--
We'll be convinced it's good here.
Think
we're just sick.
'Cuz the healthiest ones hated us
and now they're all gone...
...I guess that's just luck.
Dumb luck.
Stick together, squeeze the time in
with the snow falling down.
Do what we'd never get away with
when the Summer comes around,
When the cops patrol the streets
that the city won't plow
...I guess that's just luck.
Dumb luck.
Aug 16, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 at 9:45 AM UTC
Colors to fill
pages, I mean.
But the shades and the lines --
Oh! Well those don't really exist.
The lines, I mean.
They too
are just more and more pigment
a buildup of a gradient
into a darker strip
of grains of ink
or oil
or chalk
or graphite
or any other wonderful, God-given blessing of an artist's tool
It's been so long, she says.
I say.
Because, it is me in there.
This is no Being John Malkovich story.
Though those moments happen too.
What the hell was that, when it happened?
All of a sudden I felt controlled
like a robot
An outside force drove my movements & I
like a Sim
that's right, a Sim
(It was all around the same time in my life)
just felt someone else doing all the work
And I, a slave to this invisible master
felt terrified for lack of knowledge
I still maintain that it occurred
What was that?
Haven't thought of it in ages.
I remember the geometric colored shape-patterned paper
That little alcove
But I think it happened
at the old house too
Among those wood-paneled walls
I miss those.
Something pure, good, sturdy about them
But no, I couldn't have just imagined it
But it wasn't like now
When this unstoppable force is driving the words out of me
through the pen & onto the A5
No
It was more like a separate entity
whose presence I felt
making me do it
It? I mean everything
If only for a few moments
A trembling child I became
I was.
And I never figured it out
I think I told her
Musta mentioned it, right?
She always knew everything else
Up until recently, anyway
She's at a distance now
From no fault of her own -- I placed her there
And I worry
that she's fading
The only one there for me
Really there
With almost no judgment
Maybe not the healthiest thing for me
But there nonetheless
I must ask
And in days ahead write another poem
I'll tell you
You
My indeterminate reader
What she says
Because that kind of power
that kind of drive
was and is
the most terrifying thing I've
ever endured.
That included.
Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 6:35 PM UTC