"jaywalker" poems
Everyday as I cross this road, here
you pass me flashing a sunny smile,
its magic, touches my being
changing this colorless life awhile.
At the broad display wall, a casual glance, I'd cast
and think"Such a smile would look nice over there"
Today, a miracle touched my heart with its feather,
your face in its liveliest best, on posters,
are displayed on the same wall I fantasied.
*The caption proclaimed:"She is the next big star"
This jaywalker never would see you hereafter.*
Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 12:14 AM UTC
I woke up on the right side of the bed but on the wrong side of the world
So it’s back to the drawing board again as it draws to a close
You cost me an arm and a leg and I broke a leg with the act that I put on
You jaywalked across my life the way that every story goes
Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
"You're a tongueless talker
You don't care what you say
You're a jaywalker and you just just walk away
And that's all you do
The clap of the fading out sound of your shoes"
- Elliott Smith's words (' Last Call' if you're interested). not my words . just the song in my head right now &how; I feel right now. RIP Elliott
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
so your feelings were hurt
you cried like you always do
one more night of sadness
one more night I just had to walk away
it occurred as I found myself
putting on my coat I want a drink
I crossed a busy street
hurrying to avoid traffic
a police officer drove by and warned me
no jaywalking.
I thought of you
I told the officer it was way too late for that.
Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 9:58 PM UTC
Dressed in all black clothes,
he used to love to stroll,
across the middle of roads,
basking in the night.
Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 11:57 PM UTC
*a sheeplish jaywalker
followed confidently by three others.*
I swim through people:
laps in the waves of arms
doggypaddle through
people and their backpacks
their breifcases, dufflebags
hockey sticks, saxophones, babies
mohawks, fauxhawks
pleas for change, professions of Christ.
offerings of pretzels and
poorly aged hotdogs
cheap sunglasses, perfume
not one, but two delirious people
drift to sleep on my shoulder.
I swim on.
Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 9:38 PM UTC
How grand is the spectacular NOW
Its decibels and magnitude are
larger than the last and the next.
Oh, how fantastic is the present
Taunting and freezing and plagiarising
I'd **** for another grand NOW.
-cj
Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
Little silver button,
Placebo for impatience
In the cross walk waiting room,
You are every negative coping mechanism
For every season that can’t go fast enough.
I’ll jaywalk this time.
Dec 19, 2019
Dec 19, 2019 at 4:05 AM UTC