"kinley" poems
We Live in FORT KINLEY
that we fit in so thinly
It is a very dark house
And there happens to be a mouse
We sit here night and day
While eating candy, we play
doll house and pick-up-stix
running around eating chex-mix
We Live in Fort Kinley
in which we fit so thinly
Apr 30, 2010
Apr 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM UTC
Thursday, December 10, 2009
she's growing
growing up right before my eyes
and its no surprise im growing too
i thought id be over this, but that's the first step
and i cant.
her feet are broken, and she cannot swim.
and how do i make her see it's okay to be,
tell me how
when the greats, o they have forgotten
and they have long sunk to the bottom
and the saints they have been demoralized
they know not the scent of their own blood
but kinley its okay to be
you are not forgotten
and you WILL NOT sink to the bottom
hold my hand and we will stand,
who will make a stand?
and we will shout to the sheep who thought it was better to be bought then free
kinley just you and me.
this pen and paper reap the paralyzing emotion i know too well
but i am preparing for a better tomorrow
just you and me we will stand
take back whats ours by our birth right
and i am a princess longing for a king
who just really wants to be a queen
and you know what i mean
kinley just you and me
i have short legs but i walk
you have a crooked mouth but you talk
and i want you to know even the barbies perched so high cant utter a word
and the cant dance this crooked dance
they cant whoop and holler
kinley we'll make it honest we can.
Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM UTC
Meet the boy standing on the stump
of a tree, (species undisclosed) lopped because
of reasons unknown, on the sidewalk,
towering over his shadow unrolled tenuously
like a policy behind him on the road littered
with mouldy cups, hired ants, ****** breathing-
you cannot find him on a GPS.
That would be delusional.
You can't meet him either. He's a service,
a tangy satisfaction that doesn't want dinner
until he goes back to his house,
plonks his backpack, bats his way to consequence-
rounds up his Kinley heart,
that limpid stare-ahead.
Jan 24, 2019
Jan 24, 2019 at 11:08 AM UTC