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"microwave" poems
The router's a strobe light; I can't connect. The microwave fritzed, I can't heat. The circuit shut; guess no electricity. Ayo no technology. Let's talk ancient philosophy, NOT whether Beyonce is a feminist. Let's have a bonfire and roast meat cause none of us were vegan before this. Let's light candles in the streets. Pray batteries die on LCD screens. Cause we were alchemists before technology, the versed probing the multiverse, thrilled, lighting our golden embroidery on life. Now were just bored. Coy toys to tied strings, webs that touch everything, but the space between.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 2:31 PM UTC
Ayo no technology
I am the crushed cereal at the bottom of the box Your last clean pair of underwear you only wear on laundry day The popped balloon left in the balloon seller’s hand at The end of the day when he goes back to his One bedroom apartment and warms up soup in the microwave I am the last thing you want to watch on TV An infomercial or a re-run re-run of a show you don’t like I am the bit of soda left in the can That’s mixed with saliva and has no taste And most times you don’t drink it, so You just toss away the can with me still inside I am the wallpaper in a dentist office That no one buys except to paper dentist offices I am the crumbs you sweep under the rug I am that thing on craigslist that would be Perfect except for that one little thing wrong I am all those lonely things.
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Nov 1, 2010
Nov 1, 2010 at 6:38 PM UTC
I am all those lonely things
Is that what we wake up to every day? Fast food and gas stations are forever stamped in the corners of my eyes as they are looking through the glass of minimum wage to the red flashing lights of a man hoping to get back to his children safely. Is life is a pointed dagger then my blade is rusted and dull when I wonder why I even try some days. Do I dare defend my pride and still demand something more than this? Is this a call for engines in the air or wings made of wax? Death would be more alive than waking up to another day of shampoo commercials and microwave dinners. You are always whispering in my ear though dear and telling me that you're more than just a particle flown into my imagination from a world so oh very different than ours. Are your eyes as bright as I imagine? Will the glare from them blind me from the tax collectors whip and will your laughter drown out the screams of onlookers who are throwing peanuts through the bars at my feet? Will your kiss melt me and cause me to fall into wind like leaves in a storm, a tornado of color and beauty..? I lay in bed and my eyes close tightly, my breathing slows and thoughts drip into pits men drown themselves in, the murky waters of nihilistic cynicism... Though my hand will still not be closed around yours when the sun rises, the whisper lets me know you are still awake and searching for me too...
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:23 PM UTC
Whisper
--- I've done some research On cancer's cause Western medicine, Dr Oz. They don't have answers, I'm afraid. And the cure is in what GOD made. Cancer's vector? A simple virus. A parasite and a fungus. Candida overgrowth. Radiation. Stress. We all face this in the West. So are there answers? Well. Let's see. Tell me if you don't agree. Sodas should go down the drain They have sugar or aspertame. Sugar feeds cancer. Cut it out! I KNOW that this will make you pout But you can find nuts a tasty treat Find some that you like to eat! Say NO to coffee. All caffeine. Eat kale and other leafy greens. If you want nutrition saved Cut the cord on your microwave! They watered plants with water nuked They died. Nutrition down the tubes. So no TV dinners. Processed foods. No fruits or veggies grown GMOs. WHEAT is bad! And on it goes. So it may cost a little more? Shop your local health food store! What does it matter? What's cancer's cost? And your life will not be lost! If you tire of reading this There may be important things you miss... READ ON! NATURAL REMEDIES FOR CANCER Blackstrap molasses. 1 tablespoon Baking soda. 1 teaspoon Mix with a glass of water and drink. (Baking soda should be found at a health food store) Blackstrap molasses can also be used topically for skin cancer. Tincture of the husk of the Black walnut nut. 2 drops Tincture of clove. 2 drops Tincture of wormwood. 2 drops Mix in a glass of water and drink. Add lemon and honey. It'll taste better. IMPORTANT! DO NOT USE TAP OR BOTTLED WATER! Get distilled water and add Minerals in liquid form. Your health food store will have this. There are many herbs and spices Which help. There's iodine in common kelp. Turmeric Cucumin etc. VERY POWERFUL Soursop tea. Green tea sans caffeine Fresh vegetables of the rainbow... Colors are viamins! Vitamin supplements Especially B-17 If you can't find these in your Health food store ask them to order. Or go on Amazon and order.
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Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 4:07 PM UTC
Cure for Cancer?
--- I've done some research On cancer's cause Western medicine, Dr Oz. They don't have answers, I'm afraid. And the cure is in what GOD made. Cancer's vector? A simple virus. A parasite and a fungus. Candida overgrowth. Radiation. Stress. We all face this in the West. So are there answers? Well. Let's see. Tell me if you don't agree. Sodas should go down the drain They have sugar or aspertame. Sugar feeds cancer. Cut it out! I KNOW that this will make you pout But you can find nuts a tasty treat Find some that you like to eat! Say NO to coffee. All caffeine. Eat kale and other leafy greens. If you want nutrition saved Cut the cord on your microwave! They watered plants with water nuked They died. Nutrition down the tubes. So no TV dinners. Processed foods. No fruits or veggies grown GMOs. WHEAT is bad! And on it goes. So it may cost a little more? Shop your local health food store! What does it matter? What's cancer's cost? And your life will not be lost! If you tire of reading this There may be important things you miss... READ ON! NATURAL REMEDIES FOR CANCER Blackstrap molasses. 1 tablespoon Baking soda. 1 teaspoon Mix with a glass of water and drink. (Baking soda should be found at a health food store) Blackstrap molasses can also be used topically for skin cancer. Tincture of the husk of the Black walnut nut. 2 drops Tincture of clove. 2 drops Tincture of wormwood. 2 drops Mix in a glass of water and drink. Add lemon and honey. It'll taste better. IMPORTANT! DO NOT USE TAP OR BOTTLED WATER! Get distilled water and add Minerals in liquid form. Your health food store will have this. There are many herbs and spices Which help. There's iodine in common kelp. Turmeric Cucumin etc. VERY POWERFUL Soursop tea. Green tea sans caffeine Fresh vegetables of the rainbow... Colors are viamins! Vitamin supplements Especially B-17 If you can't find these in your Health food store ask them to order. Or go on Amazon and order.
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it's time for christmas baking whether you know how to or not the thing you must remember is that the oven gets quite hot it's not that i'm an imbesile or that my mind is set on slow there's things 'bout christmas baking that everyone should know turning up the temperature will not make things bake much quicker and you'll never get your baking done if you start hitting the liquor liquor helps but not that way it's for the the recipe...not you because the first drink goes down smooth it always tastes like two my icing stuck to everything it even melted on my cat the dog thought fluffy was his treat and that my friends was that metal in the microwave makes great sparks but doesn't cook in fact it's quite explosive if you take the time to look peanut butter rollups are easy and look cool but with so many kids allergic you can't sell them at the school the best way to do baking is to buy them from the store put them on a plate you own and don't say any more if people want the recipe say it's secret, you can't tell you're granny took it to her grave besides, they all do this as well take my advice on baking don't bake if you can buy because you'll never get it perfect no matter how you try.
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM UTC
christmas baking
Ceramic white, wood richly brown Smooth liquid....touching buds of taste Lips chasing chatter, slithering slogan sentences Arm reaching, lift off, exposing the pit, selecting Combination to the gestured shape, proposing Enlivening, trickling conversation tripping To my left.  A phone, pressing snugly, ear Tuned up, alerted, filtering the microwave Throng.  With welcome warmth, thaw began Icy film packaging a heart temporarily beat Free, playing, fraternising.....roulette with Russia
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM UTC
A happening by chance
My aged mum excitedly points outside White flowers burst open bright overnight She says they look like popcorn I love her metaphor and play along Flowers white like popcorn bright Tickled by the heat of the micro light Mum speaks of small things in her big age Sun, rain, wind, hot, cold, quite days The unrelenting pain in her legs and memories of things she could once do with ease She speaks of the coming and going of mischievous monkeys real monkeys - not metaphors She tells of how they brazenly steal her fruit when she is alone at home - teasing her as they walk backwards out the glass door slinging their stolen bananas like a colt 44 My mum sits across from me the sun gently brushes her short silver grey strands of hair Today she wears a pretty pink dress - patterned bright with pretty pink and blue flowers - reflection of the pretty flowers outside She sits in serenity - she is at peace - inside My niece pops corn in the microwave My sisters biryani fills the hungry air My brother in law awaits his birthday party I am at home The pretty white flowers silently blossom in the yard I sit across from my metaphor mum My poet, my muse, my loving bard Stanley Arumugam Richards Bay
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Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 1:51 PM UTC
Flowers like popcorn
Skyscrapers and mango trees wearing boxer briefs. The tantalizing wind blows caressing paperclips and mortuary signs— turning them indigo red for we all know that dead bodies are nothing but dead. Hymns of love and soliloquies of the unconscious ego— Id of our time but men of the past be our hero. Leaving to wonder, if king Nebuchadnezzar was a crack-feign would Coca Cola still educate penguins on the importance of Lesbian Existence? For in this war of life, cockroaches are the real winners, and the taste of excellence is only reserved for fire extinguishers — so if nuclear clouds persist, let the fire burn with love and you lay on the bed of oblivion cuddling the moral that capitalism leads to schizophrenia. So insure your sanity for free 99, this, with warm regards from yours truly,                                                                              Rhizome of Golgotha.
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 8:19 PM UTC
Love Letter to a Microwave
This was just published so it is copyright 2015 by Holy Cow Press ~ mce Poverty is the fence around your life. Poverty wakes you up at 4 AM only to whisper meaningless slogans in your ear. It is the school of Piranha nibbling at the back of your brain. It is two hours waiting in the anteroom of despair for $22 worth of food stamps and being glad to be there. It is changing your phone number frequently because bill collectors are such boring conversationalists. It is the empty space your heels used to fill. It is letting your hair grow long and scraggly and your grizzled beard sprout because you know that although you sleep in rented rooms tonight, the street is not far off, and you want to fit in when you arrive. Poverty scalds the lint from your pockets. It is your private Treblinka within which you rage but are crushed. It is desperate prayers against dental catastrophes, blown tires, surprises of any sort. Poverty is when everything you own is frayed including your nerves from sleepless moments spent trying to solve the equation that will make X number of dollars cover X + ? number of bills, knowing that such math would defeat Newton or Einstein. Poverty is eying the cat's kibble imagining that with a bit of sugar and a splash of milk it might be fine and then eyeballing the cat himself thinking of protein of last resort and trying not to measure him against the microwave door. You ration your cigarettes; whiskey is a fading memory. Passing a diner on the street, you catch a whiff of burgers too expensive to consider and experience a Pavlovian moment. Poverty is trying to keep your head up and then remembering you pawned your neck. Poverty is watching the needle eat your last few gallons of gas. Poverty is the archeology of despair. It portends the death of irony. There is nothing ironic about a car with 217,000 miles and no insurance on it. Facts are facts in the world of poverty. Poverty is the last quarter reclaimed from beneath the cushions. It is too much time and not enough quarters. It is the specious logic of the self-righteous proclaiming that you deserve to be poor because you are, which in Amerika passes for wisdom. Poverty makes each day like the next because nothing does not vary. It is who you are and where you are going, although you won't get far. It is the life you lead inside the fence. It is the sum of what you lack. It just is. - mce
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 7:54 PM UTC
Poverty At Sixty
This was just published so it is copyright 2015 by Holy Cow Press ~ mce Poverty is the fence around your life. Poverty wakes you up at 4 AM only to whisper meaningless slogans in your ear. It is the school of Piranha nibbling at the back of your brain. It is two hours waiting in the anteroom of despair for $22 worth of food stamps and being glad to be there. It is changing your phone number frequently because bill collectors are such boring conversationalists. It is the empty space your heels used to fill. It is letting your hair grow long and scraggly and your grizzled beard sprout because you know that although you sleep in rented rooms tonight, the street is not far off, and you want to fit in when you arrive. Poverty scalds the lint from your pockets. It is your private Treblinka within which you rage but are crushed. It is desperate prayers against dental catastrophes, blown tires, surprises of any sort. Poverty is when everything you own is frayed including your nerves from sleepless moments spent trying to solve the equation that will make X number of dollars cover X + ? number of bills, knowing that such math would defeat Newton or Einstein. Poverty is eying the cat's kibble imagining that with a bit of sugar and a splash of milk it might be fine and then eyeballing the cat himself thinking of protein of last resort and trying not to measure him against the microwave door. You ration your cigarettes; whiskey is a fading memory. Passing a diner on the street, you catch a whiff of burgers too expensive to consider and experience a Pavlovian moment. Poverty is trying to keep your head up and then remembering you pawned your neck. Poverty is watching the needle eat your last few gallons of gas. Poverty is the archeology of despair. It portends the death of irony. There is nothing ironic about a car with 217,000 miles and no insurance on it. Facts are facts in the world of poverty. Poverty is the last quarter reclaimed from beneath the cushions. It is too much time and not enough quarters. It is the specious logic of the self-righteous proclaiming that you deserve to be poor because you are, which in Amerika passes for wisdom. Poverty makes each day like the next because nothing does not vary. It is who you are and where you are going, although you won't get far. It is the life you lead inside the fence. It is the sum of what you lack. It just is. - mce
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Tomato: Big, juicy, red INSANE! Sneaks up upon unsuspecting Unreliable MATH TUTORS! A terrible fight ensues! Tomato or tutor? Tutor or tomato? Tomato knows no math. Tutor has no seeds. A standoff. Tutor and tomato growl menacingly, Circling one another Like two pieces of meat On a microwave turntable. Suddenly, their rhythmic dance of Hate Is broken By the rhythmic sound of incoming Imminent Inescapable Doom. Tutor and tomato are trampled Like a TV dinner On the freeway.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 7:29 PM UTC
Tomato
In the microwave or oven roasted A simple snack to have or full blown meal Eat them at home or where wine is toasted After a bag, hunger you will not feel A calzone and ravioli it's not Packed with flavour, pepperoni and cheese A roll as delicious as it is hot An oral ****** each bite'l release Totinos Pizza Rolls, the perfect snack Ev'ry piece what a wonderful delight It's like Christmas when you get a new pack I'm telling you boy, they are out of sight! If there is one thing that I regret It's knock off Totinos, never forget
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Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018 at 12:48 AM UTC
Totino's Pizza Rolls Sonnet #1
I see how white light startles. I snapped a pic and she spun in circles. She wanted a photograph to cover her mother's epitaph, so she could have a laugh. She smoked to get away - but this isn't what'd she say, exhaling, "All we are is carbon and a lack of empathy." We blended into hues of microwave dinners and church alters. I used to tell her to go just to halt her. We prayed to get away - but that's not what we'd say, whispering, "Help us be more than carbon and a lack of empathy."
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 8:20 PM UTC
Carbon and a Lack of Empathy
two days before we loaded the car with what seemed like the entirety of my heart and belongings to move me across the state to attend college, my baby brother found me on the kitchen floor, crying about the microwave. well, not just the microwave. he found me in a crumpled up heap, sobbing that this day would be the last i had to microwave things in this particular microwave. i couldn’t justify my lament then. my dad chalked it up to *** my brother called me a drama queen, and my mom told me i needed to eat less microwaveable things. but i think i might’ve figured it out now. five months later. y’see, i grew up an ARMY brat. attended five different elementary schools, two separate middle schools, one high school, and two colleges. i was never good at saying goodbye, but i’m a pro at walking away. i found out quickly that while the faces and names of my friends and classmates change from state to state, the character tropes stay basically the same. people and places become such replaceable things. i worry, a lot, about being a replaceable thing. there are talented people in this world. people that can divine the past and future from coffee grounds and tea leaves. but can anyone here tell me what kinds of awful things my footsteps say about me? there are boot marks, with my name on them, in places i know i should never have been. and clumps of dirt stuck to my heels that have been with me longer than some friends have. i sat on the floor last night while my love explained physics to me. he told me that gravity is a constant force, and of course, the earth’s gravity affects each and every one of us. but our individual gravity affects the earth as well. according to newton’s third law, the earth pulls of me with the same force that i pull on the earth. my mass disrupts space time. carl sagan once told me through the clarifying prism of the television screen, that we are all stardust, collapsed suns and black matter. we belong to no place. i belong to no place. i belong to no place. i don’t cry about the microwave anymore, i don’t waste my tears on saying goodbye. i know that every thing and every one has their time, and sometimes that time is brief. it’s a hard pill to swallow, ultimately my favorite self descriptor is ‘infallible’. but somedays, i fall just to stand up and see: the sun still rises, the earth still turns, the microwave still makes bomb-ass chicken nuggets, and i am still here.
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Nov 16, 2016
Nov 16, 2016 at 11:28 AM UTC
chicken nuggets
two days before we loaded the car with what seemed like the entirety of my heart and belongings to move me across the state to attend college, my baby brother found me on the kitchen floor, crying about the microwave. well, not just the microwave. he found me in a crumpled up heap, sobbing that this day would be the last i had to microwave things in this particular microwave. i couldn’t justify my lament then. my dad chalked it up to *** my brother called me a drama queen, and my mom told me i needed to eat less microwaveable things. but i think i might’ve figured it out now. five months later. y’see, i grew up an ARMY brat. attended five different elementary schools, two separate middle schools, one high school, and two colleges. i was never good at saying goodbye, but i’m a pro at walking away. i found out quickly that while the faces and names of my friends and classmates change from state to state, the character tropes stay basically the same. people and places become such replaceable things. i worry, a lot, about being a replaceable thing. there are talented people in this world. people that can divine the past and future from coffee grounds and tea leaves. but can anyone here tell me what kinds of awful things my footsteps say about me? there are boot marks, with my name on them, in places i know i should never have been. and clumps of dirt stuck to my heels that have been with me longer than some friends have. i sat on the floor last night while my love explained physics to me. he told me that gravity is a constant force, and of course, the earth’s gravity affects each and every one of us. but our individual gravity affects the earth as well. according to newton’s third law, the earth pulls of me with the same force that i pull on the earth. my mass disrupts space time. carl sagan once told me through the clarifying prism of the television screen, that we are all stardust, collapsed suns and black matter. we belong to no place. i belong to no place. i belong to no place. i don’t cry about the microwave anymore, i don’t waste my tears on saying goodbye. i know that every thing and every one has their time, and sometimes that time is brief. it’s a hard pill to swallow, ultimately my favorite self descriptor is ‘infallible’. but somedays, i fall just to stand up and see: the sun still rises, the earth still turns, the microwave still makes bomb-ass chicken nuggets, and i am still here.
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Babies in the microwave Babies in the oven Babies in a shallow grave Babies need your lovin' Babies smoking cigarettes Babies cursing with tourette's Babies in the garbage can Babies on the ceiling fan Babies reading Dostoevsky Babies cruising on a jet ski Babies naked on the beach Babies fuzzy like a peach Babies crying cuz you hurt them Babies take it cuz they must Babies lying cuz you hurt them Babies I will never trust Babies all of us once were Babies drooling on the fur Babies in the soup we stir Babies life is all a blur.
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Aug 26, 2012
Aug 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM UTC
Babies
Penelope Cruz Used to muse On the use Of oversized microwave ovens In the covens Of Barcelona. Give them their due They know how to imbue Broomsticks with fresh belladonna!
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM UTC
Penelope Cruz On The Idiosyncratic Use Of Broomsticks
What if your brain was just a small packet of popcorn that desperately needed a microwave. What if it refuses to operate until you show it some love- Let it open itself up. What if all it wanted was to feel a little more lightweight- 'pop' away the pressure of being confined to a head-cage. What if our brains Were just raw popcorn pieces That needed some heating To melt away the pain.
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Jun 10, 2016
Jun 10, 2016 at 2:59 PM UTC
Microwave popcorn
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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Nov 9, 2018
Nov 9, 2018 at 10:48 PM UTC
Spilled Milk ~a long story~
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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Aging is confusing How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are Microwave ovens Kitchen range timers Updates too Timers all around ticking down ticking down our time You might think of this as you make your rounds Sunrises Sunsets Good morning Goodnight 5 minutes to go Forty seconds I know Ding goes the timer Another day is done I guess in the end it's five four three two one.
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Feb 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018 at 9:20 PM UTC
Timers ticking down
/I dreamed that wrinkled fingers pointed me backward down the road to teach me about faith./ there’s this plastic imitation leather peeling off of my steering wheel and it caught the edge of my chin tonight: like a fingernail if I closed my eyes. I re-find that people are flawed, that I value flaws in a certain lilt or lighting— I fall deeply in love with confidence like that but fail to pull it to my own cheeks. we’re microwave dinners, have you noticed that? showcasing our dreams in caricatures we later regret. we’re rotating in heat—pressurizing for perfection, warming our raw insides to blend with what we see. (it felt like a fingernail if I closed my eyes.) spines are expressive—they make us easier to read. no spine is more inclined to bring eyes the rising sun than yours. our spines are expressive—they make us easier to write.
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 9:11 PM UTC
if I was a janitor for the rest of my life I’d be happier than your teacup yorkie
It was a Friday night, I was on the phone with my grandmother when I looked at the clock suddenly remembered, it was time for the ritual. I immediately hung up on my grandmother, and stripped of my clothing. The ritual required I be naked. I then took some goat cheese out of my refrigerator, and put it in the microwave. I waited. The goat cheese seemed like it took forever to melt, but it only took a few minutes. In those few minutes, I just sat there, and played with my left ****** Finally, the timer went off, and it was done. I took the melted goat cheese, and poured it onto my body. It burned, but I suffered through it. I would do anything for the Goat Gods. Anything. Once the melted goat cheese was poured onto my body, I began to lather myself in it. Soon, I was covered in melted goat cheese. The smell, was horrendous, but in a way, I enjoyed it. Then, I removed the goat blood from my refrigerator, and poured it into a *** which had been on the oven all day, waiting. I began to boil the goat blood. I took a sip of it. "No" I said as a shook my head in disappointment. I had been ripped off again by my goat blood dealer. There was no flavoring in it. It tasted like goat blood. So I threw in some carrots, and a dollop of horse radish. While it was boiling, I went to my bedroom, to my closet, where I found my goat mask. A real goats head I had carved out and made into a mask. I put it on. When I had it on, I felt like one with the Goat Gods. When I returned, the goat blood was done. I poured it into a Tupperware container, sealed it, and put on my shoes. By now, the once hot and slimy goat cheese, was dried, and stuck to my body. It was crusty, like the crusties you get in your eyes, just all over your body. I walked out the front door, across the street, to my neighbors house. I tried to open the front door. Locked. They knew I was coming this time. Last week, they forgot. So I left the goat blood on their front steps, and left. When I got home, I immediately went to the TV, sat down, and turned on "Antique Roadshow". I looked out my window, and saw my nervous neighbor grab the goat blood, and bring it inside. "Soon they will join the Goat Side" I said as I repeated it to myself, "Soon they will join the Goat Side".
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Apr 4, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 at 7:55 PM UTC
Goat Blood
It was a Friday night, I was on the phone with my grandmother when I looked at the clock suddenly remembered, it was time for the ritual. I immediately hung up on my grandmother, and stripped of my clothing. The ritual required I be naked. I then took some goat cheese out of my refrigerator, and put it in the microwave. I waited. The goat cheese seemed like it took forever to melt, but it only took a few minutes. In those few minutes, I just sat there, and played with my left ****** Finally, the timer went off, and it was done. I took the melted goat cheese, and poured it onto my body. It burned, but I suffered through it. I would do anything for the Goat Gods. Anything. Once the melted goat cheese was poured onto my body, I began to lather myself in it. Soon, I was covered in melted goat cheese. The smell, was horrendous, but in a way, I enjoyed it. Then, I removed the goat blood from my refrigerator, and poured it into a *** which had been on the oven all day, waiting. I began to boil the goat blood. I took a sip of it. "No" I said as a shook my head in disappointment. I had been ripped off again by my goat blood dealer. There was no flavoring in it. It tasted like goat blood. So I threw in some carrots, and a dollop of horse radish. While it was boiling, I went to my bedroom, to my closet, where I found my goat mask. A real goats head I had carved out and made into a mask. I put it on. When I had it on, I felt like one with the Goat Gods. When I returned, the goat blood was done. I poured it into a Tupperware container, sealed it, and put on my shoes. By now, the once hot and slimy goat cheese, was dried, and stuck to my body. It was crusty, like the crusties you get in your eyes, just all over your body. I walked out the front door, across the street, to my neighbors house. I tried to open the front door. Locked. They knew I was coming this time. Last week, they forgot. So I left the goat blood on their front steps, and left. When I got home, I immediately went to the TV, sat down, and turned on "Antique Roadshow". I looked out my window, and saw my nervous neighbor grab the goat blood, and bring it inside. "Soon they will join the Goat Side" I said as I repeated it to myself, "Soon they will join the Goat Side".
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a grandchild    for her 9th birthday very happy     to be away from her older    as well as her younger sister   for a while spent a  long weekend with her grands    they picked her up    schoolbag and bathing suit    and guitar & everything else she had already mentioned    that French Toast for breakfast would be REALLY nice and that’s what she got together with chocolate milk    1 minute in the microwave,    according to her wish patiently reading her book while the oldies got their act together    in their slow morning routine they all went birthday shopping    & out for lunch she read her book again while the oldies     were snoring their nap & then they all had great fun     swimming and horsing around in the public pool watching some TV      & improving her ping-pong game happy & tired after dinner some goodnight reading doughnuts and hot chocolate for breakfast next morning    and then     with grandma’s help printing out a card for Mom on Mother’s day AND baking real  brownies as a gift…. a happy & proud 9-year old    was delivered to her parents & presented her mother with the card    & the brownies & the new dress    & the homework all done somehow the guitar practice had gotten lost yet she was the envy of her siblings for the day            * * *
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 10:03 AM UTC
birthday child
I sleep in a garage. ten giant tricycles standing on their backs sleep next to me. my bathroom is at sears. or McDonalds. or winn-dixie. male prostitutes post shop on the street corners around here ******* **** for money for crack" as one such fellow put it to a cop. there's a blender and a microwave and plenty of bottles of ***
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 5:27 AM UTC
bottles of ***
ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM UTC
mercury ave.
ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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Our love is like a microwave We nonchalantly recognize its presence And we happily utilize it everyday Yet we rarely sit and ogle upon the magic it contrives. The beguiling beauty of the zappy microwave.
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Nov 5, 2016
Nov 5, 2016 at 6:10 PM UTC
Ode to the microwave
Grandpa, tell me about the good old days I want to hear of your younger ways When there was no T.V. and there were no cars When at night you looked up and could count the stars About how you skipped stones across the lake With no video games to entertain What's all this about fun being free? All this old I hear sure is new to me Did people really sit and talk? And where they went did they actually walk? How did you survive without a microwave? I bet cooking then must have taken days You say your parents let you just run about Were they not afraid you would be kidnapped? And you didn't come home till dinner time? Grandpa to me that just doesn't seem right Did Moms and Dads really stay together like they promised, till death do us part? Cause they don't do that that much anymore and it can really mess up some hearts Did you talk much with your neighbors even though you lived miles apart? Cause mine are living right next door and I don't even know who they are You say there weren't warning labels on everything How in the world did you feel safe back then And without a cell phone in your hand How did you keep up with all your friends Grandpa, did you not ever get bored Chasing down the wind in the great outdoors And you say you had everything that you could need All this old I hear sure is new to me
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
The Good Old Days