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I can still hear your lisp the way it covered every "r" you sounded bare skin under mist, your eyes matched your hair the first, all blue raspberry stained lips the second, pure spring sky Never before, had I loved the rain, as much as when we ran through it we let the downpour soak our clothes and congruent, thunder couldn't scare us we felt naked, or I did, but I didn't mind it to be naked with you was all that I wanted Never before, had I looked at a girl, and wanted to hold her, the way I held you suddenly, the laws I believed in felt paperclip thin, and completely untrue it didn't take much strength to twist every one of them into a shapeless and easily ignorable pile of waste You knew the flags of every country as if your allegiance was to the entire world I wanted it to be to me only and I think I knew that it was, but that doesn't mean I didn't want you to say it
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 3:23 PM UTC
Lisp
She’s underhand throwing words with her mouth The boy leans in past natural borders, to study the agenda in her eyes He is built like a bent paperclip, with bottlebrush forelocks, a barracuda jaw. Between her bare legs, she gently squeezes a cup of iced hibiscus tea. She reaches down and lifting it to her lips, I feel mine part, in thirsting sympathy… Her upper thighs blush wet with condensation as The boys eager fingers click on her knee, like ice cubes in her sweating berry hibiscus, floral melt cascades down her throat. Fairy breath lands on my shoulders - my silk overcoat It makes me dissolve with memory of my beloved tea picker, a cocoa skinned Sudanese girl traveling the road to market in Al-Junaynah, swaying in the truck bed under a warm sun, dreaming of red karkadeh flowers and a paper clip boy.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
Hibiscus Dreams (II)
the little pink paper clamp you see once upon a time there was a little pink paper clip which had three anchors on it, one of them is blue, and 2 are black. the anchors mean it keeps the paper from blowing away, you see it opens really widely and it keeps all of your personal papers from blowing away, but what i am doing is saying, what will happen in the anchors wanted to move away from the paper clip, like if one moved, it will lose 1 third of the power and if it lost 2 anchors, they would lose 2 third of the power. if it lost all three of the anchors, the power of the paperclip will lose all it’s power and the only way to get the anchors back is go the ship dock and take some of the anchors there, sure it might mean the ships haven’t got anchors but this paperclip needs it anchors because it needs the power of which it brings. at present the little pink paperclip without the anchors is sitting at the bottom of the stationery desk hoping that one day the anchors will come back so he can keep paper in a folder. this was going to be a hard job, as the people thought the anchors were way to heavy to carry home, despite the anchors being small on the clip, so one man went out on a boat who was doing whale watching and when they threw out the anchor, which incidentally was blue, and he had to stay by the anchor, so when the tour was over, he took the anchor away and the blue one goes in the middle of the paperclip, and then he walked around the other ships to find 2 black anchors to give the paperclip a lot of power to keep the paper down, but there was only one black anchor on every boat, so he rang up the company to find a black anchor to make up the 3, but he took one black anchor to bring back to the paperclip and it got two thirds of the power, but they were having a hard time trying to find the other black anchor, you see they found a pink anchor, the same colour as the paperclip, and they found a pink anchor but it was far to light, they found a green anchor but it was like green cordial, so he went out again and he got a orange anchor, but no it wasn’t the one and he bought a purple anchor, the same colour as black, but no way, this wasn’t working, none of these anchors fitted on the paperclip, so they looked hard and wide, hoping they will find a black anchor you see they needed to keep the paper from blowing away from everywhere around the office, and just as we gave up for day, we found the second black anchor and we put it on the paperclip and it worked the paper was tightly on the folder, and that is how they gave anchor power to the paperclip, but the only problem is, the ships will miss their anchor, so we must go out to buy some for them, and we did, and our paperclip hooked the paper together and every boat was anchored down, and everyone is happy.
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Apr 4, 2016
Apr 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM UTC
the paperclip lost it's anchors, we must find more
the little pink paper clamp you see once upon a time there was a little pink paper clip which had three anchors on it, one of them is blue, and 2 are black. the anchors mean it keeps the paper from blowing away, you see it opens really widely and it keeps all of your personal papers from blowing away, but what i am doing is saying, what will happen in the anchors wanted to move away from the paper clip, like if one moved, it will lose 1 third of the power and if it lost 2 anchors, they would lose 2 third of the power. if it lost all three of the anchors, the power of the paperclip will lose all it’s power and the only way to get the anchors back is go the ship dock and take some of the anchors there, sure it might mean the ships haven’t got anchors but this paperclip needs it anchors because it needs the power of which it brings. at present the little pink paperclip without the anchors is sitting at the bottom of the stationery desk hoping that one day the anchors will come back so he can keep paper in a folder. this was going to be a hard job, as the people thought the anchors were way to heavy to carry home, despite the anchors being small on the clip, so one man went out on a boat who was doing whale watching and when they threw out the anchor, which incidentally was blue, and he had to stay by the anchor, so when the tour was over, he took the anchor away and the blue one goes in the middle of the paperclip, and then he walked around the other ships to find 2 black anchors to give the paperclip a lot of power to keep the paper down, but there was only one black anchor on every boat, so he rang up the company to find a black anchor to make up the 3, but he took one black anchor to bring back to the paperclip and it got two thirds of the power, but they were having a hard time trying to find the other black anchor, you see they found a pink anchor, the same colour as the paperclip, and they found a pink anchor but it was far to light, they found a green anchor but it was like green cordial, so he went out again and he got a orange anchor, but no it wasn’t the one and he bought a purple anchor, the same colour as black, but no way, this wasn’t working, none of these anchors fitted on the paperclip, so they looked hard and wide, hoping they will find a black anchor you see they needed to keep the paper from blowing away from everywhere around the office, and just as we gave up for day, we found the second black anchor and we put it on the paperclip and it worked the paper was tightly on the folder, and that is how they gave anchor power to the paperclip, but the only problem is, the ships will miss their anchor, so we must go out to buy some for them, and we did, and our paperclip hooked the paper together and every boat was anchored down, and everyone is happy.
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As I fidget with the paperclip My eyes run away from perception I am spacing out, outer space Holds a universe of things It has no lines or bends Like a paperclip has Or like a sharp knife has, A universe is before my eyes And the lines of a paperclip In an office somewhere Are whirling like razor comets Cutting apart everything that Might have been in front of me Had I not run from dream-like worlds That no one else can see
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM UTC
Paperclip
My heart is like a paperclip Flexible but tough It will bend and hold its shape But play with it too much And it will break Blood pumps Pumps... Pumps... And stops Love...and paperclip hearts
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 10:24 PM UTC
Paperclip Hearts
Listen to you with your lip-synch promises You kiss me and take a bite with acid tongues Spiked with sugary smiles Your words are liquid lead Your letters bleed loudly through their envelopes Bubbling like broken dreams How do you know what you seem to know? It is a black skinned paperclip globe A slow ticking suffering sickly Strobing life Watch you with your face of clay and prosthetic eyes You stroke me and scratch with a headless finger Sliding in my heart to lay your egg sac Whenever you speak Your words are biting back laughter How can I take you seriously? You hair in black chains With synthetic singing locks Double tracked and prerecorded Sensual loops
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Aug 30, 2010
Aug 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM UTC
Your Face Reflected In The Fireplace
she cups something in the cradle of her shivering hands a piece of body warm candy, cellophane crumbled up a neon quilted paperclip, a wilted tulip the stars, the moon, the quivering of the rocking fan the warping granite, the pastel green lawns, the cars that sped along she wore a feline attire, whiskers drawn on the curves of her cheeks she held out her secret, the one she kept close to her feet while she stayed low to the ground, safe as she hounded out, "this is my stuff, my stuff you see, but it is for me, for me, only."
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
kittycat
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
Blu-tack Beard the Pirate
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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No, I have a ritual. I turn it over and shake it. Get all the loose crud out, then take a paperclip & dredge the remaining particles of detritus, The dust can, preferably with a red straw. Clorox the tops of the keys, The sides of them (scrape, if necessary) Then dredge the bottom again. Repeat with the phone, the 10-key. Blow these actions up, Apply to thoughts, actions, emotions Swirl it all down the drain...
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 4:16 PM UTC
Stuck
i like to be wise with my beautiful brown eyes my thick thighs and my voluptuous size fruit flies sticking to me cause i'm so sweet i make the beats but dont eat that red meat sensitive but calm and super duper collected will get you wrapped around my finger, kid pinky promises is how i keep it real drinkin' tall boys, always breakin' the seal addicted to my flavor, youll be on dis fashionistaquena part puerto rican, but got money but not enough lend ya crowds call my name and it keeps on echoin' famous like the amos cookies, keep my green in a tin i'm so frickin' visual, ROYGBIV colors make me trip all day so vib-rant, i spy a red ant and rainbows are the color "gay" lets collaborate, take your hands & drop all the hate, i just ate... chips and dip, my lip ring fell out so i put in a paperclip bobbypin in my hair, my lion locks i'm like uffie "i pop the glocks"
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Feb 27, 2011
Feb 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM UTC
Add a beat then read the words
I would argue that what is happening here isn’t the crushing of creativity but the addition of knowledge. As people get more knowledgeable they are better able to evaluate their ideas and sift out the ones that won’t work. Looking at the quantity of ideas for the use of a paperclip tells you nothing about creativity but the quality of the ideas might. If we want pupils to be good at problem solving we need to give them a lot of knowledge with which to solve problems. There is no generic problem solving short cut we can use. The problem solving skills of “I need to put up a bookcase but have lost the instructions” is very different from the problem solving skills of “We need to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.” I we spent less time trying to find these short cuts we might have a lot fewer wonky bookcases and a little more chance of peace. I can’t speak for all subjects and contexts but in secondary school geography we are constantly problem solving. It is what Geographers do but each problem needs a wide body of very specific knowledge. We look at how they would solve the problem of the UK’s energy mix, how they would improve housing in informal settlements and yes, even how to solve the problems in the Middle East (if someone without a knowledge of catchment hydrology tries to pontificate on the issue I wouldn’t give them the time of day). The same applies to “creativity”. The ability to create is an important and wonderful thing. Music, art and drama should play a full and important part in the curriculum but they aren’t about teaching something as generic as “creativity”. They are about teaching the skills to allow you to be creative in that particular domain. Learning to express your creativity in art is unlikely to help you pick up the trombone and learning how to write is unlikely to make your interpretive dance any less awkward. If you think that these things can be taught as stand alone generic skills (I assume you there is a 54% chance you are) then please do send me a lesson plan because I would love to see how it is done. Conclusion I think the term “21st century skills” is a nonsense. The generic skills that people will need in this century will be the same as they have needed in all of them because they are the things that make us human. I don’t think they can be taught in isolation. I don’t think we get better at “problem solving” by solving problems in different domains or better at “creativity” in one domain by practicing another. Schools play a role in preparing children for the future and that role is to ensure they leave us as knowledgeable and well informed adults.
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Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
Untitled
I would argue that what is happening here isn’t the crushing of creativity but the addition of knowledge. As people get more knowledgeable they are better able to evaluate their ideas and sift out the ones that won’t work. Looking at the quantity of ideas for the use of a paperclip tells you nothing about creativity but the quality of the ideas might. If we want pupils to be good at problem solving we need to give them a lot of knowledge with which to solve problems. There is no generic problem solving short cut we can use. The problem solving skills of “I need to put up a bookcase but have lost the instructions” is very different from the problem solving skills of “We need to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.” I we spent less time trying to find these short cuts we might have a lot fewer wonky bookcases and a little more chance of peace. I can’t speak for all subjects and contexts but in secondary school geography we are constantly problem solving. It is what Geographers do but each problem needs a wide body of very specific knowledge. We look at how they would solve the problem of the UK’s energy mix, how they would improve housing in informal settlements and yes, even how to solve the problems in the Middle East (if someone without a knowledge of catchment hydrology tries to pontificate on the issue I wouldn’t give them the time of day). The same applies to “creativity”. The ability to create is an important and wonderful thing. Music, art and drama should play a full and important part in the curriculum but they aren’t about teaching something as generic as “creativity”. They are about teaching the skills to allow you to be creative in that particular domain. Learning to express your creativity in art is unlikely to help you pick up the trombone and learning how to write is unlikely to make your interpretive dance any less awkward. If you think that these things can be taught as stand alone generic skills (I assume you there is a 54% chance you are) then please do send me a lesson plan because I would love to see how it is done. Conclusion I think the term “21st century skills” is a nonsense. The generic skills that people will need in this century will be the same as they have needed in all of them because they are the things that make us human. I don’t think they can be taught in isolation. I don’t think we get better at “problem solving” by solving problems in different domains or better at “creativity” in one domain by practicing another. Schools play a role in preparing children for the future and that role is to ensure they leave us as knowledgeable and well informed adults.
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I read through a bedside stack of my poems labeled The Heartfelt Architect. They were bound with a paperclip reshaped to accommodate their numbers. Half the pages featured watermarks around the edges like emotional copyrights. I had written about friends' frustrations with loves and losses for three years, stressing that paperclip every day before realizing I had written an autobiography.
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May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 at 12:10 AM UTC
Accidental Autobiography
i fell in love with a boy who was fragile like paper in a way we were paper together i was falling apart he was sensitive and vulnerable this boy wasn't much he was plain save for a few typewriter smears under his saddened eyes and paperclip wings adorning his back we painted on each other i covered him with strokes of happiness distractions and a sense of something he was a brush upon me reminding me of who we were and what it meant to know he started to fall for me the girl who was blown over by a breeze the girl who thought eating was a bother the girl who loved a boy who was nothing more than an intangible whisper then there we were holding each other up when the wind came and took our painted bodies ripped his paperclip wings from his back tore our paper selves into shreds we were blown into the world strewn and lost and apart under tires that tread terrible teeth into our tiny pieces stamped us into cement and stole us from what was and now here we are in what is i can't pick myself up because i don't know where i am who i am and where the paper boy i loved has gone out here is a world where fragile love and caring hearts cannot bond without loss without being forgotten just like the paper boy who smiled when he saw me and who painted me into meaning who saw something who knew who was there but now is here is gone
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 9:08 PM UTC
Paper
Cement patch brick twenty dollar bills. Sidewalk with f i g u r e d steps figure skating around Bazooka Joe and Joe Camel sharing banana split menthol kisses beneath Atlas' golden world. Idealism, baby. We gold-stripe fine Chinet, fine clothes, a broach laden with Leda swan feathers. Plastic-tipped felt strips wound with a straight paperclip. That Ginsberg belt & pleated pants + ruffled shirt. Seinfeld, Central Perk, and Easthampton. Flip through conceptual art book with art still inside your glowing, artistic mind. Reverse countersink a media bit / Craftsman holds it still. Teal X (Tilex) on a Chuck Taylor floor so clean, sparkle, innocent, blind, oblivious, ignorant, narcissistic, sparkle, spark me up but don't let me help you find your face in the dark. Hold the gun, ease the trigger, ignore the twisting hair and wet shoulder. Forget the shreikscreechscream, it's only jazz.
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 12:39 AM UTC
Idealism, Baby
he calls you paperclip not because you hold everyone together when the wind tries so hard to scatter souls or because your eyes flash hints of silver when you talk about your favorite song or because your lip ring taints your kisses metallic. paperclip because he can downsize you in an instant replacing you with a version of yourself that doesn’t weigh his pockets down your body now too small to hold your essence and a mouth that will only open wide enough to swallow. you are easily forgotten but somehow always end up attached to his keychain. paperclip because he can bend you to his will and you don’t even notice until everything else begins falling out of your grasp. every time he snaps you back into place the world has only changed but a fraction of a centimeter and you’re used to measuring your life in kilometers. paperclip because he is a staple leaving puncture wounds in everything he touches a few drops of blood in every corner of your mind and when you learn how to extract him from your heart no goodbye is successful enough to patch permanent holes you fold yourself in upon and pretend not to notice. to this day, that chapter of your life remains dog-eared and you wonder why you still have trouble picking locks.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 4:04 PM UTC
His Paperclip
Today: A Paperclip Continuously and seamlessly complementing and complying with myself Bending solely to hold something foreign as whole With a surety of security And right angled refine Unless the load is too much or too smooth or not right And in leaning the lines some part Or some whole Sideways makes escape From skewed hold Shiny soundness Will surely soften And the Paperclip appeal will reveal To be as paper thick as any Continuous and seamless Paperclip in a Paperclip *** Maybe tomorrow warrants The hopeful and overly capable Staple.
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 7:03 AM UTC
Paperslip
Expect the unexpected and the dusty faded book from 1983 said: "not mine. his..." revisit the past with a newspaper cutting, black and white photographs and a rusty paperclip connecting both stories for one would not be complete without the either and of what that has been bliss, excitement , worry - happiness. interlocked arms their lives intertwined. they took to their promises on paper all in a day on September 1936 no cakes nor fireworks did the picture held secrets?
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Jul 29, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM UTC
The Wedding
Do you know what I mean? You asked. I told you I did. Although, I did not expand. I left the explanations up to you, that night. I left a window open, to clear out the smoke. As you cleared the air, and through animated gestures, you let your mind spill out onto the proverbial canvas. You called it negative space, but that was your discomfort. You rested your hands. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to rest my hands, on top of yours, I needed to know you were real. Do you know what I mean? My eyes never faltered. If I blinked, you'd be gone, and that I did not want. All I wanted was you, at that moment, all I needed, was you. Do you know what I mean? You started to pace. My hands hit the table; yours hit the air, because idle hands are devilish when kept by your side. Disconcerting, felt mine, hidden in the depths of my pockets. Anxiety ridden, I searched for change. A penny to free my thoughts. Only a paperclip, a button, lint and other nothingness. I surveyed the room, looking for a moth to hit the light. Do you know what I mean? I knew what you meant. I know what you mean. I told you I followed. In a figurative sense, I followed. In a literal sense, it was implied. However, I kept that notion to myself. Considering the following you have built. I knew I would distance myself, from that familiarity. Do you know what I mean? We are perceptive. Acquaintances see this, and thoughtfully they are left to their own devices. Because God-forbid someone becomes close. No. No, that vulnerability is tangible. It's nauseating. Food for thought, I'm sick, you know. I expel my insides. Still surveying the room for a moth, and I spot a butterfly. Do you know what I mean?
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Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM UTC
Do You Know What I Mean?
Do you know what I mean? You asked. I told you I did. Although, I did not expand. I left the explanations up to you, that night. I left a window open, to clear out the smoke. As you cleared the air, and through animated gestures, you let your mind spill out onto the proverbial canvas. You called it negative space, but that was your discomfort. You rested your hands. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to rest my hands, on top of yours, I needed to know you were real. Do you know what I mean? My eyes never faltered. If I blinked, you'd be gone, and that I did not want. All I wanted was you, at that moment, all I needed, was you. Do you know what I mean? You started to pace. My hands hit the table; yours hit the air, because idle hands are devilish when kept by your side. Disconcerting, felt mine, hidden in the depths of my pockets. Anxiety ridden, I searched for change. A penny to free my thoughts. Only a paperclip, a button, lint and other nothingness. I surveyed the room, looking for a moth to hit the light. Do you know what I mean? I knew what you meant. I know what you mean. I told you I followed. In a figurative sense, I followed. In a literal sense, it was implied. However, I kept that notion to myself. Considering the following you have built. I knew I would distance myself, from that familiarity. Do you know what I mean? We are perceptive. Acquaintances see this, and thoughtfully they are left to their own devices. Because God-forbid someone becomes close. No. No, that vulnerability is tangible. It's nauseating. Food for thought, I'm sick, you know. I expel my insides. Still surveying the room for a moth, and I spot a butterfly. Do you know what I mean?
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i opened your file and what i saw was diferent than what i expected; i saw that you were sad, pained, angry, confused; i turned the page. you were suffering, afraid, and alone; i looked at your photo, it was diferent than the you i knew, you looked terified and sad; i printed a new sheet of paper. it said that i would be your friend. that i would be your friend no matter what; i fastened the new page in the folder cautiosly, caringly, with a paperclip.
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Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 11:18 AM UTC
Paperclip
Lovers circle Their glass Sabbath. Hands like magnets Find joy in funeral. Death of *** a Tornado of fire, Conflagration Of the senses. The Asteroid that shed Her dress now crashes Into the cactus, standing Stone-faced and rooted Deep in Earth. Ordinary planets Ring saint birth On Thursday. Angels, Paperclip assassins, rope Bankers and truck drivers- The ribs of Utah in the winter. The cage that guards A snowglobe heart. Mid- Center shiver shaking, Continental breaking And aching, the shallow Foundation of Some growing space, Suspended in static Tribute to the ideal. The cactus now this Blank-faced man, Sick framed mannequin Dressed in scarlet Remembrance, knee-deep In strained white somber. Sweet pair of sobbing, Feeling faith found again In the rain that water- Logs the gasping pores Of some colliding flesh, Vibrating and ringing Warm cold as the starlight in your hair. You fish me From your hairbrush At the wake of cosmic Death. Downstream, the Next of kin of now fallen star Whirl and cross, clasped in Stellar embrace until They splatter the gray stains Of memories past upon This cheaply made scene, The spread of this mute Moonlight; This obsidian Distance is a well.
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 8:37 PM UTC
entropy/incongruence
Throwback dissonance, results in future social dystopian conversations. Tormented lives swept under rugs, in between the cracks of floor boards. Dust and filth, years of names. All scratched into the bathroom stalls of so called neighborhood's, subordinates of time and "hush-hush" the city to the suburbanites. Shocking to them eating dinners still in the 1990's, fastened tight in seat belts of self esteem, MTV news and 50 inches of reality. You must be joking, not ever knowing, folly box dwellers, why they say all "white". The back doors were shut and locked when you looked left and double took right; as jokes from the safety of your water stained walls and cigarette burned carpets, to joke hatred like art and we must pretend not us though? Wall to wall, our prison starts here and ends in our front lawns as the country shouts "white man" and we must remain silent. My father's land, nearly 20 year cultural hiatus that split our family in two, came back from time, in a paperclip, over the wall, east to the west side of Berlin and delivered in a rebel DeLorean with bumper stickers of second amendment speeches and pro-life Bible out of contextual arguments. These retrospects, taking advantage of sales on tiki torches while stealing phrases from my great grandfather class of 1933. And the whole country shouts "white man". No, my country, not white men. In skin yes, in history, no. They were never men. Never did my father speak of men. I heard the gang rapes of Gypsy's. Stories of slain Catholics. Murders of homosexuals, The bones crushed of opposing parties. The staple mascot of pain, Judaism extermination that swept through culture like a bad advertisement tune. Gassed. Tortured. Worked. They come for us all. Not as white men. They come as their own. This is not man. They maybe white, but not man. I am a white man, but it's always been human, first. That's black. That's white. That's purple. That's life. They come for our progress, not our skins.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 11:51 AM UTC
I am human first.
Throwback dissonance, results in future social dystopian conversations. Tormented lives swept under rugs, in between the cracks of floor boards. Dust and filth, years of names. All scratched into the bathroom stalls of so called neighborhood's, subordinates of time and "hush-hush" the city to the suburbanites. Shocking to them eating dinners still in the 1990's, fastened tight in seat belts of self esteem, MTV news and 50 inches of reality. You must be joking, not ever knowing, folly box dwellers, why they say all "white". The back doors were shut and locked when you looked left and double took right; as jokes from the safety of your water stained walls and cigarette burned carpets, to joke hatred like art and we must pretend not us though? Wall to wall, our prison starts here and ends in our front lawns as the country shouts "white man" and we must remain silent. My father's land, nearly 20 year cultural hiatus that split our family in two, came back from time, in a paperclip, over the wall, east to the west side of Berlin and delivered in a rebel DeLorean with bumper stickers of second amendment speeches and pro-life Bible out of contextual arguments. These retrospects, taking advantage of sales on tiki torches while stealing phrases from my great grandfather class of 1933. And the whole country shouts "white man". No, my country, not white men. In skin yes, in history, no. They were never men. Never did my father speak of men. I heard the gang rapes of Gypsy's. Stories of slain Catholics. Murders of homosexuals, The bones crushed of opposing parties. The staple mascot of pain, Judaism extermination that swept through culture like a bad advertisement tune. Gassed. Tortured. Worked. They come for us all. Not as white men. They come as their own. This is not man. They maybe white, but not man. I am a white man, but it's always been human, first. That's black. That's white. That's purple. That's life. They come for our progress, not our skins.
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Went to bed and dreamed of getting my *** kicked by the Queen of Earthquakes. Six hours later and I'm waking up with a headache. Hid from the sun beneath sweaty sheets. The only thing that gets cold here is the space in our chest. Road the bus with a load of automatons withered with rust. Scanning the seats with dead-beat eyes. Hey, would you mind if we traded places? I like the window seat best. Paperclip trebuchets wage war in front of ignored spreadsheets. Just another day in paradise, but now I think I feel a stirring between my legs. Here we sit waiting on a disaster to speed up our slow demise. But all that aside, the thing is that when I stare into her eyes I can feel my feet sliding - Carrying me toward the tittles in the middle with a gliding force that can't be avoided. i think i might like her a little.
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Nov 28, 2016
Nov 28, 2016 at 11:27 PM UTC
Your Face Is a Vortex (And I Think It's Unwound My Cerebral Cortex)
I tear apart what I can on the outside because I am helpless on the inside. I tear and tear and tear and pull and pull and pull it's become routine until you see the damage. A spot of nothing. A patch of proof     what insignificant detail     to no avail     the damage is done ignoring the larger matter at hand strand by strand, until i'm surrounded by piles of hair and pieces of my heart I don't even notice it anymore my hand is drawn upwards like a paperclip to a magnet- totally helpless completely thoughtless I grab and pull and yank. until i'm perfect- At least for a moment.. until these insecurities mount again.
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 2:42 AM UTC
a trichster's dilemma
Rocket-ship footie pajamas and stars from the galaxy on his bed Running 'round the yard with a fishbowl on his head He'd stutter the names of the planets and stars with no desire other than to walk on Mars. The boy created his own ship: cardboard box, crayons, and a paperclip 3 2 1 BLAST OFF The roar of the rocket drowned out his nemesis' scoffs Days, months, and even years past His big chance was here at last He looked upon Earth with shock and awe A bluish green dot was all he saw Distant lights and strange color specs No sign of alien lifeforms to detect Everlasting darkness engulfed him His life-long dream is actually quite grim With the stale taste of toothpaste food His heart sank with the lonely journey he had pursued He longed for his loving mother and his dog He'd had enough of the Milky Way's fog He pined for the place he had aspired to leave That blue-green dot forever he'll cleave With a homesick feeling he reached for the throttle Unfortunately the fuel was at the end of the bottle With tears in his eyes and hopelessness in his chest He decided to try a deadly quest With the last of the fuel he blasted his jets It was his last possible effort and he had no regrets With a million to one odds; He had to contribute his success to one of the Gods He hit the atmosphere and exploded in flames Busted the cardboard and ruined all of his games The boy rushed back to reality Relieved he didn't reach his fatality Exhausted and satisfied His adventure had only just been outside Looked upon his fishbowl that now had a big crack The little boy decided his journey warranted a snack.
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 1:37 AM UTC
Outer Space
Rocket-ship footie pajamas and stars from the galaxy on his bed Running 'round the yard with a fishbowl on his head He'd stutter the names of the planets and stars with no desire other than to walk on Mars. The boy created his own ship: cardboard box, crayons, and a paperclip 3 2 1 BLAST OFF The roar of the rocket drowned out his nemesis' scoffs Days, months, and even years past His big chance was here at last He looked upon Earth with shock and awe A bluish green dot was all he saw Distant lights and strange color specs No sign of alien lifeforms to detect Everlasting darkness engulfed him His life-long dream is actually quite grim With the stale taste of toothpaste food His heart sank with the lonely journey he had pursued He longed for his loving mother and his dog He'd had enough of the Milky Way's fog He pined for the place he had aspired to leave That blue-green dot forever he'll cleave With a homesick feeling he reached for the throttle Unfortunately the fuel was at the end of the bottle With tears in his eyes and hopelessness in his chest He decided to try a deadly quest With the last of the fuel he blasted his jets It was his last possible effort and he had no regrets With a million to one odds; He had to contribute his success to one of the Gods He hit the atmosphere and exploded in flames Busted the cardboard and ruined all of his games The boy rushed back to reality Relieved he didn't reach his fatality Exhausted and satisfied His adventure had only just been outside Looked upon his fishbowl that now had a big crack The little boy decided his journey warranted a snack.
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Throbbing heads thrash together, sorting trash from treasure, and losing time. I throw together an outfit and leave my house to try to sort through the pieces from my rattled mind. Lines of sunlight break through the trees and melt molecules with memories, fusing together the time I had lost. I lay in bed, exfoliated and slain, pondering the cost of each meltdown; of new brains. Thumping against the ticking clock, sleep covers me like a childhood blanket, and my life, much like a button on the back of a toy which gets pricked by a paperclip, resets itself.
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Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 5:11 PM UTC
The Supreme Cost