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"perm" poems
I’m the perm of a Poet I can choke I can breathe I can drink a cup of coffee And you Are a murmuration A flock of afternoon midnight I will let your Black mass love me However However However It can I’m reaching for you Little bird Take me with your arrow The streets of this Pure piano And I introduce the yowling Trumpet The dead skin on my back Flecks with the quiver Of flying with you By choice
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017 at 10:37 AM UTC
Untitled
Oh Jamaican girl,where is your patois? where is your long dreads of natural hair? your culture? Jamaican girl,sing your country's national anthem How do you not like reggae? what kind of Jamaican are you? You see the ackee and codfish I stuffed down my throat on a Saturday morning would never be enough for them. My extinctive use of the English language made them sick at their guts The fact that my waistline won't move in such a manner to alarm others. Born in the Yard Grew up in the suburbs Never boastful;always grateful So Jamaican girl you try to act white on purpose? Wear 'American clothes' And perm your hair? My nationality will coexist throughout my veins Will never hit sunlight unless my tongue decides to move in that direction. Will never be ashamed of my heritage as I am proud of it,yet also modified to not be defined by it.
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Apr 23, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 at 2:36 AM UTC
Jamaican girl
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, tell me what suits, Soft natural highlights, or strong punk roots? Auburn red or beach blonde hair, Brunette with greens, or short blunt rare? Mermaid midnight old balayage blues, Grey ombré curled with lilac hues? Lemon yellow paint or neon spice, Purple color that matches my hazel eyes! Tousled, textured, twirled and twined, We could take it to the front, or let it all behind. Black hair with beautiful mahogany dye, Fringes looking pretty every day passing by. Straight hair with an asymmetrical bob, Lips painted red, formal and hot. Tie buns and bows with colorful clips, Grow pink hair long, till they reach my hips. Fish tail braid like a Boho chic, All pastel shades spread, across the width. Blonde and bright, they are in my sight, Soon to be a celebrity, wearing them uptight. Burgundy wine perm, crazy long, Every hair color has a song. There are chances that they may look all wrong, But hey! I'm not scared to just play along!
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Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 9:39 AM UTC
Hair Color
three sets of withered, wrinkly hands with chipped tired pale-pink nailpolish flutter in the air, describing. three froofy perms one browny-gray one white one salt and pepper bob jutting forward, one wobbles a little. Grandma wears a green-foam party hat with a thin, white elastic band that runs under her wrinkled chin it sits atop her fuzzy perm comically... she smiles at me. "Ah! my cappuccino! you remembered i like it, didn't you?" she chucks her great-granddaughter under the chin, grins "oohh! look at these gardening gloves! Cidi! look at these gloves! i like the green ones." she hands them to her white-haired sister aunt cidi told me this year she is ninety-one oh, and the gloves were really blue. aunt cidi misses uncle harland he was buried three or four years ago in his uniform i remember sitting next to him at awkward family reunions eating hotdogs i never saw so much mustard in my life he could never hear me when i tried to talk to him but he smiled anyway. the talk turns serious suddenly over our black coffee crossed legs sweaters and chocolate cake grandma turns grim in her lime-green party hat "did you end up killing that trumpet vine in your yard, Jeanie?" aunt jeanie's head wobbles a bit she squints wrinkles her nose "i TRIED to!" she scowls. schemes of ****** plotted by three chunky-earringed sweet old ladies who are a little late for the 1940's but never too late for a handsome soldier "we're older..." says aunt jeanie "but not THAT old!" they all giggle.
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
how to ****** a trumpet vine.
three sets of withered, wrinkly hands with chipped tired pale-pink nailpolish flutter in the air, describing. three froofy perms one browny-gray one white one salt and pepper bob jutting forward, one wobbles a little. Grandma wears a green-foam party hat with a thin, white elastic band that runs under her wrinkled chin it sits atop her fuzzy perm comically... she smiles at me. "Ah! my cappuccino! you remembered i like it, didn't you?" she chucks her great-granddaughter under the chin, grins "oohh! look at these gardening gloves! Cidi! look at these gloves! i like the green ones." she hands them to her white-haired sister aunt cidi told me this year she is ninety-one oh, and the gloves were really blue. aunt cidi misses uncle harland he was buried three or four years ago in his uniform i remember sitting next to him at awkward family reunions eating hotdogs i never saw so much mustard in my life he could never hear me when i tried to talk to him but he smiled anyway. the talk turns serious suddenly over our black coffee crossed legs sweaters and chocolate cake grandma turns grim in her lime-green party hat "did you end up killing that trumpet vine in your yard, Jeanie?" aunt jeanie's head wobbles a bit she squints wrinkles her nose "i TRIED to!" she scowls. schemes of ****** plotted by three chunky-earringed sweet old ladies who are a little late for the 1940's but never too late for a handsome soldier "we're older..." says aunt jeanie "but not THAT old!" they all giggle.
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Tuna sandwiches on white bread Carried in a paper bag Josh Groban on the CD player Season Three of 2 broke Girls Matching shoes and purses Vacation in the Pocanos Subscription to People Magazine Pennies in a piggy bank Silver-beige 4-door Accord A little college but no degree Always ten pounds overweight Celebration meal at Sizzler Artificial Christmas tree pre-lit A mole that wants removing Off white walls, pale green carpet Outfits from mail order catalogs Paydays with no yearly bonus Jeopardy and Wheel of fortune Polyester perm press everything Bic Stik ball point pen Swanson's TV dinner Flip phone with no camera *** two times a week and Sunday Writing verse nobody reads ljm
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Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 1:22 AM UTC
MEDIOCRITY
Your rhymes were a bin bag thrown in the trash, couldn't even write a sentence, dyslexia of meaning and ****** up sentences that weren't even spelt write. Couldn't even spin a line, as it was meant to be straight but your words were more wavy than a bad perm. There isn't room for a failed wanna be, alone in your room ************ hard, But your more empty than the raisin ***** your trying to spit out of... Non consequential wording that doesn't flow down stream, more like your floating bloated breath releasing putrid gas that stinks more than what they were belching out. I never insult the cadavers of dead lines, but your words were buried even before you opened that hurse of dead beats. a handful of rhymes that were more powerful than your buried career, sorry you were a foot in the grave even before you opened your mouth. Song I wrote after I used your girl.. I wasn't the one she wanted it was you, but I gave her what she wanted and that never included you.. Every thing you wanted I stole, and gave her fake wishes that were tarnished but she never looked beyond the moment seeing the stitching of us was more fake than the smiles I gave her. I knew she wanted to be with you, but I was the salesman of woman.. While you were the boy next door, I was the salesmen showing her fake dreams.. Don't worry you can have her after I've used her enough, I'll even trade her in for a good price.. Ye, she'll be broken.. But everything is always defective after I've rode it enough... Her crown maybe cracked, but she'll be yours even though she'll be thinking of me even though your in her, I'm the length she'll remember but she'll be your crack queen. Now this is enough of wording. and I'm moving on to the next one.
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Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 at 7:43 PM UTC
You Never Worded Anything Right..
Your rhymes were a bin bag thrown in the trash, couldn't even write a sentence, dyslexia of meaning and ****** up sentences that weren't even spelt write. Couldn't even spin a line, as it was meant to be straight but your words were more wavy than a bad perm. There isn't room for a failed wanna be, alone in your room ************ hard, But your more empty than the raisin ***** your trying to spit out of... Non consequential wording that doesn't flow down stream, more like your floating bloated breath releasing putrid gas that stinks more than what they were belching out. I never insult the cadavers of dead lines, but your words were buried even before you opened that hurse of dead beats. a handful of rhymes that were more powerful than your buried career, sorry you were a foot in the grave even before you opened your mouth. Song I wrote after I used your girl.. I wasn't the one she wanted it was you, but I gave her what she wanted and that never included you.. Every thing you wanted I stole, and gave her fake wishes that were tarnished but she never looked beyond the moment seeing the stitching of us was more fake than the smiles I gave her. I knew she wanted to be with you, but I was the salesman of woman.. While you were the boy next door, I was the salesmen showing her fake dreams.. Don't worry you can have her after I've used her enough, I'll even trade her in for a good price.. Ye, she'll be broken.. But everything is always defective after I've rode it enough... Her crown maybe cracked, but she'll be yours even though she'll be thinking of me even though your in her, I'm the length she'll remember but she'll be your crack queen. Now this is enough of wording. and I'm moving on to the next one.
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Parading through Jerus'lem's holy way Two criminals and one redeemer king Struggled through the horde, indignant fray To hill of Skulls, their judgment for to bring. The sand burned coarse as fire on bloodied skin, As holy muscles strained to lift the tree, But ev'n more weight added from our sin, Upon the shoulders of the precious He. But as they reached pained blessed Calvary's peak, And air eluded His life-giving lungs, He lost his life with one great final shriek, And perm'nent placed his name on watcher's tongues. He drank the cup of wrath, and tore the veil, So forever we'd delight in Good Friday's tale.
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 12:00 PM UTC
Sonnet on Good Friday 2015
can you not see that the sorrow weighs me down as if i'm chained and thrown into that lake you dared me to jump in that one time. and maybe that's symbolic because i've always said drowning is the way i want to go. but i feel like i've already died a thousand deaths seeing you look into the eyes of another with the adoration that once was mine. it was foolish of me to think that someone of such magnitude would be with someone as normal as me. i got a perm and my nails were always chewed to nothingness. everything about me was average but you made me feel like i was important. you made me feel magnificent. and maybe it was just that my world was brighter with you in it because now i know there's nothing special about me. the only thing i ever had going for me was that i was with you.
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 1:36 PM UTC
ridiculous monologue
I've got a little black book with my poems in I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on Got those swollen hand blues. Got thirteen channels of **** on the T.V. to choose from I've got electric light And I've got second sight I've got amazing powers of observation And that is how I know When I try to get through On the telephone to you There'll be nobody home I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm And I've got the inevitable pinhole burns All down the front of my favourite satin shirt I've got nicotine stains on my fingers I've got a silver spoon on a chain I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains I've got wild staring eyes I've got a strong urge to fly But I've got nowhere to fly to Ooooh Babe when I pick up the phone There's still nobody home I've got a pair of Gohills boots And I've got fading roots.
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 5:14 AM UTC
Nobody Home (pink floyd)
As wavy as the deep blue waves. As wavy as hair that just got a perm. As wavy as busy old Lombard Street. As wavy as the warped board in the garage. As wavy as the petals on a tulip. As wavy as the cream in your cocoa. Are the clouds painting the sky.
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 7:57 PM UTC
Untitled #8
She deserves recognition For her work as a technician Who's expertise is ball bustin Who majors in ******** Excelling in the field of advance Hot air production A profession heckler who Composes an orchestra conductin A firework show eruptin With colorful rants red, and purples She's acclaimed for rhetorical Questions that repeats in circles An elite linguistics scholar Who's sarcasm is an accomplishment Very talented...no gifted at making An insult sound like a compliment And Her stamina to do so Is like an Olympian who's pleased Only when her track and field Meet of slander makes ur ears bleed A masters degree in belittling A graduated philosopher for the bitter Must be a psychologist the way She attacks my sanity to litter Insecurities, and doubts and I Heard she has a phd in hypnosis Until u start to believe her ******** And this psychosomatic is ur psychosis A world class magician who's Tricks leave u perplexed in thought A novelist who narrates to taunt Controlling all characters and plot She wrote the book on torturing A man and emasculating him so He may never move forward and She was in the military I'm told Historically known for her intellectual Warfare Manipulating soilders and utilizing The grounds to ambush u there A social tyrant who's brilliant Political ties help her achieve Her plan like constituents are Biased so they're all after me A paralegal who's unfair and lethal And to her it's titalation Unfair is her terms but like a Perm ull get burned in litagation A degree in early childhood Education so she acts like a rebel Perfecting being childish and Unaffected by ur feelings on levels Only a schoolyard bully could Match, she's my jailhouse warden Who's power is focused on me Relentlessly constructing like a foreman With Her future blueprints to See what the hell she builds for me Will look like, and she's also a director In the *********** industry So she tells in great detail Just how I'll be ****** She must have been taught by Peter pan how to never grow up Trained as medic who specializes In one area over them all Nudering human males So surgically she removes my ***** After she breaks them and So I am the constant fool This exceptional jack of trades Makes me wish that I stayed in school
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
Shes A Jack Of All Trades..And i love her....
She deserves recognition For her work as a technician Who's expertise is ball bustin Who majors in ******** Excelling in the field of advance Hot air production A profession heckler who Composes an orchestra conductin A firework show eruptin With colorful rants red, and purples She's acclaimed for rhetorical Questions that repeats in circles An elite linguistics scholar Who's sarcasm is an accomplishment Very talented...no gifted at making An insult sound like a compliment And Her stamina to do so Is like an Olympian who's pleased Only when her track and field Meet of slander makes ur ears bleed A masters degree in belittling A graduated philosopher for the bitter Must be a psychologist the way She attacks my sanity to litter Insecurities, and doubts and I Heard she has a phd in hypnosis Until u start to believe her ******** And this psychosomatic is ur psychosis A world class magician who's Tricks leave u perplexed in thought A novelist who narrates to taunt Controlling all characters and plot She wrote the book on torturing A man and emasculating him so He may never move forward and She was in the military I'm told Historically known for her intellectual Warfare Manipulating soilders and utilizing The grounds to ambush u there A social tyrant who's brilliant Political ties help her achieve Her plan like constituents are Biased so they're all after me A paralegal who's unfair and lethal And to her it's titalation Unfair is her terms but like a Perm ull get burned in litagation A degree in early childhood Education so she acts like a rebel Perfecting being childish and Unaffected by ur feelings on levels Only a schoolyard bully could Match, she's my jailhouse warden Who's power is focused on me Relentlessly constructing like a foreman With Her future blueprints to See what the hell she builds for me Will look like, and she's also a director In the *********** industry So she tells in great detail Just how I'll be ****** She must have been taught by Peter pan how to never grow up Trained as medic who specializes In one area over them all Nudering human males So surgically she removes my ***** After she breaks them and So I am the constant fool This exceptional jack of trades Makes me wish that I stayed in school
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this title has begrudgingly waited for some loving kindness, fulfillment-needy, since October of Two Thousand and Seventeen which is not quite as long as the decades I have been waiting to accumulate the words to provide us both, an inspired solution my days are numbered in decades, decals, varying lengths of hair, belts with notches that ain’t reachable, suits various, both too big and too small to fit, the who who used to own them, begrudgingly, writes this city born and bred, with the pale skin needed to prove my urbanity, each day came unto me begrudgingly, even, especially, the good ones when I was ten and rode my bike from freedom to mystery, and back again in a city that was ok, if you stayed out of its way and knew the city’s vocabulary and its erogenous zones when nothing come easy, when even the easy, when it comes, comes begrudgingly when you think of love, and the next immediate thought is: how great the cost - recalling too well, the pain of childbirth and child rearing and the staining, paining fluid is in perm-attendence, that doesn’t ever fully departs and is not never entirely stain-stick-removable, and the children come ‘n go according to their schedule, someone else’s vast eternal plan life in the same apartment   where my parents died, listening to the stories of joined lives, listen to the sisters telling them over and over to a stream of visitors earned from and of a 98 year life, given up willing but, begrudgingly as well. the story-telling skill because of them, my mist-matched parents who did ok and their very best, gifted us hyperbole innate genetic and all of us now registered tall tale tellers; some write for a living, some live to write, some write to make themselves clearer, after honestly confronting their subway reflection   words acquired bot ‘n sold, they too are stains unerasable, very always handy, the one thing we shared, word skill, was never at loss, words never held a grudge no matter how long they waited to serve this fact, begrudgingly confess; all my-word skill was freely inherited... and I hope it satisfied the title and you, those that waited patiently but, begrudgingly
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
begrudgingly (how great the cost)
this title has begrudgingly waited for some loving kindness, fulfillment-needy, since October of Two Thousand and Seventeen which is not quite as long as the decades I have been waiting to accumulate the words to provide us both, an inspired solution my days are numbered in decades, decals, varying lengths of hair, belts with notches that ain’t reachable, suits various, both too big and too small to fit, the who who used to own them, begrudgingly, writes this city born and bred, with the pale skin needed to prove my urbanity, each day came unto me begrudgingly, even, especially, the good ones when I was ten and rode my bike from freedom to mystery, and back again in a city that was ok, if you stayed out of its way and knew the city’s vocabulary and its erogenous zones when nothing come easy, when even the easy, when it comes, comes begrudgingly when you think of love, and the next immediate thought is: how great the cost - recalling too well, the pain of childbirth and child rearing and the staining, paining fluid is in perm-attendence, that doesn’t ever fully departs and is not never entirely stain-stick-removable, and the children come ‘n go according to their schedule, someone else’s vast eternal plan life in the same apartment   where my parents died, listening to the stories of joined lives, listen to the sisters telling them over and over to a stream of visitors earned from and of a 98 year life, given up willing but, begrudgingly as well. the story-telling skill because of them, my mist-matched parents who did ok and their very best, gifted us hyperbole innate genetic and all of us now registered tall tale tellers; some write for a living, some live to write, some write to make themselves clearer, after honestly confronting their subway reflection   words acquired bot ‘n sold, they too are stains unerasable, very always handy, the one thing we shared, word skill, was never at loss, words never held a grudge no matter how long they waited to serve this fact, begrudgingly confess; all my-word skill was freely inherited... and I hope it satisfied the title and you, those that waited patiently but, begrudgingly
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It’s one dollar per load Wednesday and Time move’s slow at the corner of East Clinton Street Where under dim flickered fluorescent lamp posts Tricks tossed in bottles than splashed back in flasks Flung to back pockets of loiterers at the Laundromat, Seems to be a prized accessory of the regular. The regular, leans on washers with leather skin wrinkled wrung hung far from healed bones, like hangers hanging loose clothes. With soapy brain, bleached hair matted like a rats She remembers rents way past due, Joey about to come through, and hunger is bad. Fast thoughts surpass the regular She smiles behind me through glass reflecting washers. Mouth full of rotting cavities gleam in the mirror, the sass shuffles outside and lights a red for a change of scenery Waiting hesitantly during weekly ritual Which entails more steps than her walk up the avenue Separating the darks from the whites, like Grandma used to Detergent, unbranded is used sparingly She folds each article of clothing carefully, basking in each minute Diligent about cold wash versus perm press best suggests that for her today life is made easy For the regular, laundry day is a great escape Because fabric builds fast in those plastic baskets basked with sweat saturated dresses for a baby And Joey’s boxers Today the regular can transact funds to feel fresh, dryer warm complacency in jean skirts plagued with rhinestones Costumes crafted to endure weekend sin At the corner of East Clinton Street, those who do not feel like feeling when dire deeds did ***** cheap lose meaning; come here to worship or cleansed Meaning, I can’t seem to haul this hamper of laundry laundered with various v-neck tees tainted by poisonous stains, regretfully sunk to the bottom of cotton follicles It’s too heavy to toil with
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 11:22 PM UTC
Confession
It’s one dollar per load Wednesday and Time move’s slow at the corner of East Clinton Street Where under dim flickered fluorescent lamp posts Tricks tossed in bottles than splashed back in flasks Flung to back pockets of loiterers at the Laundromat, Seems to be a prized accessory of the regular. The regular, leans on washers with leather skin wrinkled wrung hung far from healed bones, like hangers hanging loose clothes. With soapy brain, bleached hair matted like a rats She remembers rents way past due, Joey about to come through, and hunger is bad. Fast thoughts surpass the regular She smiles behind me through glass reflecting washers. Mouth full of rotting cavities gleam in the mirror, the sass shuffles outside and lights a red for a change of scenery Waiting hesitantly during weekly ritual Which entails more steps than her walk up the avenue Separating the darks from the whites, like Grandma used to Detergent, unbranded is used sparingly She folds each article of clothing carefully, basking in each minute Diligent about cold wash versus perm press best suggests that for her today life is made easy For the regular, laundry day is a great escape Because fabric builds fast in those plastic baskets basked with sweat saturated dresses for a baby And Joey’s boxers Today the regular can transact funds to feel fresh, dryer warm complacency in jean skirts plagued with rhinestones Costumes crafted to endure weekend sin At the corner of East Clinton Street, those who do not feel like feeling when dire deeds did ***** cheap lose meaning; come here to worship or cleansed Meaning, I can’t seem to haul this hamper of laundry laundered with various v-neck tees tainted by poisonous stains, regretfully sunk to the bottom of cotton follicles It’s too heavy to toil with
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i did always say that perms don’t make good poetry; especially yours because honestly most of the time it was vaguely flat and misshapen. then again that was one of the first things you said to me; ‘in defence of the perm’. that and a self-inflicted proclamation regarding your narcissistic disposition, so really all the signs were there; it could be compared rather dramatically to a romanticised act of self-harm. as in, you didn’t really want to be loved or fixed but that didn’t stop me from trying; as in, part of me thought that by stitching up your wounds and healing your scars i could also fix myself.                                            self-sabotage of the highest degree. getting tangled up in someone else’s string is a dangerous affair, rarely do you ask permission; you throw yourself into their mess in the tangibly desperate hope that two negatives might make a positive. that, in between all of the crying and pills and messy ******* filled nights; between the hazy afternoons wrapped up in borrowed sheets and sweat. that somewhere deep within it all there would be a flash of mutual comfort and understanding. the kind of “let’s be a mess together and try and fix it all” thing that only actually exists in coming of age movies surrounded by cigarette smoke and electric house parties. it’s a terrifying and debilitating thing to fall in love with the idea of what could have been; their potential. people don’t fall for the extremes and absolutes; they fall in love with the details,            we lose ourselves and find each other in the details. you will fall for the way he always licks his bottom lip slightly before he kisses you or the way he is so painfully cynical and innocently hopeful all at once. it’ll be the small circles he’ll trace along the back of your hand with his thumb and the way that you’ll know you’re getting in too deep but will feel powerless in the face of it all. so, you lie back like the pavement is sand and he is the waves that crash mercilessly down on you again and again and again. the tide will change but the bruising will never stop, his touch,      his words will never be soft enough, at least not for you. the next girl that tries; i wish you luck and i promise it’ll be worth it because maybe perms do make alright poetry after all.
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Apr 11, 2018
Apr 11, 2018 at 11:51 AM UTC
an open letter to all the boys that i have kissed and the tears which followed.
i did always say that perms don’t make good poetry; especially yours because honestly most of the time it was vaguely flat and misshapen. then again that was one of the first things you said to me; ‘in defence of the perm’. that and a self-inflicted proclamation regarding your narcissistic disposition, so really all the signs were there; it could be compared rather dramatically to a romanticised act of self-harm. as in, you didn’t really want to be loved or fixed but that didn’t stop me from trying; as in, part of me thought that by stitching up your wounds and healing your scars i could also fix myself.                                            self-sabotage of the highest degree. getting tangled up in someone else’s string is a dangerous affair, rarely do you ask permission; you throw yourself into their mess in the tangibly desperate hope that two negatives might make a positive. that, in between all of the crying and pills and messy ******* filled nights; between the hazy afternoons wrapped up in borrowed sheets and sweat. that somewhere deep within it all there would be a flash of mutual comfort and understanding. the kind of “let’s be a mess together and try and fix it all” thing that only actually exists in coming of age movies surrounded by cigarette smoke and electric house parties. it’s a terrifying and debilitating thing to fall in love with the idea of what could have been; their potential. people don’t fall for the extremes and absolutes; they fall in love with the details,            we lose ourselves and find each other in the details. you will fall for the way he always licks his bottom lip slightly before he kisses you or the way he is so painfully cynical and innocently hopeful all at once. it’ll be the small circles he’ll trace along the back of your hand with his thumb and the way that you’ll know you’re getting in too deep but will feel powerless in the face of it all. so, you lie back like the pavement is sand and he is the waves that crash mercilessly down on you again and again and again. the tide will change but the bruising will never stop, his touch,      his words will never be soft enough, at least not for you. the next girl that tries; i wish you luck and i promise it’ll be worth it because maybe perms do make alright poetry after all.
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I couldn't make up my mind today, so instead of asking for a perm, I ordered an imaginary tat that wraps around my arm extolling your character and virtue.
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Feb 6, 2011
Feb 6, 2011 at 12:46 PM UTC
I couldn't make up my mind today
Two people walk into a bar: A woman, early twenties, permed-up, puffed-out hair Horn-rimmed glasses thicker than coke bottle bottoms Fresh out the ivory tower eager to learn eager to become who she needs to be Parlez-vous français? She does, Her tongue speeding over conjugated verbs Flying effortlessly through another language, she is ready To move to Paris, la ville de l’amour, The City of Lights, the City of Untold Possibilities She is ready, she thinks, To fall in love. A man, earlier twenties, close-cropped, clean-shaven hair Sea-green eyes and 20/20 vision-placid ocean Fresh out Basic Training eager to act eager to become who he needs to be Do you read me, Sir? He does, His spine rigid from standing straight and tall, Hand crooked at his forehead in an involuntary salute, he is ready To build fighter jets with his oil-stained hands To build a life for himself with his carpenter’s fingers To build a house on the stability he thrives in He is ready, he thinks, To let someone in. Two people walk into a bar: A man, an Army graduate, an old soul A woman, a College graduate, a kind soul Guitar riffs floating from the jukebox drift through the air, Playing the background music for newfoundlove story. Two people walk into a bar: Friends introduce them to each other, She thinks, Those green eyes sparkle with the sun freckling his cheeks Reddening his hair. She thinks, Maybe he’s the one. He thinks, That perm really works for her frames her face what a pretty smile. He thinks, Maybe she’s the one. Two people walk into a bar: Sit down, have a drink, Share some laughs, funny stories, Break the ice with awkward questions, Eat some food, too shy to share it Get some drinks, guzzle liquid courage, Dance to the jukebox buzz Look a little silly but pretend they don’t care. They don’t care. Two people walk into a bar: Maybe they leave hand-in-hand, Maybe they hug goodbye at the door. Maybe they think about each other and call right away. Maybe they set up more dates, more bar trips, more laughs. Maybe they already know that they are in love. Two people walk into a bar: Their history writes its own punchline.
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Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014 at 4:52 PM UTC
Two People Walk into a Bar
Two people walk into a bar: A woman, early twenties, permed-up, puffed-out hair Horn-rimmed glasses thicker than coke bottle bottoms Fresh out the ivory tower eager to learn eager to become who she needs to be Parlez-vous français? She does, Her tongue speeding over conjugated verbs Flying effortlessly through another language, she is ready To move to Paris, la ville de l’amour, The City of Lights, the City of Untold Possibilities She is ready, she thinks, To fall in love. A man, earlier twenties, close-cropped, clean-shaven hair Sea-green eyes and 20/20 vision-placid ocean Fresh out Basic Training eager to act eager to become who he needs to be Do you read me, Sir? He does, His spine rigid from standing straight and tall, Hand crooked at his forehead in an involuntary salute, he is ready To build fighter jets with his oil-stained hands To build a life for himself with his carpenter’s fingers To build a house on the stability he thrives in He is ready, he thinks, To let someone in. Two people walk into a bar: A man, an Army graduate, an old soul A woman, a College graduate, a kind soul Guitar riffs floating from the jukebox drift through the air, Playing the background music for newfoundlove story. Two people walk into a bar: Friends introduce them to each other, She thinks, Those green eyes sparkle with the sun freckling his cheeks Reddening his hair. She thinks, Maybe he’s the one. He thinks, That perm really works for her frames her face what a pretty smile. He thinks, Maybe she’s the one. Two people walk into a bar: Sit down, have a drink, Share some laughs, funny stories, Break the ice with awkward questions, Eat some food, too shy to share it Get some drinks, guzzle liquid courage, Dance to the jukebox buzz Look a little silly but pretend they don’t care. They don’t care. Two people walk into a bar: Maybe they leave hand-in-hand, Maybe they hug goodbye at the door. Maybe they think about each other and call right away. Maybe they set up more dates, more bar trips, more laughs. Maybe they already know that they are in love. Two people walk into a bar: Their history writes its own punchline.
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Being a girl is hard But being a black girl... Let me tell you about being a black girl Leave Out Twist Frontal Perm Pick your poison "Unprofessional" Or falling for " European Beauty Standards" " Why are you so quiet?" Do you expect me to be aggressive And snap my fingers in an A-Z formation Light Skin is the best skin Or so they say I'm jealous of my brother, for his caramel skin Oh what I'd do for that caramel skin You think that's the worst of it but have you see **** Cute girl makes love to -insert famous **** star here Ebony ***** gets banged till she squirts Which would you rather watch? If you ever turned on a TV you'd see reality shows with the perfect blue eyed blond hair cast and the one black kid who doesn't get enough attention Ever since Rachel was the Bachelorette I too prayed one day I'll find the man of my dreams Have you ever had a crush on someone and ever think if they even like girls your skin color? Being a girl is hard But being a black girl Oh let me tell you about being a black girl
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Nov 27, 2017
Nov 27, 2017 at 4:13 PM UTC
Diary Of A Black Girl
He was a tapeworm his sister had a bad perm sitting on her head, edge of the bed in a knife sliced corridor of light. These thoughts, that leaned like weak trees in a cutting breeze. These thoughts that we're never straight more a child's hurricane scribble. A mental ball of twine collecting clutter and when the cobra struck I thought of you naked, ready to **** the venom or offer the antidote. The misery and turbulence, the fear of being hunted by the anonymous faces of a South American meat packing conglomerate.
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 3:03 AM UTC
faceless South American meat packing conglomerate.
I am a contradiction I am an eighties perm in 2013 I am not thinking I am not ebbing I am not flowing But I am happy I am seaweed that fails to move with the current I am the loneliest I have ever felt I am the most sure of things I have ever been My mind is an ocean My heart is a plane My fingertips hold the pulse of earth's heartbeat I spin intricate webs of thoughts through the overcrowded bookshelves in my mind But that's okay Because when you're lying in bed at 3:18 in the morning you begin to realize that you don't need to ebb or flow Your **** doesn't need to be formed into a tight and perfect sphere You can just be And whether being is having the puzzle complete or the pieces scattered across 7 different continents in the end it's all just pieces Incoherent shapes existing
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM UTC
Incoherence
she is always gone while I sit alone she is always gone like the place behind my face. she's a misty girl with her dyed blonde perm press prescription glasses, mind unfastened
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Sep 3, 2013
Sep 3, 2013 at 2:53 PM UTC
lovers at the end of cinema
Magic is a lost art form It crawls through your mind like a worm So many papers written about it for the end of the term All striving for once single goal to learn learn learn It might make you get a perm Causing a riot and making you turn Give that monkey a new bread crumb Or he'll succumb to being obnoxiously dumb But it will probably happen anyway Because the monkey listens to the fray While his mother goes home to pray That his father doesn't travel far away From his family or his favorite friends But on his job it all depends On which locations are best for him Going by the name of Edward Tim Who use to frequent his home gym He Crushed on hot girls named Kim Kim loved to crash Tim's wonderful parties Shooting up with a pack of Smarties Tim wanted her to be a lady Tim wanted her to be a lady Because she was pregnant with Tim's baby Although her mother wanted her to give it up maybe However Kim wanted to name her baby Sadie. Tim wanted to name it after his mother. Kim wanted to name it after her brother. Both of decided because of each other that it was getting quite dim With such fuss between Tim and Kim they settled on a name that was another And prayed that their son would not be dumb Then he wouldn't be any fun for Kim or Tim The fat rat sat flat on may's bat While the sun shined you'll find some fun before the day is done said the trees which they mimed and chimed
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May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 at 7:59 PM UTC
Magic
I’m off out down to town, I’m off out for the night I’m dressed-up to the nines, oh what a lovely sight. I’ve got my shiny shoes on, I’ll get in any place I’ve got my brand-new suit on and my Durex just in case. I’ve learnt a trendy dance this week I’m off down to the Ritz I’ll spin and do the moon walk, might even try the splits. I’ll pick me out a woman and pester her all night I’ll tell her all about myself and set her heart a light. Might by myself some bubbly, make them think I’m rich All the girls will love me and the lads will all be sick. I’ll wear my Rolex wrist watch and my golden belcher chain, and my diamond studded cuff-links, might even take a cane. I’ve been down to the barber’s, for a Kevin Keagan perm I’ve been under the sunbed for a thirty minute burn. I’ve plucked out all the hair, from my nose and my ears I wear a leather G-string; got both ******* pierced. I move like John Travolta, smile like Steve McQueen there’s not one thing I’d alter I’m the perfect specimen. I am a medical marvel, I am a bundle of fun there’s no one else quite like me; I’m the special one. The end
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC
The special one
Who convinced who That curls were “in” In the years before I knew to know better? The smell so strong Of chemical power Making my blonde straight strands Hold the curve of the curlers Using my pick I kept those locks Both frothy and fairly formed Though the pictures of me froze a smile Inside me the doubt ran deep
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Jun 5, 2019
Jun 5, 2019 at 12:48 AM UTC
My Perm
the poem started with the word the it wasn't a good the; it didn't sit on the page right like a head with a bad perm another poem started with the word the the the had so much integrity; it floated on the page like a sun drenched cathedral i can only surmise the magic of a poem has in it the ineffable soul of the writer are the good writers nonchalant talent dripping or are they secretly ******* their the's ******* on the the's making them gleam glowing hard polishing them with a spit shine so it sits on the page with a sense of superiority some poems are nothing but arm pit stains no matter how good they are black listed from love others stratospheric sky-blue uniforms with bright yellow kerchief's you cant take your eyes from they are the crowning glory the the in the the God of the the's peaked like a maraschino with pastel and golden sprinkles on a ball of vanilla a the like a high end Mercedes with the scent of lavender and the magnitude of the Botafumeiro a the to **** for
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018 at 1:43 PM UTC
The Poem
I was always told my hair texture was bad. So here comes the white cream. The white cream is chemical hell. I can smell it as I write this. As I got older I realized the white cream took out more than my curls and coils that the Man upstairs scribbled for me. It took away my temple hairs. It took my chances of having hair past my shoulders. But the white cream never took my curiosity. My never ending curiosity of what I would look like if the white cream never took my real hair from me. My real hair, which was, is, and never will be “bad.”
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Mar 23, 2020
Mar 23, 2020 at 6:36 PM UTC
Perm Sh*t