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"poke" poems
I'll **** you, If you want. Cause I want it Just as bad as you do. But I also want to hear the rustle of the sheets When you turn over in the middle of the night. I want to feel your hot breath on my neck. I want the stubble on your chin to graze my cheek As you kiss me gently on the forehead. And when I whisper "goodnight," you don't have to reply. Just nudge me with your knee Or poke me with your elbow.
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Aug 13, 2012
Aug 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM UTC
Elbows and Knees
Thank you ~ for a life not to trade blessings, in spades tight spaces behind laundry doors packed closets and open drawers gator tails, tarnished brass cracks in kitchen sliding glass wet towels, withering plants foundation filled with carpenter ants buckets piled with shoes and tags village clothes and saddlebags peeling paint and broken walls ****** seats in bathroom stalls clogged pantry frigid rooms table scribe and carbon fumes comfort capsules empty tanks broken limbs from children’s pranks **** finger double tongue long goodbyes and sidewalk dung cluster flies chavie’ clique accompanying the hypocrite cracked back and hidden smiles chalk on board with mr miles atomic wedgies closing doors wrotten eggs and open sores jaw jack nasty folk dinner calls for pig in poke penny pinchers double dip yellow mouth and silver tip brown nosers thick red tape paper cuts and pimple nape gallivants so out of norm the joy of life… in basic form
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Jan 14, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 at 2:03 PM UTC
cultivation of gratitude
Grandpa sits in his favorite chair, Spots his granddaughter and starts to stare, Whips out his **** and starts to stroke, He knows it’s his granddaughter he wants to poke, Calls her over and says, “Pretty please.” Come on granddaughter get on your knees, She does as she’s told and ***** him with zest, Because she knows ****** is best. Uncle Roy decides to give it a whirl, He likes to dress his nephew up as a girl, Likes to see him in silk and lace, Lipstick and makeup on his face, Imagining him with heels on his feet, As he sits there and starts to stroke his meat, He’d love to put him to the test, Because he knows ****** is best. Mother decides to get in on the act, Her and her son have a special pact, While her husbands at work she gets in his bed, Pulls down his pants and starts giving him head, Son likes his mom dressed up in her lace, As he shoots his load all over her face, He knows his mom is better than the rest, Because he knows ****** is best. Sister and brother are a special pair, It’s more than a last name these two share, Brother Bill can’t believe his luck, Having a sister that likes to **** Says, “Hey Sis, come on over here.” As he bends her over and takes her rear, Going at it like animals it becomes a real fuckfest, Because they both know ****** is best. Father can’t believe his daughter is so kind, She’s on her knees as he takes her behind, She moans and screams and starts to cry, Says, “Hey Daddy, you’re my kind of guy.” Daddy tells her ****** is the better way, It’s a game the whole family can play, Daddy treats his daughter like an honored guest, Because they both know ****** is best. 11-27-09b.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 1:20 AM UTC
****** Is Best
Grandpa sits in his favorite chair, Spots his granddaughter and starts to stare, Whips out his **** and starts to stroke, He knows it’s his granddaughter he wants to poke, Calls her over and says, “Pretty please.” Come on granddaughter get on your knees, She does as she’s told and ***** him with zest, Because she knows ****** is best. Uncle Roy decides to give it a whirl, He likes to dress his nephew up as a girl, Likes to see him in silk and lace, Lipstick and makeup on his face, Imagining him with heels on his feet, As he sits there and starts to stroke his meat, He’d love to put him to the test, Because he knows ****** is best. Mother decides to get in on the act, Her and her son have a special pact, While her husbands at work she gets in his bed, Pulls down his pants and starts giving him head, Son likes his mom dressed up in her lace, As he shoots his load all over her face, He knows his mom is better than the rest, Because he knows ****** is best. Sister and brother are a special pair, It’s more than a last name these two share, Brother Bill can’t believe his luck, Having a sister that likes to **** Says, “Hey Sis, come on over here.” As he bends her over and takes her rear, Going at it like animals it becomes a real fuckfest, Because they both know ****** is best. Father can’t believe his daughter is so kind, She’s on her knees as he takes her behind, She moans and screams and starts to cry, Says, “Hey Daddy, you’re my kind of guy.” Daddy tells her ****** is the better way, It’s a game the whole family can play, Daddy treats his daughter like an honored guest, Because they both know ****** is best. 11-27-09b.
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I'M MAKING nachos in your toaster oven. The chips fall in the pan without a problem. Beans, evenly distributed (if I do say so myself.) Salsa- good to go. Then the cheese. Generic brand shredded cheese blend. I dangle my (washed) fingers into the zip-lock bag, grab a generous pinch and rain mild cheddar down on my gourmet meal. And I feel the tears building. "No," my conscious scolds, "you will not cry over shredded cheese." I add another pinch for flavor, then another to assert dominance. I slide the pan into the tiny oven- triumphant! But the next task breaks me. I freeze when I try to adjust the heat setting. I hear your voice so clearly, like you're still calling from the next room: "you have to press the TOAST button, it cooks much faster."  The tears start to roll. I think about how excited you were when cheese bubbled perfectly- "just a little brown, ever so slightly crispy." We would joke about your persnickety preferences, likely a product of your superior taste. Of course, you would have appreciated anything I made for you, but it was always better when the dish matched the idea in your head...when I made it like you would have made it (if you were only well enough to cook for yourself again.) In the present, I poke the TOAST button and flee the kitchen as to not cry in front of the smothered chips. I sit on the sofa and break down, gasping in childish sobs. "I miss her," I wail to an empty house. Warm tears coat my cheeks in the air-conditioned room. I feel so small. I feel so foolish for crying over stupid, little things. I feel so... so... A bell dings in the kitchen. I wipe my sleeve across my face and traipse back to the toaster. Hand into oven mitt, mitt onto pan, pan onto table. I grab the plastic tubs of sour cream and guacamole from the fridge and a spoon from the drawer that sticks a little when you try to open it. I pick the non-wilted bits off the head of lettuce and rinse them under the faucet. I finish the recipe. I pull out a chair. I sit down to nachos for one.
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 9:57 PM UTC
Stupidest Things
I'M MAKING nachos in your toaster oven. The chips fall in the pan without a problem. Beans, evenly distributed (if I do say so myself.) Salsa- good to go. Then the cheese. Generic brand shredded cheese blend. I dangle my (washed) fingers into the zip-lock bag, grab a generous pinch and rain mild cheddar down on my gourmet meal. And I feel the tears building. "No," my conscious scolds, "you will not cry over shredded cheese." I add another pinch for flavor, then another to assert dominance. I slide the pan into the tiny oven- triumphant! But the next task breaks me. I freeze when I try to adjust the heat setting. I hear your voice so clearly, like you're still calling from the next room: "you have to press the TOAST button, it cooks much faster."  The tears start to roll. I think about how excited you were when cheese bubbled perfectly- "just a little brown, ever so slightly crispy." We would joke about your persnickety preferences, likely a product of your superior taste. Of course, you would have appreciated anything I made for you, but it was always better when the dish matched the idea in your head...when I made it like you would have made it (if you were only well enough to cook for yourself again.) In the present, I poke the TOAST button and flee the kitchen as to not cry in front of the smothered chips. I sit on the sofa and break down, gasping in childish sobs. "I miss her," I wail to an empty house. Warm tears coat my cheeks in the air-conditioned room. I feel so small. I feel so foolish for crying over stupid, little things. I feel so... so... A bell dings in the kitchen. I wipe my sleeve across my face and traipse back to the toaster. Hand into oven mitt, mitt onto pan, pan onto table. I grab the plastic tubs of sour cream and guacamole from the fridge and a spoon from the drawer that sticks a little when you try to open it. I pick the non-wilted bits off the head of lettuce and rinse them under the faucet. I finish the recipe. I pull out a chair. I sit down to nachos for one.
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I love company In the form of anxious thoughts I am less lonely Accompanied by twenty screaming voices Tearing at my every inch of flesh Pouring pain into my veins Crying is good for the soul They laugh in union As I lie lonely in my bed Hoping someone will find me Bruised and broken And take me into their arms Hold me like a child But you are too grown to feel such things These voices whisper, licking blood Carefully off their fingers Spikes poke at my sides leaving no room For me to move or breathe I am slowly dying And yet I tell you I am fine For if I were to ever admit That this is how I truly feel My demons would take form No longer shadows but figures Ready to take me whole
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 4:20 PM UTC
Shadows
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
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Lady Lazarus
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
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Black Rose sweet Demon bud A kiss from a Vamp with taste of blood Emotionless heart infused with desire Intoxicating lust sets us on fire Exposed skin Reveals our sin As we dig in Tie you up You go down Feel my whip wrap around Call me Dom You my Sub Wear your body like a glove Drop disguise Reflection in your eyes Watch this devil rise No surprise Angels cry as I enter your thighs In realm of our imagination together we flow ****** stroke Mental poke entering slow Is there Beauty in the Darkness? I suppose As you bloom Under moon my Black Rose..
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 12:15 AM UTC
Black Rose
He forgot his soap What a dope No one here can cope He's worse than campfire smoke He could of brought it on a rope So he wouldn't have to ***** Instead he'll mope For friends he's got no hope They run when they scope The boy without his soap Rolling down the slope Singing baroque Like the pope He tried a bath in coke Oh what a joke Because the sugars provoke Mosquitoes to bite and poke. Still he stinks like BO and oak Smells like a singer of folk Whose hair is matted into rope Cause he won't use soap What a dope!
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Nov 28, 2012
Nov 28, 2012 at 11:33 PM UTC
Boy Scout Camp
Some days, it feels like the only thing I need in life is a cellphone. With a cellphone, I can spend my time flinging birds into pigs, Slicing fruit, and collecting coins, Never stopping until I get the high score. I can swipe, poke, drag my finger Across a screen of light, Letting the thrill of technology override my soul. With a cellphone, I can write lol a million times, Without a single chuckle escaping from my lips, And mask my life with a fake profile, And an artificial smile, And a status update every once in a while, To show the World Wide Web my embellished life style. With a cellphone, I don’t need to stop and smell the roses, When there’s an app for that. Why would I lay back and watch the vibrant colors of the sunset, When it can be downloaded off the Internet? Why would anyone bother to take risks, To laugh with friends, To cry alone, To feel alive… When there’s a cellphone in your back pocket?
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
Cellphone
same setting from a year ago... i am not sure why, but before the clock strikes twelve midnight, my eyes would surely open no matter what. coffee in bed right now, with a few cookies to munch.... my bifocals, where are they? i need them now...i could vaguely see something crawls on the carpet, making rounds, circling my bed... oh, no, it is hopping towards my comforter... I stretch a leg beneath the pillows something moves very near my toes. i withdraw my leg, alarmed, as it quickly disappears... ...then reappears!  now stationary... this is starting to annoy me... I poke it with a pencil, fear no longer present, now, with my bifocals found. but it hops.....and hops... and hops into hiding down.....down.....below, somewhere inside my comforter. In lieu of me, it is now the  comforted. it is taking too long to come out. .....something i realized just now..... could it be possible, could it remember... i was kind enough not to use a swatter before.... why, i feel like i am being welcomed! we are playing hide-and-seek, a welcome dance it is! here and now, just like before from last  autumn, we are finally reunited, my cricket friend and i....   S a l l y   Copyright  2013      Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 1:03 AM UTC
.....reunited.....
Is there a difference, give us a reference, between a stalker, and a pokemon. The monger hits news, game spots and toss, time lost and chaos, with a pokemon. In Canada...... The rule breakers, cross the borders, an inadvertently walk, for a pokemon. In Guatemala city ....... The teenage boy, under the wizard, die in the cause, for a pokemon. In London....... The go players, ambushed in public, and robbed by trees, all for pokemon. In Africa..... The rumble, then scrambles, to get the last, the dusts of pokeman. In Asia........... No signs too, they tire and wait, for the nostalgia, all for pokeman. In New York..... It's a no, no, for *** offenders, or become criminals, All for pokeman. Poke me man, NO SOD OFF! It's all crazy, the apocalypse, of freaks and creatures! Poke me man! I DARE YOU NOT! Go find old cards, a bank of more funds, all for pokemon. Poke me man! I POCKET YOU! As phones hide, their lunch hunt, the herd of pokemon.
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Aug 2, 2016
Aug 2, 2016 at 6:22 AM UTC
Pokemon
My **** follows me everywhere! Wiggle wiggle, poke poke, jiggle jiggle. At the fridge in night I've a friend by my side. By my backside. On, my backside. Stuck with humidity to the toilet seat on a rainy day, that's right! The bathroom exists, and on a toilet do I sit. At least four or five times daily. Stuck to chair, playing with hair with one hand and a controller in the other. Pumping up and down and in circles as I jump squat. Jump squat! To share if you dare put your palm down there to squeeze. Grab slap, wibble wibble.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 2:07 AM UTC
My ****
Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones I feel the scratch of the itchy cotton gown on the narrows of my back as it climbs up and down Displayed I lye on the medical tables hard cold steel It seers into the crevices of my bones I ponder the lone window and wonder if it's real I listen for the bleep and bloop of medical tones Nurses walk by in a mechanical grace poke and **** & tap and touch my face and then proceed to leave without a trace with no hint of knowledge of my medical case Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl I begin to chant in a simple rhythm as small as a ball I begin to curl I'm abandoned inside this glassy prism The dead silence creeps inside my brain I want to scream to fill the deadly gap but the cold thick air of silence brings pain I comfort myself and say it will be ok My breathing begins to quicken my eyes dart around the room only comfort is the fear which I am stricken my sight goes bleary as darkness looms Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Tears sting the corner of my eyes I want someone to hold my hand Oh God how I want to cry but the only thing there is the bleeding arm band The test begins with the thickness of barium It slides down my throat and clings to my esophagus It tastes like chalk and pandemonium they want me to suffocate I guess I chug and chug as the pictures are snapped x-ray upon x-ray of my stomach and my back Drink more Drink more They tell me to do Nervously I shake and say, anymore and I will puke on you Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Even more poking and prodding ensues but of my stomach, ribs and ******* I lay rigid as a board from the pain of each touch I grow weary of this tiresome rues The tests are done and the coast is clear I am left alone to dress myself in fear Dismissed and discharged to walk away they file my chart with a robotic smile now for the wait of endless days I'm lost in my mind's land of emotional exile Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Pins & Needles Pins & Needles I wait for the results Is it stomach cancer, an ulcer or both?? In the dark I am kept like followers in cults.
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Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM UTC
Doctors Visit
Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones I feel the scratch of the itchy cotton gown on the narrows of my back as it climbs up and down Displayed I lye on the medical tables hard cold steel It seers into the crevices of my bones I ponder the lone window and wonder if it's real I listen for the bleep and bloop of medical tones Nurses walk by in a mechanical grace poke and **** & tap and touch my face and then proceed to leave without a trace with no hint of knowledge of my medical case Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl I begin to chant in a simple rhythm as small as a ball I begin to curl I'm abandoned inside this glassy prism The dead silence creeps inside my brain I want to scream to fill the deadly gap but the cold thick air of silence brings pain I comfort myself and say it will be ok My breathing begins to quicken my eyes dart around the room only comfort is the fear which I am stricken my sight goes bleary as darkness looms Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Tears sting the corner of my eyes I want someone to hold my hand Oh God how I want to cry but the only thing there is the bleeding arm band The test begins with the thickness of barium It slides down my throat and clings to my esophagus It tastes like chalk and pandemonium they want me to suffocate I guess I chug and chug as the pictures are snapped x-ray upon x-ray of my stomach and my back Drink more Drink more They tell me to do Nervously I shake and say, anymore and I will puke on you Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Even more poking and prodding ensues but of my stomach, ribs and ******* I lay rigid as a board from the pain of each touch I grow weary of this tiresome rues The tests are done and the coast is clear I am left alone to dress myself in fear Dismissed and discharged to walk away they file my chart with a robotic smile now for the wait of endless days I'm lost in my mind's land of emotional exile Waiting all alone waiting on this cold table waiting for the doctors and the drones Pins & Needles Pins & Needles I wait for the results Is it stomach cancer, an ulcer or both?? In the dark I am kept like followers in cults.
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Elephant in the room, shoo the hell away! Don't stick around; I wish you wouldn't stay Don't mess with my head, inciting all I feel I don't need you here, I want to heal Stop blaring in my ears, your noxious lies I'm sick to the stomach with my pathetic cries Resist flapping your gigantic ears They simply just fan the rage in my tears Quit blocking my view with your sheer enormity Get out of my thoughts so better I could see Halt your incessant skin rubbing against my sores Chafing me raw on top of my existing scores Pull out your pointy tusks, they poke and jab I'm bent in many places; I don't need more stabs Take your infernal rear out of my face! I'm self-destructing, counting up the days Cease your retaliation, leave with no protest Go find and sit yourself in someone else's nest Drop your intentions to stomp me broken I'm mangled enough; almost misshapen End this mindless rampage...please Let me iron myself straight, in peace... Dear elephant, have you gone? Thank you for the blight of my time, you've spawned
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM UTC
Elephant
trip up the island to see all the folk monopoly, pong => pig 'n a poke crystalline glass with dark bitter ale Santa is looking a little bit pale cherry red cheeks from a chilled chardonnay one sailing wait for the talk of the day drum sticks and dressing are the pick of the bird chestnuts and brandy for gravy being stirred brussels and taters are pulled from the bake pears in the salad bring memories of Jake sparks from the fire with rich amber glow grey hair and wrinkles will come...don't you know? gingerbread man with a white icing smile candy cane schnapps (with its seasonal style!) pine cones and tinsel that cover the tree carols are humming from churches and streets cold winter nights are the best of the year chocolate and eggnog await with good cheer a heavy thick fog approaches the sound the comforts of Christmas, with joy all around!
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Dec 10, 2017
Dec 10, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
snowmen, sleigh-bells and stockings (with holes)
I was treated like the VIP, A cat and a big fish, A hook and a big Six, whilst visiting madam bow-peeps rotisserie of ***** Always receptive, Wearing open silk working 9 to 5am. With a little overtime, hot funk never satisfies, She had the way-with-all to feign, delight; even interest, before negotiating the price, Two shekels, She was classy, kind of slick, she tickled my ears for nothing more than kindness, a small token in exchange for a smile. She popped on a tune, as she took off her dress. The petting started her two hands tugging with the zipper of my jeans. A woman's touch... Ha HA, the rich sultry kiss of ***** tight and tasty; ***** like a ripe tomato, Sugar fried and drunk. She opened her legs, her hair smelled like shampoo, She was on her belly, knees tucked up as I took in the fruit, deep holes filled with **** and shabby fingers, hollow spit and angry poison, head spinning to the groove, loud and high, The bed squeaked and a single light bulb dangled like a loose tooth, Ten minutes and two ******* love songs! Sick and spent up, I got dressed to leave, I said with a poke, "I couldn't get laid, Not even in a ***** house!" And now I'm back in the cold again, only dirtier.
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 4:50 PM UTC
The ********** inspired by William & Don G
I knew it'd happen. A dead Ladybug over our heads. But we drank. Beer, Champagne, Sun. We painted our nails Black, red, ladybug's dead Out we went, In our finest. One drink down, New town. Sticky floors, sticky web, the Ladybug hung dead. I say something, to you. I know it's going to happen. You fume. Tick, tick, tick... You start to shout. Cigarette. Here we go. I'm not backing down on this, I'm trying to help! Help me, help me, set me free, let me live, ladybugs free! ***** I bite my lip SNOTTY I breathe LIAR I blow Tears spill on your face, My truth comes out, You pushed me! Poke, Poke, Push! Poke, Poke, Push! We hurt each other. Over nothing. Over something you don't like? What is it? I give up. Taxi for one, Taxi for two. My head is heavy, Eyes weak. I'll be the bad guy. You'll cry to them, and lie, lie, lie! Fly, fly, fly far away. Ladybugs aren't here to stay.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM UTC
Dead Ladybug Luck
The night storm washed up infant squirrels at my doorstep. One by one, they crawled inside, their heads too heavy to hold up high. I watched them paw at the carpet, their tongues searching. Their claws find your sweater, within it they scamper, they are hungry. They rumble by my stomach, and poke their faces out of your collar. To stop their crying, I feed them raisins, and we look to you for more. But they see your eyes are meant for your thoughts alone, and fall off my skin and out of your clothing. The squirrels have grown up, and yearn for expanse. That's okay hon, I’ll return them to the forest first thing tomorrow morning.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 7:59 AM UTC
Rodent Attention
She was the one who made me belive in happiness. She was the one who was there two years ago, With me. And now, I think she dosen't need me anymore. Well, yes. She comes back when she's crying, And I'm the one who conforts her, But after this, She just runs away. But, what about me? What if I'M sad? What if I'M crying. Nothing. I call this a game. She's playing with me. And I let her. Cause I know Karma will take care of her. Hanna says it: Sometimes you poke the bear. Other times, the bear pokes you."
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM UTC
Karma
this is a medical emergency ossified in utero part the hair to cover pink earwax scar innervated this cochlea this ******* that steals the spotlight and rooster’s comb braised sockets for teeth wired through the rafters kissing corner braces shallow chromium double-eye poke like a pile of face bones stacked paul bunyan forest slide and jump from the peak to the pool shallow and undisturbed to dunk your face and see future pure voodoo spirit board and voice box locked with tongue-ectomy removal of cough through neck hole cardboard cut stickers in half to write ***** I’m done.*
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Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 4:24 PM UTC
blood and guts folklore
1. He lights another mortar and the dog runs after it barking and trying to bite it he grabs it's back leg as the sky lights up since he had barely thought to look over and the words around here don't reach his mind his ears defective as they are. He says something with his hands something foreign to me but six people watching laugh and so do I. 2. His wife sits with her sons her stomach wide with their third another boy she's gotten so used to talking with her hands that her voice is rusty and her vocabulary limited but she's here as much as the rest sitting and laughing and having a good time. 3. The owner of the house sits off the side in the nicest lawn chair here a cup in her hand we've quit counting how many drinks she's had but she only drinks a couple days a year and nobody is giving her any problems and she seems to be able to be her normal self. She had been questioning me earlier today seeing if I was really a good guy testing whether she'd have to sit at the table with a shotgun every time I spent any time with her niece. 4. Her husband is launching his own collection of mortars off with his brother while her brother-in-law hands the teens the novelties I launch off a dozen flowers and a few spinny things. She occasionally breaks her fingers away from mine to launch off a flower, smokebomb or firecracker and occasionally runs over to poke-chop her uncle who keeps talking to the fireworks. She always comes back and we'll wander by her mom and stepdad (the latter always throws in some sort of comment so we act careful around him) and over to her cousins or toward her aunt and roommate. Occasionally we'll have to get something from the house and we sneak three kisses but we mostly just stay in each others arms keeping each other warm in the almost warm 4th of July night our hands both entwined one of our heads always on the others shoulder and in all the craziness all the family drama everything is perfect and she's smiling so hard her cheeks keep hurting and she keeps telling me how little sleep she's gonna get and I tell her I ain't gonna be able to sleep at all
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Jul 7, 2013
Jul 7, 2013 at 4:21 AM UTC
Fireworks
1. He lights another mortar and the dog runs after it barking and trying to bite it he grabs it's back leg as the sky lights up since he had barely thought to look over and the words around here don't reach his mind his ears defective as they are. He says something with his hands something foreign to me but six people watching laugh and so do I. 2. His wife sits with her sons her stomach wide with their third another boy she's gotten so used to talking with her hands that her voice is rusty and her vocabulary limited but she's here as much as the rest sitting and laughing and having a good time. 3. The owner of the house sits off the side in the nicest lawn chair here a cup in her hand we've quit counting how many drinks she's had but she only drinks a couple days a year and nobody is giving her any problems and she seems to be able to be her normal self. She had been questioning me earlier today seeing if I was really a good guy testing whether she'd have to sit at the table with a shotgun every time I spent any time with her niece. 4. Her husband is launching his own collection of mortars off with his brother while her brother-in-law hands the teens the novelties I launch off a dozen flowers and a few spinny things. She occasionally breaks her fingers away from mine to launch off a flower, smokebomb or firecracker and occasionally runs over to poke-chop her uncle who keeps talking to the fireworks. She always comes back and we'll wander by her mom and stepdad (the latter always throws in some sort of comment so we act careful around him) and over to her cousins or toward her aunt and roommate. Occasionally we'll have to get something from the house and we sneak three kisses but we mostly just stay in each others arms keeping each other warm in the almost warm 4th of July night our hands both entwined one of our heads always on the others shoulder and in all the craziness all the family drama everything is perfect and she's smiling so hard her cheeks keep hurting and she keeps telling me how little sleep she's gonna get and I tell her I ain't gonna be able to sleep at all
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I can imagine myself as a midwife or a medicine woman— waking early wandering the wooddesertmountain with bad-ass boots & a patchy coat, pockets filled with rosemary and crystals driving an old truck that smells of rolled cigarettes and gasoline drinking hot tea out of a mason jar. i see all of this & I wonder where this image will land me. Portland in the fall? Nevada in the Winter? Colorado? Montana? But I need the trees. My power is in the mountains. Or maybe it is in the moon—and her face isn’t bound to the side of the mountain i need the howl of coyotes, the smell of pine, the sound of running water over rocks, cold air, wind. i crave this to the center of my bones. i want to dance with fire women, sing air songs, pray to the earth, bathe in the water, and speak with the spirit mother & the red father that binds all of these together in a chaotic harmony i will never understand. i need to paint my body with the stain of poke berry and run, foot against stone, against decaying leaves. there is a savage within me that needs to run free that needs to bark at the moon and breathe clean air.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM UTC
wise-woman visions
EPILOGUE: When wisdom fills the old calabash, It overflows and seeps in The sun dries it to be stronger That way it lasts with experience So was the calabash of Atanga’s Granpa On his very dying bed He called Atanga to his bed And had his last stream flow to him GRANDPA: My dear Atanga, Please in the name all great Atangas This is my last advice to you If you wish to take a wife Never choose either of these: The woman with light skin The woman with dark skin The woman who is short And the woman who is tall ATANGA: Ei! Grandpa! Then tell me not to marry Who then do you want me to marry? Not the fair Nor the dark Not the short Nor the tall? GRANDPA: Listen my boy To words of old The light skinned woman Is the fantasy of all If you choose her None will help you prosper Every man wants you to fail So they can quickly take your place So never dream of the fair woman No matter how much you crave for her ATANGA: Oh! I see I think I do understand Grandpa what about the rest? GRANDPA: Never go in for dark skinned woman She is the one that all your people loathe She is the one whose people hate you The only people interested are you and her When disaster strikes, none will hear So never go in for the dark skinned woman ATANGA: Oh! I see Now I know It is not the colour Nor the character A woman like that Would do me harm Now let us go on Explain the rest GRANDPA: Never go in for the short woman A short woman is the neighbour’s daughter Her house is so close to your house You can never have a moment of peace Whatever you do Her people poke their noses You can never have your lives to live ATANGA: Grandpa is wise So what about the last? GRANPA: The tall woman Is the woman who comes from afar Her home-town is far So you can’t have peace Any time there is trouble in her home You need to pay To get your people to go with you Amidst the feeding And transportation How can you proper? ATANGA: Granpa is wise Grandpa has lived Who would have thought Of these wise sayings To an infant where thoughts are concerned? Thank you Grandpa So which type of woman Must I marry? Grandpa? Grandpa? I am asking you a question! Grandpa!!!! Grandpa please answer!!!! MMA: Grandpa is gone To the land of beyond Where sorrow is nil And thinking is unreal Just be glad you sipped from his calabash Of wisdom before he left PROLOGUE: And that ended Grandpa’s advice Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
ATANGA’S GRANDPA’S LAST ADVICE
EPILOGUE: When wisdom fills the old calabash, It overflows and seeps in The sun dries it to be stronger That way it lasts with experience So was the calabash of Atanga’s Granpa On his very dying bed He called Atanga to his bed And had his last stream flow to him GRANDPA: My dear Atanga, Please in the name all great Atangas This is my last advice to you If you wish to take a wife Never choose either of these: The woman with light skin The woman with dark skin The woman who is short And the woman who is tall ATANGA: Ei! Grandpa! Then tell me not to marry Who then do you want me to marry? Not the fair Nor the dark Not the short Nor the tall? GRANDPA: Listen my boy To words of old The light skinned woman Is the fantasy of all If you choose her None will help you prosper Every man wants you to fail So they can quickly take your place So never dream of the fair woman No matter how much you crave for her ATANGA: Oh! I see I think I do understand Grandpa what about the rest? GRANDPA: Never go in for dark skinned woman She is the one that all your people loathe She is the one whose people hate you The only people interested are you and her When disaster strikes, none will hear So never go in for the dark skinned woman ATANGA: Oh! I see Now I know It is not the colour Nor the character A woman like that Would do me harm Now let us go on Explain the rest GRANDPA: Never go in for the short woman A short woman is the neighbour’s daughter Her house is so close to your house You can never have a moment of peace Whatever you do Her people poke their noses You can never have your lives to live ATANGA: Grandpa is wise So what about the last? GRANPA: The tall woman Is the woman who comes from afar Her home-town is far So you can’t have peace Any time there is trouble in her home You need to pay To get your people to go with you Amidst the feeding And transportation How can you proper? ATANGA: Granpa is wise Grandpa has lived Who would have thought Of these wise sayings To an infant where thoughts are concerned? Thank you Grandpa So which type of woman Must I marry? Grandpa? Grandpa? I am asking you a question! Grandpa!!!! Grandpa please answer!!!! MMA: Grandpa is gone To the land of beyond Where sorrow is nil And thinking is unreal Just be glad you sipped from his calabash Of wisdom before he left PROLOGUE: And that ended Grandpa’s advice Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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