"rasberry" poems
I can see you there
standing in your studio relishing
in the faces of your followers
creaming their jeans over your creations
lightbulbs hanging from the cealing by telephone cords
and photographs of babies dressed as dictators
trying to prove that innocence still exists
when we both know that this world
was robbed of its innocence a million years ago
you might fool some people but I can see right through you
professional hipster, wearing tie dye underneath your skin
and an overpriced suit on the outside
painting your lips with designer brand
translucent rasberry lipstick
and kissing your acquaintances
a kiss for each cheek
I want to know how you can fake it so well
hiding behind your little purple door
counting money while I’m busy counting lies
was it easy to push your dreams so far away
so deep in the back of your mind that they may as well be in your shoes
did you ever think you’d be here
that you’d sell your soul to the devil
because I’m afraid that you might be my future
and I would rather stand at the end of the dock with Mr.Gatsby
gazing at the green light across the river
holding on to hope forever
Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM UTC
Wrought-wide eyes from catching clouds on the safety of our backs
Who's lifting who dried-up with the fossils, tucked away at Jack's
Can you capture the oily maze of Perla, Gary, Glen AND Dee?
We should cap the treasure trove. Just one shell. Alright... three.
Passenger mats drowned long ago in quartets of sandy shoes
They're coming around to dukkah, but beetroot's an ongoing feud.
We'll find our way back to purple-brown after art class in year nine
Until then just squeeze my hand when they see **** every time.
Curse words stowed beneath our necks, cellared with the red wine.
Pull binoculars out in twenty years to seek parrots in sun spines.
Trick them into dusking walks, the promise of ice cream at Kateri
Squealing across Eileen's golden grain, I hope they pick Rasberry.
He swirls the sand beneath him and burrows his sweet brow.
She builds bridges for fairies and writes names in stick-crayon.
I'll say they're just like us, one day when they can stand it least
Until then their just like you dreamboat, floating down my east.
Feb 15, 2021
Feb 15, 2021 at 10:39 PM UTC
Blue looks like a nice cool pool on a hot summer day.
Blue tastes like a sour blueberry in my mouth.
Blue feels like nice cold rain on my whole body.
Blue sounds like an ocean wave crashing against the shore.
Blue smells like a blue rasberry slushy at a fair.
Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 12:53 AM UTC
Remember how it started...
Rasberry mocha
....Postcard from Chicago
Making love on the lifeguard tower
How we we soaked the sheets
.... in your apartment...that
Blistering summer
Pedaling through sunshine
To find the largest brews
...Reading in bed
Making a home...
Our kitten burrito
...Lazy afternoons
Spooning to football
...on the sofa
Your Masters show
Sundays in the print room
...The giant press
It took both of us to turn the wheel
My favorite friend
My favorite laugh
How I fell so much more in love with you
...each time you sang to me...
****** voice}
......'Mon Cheri' Amore'
Our nephews...so tiny in our hands
... Christmas gingerbread
And quarters on the living room floor
Standing in the rain for hours to help a stranger;...78 bites later
I never felt more beaUtiful than
that day// in that dress// I do and I did
How we fit so perfectly/puzzled
...but we still fell to pieces
Dec 29, 2015
Dec 29, 2015 at 10:57 PM UTC
sorry, this is not an r.e.m.
self-loathing session
concerning happy shiny people;
the beatles
or the rolling stones?
well... it was never about
elvis or roy O either...
hands down...
or what joseph II might have
said of bowie having
said of mozart: too many thoughts...
well... for the pop appeal?
hands down, monkey juggling
trick while playing a harmonica
using its ***
prince's:
RASBERRY BERET...
and apparently he owns the copyrights
on youtube too...
old school buying
a CD and ripping it onto a ******
MP3 and... having a beer and doing
a little dance in the street...
and then:
Moroccan ass-dancer
in the bedroom between drinks...
Moroccan ass-dancer?
yeah... those perv arabs in north
africa like the belly of a woman...
but the men are ass-dancers...
**** you r.e.m.!
you give amphetamines
euphoria and sugar to people...
and then what?!
Xenox first impressions?!
fuck you...
at least prince had the dignity
to laugh in his head...
ha ha... yeah... that was fun...
pop! pop!
who the hell is going after
if you were mine?
Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC