"redlights" poems
1. Chew 3 pieces of Grape Hubba Bubba at the same time.
2. Wash your car in the rain in your bathing suit.
3. Walk in and out of a store over and over again just to be greeted
repetitively. (this works best at Racetrak and Cici's Pizza)
4. Wear comfortable clothes.
5. Stop caring what you look like.
6. Sing loudly in your car without any music (even at redlights), with your
windows rolled down.
7. Swing, for heaven's sake, swing at the playground.
8. Be nice to everyone, even the snotty retail girl.
9. Go to a church where every Sunday the hairs stand up on your arms
because you feel the presence of GOD.
10. Visit an old cemetery and just sit for a while.
11. Say "I love you" at the end of every phone call, especially to the bill
collectors.
12. Play a video game with your kids, just so they can laugh at how bad you
are.
13. Go without underwear one day.
14. Read Pope and the Bible.
15. Once a month eat whatever you want and however much of it you want.
16. Work out.
17. Snuggle with the warm body of someone who loves you.
18. Let a dog lick your face. (it's really not that bad)
19. Call a random number just to say "hi" to the person who answers.
20. Be yourself so others can know who you truly are.
Mar 3, 2011
Mar 3, 2011 at 3:44 PM UTC
There are a million different ways to say I need you and I'm throwing every one out the **** window because I can't compare you to the ways you want to fly anymore
Please understand that I can't keep avoiding railroad tracks and redlights because I miss the way your hand felt traveling up my thigh; fingerprints seared onto the inside of my skirt and your eyes glued ahead like you were afraid of losing yourself in the brake lights before us.
Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 7:57 PM UTC
The raindrops and wipers
Kept time with the song
The redlights and brakelights
All soon played along
The stop and go rhythm
Of the shifting of gears
So perfectly synced
With my falling tears.
Dec 3, 2023
Dec 3, 2023 at 7:29 PM UTC
Why did we stop here?
How did I get here?
I always rebuked slavery....
no I didn't earn any money for my flesh
the ones who set me up and pushed me here
did
I never saw any of the movies I never consented to
when I was spiked with delirants
and pushed into a room
with a bunch of misogynists
the only reason i performed
my superconscious mind remembered what you did last time
when i was 4 or 5 or 6 years old
how could the slapped child articulate that
now can you give it arr rest ?
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM UTC