Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
"rents" poems
an average human creature should such a mythical exist in a lifetime will celebrate about 2,200,000,000 heartbeats, billions of heartbeats per minute (I prefer moment) but like everything so essence human there are those very few heartbeat moments, the ten or twenty maybe forty total in a lifetime that you total truly remember, recalling the cream and sauce, swell and the hell, of the pounding so slow so hard, each one a volcano of a moment until that day you don't remember-anything when she said yes and you're shaking and beating in a honky-tonk rhythm cause you were heart undressed unsure and truly afraid of a rejection that makes a heart stoppage disallowing visions, to be exponentially happy future imagined you're feeling your heartbeat in your knees going weak, when the doctor says: congratulations healthy swell and/or some years later, I'm so so truly sorry, hell when they hand you a long handle shovel no instructions needed and that scoop of earth weighs two tons and the sound of slow reverb in your head hurts like hell and you lack the strength to move and they move you aside quiet gentle like but inside the temple of the two headed hydra-heart, it's the rock and roll of slo mo, the violin crying, the drumming of heavy metal chords plucked so slowly, it's you froze screaming a billionaire of heartbeats you are, but only ten or twenty maybe forty total in a lifetime you total truly remember with the perfect clarity and forever renders into your own unique orchestral symphony, your true net worth, the stripes you wear upon your shoulders skin,   the tune when you hear it and melts you into rigidity you fall to your knees wherever you are, that is where you will find me, just listen for the cars horns blaring cursing the man lying in the street, re-listening to ten or twenty maybe forty heartbeats total in a lifetime you alone total truly that concert set recall and the win-loss record inherent, inhiment, in both of them, tears and the rents, all there in the tunes, of forty beatings you took, somehow it feels like here is, there was, the answers to where is shelter for the heart, the answers that have gone and come and gone and someone says, I don't feel a pulse
0
Oct 25, 2017
Oct 25, 2017 at 2:55 PM UTC
BPM (beats per moment)
an average human creature should such a mythical exist in a lifetime will celebrate about 2,200,000,000 heartbeats, billions of heartbeats per minute (I prefer moment) but like everything so essence human there are those very few heartbeat moments, the ten or twenty maybe forty total in a lifetime that you total truly remember, recalling the cream and sauce, swell and the hell, of the pounding so slow so hard, each one a volcano of a moment until that day you don't remember-anything when she said yes and you're shaking and beating in a honky-tonk rhythm cause you were heart undressed unsure and truly afraid of a rejection that makes a heart stoppage disallowing visions, to be exponentially happy future imagined you're feeling your heartbeat in your knees going weak, when the doctor says: congratulations healthy swell and/or some years later, I'm so so truly sorry, hell when they hand you a long handle shovel no instructions needed and that scoop of earth weighs two tons and the sound of slow reverb in your head hurts like hell and you lack the strength to move and they move you aside quiet gentle like but inside the temple of the two headed hydra-heart, it's the rock and roll of slo mo, the violin crying, the drumming of heavy metal chords plucked so slowly, it's you froze screaming a billionaire of heartbeats you are, but only ten or twenty maybe forty total in a lifetime you total truly remember with the perfect clarity and forever renders into your own unique orchestral symphony, your true net worth, the stripes you wear upon your shoulders skin,   the tune when you hear it and melts you into rigidity you fall to your knees wherever you are, that is where you will find me, just listen for the cars horns blaring cursing the man lying in the street, re-listening to ten or twenty maybe forty heartbeats total in a lifetime you alone total truly that concert set recall and the win-loss record inherent, inhiment, in both of them, tears and the rents, all there in the tunes, of forty beatings you took, somehow it feels like here is, there was, the answers to where is shelter for the heart, the answers that have gone and come and gone and someone says, I don't feel a pulse
Continue reading...
49
Women are always saying, why are there no good men out there anymore? I say there are plenty of good men out there. Good men with great qualities. Might not look like Brad Pitt but strong enough to never quit. You can't wait for a George Clooney you may go ****** You chose to go out on a date with that handsome man. Who drives the fancy car and wears that fancy watch. That handsome man wined you and dined you. Took you back to his place where you ended up staying late. You left in the early morning hour, heading home for a shower. A few days have gone by, that handsome man never calls. You're feeling sad and rejected, thats what handsome men do. A good man would not have rejected you. A good man who drives an old pickup truck. Who worries when the rents do. A good man working to make ends meet would sweep you off your feet. Good men aren't hard to find. Just open your eyes and you just might find. That there are a few good men out there.
0
Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 9:13 PM UTC
There Are Good Men
i like to listen to bobby womack sing "fly me to the moon" while thinking of jeff's blue origin rocketship exploding in the air all his pride crashing down in pieces recorded for the whole world to see because i have walked unhappily down the streets of soulless south lake union where clueless people walk by dumbly raising rents congesting traffic thinking they are off to change the world crying about peter dinklage yellowfacing herve villechaize, their stupidity knows no bounds always hard at work in south lake union producing nothing that won't be obsolete the second it is completed purposely designed to make our lives unaffordable **** jeff and all his tech bro henchmen who do nothing but steal the sun from the poor
0
Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 1:57 AM UTC
songs to get ****** to
there won't be many shrouded gowns or tears or tales to tell above a bed with tiny frowns to watch my carcass swell perhaps a friend or cousin no colleagues from past tense i'd be shocked to see a dozen if i don't outlast the 'rents don't go too far out of way or bring a spot of gin just to watch my bones decay and sorrow o'er my skin kiss my head or curse or bawl i won't know whose farewell staring at a furnace wall while looking up from hell for now i'm lying here to show her i can’t bear without your face who knows if you'll need closure i'll be dressed for just in case i’d have lived for you but only let's not talk about regrets i'll wish you'd never known me but hate to think you might forget
0
May 15, 2022
May 15, 2022 at 2:31 PM UTC
when i'm gone
What is it I'm here for? I swear I stay in my feels Yeah I **** up man But come on what's the deal I work really hard, & I tell  uto keep it real. But all these mother ******* out for positivity to steal. I Keep my head high or something like that... Hating *** ******* still tryna tilt it back. I don't give a **** about about what everyone has to say.. I'm out here living and guess what my  rents still gonna get paid. You fake ******* I'll slay... Looking for a man to pay your way. I don't need **** from any of you sheep *** ******* I'm a wolf, lead the pack, quick attack.. you need stitches. You can't  keep up with me At least not mentally All you haters do is talk **** all day but could you really step it G? Ha. That I'd like to see. I don't know if it's just me.. But for once everyone Just leave me be.
0
Feb 3, 2017
Feb 3, 2017 at 4:46 AM UTC
Be.
Companies have established low wages I haven’t seen anything like this since my ages Hourly rates are at an all time low The economy with no acceleration is moving ever so slow Rents are so high People are wondering if they will ever survive It’s like a sting from a beehive However, the word Permanent is now called Temp The cost of living simply went Yet how are people suppose to survive A new wave with good news has come to shore It’s called “Entrepreneur” for you to explore People need a new plan being their own Entrepreneur But it takes time to establish Once your Entrepreneur business is up and running Now you will need a Dynamic Advertising Campaign that will be stunning People need to know who you are with your business Don’t forget the business cards Once again, it takes time in getting the business on its way But don’t stall nor delay Kiss the Corporate world goodbye Now give Entrepreneur a try Corporate compensation low Today it is Entrepreneur being the flow Corporate world continues too have their own agenda Welcome to Entrepreneur for you to enter So worry no more Be your own Boss for sure Entrepreneur is knocking for you to explore If Entrepreneur was something you always wanted to do, don’t put off and just pursue Corporate world salaries just don’t fit It’s time for a Corporate quit and let Entrepreneur be it.
0
Jun 2, 2018
Jun 2, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC
CORPORATE WORLD SALARIES UNSEEN AND ENTREPRENEUR SEEN
Starving artist, Hungry and cold, Dive in a fountain Of wishes and gold Counts fifteen bucks In quarters and cents Steals wishers' lucks To pay for her rents But she hopes for the best That all of those wishes Were already blessed And that marauder of dreams, of wishes, of love, She paid back in gleams Silver spilling from glove And those wishers? Well, they had their fortunes of hearts reunited of kisses goodnight of beds warm and cozy and dreams taken flight All but a handful Remained in her pocket, and never again saw the sun
0
Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 1:50 AM UTC
Pocketed Wishes
This plot of ground facing the waters of this inlet is dedicated to the living presence of Emily Dickinson Wellcome who was born in England; married; lost her husband and with her five year old son sailed for New York in a two-master; was driven to the Azores; ran adrift on Fire Island shoal, met her second husband in a Brooklyn boarding house, went with him to Puerto Rico bore three more children, lost her second husband, lived hard for eight years in St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, San Domingo, followed the oldest son to New York, lost her daughter, lost her “baby,” seized the two boys of the oldest son by the second marriage mothered them—they being motherless—fought for them against the other grandmother and the aunts, brought them here summer after summer, defended herself here against thieves, storms, sun, fire, against flies, against girls that came smelling about, against drought, against weeds, storm-tides, neighbors, weasels that stole her chickens, against the weakness of her own hands, against the growing strength of the boys, against wind, against the stones, against trespassers, against rents, against her own mind. She grubbed this earth with her own hands, domineered over this grass plot, blackguarded her oldest son into buying it, lived here fifteen years, attained a final loneliness and— If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out.
0
2.4k
Dedication For A Plot Of Ground
Do we, as a people, deserve to be critised? Have we as a nation become so desensitised to the plight of those among us who are marginalised? Do we care nothing for the less well off, the disenfranchised? Rents and cost of living as high as we have ever known, numbers on the breadline and homeless have consistently grown, so many suicides because people feel so desperate and alone, how can we stand by and let this happen to so many of our own? So many families torn apart and utterly devastated, Far too many of our young people reluctantly emigrated, People losing their homes, heartbroken and humiliated, There is not much about this country now to be celebrated! It’s true that during the recession most people lost a lot But was it the booming economy that really started the rot? Did we start judging each other by how much each had got? Was compassion for our fellow man something we forgot? Though going through hard times we still give much to charity many services only possible because people work voluntarily but the government rub their hands together with unashamed glee Are they right to think our actions absolve them of all responsibility? Though all of us are struggling, each with so much on our plate   Should we not come together, do something before it is too late? Surely the plight of these our people should prompt a national debate? to ensure our government meets the needs of every last citizen of our state. The frightening thing is, it could so easily be you or I left unemployed or homeless, or barely scraping by we cannot just dismiss it, the signs are all there and if the present is anything to go by, will anybody care?
0
May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 3:54 AM UTC
Does Anybody Care?
Do we, as a people, deserve to be critised? Have we as a nation become so desensitised to the plight of those among us who are marginalised? Do we care nothing for the less well off, the disenfranchised? Rents and cost of living as high as we have ever known, numbers on the breadline and homeless have consistently grown, so many suicides because people feel so desperate and alone, how can we stand by and let this happen to so many of our own? So many families torn apart and utterly devastated, Far too many of our young people reluctantly emigrated, People losing their homes, heartbroken and humiliated, There is not much about this country now to be celebrated! It’s true that during the recession most people lost a lot But was it the booming economy that really started the rot? Did we start judging each other by how much each had got? Was compassion for our fellow man something we forgot? Though going through hard times we still give much to charity many services only possible because people work voluntarily but the government rub their hands together with unashamed glee Are they right to think our actions absolve them of all responsibility? Though all of us are struggling, each with so much on our plate   Should we not come together, do something before it is too late? Surely the plight of these our people should prompt a national debate? to ensure our government meets the needs of every last citizen of our state. The frightening thing is, it could so easily be you or I left unemployed or homeless, or barely scraping by we cannot just dismiss it, the signs are all there and if the present is anything to go by, will anybody care?
Continue reading...
28
Now, We are mellow. Having spent the evening exploring the threads of friendship. That had come adrift of warp, weft and weave. Time and distance had silks, snag-tagged-torn, on the bustling-busy, hectic-hustling of work and family. Teasing-taunt, needle-gnawing, small, gap-rip-rents in the snug comforter that is... the wonder of us. Us, so many secrets woven. So many, nights of tissues and sobbing tears. Darning in daring exploits. Cutting away knotted, fear-angry-scream-fighting feuds. Cutting work, for days of delight and nights of desperate yearning. We used anything at hand, rough wools, pieces of string and twines. To weave a blanket, to hide us from life's storms. We were, so young, so strong, recklessly-brash, stupidly-joyous and braveheart-fools. And now, time and age, has softened our work. Felted and fuse-melded, the fibres into a beautiful entity. That we store-save in the heart's cupboard, of special and precious  things. It is an heirloom of sorts. We bring it out,with occasional, humble-grace, to be dandled and stroked with reverence. Caressed and cossetted are our memories held within the abstract weave. We are the dwindling of a youthful exuberance flung-thrown-heaved to the wild winds. So now, we are grateful to be curator-custodians of the retrospective nature as we augment-append and reiterate-repair. A new thread here, now, embellish-embroider,embed and tatt-stitch. My son and your twin girls, squeezed, splashing into your tiny bathtub big-grin-giggling in the gurgling water. Our future, here and now, is the brightest of silks, Our past, mellow and yielding in, the luminent opulence, angelically-asleep in, the other room.
0
May 31, 2014
May 31, 2014 at 6:30 AM UTC
warp weft and weave
Now, We are mellow. Having spent the evening exploring the threads of friendship. That had come adrift of warp, weft and weave. Time and distance had silks, snag-tagged-torn, on the bustling-busy, hectic-hustling of work and family. Teasing-taunt, needle-gnawing, small, gap-rip-rents in the snug comforter that is... the wonder of us. Us, so many secrets woven. So many, nights of tissues and sobbing tears. Darning in daring exploits. Cutting away knotted, fear-angry-scream-fighting feuds. Cutting work, for days of delight and nights of desperate yearning. We used anything at hand, rough wools, pieces of string and twines. To weave a blanket, to hide us from life's storms. We were, so young, so strong, recklessly-brash, stupidly-joyous and braveheart-fools. And now, time and age, has softened our work. Felted and fuse-melded, the fibres into a beautiful entity. That we store-save in the heart's cupboard, of special and precious  things. It is an heirloom of sorts. We bring it out,with occasional, humble-grace, to be dandled and stroked with reverence. Caressed and cossetted are our memories held within the abstract weave. We are the dwindling of a youthful exuberance flung-thrown-heaved to the wild winds. So now, we are grateful to be curator-custodians of the retrospective nature as we augment-append and reiterate-repair. A new thread here, now, embellish-embroider,embed and tatt-stitch. My son and your twin girls, squeezed, splashing into your tiny bathtub big-grin-giggling in the gurgling water. Our future, here and now, is the brightest of silks, Our past, mellow and yielding in, the luminent opulence, angelically-asleep in, the other room.
Continue reading...
54
# "They've outlawed it, you know.."        "Outlawed what, Sweetie" ***"The  Unknowable-- that which cannot be  defined   or easily explained away.. That which cannot  reduced, down in to something  more palatable;   Or maybe diluted-down in to  that which  one could drink ..without it bringing some form     of dis- comfort"*** She is looking down; Woven into her hair.. all things edelweiss,  suddenly begin      their wilt   ..and  all along the waterway   are those coming towards her      to smother                     . You will hold on, my Beautiful *(or maybe even turn  to face for the first time, with loaded gun)* --But Beautiful girl was never  meant     to go loaded *(..And her beloved Rooster Cogburn  said that she's no bigger than a corn nubbin)*     My beautiful girl     locks and loads, anyways-- Because the Mason-jars   she was forced to  pour it all in to,      were never made  big enough          to contain it. There's a small stall  at the  swap-meet.. on Thursday and Saturday  mornings,   she rents a space there       Her wares,  true liquid Gold..    *(when a jar  becomes sold    no hidden-thing will be  needed         to sustain it)*   .      .      .      .      . Quiet hearts  are never meant to reveal themselves       Some words (in this world)       were never meant  to be spoken You'll see now, beautiful Angel-- that this Rare-Jeweled heart  of yours   is not the only-one,                 perpetually Broken Some gifts, the world may never  be ready for. Lip-Kissed, may I be the one to help  get that un-ready World, ready-- *(so very well fed     yet still;   so very slowly,  burning)* Some beautiful Heartbeats are so very much worth dying for         ***...  And I,  myself ;                           I  am  turning..*** #
0
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM UTC
(..such a Beautiful little Bootlegger)
# "They've outlawed it, you know.."        "Outlawed what, Sweetie" ***"The  Unknowable-- that which cannot be  defined   or easily explained away.. That which cannot  reduced, down in to something  more palatable;   Or maybe diluted-down in to  that which  one could drink ..without it bringing some form     of dis- comfort"*** She is looking down; Woven into her hair.. all things edelweiss,  suddenly begin      their wilt   ..and  all along the waterway   are those coming towards her      to smother                     . You will hold on, my Beautiful *(or maybe even turn  to face for the first time, with loaded gun)* --But Beautiful girl was never  meant     to go loaded *(..And her beloved Rooster Cogburn  said that she's no bigger than a corn nubbin)*     My beautiful girl     locks and loads, anyways-- Because the Mason-jars   she was forced to  pour it all in to,      were never made  big enough          to contain it. There's a small stall  at the  swap-meet.. on Thursday and Saturday  mornings,   she rents a space there       Her wares,  true liquid Gold..    *(when a jar  becomes sold    no hidden-thing will be  needed         to sustain it)*   .      .      .      .      . Quiet hearts  are never meant to reveal themselves       Some words (in this world)       were never meant  to be spoken You'll see now, beautiful Angel-- that this Rare-Jeweled heart  of yours   is not the only-one,                 perpetually Broken Some gifts, the world may never  be ready for. Lip-Kissed, may I be the one to help  get that un-ready World, ready-- *(so very well fed     yet still;   so very slowly,  burning)* Some beautiful Heartbeats are so very much worth dying for         ***...  And I,  myself ;                           I  am  turning..*** #
Continue reading...
63
I waited 8 periods, 7 hours, in between searching for you, running around the corridors, Like a psychosis affected patient running trying to find reality through delusions, But "planet", ironically you are my delusion, miles away from the brutal reality. My excuses to see you were drying up; sprinting to the top floor that maybe you‘ll come across, Ecstatic like a 5 year old kid, when his rents buy him a toy helicopter, Disappointed like the poor kid as his helicopter crashed on the first day itself. You’re nerdy, the only guy studying java and oracle with interest, enticing me with your mint and cedar scent, This infatuation is eating my heart up, slowly and slowly, like cancer I came today only to see you, desperately clinging to the belief that maybe you’ll come to see me too. But I was left alone, with the burning sun as my only companion. I woke up hours early, straightening my hair till my hair were singed, applying mascara till my eyes burned. I fancied, that possibly you might think of me too, day dream of me too, but darling  curse me for being a hopeless teen, as its getting me nowhere. Everyone keeps telling me its never going to happen, I’m a junior and you a sophomore & when your azure lids never glance my way, my face turns ashen, even during the Indian summer. And who am I to even try to fight with the bitter truth, for it’s always destroying our little fragile hearts and drowning them in acid and absinth It was so silly of me to even give into these treacherous day dreams, to even let my pride escape. I was absurd enough to even like you, knowing even then, that I will never be able to solve this Rubik cube.
0
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 6:37 AM UTC
You are my delusion.
I waited 8 periods, 7 hours, in between searching for you, running around the corridors, Like a psychosis affected patient running trying to find reality through delusions, But "planet", ironically you are my delusion, miles away from the brutal reality. My excuses to see you were drying up; sprinting to the top floor that maybe you‘ll come across, Ecstatic like a 5 year old kid, when his rents buy him a toy helicopter, Disappointed like the poor kid as his helicopter crashed on the first day itself. You’re nerdy, the only guy studying java and oracle with interest, enticing me with your mint and cedar scent, This infatuation is eating my heart up, slowly and slowly, like cancer I came today only to see you, desperately clinging to the belief that maybe you’ll come to see me too. But I was left alone, with the burning sun as my only companion. I woke up hours early, straightening my hair till my hair were singed, applying mascara till my eyes burned. I fancied, that possibly you might think of me too, day dream of me too, but darling  curse me for being a hopeless teen, as its getting me nowhere. Everyone keeps telling me its never going to happen, I’m a junior and you a sophomore & when your azure lids never glance my way, my face turns ashen, even during the Indian summer. And who am I to even try to fight with the bitter truth, for it’s always destroying our little fragile hearts and drowning them in acid and absinth It was so silly of me to even give into these treacherous day dreams, to even let my pride escape. I was absurd enough to even like you, knowing even then, that I will never be able to solve this Rubik cube.
Continue reading...
19
before i left seattle, and long before i made the mistake of returning, i was babysitting a fish in a fishbowl, for my brother's kids. the water in the bowl was cloudy, unclear, ***** because of the fish so of course the fish died, the bowl just sat on the counter after the fish died but before my brother's kids came back from california anyhow, moving back here was a mistake. the cost of living here is ridiculous, there is no room to be a middle class person here only  a little kid who works at amazon whose mom found him his job. these little kids work for amazon, their moms type out cover letters and resumes so their kids can get jobs at amazon i am looking for a new job because i can't afford to keep the job i have now, the little kids who work for amazon have it pretty good though, they can bring their dogs to work with them they can jack up the rents, no problem mom is always looking out for them like that tonight i applied for a job at amazon i typed in my first name to submit my application "jeffbezosisacunt", i wrote a quick cover letter telling them i was qualified for the job because my mom didn't have to type out my cover letters for me and because i had a dog that hadn't been trained yet that i could take to work with me, then i attached a pdf file of a quick reference guide for aol 9.0 as my resume it felt good but not for long and not good enough mark zuckerberg makes me sick too, i can just see him running for president one day, needing a good slapping the little **** has never known any form of adversity so he just keeps on being a little **** he has a lot in common with kim jong un when i first moved back here, there were all these orange and white umbrellas every morning. those orange and white umbrellas had already taken over.
0
Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 at 3:00 AM UTC
come to my loneliness, you'll get hired
before i left seattle, and long before i made the mistake of returning, i was babysitting a fish in a fishbowl, for my brother's kids. the water in the bowl was cloudy, unclear, ***** because of the fish so of course the fish died, the bowl just sat on the counter after the fish died but before my brother's kids came back from california anyhow, moving back here was a mistake. the cost of living here is ridiculous, there is no room to be a middle class person here only  a little kid who works at amazon whose mom found him his job. these little kids work for amazon, their moms type out cover letters and resumes so their kids can get jobs at amazon i am looking for a new job because i can't afford to keep the job i have now, the little kids who work for amazon have it pretty good though, they can bring their dogs to work with them they can jack up the rents, no problem mom is always looking out for them like that tonight i applied for a job at amazon i typed in my first name to submit my application "jeffbezosisacunt", i wrote a quick cover letter telling them i was qualified for the job because my mom didn't have to type out my cover letters for me and because i had a dog that hadn't been trained yet that i could take to work with me, then i attached a pdf file of a quick reference guide for aol 9.0 as my resume it felt good but not for long and not good enough mark zuckerberg makes me sick too, i can just see him running for president one day, needing a good slapping the little **** has never known any form of adversity so he just keeps on being a little **** he has a lot in common with kim jong un when i first moved back here, there were all these orange and white umbrellas every morning. those orange and white umbrellas had already taken over.
Continue reading...
37
it costs a dollar twenty five for the drier that leaves your clothes still damp but the lemons on the tree are perfectly ripe and the wind chime sounds like namaste. though the clouds are thinning it’s just cool enough for sneakers and warm enough for tank tops. gram is in the basement dad is at the liquor store and mi madrastra es talking with the man who rents the apartment upstairs exchanging recipes and munching on chicharrones. today I live in the Santa Clara slums and feel as at home as I did in the rain.
0
Apr 17, 2011
Apr 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM UTC
santa clara
Can I just forget this year That started off so fine I just hope that by next year I'll have a better time With all the fighting on the news In Damascan streets Makes me wonder how we can Reject the survivors we meet Between Brexit and the election We keep on splitting apart And all of the hateful ones Feel free to threaten our hearts Zika rode in behind ebola Two crisies on end All of the panic caused by it Hardly helps people make amends The Olympics were pretty great But still pretty spotty With bacterial bays, alge filled pools And the antics of Ryan Lochtie The globe's heat keeps rising on Wreaking havoc on our climate With polar ice melting, it grates That people don't get science My favorite sci fi heroes died Those people who inspired Those who gave us so much hope Just suddenly expired The local subway's been a mess: It keeps catching on fire After three times, it just seems That we can't fix a wire My brain seems to be getting worse At being normal or sane Somedays I just want to run And dissolve into the rain I ended my relationship Of over a year And lost touch with some friends Whom I once held so dear School just keeps getting harder (Not too shocking to find) But my Girl Scout and school projects Might just fry my mind My mom and I are getting to A rough patch in our ways And hiding my intrests from my 'rents Takes so much of my days My social circle only gets Harder and harder to track And my family's stories sound like soaps Even though we have each other's backs So can I just forget this year Make it all fade away Can I just go back to sleep And face '16 another day So can I just forget this year Just please make it all end And maybe in 2017 I'll be able to start again
0
Dec 28, 2016
Dec 28, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
Auld Lang Sine Rewrite
Can I just forget this year That started off so fine I just hope that by next year I'll have a better time With all the fighting on the news In Damascan streets Makes me wonder how we can Reject the survivors we meet Between Brexit and the election We keep on splitting apart And all of the hateful ones Feel free to threaten our hearts Zika rode in behind ebola Two crisies on end All of the panic caused by it Hardly helps people make amends The Olympics were pretty great But still pretty spotty With bacterial bays, alge filled pools And the antics of Ryan Lochtie The globe's heat keeps rising on Wreaking havoc on our climate With polar ice melting, it grates That people don't get science My favorite sci fi heroes died Those people who inspired Those who gave us so much hope Just suddenly expired The local subway's been a mess: It keeps catching on fire After three times, it just seems That we can't fix a wire My brain seems to be getting worse At being normal or sane Somedays I just want to run And dissolve into the rain I ended my relationship Of over a year And lost touch with some friends Whom I once held so dear School just keeps getting harder (Not too shocking to find) But my Girl Scout and school projects Might just fry my mind My mom and I are getting to A rough patch in our ways And hiding my intrests from my 'rents Takes so much of my days My social circle only gets Harder and harder to track And my family's stories sound like soaps Even though we have each other's backs So can I just forget this year Make it all fade away Can I just go back to sleep And face '16 another day So can I just forget this year Just please make it all end And maybe in 2017 I'll be able to start again
Continue reading...
60
Rising rents Doesn’t seem to care Who they affect The City could care less The mayor giving Tax breaks Playing high stakes With peoples lives The landlord Controlling the soundboard With rent control Now seen as a nuisance No one used to want to live here But now they do They say there is not enough housing To fit they appetites Well don’t be so hungry Don’t be so greedy Share a space Don’t displace Contemplate actions Homeless shelters Next to highrises Single occupant Apartments Could fill ten beds Instead of one head Even Jack gets kicked out The bar that supplies the ghost Is a poetic footnote To the money hungry Seeing dollars Instead of history The nations remaining Black bookstore Painted The Color Purple Now shut down By monied clowns Stating their needs for millions Over millions who need Books Culture Life Instead of ****** glossed over history Without a shred of the past Marcus Books Where Malcolm, Ali, Davis Gathered Now lost To the highest bidder People come People go But the erosion of history Is a swift reality Of the gentrification Of The City
0
Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 1:36 PM UTC
Marcus Books
mom says we should buy an axe. she shapes her gum into a moon, craters and canines and molars, like a fake suicide on national tv, the passing of the torch, the running of the bulls, the macy’s day parade. ashtrays don’t lie, but ashes do, they’ve got their canines and molars and tongues tuned to calamity, slick as sunsets as they chop away. and this fortnight is something you can read, go ahead, turn the pages, one to fourteen and you’re caught unaware, what the **** were you doing, counting casualties, coming closer to the yellow sky, it’s petroleum sliding down your throat now. the human body is 70% ******** and you may meet your quota but you’ll never meet your end, racing through the stucco in the room your girlfriend rents, the ridiculous ambivalence seeping through your pores, staining the sheets you haven’t washed since february, turning off the tv you were never watching anyway, letting bulls run and torches light like that little corner of your eye that twitches when you touch, like that interrogation manual you can’t read anymore, the door shuts in your face and your books crush your bones. and you and mom buy the axe and leave it by the fridge with the broom, and the more you scratch the rustier the blood.
0
Sep 29, 2011
Sep 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM UTC
sobriety test
*Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE Your bloods runs through me Your breathe flows through me You are the soul of my being Like a bee buzzing on my flower I am YOUR flower waiting for my YOU-bee Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE I often ask myself Am I being myself? And the answer is always NO I am being YOU What was me - is now YOU With the innovative artistic stroke YOU created my LOVE from your soul My life-vessel is colored by YOU On top of that you sprinkled your scent Your Jasmine perfume fragrance my life Your smile on my face glitters a sunshine You groom me new & adorn me with YOU As if I am your bride or groom on honeymoon I desire your Jasmine flower scented nights I saw in YOU honey dancing in the rain Like a wet deer I long, withering in pain In my heart - your blood pumps In my veins - your spirit runs In my pulse - your heart beats In my dreams - I lean on YOU For every moment, time and again Making LOVE to YOU If you ever see me without YOU YOU will see me like a fish out of water How is it fair if you rent your eyes to the Cosmic BLUE? Who pays the rents - I do, with the LOVE of my heart How is it fair when you stray in every moment of my life Touching, talking, whispering, smiling, sleeping with me Every moment of morning, afternoon, evening and night When you rain on me, I forget myself and flow in YOU Like red earth - my blood melts in your being Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE Your bloods runs through me Your breathe flows through me You are the soul of my being Like a bee buzzing on my flower I am YOUR flower waiting for my YOU-bee Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE*
0
Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 11:53 PM UTC
Come Away To Me, My LOVE
*Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE Your bloods runs through me Your breathe flows through me You are the soul of my being Like a bee buzzing on my flower I am YOUR flower waiting for my YOU-bee Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE I often ask myself Am I being myself? And the answer is always NO I am being YOU What was me - is now YOU With the innovative artistic stroke YOU created my LOVE from your soul My life-vessel is colored by YOU On top of that you sprinkled your scent Your Jasmine perfume fragrance my life Your smile on my face glitters a sunshine You groom me new & adorn me with YOU As if I am your bride or groom on honeymoon I desire your Jasmine flower scented nights I saw in YOU honey dancing in the rain Like a wet deer I long, withering in pain In my heart - your blood pumps In my veins - your spirit runs In my pulse - your heart beats In my dreams - I lean on YOU For every moment, time and again Making LOVE to YOU If you ever see me without YOU YOU will see me like a fish out of water How is it fair if you rent your eyes to the Cosmic BLUE? Who pays the rents - I do, with the LOVE of my heart How is it fair when you stray in every moment of my life Touching, talking, whispering, smiling, sleeping with me Every moment of morning, afternoon, evening and night When you rain on me, I forget myself and flow in YOU Like red earth - my blood melts in your being Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE Your bloods runs through me Your breathe flows through me You are the soul of my being Like a bee buzzing on my flower I am YOUR flower waiting for my YOU-bee Come away to me, my LOVE Run and come to me my LOVE*
Continue reading...
49
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, O, but with mine, compare thou thine own state, And thou shalt find it merits not reproving, Or if it do, not from those lips of thine That have profaned their scarlet ornaments And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine, Robbed others’ beds’ revenues of their rents. Be it lawful I love thee as thou lov’st those Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee. Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows Thy pity may deserve to pitied be. If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied!
0
1.4k
Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate
15th, the time of the month when a master card american expresses a visa reminder, hey your passport gonna get cxld! don't leave town; you got debts due from living life to the fullest or the lesser, the black & white soda of mixed up scrapings and dreaming disney fantasias 7 decades is a whole lot of 15th's many rent/mortgage notices due, 'postage not included' notices, (in case you were thinking of cutting a first class stamp size corner) the worst word rent, rents, and not only on the 15th, smiling - got to rent me a poem someday, what is the cost, guessing I'll find out on the 15th next all the time, lip limp from weekend to the next Friday, just just making it through, barely, month to the month, year to tear, dear and dare 15th to the 15th, teenth to teenth and what is in betweenth fully forecast a final call, last call will come on a 15th, made sure there will be enough left to cover the outstandings, another outstanding word I love just enough left to mail me and my ritings, take care of the responsibles, the non-disposables, my last months rent, covered, my rep intact, but no more, no one last yellow taxi ride   ***the postage to return me to my next forwarding address, and even the cost of this poem, got it covered*** 3:23am 8/15/17
0
Sep 19, 2017
Sep 19, 2017 at 3:14 PM UTC
the 15th of the month (the cost of this poem)
I saw a chariot with the mare in it making a man carry it I saw Marie Antoinette and Judas Iscariot abdicate an abortion because they weren't married yet I saw aunt Harriet barreled over bones in a casket gasping begging them not to bury it I saw words on a page that made no sense I saw leopard prints I saw tents with tenants unable to pay their rents
0
Aug 1, 2011
Aug 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM UTC
ask me again and i will tell you
I don't want to be a lesson you go back to when you need to remember the definition of loss. I don't want to be a living memory that breathes and laughs only in your head, so close but you can only see when you close your eyes and hold only in your dreams. I don't want to be a tenant who rents a space only to leave permanent damages in your heart. I want to be a teacher you turn to for inspiration for things that last. I want to be an imagination happening right before your eyes, not in your mind nor in your sleep, whose hands you can hold and lips you can kiss. I want to be a housekeeper who stays to take care of your heart and make it my home for life.
0
Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 6:56 PM UTC
Aspirations
We're sixteen again, sneaking around at night, pouring rain in the summertime, quiet whispers in your teenage bed, heavy breaths and covered mouths, don't wake up the rents And like I'm sixteen, not turning twenty-two, I don't know better than to break my addiction and I come back again to feel the poisoned fingers on my skin
0
May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 7:09 PM UTC
hometown summers
I wrote this in the dark. Because the last poem stripped from the book binding and ripped from my chest was not valued at the utility company's worth; a two-hundred dollar bill is not easily disbursed when each poem nets zero cents per word. A candlestick will dematerialize faster than a wax seal on parchment - one that establishes the epoch of Civil Rights - this is a correlated falsehood of fixed rents in a gentrified neighborhood. The plus-side of ******* the poor to cater to the wealthy is that when the new occupants move in, and the stainless steel refrigerator is moved in, the empty box is placed at the curb, and with the right imagination it can easily become a home for two.
0
Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 6:36 PM UTC
Some Common Cents