"rocketship" poems
the barker in charge
is sniffing markers
& the dog's the one
in the shock collar.
good god.
I'll come back
tomorrow.
galapagos, I'm sorry.
rocketship jalopy
wrote a handbook on
banana boat cutthroat
reconnaissance exotica,
abominable
beast of tropic atrophy
broke folk casualty engulfed
in telescopes & TV shows
being monitored thru a monocle
the theatrical apathy & topical misanthropy
can anybody understand me?
May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 8:47 PM UTC
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
Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 1:57 AM UTC
Looking back at life brings on a shiver:
landmarks and stygian fragments,
radiant corrosion.
Will my feet still carry me home?
The morning breaks,
turn the blue skies on!
we're committed now,
guided by a God few know.
On Earth the math is made up,
8 billion people
and 1,000 questions,
out here the days
are numbered differently.
But in the ether aura
there are silent obligations:
we're trading passengers midflight
--the jester and the acrobat inside the LEM,
Marco Polo on the rocketship,
we're eating the survival kit,
making postcards of the trip.
All spoils for survivors.
Post signs for a near perfect disaster.
You are on my mind.
You are in my heart.
Are you in my blood?
I would die for you.
If this is goodbye, remember,
these things happen...
Jan 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM UTC
Build a rocketship,
fly out of the atmosphere,
live among the stars.
Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 7:13 AM UTC
Rocketship
Pistol on my hip
Quick Shooter
No Hitter
One Hitter
Quitter
Express the depress
in your chest
scribble scrabble
blither blather
doesn't matter.
Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM UTC
Horrendously, endlessly, killers of time:
So lucky, ungrateful, almighty with crime.
Orbiting-rocketship-high, Moral gauge reading "E",
Worlds underneath where they can navigate
Thru smoke, mirror, and shadow, the racey thrill attracting me.
Jul 19, 2012
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:44 AM UTC
she’s out there on the ice again.
holy night &
positioning the gas-tanks just right.
joseph is her father, and his father,
even if not by blood,
raised flame.
foot to throat, brother remains
in the city working.
he is building a rocketship
in the basement of his apartment
complex.
back to town and dying houses.
foreclosures and fences.
lake of fire.
lights: she lingers in lights.
something so true and alive about the revelatory
of color,
of the world when lit and hit by sun
or our artifice.
her lovers: one dead by heavy
lumber, the other rewinding videotapes
in chasms of the library.
she thinks on his lips.
her dog tracks wet prints
across the carpet and floors.
wish list:
mittens
huckleberry jam
iphone solar charger
explosives
Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 1:35 AM UTC
i fantasize about stomping on the gas,
hitting the accelerator
as i approach the on-ramp
for the 408,
launching like a rocketship
headed straight for outer-space.
careen into the concrete
headlong—
scatter my brains
and body-parts across the wall
like a ******* splatter painting.
as lights blur together above me,
my head goes hazy,
dazed in this fugue state,
half-awake and thinking absently
of the city-lights
drifting listlessly overhead
like unidentifiable flying objects,
hovering over this interstate.
i wish they'd beam me up.
kidnapped by aliens,
taken to a galaxy far, far away
so i could forget
the contours of your face.
Mar 11, 2017
Mar 11, 2017 at 12:51 AM UTC
Lilac moons still frolicking
In that meadow of your individuality
You smile to yourself your wolfish grin
Because no one else will ever get it...
That rainbow coursing through your veins...
The delicatessen within your mind
It doesn't matter Erin
Secrets for the privileged zombie muffins
Allow your splendid vortex to swirl
Don't keep the cubic wheels of your world from moving
Christmas tree cookie cutters...
Should only be used for baking
Not for defining the shape of humanity
Hatred should stay out of it
Indignation was called off today
You're too special...
And not in that little yellow bus way
You're always on that rocketship of wow
Don't fear the envy of all the others
For your soul burning so brightly within
It still shines throughout you
Just love it...
I watched you grow like a dandelion
But are you a flower or another garden ****
Make the decision on your own
It's all on you to choose your own adventure now
*Eines Tages wird die Welt dir zuhören...
Sep 23, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 at 6:51 PM UTC
we are not safe
all the markets could come crashing down
it could happen any day now
a blue origin rocket ship
never making it to its final destination
no man knows the hour or the day
no man knoweth that
bridget jones had her cigarettes
with wine and mr darcy
but i only have **** and a plastic
one liter bottle of coke zero
and no mr darcy to know the hour or the day
helen fielding, enabler of the delusional,
recycled happy endings
but the plastic coke bottle
isn't a jane austen novel
and the chinese don't want our garbage anymore
there is enough garbage in china already
"there are 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world"
8.8 million metric tons are chinese trash
for the yangtze river to carry to the sea
sometimes i feel just like garbage previously shipped to china
trash and blue origin debris
comeuppance for the yangtze river to carry to the sea
endless oceans end
same place plastic rocketship garbage begins
Jul 13, 2018
Jul 13, 2018 at 5:47 AM UTC
I meet the love of my life everyday. She's that girl I met at the shops; at the bar ordering a cocktail for three; on the street giving change to a homeless man. Last week I met her filling up that Diahatsu. It might as well have been a Lamborghini or a rocketship. None of it made sense but her.
She's nothing special wrapped inside everything I've ever dreamed of. She's the vision I catch a glimpse of when I imagine what it's like to be happy. The endless collapsing of short lived memories. Voids filling with the putty of a tender fantasy. If I could grab you and share my reality. If I could explain my mind in words that made me sound sane. If only that worked.
Jul 15, 2015
Jul 15, 2015 at 6:02 PM UTC
Your lips taste like regret,
& stale cigarettes
Nevertheless;
You make me fly through space
right up in
my rocketship
Its celestial,
so ponder this
Always stuck inside
your head and s h i t
While these memories,
they eat at me
four walls,
my only scenery
I drink just to not feel things
Or contemplate the dark and strange
Is this insanity?
Deranged, I'm glued to my seat
stuck on repeat
& lacking in mental clarity
Poor D i c k just lost his family;
Her heart, it hasn't skipped a beat
Its on her sleeve and honestly
I swear she'll be the death of me
I'll never show the pain that grows
but stow away these mental notes
til one day my mindscape's exposed,
& explodes
As my brains leak out my ears
most infinitely, no?
Yes I'm depresso I must confess oh
Double barrel shot in my espresso
Can't express though
I wear a mask so
You'll never know when I'm upset
Overlords, gimme simulation reset
Situations got me already
steady hot & heavy
Cos I be boiling in my skin
You see this boi is your kin
But a toy in the bin
For you to discard
When you find it most convenient
And I mean it;
Please disregard the "bars" I spit
I still think your aesthetic's lit
A succubus with fetishes
Of draining me, til nothings left
And after all the time I spent
Prolonging an inevitable end
I'll say the means were justified,
Even if it was really just pretend
I only hope its unreal
A living nightmare, u feel
Every waking moment, lonely
And you can't sleep at night
without choking
So button it
Just shut it b i t c h
I care not for the words unsaid
in a casket's where I made my bed
One foot in the grave
and I'm better off dead
Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM UTC
The room floated away
Careening through street lamps and parked cars
Flying through neighborhoods and dirt roads and green pastures
It shot upward
A carpeted rocketship among dying stars
I moved to touch you but you turned and left
You opened the door and pushed yourself down
Hurtling toward Earth with reckless abandon and an annihilative smile
I felt the shock of you hitting pay dirt way up here in my heart
You found peace in the rubble of the comfort of others
And though it hurts my thoughts to know you're gone
My soul knows I'm the same.
Way up here in this room shaped rocket I know we're both the same.
Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 8:48 PM UTC
One look into her eyes
I am hypnotised , rooted to the spot
I am on a rocketship travelling eons within
Everyone else around vanish or become non-existent
No control as to how deep I travel
The only **** switch being our locked eyes
The string which binds us together and we are 'us' no more....
Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:47 AM UTC
If I could open my heart
and fill a rocketship with my feelings,
it'd explode on take off
and knock the stars off their hidden strings
and as they floated down to earth,
I'd give each and every one to you.
Your eyes would twinkle in delight
and you would remain happily speechless
as the galaxy fell around you
bursting with my love.
Moondust would add glitter to your shine
and sparks of sunshine
would light the sky,
like natural fireworks,
just to celebrate you in my life!
Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 10:54 PM UTC
i wrapped myself in caution tape
but you didn't listen to my warning
you're dying on the side of the road
and i'm flying to space in my rocketship for one
if you could die by hypothermia or drowning,
which would you choose?
the blue hair dye staining my fingers is proof
that i don't have to explain myself
i filled my bathtub with scalding water
and pretended to feel something
all i have left are burn marks on my thighs
and a puddle on the floor
(a.m.c.)
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 10:03 PM UTC
Through the world we've traveled more
Than the furthest shooting star
Not in distance as you would say
Just think metaphorically, per say
We shot of like a space rocket
Blasting through all that sky in no time
But, then we stopped to catch our breath
Rocket fuel had been all gone
We were left wondering what went wrong.
Jul 7, 2012
Jul 7, 2012 at 11:05 AM UTC
thumbs to the sky as we cosmically hitchhike, distances we can't find on earth but somehow hide inside our minds. ignition sequence, a countdown said in rewind. one more time for the sake of headlines that will seek to remind the exploration we've stopped and now just pantomime.
we are a planet sized diamond or the birth of galaxies in ultra-violet; the fusion of an atom or the things that science can't fathom. the creation of a star and the worlds that are suddenly becoming less far. Let's hotwire a rocketship, vacation in zero G. we'll redefine gravity and finally understand relativity.
this is the last time I go to NASA for an answer.
Mar 24, 2012
Mar 24, 2012 at 10:58 PM UTC
These scales always tipping,
this mind always spinning...
Oh slow me down, slow me down;
insane, yet I am sound.
Momma never knew how deep it could get when she placed her son right near the sun;
the kids used to call me a rocketship.
"Apollo 13! Apollo 13!" Now I'm beginning to figure out what all of this means.
I'm light years away suspended in space, wondering if they'll ever come and meet with me.
Oh, but it's much more than that. With this lyre attached to my back and music in my heart, I give you songs of poetry straight from the stars of Libra.
Can you see the constellation?
This October soul gets in touch through the element but I'm no prince of the air;
learning to use discernment with these gifts I've been given, I am very much aware.
Nobody can tell me who I am, only experience can wake me up to searching...
That's why I have gone beyond the sky a long time ago and haven't come down yet.
Way over their heads I am floating...
Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016 at 10:20 PM UTC
Another headache
Splits my brain
And scatters the voices
Thatre my only friends.
Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 1:54 AM UTC
I know it's tiresome but it tangles the mind,
Sometimes I commit too much into wasting my time,
Like chewing gum fat,
Spat back out into the streets,
You ***** me of my trust and wash me out to sea,
I was foolish to think I had a place in your heart,
Soaked in a whirlpool of regrets and I'm back at start,
An astronaut trying to soar into space,
Where I'm granted a longer expiration date,
Or maybe my naivety capsized my sanity,
Built a rocketship to resign from humanity,
My attachment to you is the latches that grabs upon the rockets,
So far away from you where my insanity never goes rotten,
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 4:40 PM UTC
I am enveloped by your warmth
Beating the sun’s eternal rays
A wondrous exposure of enthralling captivity
By the stellar beams of your embrace
Digits intertwined like wires
In a rocketship’s engine with
Pressure locked softly in our hold
Like gravitational glue of touch
You say,
“You are celestial”
And my lungs had blown up
An influx of blood
Travel to the lining of my face
When your mouth broke into
An astral curve after
You are my halcyon sea
Moving like a quiet prayer
Like satellite signals
From the waves of space
And of the briny undertow
In our cosmic dance
Ebbing like a small sailboat
We rocked back and forth
To the trance of humming machines
Of clockwork
And graced by the heat of the guiding stars
I feel like a planet
Protected by your stardust
Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 11:02 PM UTC
other planets
other worlds
different galaxies
new worlds of fascination
deeper meaning
oceans on moons
with seasons unseen by the eyes of man
alien homes in outerspace
terrestrial but foreign and familiar
Beyond the realm of the known
but waiting so I can find it
and bring my love to it
And
I am a rocketship
flying in through the void
The darkest dark ever known
stuck in between galaxies
where no sun will rise
And no light will shine
I am a rocketship
Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM UTC
Our love is beautiful like a natural disaster, the damage is done but we always recover
Much more aware and a little bit stronger
Our tragedies have become my securities,
Distant memories to remind me of the golden days
Mount Everest we've already conquered this
Together im on top of the world
Baby you'll always be my number one girl
Understand, **** happens when you cook bacon naked
We can relate to this, baby what we got is like a gift
Our love is a flower growing by the hour
Our **** dont stink, it smells like roses
Just kidding, I wish
Ignorance is bliss
Now my wish our happiness
Forever is long but your beauty goes for an eternity
Melt in my mouth sweet, and chocolaty
The creature i choose to feature in all of my dreams
The angel that brings light to my eyes everyday
Our love is like magic full of dexterity
The charisma to work on it and the will to succeed
Now join me in my rocketship , lets leave this place in flames
May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014 at 9:23 PM UTC