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"spandex" poems
Katie Price Had a collection Of last season's Brassieres Which she indexed With the help Of a sincere Bilingual reindeer Dressed in spandex Who for some reason Was single. Taxonomy Is so important to me Said Katie. So they were labelled And kept in taxis At disused angle grinder factories Near the Tower of Babel So posterity Would be able To analyse The finer points Of her physiognomy. Quite an unusual praxis And something of an anomaly For someone like me Wouldn't you agree? Cross my heart And hope to die I agree.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Katie Price And Her Bilingual Reindeer
On the bicycle trail, a middle-aged woman in spandex biking gear had her bike flipped upside down. I dismounted next to her. “You need a hand?” She kept her eyes fixed on her bike wheel. “Why do I need your help?” Her voice was filled with contempt. “It’s only a flat.” I didn’t respond. Pedaling along the river, I made the decision to keep offering assistance. Someday I’d need it. -Ron Gavalik
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
Assistance
The white man leaves his house Some white women leave theirs The rest wear spandex and push stroller The Latino man comes To build houses to paint houses The Asian man comes To build houses to paint houses The Latina women comes To take care of the kids Some Asian men and women Work in the laundry mat The rest of the businesses Owned by white people The white man comes back Some white women come back And everyone else leaves
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Jul 29, 2015
Jul 29, 2015 at 2:23 PM UTC
The Rich Neighborhood
Bobo's kitchen in the kitchen icebergs rampage from the freezer burying pizzas and waffles in a glacier jungle Bobo swings forks and knives at the ice until the maintenance man cusses in Polish gallons of water dripping downstairs sizzling Bertalina's soul the fiery bilingual single mom living in fear below his fear of noise complaints she sends tape recordings to the landlord in her cute red faced anger loud people! and bongos! guitars! stomping! laughter! nightmares for her boys who think they hear ghosts her tight black spandex drives Bobo mad when she runs drifted scents of her food sift in through his windows knocking him out in hungry frustration! ¿Como estás? he asks her I speak ******* English! she barks back back up the stairs Bobo goes to his own kitchen where the mice crawl out the stove tops and potatoes grow tree roots clear through the window toward another life Jake Mahaffey Copyright (c) 2013 Jacob Mahaffey
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Jan 23, 2012
Jan 23, 2012 at 12:28 AM UTC
Bobo's kitchen
Hold it! whole *** whale fitting room bowing walls expanding spandex seams stretched out of shape lurid – disturbed images play across the screen biggest loser season MCMXVII American dream with heavy cream and spleenwiches cleaning the crumbs, bums long for an extra morsel gnawing on dorsal fins grinning, toothless, at least they have their figures that figures says the emaciated diet queen leave it to the homeless to be the only group worthy of the runway – starvation date only the grumbling cuts the uncomfortable silence empty bellies howl for nourishment instead are fed meds and red licorice which is immediately vomited for fear of caloric inconsistency – breathing adds blubber to thighs and midriffs marital spiff over the last cookie sugar substitutes substituting themselves for love and compassion lashing out at the one above fat girls with teary eyes cry for just five more pounds the dress fit in 1978 –
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 4:07 PM UTC
tirade against obesity
When I say hero you look for Superman Flying through Metropolis or Batman slinking through Gotham’s shadows. And when I say heroine You can think only of needles Poking through skin like the shell of a beetle. When I say hero Everyone looks skyward for capes and spandex Or a symbol lighting up the clouds. But Clark Bruce and Peter can’t save you from yourself. These suit-clad saviors are fantasies. Fairytales put before us so we can have something to believe in when the ordinary people fail us. I have seen people around me, people I love, crumble like weakened plaster. And I have met people who were already lying in a pile of dust and debris at my feet. I’ve seen them **** asbestos into their lungs and draw tic tac toe on their arms in crimson I have seen someone become their own villain! But I have seen these people get up again, Pick up the pieces of their glass hearts, And glue them back together for the sake of their sanity. I have seen villains become heroes. These heroes, MY heroes are the ones with the scars on their wrists but no tags on their toes, the ones that heave into the porcelain bowl but still try to eat each day. These are my heroes. My heroes are the parents raising kids and battling demons old and new, the abuse victims who got out, or are stuck but still fighting. These…these are my heroes. Broken survivors, living despite everything that keeps them from wanting to, Despite all their scars and battle wounds they are alive and they are trying. The ones who are not saving others but saving themselves. These are heroes. Some people look down on the wounded, the broken, and the insecure like they were the cause of their own problems and refused the simple solutions of **** it up” and “get over it” because they were too lazy to get better. Don’t you dare tell me that they don’t want to fix this, That they don’t wake up each morning and wish With every fiber of their being that they could look into a mirror And finally, finally, love what they see. Don’t tell me that these people aren’t strong Because they go to bed each night with eyes red and raw from crying And they wake up with bags under their eyes but they. Keep. Going. **** your superheroes.
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Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013 at 8:32 AM UTC
Heroes
When I say hero you look for Superman Flying through Metropolis or Batman slinking through Gotham’s shadows. And when I say heroine You can think only of needles Poking through skin like the shell of a beetle. When I say hero Everyone looks skyward for capes and spandex Or a symbol lighting up the clouds. But Clark Bruce and Peter can’t save you from yourself. These suit-clad saviors are fantasies. Fairytales put before us so we can have something to believe in when the ordinary people fail us. I have seen people around me, people I love, crumble like weakened plaster. And I have met people who were already lying in a pile of dust and debris at my feet. I’ve seen them **** asbestos into their lungs and draw tic tac toe on their arms in crimson I have seen someone become their own villain! But I have seen these people get up again, Pick up the pieces of their glass hearts, And glue them back together for the sake of their sanity. I have seen villains become heroes. These heroes, MY heroes are the ones with the scars on their wrists but no tags on their toes, the ones that heave into the porcelain bowl but still try to eat each day. These are my heroes. My heroes are the parents raising kids and battling demons old and new, the abuse victims who got out, or are stuck but still fighting. These…these are my heroes. Broken survivors, living despite everything that keeps them from wanting to, Despite all their scars and battle wounds they are alive and they are trying. The ones who are not saving others but saving themselves. These are heroes. Some people look down on the wounded, the broken, and the insecure like they were the cause of their own problems and refused the simple solutions of **** it up” and “get over it” because they were too lazy to get better. Don’t you dare tell me that they don’t want to fix this, That they don’t wake up each morning and wish With every fiber of their being that they could look into a mirror And finally, finally, love what they see. Don’t tell me that these people aren’t strong Because they go to bed each night with eyes red and raw from crying And they wake up with bags under their eyes but they. Keep. Going. **** your superheroes.
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Cycling High cadence Low resistance Tight corners Horse class climbs Mountainous descents      Back up! Horse class climbs? At my current weight More like fat *** climbs! Cycling No high calories Low carbohydrates Tight spandex More practice climbs Mountains want destroyed       Go forward! At my cycling weight More like what climb?
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Jan 25, 2013
Jan 25, 2013 at 8:42 PM UTC
Spooncycle
I know they're out there somewhere Watching, cringing, when they see those who don't know just what to pick out When they go out in their clothes I cannot list the culprits And we all know fashion crime Like, pants that show the *** crack We see this all the time It used to be a faux pas When one made a clothes mistake But now you see them daily With every look you take With all the shows on tv Showing people how to dress Why do they go out looking Like such a rotten, bleeding mess? Stripes and spots and solids Wearing braces AND a belt Wearing parkas in hot weather You'd think that they would melt Socks worn with one's sandals And those pants around the knees I mean, someone, help these people someone help them please We need some clothes policing Maybe a hot line they could phone Maybe send the cops a photo Before they choose to leave their home There are people wearing spandex People who aren't really thin think of squeezing ten pounds of sausage In a five pound sausage skin And makeup...yes, the makeup Someone needs to teach them how to apply it, in moderation We need some clothes policing now! There are rules and there are guidelines But common sense should reign supreme It looks like these poor people got dressed while in a dream We need fashion policing So we can all walk, showing class Instead of being like these morons Who wear big jeans, and show their ***
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Jul 30, 2012
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM UTC
Fashion Police
How do you get those boots on? I’ve never seen any straps or laces or snaps or velcro. When did you know you could fly? Did you fall out of a tree when you were five and missed the ground? How does Gravity feel about this? Does that spandex itch? Do you wear underwear under the spandex under your underwear? Do those cuffs rub against your forearms? How does it feel to a lift a car? Like a tin can? Like a paper bag? Like a bucket of feathers? What it is like to look eighty stories down and know that you are safe, that you can always save yourself? Do you have a sixth or seventh sense? Does it ever wake you in the night? Do you experience the blistering heat and the chilling cold? Do you feel it in your bones like I do? Do you want to destroy your living room when someone has lied to you like I do? Have you ever destroyed your living room when someone has lied to you? Does your cape get stuck in the elevator doors? Do you ever take the elevator? Do you ever take the remote into the kitchen during a commercial break? Can you stay on the couch and reach all the way to the counter? Do you wear a mask? Does it leave those red marks like my glasses do on my nose? Do you want **** people who are dangerous and rotten in some places on the inside with one hand? Does evil reside in you as well?
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Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 3:23 PM UTC
12. (things I have wondered about superheroes)
There are few things more pitiful In this first world society Than a man In stretchy pants With a Pointing down ***** Getting a ***** In a situation where Adjustment is Out of the question
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 9:12 AM UTC
Men in spandex
It was 29° (f) degrees this morning with a waning gibbous (¾) moon. Still, as we started our run, it was dark enough that the world was rendered in black and white. Lisa was a sepia print of herself while Charles was a large, quiet shadow, a dark visual noise pattern. We usually jog from our dorm, down to and along New Haven Harbor and back. Lisa and I love the ocean. The wind was in our faces this morning and there were no sparkling moon refractions in our direction, which made the water musou and colorless. I’ve gotten my outfit down to a science, leggings under shorts, four long sleeve, dry-wicking spandex tops (layering is important), a power-wool-earflap-beanie, thermal neck gaiter and quantum, icebreaker gloves (with touch-screen compatibility) - you gotta dress warmly but be able to shed layers as needed. I listen to audiobooks while we run. Right now I’m on book 5 of the ‘The Expanse’ series. I don’t have time to read anything fun these days, so I listen to science-fiction/fantasy while I workout. I love the new AirPod Pro feature that automatically turns the sound down if anyone talks. I wear a fitbit charge around my right ankle and my Apple watch as well - they both track my run - the fitbit is more accurate but my watch sends my workout stats to my siblings - we’re uhh, sort of competitive. At first, as we came up on the harbor, it was impossible to see the intersection of the two dark oceans - the great terrestrial and the greater galactic - but as we turned for home, there was an atmospheric scatter of blue at the edge of the horizon, heralding the sunrise on our retreating backs. musou = one of the darkest shades of black
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Nov 2, 2023
Nov 2, 2023 at 7:41 PM UTC
along the harbor
It was 29° (f) degrees this morning with a waning gibbous (¾) moon. Still, as we started our run, it was dark enough that the world was rendered in black and white. Lisa was a sepia print of herself while Charles was a large, quiet shadow, a dark visual noise pattern. We usually jog from our dorm, down to and along New Haven Harbor and back. Lisa and I love the ocean. The wind was in our faces this morning and there were no sparkling moon refractions in our direction, which made the water musou and colorless. I’ve gotten my outfit down to a science, leggings under shorts, four long sleeve, dry-wicking spandex tops (layering is important), a power-wool-earflap-beanie, thermal neck gaiter and quantum, icebreaker gloves (with touch-screen compatibility) - you gotta dress warmly but be able to shed layers as needed. I listen to audiobooks while we run. Right now I’m on book 5 of the ‘The Expanse’ series. I don’t have time to read anything fun these days, so I listen to science-fiction/fantasy while I workout. I love the new AirPod Pro feature that automatically turns the sound down if anyone talks. I wear a fitbit charge around my right ankle and my Apple watch as well - they both track my run - the fitbit is more accurate but my watch sends my workout stats to my siblings - we’re uhh, sort of competitive. At first, as we came up on the harbor, it was impossible to see the intersection of the two dark oceans - the great terrestrial and the greater galactic - but as we turned for home, there was an atmospheric scatter of blue at the edge of the horizon, heralding the sunrise on our retreating backs. musou = one of the darkest shades of black
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I almost died the other day And I came back to this place just to say That you never know when it all can get taken Away All your life's lessons suddenly play like a highschool production through your mind's electric grey clay, a mind managing to keep itself oxygenated enough to operate even as consciousness fades A body lying there, blue as a mid summer's day, gasping For breath, and for a chance to stay Alive. I woke up, having almost died the other day, To a room full of strange faces, whose eyes all aimed my way. A room full of strangers, My vision regaining clarity, I see equipment of many types, lying around a well decorated living room, it seemed out of place, devices dreamed up by engineers a few hundred miles away, At an elite institution, of mechanical engineering and science, engineering devices that now lay about my horrified friend's living room, Then the puzzle regained its shape, and I was graced with the understanding that it was all going to be okay, this time, anyway. the first responders, My saviours. Real heroes, Who wear no capes, Nor spandex, But who know their job well, And do it without delay, And these people who saved my life today Are out of my life now forever, and onto saving another fragile life, on some other street, On some other day. I saw people in blues, reds, and greys, yellows and oranges, and then the light of the day. The light of the day on which I did not die, But I could have, had it been another time, Another place. My stretcher was bright yellow, by the way... I almost died the other day, and its implacable oncoming rush scared me. The fear of not having lived a worthy life, an unobserved life, Of dying too soon, with things left to do Of leaving people behind, Of wrongs left to right Of lying here blue On my dear friend's plush carpet, And her child witnessing it as he comes home from school. Innocent as day, then scarred for life. Luckily I have a few friends and modern miracles on my side. I almost died the other day, and I came back here, having missed all the poetry, that makes life worth living, day after day. Beyond the biorhythms we must feed In order to stay Alive.    Peace.          Love. Breath.              Focus.                      A good enough mantra,                      Wouldn't you say? I almost died the other day, But I didn't. I breathe in with gratitude, And I exhale with relief, that I still got the knack for it.
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Dec 9, 2022
Dec 9, 2022 at 10:52 AM UTC
I Almost Died the Other Day
I almost died the other day And I came back to this place just to say That you never know when it all can get taken Away All your life's lessons suddenly play like a highschool production through your mind's electric grey clay, a mind managing to keep itself oxygenated enough to operate even as consciousness fades A body lying there, blue as a mid summer's day, gasping For breath, and for a chance to stay Alive. I woke up, having almost died the other day, To a room full of strange faces, whose eyes all aimed my way. A room full of strangers, My vision regaining clarity, I see equipment of many types, lying around a well decorated living room, it seemed out of place, devices dreamed up by engineers a few hundred miles away, At an elite institution, of mechanical engineering and science, engineering devices that now lay about my horrified friend's living room, Then the puzzle regained its shape, and I was graced with the understanding that it was all going to be okay, this time, anyway. the first responders, My saviours. Real heroes, Who wear no capes, Nor spandex, But who know their job well, And do it without delay, And these people who saved my life today Are out of my life now forever, and onto saving another fragile life, on some other street, On some other day. I saw people in blues, reds, and greys, yellows and oranges, and then the light of the day. The light of the day on which I did not die, But I could have, had it been another time, Another place. My stretcher was bright yellow, by the way... I almost died the other day, and its implacable oncoming rush scared me. The fear of not having lived a worthy life, an unobserved life, Of dying too soon, with things left to do Of leaving people behind, Of wrongs left to right Of lying here blue On my dear friend's plush carpet, And her child witnessing it as he comes home from school. Innocent as day, then scarred for life. Luckily I have a few friends and modern miracles on my side. I almost died the other day, and I came back here, having missed all the poetry, that makes life worth living, day after day. Beyond the biorhythms we must feed In order to stay Alive.    Peace.          Love. Breath.              Focus.                      A good enough mantra,                      Wouldn't you say? I almost died the other day, But I didn't. I breathe in with gratitude, And I exhale with relief, that I still got the knack for it.
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You'll never see certain things in the news Wonder Woman, coming, totally unglued Superman, tripping on his cloak Green Lantern, while lighting up a smoke Ironman, paying out, his Avenger dues The Hulk wearing spandex, and tiny ballet shoes Captain America, his shield, being broke Batman caught, telling a good joke Wolverine passing gas, asking to excuse Storm in the bathroom, blushing, as she poos
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Oct 26, 2016
Oct 26, 2016 at 10:00 PM UTC
Superman's cape
Walking down the wet pavement was a tall, young man in a black, silk yukata robe with matching leather shoes, spandex half-mask and large, opaque umbrella with a round, wooden handle. One could say that he was posing as a sharp-dressed samurai without a sword; that he was eager to recreate the experience of a samurai strolling through his ancient hometown. But there were no cherry blossoms falling on his umbrella, only heavy raindrops. In fact, raindrops have been falling on his umbrella ever since he purchased it from one of his favorite clothes department stores. Back then, he used to carry it with him whenever he wore his favorite grey, cotton trench coat and navy-blue jeans in the rain. One may mistake him for a chameleon changing his colors once a day or a piano ballad shifting tempo and style with each verse; maybe even a cottage with lights flashing at different speeds like sweet turning sour in the blink of an eye. Regardless of it all, he would always carry his trustworthy, respectable umbrella and count on it to keep him dry even in the heaviest of downpours.
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 6:52 PM UTC
Waterproof Partner
I am a wire hanger bean pole drape me with your cotton inspire me with spandex. copper wire sewing needle clothing is no coverage. what the hell is modesty
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 4:10 PM UTC
skin.
Music Running out of time, nothing left to rhyme, no longer in my prime, listening to Sublime. Used to smoke **** slaves I have freed, red I still bleed, listening to Creed. I'm all that, I have kicked my cat, my girl is a brat, listening to Ratt. Invented a love potion, makes girls frozen, many things I've broken, listening to Poison. Buried in the sand, not what I planned, I need a helping hand, listening to The Steve Miller Band. Too many cell phones, can never get any loans, love the show Bones, listening to The Rolling Stones. Confessing all my sins, playing some violins, dizzy from the spins, listening to The Thompson Twins. Standing in the cold, my life is uncontrolled, just got paroled, listening to Avenged Sevenfold. Sprayed with mace, kicked in the face, stuck in this rat race, listening to Three Days Grace. Working the graveyard shift, lots of sand I must sift, my life needs a lift, listening to Taylor Swift. Living in Illinois, tired of hearing noise, losing all my poise, listening to The Beach Boys. No hands on the clock, it's me people mock, dryer stole another sock, listening to Kid Rock. Music has made me what I am, loving the hairbands and the glam. Hard rock is all I know, how could you not like Ugly Kid Joe. Heavy metal is where it's at, all the older bands are bald and fat. Top forty isn't half bad, every year it's a different fad. Disco and grunge had a short stay, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, get too much air play. Hip hop and rap has been around to long, can they even sing a real song. Nothing will ever beat the eighties, spandex, hair and all the ***** ladies. My two favorite songs are Sister Christian, and Here I go Again, those songs remind me of way back when. Country, well that will always **** rednecks, Nascar, hunting and a giant truck.
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 1:58 AM UTC
Music
Music Running out of time, nothing left to rhyme, no longer in my prime, listening to Sublime. Used to smoke **** slaves I have freed, red I still bleed, listening to Creed. I'm all that, I have kicked my cat, my girl is a brat, listening to Ratt. Invented a love potion, makes girls frozen, many things I've broken, listening to Poison. Buried in the sand, not what I planned, I need a helping hand, listening to The Steve Miller Band. Too many cell phones, can never get any loans, love the show Bones, listening to The Rolling Stones. Confessing all my sins, playing some violins, dizzy from the spins, listening to The Thompson Twins. Standing in the cold, my life is uncontrolled, just got paroled, listening to Avenged Sevenfold. Sprayed with mace, kicked in the face, stuck in this rat race, listening to Three Days Grace. Working the graveyard shift, lots of sand I must sift, my life needs a lift, listening to Taylor Swift. Living in Illinois, tired of hearing noise, losing all my poise, listening to The Beach Boys. No hands on the clock, it's me people mock, dryer stole another sock, listening to Kid Rock. Music has made me what I am, loving the hairbands and the glam. Hard rock is all I know, how could you not like Ugly Kid Joe. Heavy metal is where it's at, all the older bands are bald and fat. Top forty isn't half bad, every year it's a different fad. Disco and grunge had a short stay, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, get too much air play. Hip hop and rap has been around to long, can they even sing a real song. Nothing will ever beat the eighties, spandex, hair and all the ***** ladies. My two favorite songs are Sister Christian, and Here I go Again, those songs remind me of way back when. Country, well that will always **** rednecks, Nascar, hunting and a giant truck.
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I open the blinds and see the world - in return, what does the world see? It sees me, and all my splendid, split personalities, living these amazing times, of amazing pleasures, in which we tweet tweets, and post posts re ego-trips and copyrighted links, videos and things; and, as stray dogs, we ramble randomly, and all the time,   living in our infinite worlds, of infinite lanes, till infinity; yet we suffer so much pain. Our Shih Tzus take us on extended walks, firmly leashed to our Koss plugs, as we drone cool tunes on multihued iPods, iPhones buzzing ringtones of tittering babies, stolid kings and hyperactive frogs, which would all make my eighty-six year old dad want to gag; we fly ultralight megaplanes at the sonic sound of speed, through virtual and real space, connecting dots at low- cost prices, while we belt-up, gear-up, gulp Gaga and gorge heat-inducted meals of deer, horse and over- promoted crap; and then, wow surprisingly, we are all so unsatisfied. We consciously all move-in together, and **** on end, like statistical sheep, pre-married, unloving, and broken up, and justify it all, to ourselves, with our fully stretched spandex morality, over low-carb brunches @Starbucks, two 14” screens of separation; we paint pornographic images of virgins, all called Mary, in the name of art, and, white-clad, **** babes and alter-boys, and penetrate each other, first with our fingers, deeply, then superficially, without even wondering, for a zeptosecond, why we can’t stand one another any longer. We crank-up dependencies, like high street mainliners, shamming and slaughtering for neurotoxic fixes of smileys and Crystal on billion-dollar Kogo yachts, while we all just pedal on, dispassionately, down and over interior canals, to the core of our hocked, abbrev lives, chronically connected and severely distracted, in aromatic polymer bubbles, heedlessly cruising through comic-strip farms of mock vegetables, surely to nowhere and towards no one; and quite frankly, the world laughs at all this, and sobs, and so do I.
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May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012 at 4:08 PM UTC
Chronically connected and severely distracted
I open the blinds and see the world - in return, what does the world see? It sees me, and all my splendid, split personalities, living these amazing times, of amazing pleasures, in which we tweet tweets, and post posts re ego-trips and copyrighted links, videos and things; and, as stray dogs, we ramble randomly, and all the time,   living in our infinite worlds, of infinite lanes, till infinity; yet we suffer so much pain. Our Shih Tzus take us on extended walks, firmly leashed to our Koss plugs, as we drone cool tunes on multihued iPods, iPhones buzzing ringtones of tittering babies, stolid kings and hyperactive frogs, which would all make my eighty-six year old dad want to gag; we fly ultralight megaplanes at the sonic sound of speed, through virtual and real space, connecting dots at low- cost prices, while we belt-up, gear-up, gulp Gaga and gorge heat-inducted meals of deer, horse and over- promoted crap; and then, wow surprisingly, we are all so unsatisfied. We consciously all move-in together, and **** on end, like statistical sheep, pre-married, unloving, and broken up, and justify it all, to ourselves, with our fully stretched spandex morality, over low-carb brunches @Starbucks, two 14” screens of separation; we paint pornographic images of virgins, all called Mary, in the name of art, and, white-clad, **** babes and alter-boys, and penetrate each other, first with our fingers, deeply, then superficially, without even wondering, for a zeptosecond, why we can’t stand one another any longer. We crank-up dependencies, like high street mainliners, shamming and slaughtering for neurotoxic fixes of smileys and Crystal on billion-dollar Kogo yachts, while we all just pedal on, dispassionately, down and over interior canals, to the core of our hocked, abbrev lives, chronically connected and severely distracted, in aromatic polymer bubbles, heedlessly cruising through comic-strip farms of mock vegetables, surely to nowhere and towards no one; and quite frankly, the world laughs at all this, and sobs, and so do I.
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Dark and ordinary mornings start, with haptic taps from my Apple watch, and a yawning stretch, way before dawn. I glance out my window, to check the weather because that’s the spec that decides whether, we’re outside or we’re down to the gym inside. “Alexa, brew,” I compel my AI thank God, she understands, and my Keurig gurgles to life. I brush the ‘ol tusks and wash my face, before wiggling into spandex and taking a place on the bench by the door where our shoes are stored. When Lisa comes out, stout coffee in hand she slumps on the bench, with a sleepy pout. “I couldn’t sleep,” she confides with a yawn, “I barely closed my eyes - then it was dawn!” Checking my watch, I haven’t the heart to say ‘dawn’s a half hour after we start.’ Every morning we rise and jog a five K (3.1mi) we decided, last year, that it’s the best way to jump-start our brains and start our day. Poets write about love, pure and chaste, and less about morning alarms and toothpaste but in these moments, the ways we start our day, can influence our lives in interesting ways
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Oct 26, 2023
Oct 26, 2023 at 4:03 PM UTC
dark and ordinary
Hairline cracks are breaking through the slough I'm about to shed. Dry and dysfunctional as the neuron sac in my skull. I'll change my hat and change my ammo honeysuckle artillery polished, waiting in my drawer. Sliding an empty coffee mug back and forth along a counter like a puck preparing for a slapshot. Paper matches in colourful books pressed between the pages found leaves for child arsonists. Takeout boxes filled with poems are sold as artefacts Don't be silly, poetry comes in plastic bags, not styrofoam. To keep ideas hot, wrap them in tinfoil. But don't forget to leave a hole at the top for steam or your fresh concepts will get soggy. Equipped with tennis ***** spandex suits picket office blocks standing on chairs and voicing nearly racist remarks making health and safety inspectors nervous. Out of control students launch dictionaries out of third story windows, donning 21st century masks. I left my patience beside my keys, on the kitchen table. Waiting in line for obsolete phone booths as movie stars soundlessly mouth slang into a receiver. Nearly responsible nearly nine nearly time for bed I resolve again that I’ll resolve more but this time write it down. Folding kamikaze paper planes to hide behind park benches, fly into trees. Let the sun fade the pencil crayon. I can't run from this blasé gangrene that’s taken my toes.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 2:02 AM UTC
Drip Dry via Clothespin
I want to runaway, Far into the oceans. Into the abyss of waters, The unexplored depts of Undiscovered species of fish And devouring monsters. I want to runaway, Maybe to Africa in the forests. Where wolves, dogs and dragons roam. Make a tent out of straw and mud, And all it my home. Spend the rest of my life alone. I want to runaway. Maybe to the snow clad- region of The Himalayan mountains, Or to the frozen poles of the earth. Stand to the highest peaks, Without any clothes So my limbs can freeze , Till they look like plastic manikins. I want to run away, Take up permanent residence on mars, Or the moon, Or maybe on the sun. Far away from earth as possible, Because If I stay here, You'll just be a village away, A city away... A country away... Maybe a continent and it wont be enough, I'll still spend each night thinking of you. I want to runaway. Maybe to another galaxy, Maybe here exists parallel universe Where I can escape. One where there are actually super heros That wear spandex and capes. One where happily ever after's are real, And you know exactly how I feel. I want to runaway. Escape this reality to wear stars align. I would bend and twist, Or manipulating time. Abuse any available strength I can find, Just to get you out of my mind.
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Jun 20, 2014
Jun 20, 2014 at 1:04 AM UTC
I want to run away
Before last night, I'd only seen the forbidden-fruit curves and ripples rendering my skin unbeautiful. But in the fluorescent indifference of a drugstore I caught sight of my legs through eyes not my own, new tapers and bulges swathed in black spandex even too flimsy for the $15 price tag, and wondered why words like "small" and "gap" were heaven to my ears, while "quadriceps" and "endurance" have their own quaint ring, a lovely taste on the tip of a tongue which has spent too much time wallowing in self-hatred. Strength isn't a virtue in women, we who learn from birth to take up as little space as possible. Our shapes always need shaping, guiding, sometimes our own voices telling ourselves we deserve the pain of fatigue after one mile too long spent running up the avenue, forcing ourselves to faint for a glimpse of thinner thighs, we deserve to be dehumanized if we don't inch our way into the body laid out for us by Mother Society. Where is the place for the girl who hobbles home, skin bruised purple but flushed with the accomplishment of stopping every single shot in practice? Or for the boy whose gentle hands provide the perfect perch for a butterfly to land upon? My strength is not an imperfection. There is beauty in it, and discipline. These legs can take me for miles if I take off the iron vest that keeps me anchored to a Hollywood version of myself. Without it, I can fly.
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 8:33 PM UTC
Legs -- a severely rough draft.
i was watching batman (1989) and batman returns (1992) today, and i couldn't stop layering over birdman (2015) over both films, it was such a comedy, you knew that it wasn't a serious engagement in the role, i just kept picturing the internal monologue - the action scenes were already a gimmick when in the birdman the explosions start with the critique of what people actually like to see - and that critique that the joker is no more a weird'o than batman dressed in black leather / spandex - i just wish heath ledger took a break from acting, and they did the same sort of film about the actor behind the joker, but how would they internalise the essence of the role: the laughter... internalising a husky voice can be easily done when the actor in a different role can talk easily and speedily without that haunting husky role of the original part... but the laughter? it would never work, which is why jack warned heath about playing the role... 'son, beware the laughter.' still, what an enjoyable re-watch, putting over the birdman nostalgia over the seriousness of the acting in the originals, you can actually imagine him going for a coffee break and taking a **** when the original screening took place, the whole: back to reality - it really amplified the films in a quirky way; and i still think the joker is the only doppelgänger that can't be tamed: i'm guessing because of coulrophobia - and i could still see remnants of this mythical doppelgänger on heath in the imaginarium of dr. parnassus... the clowns are onto you, you can't steal one of them from the jammed mini or volkswagen beetle with 20 of them in it, plus the crying clown, everyone's heard of that one, they mime laughter, this vocalised doppelgänger of a clown is cursed - because unlike actual mimes they don't surd bewilderment being stuck in a box, or touching a brick wall obstacle... they surd laughter, and they share it among themselves in a circus, vocalising that surd is a curse, since vocalising an actual mime leaves you without the actual abstractions, and from what i heard, brick walls are silent like graves, unless of course you punch one or smash a car into one.
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Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM UTC
the doppelgänger of the joker and coulrophobia
i was watching batman (1989) and batman returns (1992) today, and i couldn't stop layering over birdman (2015) over both films, it was such a comedy, you knew that it wasn't a serious engagement in the role, i just kept picturing the internal monologue - the action scenes were already a gimmick when in the birdman the explosions start with the critique of what people actually like to see - and that critique that the joker is no more a weird'o than batman dressed in black leather / spandex - i just wish heath ledger took a break from acting, and they did the same sort of film about the actor behind the joker, but how would they internalise the essence of the role: the laughter... internalising a husky voice can be easily done when the actor in a different role can talk easily and speedily without that haunting husky role of the original part... but the laughter? it would never work, which is why jack warned heath about playing the role... 'son, beware the laughter.' still, what an enjoyable re-watch, putting over the birdman nostalgia over the seriousness of the acting in the originals, you can actually imagine him going for a coffee break and taking a **** when the original screening took place, the whole: back to reality - it really amplified the films in a quirky way; and i still think the joker is the only doppelgänger that can't be tamed: i'm guessing because of coulrophobia - and i could still see remnants of this mythical doppelgänger on heath in the imaginarium of dr. parnassus... the clowns are onto you, you can't steal one of them from the jammed mini or volkswagen beetle with 20 of them in it, plus the crying clown, everyone's heard of that one, they mime laughter, this vocalised doppelgänger of a clown is cursed - because unlike actual mimes they don't surd bewilderment being stuck in a box, or touching a brick wall obstacle... they surd laughter, and they share it among themselves in a circus, vocalising that surd is a curse, since vocalising an actual mime leaves you without the actual abstractions, and from what i heard, brick walls are silent like graves, unless of course you punch one or smash a car into one.
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I hate to break it to you but heroes like Superman, and Batman, and Spiderman don’t actually exist. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t heroes in this world, they just aren’t in capes and spandex. They can’t fly or shoot lasers from their eyes. They can’t lift a car with one finger and they aren’t affected by kyptonite. These heroes are people you pass every day, you may speak to them, and you may not. But they are there. The 18 year old kid who takes care of his brother when his parents leave and decide not to come back he is a hero. The 9 year old boy who saved his friend by pulling him out of an icy lake, is a hero The mother that decides to leave her husband and take her kid with her when he starts hitting them, she is a hero. Those who stand up for what they believe in, are heroes The little girl who used the Heimlich maneuver (which she saw on a disney channel show by the way, see disney can teach us useful skills) to save the life of her 1st grade classmate who was choking on an apple, is a hero Every friend that will drive to your house at 3 am because you are home alone and you are scared of what you might do if you are alone much longer. Every friend that tells you that everything will be alright, and that you may be ******* up, but that doesn’t mean that you will always be that way, friends that remind you things can and will get better. Are all heroes. The woman who caught a baby that fell out a window is a hero. The firefighter who risked everything to save a little girl or little boy is a hero. The men and women in blue are heroes... Or they are when they aren’t shooting innocent people... Or the man who broke his neck and had to give up the career he had done his whole life, but then turned what could have been a devastating change into an opportunity to follow his dream and is now happier than ever because he realizes that life is too short and can end too quickly to be unhappy, and now he is one of the strongest, funniest, most joyful person I’ve ever met. He is a hero. Or the woman who went back to school after her divorce and now is happy and able to not only support her self but also her family. These people are real life true heroes, not some made up ******** with super powers. Because you don’t need to be able to fly or see through walls to be a hero.
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 10:07 AM UTC
Heros
I hate to break it to you but heroes like Superman, and Batman, and Spiderman don’t actually exist. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t heroes in this world, they just aren’t in capes and spandex. They can’t fly or shoot lasers from their eyes. They can’t lift a car with one finger and they aren’t affected by kyptonite. These heroes are people you pass every day, you may speak to them, and you may not. But they are there. The 18 year old kid who takes care of his brother when his parents leave and decide not to come back he is a hero. The 9 year old boy who saved his friend by pulling him out of an icy lake, is a hero The mother that decides to leave her husband and take her kid with her when he starts hitting them, she is a hero. Those who stand up for what they believe in, are heroes The little girl who used the Heimlich maneuver (which she saw on a disney channel show by the way, see disney can teach us useful skills) to save the life of her 1st grade classmate who was choking on an apple, is a hero Every friend that will drive to your house at 3 am because you are home alone and you are scared of what you might do if you are alone much longer. Every friend that tells you that everything will be alright, and that you may be ******* up, but that doesn’t mean that you will always be that way, friends that remind you things can and will get better. Are all heroes. The woman who caught a baby that fell out a window is a hero. The firefighter who risked everything to save a little girl or little boy is a hero. The men and women in blue are heroes... Or they are when they aren’t shooting innocent people... Or the man who broke his neck and had to give up the career he had done his whole life, but then turned what could have been a devastating change into an opportunity to follow his dream and is now happier than ever because he realizes that life is too short and can end too quickly to be unhappy, and now he is one of the strongest, funniest, most joyful person I’ve ever met. He is a hero. Or the woman who went back to school after her divorce and now is happy and able to not only support her self but also her family. These people are real life true heroes, not some made up ******** with super powers. Because you don’t need to be able to fly or see through walls to be a hero.
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You were almost impossible to find and in the void I suffered too much strife and though with you I feel a bit confined, having you has completely changed my life. Impeccable and strong some seem to be yet near my heart I find they stab and hurt… Your support to me is reality From your embrace I will never avert. Brassiere, my dear, nothing could e’er replace your loyalty, the hold, and daily hugs. Rayon, spandex, nylon, and bits of lace help hold the beating heart behind these jugs.
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 8:20 PM UTC
Dear Friend
Maybe if she wasn't busy fucking men for money and chain smoking cigarettes as fast as she can deep throat a man and make him *** she would see she was beautiful — without the spandex clothes and heavy make up. Maybe
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM UTC
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