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"stubby" poems
We All have Flaws, Stubby nose, Bushy Brows, Crooked smile, Whichever it maybe But those are the types of things That make us UNIQUE, The details to our grand design, "There is no one like Me" Take pride in that, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, To prejudge based off of one's appearance, Now that is what you call UGLY
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 11:45 PM UTC
Unique
At an unknown time of night at our cottage in northern Michigan… My younger brother and I heard strange noises coming from the beach again… We looked up at the ceiling and then the window… As the voices from outside, in a lively allegro… Grew softer and louder in repeating crescendos… We skittered out the door and stared in fascination… For what we saw must have been our imagination… The door closed with a creak as our feet hit the grass… It was at that moment we got a look at the mass… Of stubby foot, hunchback creatures from which the sounds had amassed… There was about six of them chanting like a choir… They danced and paraded around our burnt out fire… As we looked on, we saw our fire raise… It got brighter as they lifted their hands in waves… As light betook the blue beach night… A crowd of colorfully masked gremlins caught us in their sights! Their feet slowed to a stop and they quieted down… They stood still as the fire flickered off their weird wooden frowns… One reached out his hand in a come-here motion… They seemed to stand and wait with an encouraging notion… As the fire crackled and the waves tumbled onto the beach… All I can remember, is for the rest of that summer… My younger brother and I served as the drummers… For that quirky marching band of lake sprites… With which our burnt out fire we’d reignite… At an unknown time of night at our cottage in northern Michigan…
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 8:41 PM UTC
At an unknown time of night at our cottage in northern Michigan...
Thin waist, long legs Smooth hair, big chest Angel eyes, full lips Pink cheeks, wide hips Tall but not too high With a gap between her thighs And long lashes on her eyes Hourglass figure Sweatpants & scarred legs Damaged hair, flat chest ****** eyes, dry lips Pimpled cheeks, no hips Short and stubby No thigh gap, just chubby And eyebrows? Shrubby Me A
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM UTC
imperfection
Stubby fingers, in a world where you seek long, artsy hands; With the thumb that still looks like that of a child. No, it isn't something that should be envied. Put my palm to yours and it will not hesitate in feeling small, insignificant, giving you that ego boost you so desperately seek. But it holds the power to support. It holds within it, the power of perseverance, hard work, and creating. It does not flinch while it works like yours does. It doesn't shy away. Instead it makes the grip firm, steady. Unwilling to give up so easy. Hello, hands. I accept you.
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 1:54 PM UTC
Hands.
Angie works the alleys that reek of greasy sausages and **** where beer-bellied men appear and vanish into doorway varnish of invisible rooms, spitting on their own doorsteps, stubby fingers running over stained vests and wire wool guts. Harry lives out yonder where plastic bags’ ballet shoes are made of glue; he is sharing a hit with a dreadlocked kid, just another invisible face, a phantom-surfer nurse, to assist him in chasing the ultimate high on highway number twenty-two. Invisible, hairy hands hold her down; Angie has to swallow, she can feel the pulsating vein of a softening **** over her tongue and swollen lips – she gives it a good old slap against her cheek, grabs the package, and makes sure no one follows. Harry’s clawing at a face in that place where reality floats between the tip of the needle and the desperate edge of chemical dependency - his little angel taps him on the shoulder; he turns around, and stabs her in the throat.
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Feb 5, 2011
Feb 5, 2011 at 11:32 PM UTC
The Ballad of 'Heroin' Harry and 'Amsterdam' Angie and the Invisible People
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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Mar 18, 2013
Mar 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
the barbecue
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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Moo-Cow-Butterfly Not a happy lass Stubby little wings Superfluous mass Four long stringy legs Twirly-whirly tongue Moo-Cow-Butterfly Highly strung Weasel-Emu-Rangutan Fifty shades of fur Quite the oddest vertebrate To naturally occur Burrows in the jungle Terrified of heights Weasel-Emu-Rangutan Restless nights Labra-Hippo-Jellyfish Slimy furry blob Genetic Engineering **** poor job Moping on the seabed Can’t fetch sticks Labra-Hippo-Jellyfish Sink like bricks Chameleon-Begonias Origin unknown Disappear rapidly As soon as they are sown Neither here or thereabouts But somewhere in between Chameleon-Begonias Seldom Seen
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 4:36 PM UTC
The Real Dangers of Genetic Modification
Saturday, A blank slate placed in front of an adventurous child My imagination took me across the globe, While my feet danced across my backyard. Freshly cut grass grew into a weeded jungle, Only a six year old could appreciate. The sun was only a summersault away, And I reached up to the sky with my stubby fingers To form marshmallow clouds into pirate ships, and circus animals Back when the moon was made of swiss cheese and superheroes really could fly No one dared to whisper the word ‘impossible’ To a boy who feared nothing
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 2:53 AM UTC
Backyard Adventurer
before i go to sleep i look at you in a myopic view, thanking a higher power that i'm seeing someone so beautiful i never want to lose looking at you always feels like the first time when i never had an inkling of how gentle the light of this love could be and waking up next to you would be something that i'd look forward to i belong to you, even after yelling i belong to you, even after crying i belong to your chest as i sleep and my hands belong to yours as i weep and honey, your soft skin your stubby fingers and your tiny eyes will forever be my home
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Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 at 1:16 PM UTC
i belong to you
I live at the bottom of a lake I am a fish There are gills in my ears ‘Cause there are things my blood needs to hear I have fins in my mouth and they propel me so far The only way to stop is to bite down real hard Sometimes I miss the air, even though I’ve never breathed I drive around the lake bottom in my little moving machine I call it a Notcar I try to find my way to the other side It’s blue out there or maybe grey I died at the bottom of a lake today I ran all out of imaginary air I fell asleep at the wheel of my Notcar And drove right into a telephone Notpole My friends all gathered round my little fish-shaped grave and I learned something They don’t tell you in books or movies, That Dead speaks a different language than Alive So I couldn’t understand a word my fishy friends said It sounded like this: I’d always hoped my death would have some meaning Or that at least my life would But mostly I just tried to understand things Like all the different rooms in my brain and why underwater never smelled like rain I loved a few boy fish, had some very fishy affairs I loved my friends the most, they were such pretty colors (Dead sees colors differently than Alive, so now they look like this:                                    ) The day I died was special like every other day which is to say That it was not Notaverage And I died in a pretty Notspecial way And because I can’t hear Alivewords, or see Alivecolors I’ll never be sure if I left any mark I live at the bottom of a lake Most days I think that I’m an alien On Tuesdays I feel pretty human The lake I live in died It left behind little shells in the sand at the playground And pretty rocks with ripples It left rings on the mountains but not like rings inside trees These rings mark a countdown to death, rather than a count out from birth The lake is a ghost It sings to me in my sleep, but I don’t speak Dead At least not yet And furthermore, I don’t speak lake I speak a language called Notdeadnotlake And so do all my friends Sometimes I wonder why the ocean was so thirsty that it called my lake back home And I wonder if I’m part of Something Bigger too, Whether Something Bigger is feeling thirsty I think I might be part of a big strange creature made out of all the things I sometimes feel like: Lakesludge and matches and sunshine and fish with sharp little teeth Notgoods and notbads and spiders and bats Sadhappys and angryfucks Starsparkles and earthworms and fairywings and dinosaur bones, It has really big ears and stubby toes And all it needs is some alien or Tuesdayhuman to feel complete Or maybe it’s made of lakeghosts and fishghosts And wants nothing to do with me
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 8:56 PM UTC
The Lake
I live at the bottom of a lake I am a fish There are gills in my ears ‘Cause there are things my blood needs to hear I have fins in my mouth and they propel me so far The only way to stop is to bite down real hard Sometimes I miss the air, even though I’ve never breathed I drive around the lake bottom in my little moving machine I call it a Notcar I try to find my way to the other side It’s blue out there or maybe grey I died at the bottom of a lake today I ran all out of imaginary air I fell asleep at the wheel of my Notcar And drove right into a telephone Notpole My friends all gathered round my little fish-shaped grave and I learned something They don’t tell you in books or movies, That Dead speaks a different language than Alive So I couldn’t understand a word my fishy friends said It sounded like this: I’d always hoped my death would have some meaning Or that at least my life would But mostly I just tried to understand things Like all the different rooms in my brain and why underwater never smelled like rain I loved a few boy fish, had some very fishy affairs I loved my friends the most, they were such pretty colors (Dead sees colors differently than Alive, so now they look like this:                                    ) The day I died was special like every other day which is to say That it was not Notaverage And I died in a pretty Notspecial way And because I can’t hear Alivewords, or see Alivecolors I’ll never be sure if I left any mark I live at the bottom of a lake Most days I think that I’m an alien On Tuesdays I feel pretty human The lake I live in died It left behind little shells in the sand at the playground And pretty rocks with ripples It left rings on the mountains but not like rings inside trees These rings mark a countdown to death, rather than a count out from birth The lake is a ghost It sings to me in my sleep, but I don’t speak Dead At least not yet And furthermore, I don’t speak lake I speak a language called Notdeadnotlake And so do all my friends Sometimes I wonder why the ocean was so thirsty that it called my lake back home And I wonder if I’m part of Something Bigger too, Whether Something Bigger is feeling thirsty I think I might be part of a big strange creature made out of all the things I sometimes feel like: Lakesludge and matches and sunshine and fish with sharp little teeth Notgoods and notbads and spiders and bats Sadhappys and angryfucks Starsparkles and earthworms and fairywings and dinosaur bones, It has really big ears and stubby toes And all it needs is some alien or Tuesdayhuman to feel complete Or maybe it’s made of lakeghosts and fishghosts And wants nothing to do with me
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What does a painter do? A painter paints. Of paintings inspired by the universe; Of legends luminous as pious saints. But people like me work to fill my purse. Not artisan by trade nor rich merchant, With rough and stubby fingers callused palms, I'll starve if I were the master's servant And soon to take the streets to beg for alms. I paint for sake of commerce not for art; I paint all kinds of buildings, houses, schools. None enters, jobs can't start till I depart; Scrappers, ladders, paints, brushes are my tools. Do what I'm commissioned to do. To paint. But Leonardo or Angelo I ain't.
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 8:48 PM UTC
The Painter; Sonnet #13
High above the Canyon’s edge, Far above the ancient clay, The helicopter hovers there Like a dragonfly at play. With my jet pack on my back I coolly, calmly step away. Gain separation from the blades, Freefall starts my epic day. On stubby wings the jet packs fire I’m Daedalus in the morning light. I soar across the canyon’s rim. Laughing like some hell born sprite One hundred eighty miles an hour, The wind whips cold despite the sun I glide toward my landing zone The jet packs sputter and are done. My parachute has been deployed My guide ropes turn me for my drop. My wings are just a dead weight now I touch down one the Mesa top. At Kitty Hawk that fateful day. This must be what the brothers felt Kindred souls who sought to fly By using wings that wouldn’t melt..
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Jan 4, 2012
Jan 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM UTC
Eight Minutes
Look in the mirror What do you see? Imperfection As you reach left for The tan crumbs to cover your uneven skin And reaching right for The black Toxic Goo To give the impression that your stubby eyelashes Aren't incapable of growing You step back and look at yourself once more Its not enough You rummage for the crayon to Smear across your eyelids In hopes that it will make your Dull Brown eyes Pop Your face feels pounds heavier Yet, are you really done so soon? Aren't you forgetting something You dig deep into the drawer To find a Burning Red paint to drown your thin pale lips in Longing for the look of that Photoshopped Supermodel you saw in that magazine You come downstairs Dad says you look like a clown Mom says you're still a kid Society says its not enough What do you say
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 2:50 AM UTC
Imperfections
*this poem didn't come easy. written amidst buffeting emo's, V will not be natural flow, probably flawed. You, self-chosen people, will come along, please, to see the process, and the proceeds too. But as usual, the poem was write before me, needing only human kindness overflowing to guide the way.* V V words lord, excluding all others, phonetic juggernauts, never met a V word that had no personality. victory is the one word that my/our brains think of first. sure there is vortex, victuals, veer and valor exam, the latter, what ever it means is a gift, curtsy-courtesy of auto-incorrect. but it is victory on top, victorious in its own way. try it on another if you must... what is the word that starts with a V that first comes to mind?* so let us talk of victories. so oft, I write in the dark, even as I do now. came home soul weary, face worn-worry, gotta go out to meet Peter Bogdanovich later, to chat about his latest movie. woman looks me over. X-ray glance, an MRI of my heart, no deductible charged, but oh yes, a co-pay due, indeed! Peter will keep, tonight you're-mine, to bed I send, right after we consume Large Thin Mush, cause pizza with shrooms contains mood serotonins, that erase the "pain of the day" that be a victory nonpareil. a Waterloo, a Normandy landing, that be a victory where both sides hug and kiss, and make with their long, stubby Churchillian fingers, V's all night long with goofy grins, cigars and bowler hats, just to go along. so here I am in the dark, having been "put" to bed, one mo' time, slicing and dicing letters into a word-salade, instead of resting. dreaming of the day when I can no longer need to pretend to be a Seuss, but truly, can be writing poems for all my children~friends. one for each letter of the alphabet, teaching us to write upon our faces laugh lines thin and fine, mine, ours, yours. product of pizza poems, some that come not circular, but tonite shaped just like a woman, just like a V.
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Nov 7, 2013
Nov 7, 2013 at 8:34 PM UTC
V: A Sorta-Commissioned Poem
*this poem didn't come easy. written amidst buffeting emo's, V will not be natural flow, probably flawed. You, self-chosen people, will come along, please, to see the process, and the proceeds too. But as usual, the poem was write before me, needing only human kindness overflowing to guide the way.* V V words lord, excluding all others, phonetic juggernauts, never met a V word that had no personality. victory is the one word that my/our brains think of first. sure there is vortex, victuals, veer and valor exam, the latter, what ever it means is a gift, curtsy-courtesy of auto-incorrect. but it is victory on top, victorious in its own way. try it on another if you must... what is the word that starts with a V that first comes to mind?* so let us talk of victories. so oft, I write in the dark, even as I do now. came home soul weary, face worn-worry, gotta go out to meet Peter Bogdanovich later, to chat about his latest movie. woman looks me over. X-ray glance, an MRI of my heart, no deductible charged, but oh yes, a co-pay due, indeed! Peter will keep, tonight you're-mine, to bed I send, right after we consume Large Thin Mush, cause pizza with shrooms contains mood serotonins, that erase the "pain of the day" that be a victory nonpareil. a Waterloo, a Normandy landing, that be a victory where both sides hug and kiss, and make with their long, stubby Churchillian fingers, V's all night long with goofy grins, cigars and bowler hats, just to go along. so here I am in the dark, having been "put" to bed, one mo' time, slicing and dicing letters into a word-salade, instead of resting. dreaming of the day when I can no longer need to pretend to be a Seuss, but truly, can be writing poems for all my children~friends. one for each letter of the alphabet, teaching us to write upon our faces laugh lines thin and fine, mine, ours, yours. product of pizza poems, some that come not circular, but tonite shaped just like a woman, just like a V.
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(Went out today, Charter boat Trinidad Bay Limited out on rock fish in two hours Watching Elks Head from the ocean, Grandpa) Isadore Called him Izzy Chewing all day on a fat cigar Looked at lot like Jimmy Durante His father stowed away on a ship Wasn't going to be a Russian military conscript Genocidal pogroms were coming how he knew we'll never know. Ended up in Philadelphia town, Scranton Pennsylvania Moved along to Brooklyn Stubby Izzy fighting it out with the Irish immigrants Dreaming of having a chicken farm over there in New Jersey Izzy met Grandma Sarah at the family clothing store they fought it out for 70 years The 60's book Games People Play They were the star attraction The friction was the glue that kept them together The friction was the match that lit their passion. Grandpa Izzy funniest man I ever met Drove an old 48 Ford selling housewares in the Southern route. In the morning far too early Sneaking into his room tickling his feet to the sounds of ohhs and hoho's At five years old Grandpa Izzy took me fishing on some New Jersey pond - Afternoon sun with yellow colors bringing all the foliage alive Sun setting fish rising a hand held in mine defined the peace I seek in reoccurring dreams through out a lifetime A troubled teen all suicidal the drive in the 48 Ford with Grandpa Izzy running down the Malibu pier catching the half day boat before it disappeared Grandpa Izzy never lived far from a race track I don't know about those losing days but the secret he said Was to never lose your sense of humor Always be able to laugh at yourself Izzy smoked those big old chewed cigars lived until he was 94 Ended up not knowing Who or where he was Maybe we all end up that way too But in my memory there is sharp focus he remains alive in me If heaven is there I know I'll find Izzy and I on that New Jersey pond, a fishing line and peace inside.
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 12:57 PM UTC
Generations
(Went out today, Charter boat Trinidad Bay Limited out on rock fish in two hours Watching Elks Head from the ocean, Grandpa) Isadore Called him Izzy Chewing all day on a fat cigar Looked at lot like Jimmy Durante His father stowed away on a ship Wasn't going to be a Russian military conscript Genocidal pogroms were coming how he knew we'll never know. Ended up in Philadelphia town, Scranton Pennsylvania Moved along to Brooklyn Stubby Izzy fighting it out with the Irish immigrants Dreaming of having a chicken farm over there in New Jersey Izzy met Grandma Sarah at the family clothing store they fought it out for 70 years The 60's book Games People Play They were the star attraction The friction was the glue that kept them together The friction was the match that lit their passion. Grandpa Izzy funniest man I ever met Drove an old 48 Ford selling housewares in the Southern route. In the morning far too early Sneaking into his room tickling his feet to the sounds of ohhs and hoho's At five years old Grandpa Izzy took me fishing on some New Jersey pond - Afternoon sun with yellow colors bringing all the foliage alive Sun setting fish rising a hand held in mine defined the peace I seek in reoccurring dreams through out a lifetime A troubled teen all suicidal the drive in the 48 Ford with Grandpa Izzy running down the Malibu pier catching the half day boat before it disappeared Grandpa Izzy never lived far from a race track I don't know about those losing days but the secret he said Was to never lose your sense of humor Always be able to laugh at yourself Izzy smoked those big old chewed cigars lived until he was 94 Ended up not knowing Who or where he was Maybe we all end up that way too But in my memory there is sharp focus he remains alive in me If heaven is there I know I'll find Izzy and I on that New Jersey pond, a fishing line and peace inside.
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lukewarm black coffee in an eco friendly cup. Profits, Profits. Pull yourself up by boot straps and smoke cigarettes, get cancer die a wreck. I can't seem to find me I now live in a place where I speak the language, but I liked not understanding old words much better. I always know a person by their hands. fingers chubby, wrinkled,stubby shaky, shaky. hands. Everything seems clearer over here. Black and white. polarized. yellow, brown, tan, ***** fat. But there is no gray. They say there is love here-- California love here-- but I can't find it.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 9:26 PM UTC
California Love
Her voice poors out of her mouth She is able to stand on that stage and share her talent She is talented That voice is thick and strong and loud enough to reach hundreds of ears That voice is smooth and gentle and soft enough to please hundreds of hearts What good is a second-rate piano player compared to a voice like that? Her skirt will always be longer, more flirty Her teeth with always be straighter, tucked further away with the pensive look she has It is my love for Victor Hugo against her love for Victor Hugo My love for Broadway versus her love for Broadway But all I have is 10 stubby fingers to tickle the worn Baldwin in my living room She has that voice in a room full of red velvet seats It is my interest in Kristin Chenoweth against her interest in Kristin Chenoweth We both like to read We both like the theatre We both like you But what can compare to a voice like that?
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Apr 16, 2013
Apr 16, 2013 at 10:03 PM UTC
That Voice
Remember it well do I ~ Third eclipse of second moon on Wrote-Clishhen Five Saw your eyes; full of the force, did I But full of Love ~ they were ~ a higher power yesss. hmmm....Delighting everyone The Cutest nose had you ~ and ears... Oh ! ...And smile did you like a thousand light-sabres, was it. But your way ~ your way, it was ~ that made me love you Many times laughing, spend, we did (Yo-da one that I want - joked - you did ~ the best joke ever, thinks I ) Until, intervene and consume us, the Dark Side did; Tears replacing laughter and hate; Love Our friendship, to die, was meant to be But swear I do, On my six stubby toes ! Forever love you I shall yesss ~ swear I do... - Forever... love you ...I shall
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 3:10 AM UTC
Yoda remembers
I bury into the memory foam with a Strange boy's finger up my **** Stubby white soldier, Cherry **** Phone off. Lily- pads wind their way towards the bathroom (pizza boxes, six pizza boxes) "skip carefully towards the ****** stash or else you'll sink... they're under the sink ...uh, uhhh, come back and sink your way in" Welcome to the Bad Life Bingo! Every hour is the end of the world, There's nothing to play for and no time to play it in... ...I am shaking off this dry truth with a flannel that has seen better days. My english tan is coming off and nothing works. He tries to light a joint in my bed the zippo strikes three - click - fzzzz click - fzzzz click - fzzzz and you're out .
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 7:29 PM UTC
bingo
I used to live with these two friends— A long-haired Navajo guy that was into Satan & Death Metal, and an average white guy into Star Wars & Metallica. This one night we were going to see Danzig in concert. Before we went to the show we had to get a money order and mail it to our landlord for rent. The three of us went inside the Circle K, got the money order, cigarettes, and some water. On the way out, back to the car, there was an old, crusty, homeless Native guy his neck draped in rosaries, like Mr. T is in gold. As we walked by, he said, “Can you guys spare some change?” “Sure,” my Navajo friend said, digging his pocket for change. He was just about to drop a handful of coins into the bum’s hand when the old guy said, “Oh thank you. God bless you …” A smile came over my Navajo friend’s face as he put the change back into his pocket. “Nope. You shouldn’t have said that. You just HAD to bring God into it, didnt you?” “Ohhh **** you,” the old guy yelled. “Why don’t you ask God for some money then?" We all laughed getting in the car. The old *** kept talking. “Just get outta here. Something bad is gonna happen to you boys. Go, get away from me. Something bad is gonna happen to you …” My Navajo friend didn't miss a beat, “Yeah? Well, if you don’t shut the **** up, something bad is gonna happen to YOU ************ The old man looked down to his rosaries and began to pray. We drove across the street to the post office to mail the money order for the rent. The boys stayed in the car while I got out to mail it. The post office was already closed and all they had were those stubby little pencils. It had to be signed in ink. I went back outside “You guys have a pen?” “Nope.” **** “Just ask somebody. And hurry up, we're gonna be late!” Just then I saw a plump, middle-aged woman getting out of a minivan. I approached her. “Excuse me? Ma’am? Do you happen to have a pen I could use? I have to send off a money order for rent and I just realized I don’t have one …? The lady sighed heavily, sounding annoyed, she turned back around and began walking back to her minivan. “I’m sorry to put you out, I just HAVE TO send this out…” Getting into her van, she turned around and screamed at me, “I don’t have any money for you to take from me. I WILL NOT BE ACCOSTED!” She started the minivan and made a quick getaway. “What the hell happened?” “That crazy broad thought I was trying to rob her.” We all laughed our ***** off at her choice of words: ACCOSTED. As we drove off, I remembered the old man’s words “something bad is gonna happen.” It coulda been worse. So we said **** it and mailed it the next day. The late fee was $15.00.
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM UTC
Something Bad
I used to live with these two friends— A long-haired Navajo guy that was into Satan & Death Metal, and an average white guy into Star Wars & Metallica. This one night we were going to see Danzig in concert. Before we went to the show we had to get a money order and mail it to our landlord for rent. The three of us went inside the Circle K, got the money order, cigarettes, and some water. On the way out, back to the car, there was an old, crusty, homeless Native guy his neck draped in rosaries, like Mr. T is in gold. As we walked by, he said, “Can you guys spare some change?” “Sure,” my Navajo friend said, digging his pocket for change. He was just about to drop a handful of coins into the bum’s hand when the old guy said, “Oh thank you. God bless you …” A smile came over my Navajo friend’s face as he put the change back into his pocket. “Nope. You shouldn’t have said that. You just HAD to bring God into it, didnt you?” “Ohhh **** you,” the old guy yelled. “Why don’t you ask God for some money then?" We all laughed getting in the car. The old *** kept talking. “Just get outta here. Something bad is gonna happen to you boys. Go, get away from me. Something bad is gonna happen to you …” My Navajo friend didn't miss a beat, “Yeah? Well, if you don’t shut the **** up, something bad is gonna happen to YOU ************ The old man looked down to his rosaries and began to pray. We drove across the street to the post office to mail the money order for the rent. The boys stayed in the car while I got out to mail it. The post office was already closed and all they had were those stubby little pencils. It had to be signed in ink. I went back outside “You guys have a pen?” “Nope.” **** “Just ask somebody. And hurry up, we're gonna be late!” Just then I saw a plump, middle-aged woman getting out of a minivan. I approached her. “Excuse me? Ma’am? Do you happen to have a pen I could use? I have to send off a money order for rent and I just realized I don’t have one …? The lady sighed heavily, sounding annoyed, she turned back around and began walking back to her minivan. “I’m sorry to put you out, I just HAVE TO send this out…” Getting into her van, she turned around and screamed at me, “I don’t have any money for you to take from me. I WILL NOT BE ACCOSTED!” She started the minivan and made a quick getaway. “What the hell happened?” “That crazy broad thought I was trying to rob her.” We all laughed our ***** off at her choice of words: ACCOSTED. As we drove off, I remembered the old man’s words “something bad is gonna happen.” It coulda been worse. So we said **** it and mailed it the next day. The late fee was $15.00.
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Her hands are neither soft nor attractive. They are a white fish belly from too little time in the sun. Her nails are stubby and unadorned. Her fingers are tentacles projecting unnaturally from undersized palms, tips rough and calloused. I must stare I cannot help myself Then it begins. The movement. The tentacles scamper here and there. They reach They touch They pound and poke and stretch and crawl and in their grotesque fury teach me to love. Mozart and Chopin Prokofiev and Bach The piano is a time machine transforming the tiny practice room into the mighty concert halls of Vienna and Prague. From the gallery I am entranced by rhapsodies seduced by nocturnes and consumed by symphonies. I murmur, does the music stir your soul? She glances up briefly and returns to work.
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May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 at 12:11 AM UTC
Rene
It starts in the quiet itching in the fingers like new skin knitting under blistered burns. I have always written. Before I had my letters (before the lessons with stubby pencils curving sense out of the air) I would scrawl nonsense waves folding and boiling in a crash of senseless surf onto pages meant for pictures I scribbled a whole Atlantic before sense and sound delivered the waves to reason. I still find it hard, when writing, not to let the rolling sea scatter into fragment waves that whisper into the breeze of my fingers. I have tried many addictions, I have spent people like money. I have tied my hands to stop from fussing at the leaves. If I ever loved I left it still spinning, but I have never lost the itch a pen to scratch its bleed of ink into a sweet clean ****** page. To scrawl my feint history in every broken harbour of her yielding skin.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 9:45 AM UTC
To Write
Babushka doll, you're an acid vase Empty as church mornings Devoid of all feelings; You unravel your sullen smiles, Ill-bred and unclean. You are not complete. You lost your babies. Now you're alone. Darling, darling, darling, how does it feel? To feel the root of brute in the stubby heel, Your silly scarves lost in the wheel. Just peel off the cabbage roses Petal by Petal, Dismember yourself. What a laugh! The air has asthma, The sun gives it T.B. Oh dearie me! It wheezes kisses heavier than a lecher. Saboteur of my days, Why must you hurt what you can? Because you hate me, hate me. You are an acid vase full of hate. I can see your ruddy heart like an X-ray. Unstick yourself from me. I don't want you, Your scarlet lips Lake Baikal eyes, or Eastern European knits. The rings shed their gold. Knock knock, Dead at 30. The last twist of the knife.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 11:05 PM UTC
Babushka Doll
Dear potential lover                  When you fall in love with me Make sure to love the way,                             my face dulls on gloomy days;                       like a rose in autumn.                                       And fall for my muddy brown eyes,               that take you to worlds with distant skies;     eyes like fields of adventure.                            My stretch marks, scattered simultaneously, like strokes of a brush set wild and free;         their colour of clouds with silver lining.        Fall for my unpainted nails, the plain sort     stubby, and cut almost too short;                     nails made for playing in the soil.                       Love my tummy, un-flat and not so lean,       the kind you don’t see in magazines;               a tummy with gentle hills.                                               Admire the way I look,                                       lost, snuggled up in a book;                               the way I stare at the trees,                                 my fine hair playing with the breeze;               love my excessive day-dreaming                       and my serenity on afternoon walks.               Dear potential lover: Love all of me;           My perfections                           and my imperfections               and my perfect imperfections.                    Shayma.                                                  .
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Dec 18, 2015
Dec 18, 2015 at 6:27 AM UTC
Dear Potential Lover
Dear potential lover                  When you fall in love with me Make sure to love the way,                             my face dulls on gloomy days;                       like a rose in autumn.                                       And fall for my muddy brown eyes,               that take you to worlds with distant skies;     eyes like fields of adventure.                            My stretch marks, scattered simultaneously, like strokes of a brush set wild and free;         their colour of clouds with silver lining.        Fall for my unpainted nails, the plain sort     stubby, and cut almost too short;                     nails made for playing in the soil.                       Love my tummy, un-flat and not so lean,       the kind you don’t see in magazines;               a tummy with gentle hills.                                               Admire the way I look,                                       lost, snuggled up in a book;                               the way I stare at the trees,                                 my fine hair playing with the breeze;               love my excessive day-dreaming                       and my serenity on afternoon walks.               Dear potential lover: Love all of me;           My perfections                           and my imperfections               and my perfect imperfections.                    Shayma.                                                  .
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I will only ever remember stubby thumbs or your stubborn head, and coconut-carved ridges in your paper-white teeth; laser lights; my pencil covering the cliche of a hand hovering over my body; of those breaths with a depth too recognizable and the inflated patches so perfect under your eyes; just to float in a revery of reconciliation, sitting on the concrete as I cry with a shake in my body like the break of a wave
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:38 AM UTC
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