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if I should sleep with a lady called death get another man with firmer lips to take your new mouth in his teeth (hips pumping pleasure into hips). Seeing how the limp huddling string of your smile over his body squirms kissingly, I will bring you every spring handfuls of little normal worms. Dress deftly your flesh in stupid stuffs, phrase the immense weapon of your hair. Understanding why his eye laughs, I will bring you every year something which is worth the whole, an inch of nothing for your soul.
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If I Should Sleep With A Lady Called Death
your best stuff will never be posted here <> ***goose, you crack me up, your bests stuffs can never be posted, the tender stroke away of a child’s tear, the welcoming of a smile delightfully unexpected, a first grade art project so successful it is mounted forever on a front door Hall of Fame a good cry all your own, in private sobbing, mouth mourning the absence of a kiss on the back of your neck shivers with surprising waves of pleasure, that announces you are more than noticed if you can post these stuffs, call me asap, because that’s the sight I wanna see & be, when only the best stuff you got given, given got, becomes real*** 10:03am 4/11/19
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Aug 24, 2019
Aug 24, 2019 at 2:16 PM UTC
your best stuff will never be posted here
When you travel in the car and the journey is too far... Fill the cabinet with all the required stuffs, It will be more exciting when you travel with a group. Raise the woofers up , And eat the tasty stuffs. Just Play the jolly tune, It'll make your lazy mood. When you see something unique, Stop a while and take a click. Still the destination is too far, You're feeling tired and so is your car… It’s time for a short break, stretch your body and take a breathe, When your body gets re-energised, It’s tym to resume your lovely drive, Destination is not always necessary to take, Sometimes the road trip is what we want to make…
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 1:28 PM UTC
Long Drives are amazing!
Before his teen age turns the pages he dies a life through years of neglect for the frail bony frame drowsy feet dark sunken eyes wandering the street craving white pure pleasures and dreams sores moon crater arms tributaries of **** star marks parched skin dry bloodied screams of glorious pills injecting intoxicated stuffs forbidden fruits trappings of worldly heaven addictive octane ecstasy tiger terminator of a young man flourishing now depleted sad youth corrupted by a love pursued but lost eyes vacant trailed tears pleading please forgive me mom and dad
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 8:53 PM UTC
Drugs
“I remember the bed just floating there” is how Phil Kaye started his ‘repetition’ poem.   I remember pausing the youtube video after the poem ended. I remember burying my feelings under 3 blankets and 4 hours of binge watching spoken word poetry. I do not remember the dreams I could have had. I remember the set of nightmares that visited religiously like the downstairs neighbor tired of how loud my heart pounds at late evenings. I remember, very clearly, how they went. I do not remember if I have written them down. Dream one: he peels my freckles off my skin; he says he needs them because his coffee is too light. I scream while he calmly adds pints of the cheeks to his cup. He says I can never be as quiet as the girl who managed to sneak into his ribcage and build herself a bedroom. Dream two: We are standing in the great library of Alexandria. He pulls the sea from underneath my feet and stuffs it into his back pocket. He says he needs it because he is tired of drowning himself in uncertainty. I start to cry and he says: Aries is the god of war, and women born under this sign confuse war for love. I remember the mole on his left ear growing bigger in my nightmares without me ever watering it. I remember he smelled of tangerine trees and broken records. I do not remember if his face looked like the man I almost fell in love with last winter, or my father. I remember the first time I saw my father after he came back from Ukraine. I remember his brown leather shoes that oozed of old spice cologne and neat scotch. I remember his hardly worn pair of glasses and the pieces of me they never cared to read. I remember the wrinkles that seemed newer than his glasses slowly colonizing his hands... the hands that never held me as tight as the dress I wore to my school prom hoping it would catch my ex’s attention. I remember that dress. I remember it had a floral print reminiscent of the season that I was named after hoping maybe it would remind him I’m part him. I remember realizing he will never remember. And now, I sit on a carpet of autumnal leafs as crisp as my tied tongue and as dead as my fears, trying to turn my love for him into more than just a memory.
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
A Memory
“I remember the bed just floating there” is how Phil Kaye started his ‘repetition’ poem.   I remember pausing the youtube video after the poem ended. I remember burying my feelings under 3 blankets and 4 hours of binge watching spoken word poetry. I do not remember the dreams I could have had. I remember the set of nightmares that visited religiously like the downstairs neighbor tired of how loud my heart pounds at late evenings. I remember, very clearly, how they went. I do not remember if I have written them down. Dream one: he peels my freckles off my skin; he says he needs them because his coffee is too light. I scream while he calmly adds pints of the cheeks to his cup. He says I can never be as quiet as the girl who managed to sneak into his ribcage and build herself a bedroom. Dream two: We are standing in the great library of Alexandria. He pulls the sea from underneath my feet and stuffs it into his back pocket. He says he needs it because he is tired of drowning himself in uncertainty. I start to cry and he says: Aries is the god of war, and women born under this sign confuse war for love. I remember the mole on his left ear growing bigger in my nightmares without me ever watering it. I remember he smelled of tangerine trees and broken records. I do not remember if his face looked like the man I almost fell in love with last winter, or my father. I remember the first time I saw my father after he came back from Ukraine. I remember his brown leather shoes that oozed of old spice cologne and neat scotch. I remember his hardly worn pair of glasses and the pieces of me they never cared to read. I remember the wrinkles that seemed newer than his glasses slowly colonizing his hands... the hands that never held me as tight as the dress I wore to my school prom hoping it would catch my ex’s attention. I remember that dress. I remember it had a floral print reminiscent of the season that I was named after hoping maybe it would remind him I’m part him. I remember realizing he will never remember. And now, I sit on a carpet of autumnal leafs as crisp as my tied tongue and as dead as my fears, trying to turn my love for him into more than just a memory.
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I've been focused on nutrition sense before recognition of a requirement of nutrients for my life. I eat for nutrition I shunned the processed chemical ick a lifetime ago it seems no longer remembering the taste of chemically created food stuffs. though I know if I were to get a taste it would satisfy my buds they were made with my buds in mind hijacked my senses lied and lied and lied told my body it didn't need nutrition that is could live off of intuition and stuff in boxes and bags and cans I've become my own food processor now I have mouths to feed now I know what to feed and where they make feed from so we stick to the grass-fed I'll teach them how to eat even before how to read its just how I see it once that sugar laden red chemical construction touches their lips they will instantly desire more Twain and Fitzgerald will take them longer to digest. so these are my priorities now. I am a nutrition seeker a truth seeker and I believe I come from a line of healers all who knew nutrition is the key to life, here. the basic building blocks, the amino acids of life, here. when you're nourished it all makes more sense but stay out of those center aisles their chemical composition is too dense my kidney could no longer clean the code of food stuffs. My strong little kidney I'm so proud of it for releasing its grip on its twin. it wasn't for us anyways
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM UTC
nutritious
I may hate you more tomorrow , but i'll never love you less for you're the one person i can always count on , you're simply the best and everyone who knows us predicted we won't last a sec it's like we're the opposite end of a spectrum, yet a single entity violating the norms of this hypocritical society simple,yet so **intriguing ** And girl , we go on so well together like bread and butter like milkshake and cookies YOU'RE THE MELODY..TO MY LYRICS and God only knows, the inspiration behind how many songs! the ones i've lost and also the ones i carry in my heart And without Nancy(my bestie) , where would Aditi(me) be? without you ...well that just can't be you're always sure of somethings, like the sun will always rise, that's the way you make me feel you're probably the only thing ..that drags me to the boring premises of dav{my school} (also the fact that 75%attendance is required but you get the idea) and looking at you , and looking at me .. and looking at the **** and crazy stuffs we do and we did i wonder how effortless it is how the kind of girl i'm ..everything looks scary to me but you just make it better somehow ,without even doing a thing and sometimes, i get this blurry pic of you and I we're close to being 75 silver hair , wrinkled cheeks sitting on a park bench,eating(that's her aka my bestie's favorite thing..eating) talking about the same old senseless thing and looking at each other with contempt and say "hey ,we made it to the end♥ "
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM UTC
*me and my bestie *
us humans haven't quite cleaned up everyday we send nasty chemicals spiraling up which invariably stuffs the ozone layer up our polluting of this rim of protection continually goes on we're not holding the pollutants in retention which shows we're damaging its convention there needs to be more innovative ideas developed to subdue the ***** air which we humans keep overly producing here and everywhere so as the ultra violet streams don't not become too extreme they do irreparable harm and give cause for alarm   we humans have an obligation to our planet's ozone cover by not sullying its protective sheath   with tons of polluting smother
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Sep 15, 2014
Sep 15, 2014 at 8:48 PM UTC
Ozone Layer
Could the sun be just a hole up there— that if I could leap would enter that breach of light Someone! Throw me a line! Give me a reason There’s never enough in this life of breathing! Someone! Explain why dreams roll a soul toward the cliffs of day Wakes to ache then stuffs its mouth with necessary same Inhale— button shirt—brush hair Exhale— necessary glance in the mirror (yes, still there) A lifetime! in a shallow instant’s stiff clear water (Yeah— still there) in endless caverns of tired eyes above mouth still trying to say SOMETHING! from ever smaller eternities in the glass-flat empty.... Please! Someone explain! this draw of breath one forcing itself upon another's life of beating — Violence in my chest! Why hearts don’t sleep— and I wind up watching again and again—till I am the ****** ...Morning lies in the mists of a humid ***** who moans and sweats and boils her hips— and I wind up watching!? “Will someone please…!" ...and I wind up watching bedspread, bed sore, death bed till you’re breathing easy when she sits and picks her collapsed bouffant damning the makeup that got crushed in the sheets …Morning Lies-- with no expectancy both tired of knowing... *...The Devil lost his balance in my presence one night* ...tired of knowing— THE WILL! THAT WILL! ...walk away or continue to play I could open this screen! watch the world STEP BACK! SLAP FLAT! as trees and dwellings flush like quail to prop their tottering panic against the blue— You—assume composure... compose assumptions Await my next— Move like a spy
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Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 1:36 PM UTC
Drowning in the Shallows
Could the sun be just a hole up there— that if I could leap would enter that breach of light Someone! Throw me a line! Give me a reason There’s never enough in this life of breathing! Someone! Explain why dreams roll a soul toward the cliffs of day Wakes to ache then stuffs its mouth with necessary same Inhale— button shirt—brush hair Exhale— necessary glance in the mirror (yes, still there) A lifetime! in a shallow instant’s stiff clear water (Yeah— still there) in endless caverns of tired eyes above mouth still trying to say SOMETHING! from ever smaller eternities in the glass-flat empty.... Please! Someone explain! this draw of breath one forcing itself upon another's life of beating — Violence in my chest! Why hearts don’t sleep— and I wind up watching again and again—till I am the ****** ...Morning lies in the mists of a humid ***** who moans and sweats and boils her hips— and I wind up watching!? “Will someone please…!" ...and I wind up watching bedspread, bed sore, death bed till you’re breathing easy when she sits and picks her collapsed bouffant damning the makeup that got crushed in the sheets …Morning Lies-- with no expectancy both tired of knowing... *...The Devil lost his balance in my presence one night* ...tired of knowing— THE WILL! THAT WILL! ...walk away or continue to play I could open this screen! watch the world STEP BACK! SLAP FLAT! as trees and dwellings flush like quail to prop their tottering panic against the blue— You—assume composure... compose assumptions Await my next— Move like a spy
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an average American in a slept-in crumpled suit stuffs today’s unread news into holes in his shoes, burps the taste of greasy chicken soup sliding stale mission bread down his gullet regards two smelly rag-tag ****** hobos lapping the same charity meal and realizes sadly, the Bolsheviks may be right. doug curry may 4, 2012
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM UTC
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I've got a Chopper, You can have ****** *********** with it if you like It's got a trug, a Jew's harp that rattles the windows And creatures to make it mosey around crack I'd stretch jeans cheesecake abutting you if I could, but I used plastic toast You're the kind of ***** that thrusts into *** my bodiliness I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I've got a disguise it's a torso of a Irish bull There's a slit high up the skirt Miss World's bra-burner and gross I've grappled page—3 girl for bouts If you think Miss Universe could spasm creamy then I guess Mr Universe should You're the kind of ***** that slides in with my wads I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I **** a chimpanzee and he hasn't got a stage—door Johnny I don't copulate why I cock—a—doodle—doo him Gerald He's inseminating à la carte geriatric but he's a voluptuous chimpanzee You're the kind of ***** that stuffs *** my gallons I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I've got a Welshwoman of pornographic Casanovas Here a Don Juan, there a Lothario, prognosticators of obscene persons of opposite *** sharing living quarters Beg a bonk if you be on heat, they're on the back of the ***** You're the kind of ***** that spasms indoors using my lump I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I **** custom—built dead men of doo-wop passages Incognito Muses, faceless ching, most of them are Barbie Let's **** into the odd kitchenette and **** landlady creature
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Mar 30, 2010
Mar 30, 2010 at 3:46 PM UTC
Chopper
I've got a Chopper, You can have ****** *********** with it if you like It's got a trug, a Jew's harp that rattles the windows And creatures to make it mosey around crack I'd stretch jeans cheesecake abutting you if I could, but I used plastic toast You're the kind of ***** that thrusts into *** my bodiliness I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I've got a disguise it's a torso of a Irish bull There's a slit high up the skirt Miss World's bra-burner and gross I've grappled page—3 girl for bouts If you think Miss Universe could spasm creamy then I guess Mr Universe should You're the kind of ***** that slides in with my wads I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I **** a chimpanzee and he hasn't got a stage—door Johnny I don't copulate why I cock—a—doodle—doo him Gerald He's inseminating à la carte geriatric but he's a voluptuous chimpanzee You're the kind of ***** that stuffs *** my gallons I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I've got a Welshwoman of pornographic Casanovas Here a Don Juan, there a Lothario, prognosticators of obscene persons of opposite *** sharing living quarters Beg a bonk if you be on heat, they're on the back of the ***** You're the kind of ***** that spasms indoors using my lump I'll swag you Joe Soap, lock, stock and barrel if you rut slags I **** custom—built dead men of doo-wop passages Incognito Muses, faceless ching, most of them are Barbie Let's **** into the odd kitchenette and **** landlady creature
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A woman who dies in labour, In the pains of pre-delivery For no reason but poor midwifery Is a martyr and a true martyr Than religious charlatans, For she has only died in heroic Defense of life and its perpetuation, She is better than you the user Of contraceptives in odious fit of Family planning frivolity, With condoms and the stuffs Weapons of your ****** war, She is a true martyr To allow live sperms to meander The valleys and fountains of life Without dodging them shrewdly Through wiles of science and tech, Sperms and ova when in a duel they are God’s intent of life, and human lives Alack, suffocating them is heinous A sin as big as murderer Or a terrorism of the Twin towers Or a **** agent armed with gas poison, Let them, the sperms enter the walls of life, Minus fear of deathly virus, let them enter, They intent to give life naturally, Godly, And if they have Aids, then you are A martyr who died in support of life Against the wiles of the evil one, You are better than him that Masturbates to waste the ***** Of life, God’s grand purpose of Them to be the first stations of life, You **** them, you commit ****** Genocide, massacre, macabre,
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 7:58 AM UTC
She is a martyr that dies in labour
What even is it? Is it a perfect smile Long golden hair Blue eyes with long eyelashes Tan skin Perfect figure Big **** Big ***** Clear skin Pale skin? That stuffs all ******** What's a beautiful face Without a beautiful soul An ugly personality And dark soul Destroys that beautiful face It means nothing anymore Beauty comes from within Stop straining yourself To look a certain way You are you God made you who you are For a reason Love yourself Be confident
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May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 5:39 AM UTC
Beauty
You swell some strain on me, You, middle kingdom! Eradicating small detachments, Of both sailors and marines. They were ranked on islets and reefs, With an integer of nine – There in the island next to me, I’m sure, you know who Spratly is. Always wanting such detachment To be eradicated by your own; Now stationed On a World War II era landing ship. Your toy-ships came near me, With 9-kilometer of the LST. “It’s there illegally,” How adamant that be! I’ve tipped you off already, Surely will I stand firm! Then, you’ve countered me on! – Opting for the ******** of more skyscrapers; Those that are on stilts; Now nearby two Reefs & a Bank? – Nearby my darling Palawan Island! “There is no room at all,” For the negotiation on some point, You’ve declared. Oh, here’s my friend, U.S. Left us with course of action to try; Everyone calm down, Be less provocative. For often, he flies over; Probing some stuffs. You are the biggest offender, my friend; In this dispute, you show no sign of slowing; Or backing, down. But hey, I won’t give up! (9/9/13)
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 10:03 PM UTC
Islet of Dispute
In those golden times When you’re up and so fine I remember you. In your silence and solitude Where you can’t be found I remember you In your laughters and smiles Celebrating each victorious moment I remember you In your heartbreaks, pain Frustrations and burden I remember you As you feel so broken Picking up pieces of yourself I remember you When you’re on a pedestal Chin up, Head high I remember you When you feel nervous and sweat out a lot I remember you When you rub your nose just because you’re shy I remember you Fake dimple, sweet smile Enamoring brown eyes I remember you Fluffy tummy, **** arms Simple stuffs i dearly love I remember you The gentlest giant I’ve ever known with words like sugar cone I remember you So dear, so true The only one I am glad to remember you As you reach out along with those butterflies I remember you Hope this will not come as a surprise It is felt rather than said that i remember you And there was never been a “never” ‘coz you’ll forever be always (always be forever) and I remember you!
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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
I Remember You
*I don't want new cool stuffs. I want to spend time with you. I want to walk with you. I want to count the starts at night with you. I want to watch the sunset with you. I want to hold your hands in public. I want you to be proud of me. I just want you here. This love is true, you must know that. All I want is you. Only you*, bae.
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
I want you, Bae
Can I tell you how seriously I take this poem! _____ Could the sun be     just     a hole up there—     that if I could leap     would enter that breach of light Someone!    Throw me a line!    Give me a reason    There’s never enough    in this life of breathing! Someone!    Explain why dreams roll a soul    toward the cliffs of day    Wakes to ache    then stuffs its mouth    with necessary same    Inhale—    button shirt—brush hair Exhale—    necessary glance in the mirror    (yes, still there)     A lifetime!    in a shallow instant’s stiff clear water    (Yeah— still there)      in endless caverns of tired eyes    above mouth still trying    to say SOMETHING!      from ever smaller eternities    in the glass-flat empty.... Please! Someone explain!    this draw of breath    one forcing itself upon another's    life    of beating —    Violence in my chest! Why hearts don’t sleep— and I wind up watching again and again—till I am the ****** ...Morning lies    in the mists of a humid *****    who moans and sweats    and boils her hips—    and I wind up watching!? “Will someone please…!"    ...and I wind up watching    bedspread, bed sore, death bed    till you’re breathing easy    when she sits and picks    her collapsed bouffant    damning the makeup    that got crushed in the sheets …Morning Lies--    with no expectancy    both tired of knowing...    *...The Devil lost his balance    in my presence one night* ...tired of knowing— THE WILL!   THAT WILL!   ...walk away    or continue to play    I could open this screen!    watch the world STEP BACK!                                  SLAP FLAT!    as trees and dwellings flush like quail    to prop their tottering panic    against the blue— You—assume composure...    compose assumptions    Await my next— Move like a spy 1990 Take careful note:   **Why I don’t play chess or any other game for that matter.**          “...and when you're really out there the windows all have opened onto nothing... Death having long since-- left the scene. When you get really out there it's all-- and nothing…”
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 7:57 PM UTC
Drowning in the Shallows
Can I tell you how seriously I take this poem! _____ Could the sun be     just     a hole up there—     that if I could leap     would enter that breach of light Someone!    Throw me a line!    Give me a reason    There’s never enough    in this life of breathing! Someone!    Explain why dreams roll a soul    toward the cliffs of day    Wakes to ache    then stuffs its mouth    with necessary same    Inhale—    button shirt—brush hair Exhale—    necessary glance in the mirror    (yes, still there)     A lifetime!    in a shallow instant’s stiff clear water    (Yeah— still there)      in endless caverns of tired eyes    above mouth still trying    to say SOMETHING!      from ever smaller eternities    in the glass-flat empty.... Please! Someone explain!    this draw of breath    one forcing itself upon another's    life    of beating —    Violence in my chest! Why hearts don’t sleep— and I wind up watching again and again—till I am the ****** ...Morning lies    in the mists of a humid *****    who moans and sweats    and boils her hips—    and I wind up watching!? “Will someone please…!"    ...and I wind up watching    bedspread, bed sore, death bed    till you’re breathing easy    when she sits and picks    her collapsed bouffant    damning the makeup    that got crushed in the sheets …Morning Lies--    with no expectancy    both tired of knowing...    *...The Devil lost his balance    in my presence one night* ...tired of knowing— THE WILL!   THAT WILL!   ...walk away    or continue to play    I could open this screen!    watch the world STEP BACK!                                  SLAP FLAT!    as trees and dwellings flush like quail    to prop their tottering panic    against the blue— You—assume composure...    compose assumptions    Await my next— Move like a spy 1990 Take careful note:   **Why I don’t play chess or any other game for that matter.**          “...and when you're really out there the windows all have opened onto nothing... Death having long since-- left the scene. When you get really out there it's all-- and nothing…”
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A baby from Burundi sits next to me today. He coos and drinks and swallows his mother’s milk. His father speaks Swahili. Smiles, tells me that his last son Is going to grow old in Rochester, NY, Where I sit in a white-walled waiting room, watching Mothers drag their babies by the armpits to be weighed. A boy with braided beads holds up four fingers and tells me he is five. He is too skinny. His pants are sagging and his iron is low. His mother takes his vegetable checks, stuffs them into the back pocket of her jeans. What the little **** needs is two percent milk, she says, Her gold hoops fluttering. Her son struggles with the small wooden chair he is carrying. It drags along the carpet, hitting the high spots, and his tiny biceps flinch. He sits, facing me, while a name is called. And another. Another woman’s son hands me a book and waits. He is watching my face and I watch his mother kiss her boyfriend in the first row seats. He tucks his chin to his chest when I ask his name. Whispers, tells me Jayden. First page. What color is Elmo, Jayden? Shoulders shrugging. His lower lip, puckered out and innocent. What color is he, Jayden? The color of Jayden’s skin slaps me across the heart when he says he doesn’t know. He was born in Rochester, NY, With trash bags and Burger King wrappers wrapped around the fence That separates his house from the street on which he will grow old Too soon. He starts kindergarten in the fall and I tell him Elmo is red, like his t-shirt. Like his mother’s fingernails. Like the tomatoes and bell peppers and beets he has never seen. A girl who went to my High School carries in her youngest child Who is old enough to walk, but wobbles. She calls her daughter “thunder-thighs” instead of Jazmyne And strips off her shoes. Her belt. Her gold bracelets. The scale says Jazmyne is too heavy for food assistance. The state says her mother isn’t poor enough for welfare. The girl I used to know leaves without her daughter’s shoes or the food checks she came for. In conversations of pretension We talk about first and third world. Pretend that America is the land of second chances Where a baby from Burundi can grow old in cashmere sweaters, Even when his parents couldn’t pay. The father who speaks Swahili looks at his shiny watch and his family’s vegetable checks. Smiles. Tells me his last son is going to grow old and full In Rochester, NY.
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Jun 10, 2010
Jun 10, 2010 at 12:51 PM UTC
A WIC Clinic Waiting Room
A baby from Burundi sits next to me today. He coos and drinks and swallows his mother’s milk. His father speaks Swahili. Smiles, tells me that his last son Is going to grow old in Rochester, NY, Where I sit in a white-walled waiting room, watching Mothers drag their babies by the armpits to be weighed. A boy with braided beads holds up four fingers and tells me he is five. He is too skinny. His pants are sagging and his iron is low. His mother takes his vegetable checks, stuffs them into the back pocket of her jeans. What the little **** needs is two percent milk, she says, Her gold hoops fluttering. Her son struggles with the small wooden chair he is carrying. It drags along the carpet, hitting the high spots, and his tiny biceps flinch. He sits, facing me, while a name is called. And another. Another woman’s son hands me a book and waits. He is watching my face and I watch his mother kiss her boyfriend in the first row seats. He tucks his chin to his chest when I ask his name. Whispers, tells me Jayden. First page. What color is Elmo, Jayden? Shoulders shrugging. His lower lip, puckered out and innocent. What color is he, Jayden? The color of Jayden’s skin slaps me across the heart when he says he doesn’t know. He was born in Rochester, NY, With trash bags and Burger King wrappers wrapped around the fence That separates his house from the street on which he will grow old Too soon. He starts kindergarten in the fall and I tell him Elmo is red, like his t-shirt. Like his mother’s fingernails. Like the tomatoes and bell peppers and beets he has never seen. A girl who went to my High School carries in her youngest child Who is old enough to walk, but wobbles. She calls her daughter “thunder-thighs” instead of Jazmyne And strips off her shoes. Her belt. Her gold bracelets. The scale says Jazmyne is too heavy for food assistance. The state says her mother isn’t poor enough for welfare. The girl I used to know leaves without her daughter’s shoes or the food checks she came for. In conversations of pretension We talk about first and third world. Pretend that America is the land of second chances Where a baby from Burundi can grow old in cashmere sweaters, Even when his parents couldn’t pay. The father who speaks Swahili looks at his shiny watch and his family’s vegetable checks. Smiles. Tells me his last son is going to grow old and full In Rochester, NY.
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I am a wannabe poet I want to make beautiful pieces I want to write about a lot of things But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am a wannabe writer I want to tell wonderful stories I want to write about a lot of possibilities But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am a student I want to have good grades in my studies I want to be able to study diligently But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” Words that give an impact Stories that matters Lessons that are important I want to write them I want to tell them I want to study them But I can’t because I am stuck in this topic called “LOVE” When I write I try to write about a lot of stuffs To write something beautiful But I tend to write about love When I make stories I want to make complicated and exciting topics To write something that grabs your attention But I tend to make love stories When I study I want to study diligently I want the lessons to sink into my mind It does sink, but it gets drowned by the thoughts of love I wonder why, I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I wonder what great force does love hold A force greater than gravity it has For not even gravity can hold my thoughts down to reality Love always makes my thoughts fly away Love can even drive others to insanity Today I wanted to write something Probably just anything Anything that pops into mind Of course it’ll be love, ‘coz lately it’s the only thing on my mind I wanted to write something beautiful I wanted to make stories that is wonderful I wanted to study diligently I wanted to write words that has an impact I wanted to make stories that matter, Complicated, exciting and attention grabbing I wanted to study the things that are important So now I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am stuck writing about this topic called “LOVE” Because I realized, LOVE is Beautiful, Wonderful, Can make you diligent Love can hit you with a great impact Then love will be everything that matters And love might get complicated, but then it will be exciting and attention grabbing But most of all, In our life, the presence, the existence, the concept, the topic of LOVE Is important Maybe, these reasons are the reasons why I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE”
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 11:51 AM UTC
Stuck in the topic called “LOVE”
I am a wannabe poet I want to make beautiful pieces I want to write about a lot of things But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am a wannabe writer I want to tell wonderful stories I want to write about a lot of possibilities But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am a student I want to have good grades in my studies I want to be able to study diligently But I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” Words that give an impact Stories that matters Lessons that are important I want to write them I want to tell them I want to study them But I can’t because I am stuck in this topic called “LOVE” When I write I try to write about a lot of stuffs To write something beautiful But I tend to write about love When I make stories I want to make complicated and exciting topics To write something that grabs your attention But I tend to make love stories When I study I want to study diligently I want the lessons to sink into my mind It does sink, but it gets drowned by the thoughts of love I wonder why, I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I wonder what great force does love hold A force greater than gravity it has For not even gravity can hold my thoughts down to reality Love always makes my thoughts fly away Love can even drive others to insanity Today I wanted to write something Probably just anything Anything that pops into mind Of course it’ll be love, ‘coz lately it’s the only thing on my mind I wanted to write something beautiful I wanted to make stories that is wonderful I wanted to study diligently I wanted to write words that has an impact I wanted to make stories that matter, Complicated, exciting and attention grabbing I wanted to study the things that are important So now I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE” I am stuck writing about this topic called “LOVE” Because I realized, LOVE is Beautiful, Wonderful, Can make you diligent Love can hit you with a great impact Then love will be everything that matters And love might get complicated, but then it will be exciting and attention grabbing But most of all, In our life, the presence, the existence, the concept, the topic of LOVE Is important Maybe, these reasons are the reasons why I am stuck in the topic called “LOVE”
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This one time...I was real happy. All expectation had the correct tact, had the correct sharpness, the saturation levels were just so. but then stuff happens the stuffs what I'm afraid of. not the movie reel anymore I am no longer afraid to dance in light of passing frames on a movie screen, or look at the actors straight in the eyes, what happens is, the content, un-contents. We urinate, we spew, we spackle, we *** we **** we live all of life in two fiking seconds. Thats alright, Know one what whats right, and thats why its right :) So turn up the music to 50 volume on the sony. crack a beer, grind a little, ***** the amalgam of emotion, that is. Emotion. Waltz.
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Apr 4, 2013
Apr 4, 2013 at 12:58 AM UTC
***** Tattoo On Bexxa Leg.
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue When troubles rise. Behold them mounting every stump, By speech our liberty to guard. Observe their courage--see them jump, And come down hard! "Walk up, walk up!" each cries aloud, "And learn from me what you must do To turn aside the thunder cloud, The earthquake too. "Beware the wiles of yonder quack Who stuffs the ears of all that pass. I--I alone can show that black Is white as grass." They shout through all the day and break The silence of the night as well. They'd make--I wish they'd go and make-- Of Heaven a Hell. A advocates free silver, B Free trade and C free banking laws. Free board, clothes, lodging would from me Win wamr applause. Lo, D lifts up his voice: "You see The single tax on land would fall On all alike." More evenly No tax at all. "With paper money," bellows E, "We'll all be rich as lords." No doubt-- And richest of the lot will be The chap without. As many "cures" as addle-wits Who know not what the ailment is! Meanwhile the patient foams and spits Like a gin fizz. Alas, poor Body Politic, Your fate is all too clearly read: To be not altogether quick, Nor very dead. You take your exercise in squirms, Your rest in fainting fits between. 'Tis plain that your disorder's worms-- Worms fat and lean. Worm Capital, Worm Labor dwell Within your maw and muscle's scope. Their quarrels make your life a Hell, Your death a hope. God send you find not such an end To ills however sharp and huge! God send you convalesce! God send You vermifuge.
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The Statesmen
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue When troubles rise. Behold them mounting every stump, By speech our liberty to guard. Observe their courage--see them jump, And come down hard! "Walk up, walk up!" each cries aloud, "And learn from me what you must do To turn aside the thunder cloud, The earthquake too. "Beware the wiles of yonder quack Who stuffs the ears of all that pass. I--I alone can show that black Is white as grass." They shout through all the day and break The silence of the night as well. They'd make--I wish they'd go and make-- Of Heaven a Hell. A advocates free silver, B Free trade and C free banking laws. Free board, clothes, lodging would from me Win wamr applause. Lo, D lifts up his voice: "You see The single tax on land would fall On all alike." More evenly No tax at all. "With paper money," bellows E, "We'll all be rich as lords." No doubt-- And richest of the lot will be The chap without. As many "cures" as addle-wits Who know not what the ailment is! Meanwhile the patient foams and spits Like a gin fizz. Alas, poor Body Politic, Your fate is all too clearly read: To be not altogether quick, Nor very dead. You take your exercise in squirms, Your rest in fainting fits between. 'Tis plain that your disorder's worms-- Worms fat and lean. Worm Capital, Worm Labor dwell Within your maw and muscle's scope. Their quarrels make your life a Hell, Your death a hope. God send you find not such an end To ills however sharp and huge! God send you convalesce! God send You vermifuge.
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An extra dose of all the good stuffs that I had yesterday A cake with extra sprinkles on top A coffee with a dust of cinnamon Or a hug that is a little bit tighter.
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Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021 at 9:17 AM UTC
Birthdays
Peace! God’s Peace upon you all! The Bishop blessed The dyed-young congregation: dyed fathers ‘n mothers, Grandpas ‘n grannies, great-grandpas and great-grannies. The demons of decadence--Hair dye, ****** and Spirits – Chuckled and giggled, crouching well under the pulpit. Dyed gurus ‘n financiers, dyed lawyers, doctors n’ nurses, ****** entrepreneurs and ****** entertainers, dyed judges Dyed ‘n spirited evangelists, priests and vergers on ****** Peace be upon thee all! Blessed the Bishop from the pulpit. Now, the demons in the hiding iterated and reiterated it. A Sunday spirited chat—all smiles! -- in the church portico: The Viagra-dyed banker in later life smiled a dyed smile At the elderly dyed mother of three; and she said: they say, In spite of my age, you know, I look so young and pretty! And the thick flanks under her chin jiggled in approbation. The ****** great-grandpa said to the dyed Justice of spirits: Milord, they say: “The stuff brings cancer;” Fools! Idiots! “The gloves—the condom-like device—that’s our safety!” “Milord! This trinity wizard, they bring a million crores To the exchequer of this famished democracy, milord!” “Milord! The nature lovers say, we wash billions of bottles Of these magic stuffs into their rivers and the seas, milord!” “They say we all-- dyed ****** men-- are sissies and doofuses!” “Milord! Our tubby women dye young, lest they’d be labelled Mammy, Granny, Grandma, Old Granny, the decrepit ‘n that! Now, the dyed media reported: father mated with his daughter, Mother with a teenager, grandpa with an infant; and Ministers, MLAs, MPs—all spirits-Viagra-dyed-- are in a ******* spree! Now the Dark Trinity cried “Wow! In this world of ****** The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory--all are ours! Amen!
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 11:20 AM UTC
BLESSINGS FROM THE DEMONS
Peace! God’s Peace upon you all! The Bishop blessed The dyed-young congregation: dyed fathers ‘n mothers, Grandpas ‘n grannies, great-grandpas and great-grannies. The demons of decadence--Hair dye, ****** and Spirits – Chuckled and giggled, crouching well under the pulpit. Dyed gurus ‘n financiers, dyed lawyers, doctors n’ nurses, ****** entrepreneurs and ****** entertainers, dyed judges Dyed ‘n spirited evangelists, priests and vergers on ****** Peace be upon thee all! Blessed the Bishop from the pulpit. Now, the demons in the hiding iterated and reiterated it. A Sunday spirited chat—all smiles! -- in the church portico: The Viagra-dyed banker in later life smiled a dyed smile At the elderly dyed mother of three; and she said: they say, In spite of my age, you know, I look so young and pretty! And the thick flanks under her chin jiggled in approbation. The ****** great-grandpa said to the dyed Justice of spirits: Milord, they say: “The stuff brings cancer;” Fools! Idiots! “The gloves—the condom-like device—that’s our safety!” “Milord! This trinity wizard, they bring a million crores To the exchequer of this famished democracy, milord!” “Milord! The nature lovers say, we wash billions of bottles Of these magic stuffs into their rivers and the seas, milord!” “They say we all-- dyed ****** men-- are sissies and doofuses!” “Milord! Our tubby women dye young, lest they’d be labelled Mammy, Granny, Grandma, Old Granny, the decrepit ‘n that! Now, the dyed media reported: father mated with his daughter, Mother with a teenager, grandpa with an infant; and Ministers, MLAs, MPs—all spirits-Viagra-dyed-- are in a ******* spree! Now the Dark Trinity cried “Wow! In this world of ****** The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory--all are ours! Amen!
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My breath is barbed; skeletal strings shift into smoke, drifting into the shadows as the darkness will choke. Pearl snow stuffs my skull; my grandmother in an earthern womb, sleeps under it all. A tombstone the last thing we bought-- a report card of her life: She is with Him in Heaven, In Paradise... With Him, Without Pain-- is speculation but turns into thought. The icy steps do not deter me as I sit on the crooked concrete spine; speaking to her, hoping the snow does not make her cold, any more, 'I can stay a while longer... I do not have to go home, yet.' - Eco-friendly light spills from under the door, forming a pool as yellow as diseased skin. The brass doorknob is like a girl I once loved: hard on the outside, hollow in the inside, unable to be moved and okay with it. Fury from a faucet fills the bathtub and rings my ears with its intent: to fill a void and go away when cold. She lays in the water the city treats better than us, wading in a wealth of watermelon wash; her body flushed from fading flesh, pores swim and stretch around cursive carvings, kissing cursed curves-- and I sit upon a bone-white curb, stirring my finger in the soup of her day; watching the drain **** wondering if she'll, too, drift away.
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Dec 7, 2015
Dec 7, 2015 at 7:44 PM UTC
The Coat of the Season
Different people at work and Different moods too ... Employees are different from Their employees anytime ... Customers are different in Their attitudes ... Salesmen or vendors are pushing For their stuffs to be sold ... Delivery drivers are those go In-between anytime ... All factors work together Including the climate itself ... Shoplifters and thieves are That part of life ... There are many things that At work .
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 6:35 PM UTC
At work