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"supermarkets" poems
twice by god's accidental interference, our crash vehicles, super sized shopping carts, connect, we are manger-penalized for unnecessary roughness and disturbing the supermarkets peace what better way to judge character than to examine a single persons shopping cart  contents? hers, all organic, milk, heirloom tomatoes, even the Chardonnay, grown upon the farms of the island and vineyards on the forks that shelter the isle from the ravages of the Atlantic mine, Hebrew National franks, yellow mustard, very classy brioche buns, a six pack of Corona Light, and funny colored, funny looking, rusted russet potato chips with a tremulous smile, and an overly loud, derisive sniff, pronounces me dead man walking sooner than later, to which, I respond, then, teach me, where shall we dine tonight? later that night, after a thousand kisses of her fluttering eyelashes, she props herself upon an elbow and in a tone sincere and caring, extracts from the poet promises of natural exclusivity from now on, healthy, natural only, organic and pure, from the soul soil of our shared habitat her suntan skin, garden-digging hand, I clasp, softly climbing on top of her, announce with total genuine sincerity and solemnity; I swear it, from now on, all my loving will be sourced locally rewarded with a laugh and a gentle but hard enough, garden to table (with her free hand), head smacking, I noting nod, good naturedly that both the laugh and smack, as well, *sourced locally, sourced lovingly,* which then seeded this new only love jointly authored poem, planted in our mingling blossoming crashing bodies 5/29/17 i 12:43pm
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May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017 at 1:06 PM UTC
Everything, Sourced Locally
twice by god's accidental interference, our crash vehicles, super sized shopping carts, connect, we are manger-penalized for unnecessary roughness and disturbing the supermarkets peace what better way to judge character than to examine a single persons shopping cart  contents? hers, all organic, milk, heirloom tomatoes, even the Chardonnay, grown upon the farms of the island and vineyards on the forks that shelter the isle from the ravages of the Atlantic mine, Hebrew National franks, yellow mustard, very classy brioche buns, a six pack of Corona Light, and funny colored, funny looking, rusted russet potato chips with a tremulous smile, and an overly loud, derisive sniff, pronounces me dead man walking sooner than later, to which, I respond, then, teach me, where shall we dine tonight? later that night, after a thousand kisses of her fluttering eyelashes, she props herself upon an elbow and in a tone sincere and caring, extracts from the poet promises of natural exclusivity from now on, healthy, natural only, organic and pure, from the soul soil of our shared habitat her suntan skin, garden-digging hand, I clasp, softly climbing on top of her, announce with total genuine sincerity and solemnity; I swear it, from now on, all my loving will be sourced locally rewarded with a laugh and a gentle but hard enough, garden to table (with her free hand), head smacking, I noting nod, good naturedly that both the laugh and smack, as well, *sourced locally, sourced lovingly,* which then seeded this new only love jointly authored poem, planted in our mingling blossoming crashing bodies 5/29/17 i 12:43pm
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Orange peel Thursdays and the Velcro shoes Of children hordes Who spider up Alice on toadstools in Central Park Dusted psilocybin shoots my eyes through With the clarity of ice and sliced mushroom Steeping in stomach acid before finding blood The kids are tripping like madmen or halloween candy Like its time to release and give up to the nonsense And let your young self congeal to a saccharine sludge I don’t stroll in the park to keep my mind sharp I’m here because it’s a riot My head can throb to the jittery birds And the blasts of carsong It’s the right kind of rhythm to walk to ** ** ** Ketamine days and the lolling slums To make sure the insane stay insane And the hobos are washed with spit from the clouds And the subway exhaust always hangs in our hair And the old Coney Island burns again and twice more We don’t pretend to understand what we see In subway grates thirty feet wide Like the earth punching out of work for a bit Opening to you her *** belly So you can check out the strips of metal inside Before she slurps you down and with an esophageal squeeze Shoots you through the turnstiles The train squeals and grinds down our eyes With thoughts as slow as ketamine Makes room for schizophrenia in a conversation We’re listening to ‘til sundown ** ** ** Years full of Brooklyn and the assorted pills Makes offal fit for punks in name brand shoes Squared off with police in the park Being beaten for the fun of being beaten Peacoat locals pass the days in supermarkets And you grow up to the loony mumble Of the woman who knows the boat Moored at the end of the street Mansion of the stray cat colony You help her with her daily chore to feed them Tabbies popping the pills of the homeless And puking in tandem all over their house Living off generous dying folk
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Feb 11, 2010
Feb 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM UTC
Ketamine Days and the Lolling Slums
Orange peel Thursdays and the Velcro shoes Of children hordes Who spider up Alice on toadstools in Central Park Dusted psilocybin shoots my eyes through With the clarity of ice and sliced mushroom Steeping in stomach acid before finding blood The kids are tripping like madmen or halloween candy Like its time to release and give up to the nonsense And let your young self congeal to a saccharine sludge I don’t stroll in the park to keep my mind sharp I’m here because it’s a riot My head can throb to the jittery birds And the blasts of carsong It’s the right kind of rhythm to walk to ** ** ** Ketamine days and the lolling slums To make sure the insane stay insane And the hobos are washed with spit from the clouds And the subway exhaust always hangs in our hair And the old Coney Island burns again and twice more We don’t pretend to understand what we see In subway grates thirty feet wide Like the earth punching out of work for a bit Opening to you her *** belly So you can check out the strips of metal inside Before she slurps you down and with an esophageal squeeze Shoots you through the turnstiles The train squeals and grinds down our eyes With thoughts as slow as ketamine Makes room for schizophrenia in a conversation We’re listening to ‘til sundown ** ** ** Years full of Brooklyn and the assorted pills Makes offal fit for punks in name brand shoes Squared off with police in the park Being beaten for the fun of being beaten Peacoat locals pass the days in supermarkets And you grow up to the loony mumble Of the woman who knows the boat Moored at the end of the street Mansion of the stray cat colony You help her with her daily chore to feed them Tabbies popping the pills of the homeless And puking in tandem all over their house Living off generous dying folk
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Patterned dots, existence connects An anther to a stigma, reproduction The pollen withers, pollution subsides Colonies of bees vanish in the wind Toxic genetic food wins in binge Mother earth cries in pain, an ail Food chains and supplies cut short Globalised mass production of poison Supermarkets stocking “all season” Consumerism monopolies swell The environment abused and misused Plastic bottles displaced, a chemical sludge The haunted “great pacific garbage patch” Littered garbage, debris and chemical sludge Humanity displaced, dissociated and divided Ruining sea waters , floating landfill fueled Probability of heightened population Global panics, mimicked maniacs Reductions of resources to feed all Unsustainable long windy farms Big roads, buried bills, stingy reality
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Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 6:43 PM UTC
Colony Collapse Disorder
this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for the Hopeless Stargazer who immortalized his Subject with one hundred and eight sets of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter for ***** tight clad teenage boys who envied frisky fleas, struggling to make holy ungodly passions with cheap arguments and metaphysical pick up lines for Disillusioned City Dwellers, who, wandering lonely as clouds, stopped to quietly reflect upon wind-beaten moss-covered crags, and heard God’s whisper thunder from petals and blades of grass this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for Bespectacled Slave Drivers who submersed idle minds in anthologies,  forcing them to **** neon yellow on dreams deferred and rivers;  slicing and dicing Grecian urns with red ball point pens; bruising and battering, in blue ball point, roads not taken; scalding supermarkets in California with pyroclastic flows of graphite   for those pushing to tear apart lines and letters, reconstructing ,deconstructing, agonizing, imaginizing, bullshitting, and brooding on to crisp white sheets in times new roman twelve point font for the Monsters and Lollipops that exist in the millimeters between a skull and a brain this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons slumbering beneath Restless Leaves Under the Moon
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM UTC
Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons
Christmas countdown has begun and family members are on the run Looking for the bargains everywhere, and how they get it they don’t care. All the retailers have put up their displays As they prepare for Christmas day. Grocery stores and supermarkets with their specials on the floor And in every aisle there are treats galore. Turkeys and hams, candied yams too- all the treats just for you. Department stores and shopping malls- filled with shoppers wall to wall. The children are in total awe as they look from store to store. And every new item that’s on TV. In the stores for them to see. Yes! The Christmas countdown has begun. And the children Are preparing for the fun, from bicycles and dolls and all the rest Knowing they’ve gotten all the best. Look around; look around, the Christmas spirit is all around. MERY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL, THIS IS THE SEASON TO HAVE A BALL! ©L.RAMS 112214
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM UTC
christmas countdown
here, cows give up their milk a small island economy works well the place I was born and mother breast fed farmers are suffering suffering so much from the pathetic price supermarkets pay for milk now on the national news farmers are walking their cows through the isles of supermarkets and just maybe maybe fairness will win
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM UTC
Farmers scammed out of their living
Tell me That gun that you're so proud of Why does it tremble so much? Is your hand following your unstable mind? Is that the same hand that holds your child's? Your emotions Fragile enough to be crushed with a hug Insecure enough to attack a compliment Corrupt enough to endlessly reload on lies and deceit Are those the same emotions you shoot into your wife at night? Your bullets roar so loudly What voices are you trying to drown out? Your heartbeat clanks at the speed of the fallen shells What are you so afraid of? A man armed and ready to go off at any moment like you? Tell me What can you manage to defeat? With those trembling hands Uncertain of what to take aim at You shoot down anything that moves Uncertain of where the trigger is You pull at anything you can reach Uncertain of how much enemies are left You forever stay in the trenches I now know that when you bow your head at church that it's not for prayer Then hoping to nullify your senseless you refuse to leave the battlefield And take no-mans-land everywhere you go You wear your bulletproof vest and rifle to the supermarkets, schools, offices, dinner tables, churches, and funerals Forever firing Forever charging Forever defending Forever fighting Yourself.
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Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020 at 8:28 AM UTC
Guns on the Dinner Table
ugly men on the way back from work watch the summer dress and the small body within walk with the breeze down the steps, down from the station while the trains pull away, their carriages carrying the sea and the low-tide estuaries' breath within them and they watch the dress and the body and the breeze cross the road into the sun swallowed supermarkets and the ugly men walk home beneath retired balconies and the slow beginnings of evenings.
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 12:08 PM UTC
hard days' evening
I often wonder if I would ever run into you. If I do, how would it play out? So, I imagine a scenario where Iam shopping at a supermarket,  walking down the aisle,  pushing my cart, looking for some mundane little thing and there you will be, next to the cereal aisle, holding your favorite brand of cereal. What would we do? Will one of us lean in for a hug, smile awkwardly at each other or behave like strangers? Would we exchange numbers, With a promise to catch up soon or do the most natural thing in the world- go to the nearest cafe or pub and have coffee or a drink or two together. Share our stories, wish each other well and part as friends. I hope that's what we'd do. I would love to walk down that aisle with you. I look for you in every supermarket in the world, I step into.
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 10:04 PM UTC
Supermarkets
Negligible morsel of biomass my fat belly, formerly abs insignificant yet it occupies me hourly while bored or hungry. Fat is what? a picture of despair, giving up caring or man out of balance, other side of the world's starving mass, case of the soul's malnutrition industrial agriculture, television supermarkets, vacations, hydrocarbons and the grid. Electricity, urban traffic jams, photons at final rest. Sugars synthesized, abundant plastics to carry them home in. Into your house and into your mirror. Memorizing the periodic table and learning the calculus makes one no thinner. Walking the mountain in heat and cold and rain, alone or in fire crews should inhibit. And a healthy fear of death. A laugh a day at *** and pain and fate which renews the biomass I hate.
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 10:52 AM UTC
Morsel of Biomass
Earthy mottled brown, Pomme de terre The humble spud, When not covered in mud; Chipped, boiled or mashed, Steamed roasted or hashed. First the Incas of Peru, Used them in a stew. Now the tubers grown in space, To further the human race. Chopin, Mozart, and Vivaldi, Can all be bought at Aldi. (Other supermarkets are available.) (More varieties are saleable.) A versatile Maris Piper, Couldn't be any riper, When served perfectly baked. © Nick Strong 2014
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Oct 27, 2013
Oct 27, 2013 at 6:59 PM UTC
The Potato
The streets today were widow canyons, wooed away, the normal traffic, by something kin to black magic, and so to supermarkets at five P.M. emptied by a sorcerer's spell, but I hear tell, on game days like this, the tide will turn as if the moon, by chance, had changed direction.
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Feb 6, 2011
Feb 6, 2011 at 3:57 PM UTC
Superbowl Game Day
How are things going? I desperately want to ask But now I remember how I called you that night crying and desperate “Sorry dear, I have bigger priorities,” you mumbled nonchalantly in a tone that cut I guess what was important to you was your short silver dress which you had to keep tugging at And your layers of mascara which smeared in the heat and the sweat Maybe you didn't feel like being responsible or putting up a fight Didn't feel like talking in the pulsating strobe lights Where you drank and danced and smoked, Your hands around the masculine men with whom you hooked I wonder if you still would have hung up if you knew I was crying for you. And one year later you still haven’t changed You’re out of school and awfully deranged Lying at the side of the road in a drunken stupor, Stinking of smoke and giggling hoarse Your dress riding up mid-thigh and your heels strewn across the street Ordering McDonald’s, planting fries in your friend’s garden throwing fits Sitting in trolleys in supermarkets at 3 am in the morning screaming at the top of your lungs and I Miss you I miss you I miss you I miss you. If I ever saw you again I’d bury my face in your long raven hair and whisper how much you meant to me, once. I’d stroke your whiter than white skin, touched and kissed by fifty other men Bruised by the very people you call your friends And I’d cry in your chest and tell you to come back If all you’d do is swig down a bottle of beer And not look my way, but cackle cruelly wailing dear I would die more than a little inside You stopped caring about anything that was supposed to matter, Like being better than everyone and writing beautiful badass essays about saving the sharks (And understanding everything I never understood about myself and laughing at the things I used to say and pinning my name with stars on your charts) You forgot your dreams of wanting to travel and petting kangaroos, carving out something of yourself so they’d remember you for your passion and loneliness is the only place at which you’re stationed. Now all you’re doing is living monotonously, “the *** life” you call it, your dreams all burnt up in the intoxication of the hookah you pretend to love and dissolved in the alcohol you swallow now pulsing through your veins. Come back.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 8:31 AM UTC
How have you been?
How are things going? I desperately want to ask But now I remember how I called you that night crying and desperate “Sorry dear, I have bigger priorities,” you mumbled nonchalantly in a tone that cut I guess what was important to you was your short silver dress which you had to keep tugging at And your layers of mascara which smeared in the heat and the sweat Maybe you didn't feel like being responsible or putting up a fight Didn't feel like talking in the pulsating strobe lights Where you drank and danced and smoked, Your hands around the masculine men with whom you hooked I wonder if you still would have hung up if you knew I was crying for you. And one year later you still haven’t changed You’re out of school and awfully deranged Lying at the side of the road in a drunken stupor, Stinking of smoke and giggling hoarse Your dress riding up mid-thigh and your heels strewn across the street Ordering McDonald’s, planting fries in your friend’s garden throwing fits Sitting in trolleys in supermarkets at 3 am in the morning screaming at the top of your lungs and I Miss you I miss you I miss you I miss you. If I ever saw you again I’d bury my face in your long raven hair and whisper how much you meant to me, once. I’d stroke your whiter than white skin, touched and kissed by fifty other men Bruised by the very people you call your friends And I’d cry in your chest and tell you to come back If all you’d do is swig down a bottle of beer And not look my way, but cackle cruelly wailing dear I would die more than a little inside You stopped caring about anything that was supposed to matter, Like being better than everyone and writing beautiful badass essays about saving the sharks (And understanding everything I never understood about myself and laughing at the things I used to say and pinning my name with stars on your charts) You forgot your dreams of wanting to travel and petting kangaroos, carving out something of yourself so they’d remember you for your passion and loneliness is the only place at which you’re stationed. Now all you’re doing is living monotonously, “the *** life” you call it, your dreams all burnt up in the intoxication of the hookah you pretend to love and dissolved in the alcohol you swallow now pulsing through your veins. Come back.
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I taste death in every food I eat I see beauty in every face I meet It all once lived before it died One day maybe nothing will need to die for mankind to survive I see beauty in the face of every person I meet The public world of shopping malls Supermarkets Working's pall Inside while primitive fantasies still reside Rageful tides Spiderwebs blowing down hillsides Carrying on a private conversation in a public gathering "a little privy please" There are no walls in the outhouse The outhouse is lined with mirrors and windows The rules are the rules even for desire tho sometimes we all do a mashpit at the opera Everything has a taste Internal External make a mistake it's back to the wild Food for fodder fodder for thought Still seeing beauty in every face I meet Tasting death in every food I eat Makes water in the desert so so sweet.
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Jan 12, 2018
Jan 12, 2018 at 10:00 AM UTC
The Poetry of Duality
Are these tears of blundering laughter or heckles of contempt that spirit on these haggard few to rhapsodise our era’s curtain calls? They who brought us mounting debt and conscientiousness which seems only to be healed in the appeasing fluorescence of 24-hour supermarkets and the purgatory of weekends spent at home? Such stifling, nervous coughs are head as responses of today’s domestic questionnaires Gung-ho reformative advances and calls to “pull up our socks” Mixed with the state-sponsored fortune-telling Rationed out to boys languishing on the dole. Which All falsely transpires, intimidatingly revealed as being About as appealing as vacuum cleaners for the soul aimed at the resolutely bored to tears. Despite our fears the sun will come streaming again through fresh fir trees which decorate contemplative, sheltered lanes. These last, frostbitten years seek replacement with halcyon days in order to suspend dogmatic disbelief. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves: Pessimism is **** Even in the most roaring of times we remained despondent and calculated.
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Jul 16, 2012
Jul 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM UTC
Spring Torrents
I was making a sandwich for the customer with green eyes when Amanda came in and said, "look for the printed word." I had no idea what it meant but I continued making the man's turkey pastrami on rye. She left without buying her usual pumpkin cookie and soy chai latte, extra foam of course. Was this some sort of riddle, about how a raven is like a writing desk? I looked through the produce hoping to find a scrap of crumpled paper among the peaches. Then to the juice bar, even sifting through the pulp of discarded apples and kale. I asked the cooks in the back if they had seen any odd words around, but they said no. The intercom howled "Thank you for shopping at Jimbooooo's…Naturally!" when it hit me. I rushed back toward the sandwich bar and inspected the guacamole. And the seed of the avocado sitting next to it read, "Neon fruit supermarkets attract a lonely Whitman."
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM UTC
Neon Fruit Supermarket
This is Uganda My motherland My home that I love so much Boom, boom, boom,boom Another prominent leader has been shot dead Who is it? Abiriga, the yellow man Panic here, panic there Some arrests here and there And that’s it He is gone And the killers too are nowhere to be seen This is Uganda Around that time, it’s party here and party there Many of my brothers and sisters have come to the beginning of the end of their time in school and some totally done The graduation has brought well-wishers, relatives, friends and family from different places Happiness is all in the air But for many, the excitement ends there Because months and years after that, they are still hoping to find their first job and the hopes seem to be withering down and getting further like the sun setting at dusk Some have chosen paths totally different from what they studied for The professional doctor is now a trader The one that studied engineering is now a farmer This is Uganda The neighbor’s dogs are feasting on meat, chicken bones or even the chicken itself and maybe some serious Dog food sold in supermarkets but they  slept on empty stomachs the previous night, The mother is the main breadwinner for the husband abandoned them There is very thin hope for a meal the next day Maybe a Good Samaritan will do a miracle But it certainly is not going to be their most immediate neighbor While kids from well-to-do families are picked from the gates of their parents’ homes to go to school and brought back later in the evening, Somewhere in the same age range or slightly older has also woken up to start his/her day With his/her old & ***** sack on the back, held by the neck, he traverses the whole village throughout the day in search for scrap metal, plastics and some metallic cans that ***** hopes to sell off and find a little something to buy some food and also enjoy some ‘luxuries’ like maybe buying a secondhand T-shirt/Dress Imagine that! This is Uganda We pay for justice Some pay to deny other justice And that’s the way it is A police officer will ask you for a bribe openly with no shame And that’s the order of the day Disguised as a small token for ‘Ka-soda’ or ‘Ka-lunch’ This is Uganda
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Dec 11, 2019
Dec 11, 2019 at 10:43 AM UTC
This Is Uganda
This is Uganda My motherland My home that I love so much Boom, boom, boom,boom Another prominent leader has been shot dead Who is it? Abiriga, the yellow man Panic here, panic there Some arrests here and there And that’s it He is gone And the killers too are nowhere to be seen This is Uganda Around that time, it’s party here and party there Many of my brothers and sisters have come to the beginning of the end of their time in school and some totally done The graduation has brought well-wishers, relatives, friends and family from different places Happiness is all in the air But for many, the excitement ends there Because months and years after that, they are still hoping to find their first job and the hopes seem to be withering down and getting further like the sun setting at dusk Some have chosen paths totally different from what they studied for The professional doctor is now a trader The one that studied engineering is now a farmer This is Uganda The neighbor’s dogs are feasting on meat, chicken bones or even the chicken itself and maybe some serious Dog food sold in supermarkets but they  slept on empty stomachs the previous night, The mother is the main breadwinner for the husband abandoned them There is very thin hope for a meal the next day Maybe a Good Samaritan will do a miracle But it certainly is not going to be their most immediate neighbor While kids from well-to-do families are picked from the gates of their parents’ homes to go to school and brought back later in the evening, Somewhere in the same age range or slightly older has also woken up to start his/her day With his/her old & ***** sack on the back, held by the neck, he traverses the whole village throughout the day in search for scrap metal, plastics and some metallic cans that ***** hopes to sell off and find a little something to buy some food and also enjoy some ‘luxuries’ like maybe buying a secondhand T-shirt/Dress Imagine that! This is Uganda We pay for justice Some pay to deny other justice And that’s the way it is A police officer will ask you for a bribe openly with no shame And that’s the order of the day Disguised as a small token for ‘Ka-soda’ or ‘Ka-lunch’ This is Uganda
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I imagined we’d grow gray together and take winter sun holidays somewhere we could warm our bones cut out coupons from newspapers stacking up in a jam jar next to the fruit bowl you’d rent guidebooks out of the library and I’d take evening classes so that I could understand black tied waiters you’d find it cute and impressive and you would hold my hand tightly during take off the plan was that we’d walk around foreign supermarkets and guess the contents of the cans they’d be faded beach towels and the sticky scent of tanning lotion our antiquated skin would burn easily if we didn't smother it but I’m not sure it matters anymore, fretting over factors we already have tumors growing like doubts in our chests we have nurtured them, tended to their hungers and thirst until we have none of our own
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM UTC
Winter Sun
it comes when you're reading one of those books written by pseudo intellectuals buried in their despondent lookout on life comes when        They're writing on human's self-sabotaging nature, when they're peeling layers off and off, revealing the truth of ourself like they're        gods, Hermes the messenger, or angels, Michael, bringing to us thoughts we'd never have grown organically      that's what they believe,           what they tell themselves as they prune their feathers with pride as they impregnate you with the god honest truth and how did you live before knowing this? it's been with you all along, kicking and breathing and pushing      you just didn't know it, yet, but now you can as they preach their outlooks like it's a message that changes everything, that your life will implode as your mind wakes itself up -      they try to baptize you           gripping your throat with their      carpel tunnel fingers, reading glasses slipping down their noses as they lean over you, watching their words pour into you, their victims' throat, as they will it and all the while they blame you, because: Humans make themselves miserable      They write They bury themselves in all they hate and choose to burn all they love until they're alone and self-loathing and scarred unrecognizable      They write Of our hatred for humanity for every single individual that surrounds us and How we surround ourselves with them with crowded supermarkets and lanes of traffic because they fuel our suffering and That's all we crave      They write On our thirst for blood our lust for **** ****** war on How our society is fueled by violence and how we bathe in it with a grin stretched across dry  bleeding lips sharp teeth that rip through our neighbors' flesh with delight      They write that we're alone in suffering and surrounded by hate and we're wild animals driven to war out of boredom and That's human nature in a nutshell That's the truth revealed           nasty, gritty, honest      They write and that's when it comes, that gnawing in the      pit of your stomach, that scratching in the back of your mind      that claws its way           down into your throat where it      squeezes
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 2:28 PM UTC
write drunk, edit drunk, eat sleep breathe drunk, liquid pessimism
it comes when you're reading one of those books written by pseudo intellectuals buried in their despondent lookout on life comes when        They're writing on human's self-sabotaging nature, when they're peeling layers off and off, revealing the truth of ourself like they're        gods, Hermes the messenger, or angels, Michael, bringing to us thoughts we'd never have grown organically      that's what they believe,           what they tell themselves as they prune their feathers with pride as they impregnate you with the god honest truth and how did you live before knowing this? it's been with you all along, kicking and breathing and pushing      you just didn't know it, yet, but now you can as they preach their outlooks like it's a message that changes everything, that your life will implode as your mind wakes itself up -      they try to baptize you           gripping your throat with their      carpel tunnel fingers, reading glasses slipping down their noses as they lean over you, watching their words pour into you, their victims' throat, as they will it and all the while they blame you, because: Humans make themselves miserable      They write They bury themselves in all they hate and choose to burn all they love until they're alone and self-loathing and scarred unrecognizable      They write Of our hatred for humanity for every single individual that surrounds us and How we surround ourselves with them with crowded supermarkets and lanes of traffic because they fuel our suffering and That's all we crave      They write On our thirst for blood our lust for **** ****** war on How our society is fueled by violence and how we bathe in it with a grin stretched across dry  bleeding lips sharp teeth that rip through our neighbors' flesh with delight      They write that we're alone in suffering and surrounded by hate and we're wild animals driven to war out of boredom and That's human nature in a nutshell That's the truth revealed           nasty, gritty, honest      They write and that's when it comes, that gnawing in the      pit of your stomach, that scratching in the back of your mind      that claws its way           down into your throat where it      squeezes
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'Good evening', as I come through the door shutting out the noise and dirt that now gathers at my welcome mat where I wipe my shoes and leave my feet. Hanging my head on the hat stand I am home, today's news is getting older in the paper under my arm, print leaves it's imprint on my white starched office shirt. In the kitchen there are dead animals in the oven, cooking amongst things from the ground, bubbling and boiling, mother natures bounty bought from sterile supermarkets. Fresh air is packaged in re-usable cans re-cycled, made into planes that fly over great oceans and mountain ranges, deserts, where Bedouin tents blow in the breeze.
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 7:48 AM UTC
Good eveing Bedouin
A man stands. overlooking two different visions. Two different choices. On the left he gazed over the glorious modernized utopia. Tall prominent skyscrapers, gleaming in the dazzling pure sunlight. Clinical white rows of spacious suburbia. Unnaturally green gardens of perfectly shaped, perfectly cut square grass accompanying the houses. Polished, scentless people strolled down the un-littered perfection of the linear streets. Enormous great smiles featured on the faces of all. The urban paradise. Biblical, eden in practise, sanctity. Economical bliss. Unpolluted, crime free, social perfection. No inequality, racism, no hatred only love among broters. No depression. The endless rows stretched glorious miles, convenience, supermarkets, brand new glistening, hospitals, all necessity in perfect working order. No unemployment, no political unrest. Every man among equals. Utopia. On the right hand side, wretched poverty as far as the eye can see. Cramped, overwhelmed shanty towns. Terrified people, dragging themselves through diseased streets. Crippling illness plaguing the antagonized masses. There is no employment here, no glistening new buildings. Only the decaying festering ruins of lifetimes of selfishness. Hatred, jealousy, paranoia, neurotic fluttering harpy’s, harlequins of the night. Plagued minds, plagued bodies. Gargantuan monsters of men rose from the rubble. Demented. Lava flows freely through the crumbling streets. There are no trees here, no vegetation, only blackened earth. Blackened with the ****** despair of man. Only anguish in this land. The black sun burns with hateful rage in the sooty, cloudy toxic sky, the only rain falls as corpses falling from sardine cans to the sky. Burnt out cancerous lungs, filled with sulphurous air from the giant volcano's of dead minds, spewing deadly chemicals into the already uninhabitable environment. The demons of despair stalk this land, endlessly wallowing in there own self-loathing, amongst other vile things. The decision resting on his shoulders governs life for all men, all men to come. His left side, yearning for paradise, freedom, equality for all, peace, communal gain. His right side leaning towards narcissistic self gain. Taking the world for himself, watching alone the setting of the poisoned blck sun, poisoned by his greed. He walked forward, leaving the realms of choice behind him. The future was his to choose.
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Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM UTC
The Choices of Man
A man stands. overlooking two different visions. Two different choices. On the left he gazed over the glorious modernized utopia. Tall prominent skyscrapers, gleaming in the dazzling pure sunlight. Clinical white rows of spacious suburbia. Unnaturally green gardens of perfectly shaped, perfectly cut square grass accompanying the houses. Polished, scentless people strolled down the un-littered perfection of the linear streets. Enormous great smiles featured on the faces of all. The urban paradise. Biblical, eden in practise, sanctity. Economical bliss. Unpolluted, crime free, social perfection. No inequality, racism, no hatred only love among broters. No depression. The endless rows stretched glorious miles, convenience, supermarkets, brand new glistening, hospitals, all necessity in perfect working order. No unemployment, no political unrest. Every man among equals. Utopia. On the right hand side, wretched poverty as far as the eye can see. Cramped, overwhelmed shanty towns. Terrified people, dragging themselves through diseased streets. Crippling illness plaguing the antagonized masses. There is no employment here, no glistening new buildings. Only the decaying festering ruins of lifetimes of selfishness. Hatred, jealousy, paranoia, neurotic fluttering harpy’s, harlequins of the night. Plagued minds, plagued bodies. Gargantuan monsters of men rose from the rubble. Demented. Lava flows freely through the crumbling streets. There are no trees here, no vegetation, only blackened earth. Blackened with the ****** despair of man. Only anguish in this land. The black sun burns with hateful rage in the sooty, cloudy toxic sky, the only rain falls as corpses falling from sardine cans to the sky. Burnt out cancerous lungs, filled with sulphurous air from the giant volcano's of dead minds, spewing deadly chemicals into the already uninhabitable environment. The demons of despair stalk this land, endlessly wallowing in there own self-loathing, amongst other vile things. The decision resting on his shoulders governs life for all men, all men to come. His left side, yearning for paradise, freedom, equality for all, peace, communal gain. His right side leaning towards narcissistic self gain. Taking the world for himself, watching alone the setting of the poisoned blck sun, poisoned by his greed. He walked forward, leaving the realms of choice behind him. The future was his to choose.
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He was born this way In a world filled with light But none of which he could witness They simply called him ‘The Blind Man’ As he wasn’t very unique in any other way Entranced in his wanderings and musings One could spot him At the corners of supermarkets Wandering and loitering, almost interchangeably Nobody had ever approached him Even the notion of ‘parents’ was alien to him As they had apparently thrown him out, at the sight of his unreflecting eyes Perhaps this gave him a tint of bitterness Thus, The Blind Man lived Approaching life with the barest of efforts Considering by the second why he couldn’t end it It was in this musing which he found himself that fateful day Once again enveloped in his blanket of self-pity But, for the first time, found himself approached by another She was a petite little thing Able to count the years she had lived in the palm of her tiny left hand But her heart was greater than most foretold to be older (and somehow ‘wiser’) It may have been a comedic sight for an outsider A blind, helpless wanderer approached by a pure, innocent creature Yet, such a sight invoked a saga told through generations He asked her what she desired, as he had never experienced another’s interest in him She said nothing, only holding up what seemed to be the smallest of morsels He never found out how he understood her meaning Only that the smallest of her motion seemed to move the world around him He wondered, as he accepted the small portion of cheese and bread Wondered how suddenly the world had become so bright How the smallest of hands Could somehow give the most The Blind Man had lived his life in darkness Shunted away from society, convinced of its malice But sometimes, all it takes is the smallest kindness To change the greatest of convictions He asked her for her name And she whispered it out sweetly, before being shunted away by her wide-eyed parents He mouthed the innocent syllables silently And then, for the first time in his life The Blind Man opened his eyes
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May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018 at 7:55 PM UTC
The Blind Man
He was born this way In a world filled with light But none of which he could witness They simply called him ‘The Blind Man’ As he wasn’t very unique in any other way Entranced in his wanderings and musings One could spot him At the corners of supermarkets Wandering and loitering, almost interchangeably Nobody had ever approached him Even the notion of ‘parents’ was alien to him As they had apparently thrown him out, at the sight of his unreflecting eyes Perhaps this gave him a tint of bitterness Thus, The Blind Man lived Approaching life with the barest of efforts Considering by the second why he couldn’t end it It was in this musing which he found himself that fateful day Once again enveloped in his blanket of self-pity But, for the first time, found himself approached by another She was a petite little thing Able to count the years she had lived in the palm of her tiny left hand But her heart was greater than most foretold to be older (and somehow ‘wiser’) It may have been a comedic sight for an outsider A blind, helpless wanderer approached by a pure, innocent creature Yet, such a sight invoked a saga told through generations He asked her what she desired, as he had never experienced another’s interest in him She said nothing, only holding up what seemed to be the smallest of morsels He never found out how he understood her meaning Only that the smallest of her motion seemed to move the world around him He wondered, as he accepted the small portion of cheese and bread Wondered how suddenly the world had become so bright How the smallest of hands Could somehow give the most The Blind Man had lived his life in darkness Shunted away from society, convinced of its malice But sometimes, all it takes is the smallest kindness To change the greatest of convictions He asked her for her name And she whispered it out sweetly, before being shunted away by her wide-eyed parents He mouthed the innocent syllables silently And then, for the first time in his life The Blind Man opened his eyes
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The metal cart intertwined, forcefully ****** it free. I wipe off the microscopic organisms, that manifest in the plastic fibers. Push the cart across the cracking linoleum tiles. Hearing the rusted wheels squeak, as I veer through the narrow aisles. Collecting an assortment of desired items, that seem appealing despite the harsh florescent lights. The radio ads try to entice me to purchase new things. I grudgingly ignore them. Crossing the goods off my list, with a swift black x’s the same black that is seen on the signs for sales. 2 for 3 dollars? Is hard to resist. Blackberries, Greek yogurt, a head of broccoli, soon I have a heaping cart. To my dismay the lines are long, they slowly begin to dwindle down. Cashiers frantically punching codes, scanning coupons, counting change. What is this? Okra? The black conveyer belt constant hum, as it carries my purchases down. Until they are all awaiting for me, in paper bags.
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Mar 29, 2012
Mar 29, 2012 at 2:47 AM UTC
The Anxiety of Supermarkets