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"teethed" poems
All hail the Lizard King, whose esoteric words crawl like sirens over hungry rocks baring teeth to the hypnotized sailor steering his ship into the jagged maw. All hail the Lizard King, perched upon his Dionysian throne, ambrosial ecstasies fill his cup while jongleurs dance to psychedelic chansons. At his feet prey the nubile maidens of yore flower-eyed and pearly-teethed. His eyes, mighty azure pools of madness within which Byzantine kings were murdered-- blood darts through the mysterious waters into the hysterical white void. Alexander the Great sits poised like a statue where his libido crouches like a panther 'til the aural adonis leaps from his confines an amorous figure of tantalizing flesh and blood with supple lips pouting, naked muscles taut, mad eyes gleaming. All hail the Lizard King, from lush lips poetic decrees sing forth into the endless night penetrating taverns and bedrooms and radios and stadiums. The electric shaman leaps from his throne to cast his wicked incantation, a spark from his eyes shoots to the pyre where a lustful blue flame erupts from the bones of the prophets. HIs voice soothing, haunting, the sonic alchemist sings his siren song into the cataclysm where we are cast in abeyance-- We follow him, but is he only leading us deeper into the darkness, or does he truly see the light? The endless night. All hail the Lizard King.
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Dec 28, 2016
Dec 28, 2016 at 10:06 PM UTC
All Hail the Lizard King
I think often Of breastfeeding The tip of my ****** tickling his skin-thin upper gum. In my imagination It is many minutes of calm I cup his head Which fits into a palm and a half My body is full With his quiet innocence. I imagine trying to imagine How much he doesn’t know All the ***** things This action may mean one day How he doesn’t know What a kitchen is Or a mortgage or an income His fears are not boring. Mine are of finances and guilt His involve teethed creatures and deaf silences. He does not know what it means For the time to be 3:15 Nor can he comprehend The recentness of his existence. I and the cat are nocturnal He lives in intervals. We associate babies With a soft pink I imagine Looking into his eyes Two wrinkly slits Wondering how to Confirm this.
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 1:18 AM UTC
Breast-Fed Musings
The wolves are hungry tonight and so is she her heart does know no fright with her pack she longs to be Under the bloodmoon see her limbs grow her feral body is to swoon turning wolf into lady from head to toe Her brothers and sisters sharp teethed running with the winds of winter in this cold and star-bright night they will feast blood smearings in the snow look just like cinder Hear her song howling through the air all ice melts underneath her fiery feet as they catch and bite and tear lucky ones see her eyes before their demise they meet 'Tis the night of the hunt benighted men will not run shouting "Begone! Animal! **** happily she devours them, flayed bodies in the morning sun She's always lurking, lusting for your smell Dripping wet her mouth with the juice of life no one lived for the story to tell of the wolf woman, dark wood's feral wife
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC
Vargr fljóð - Wolf woman
I stay up for the moons Quiet gaze The light by the bedside Carves shadows of you Into my bare frame The air itself is naked Vulnerable of all scent. I kissed you thrice, One on the lips For devotion, One on the ribs of Your teeth, On the elbow of your Favourite book. As all writers do. I created that arched frame That pulled your Tendons tight To my inked sheets, Shot you into blind space, While I teethed on The bow of your Fingertips Our skin tarmac, There was roadworks Of our bed. Toes dancing morbidly Between bursting stars While night gulls And ravens watched Through the window Waiting to peck At the mangled carcass Of our hearts.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 10:40 AM UTC
Fluorescent
Powering whisker's tense, the unfurled orange; teethed with nature's rosy armament. Brother Tiger sniffs. burning nose whispers of passion with breaths of love. More than two million years under human life And she knows more than you, a white milliner roses bloom rose is a dove. Brother Tiger gazes off into the East Rose smiling, rose laughing, Roses are searching for proud preys Heaving breaths
dynamic, catlike stealth.
     Heartbeat’s thunder ****** shadows hide. She sends him a fairy-white rosebud:  “Hey Love, let’s off to search again for spring…" "come home safe, Brother Tiger: Don't be feared" Chant and roar along please A kiss of desire on the lips.
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Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022 at 2:35 AM UTC
Tiger Meets Rose
At eighteen I'm the scent of second-day hair with perfume in it It smells like your bed, and my sweat, and your exhales, and my Juicy Couture Viva la Juicy . How middle school of me. I'm the cool touch of unwashed sheets on bare skin because the thermostat is fussy and I like sleeping naked Just me, you, and this body that I don't like so much right now, but I'm eighteen, and I'm working on that. I'm leggings while they still pass for pants, and the chewed up ends of pens in twenty different colors Chinese homework has really turned me into such a biter, and I claim to love all those darling pens equally, but I show my blue pens the most love I've teethed them half to death I'm not even close to halfway to death assuming things go well for me. Oh, please let things go well for me. At eighteen I'm the taste of chai and menthol because that's what's **** these days I'm all about what's **** these days. Apathy, really bad electronic music, bare midriffs. Funny since at eighteen I don't want anyone to touch me This body is my project, please don’t even look at me like this, all insecure and exposed. Please just let me curl up, and please let me be by myself. I wish my mother were here to bring me a popsicle. My throat hurts from all the screaming I do these days. At eighteen I guess I'm still a little angsty, but I just want you to love me God, do I want you to love me. I want you to patronize me with the warmth of your arms and undress me with strong, resolved hands Don't touch me, just look at me and tell me that I'm perfect and naive because at eighteen I'm still milky white, soft, and broken I'm a sight for sore eyes, a new sight, your sight For god's sake Just love me.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 11:39 PM UTC
October 2, 2013 -- At eighteen
At eighteen I'm the scent of second-day hair with perfume in it It smells like your bed, and my sweat, and your exhales, and my Juicy Couture Viva la Juicy . How middle school of me. I'm the cool touch of unwashed sheets on bare skin because the thermostat is fussy and I like sleeping naked Just me, you, and this body that I don't like so much right now, but I'm eighteen, and I'm working on that. I'm leggings while they still pass for pants, and the chewed up ends of pens in twenty different colors Chinese homework has really turned me into such a biter, and I claim to love all those darling pens equally, but I show my blue pens the most love I've teethed them half to death I'm not even close to halfway to death assuming things go well for me. Oh, please let things go well for me. At eighteen I'm the taste of chai and menthol because that's what's **** these days I'm all about what's **** these days. Apathy, really bad electronic music, bare midriffs. Funny since at eighteen I don't want anyone to touch me This body is my project, please don’t even look at me like this, all insecure and exposed. Please just let me curl up, and please let me be by myself. I wish my mother were here to bring me a popsicle. My throat hurts from all the screaming I do these days. At eighteen I guess I'm still a little angsty, but I just want you to love me God, do I want you to love me. I want you to patronize me with the warmth of your arms and undress me with strong, resolved hands Don't touch me, just look at me and tell me that I'm perfect and naive because at eighteen I'm still milky white, soft, and broken I'm a sight for sore eyes, a new sight, your sight For god's sake Just love me.
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skull on a stick black candle wick draining her soul cant let go Dragool drinks deep legends red teethed burial chamber prayers bequeathed its all blood day dark kisses bite his ghastly bride waiting for night
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Apr 2, 2018
Apr 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM UTC
Dragool
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water, What should I be but the fiend’s god-daughter? And who should be my playmates but the adder and the frog, That was got beneath a furze-bush and born in a bog? And what should be my singing, that was christened at an altar, But Aves and Credos and Psalms out of the Psalter? You will see such webs on the wet grass, maybe, As a pixie-mother weaves for her baby, You will find such flame at the wave’s weedy ebb As flashes in the meshes of a mer-mother’s web, But there comes to birth no common spawn From the love of a priest for a leprechaun, And you never have seen and you never will see Such things as the things that swaddled me! After all’s said and after all’s done, What should I be but a harlot and a nun? In through the bushes, on any foggy day, My Da would come a-swishing of the drops away, With a prayer for my death and a groan for my birth, A-mumbling of his beads for all that he was worth. And there sit my Ma, her knees beneath her chin, A-looking in his face and a-drinking of it in, And a-marking in the moss some funny little saying That would mean just the opposite of all that he was praying! He taught me the holy-talk of Vesper and of Matin, He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil! Oh, the things I haven’t seen and the things I haven’t known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, With a “Which would you better?” and a “Which would you rather?” With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?
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The Singing-Woman From The Wood’s Edge
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water, What should I be but the fiend’s god-daughter? And who should be my playmates but the adder and the frog, That was got beneath a furze-bush and born in a bog? And what should be my singing, that was christened at an altar, But Aves and Credos and Psalms out of the Psalter? You will see such webs on the wet grass, maybe, As a pixie-mother weaves for her baby, You will find such flame at the wave’s weedy ebb As flashes in the meshes of a mer-mother’s web, But there comes to birth no common spawn From the love of a priest for a leprechaun, And you never have seen and you never will see Such things as the things that swaddled me! After all’s said and after all’s done, What should I be but a harlot and a nun? In through the bushes, on any foggy day, My Da would come a-swishing of the drops away, With a prayer for my death and a groan for my birth, A-mumbling of his beads for all that he was worth. And there sit my Ma, her knees beneath her chin, A-looking in his face and a-drinking of it in, And a-marking in the moss some funny little saying That would mean just the opposite of all that he was praying! He taught me the holy-talk of Vesper and of Matin, He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil! Oh, the things I haven’t seen and the things I haven’t known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, With a “Which would you better?” and a “Which would you rather?” With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?
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There are times, too far many, the spaces between them are fading, becoming slivers of slight reassurance. But there are times, when I no longer feel like a person, no longer feel human, cold to the touch and lifeless. There are times when I fade into the background, far too many, watch the people pass by. Sometimes, I muster the courage, let my fingertips ghost along the skin of their arms. Watch the bumps form, fear lingers in my eyes. Most don't turn, they're used to us. They don't leave a glance, don't turn, don't face us. It's disgust, but also fear. They don't want to become like us, hollow, spaced and cold to the touch. They like warm, soft skin, glowing white teethed smiles and lively eyes. But, there are some, who turn around and leave a lingering glance. Most don't see us, let their eyes leave us before they're focused. They fear us, they're young, they don't understand. Most of us feel twinges of guilt when they're startled, turn on us wide eyed with panic swarming in their eyes like hornets. The others, they're different. There's a few, the ones who take the time out of their day, smell the roses and are grateful for the small things. Never take advantage, always gentle, kindred souls. They don't flinch when they feel cold grate against their warm skin, don't flinch when they meet the putrid hollow of our gaze. Don't run away, don't break out into a cold sweat. Most smile, a warm, friendly grin with paint white smiles. I used to believe he was one of them, would guide me from the dark of the background into the light and introduce me to life.
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 10:08 PM UTC
Smile Dear
There are times, too far many, the spaces between them are fading, becoming slivers of slight reassurance. But there are times, when I no longer feel like a person, no longer feel human, cold to the touch and lifeless. There are times when I fade into the background, far too many, watch the people pass by. Sometimes, I muster the courage, let my fingertips ghost along the skin of their arms. Watch the bumps form, fear lingers in my eyes. Most don't turn, they're used to us. They don't leave a glance, don't turn, don't face us. It's disgust, but also fear. They don't want to become like us, hollow, spaced and cold to the touch. They like warm, soft skin, glowing white teethed smiles and lively eyes. But, there are some, who turn around and leave a lingering glance. Most don't see us, let their eyes leave us before they're focused. They fear us, they're young, they don't understand. Most of us feel twinges of guilt when they're startled, turn on us wide eyed with panic swarming in their eyes like hornets. The others, they're different. There's a few, the ones who take the time out of their day, smell the roses and are grateful for the small things. Never take advantage, always gentle, kindred souls. They don't flinch when they feel cold grate against their warm skin, don't flinch when they meet the putrid hollow of our gaze. Don't run away, don't break out into a cold sweat. Most smile, a warm, friendly grin with paint white smiles. I used to believe he was one of them, would guide me from the dark of the background into the light and introduce me to life.
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They said they wanted to take the molars of Those fleeing danger that they had escaped By the skin of Then leave the reward of sanctuary beneath their pillow whilst they slept As if they weren't having trouble enough already With where to rest their weary heads They said the rewards were many And wanted to make completely certain They weren’t being too generous Because giving gifts gives rise to greed So they decided to take the teeth And ensure those safety seekers Knew exactly what being bitten means And those who sought for something more? Those bitten by these charitable actions as much by war Their wounds didn't heal And they found sores on weary feet To find they had grown hungry mouths there too The shoes that ate the distance beneath their step Yielding bite marks as footprints and yet They stored safety as a promise In between records and held up blue plaques aloft That said "I was not born here on this date But I belong here" and I've history and a home to make But for all the shiny pennies that they saved up in a jar The princess dentists could still feel each Generous donation, milky beneath their mattress And each asylum seeker kept them up And we clean teethed few, who always knew to brush For three minutes before bed Lucky by grace of birth, seas and a few miles more Looked at these dentists questioning but they shook their head Warned us of the toothache of their seeming sweetness So tell us about dental hygiene how to floss lies from our gums or else wait for all our teeth to fall out Have them taken from beneath our pillows Where we had gracefully saved them like we were told to Constructed into fortresses Utilized the tooth extraction cotton buds as comforting ear plugs and pulled the wool over our eyes Let’s wait until our retirement Till we realise the Toothfairy wants our bones Not just our molars and we pushed away those who only needed The chance of rest and the chance of somewhere new and safe to show us how to smile So brush your teeth tonight And be thankful you will never know that those who turn away from you Will do so, because your breath Still stinks of all the **** you so readily eat.
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Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:37 PM UTC
Toothfairy
They said they wanted to take the molars of Those fleeing danger that they had escaped By the skin of Then leave the reward of sanctuary beneath their pillow whilst they slept As if they weren't having trouble enough already With where to rest their weary heads They said the rewards were many And wanted to make completely certain They weren’t being too generous Because giving gifts gives rise to greed So they decided to take the teeth And ensure those safety seekers Knew exactly what being bitten means And those who sought for something more? Those bitten by these charitable actions as much by war Their wounds didn't heal And they found sores on weary feet To find they had grown hungry mouths there too The shoes that ate the distance beneath their step Yielding bite marks as footprints and yet They stored safety as a promise In between records and held up blue plaques aloft That said "I was not born here on this date But I belong here" and I've history and a home to make But for all the shiny pennies that they saved up in a jar The princess dentists could still feel each Generous donation, milky beneath their mattress And each asylum seeker kept them up And we clean teethed few, who always knew to brush For three minutes before bed Lucky by grace of birth, seas and a few miles more Looked at these dentists questioning but they shook their head Warned us of the toothache of their seeming sweetness So tell us about dental hygiene how to floss lies from our gums or else wait for all our teeth to fall out Have them taken from beneath our pillows Where we had gracefully saved them like we were told to Constructed into fortresses Utilized the tooth extraction cotton buds as comforting ear plugs and pulled the wool over our eyes Let’s wait until our retirement Till we realise the Toothfairy wants our bones Not just our molars and we pushed away those who only needed The chance of rest and the chance of somewhere new and safe to show us how to smile So brush your teeth tonight And be thankful you will never know that those who turn away from you Will do so, because your breath Still stinks of all the **** you so readily eat.
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You like to blend in It's safer, not being identified in a line up Not being noticed by the school Bully I couldn't bear that life. Always needed spotlight Crosshairs Skyscrapers. Let people come into my building for it's big neon signs When they leave maybe they've learned how to use pen. Bought or sold stories. Taken something with them. You are in the ocean One of the many holding hands dropletts blending together Boats motor by, dump their waste People dip their toes in, ******* before they leave Scream over you about their tragedies. Never hear you. Except one girl She sits by the ocean Listens to the waves and the crashing Watches the men hurl lobster traps wants to be a scooba diver. takes lessons Gets a degree in marine biology visits your rocky bottom Lost in the sea of other droplettes Illuminated Neon Coral houses Tiny white specks to chase lights dangling from big teethed fish She stays there Loves how beautiful it is Her name is Poetry
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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM UTC
One of the many
ix. when you were eighteen and i was fourteen you handed me a blindfold teethed with razors because you say truth is schizophrenic: and angels are anemic and my eyes are sweeter than pomegranate but your poison did not stop at fairytale apples or lazarus or hellish flowerets, it re-mastered left its tar around your marrows. iii. when you were twenty and i was sixteen you gave me a Glasgow smile on my tongue: like the pale harlequin so i could bleed solace and sympathetical commiseration through every word when ever you needed me wheil you emitted a rosary that encircled clavicles, threading it to a hole you manifested inside my sternum because you belived a heart was not neccessary if a doll could love with fingers * now you are ten years old and i am seven years older you ask me to write a poem about you and artistry but i am waiting for the aestheticist beside the violet car with one ear and debauchery licking my fingers and biting off your nails.
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Oct 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010 at 6:29 AM UTC
Rx
You can never skip an opportunity to call yourself that Because you’re your ma’s son: Didn’t get caught up in the tool shed Got spiked through with the hooked art of repeating yourself instead Should I feel insulted then That these cracked, digited fringes These rejects of your diminutive anatomy Are how you love me? You love me with the unvoiced, unexplained idiocy Of fingers that make Mexican waves To one particular song And lure mine to come dancing too You love me with the whorls where you keep your DNA Counting the concaves in my skeleton: Explore them, soothe them Wonder if you made them And I think you fear that If you ceased to trace me as I grew – A carpenter sifting through the age rings in my spine – I’d only feel the dislocating vagueness Of an absence too menial to be mourned. “Cack-handed” But I remember different: I remember your hands like leather, All heated and scratchy from your pockets, Unhooking the problems from my mouth. And how the weather’d teethed on them, Gnawed away chunks down around the cuticles Until they were dry and scarred like February – February getting lost in its own bleak cavernousness They stir the rag in the shoe polish, And the burnt spoon in the bean tin. I used to try to pinch them But my nails were too soft And your palms too crusted But when they tell me “thick-skinned” I shake my head and think “No, beautifully cack-handed”
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Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 3:03 AM UTC
“Cack-handed”
OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone like me O inhabitant in deserted skies as I in lonely wilds with my ghost baby; let us put a charm together a curse on men who betray their wives and who put their seeds in young unwise girls and run away and hint the naive could **** themselves and their babies OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone listen to my tale: *a charmer dazzled my mind and put his seeds in my womb; and he told me he loved me but he had other duties and he said I should be ashamed for being such a loose woman and I should **** myself and so take my baby within me* OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone feel the pain and horror in my mind as I am doomed to deliver this script night and night in this wilderness Behold this infant I hold in my hand this ghost of a baby that has never seen life ******* at my milk-less white breast OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone come, let us put a charm together a curse on men who betray their wives and who put their seeds in unwise girls and run away and hint the naive **** themselves and their babies OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, lend me your strength and power let us weave a curse, let us cast it over such he-devils: *May their genitals rot eaten by vermin; may their eyes be eaten by giant flies; and may their evil turn into sharp-teethed ravenous worms and stampede inside their bodies and eat all their internal organs and may these huge-bellied worms eat every nerve and eat their brains part by part O may such men die in pain, in madness before their very wives* Lend me your power lend me strength and curse with me O moon, pale and alone like me inhabitant in deserted skies as I in lonely wilds with my ghostly baby that has never seen life OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo….
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Feb 23, 2011
Feb 23, 2011 at 10:58 PM UTC
Female ghost in the moonlight
OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone like me O inhabitant in deserted skies as I in lonely wilds with my ghost baby; let us put a charm together a curse on men who betray their wives and who put their seeds in young unwise girls and run away and hint the naive could **** themselves and their babies OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone listen to my tale: *a charmer dazzled my mind and put his seeds in my womb; and he told me he loved me but he had other duties and he said I should be ashamed for being such a loose woman and I should **** myself and so take my baby within me* OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone feel the pain and horror in my mind as I am doomed to deliver this script night and night in this wilderness Behold this infant I hold in my hand this ghost of a baby that has never seen life ******* at my milk-less white breast OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, pale and alone come, let us put a charm together a curse on men who betray their wives and who put their seeds in unwise girls and run away and hint the naive **** themselves and their babies OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo…. O moon, lend me your strength and power let us weave a curse, let us cast it over such he-devils: *May their genitals rot eaten by vermin; may their eyes be eaten by giant flies; and may their evil turn into sharp-teethed ravenous worms and stampede inside their bodies and eat all their internal organs and may these huge-bellied worms eat every nerve and eat their brains part by part O may such men die in pain, in madness before their very wives* Lend me your power lend me strength and curse with me O moon, pale and alone like me inhabitant in deserted skies as I in lonely wilds with my ghostly baby that has never seen life OOOOhhhh…..eeeeee…..oooeeeeeyoooo….
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kisses turn into monsters my mind can't conjure up they leave an ocean of pinks, purples, and blues, yet I say nothing this sharp - teethed demon comes after me as fast as a bullet can go in my head, i run rapidly, to the edge of the world, but physically, i stay as still as the sea if I move, he will come after me at supersonic speed and i'll drown deeper under these pink sheets
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 12:32 PM UTC
Under Pink Sheets
I was born fast and moving in the back of a bus 8 ½ miles outside of New Orleans. I was not noticed until my ***** cries wafted to the front of the bus, heard by a 50-year-old transvestite named Is-he-dora trying to homestead in Kentucky. She put me her manicured under arm and carried me off.  You see, mom pulled up her ******* quick, smoothed out her cardigan, and popped a Quaalude before the driver could realize she climbed out of the emergency back exit.   My first drink was bourbon through a ****** I teethed raw leather, the heel of an old boot, and a mannequin who was named Dolly. She only wore red satin and peacock feathers. The gals only bathed her in sesame oil with almonds floating in the jar. She smelled of mom. My school was on the laps of the people in the back of racetrack stables. I take my learning fast paced with a side of jockey. I took to the streets half paved by the beats. Cassidy may have had the road, but I had the words. I was thrown out of every Mormon congregation south of the Mason-Dixon. I made it to New York in a bathtub in the base of a pick up truck for the purposes of shoplifting for fun and profit. I vogued my way through Harlem, and at night I slept with Dolly’s sister in the bedding section of bloomies. Here I am. Right in front of you. Can you see me? Can you smell me? Can you feel me?
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 7:52 PM UTC
Burrough MeDeep
john donne, was wrong ... you know, there are times... when a man, is an island, set alone far out to sea. when, he is bereft. just a void, of sadness, a gape, of hulking misery, a chasm, of blankness, in diminished and weary desolation. with, nothingness, barren nakedness, abject defeated melancholy, as mountain range and peaks. with, indifference, listless malaise,   the emptiness of depression, fatigue and lethargy, as his meagre crops to eat. with, despondency, distress, grief, affliction, abject and ineffable, sadness as, the rivers that run through. with, tribulation, torment, desperate lamentations, now, covering,   the fields with bitterness and bereavement, where once, the wildflowers, used to grow. now, he is an island, alone. deprived and dispossessed. wanting and widowed. and with beaches, ravaged, bankrupt and heartsore the reefs, encircle, tho, fragmented, incomplete they are short, sharp teethed coral. waiting with, patience absent, anger rampant.. that make, the currents turbulent , those, miserable, mournful, waters, those, sad, sorrowing, suffering, waves that, break, upon his grief-laden shores, tide, after, tide, after, tide. he stands, among the grieving. unreachable. an island. a hollow man. alone.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 3:52 AM UTC
a hollow man
*Church. State. Body. Mind. "Nobody gets left behind."* Toxic youth brain-washed by games Adults around them carelessly play. Success bartered for our souls Briefcase in hand, your flesh still cold. Air-brushed, white-teethed In the mirror we hope to see. The pressure builds, we're prescribed, *Church. State. Body. Mind. "Nobody gets left behind."*
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Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014 at 7:29 PM UTC
Anthems of Success
Magic memories, Sweet, of you Who swam with me in oceans, blue. Swam in deep green grottos warm Where minnows, brightly painted, swarmed. We plunged down, deep, to coral beds To sway with tidal seaweed, red And conger eels’ ferocious teethed Now bared… then recoiled back to reef. Squads of barracuda dashed Around us, close, in silver flash, Threatening with long gnashing teeth Invoking stone cold fear, bequeathed. Yet hovering, in deep crystal clear Enraptured and entranced, endeared, As giant kelp in columns, swayed And stingrays in battalions, played. Long grey shark then menaced bye Ogling us with plate sized eye. Time, I thought, to swim for shore Where hot white sands… enticed us more. M. Great Barrier Reef January 1968
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Apr 18, 2020
Apr 18, 2020 at 4:49 AM UTC
Snorkeling with my bikini Blonde
I feel that old twinge of bitterness creeping up again from the shadows. I almost don't recognize the pattering footsteps of the old fiend. never the less, the hair on the back of my neck stands up and my eyes glaze over. Next thing you know I'm foaming at the mouth speaking gibberish in-between nips at your ankles. Ah! the familiar pang of imaginary injustices, piling up and filing in to rows of sentences without pauses. Oh what a wonderful feeling is that of the raw ball of hate caught in the throat! Venom drips from the fangs hidden in nonchalant inquisitions. Tread carefully for I lay in brush of amber straws waiting for the perfect time to lunge. Needless to say, I did not seek out the dog that teethed upon me. Nevertheless, I've become unforgiving and rabid.
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Oct 25, 2010
Oct 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM UTC
Rabidly Irate
Clicky teethed and Eighty-Nine, She hears the distant high - pitched whine Of ratty kids in four-strong choirs Who sing of Kings as she expires. Wasn't wealthy, wasn't witty Not too smart and not too pretty But loved a man she wed at twenty And he loved her, and that was plenty
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM UTC
Christmas Eve
her mother holding her hand as her veil covers her face, she waits for the right moment to walk down the ail. Her dress whiter than snow, as her mother leads her down to her lover. She dreams of the embras that awaits at the end of that long forgetting ail. with for-get-me-not's settled gently and evenly on either side of her she walks down toward her destiny as her belly is swollen with child and her mind wondering, she sees nothing but the smiles on everyone's face. Her mothers tears falling as she smiled along with everyone else. though her smile was with goodbye as her youngest child smiles and watches as her mother try's to hide her rain of loving joy. her mother rises the veil to kiss her forehead she leans over to allow the kiss, as her mother walks to the row to sit down. Her heart beating so fast she doesn't hear anything else. Her lover staring at her with an open heart. as they say their vows the dress seems to b weighing her down as they walk to the end of the ail. She made it down the ail of destiny, with her mother guiding her every move as she did when she started walking, as she teethed her first tooth, as she helped her ride her first horse. Her mother was there when she needed her and when her mother didn't want to let go she finally let her little butterfly fly away and leave the nest of her mother protective arms. Her butterfly hoovers over the road before running back to her arms and kissing her mother goodbye as she made her way toward a new life and a good husband to guide her through the tough times, but to her little girl her mother would always be her hero and protector
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 12:05 PM UTC
butterflies must fly
her mother holding her hand as her veil covers her face, she waits for the right moment to walk down the ail. Her dress whiter than snow, as her mother leads her down to her lover. She dreams of the embras that awaits at the end of that long forgetting ail. with for-get-me-not's settled gently and evenly on either side of her she walks down toward her destiny as her belly is swollen with child and her mind wondering, she sees nothing but the smiles on everyone's face. Her mothers tears falling as she smiled along with everyone else. though her smile was with goodbye as her youngest child smiles and watches as her mother try's to hide her rain of loving joy. her mother rises the veil to kiss her forehead she leans over to allow the kiss, as her mother walks to the row to sit down. Her heart beating so fast she doesn't hear anything else. Her lover staring at her with an open heart. as they say their vows the dress seems to b weighing her down as they walk to the end of the ail. She made it down the ail of destiny, with her mother guiding her every move as she did when she started walking, as she teethed her first tooth, as she helped her ride her first horse. Her mother was there when she needed her and when her mother didn't want to let go she finally let her little butterfly fly away and leave the nest of her mother protective arms. Her butterfly hoovers over the road before running back to her arms and kissing her mother goodbye as she made her way toward a new life and a good husband to guide her through the tough times, but to her little girl her mother would always be her hero and protector
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Devour My Memories, I Utter My Thanks The faintest heartbeat, beating incessently within the womb of the accursed A plague, a toxin, a parasite adorned in rozen love... How despair will foster you as its own soon. Despair that dusts blue skies to crimson. Painting the earth with the despair you, so courteously, gifted... A life she was meant to live, and a life she was almost denied. Who was it that almost cried when she died? Not the mother, nor the father. Not the god that wouldn't bother... But the one whom those pointed and screamed “Monster”. Adorn thee with strength, needed to breathe Adorn thee with love, needed to grieve As an infant, our adoring spirits you teethed... Our child, concieved with love... Father adorned your body in gallant, red petals... Sprouting purple fruit, that blossomed upon your beautiful body. Mother, saw nothing, for the sugar in her eyes... Nullified her to the girl that slowly died. Your brother we had, whom we ensured held your hand... Overcome with corruption, he mangled those porcelain bones, It needed to be planned. to dust they turned, hollowing them from the inside until the walking world grew barren, and your canvas lost its color. They covered their eyes to the “us” that they saw... And you, who wanted to live, wished to know why their spirits died. You asked of us, begged as a young soul, to not be blind So HE painted your canvas with color. Distorted blacks, containing every hue that even a treasure of a species only saw... You saw, for one simple reason, We loved you. We showed you that the conceptual distortion you felt... That solidified pain... It, too could become a comfort. And I became your comfort, the only comfort that you need.
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Apr 11, 2018
Apr 11, 2018 at 10:53 PM UTC
Memories
Devour My Memories, I Utter My Thanks The faintest heartbeat, beating incessently within the womb of the accursed A plague, a toxin, a parasite adorned in rozen love... How despair will foster you as its own soon. Despair that dusts blue skies to crimson. Painting the earth with the despair you, so courteously, gifted... A life she was meant to live, and a life she was almost denied. Who was it that almost cried when she died? Not the mother, nor the father. Not the god that wouldn't bother... But the one whom those pointed and screamed “Monster”. Adorn thee with strength, needed to breathe Adorn thee with love, needed to grieve As an infant, our adoring spirits you teethed... Our child, concieved with love... Father adorned your body in gallant, red petals... Sprouting purple fruit, that blossomed upon your beautiful body. Mother, saw nothing, for the sugar in her eyes... Nullified her to the girl that slowly died. Your brother we had, whom we ensured held your hand... Overcome with corruption, he mangled those porcelain bones, It needed to be planned. to dust they turned, hollowing them from the inside until the walking world grew barren, and your canvas lost its color. They covered their eyes to the “us” that they saw... And you, who wanted to live, wished to know why their spirits died. You asked of us, begged as a young soul, to not be blind So HE painted your canvas with color. Distorted blacks, containing every hue that even a treasure of a species only saw... You saw, for one simple reason, We loved you. We showed you that the conceptual distortion you felt... That solidified pain... It, too could become a comfort. And I became your comfort, the only comfort that you need.
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Glass is seeping through my fingers stealing a free ride on ice cold blood these window panes are asking for forgiveness while your front door is seeking revenge. You cannot walk quick enough into the abyss of the night before it swallows you whole roaring back with a rigid teethed grin and a kind stab to the back. It is cold as hell if your heart were to freeze hell over I am dying slowly thank you for loving me at least once at least when both our lips were lost and our hearts swollen with patches of frigid deep blue the same way it seemed every time we kissed you'd leave sweet frostbite You are frozen solid yet somehow the only way I can keep warm.
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Feb 2, 2015
Feb 2, 2015 at 12:02 AM UTC
Below Zero