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"toenails" poems
*Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Chops' because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed alot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Autumn' because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint And the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigars And left butts on the pews And sometimes they would burn holes That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed alot And his father never tucked him in bed at night And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it. Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it 'Innocence: A Question' because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at 3am he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundly. That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it 'Absolutely Nothing' Because that's what it was really all about And he gave himself an A and a slash on each ****** wrist And he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen*
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Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM UTC
Absolutely Nothing by Osoanon Nimuss
*Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Chops' because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed alot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Autumn' because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint And the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigars And left butts on the pews And sometimes they would burn holes That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed alot And his father never tucked him in bed at night And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it. Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it 'Innocence: A Question' because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at 3am he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundly. That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it 'Absolutely Nothing' Because that's what it was really all about And he gave himself an A and a slash on each ****** wrist And he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen*
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a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor scrubbed the walls vacuumed cleaned the toilet the bathtub scrubbed the bathroom floor and cut my toenails and my hair. then all on the same day the plumber came and fixed the kitchen faucet and the toilet and the gas man fixed the heater and the phone man fixed the phone. noe I sit in all this perfection. it is quiet. I have broken off with all 3 of my girlfriends. I felt better when everything was in disorder. it will take me some months to get back to normal: I can't even find a roach to commune with. I have lost my rythm. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I have been robbed of my filth.
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Metamorphosis
Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. Intricate nubs, my toes. No longer bound. And what's more, see toenails and all ten stages, root by root. All spirited and wild, this little piggy went to market and this little piggy stayed. Long brown legs and long brown toes. Further up, my darling, the woman is calling her secrets, little houses, little tongues that tell you. There is no one else but us in this house on the land spit. The sea wears a bell in its navel. And I'm your barefoot ***** for a whole week. Do you care for salami? No. You'd rather not have a scotch? No. You don't really drink. You do drink me. The gulls **** fish, crying out like three-year-olds. The surf's a narcotic, calling out, I am, I am, I am all night long. Barefoot, I drum up and down your back. In the morning I run from door to door of the cabin playing chase me. Now you grab me by the ankles. Now you work your way up the legs and come to pierce me at my hunger mark
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Barefoot
I have been going to the track for so long that all the employees know me, and now with winter here it's dark before the last race. as I walk to the parking lot the valet recognizes my slouching gait and before I reach him my car is waiting for me, lights on, engine warm. the other patrons (still waiting) ask, "who the hell is that guy?" I slip the valet a tip, the size depending upon the luck of the day (and my luck has been amazingly good lately) and I then am in the machine and out on the street as the horses break from the gate. I drive east down Century Blvd. turning on the radio to get the result of that last race. at first the announcer is concerned only with bad weather and poor freeway conditions. we are old friends: I have listened to his voice for decades but, of course, the time will finally come when neither one of us will need to clip our toenails or heed the complaints of our women any longer. meanwhile, there is a certain rhythm to the essentials that now need attending to. I light my cigarette check the dashboard adjust the seat and weave between a Volks and a Fiat. as flecks of rain spatter the windshield I decide not to die just yet: this good life just smells too sweet.
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sweet
I like my bare feet right in front of the fan. It tickles, the wind; blowing kisses on my toes. My toenails are red. I'd just noticed; I'd forgotten how I painted them shiny as I hummed nonsense words. It's chipping off now, I'd have to repaint them. Blue? Purple? No, I'll stick to red. Red has many meanings but I do not care much for them. Some things are better left simple - My toenails are just one of those things.
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 5:18 AM UTC
Toes
She was ugly. A snake of a girl- beady blue eyes and blood-red toenails. The small snigger creeping up through her perfectly kept teeth as she spat at the garbage of the street: the creatures she couldn’t see through her beady blue eyes. Her mama would dress her up in yellow ribbons and green bows. “Why honey, you make a sweet little dandelion,”. She liked to be a dandelion, but secretly she dreamed of being a marigold:                                                                                        Lips parted to the sun,                                                                                                        seeds planted                                                                                  in the rich soil of her own                                                                                                              blackness. She wanted to be a marigold. But she was just a dandelion, stepping on petals and weeding out whatever she longed to be.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 8:40 AM UTC
After The Bluest Eye
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex-pug selling dailies on the corner. taken by tears like an aging chorus girl who has gotten her last check. a hanky is in order your lord your worship. the blackbirds are rough today like ingrown toenails in an overnight jail--- wine wine whine, the blackbirds run around and fly around harping about Spanish melodies and bones. and everywhere is nowhere--- the dream is as bad as flapjacks and flat tires: why do we go on with our minds and pockets full of dust like a bad boy just out of school--- you tell me, you who were a hero in some revolution you who teach children you who drink with calmness you who own large homes and walk in gardens you who have killed a man and own a beautiful wife you tell me why I am on fire like old dry garbage. we might surely have some interesting correspondence. it will keep the mailman busy. and the butterflies and ants and bridges and cemeteries the rocket-makers and dogs and garage mechanics will still go on a while until we run out of stamps and/or ideas. don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
The hanky he was sobbing into was crusty, ***** unwashed, unclean; yet strangely comforting to a little boy, as he cried he made his way to a culvert behind the school, some place the other kids couldn’t see him crying, it was more comfortable being near rocks -next to that watershed for some reason? He looked down at his antagonist, the scaly-green feet, they made him cry harder, he lamented… “Why have I been tormented so?” “Who gave me these feet? Who made me this way, lizardly, scaly, an animal no?” “What class am I, what species? Are those toenails, claws or a disease?” “The way I’m treated makes me sad. Where is my mommy, where is my dad? “Did I come from an egg? Didn’t we all? Why do they pick on me, make me feel so small?” “My feet are reptilian even I can see that!” “Am I part lizard? Are there horns on my back?” “I can’t hide in sneakers ‘cause the claws tear them apart.” “Not great at math, language or art.” “They always pickin’ on me, today it’s in the schoolyard.” “That is why I sit here on the rocks crying with my ugly feet and sullen heart,” “Cannot run fast so no baseball, basketball or soccer…” “The other kids tried to stuff me in my own locker…” “One mean little girl even threw a dead mouse at me!” “But I’m only part lizard as far as I can see?” “My English teacher says that my words are like a bird song” “If I talk like a birdie along with monster’s feet, no wonder I don’t belong!” “Even still, to be so mean to me, I know that it is wrong…” “ONE DAY I WILL SHOW THEM ALL, THESE FEET THEY HAVE A PURPOSE!” “MY WORDS OF SONG AND FEET OF MAGIC COMBINE A COSMIC CIRCUS!” “I am no freak of nature, no forest Pan or Satyr…” “It is not the way I look, my clothes or feet that matter…” “It is what is in my heart and mind, the things I do that truly count…” “For those things that make us different, for they are tantamount…” “Seven heads, seven stages, seven fables, seven sages” “Seven stars and seven wonders and seven heavens that we’re under…” “And all those things they say are great and marvelous about us…” “Will one day be written in the book by Great Old Uncle Taautus!” *
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 10:29 PM UTC
Scylla’s Son
The hanky he was sobbing into was crusty, ***** unwashed, unclean; yet strangely comforting to a little boy, as he cried he made his way to a culvert behind the school, some place the other kids couldn’t see him crying, it was more comfortable being near rocks -next to that watershed for some reason? He looked down at his antagonist, the scaly-green feet, they made him cry harder, he lamented… “Why have I been tormented so?” “Who gave me these feet? Who made me this way, lizardly, scaly, an animal no?” “What class am I, what species? Are those toenails, claws or a disease?” “The way I’m treated makes me sad. Where is my mommy, where is my dad? “Did I come from an egg? Didn’t we all? Why do they pick on me, make me feel so small?” “My feet are reptilian even I can see that!” “Am I part lizard? Are there horns on my back?” “I can’t hide in sneakers ‘cause the claws tear them apart.” “Not great at math, language or art.” “They always pickin’ on me, today it’s in the schoolyard.” “That is why I sit here on the rocks crying with my ugly feet and sullen heart,” “Cannot run fast so no baseball, basketball or soccer…” “The other kids tried to stuff me in my own locker…” “One mean little girl even threw a dead mouse at me!” “But I’m only part lizard as far as I can see?” “My English teacher says that my words are like a bird song” “If I talk like a birdie along with monster’s feet, no wonder I don’t belong!” “Even still, to be so mean to me, I know that it is wrong…” “ONE DAY I WILL SHOW THEM ALL, THESE FEET THEY HAVE A PURPOSE!” “MY WORDS OF SONG AND FEET OF MAGIC COMBINE A COSMIC CIRCUS!” “I am no freak of nature, no forest Pan or Satyr…” “It is not the way I look, my clothes or feet that matter…” “It is what is in my heart and mind, the things I do that truly count…” “For those things that make us different, for they are tantamount…” “Seven heads, seven stages, seven fables, seven sages” “Seven stars and seven wonders and seven heavens that we’re under…” “And all those things they say are great and marvelous about us…” “Will one day be written in the book by Great Old Uncle Taautus!” *
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I have lived long enough to see the best and worst in ones self. I love the shape of my eyes, I love the curve of my lips. I hate the weird mole on my cheek, I hate the crease in my chin. I love the shape of my chest, I love the curve of my hips. I hate my toenails, I hate my brittle bones. I love my ouward confidence, I love my unconditional love. I hate my worrisome ways, I hate my anxiety. I love my near perfect smile, I love my xylophone ribs. There are days I want to love anyone but me. There are days when loving myself is harder, Than getting out of bed in the morning. But I am done feeling sorry for myself. I am strong. I am powerful. I am radiant. And on some days, I am exquisitly beautiful.
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 2:25 PM UTC
Learning to Love Myself - vol 2
*chaste pecks from the super-sonic youth numb lips flutter to the hollowed cheeks of normality no longer the hand-prints on the guide book to hostility a pamphlet of rudimentary teachings; the principles of tolerance and rebellion and acceptance of human beings a concoction of suppressed psychotic behavior, quick wit, and center of satirical tease constantly moving with heavy footsteps and heavier hearts their minds and bodies plagued with actions from a deserted youth soul lusting over the naivety of people before self-actualization; how crude do they call it an existential crisis or the daily life of a agoraphobic nobody shouts from the depths of caged fears that scrape the oblivious flesh in their brain; a bit gaudy mother, sister, brother, father how your words crush the knots of comfort that line my internal organs bleeding from the pores of my screams; streams of moon-beams shooting out my eyes; oh, not again! stomping our metaphorically spiked toenails against the idealism of pop culture oh, my, how adolescence is the worst kind of torture cherry slushies lined with cigarettes to create a whirl-pool of nostalgia recreational drugs and ironic situations to ease our instinctual sense of proverbial nausea loud-mouthed demons spawned out of clothes-hangers and emotional turmoil show up in our nightmares that we nick-name ‘a good place to contemplate suicide’ repeated imagery stacked like flap-jacks in the mouths of blissed-out sociopaths too self-indulgent to include us in to their personal stories so we can observe, record, and assess i don’t perceive doctors to be particularly and predominantly just and true but i one time met a doctor who told me ‘being a teenager is perhaps the hardest thing you could ever do’*
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 10:20 PM UTC
adolescence (a paradoxical memory lane full of distorted images)
*chaste pecks from the super-sonic youth numb lips flutter to the hollowed cheeks of normality no longer the hand-prints on the guide book to hostility a pamphlet of rudimentary teachings; the principles of tolerance and rebellion and acceptance of human beings a concoction of suppressed psychotic behavior, quick wit, and center of satirical tease constantly moving with heavy footsteps and heavier hearts their minds and bodies plagued with actions from a deserted youth soul lusting over the naivety of people before self-actualization; how crude do they call it an existential crisis or the daily life of a agoraphobic nobody shouts from the depths of caged fears that scrape the oblivious flesh in their brain; a bit gaudy mother, sister, brother, father how your words crush the knots of comfort that line my internal organs bleeding from the pores of my screams; streams of moon-beams shooting out my eyes; oh, not again! stomping our metaphorically spiked toenails against the idealism of pop culture oh, my, how adolescence is the worst kind of torture cherry slushies lined with cigarettes to create a whirl-pool of nostalgia recreational drugs and ironic situations to ease our instinctual sense of proverbial nausea loud-mouthed demons spawned out of clothes-hangers and emotional turmoil show up in our nightmares that we nick-name ‘a good place to contemplate suicide’ repeated imagery stacked like flap-jacks in the mouths of blissed-out sociopaths too self-indulgent to include us in to their personal stories so we can observe, record, and assess i don’t perceive doctors to be particularly and predominantly just and true but i one time met a doctor who told me ‘being a teenager is perhaps the hardest thing you could ever do’*
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you in quail feathers means that your red is my red and the way that you taste pizza is the way that I taste it our homogeneous brains hard mother hard father the states we were raised in melt running through area 41 where the nefarious Rolando implanted our splitting branches qualia what it means for you to have mental states pure consciousness perceiving you there in the corner your toenails still painted purple
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Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC
diaphanous
I've never thought less of you than in begging moment, flipped on smooth river rocks, arms wide on expanded hips, smile fake and expectant. You paddle kayaks in awkward plaids and throwaway sweaters, grinning sweetly at dimples and polished toenails and forgetting my name while I repeat yours in echo. On tall bicycle, you look down at tear-strewn carpet, at lingering rain, and you lean to one side, precarious balance while the sun peeks through the blinds.
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM UTC
Camping
not everyone who holds a pen is a writer. not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey. not everyone who clips their toenails is a podiatrist. not everyone who smokes knows the feeling. not everyone who chokes is a sadist. not everyone who lies is an actor. not everyone who wears a moustache is a communist. not everyone who smiles is the sunlight. not everyone who tries is a failure. not everyone who shouts knows the silence. not everyone who cries knows depression. not everyone who laughs gets the joke. not everyone who speaks is a teacher. not everyone who hears truly listens. not everyone who died really lived.
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Dec 25, 2011
Dec 25, 2011 at 9:41 PM UTC
intolerance
A quiet book of words, from a lonely man in his room Her tiny voice, like pebbles rolling down a stream, surrounded by pines Sand between her toes, humming a song her mother used to sing, forgot the words Holding my head in your arms, blue little room, listening to the wind chimes Your bamboo forest, outside this ***** window, full of ladybugs & grasshoppers Green grass drying to hollow shells, snapped off by careless hands Brushed away by gentle winds, spread among limestone & juniper Standing barefoot on the paving stones, her toenails painted yellow with black dandelions A sip of iced tea, lemon, a bite of steamed rice Trying to put a few thoughts together, letting the day simmer down We'll sit together a while longer, listen to the crickets in the bamboo Waiting, quietly waiting on your voice, the only thing that keeps me dreaming anymore
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May 8, 2011
May 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM UTC
Her Bamboo
it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse a woman, a tire that's flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard... it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he's ready for, or ****** ****** robbery, fire, flood... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse... not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left ... The dread of life is that swarm of trivialities that can **** quicker than cancer and which are always there - license plates or taxes or expired driver's license, or hiring or firing, doing it or having it done to you, or roaches or flies or a broken hook on a screen, or out of gas or too much gas, the sink's stopped-up, the landlord's drunk, the president doesn't care and the governor's crazy. light switch broken, mattress like a porcupine; $105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at sears roebuck; and the phone bill's up and the, market's down and the toilet chain is broken, and the light has burned out - the hall light, the front light, the back light, the inner light; it's darker than hell and twice as expensive. then there's always ***** and ingrown toenails and people who insist they're your friends; there's always that and worse; leaky faucet, Christ and Christmas; blue salami, 9 day rains, 50 cent avocados and purple liverwurst. or making it as a waitress at norm's on the split shift, or as an emptier of bedpans, or as a car wash or a busboy or a stealer of old lady's purses leaving them screaming on the sidewalks with broken arms at the age of 80. suddenly 2 red lights in your rear view mirror and blood in your underwear; toothache, and $979 for a bridge $300 for a gold tooth, and China and Russia and America, and long hair and short hair and no hair, and beards and no faces, and plenty of zigzag but no *** except maybe one to **** in and the other one around your gut. with each broken shoelace out of one hundred broken shoelaces, one man, one woman, one thing enters a madhouse. so be careful when you bend over.
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM UTC
the shoelace by Charles Bukowski
it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse a woman, a tire that's flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard... it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he's ready for, or ****** ****** robbery, fire, flood... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse... not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left ... The dread of life is that swarm of trivialities that can **** quicker than cancer and which are always there - license plates or taxes or expired driver's license, or hiring or firing, doing it or having it done to you, or roaches or flies or a broken hook on a screen, or out of gas or too much gas, the sink's stopped-up, the landlord's drunk, the president doesn't care and the governor's crazy. light switch broken, mattress like a porcupine; $105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at sears roebuck; and the phone bill's up and the, market's down and the toilet chain is broken, and the light has burned out - the hall light, the front light, the back light, the inner light; it's darker than hell and twice as expensive. then there's always ***** and ingrown toenails and people who insist they're your friends; there's always that and worse; leaky faucet, Christ and Christmas; blue salami, 9 day rains, 50 cent avocados and purple liverwurst. or making it as a waitress at norm's on the split shift, or as an emptier of bedpans, or as a car wash or a busboy or a stealer of old lady's purses leaving them screaming on the sidewalks with broken arms at the age of 80. suddenly 2 red lights in your rear view mirror and blood in your underwear; toothache, and $979 for a bridge $300 for a gold tooth, and China and Russia and America, and long hair and short hair and no hair, and beards and no faces, and plenty of zigzag but no *** except maybe one to **** in and the other one around your gut. with each broken shoelace out of one hundred broken shoelaces, one man, one woman, one thing enters a madhouse. so be careful when you bend over.
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going to the horror films at ten years old i wanted to be bitten by the vampire ladies you know the ones red brides from the netherworlds with heaving ******* divinities of evil with that dah look in silky white gowns a little messy from sleeping in the dirt culture vulture goth girls with upside down crosses slags all gauzy bats in the belfry deranged but after all they where dead and dreadfully appealing and I'm pretty fussy so what the hell they walked like floats in marshy air never touching the ground above frozen dark crypt terrains with twinkly bare feet and black high glossed toenails staring out of blood spilled eyes drooling cloudy mouth hollows and a yearning hungry countenance encouraging me to get closer to bite me all over pierce me with needly fangs puncturing little holes in tender me making me leak like bad plumbing until i sloped into the bog below of course, i was panicked all trembly but i had a big one for these evil shadowy ******* too so i thought yes no yes no yes no are you gonna **** me? i asked they drooled ooow okay, i thought is it gonna hurt? they shook there heads yes! and drooled real bad? i inquired further ah ha they lingered glaring drooling i guess, waiting for me to make up my mind oh okay anything for you you dark dreamy girls dilapidated queens of hell with ballet derrières "down and down I go round and round I go in a spin, lovin' the spin I'm in under the old black magic called love" after all at ten years old, i already knew i was a horror ***** and just a little turned on
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 11:58 AM UTC
HORROR ***** ...IM JUST A LITTLE TURNED ON
going to the horror films at ten years old i wanted to be bitten by the vampire ladies you know the ones red brides from the netherworlds with heaving ******* divinities of evil with that dah look in silky white gowns a little messy from sleeping in the dirt culture vulture goth girls with upside down crosses slags all gauzy bats in the belfry deranged but after all they where dead and dreadfully appealing and I'm pretty fussy so what the hell they walked like floats in marshy air never touching the ground above frozen dark crypt terrains with twinkly bare feet and black high glossed toenails staring out of blood spilled eyes drooling cloudy mouth hollows and a yearning hungry countenance encouraging me to get closer to bite me all over pierce me with needly fangs puncturing little holes in tender me making me leak like bad plumbing until i sloped into the bog below of course, i was panicked all trembly but i had a big one for these evil shadowy ******* too so i thought yes no yes no yes no are you gonna **** me? i asked they drooled ooow okay, i thought is it gonna hurt? they shook there heads yes! and drooled real bad? i inquired further ah ha they lingered glaring drooling i guess, waiting for me to make up my mind oh okay anything for you you dark dreamy girls dilapidated queens of hell with ballet derrières "down and down I go round and round I go in a spin, lovin' the spin I'm in under the old black magic called love" after all at ten years old, i already knew i was a horror ***** and just a little turned on
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The steak tartare had painted toenails And manicured hands of polished silk; Mouth with apple, daintily wedged, Floating in a bath of milk. I helped myself to a silky **** Sliced across it's still-pink grain, Seasoned with a squirt of lemon And coarse ground pepper, for a tang. The seasoned broth was the finest gravy To moisten the neat cuts of meat, And sweetened fat, in a frothy pie Ended the repast, with a treat.
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Aug 12, 2010
Aug 12, 2010 at 8:44 AM UTC
The Steak Tartare Had Painted Toenails
I miss Your crazy hair ( It fits you perfectly) Your intoxicating eyes (I want to get lost in them) Your beautiful smile (Especially the evil one) Your cute nose ( I want to kiss it) Your amazing mouth (mmmmm) Your sensitive neck ( I can't wait to kiss it from behind) Your **** shoulders ( I want to caress them slowly) Your  toned arms ( I want you to wrap them around me) Your smooth hands (I want them all over my body) Your perfect ******* ( I want to lick, **** and motorboat them) Your  toned back ( I want to rub it slowly) Your yummy tummy ( I can't wait to kiss it on my way to ...) Your swollen **** (I want to lap and **** it) Your wet ***** ( I long to kiss, lick, finger and **** it) Your incredible *** ( I want to bite it and slap it) Your phenomenal legs ( I can't wait to spread them and have you wrap them around me) Your adorable feet ( I want to massage them for you) Your tiny toes ( I can't wait to paint your toenails again) I miss your body, your mind and your spirit ( I want to be one with you) 22
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 10:19 AM UTC
I Miss (repost because I miss your kiss, your touch and so much more)
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! And if at Mill Valley perched in the trees the sweet rain drifting through western air a white sweating bull of a poet told us our ***** are ugly—why didn't we admit we have thought so too? (And what shame? They are not for the eye!) No, they are dark and wrinkled and hairy, caves of the Moon ... And when a dark humming fills us, a coldness towards life, we are too much women to own to such unwomanliness. Whorishly with the psychopomp we play and plead—and say nothing of this later. And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.
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Hypocrite Women
chapped lips sticky and sweet the popsicle melts and stains my crisp white dress a seagull steals the french fry out of a little boy’s hands, he begins to cry the busker’s sing songs of love and loss, whiskey and wine the boardwalk creaks and i dream of a cold beer on the beach, the melody of waves reuniting with sand like long lost friends the soothing slap of sandals on pavement freckles and homemade jam midnight adventures to the park skinny-dipping in a strangers pool hopscotch and chalk freshly painted toenails the sun gifting us with golden skin and golden hair adirondack chairs and campfires fishing in lady evelyn and portaging in temagami braving the falls at muskegoe and counting the stars while lying on the bridge catching frogs in the pond while drinking coolers in paddle boats sweaty palms and first kisses, nervous anticipation red skies mark the beginning of endless nights i dip my toes in the fresh water and the ripples skew my reflection the man in the moon is happy and so am i
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Dec 7, 2011
Dec 7, 2011 at 3:26 AM UTC
summertime
i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 7:57 PM UTC
flicker, flutter
i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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She sets down her very large glass of Malbec sighs and lights a poorly rolled tampon-like cigarette the look on her face bothers me deeply I open my mouth with good intentions and probably should have said something like "Are you ok?" but what came out went something like You are nothing to me just an **** potato there's almost nothing that you could provoke within anyone except for the cats Yeah, I'd bet you could start the feline revolution with your poisoned toenails and mashed carrots not even seventeen vats of **** could make you more slippery No, I don't want your wet cake just bees, endless mayonnaise and cherry flavoured toxic yoghurt
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Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 at 11:41 AM UTC
Endless mayonnaise
My toenails are metallic blue. My feet are scrubbed and soft. An older Asian woman with leathery skin And crazy soft hands has polished them to perfection. She told me about eHarmony Her slut-clothes Her elderly boyfriend. In an accent I could barely understand She told me about her life. She rubbed my calves with lime green Exfoliants And lotioned my legs With cream-colored juice. Her nails were French-tipped And long. She flicked off the excess polish with them. She does this dozens of times a day. Dozens of pairs of feet. I wonder how many people have heard her story And know about her rich boyfriend. How many people have felt those soft hands On their toes. I wonder where else those hands have been On her old boyfriend.
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May 19, 2010
May 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM UTC
pedicures
Eat the fourth cookie. Bring back that fuzzy green sweater with lint ***** so stubborn that even the strongest lint roller couldn’t break the bond they have with the sweater. I know you pick your nose in public. You stutter every time I ask who lives on Mamaroneck Street. You have burping contests with yourself while you’re on the toilet. I don’t care how you clip your toenails on today’s newspaper. I still read it after you’re done. I love that you paint each nail in a different neon color, eat chocolate chips and green tea for breakfast, and salt your apples. You cry every time you watch Titanic. I agree Rose should’ve moved to the side and shared the plank with Jack. You rap to Baby Got Back fifty nine times in a row. I wish we danced to it more often. I wish you would tell me what you write in your red book. I know you pretend you’re Beyonce in concert while working out, and think Michael Buble wrote haven’t met you yet for you. I love that you keep the ticket stubs from every single movie we see in the tea jar under your bed. You smell of cologne every time you walk into the house. You don’t know how to whisper. You never have. You tell me you’ll be back by noon but don’t come back till 7 p.m. You use your knitting needles as chopsticks when we order sushi, And don’t stamp any of the letters you send your mom. Even though you have seven wallets, you keep all your money loose in your bag and throw away all the pennies in the trash. You pretend your belly-fat is a puppet that can talk and sing, And you flirt with the waiter for extra hot sauce. You hate it when I use your cell-phone And every night you kiss him goodnight at the train station.
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:19 AM UTC
Dear Janice
Eat the fourth cookie. Bring back that fuzzy green sweater with lint ***** so stubborn that even the strongest lint roller couldn’t break the bond they have with the sweater. I know you pick your nose in public. You stutter every time I ask who lives on Mamaroneck Street. You have burping contests with yourself while you’re on the toilet. I don’t care how you clip your toenails on today’s newspaper. I still read it after you’re done. I love that you paint each nail in a different neon color, eat chocolate chips and green tea for breakfast, and salt your apples. You cry every time you watch Titanic. I agree Rose should’ve moved to the side and shared the plank with Jack. You rap to Baby Got Back fifty nine times in a row. I wish we danced to it more often. I wish you would tell me what you write in your red book. I know you pretend you’re Beyonce in concert while working out, and think Michael Buble wrote haven’t met you yet for you. I love that you keep the ticket stubs from every single movie we see in the tea jar under your bed. You smell of cologne every time you walk into the house. You don’t know how to whisper. You never have. You tell me you’ll be back by noon but don’t come back till 7 p.m. You use your knitting needles as chopsticks when we order sushi, And don’t stamp any of the letters you send your mom. Even though you have seven wallets, you keep all your money loose in your bag and throw away all the pennies in the trash. You pretend your belly-fat is a puppet that can talk and sing, And you flirt with the waiter for extra hot sauce. You hate it when I use your cell-phone And every night you kiss him goodnight at the train station.
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