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To the Williamson Brothers

High noon. White sun flashes on the Michigan Avenue
     asphalt. Drum of hoofs and whirr of motors.
     Women trapsing along in flimsy clothes catching
     play of sun-fire to their skin and eyes.

Inside the playhouse are movies from under the sea.
     From the heat of pavements and the dust of sidewalks,
     passers-by go in a breath to be witnesses of
     large cool sponges, large cool fishes, large cool valleys
     and ridges of coral spread silent in the soak of
     the ocean floor thousands of years.

A naked swimmer dives. A knife in his right hand
     shoots a streak at the throat of a shark. The tail
     of the shark lashes. One swing would **** the swimmer...
     Soon the knife goes into the soft under-
     neck of the veering fish... Its mouthful of teeth,
     each tooth a dagger itself, set row on row, glistens
     when the shuddering, yawning cadaver is hauled up
     by the brothers of the swimmer.

Outside in the street is the murmur and singing of life
     in the sun--horses, motors, women trapsing along
     in flimsy clothes, play of sun-fire in their blood.
shaun Aug 9
I had longed to wash your clothes alongside mine,
For them to share that space outside of ourselves.

And now, I am trying to wash you out of them.
They lay beside mine tainting everything I own
with memories of you.

I had longed to exist alongside you,
Even trapsing behind you would have sufficed.

And now, I am running to keep up;
Begging you to turn around.
But on you go, without me.
for an old flame, may you go out eventually.
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
I'm at your side, Love, I'm at your side
My Heart is begging for your attention
Why should seeking that be a thing of contention?
To you my truest words abide
I'm at your side, Love, I'm at your side

I'm at your side, Love, I'm at your side
I'm tired of trapsing the labyrinth
And exalting you on passion's plinth
I wish I could go, retreat and hide
But I'm at your side, Love, I'm at your side

I'm at your side, Love, I'm at your side
There's nothing left for me to say
I wish that I could have my way
But I'll be cynic expecting love to, away, glide
When I'm at your side, Love, at your side
Jason Myr Jun 2019
To all those in which we place our trust
Guide us along this emerald fuss tossing and turning an twirling an churning
Drifting us to the further place
Never mind your wasted grace
****** upon this time in now
Toward the ones we would endow
With All of our sorrow all of our lust we gather and form beneath the dust

Awaken us we beg of you we are a shaken race
No malice or mercy saves us from our predestined fate
Through tides of tears in this fateful hour
Tune in to the vibration
Do you perceive the method behind the mad owls power?

Rising from the silver lake i find
Too many players are at stake
Far too much noise an ground to cover
Not enough time to heal eachother
Find me where we were to avoid
Hollow, devoid of energy crashing down
Trodden on earth on sacred ground
I found myself in a hallowed town

Suddenly and quietly i was wisked away
Slowly but surely i will find a place to stay
But Stay with me
Within this life
There is too much to bare without a wife


When you find yourselves among the few
Celebrate and begin anew
No nostalgia for moments passed
But instinct and a memory to last
Drawing not but need be
When trapsing around his realm
Look at them the little ones
Falling asleep to the sound of guns
Can not give them peace of mind but i will take what has been signed
Taken by darkness the void you are mine

Born with a memory
Do not forsake this fact
Our ancestry is our power
Mingling bloodlines attract
destiny hopes to provide
But without a self in sight
Barely a lunatic no sense of right
Madness is the lie

Sadness is an old friend systematically erasing the fires spark
a particular chemistry coursing in the dark
The peculiar feeling that you may bare the mark
I didn't die.
I felt the sun on my inner eyelids.
It appeared on time,
Trapsing from the east.
Later, I last saw it dropping like a child's ball
Just west of the St. Clair, into Michigan.

All is all right.
But I know to expect
Changes in the weather,
And seasons... lots of seasons...
I will dress appropriately.
its not unlike humanity to seek answers. we look toward our largest, most near satelite and; well nothing--at least until a few decades ago. Nothing more could be done than to gaze at its surface and ponder the texture and deformations of its outer most layer. we have, since, spent billions of dollars to, in my best aproximation, spend a few hours there trapsing around on it. to smash a golf ball a little bit farther than one could on their best day on the green.

the stories contained herein, are little more than testaments of how individuals, without golf clubs let alone space craft, have sought the same relationship with foriegn textures.

and, while these inner-efforts have been as costly as those toward our moon, and that their gleanings have been equally fleeting, and the fact that their experiences provide more questons than answers, it remains that, just like our excursions toward a spinning rock, the dabblings of psychonauts are just as much an undertaking of a serious narrative--whether personal or univeral.
and here we find ourselves half-way understood, and even less understanding searching for a narrative. yes, and now, the narrative may even be abandoned in search of it, as DiVinci would have never imagined the telescope without first dreaming to travel amongst the stars.
may these entries be only a comma in a Proustian sentactical excursion. a pause amidst a thought still forming. a psychological hypothesis, equally ready to be both further tested or discarded.
it may have begun

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