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"truculent" poems
@X5 BMW vehicles are truculent Where have the real blondes gone to? Bring back Orion Pictures to remake Doom Watch, resurrect Analogue tv, ban militant cyclists from the roads and yes the Chartists were right annual suffrage too.
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Dec 23, 2012
Dec 23, 2012 at 7:07 AM UTC
Christmas wish list
"May be true what I had heard, Earth's a howling wilderness Truculent with fraud and force," Said I, strolling through the pastures, And along the riverside. Caught among the blackberry vines, Feeding on the Ethiops sweet, Pleasant fancies overtook me: I said, "What influence me preferred Elect to dreams thus beautiful?" The vines replied, "And didst thou deem No wisdom to our berries went?"
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Berrying
slippery light boasts languid limbs gestating in mercurial puddelings awaiting the destruction of their tender shafts by some pale passing fle(she bears its ethereal glow on her pallor in the second of that truculent divergence )
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May 5, 2010
May 5, 2010 at 11:45 PM UTC
slippery light boasts
in the east a dry man stumbled through the lush panacea of a dessicated prayer his faith moved mustard gas. gasping for clarity, he spoke a thing no god could answer. he languished in the Eden of empirical Dodos a succulent squab in the oasis of fables. he joined the throng. his shackles were mended. his bonds, repaired. in the west - a rye bread crumbles along a path to a candy house - to a furnace of blank stares. it waits moonlit and rustic, alas - it's mad and verily cloaked in a thing no ' nothing ' would ask for. it leads to a breach. weary of " who knows ? " a truculent husk of a drought mislabeled. an actual flood. it rankles the vision... it plots despair. in the north, a gunga din fumbles through the arid Earnest of our Importance. There - we play crude brass. Profundo. at last, we nearly... and even though we wide spark the char of our scorched affair we vanquish any Southland and the warm sun frosts a glass eye like pyrite. and polly wants a lacquer, dark enough to maroon...
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Jun 14, 2013
Jun 14, 2013 at 10:24 AM UTC
Taxidermy Sundial
,,,"---"",,"",,---,,,""" palpable piquant pastel scream surrounded by portentous dream seafoam and symmetry loquacious land shuddering snow and sibilant sand caustic, cocaphonous calypso clouds awed by the eloquent elongated shrouds burnt to mere nothingness negated, naught turbulent truculent trickling thought dense and dowdy docile and dubious rousing and rowdy quiet and studious grating, gallumphing gruesome ground supine and succulent *asymmetrical sound* soulsurvivor (C) 6/22/2015
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 5:54 AM UTC
asymmetrical sound
To him all women are hallowed minus those that hustle themselves. How instantly and cunningly they commit truculent acts yet never bribed by mischief except by rendezvous.
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Sep 7, 2012
Sep 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM UTC
The Womanizer
Most of all. it's the truculent desire hardly shielded, creating whirlwind, shaking the woods of my mind, then insistent fingers in an ****** day dream,touch intimately to arouse my hood, those  robust waves inch forward to my shores, I shudder,again and again, like a sea swell, in an intense want, we are engorged, a mania for the moon, slouching behind the clouds, your eyes had always spoken gently, yet brewed storms. I sense a wish that yearns culmination in my invasion, full luscious red lips, smeared with the spices  of amour, their own symbolism eloquent, as wet they are, whispering yes, yes coal black eyes can't hide the eagerness, they peer, your body, now so tender has a tremor,anticipating my touch, you are ready for a journey together, to the far deeper ends an impatient waterway, aren't you,awaiting my row boat, for a fervorous exploration together, through the watery canals
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 7:03 AM UTC
Most of all, it's the wild vibes your desire do not wish to hide
**I nip your soft bud ever so tenderly during my nightly visits to make you open your eyes, and blush, I love the flush spreading on your cheeks mademoiselle,                      but you bit my probing lips lovingly hard, it gave me new ideas that you didn't expect me to carry out in presence of morning mist, curious that peeped from outside the limits of this quaint pond. I love the honey seeping out without any effort from my part, I am a blue beetle that loves to smear yellow pollen all over. Look! your buds aren't soft now, ***** they have become truculent, if they want to rub me wrong do you think, I'll back off? I am game for a tete-e-tete, better now, than later. A beetle that find cozy warmth within the purple folds of your petals tight, every night; being a lotus you should know what I seek, let's get it together, single-mindedly warm, fragrant, cuddly lover.**
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM UTC
what the beetle told the lotus
Ow lover of roses, I can't sweep through your phone Because your phone is full of thorns Ow lover of roses, I can't sweep through your phone Because your phone is full of thorns I can't look into your screen, Find eyes that are not mine; next to yours Not in twine. I can't look at texts and hearts When hearts take us back to starts Of what we had And what we have And what we will have Is nothing but post modern art; Little bits of writings And rhymings that don’t rhyme because my heart cant keep a beat And my beats cant keep up with your schedule. Ow lover of roses I can't see the red in your pedals I just envision me pedaling away; I can't see the red in your tender touches I witness the tender touches caressing the redness off of someone else's eyes; I can't; See you and me in a room, Talking about nothing Yet infesting in void conversations about the nothingness of what we got I can't; See the tips of teeth when you smile I can see the tips of teeth when you're truculent; Trucks, Exiting and transiting Through my arteries While I'm sitting And spitting Lame poetry As you snap chats with shots of nonchalant lens-like tentacles, Rapped round around the sound of dust My heart is echoing Following a path you've set. Ow lover of roses Cried the lonely man In a so lonesome night, As he looks at the stars and moon Realize the missing lines And the misinterpreted patterns To pattern Saturn with Venus and Mars down to earth; Proving pitiful love-like lures Luring man since birth. Ow lover of roses, Roses in the shape of smarties or sandals Or chocolate cakes with no candles I cant handle, The scent you send with roses that bend To fall in my hand And end up plucked in the end.
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 8:18 PM UTC
Ow Lover of Roses:
Ow lover of roses, I can't sweep through your phone Because your phone is full of thorns Ow lover of roses, I can't sweep through your phone Because your phone is full of thorns I can't look into your screen, Find eyes that are not mine; next to yours Not in twine. I can't look at texts and hearts When hearts take us back to starts Of what we had And what we have And what we will have Is nothing but post modern art; Little bits of writings And rhymings that don’t rhyme because my heart cant keep a beat And my beats cant keep up with your schedule. Ow lover of roses I can't see the red in your pedals I just envision me pedaling away; I can't see the red in your tender touches I witness the tender touches caressing the redness off of someone else's eyes; I can't; See you and me in a room, Talking about nothing Yet infesting in void conversations about the nothingness of what we got I can't; See the tips of teeth when you smile I can see the tips of teeth when you're truculent; Trucks, Exiting and transiting Through my arteries While I'm sitting And spitting Lame poetry As you snap chats with shots of nonchalant lens-like tentacles, Rapped round around the sound of dust My heart is echoing Following a path you've set. Ow lover of roses Cried the lonely man In a so lonesome night, As he looks at the stars and moon Realize the missing lines And the misinterpreted patterns To pattern Saturn with Venus and Mars down to earth; Proving pitiful love-like lures Luring man since birth. Ow lover of roses, Roses in the shape of smarties or sandals Or chocolate cakes with no candles I cant handle, The scent you send with roses that bend To fall in my hand And end up plucked in the end.
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The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 6:29 AM UTC
Who will defend our defenders
The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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No...more...bickerin, your eyes flickering you're nickering your nit pickin' lost it quick as the Dickens My tracks a hell of a kickin' you're just the next feckin victim, of the flow bound Hurricane of sense and rhythm, The Sensemilla Sensei Kempei of verbal Kempo's home, Like Alladin and Saladin mixed with a Party Boobytrap a Paladin of Palindrome... The Storm rider glider blasts you through the  other side of the Thunderdome My - Spitfire drips Ire as ********* ***** fire Surprise in your eyes quick blast from the past from a .50 Cal Microphone- Fiend in me soul under control you failed your roll, will check failed-I check wills,its a Checkmate mate you-best quill your will and will to build some soul Its a dill of pickle you're in - you're a nickle worth of Nickleback stickleback sticklebricking best Lego I let go last, I'm the Legolas of the fast pass in the underpass stick you fast now you're stuck fast I buck fast at your glass of Buckfast the Truculent, ever vigilant-words are Succulent got you diggin' in diggin' out a liddle bit of Lidl in a stolen digger,move quicker stop the friggin' in the riggin' little Pigpen Pigeons time to drop the bridge in...
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 6:08 PM UTC
Demonic Mnemonic Part Two
This poem indicates my scatergorized pattern of thought We are a generation of gas masks and 3D glasses Now we are a nation of bullet proof vests and USB drives Grotesque regurgitated shallow sympathy Universal imagery I’m no type of Sadducee In medicated revelry Mood disorders and bipolarity Inspiration Found at the bottom of a decanter from Macedonia Truculent truths and the opposition of common place thought Andy why am I so indignant prey tell? Because I Am Drunk Ha ha ha
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 11:46 AM UTC
California Burgundy
Unexpectedly he has been cracked Squarely across his dainty skull Inevitably to his knees he languishes Supplemented by a concussion Havoc is illicitly wreaked upon the delicacy Of this young man's psyche As another swift, sucker punch is executed Stylishly into his jawbone Followed by an unforeseen series Of frenzied jabs to the nose The anguish screams through the brooks Of crimson oozing from his nostrils While a dangerous haymaker Shockingly arises from thin air Sinking fiercely into his cornea Rupturing the veins in his eyeball A circular crown of black envelops The entire surface of his left eye Oh, the gruesome consequences of Applauding the eminence of nonexistence A truculent knockout that will truly Abduct one into an eerie coma And rightfully deliver them back to The portion of reality where they belong
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Aug 28, 2011
Aug 28, 2011 at 4:54 PM UTC
K.O.
the leaden wetness of an October snowfall cloaks branch and bough of woefully laden trees the pressing mass a weighty strain prostrates mighty hardwoods to autumns cold ground as a truculent Nor'Easter claws its way through the uneasy Mid-Atlantic night, the crash of creaking maples and popping oaks persistently echo through the black woods of this trembling evening power flickers perplexed grids go down extinguishing the warmth of suburban house lights the growing aggregation of crushing pressure on tensile taxed branches snaps the firmest wood an incessant barrage of thumps and dings splatter against the house while the shuddering uncertainties of frightened children rise as each limb clatters to earth our cowering bivouac draws the incessant fire of a harassing fusillade from legions of invisible snipers as swooping gusts threaten to relieve more arboreal tension praying limbs fail to pierce the safety of thinly tiled roofs our abiding hope remains to escape the next random blow of fate the night of falling trees stirs our sleepy hamlet from an uneasy midnight slumber 10/29/11 Oakland jbm
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Nov 8, 2011
Nov 8, 2011 at 9:38 PM UTC
The Night of Falling Trees
Violent and truculent you found it chaotic and frantic There were shed emotions Emotions that are now stitched into the earth They melted into it under the hottest setting sun Sticky and wet are your clammy hands The clothing attaches to your back with water The pressure is now released from your eyelids Your delicate eyelashes levitate without effort There is a sincere beauty amongst your collection of tissues and bones Bring me to the sea I yearned So I could connect your beauty with the beauty of the whole world I want to see you lie in the shallow water on top of the bed of sand I want to see the pieces of sand smeared across your fingertips underneath the deep blue light The deep blue light is the colour of sheer delight It is the colour that I perceive to be happiness. It is the colour of unmatched infinity. My smile is the taste of yellow lemon rind.
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 7:06 PM UTC
Unmatched
A long time ago in Sleepy Eye Minnesota at Christensen Farms Feed Mill, a boisterous young pig named Ralph was waiting for his brother, Milo. Ralph hadn’t seen Milo in almost three hours, because Milo made a SLANDER against Ralph. So, Milo had went off in the big truck SAGELY with Farmer Tim, so he could avoid Ralph’s BRUTALITY. Ralph thought that was PRESUMPTUOUS and he was TRUCULENT.   Ralph will soon live VICARIOUSLY through Milo’s stories once he returns. Once Milo returns Ralph corners Milo. Milo backs away from his angry brother's bared teeth, then he slips. now he’s hanging off the cliff holding on with only his front hooves,with Ralph's hooves pressing down on his. Ralph lets go, and says with great EARNESTNESS; “have a nice fall!”
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 11:03 AM UTC
Pig King
Long is the road narrow is the belief all wonders must cease when cessation is the culmination of the future. Born of the luckless truculent madmen slash their hands at the nothing The road is long the belief is narrow All eyes can comprehend the ether inner lids conceal the purity in our nightmares. Sahasrara opens in a bloom of ten thousand petals Long is the belief the road is narrow The ceiling of reality cracks and finally it is revealed All myths are real... All truths are imaginary.
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Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 8:27 AM UTC
All Truths Are Imaginary
She had always been a dreamer never believing 5"2 had been the issue. A Napoleon comfort complex cultivated Believing personal leadership was inevitable St Helena would never be an option. Her akimbo pose was to die for. ADÉLIE, of  sometimes higher ideal your eyes gaze without feeling across the Channel deemed possibly truculent. Blinded by this scary Palladium you should only untangle due blame.
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Nov 17, 2012
Nov 17, 2012 at 6:42 PM UTC
The Channel Obsession
three years I worshipped in the red brick cathedrals by the ugliest lake on the planet, but I was cast out of the holy halls, with mounds of Mellaril, and other sacred potions in pill form   to see the “outreach caseworker”, though I never knew what she was reaching for   my husband had divorced me, both my sons were in Dallas, dealing cards at Wall Street casinos,  holding the aces for themselves or a chosen few, like I really knew anything about what   filled their days   my sister took me in, fed me finger foods, had her maid bathe me   and invited the ghosts from my past into her house   they all hugged me and told me how nice my hair looked   now that I was no longer yanking it out by the fist full   and choking on it as it went down     they smelled of sycophantic scents from Macy’s and Neiman Marcus, and I longed for the odor of my cellmate, who had to be submerged in a steaming sea once a week, after they had pumped enough of Morpheus’ brew in her to mellow a mammoth     I missed her, and her truculent silence and the way her arms writhed in her jacket, like so many snakes squirming to be free, or perhaps those were the last sin eating serpents in their death throes, but I would never know for in 1000 days and 1000 nights, her jacket was never removed, for the white ones feared what   black storm waited inside, so they allowed it to hide   someplace in her fetid carcass   now when I look across the charcoal stillness of my room, cluttered with dead distractions, I imagine her there, on her cot, producing anthems on mad marching afternoons, or singing lullabies in evenings last gasps, all without making a sound,   then my eyes well with tears, for I know she would miss me too, and worry what I was doomed to hear and smell now that her mystic music and stench were stolen from me
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
fragrant ladies rocking, part two--cast from the sanctuary
three years I worshipped in the red brick cathedrals by the ugliest lake on the planet, but I was cast out of the holy halls, with mounds of Mellaril, and other sacred potions in pill form   to see the “outreach caseworker”, though I never knew what she was reaching for   my husband had divorced me, both my sons were in Dallas, dealing cards at Wall Street casinos,  holding the aces for themselves or a chosen few, like I really knew anything about what   filled their days   my sister took me in, fed me finger foods, had her maid bathe me   and invited the ghosts from my past into her house   they all hugged me and told me how nice my hair looked   now that I was no longer yanking it out by the fist full   and choking on it as it went down     they smelled of sycophantic scents from Macy’s and Neiman Marcus, and I longed for the odor of my cellmate, who had to be submerged in a steaming sea once a week, after they had pumped enough of Morpheus’ brew in her to mellow a mammoth     I missed her, and her truculent silence and the way her arms writhed in her jacket, like so many snakes squirming to be free, or perhaps those were the last sin eating serpents in their death throes, but I would never know for in 1000 days and 1000 nights, her jacket was never removed, for the white ones feared what   black storm waited inside, so they allowed it to hide   someplace in her fetid carcass   now when I look across the charcoal stillness of my room, cluttered with dead distractions, I imagine her there, on her cot, producing anthems on mad marching afternoons, or singing lullabies in evenings last gasps, all without making a sound,   then my eyes well with tears, for I know she would miss me too, and worry what I was doomed to hear and smell now that her mystic music and stench were stolen from me
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my town has managed to be hit with a snow storm every winter since you left last fall we were visited by a hurricane that managed to demolish every power source, yet my mind would not shut off i can remember how loud the wind was and how i could scream at the top of my lungs without my family hearing me but it was usually like that anyway this year, i met you and you decided to come into my life and also decided to leave so **** quickly, i was watching the news the day you left and a tornado was going strike down and destroy everything and disappear and it was funny because they named it after you so i sat there, and realized chivalry had died a truculent death but now its almost winter and the tornado didnt touch much of my fallow land and the rain poured down as the temperature changed turning rain into hail pungently piercing my fragile skin and my anxiety raged because i felt another storm coming in but some boy came by and stood over me with an umbrella and kissed my forehead and it hit me harder than any storm that you find who you need when you need them you cannot simply be a storm chaser without getting damaged by the storm
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:15 PM UTC
storm chaser
we talk to autumn about his delayed decay; the truculent end and tousled beginnings of hibernation. how did you term the coming of the razored howls. will you calm the smothered pebbles in chalked glass or leave them. what do you say of the canopies’ demise. fallen in a big mesh bag to measure litterfall. and when door-mice bite into slumber where can you hide as your leafy raindrops turn to stone.
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Feb 17, 2012
Feb 17, 2012 at 9:39 AM UTC
Exchange
you bring out the truculent psyche inside me, the darkness within, the seven deadly sins. i embody lust because like glass i am grains of sand struck by lightning, paralyzed with fascination, morphing into the constant craving i never was before. i represent envy because you are on the other side, and the other side doesn’t know how lucky it is to have you; your lingering breath and soul. i am sloth because like all lonely mortals, deficiency of love, the absence of you withdraws me from passion and fervour, for non-fictitious emotions. i exhibit wrath because our bones once clinched tightly together have shattered beneath. your touch is now foreign, this vexes me and i am spiralling down an infernal of self-loathe. i symbolize gluttony because i often indulge within the taste of your lips, your beguiling smile all without which i feel astray, swimming in an ocean of lost love; i yearn for you excessively, to be with me, only me. i am both pride and greed infused into one because i am still persistently craving for more, yet too vain to openly admit it to the world. you have spun me over and pulled me apart, now i’m a sinner with you perpetually in my heart.
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 11:32 AM UTC
seven deadly sins
Deliciously Tempestuous a fire burns inside her heart   sending waves of passion all aglow impetuous intensity when she arrives you surely will know her eyes will melt your very soul leaving you wanting more but you cannot contain her love this beauty remains forever free   her truculent tenderness spins your heart a whirl like the roses petals belie her thorny ***** her untamed desires will leave a feverish desire for her touch Gomer Lepoet...
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 11:15 PM UTC
Deliciously Tempestuous
Why this ant, (just being serious or truculent, male of female who can tell?) likes to run up my left leg biting here and there. what is it trying to arrive at? Is it my accurate taste, or some thing other than that? what is in its mind?
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 11:58 PM UTC
why this ant.............?
My blood is not red anymore It is not even rufous It is achromatic I’ve seen it go to a watery grave with moonshine It drowned for a foolish fluid one so dimwitted it forgot the word “No” could be spoken to bring their negligent ears into ******* (And not me) My blood rushed out In it’s gloom I wanted to emulate it and exit my body just as they entered What a theft What a “five-finger discount” Literally It was a perfect portrait A gun kissing the crown of my head and my indifference towards the money in the cash register that I called my soul-case If I’d even had any left My lips moldered shut They don’t like parting anymore Two buds charred sorely as a pen that speaks only in black ink I searched every crevice of that washroom for a noose I found my reflection and thought that close enough So there I hovered hung up on my mirror image suspended by two claws honed with dejection My eyes slammed taut My pulse ******* bones in my face and gnawing itself with prowling fluorescents I grazed the scuffs on my thighs I hadn’t put there for once Then I remembered the nausea snarled up in their cheeks Their words like spiders I don’t know where they’ve gone and I don’t want to “Is it that time of the month?’ said the shorter, more truculent boy and he sniggered I stood submerged in hard edged a laugh that liked to wrench my ears and make rounds on nights hot and heavy with languor and perhaps, had I not been so small or weak of muscle had I worn a different dress or forgotten to coat my lashes had I sipped on tea instead of ***** I could’ve flagrantly pushed them away Darted not with my eyes, but my legs I could’ve screamed “Get off me you scumbags!” until my throat shriveled up into a dried cranberry But I didn’t Instead I’m screaming on a piece of paper Because the worst that happens here is a paper cut.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 6:16 AM UTC
Violation
My blood is not red anymore It is not even rufous It is achromatic I’ve seen it go to a watery grave with moonshine It drowned for a foolish fluid one so dimwitted it forgot the word “No” could be spoken to bring their negligent ears into ******* (And not me) My blood rushed out In it’s gloom I wanted to emulate it and exit my body just as they entered What a theft What a “five-finger discount” Literally It was a perfect portrait A gun kissing the crown of my head and my indifference towards the money in the cash register that I called my soul-case If I’d even had any left My lips moldered shut They don’t like parting anymore Two buds charred sorely as a pen that speaks only in black ink I searched every crevice of that washroom for a noose I found my reflection and thought that close enough So there I hovered hung up on my mirror image suspended by two claws honed with dejection My eyes slammed taut My pulse ******* bones in my face and gnawing itself with prowling fluorescents I grazed the scuffs on my thighs I hadn’t put there for once Then I remembered the nausea snarled up in their cheeks Their words like spiders I don’t know where they’ve gone and I don’t want to “Is it that time of the month?’ said the shorter, more truculent boy and he sniggered I stood submerged in hard edged a laugh that liked to wrench my ears and make rounds on nights hot and heavy with languor and perhaps, had I not been so small or weak of muscle had I worn a different dress or forgotten to coat my lashes had I sipped on tea instead of ***** I could’ve flagrantly pushed them away Darted not with my eyes, but my legs I could’ve screamed “Get off me you scumbags!” until my throat shriveled up into a dried cranberry But I didn’t Instead I’m screaming on a piece of paper Because the worst that happens here is a paper cut.
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