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"windshields" poems
You shouldn't kiss guardrails Because they have chapped lips And the jagged edges Will slice your tongue Whenever you touch them You shouldn't kiss guardrails Because metal on metal Isn't a forgiving sound But you already know that From when you had your first kiss And you were each wearing braces You shouldn't kiss telephone poles Because they are sensitive And will bite your lip with an electric current But not in the way that you were hoping And rear view mirrors aren't for decoration But you never bothered to look at them When you were desperately switching lanes And speedometers aren't for your entertainment But you always enjoyed watching the needle fluctuate As though your life depended on it (It did) And the high beams of oncoming cars Aren't Christmas lights in restaurant windows And crashing through the windshields Won't bring you any closer To the apple pie the bakery down the street made That always reminded you of home And even though you no longer recognize The town you grew up in Or the boy you fell in love with You shouldn't kiss guardrails Because they might kiss you back But not in the way that you were hoping.
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Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 11:54 PM UTC
You Shouldn't Kiss Guardrails
If I were a cup of black coffee you take me just the way I am. If this were a thanksgiving dinner you'd be the turkey and I'd be the ham. I'm the water and you're the sea I'm the sailor and what I really mean is; you complete me.  If this were a battery you'd be the positives and I'd be the negatives. If I were a holiday you'd be the festive's. If this were space you'd be the stars that form my galaxy. If I were a driver in New York, you'd be my taxi. If I a flower and you the bee, then it's clear to see that what I really mean is; you complete me. One ways, u-turns, dead ends and yields, green lights, left lane merge and a squashed bug on my windshields. If I were a Bic ballpoint pen then you would write out every sin. If this were it, it would be the greatest love there has ever been. Road signs and paper, fantasies and nature cannot help to say in such a little way that all I try to convey that what I really mean is; you complete me. If I were a song you'd memorize my lyrics  If this were February 1990 it would be Hold On by Wilson Phillips If I were a comic book, you'd be my nerd. If you were a photographer I'd be your bird.  If I a cold night and you the book by a fire, then I'd be the Hobbit and you'd be my Shire. If I a cup and you the tea then all there is left to say is...
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM UTC
Complete: A Valentines Day Poem
Would a blue ballpen without ink just lie To die, like the children of our past needs, The mouths of their thinning souls leeching Our piety, our profanity, our tendency to build society Off faces and masks,                               Individual fragments of ourselves. Would one give a thousand pesos to he who smears Windshields with soap to take a few coins hostage Or to she who exhibits a gaunt infant, an offspring Of want, not wanted, the wear and tear of a rough World manifest on emaciating juvenile skin. Would one Give a thousand?                               Would one commit a kiss? When mere change can buy a pen with its full blood, What then is the worth of the bleeding, the bearded Blind on the somber sidewalks of forgetfulness where Without ink, it ceases to be blue, and unable to write,             He has no need for a pen. The world is writing his story,             He is only there to punctuate with his blood.
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Jul 12, 2012
Jul 12, 2012 at 11:56 PM UTC
Utility and Humanity
She said people were seasons, and when I first met her, I couldn't agree more.   After getting to know her, I wished that I didn't. Her ex-lovers were Winter, and her eyes were a shade of Spring. I could see the vulnerability of a car crash swimming in each fountain trapped behind her emeralds. She was beautiful in the way that could cause suicides, and fix spider-webbed windshields after each collision of, “Are you okay,” and, “I’m fine; I promise.” Every story was Winter, and she was always left alone in the snow. Mauve lips mouthed words that silently whispered, "When is this too much? When are you going to leave?" People are patterns, and all she knew was the tessellation of temporary love and permanent loss. Her hands trembled as she looked down. She was in transit; moving after each hope of home fell apart. And I wanted to kiss her like the world was falling apart.
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 9:48 AM UTC
Shade of Spring
Walls and gates kept her away from what she needed but didn't want Beds of white cotton submerged in what she thought she didn't feel Dusty pens in a dusty cup on a dusty desk She hammered at armor that she had been hammering at for years since she was a young child binding the pieces but secretly looking for cracks to break out of Kicking *** and taking names but throwing the names away Ripping keys out of the typewriter Every fifth letter scratched into porcelain skin Soap stripping her of what made her normal But there is no normal She was still abnormal Trying to open herself to let the oxygen-free blood stain her outline so she could be seen for a moment Just one moment and then get erased by everyone else like always She wanted to fly and shine but there were others already shining and flying Sun flashing and illuminating her skeleton Her skin transparent while lit by the sun Her heartbeat skipped and stopped and faltered She tried to lose herself in everything she could You could say she was selfish but you could say she just wanted to be found, though, by the right person There is no right person because anyone can break a shell but nobody cares enough to see what kind of radiance will light up the universe Nobody cares that with every single word she is thrown through windshields Shards of glass scathing her inside and out Drowning in pristine lakes of beautiful love and joy How painful to not be able to inhale while drowning in pristine lakes of lovely happiness She could feel the currents rushing past her fingers but couldnt hold on But she wanted to She wanted to hold on
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM UTC
Cruise Ships
Walls and gates kept her away from what she needed but didn't want Beds of white cotton submerged in what she thought she didn't feel Dusty pens in a dusty cup on a dusty desk She hammered at armor that she had been hammering at for years since she was a young child binding the pieces but secretly looking for cracks to break out of Kicking *** and taking names but throwing the names away Ripping keys out of the typewriter Every fifth letter scratched into porcelain skin Soap stripping her of what made her normal But there is no normal She was still abnormal Trying to open herself to let the oxygen-free blood stain her outline so she could be seen for a moment Just one moment and then get erased by everyone else like always She wanted to fly and shine but there were others already shining and flying Sun flashing and illuminating her skeleton Her skin transparent while lit by the sun Her heartbeat skipped and stopped and faltered She tried to lose herself in everything she could You could say she was selfish but you could say she just wanted to be found, though, by the right person There is no right person because anyone can break a shell but nobody cares enough to see what kind of radiance will light up the universe Nobody cares that with every single word she is thrown through windshields Shards of glass scathing her inside and out Drowning in pristine lakes of beautiful love and joy How painful to not be able to inhale while drowning in pristine lakes of lovely happiness She could feel the currents rushing past her fingers but couldnt hold on But she wanted to She wanted to hold on
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Lazy sundays with the sad glow there’s nothing to be sad about except that it is all over of course, my one day off vanished outside blowing meager paychecks emerald hillsides topped with leaves abutting, climbing the city plunged into histories soon gone like the cold, gold sun gleaming off the ribbon of the tarmacked road we returned to from our escape peering back through the car’s windshields
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Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018 at 1:15 AM UTC
sunday outside
mom betrays us. headlights into the night & up the breakneck boulevard bluff overlooking town and terminus. she brings his heart in a ziploc bag, an offering to that old burnt-out oak. [husband\father\corpse] front porch blood trails forever. she claims self-defense and the camera-eyes caramelize her fame & fortune & stepdaddies & book deals & ziploc pb&js & dead dog omens. when did the heartache begin? heir\son\brother\body racing car ****** and fluxed up the boulevard in a ritual reach for daddy and the oak. the girls are waiting. one two three, seeds. brakes sabotaged. he bursts into death, a molten ball of mazda. father and son laugh there on the brim of here and hereafter. apparitions uncoiled. [home movies] where mercury avenue ends the woods begin. & those woods are evil, an eldritch place, she laughs. even the indians wouldn’t bury their dead there. america. caught between the whir of spokes and windshields reflecting sky and skin, the blue hue of television flickering on the hands of a family. grandsons conjure grandmaster demons on the ply of their treefort high. the heart of grandma in a ziploc bag. jupiter and saturn are in conjunction, twelve past midnight on a tuesday in september. a school night. [the babysitter brings over an unlabeled video tape, says its scary] the children watch. slumber party screams and pb&js. ghouls blunted by pungent neighborhood inertia. son, a ghost returned in rhythm and electronics, hungry for pizza and pure vengeance.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 12:32 AM UTC
ritual
mom betrays us. headlights into the night & up the breakneck boulevard bluff overlooking town and terminus. she brings his heart in a ziploc bag, an offering to that old burnt-out oak. [husband\father\corpse] front porch blood trails forever. she claims self-defense and the camera-eyes caramelize her fame & fortune & stepdaddies & book deals & ziploc pb&js & dead dog omens. when did the heartache begin? heir\son\brother\body racing car ****** and fluxed up the boulevard in a ritual reach for daddy and the oak. the girls are waiting. one two three, seeds. brakes sabotaged. he bursts into death, a molten ball of mazda. father and son laugh there on the brim of here and hereafter. apparitions uncoiled. [home movies] where mercury avenue ends the woods begin. & those woods are evil, an eldritch place, she laughs. even the indians wouldn’t bury their dead there. america. caught between the whir of spokes and windshields reflecting sky and skin, the blue hue of television flickering on the hands of a family. grandsons conjure grandmaster demons on the ply of their treefort high. the heart of grandma in a ziploc bag. jupiter and saturn are in conjunction, twelve past midnight on a tuesday in september. a school night. [the babysitter brings over an unlabeled video tape, says its scary] the children watch. slumber party screams and pb&js. ghouls blunted by pungent neighborhood inertia. son, a ghost returned in rhythm and electronics, hungry for pizza and pure vengeance.
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The doors of the churches and the schools are closed. No decent people are on the streets, Where we see sad crimes and horrible abuses. Many windshields are broken by badly thrown stones. Violence rains in the streets and in the corridors; No dogs or cats dared to vent outside. A few meager birds, on the branches, stare with disdain And amazement several thugs and charlatans with masked faces. It is sad to see these heinous crimes. How awful! There is a hostile war? One wonders which party will win? We can hear the voice of an old man coming somewhere Who shouts faintly, "We are all poor victims, sad tramps, Who are committing suicide for bad politicians, for misers. " Not too far, we can see a crazy woman with a close friend, Both in rags. It's a nightmarish image that proves That the country has become a hell on earth. On the radio, they say That some ships of the United States Navy are in the harbor. What are they doing on our territory? We flee, Or we do not flee? We cannot. Everyone is in prison. Violence snows blood on the streets of a tropical country, where fear Reigns. Children do not dare to play in the streets, where terror Hisses like snakes, like machine guns of the enraged demons. No war is civil or civilized; war among the same people is also violent And nefarious. My God, things are very bad in the streets nearby. Violence is raining and everyone is crying. Victims are everywhere at bay, Waiting for the arrival of the good angels, who shall come perhaps in a few months. Copyright © June 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry. This is a translation of the poem La Violence Pleut Dans Les Rues by Hebert Logerie
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM UTC
Violence Rains In The Streets
The doors of the churches and the schools are closed. No decent people are on the streets, Where we see sad crimes and horrible abuses. Many windshields are broken by badly thrown stones. Violence rains in the streets and in the corridors; No dogs or cats dared to vent outside. A few meager birds, on the branches, stare with disdain And amazement several thugs and charlatans with masked faces. It is sad to see these heinous crimes. How awful! There is a hostile war? One wonders which party will win? We can hear the voice of an old man coming somewhere Who shouts faintly, "We are all poor victims, sad tramps, Who are committing suicide for bad politicians, for misers. " Not too far, we can see a crazy woman with a close friend, Both in rags. It's a nightmarish image that proves That the country has become a hell on earth. On the radio, they say That some ships of the United States Navy are in the harbor. What are they doing on our territory? We flee, Or we do not flee? We cannot. Everyone is in prison. Violence snows blood on the streets of a tropical country, where fear Reigns. Children do not dare to play in the streets, where terror Hisses like snakes, like machine guns of the enraged demons. No war is civil or civilized; war among the same people is also violent And nefarious. My God, things are very bad in the streets nearby. Violence is raining and everyone is crying. Victims are everywhere at bay, Waiting for the arrival of the good angels, who shall come perhaps in a few months. Copyright © June 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry. This is a translation of the poem La Violence Pleut Dans Les Rues by Hebert Logerie
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The tangerine stained race track spread across our **** carpet, a turn by the wooden bed frame, a loop near the five piece drum set. My brother’s fingertips gripped a Hot Wheel by its rear end, its rubber wheels greeting the track, propelling it forward, launching it into another plastic vehicle, and Crash. I nursed the toy cars through emergencies, playing doctor to replace cracked windshields and torn plastic bumpers, victims of one too many collisions. It alarmed me how easily the 1976 Mustang could lose its wheel, sending it spinning like a dreidel while my brother grinned with splintered teeth, feeling nothing. The car survived the impact, but people don’t always walk away from accidents. They can’t be raised on jack stands and tinkered with. The operation table, home to drivers with fluttering heartbeats, can hum to the deafening beat of a flat-line monitor.
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Feb 2, 2014
Feb 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM UTC
Hot Wheels Circa 1999
1) 12 thousand tweets and none of them are substantial. They're becoming less and less about you though. Maybe that's what is substantial about them. 2) Something in the way you wrap sin in worship. 3) I'm an arson waiting to happen, is the funeral pyre really necessary? 4) Writing about you angrily isn't doing it anymore. I want to smash bricks through windshields that used to hold flowers I bought you. 5) Looks like you're not at the bottom of this one either. **** 6) My love has always been leprosy. 7) You're the interlude, not the chorus. But, that's okay I'm a terrible vocalist anyway. 8) She wants to date boys that are self aware and boy did she hit the jackpot. 9) You smile with the grace of grandmothers and I'm a bad boy like your grandpa after the War. 10) Can I cut out your grin and put in on the wall next to my framed poster of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski? 11) Trace my outline in chalk when I finally drink myself to sleep. I'm euthanizing the pieces of me that belong to you. 12) If I find you in Heaven won't you be in his arms? If I find you in Hell won't you be my torment? 13) You make me feel as insignificant as God does and I think that says something about prayer. 14) I quit paying my phone bill so I'd quit dialing your number like a suicide hotline. 15) My teeth are rotten like the lies that spill out of my teeth. You find me beautiful and I've never been more self-conscious. 16) Your silence fills my abdomen like daggers and words clot where crimson should flow. 17) Loving you is ************ 18) My heart is at a crossroads and you're drowning in dust in the rearview mirror. 19) You prefer the subtle burns. The flames so hot they sever nerve endings when they lick your fingers the way I imagine I would. 20) She sings the body electric and I'm forced to worship her through computer screens and the scratch of needle on vinyl.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 6:08 AM UTC
Twitter Poetry Vol. 3
1) 12 thousand tweets and none of them are substantial. They're becoming less and less about you though. Maybe that's what is substantial about them. 2) Something in the way you wrap sin in worship. 3) I'm an arson waiting to happen, is the funeral pyre really necessary? 4) Writing about you angrily isn't doing it anymore. I want to smash bricks through windshields that used to hold flowers I bought you. 5) Looks like you're not at the bottom of this one either. **** 6) My love has always been leprosy. 7) You're the interlude, not the chorus. But, that's okay I'm a terrible vocalist anyway. 8) She wants to date boys that are self aware and boy did she hit the jackpot. 9) You smile with the grace of grandmothers and I'm a bad boy like your grandpa after the War. 10) Can I cut out your grin and put in on the wall next to my framed poster of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski? 11) Trace my outline in chalk when I finally drink myself to sleep. I'm euthanizing the pieces of me that belong to you. 12) If I find you in Heaven won't you be in his arms? If I find you in Hell won't you be my torment? 13) You make me feel as insignificant as God does and I think that says something about prayer. 14) I quit paying my phone bill so I'd quit dialing your number like a suicide hotline. 15) My teeth are rotten like the lies that spill out of my teeth. You find me beautiful and I've never been more self-conscious. 16) Your silence fills my abdomen like daggers and words clot where crimson should flow. 17) Loving you is ************ 18) My heart is at a crossroads and you're drowning in dust in the rearview mirror. 19) You prefer the subtle burns. The flames so hot they sever nerve endings when they lick your fingers the way I imagine I would. 20) She sings the body electric and I'm forced to worship her through computer screens and the scratch of needle on vinyl.
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i. caren forgot about her morning.  caren forgot it was wednesday.  caren had an event and she was not there. caren is a shadow.  caren is an absence of space.  caren is a gap that people shy away from, women in black dresses sidestepping past her memory. caren is a woman with a streetcar.  caren is a woman with an office job.  caren is a woman with a social network.  caren goes to functions.  caren is no longer a function, but a product of her own actions. caren forgot herself. ii. shattered windshields. broken glass like triangle teeth. more monsters lurk in mirrors than in the recesses of the closet.  behemoths wait by water coolers, demons sit in sweaty three-by-fours.  the devil wears a motorcycle helmet and caren hasn't learned from her mistakes. iii. run a red light.  it's december and she's egging on the new year.  frosted features and blinkers hide hot flashes.  she's impatient for her age, a businesswoman at her best.   a shift in gear. a change in mood.  road rage, road rash.  a few words from a dark knight on a whinnying bike. iv. lane changes and unintentional nudges. motorcycle launches the devil like a dove to heaven. caren stays earthbound, blood spilled to nourish the ground.  fertilizer runs through her veins, and vampire trees in city parks drink it up. bystanders drink it up. v. caren is a casualty.  caren is the victim of her own habits. caren is a corpse in a coffin. caren is an elephant in the viewing room.   caren is to blame in eyes and minds. caren is condemned in whispers, but caren is lamented out loud, so caren is proud. caren got **** done.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 8:19 PM UTC
sinner
i. caren forgot about her morning.  caren forgot it was wednesday.  caren had an event and she was not there. caren is a shadow.  caren is an absence of space.  caren is a gap that people shy away from, women in black dresses sidestepping past her memory. caren is a woman with a streetcar.  caren is a woman with an office job.  caren is a woman with a social network.  caren goes to functions.  caren is no longer a function, but a product of her own actions. caren forgot herself. ii. shattered windshields. broken glass like triangle teeth. more monsters lurk in mirrors than in the recesses of the closet.  behemoths wait by water coolers, demons sit in sweaty three-by-fours.  the devil wears a motorcycle helmet and caren hasn't learned from her mistakes. iii. run a red light.  it's december and she's egging on the new year.  frosted features and blinkers hide hot flashes.  she's impatient for her age, a businesswoman at her best.   a shift in gear. a change in mood.  road rage, road rash.  a few words from a dark knight on a whinnying bike. iv. lane changes and unintentional nudges. motorcycle launches the devil like a dove to heaven. caren stays earthbound, blood spilled to nourish the ground.  fertilizer runs through her veins, and vampire trees in city parks drink it up. bystanders drink it up. v. caren is a casualty.  caren is the victim of her own habits. caren is a corpse in a coffin. caren is an elephant in the viewing room.   caren is to blame in eyes and minds. caren is condemned in whispers, but caren is lamented out loud, so caren is proud. caren got **** done.
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walking through the big flea market off of highway 19 north of Tampa looking for whatever and something curious and kitsch or campy merchants selling in the parking lot used blenders and old cameras burnt out or faulty devices DVD cases and game cartridges old rednecks shout out opinions in a cacophony of drawled signifiers representing visions of despotic rulers reigning a tyranny of taxes and decline old glass containers and windshields shine scattering high afternoon sunlight in the Sunday sky sitting and resting used and content waiting waiting for the wear and reduction of time the market continues into indoor aisles criss-crossing within a ramshackle structure plywood walls supporting sheet metal roofing an aroma of every greasy food wafting into one people wrapped in worn fashions whites in Ts and denim muslim women in headscarves a black deputy strapped down in uniform the deputy enforces commerce laws around the alternative marketplace a variety of commodities are still available bongs and e-cigs and incense and **** **** parakeets cry out down one aisle a stack of blue aquariums drone a bubbling hum the stench of cedar and rat **** and hamsters reptiles basking in the arid glow of heat lamps all is right in America’s America the flea market is the floorboard of that promise an opportunity for anyone to begin or start again and over and over a liberal conservatism can be guarded well with rifles or tazers at bargain rates a conservative liberalism is applied openly in the atmosphere of everyone for anything and everything the dream of the flea market a black market and a carnival all of America’s cheap art on display its people swirled into one equal in their struggles and desires reaching for resources and derivatives buying low and selling higher stealing and selling short walking through the big flea market on a hot and cloudless Sunday afternoon looking for whatever or something it’s a fun thing to do originally posted to my blog https://sublimeobscenities.wordpress.com on 4/27/2014
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 1:17 AM UTC
flea marketing
walking through the big flea market off of highway 19 north of Tampa looking for whatever and something curious and kitsch or campy merchants selling in the parking lot used blenders and old cameras burnt out or faulty devices DVD cases and game cartridges old rednecks shout out opinions in a cacophony of drawled signifiers representing visions of despotic rulers reigning a tyranny of taxes and decline old glass containers and windshields shine scattering high afternoon sunlight in the Sunday sky sitting and resting used and content waiting waiting for the wear and reduction of time the market continues into indoor aisles criss-crossing within a ramshackle structure plywood walls supporting sheet metal roofing an aroma of every greasy food wafting into one people wrapped in worn fashions whites in Ts and denim muslim women in headscarves a black deputy strapped down in uniform the deputy enforces commerce laws around the alternative marketplace a variety of commodities are still available bongs and e-cigs and incense and **** **** parakeets cry out down one aisle a stack of blue aquariums drone a bubbling hum the stench of cedar and rat **** and hamsters reptiles basking in the arid glow of heat lamps all is right in America’s America the flea market is the floorboard of that promise an opportunity for anyone to begin or start again and over and over a liberal conservatism can be guarded well with rifles or tazers at bargain rates a conservative liberalism is applied openly in the atmosphere of everyone for anything and everything the dream of the flea market a black market and a carnival all of America’s cheap art on display its people swirled into one equal in their struggles and desires reaching for resources and derivatives buying low and selling higher stealing and selling short walking through the big flea market on a hot and cloudless Sunday afternoon looking for whatever or something it’s a fun thing to do originally posted to my blog https://sublimeobscenities.wordpress.com on 4/27/2014
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a daunting bolero sends a shiver through a dream a forlorn melody haunting a hazy delusion crooning on a whimsical note and breaking a melancholy tone an elusive song opens into an abyss of mambos and rumbas that thrill like a superfluity of delicious electricity strumming at our deepest treasures buried in woebegone memories seeping into our cellophane heads and enveloping our entire being until we heave our way back to reality and dissolve into a sea of people who are only twinkles in the scudded windshields of a rococo world
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Nov 4, 2012
Nov 4, 2012 at 9:03 AM UTC
sing a song
My friends all think I'm crazy because I stand in the middle of the street and talk to a God that doesn't exist while high-fiving the windshields of passing school buses. I stopped taking my medication again because guilt taste a lot better than artificial happiness, and I stopped wearing that cross you bought me for my eight birthday because it contradicted the sense of uselessness I received for my twelfth. Life seems a lot less precious when you're talking to your parents in the TV room of a psychiatric unit and look them in the eyes while they tell me not to cry and say that 'pain is only temporary'. All I do is write letters to a man on the moon about the time I realized how hard and easy it is to die. Send me to therapy and make me take pills. I'll smile, but I'll always remember how to tie a noose
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM UTC
Things I'll Never Tell My Parents (No. 1)
I used to eat ice cream on a pretty strict and regular schedule. The anticipation for those designated nights consumed my naive mind. Now, on the nights that used to mean sweet, supple mounds of delicious bliss, however brief, I drink Missouri water from a thick, old, dusty glass. As I tip the last drops into my mouth, I see a mysterious stain (or is it a clump?) on the bottom. Fortunately, I think to myself, whatever that was didn't get into me. Water runs through. It cleans out. It leaves nothing behind but undesireable water spots in sinks and on windshields mascara lines tracking down cheeks to squeeze between pushed up ***** and dead worms on the sidewalk, evicted by the flood of this life-giving, breath-taking rain, waves, that drink when your lips are cracking and you feel as if your mouth is filled with cotton, when you look at a ***** puddle and think, my GOD am I thirsty. Ice cream melts in the mouth. It refreshes in the heat of summer, it teases the tongue with sugar and milk and so many seductive flavors. It's best on special occasions, even though it's desired all the time. Sometimes it can be bought with the change found on a scavenger hunt in a car, and other times, it can't. But even as the frozen delight slides off your tongue and into your stomach, your tastebuds tremble at the lack of sweet. They spite you with a bitterness and a dry, sticky feeling, and your teeth feel coated with a grime you can't seem to lick off. You keep wiping at your lips, for you can't shake off the notion that you got some of the experience on your face. I'm not even going to mention the calorie content of what you just downed. And sometimes, if you're like me, too much can make you choke. Your throat and lungs seem to be tucked within a terrifyingly tight Chinese finger, and each spoonful is a desperate attempt to escape only to fall farther into a trap I like to call love.
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May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM UTC
Ice Cream Habits
I used to eat ice cream on a pretty strict and regular schedule. The anticipation for those designated nights consumed my naive mind. Now, on the nights that used to mean sweet, supple mounds of delicious bliss, however brief, I drink Missouri water from a thick, old, dusty glass. As I tip the last drops into my mouth, I see a mysterious stain (or is it a clump?) on the bottom. Fortunately, I think to myself, whatever that was didn't get into me. Water runs through. It cleans out. It leaves nothing behind but undesireable water spots in sinks and on windshields mascara lines tracking down cheeks to squeeze between pushed up ***** and dead worms on the sidewalk, evicted by the flood of this life-giving, breath-taking rain, waves, that drink when your lips are cracking and you feel as if your mouth is filled with cotton, when you look at a ***** puddle and think, my GOD am I thirsty. Ice cream melts in the mouth. It refreshes in the heat of summer, it teases the tongue with sugar and milk and so many seductive flavors. It's best on special occasions, even though it's desired all the time. Sometimes it can be bought with the change found on a scavenger hunt in a car, and other times, it can't. But even as the frozen delight slides off your tongue and into your stomach, your tastebuds tremble at the lack of sweet. They spite you with a bitterness and a dry, sticky feeling, and your teeth feel coated with a grime you can't seem to lick off. You keep wiping at your lips, for you can't shake off the notion that you got some of the experience on your face. I'm not even going to mention the calorie content of what you just downed. And sometimes, if you're like me, too much can make you choke. Your throat and lungs seem to be tucked within a terrifyingly tight Chinese finger, and each spoonful is a desperate attempt to escape only to fall farther into a trap I like to call love.
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The sun is surrounded by puffy clouds Wind is blowing leaves around I smell rain in the air and feel Tiny drops hit my skin The rain falls slowly and the wind picks up and the rain is now heavy with rumbles of thunder in the distance. The heavy rain smacks the leaves as it's hurled to the ground. It's falling fast and the water plummets into pools of muddy water making a splash that smacks the ground. Rain on the tin roof sounds like pebbles hitting the metal. The rain slows down and you can hear the cars passing by hitting the water that splashes their windshields. (Still working on)
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Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 at 4:03 PM UTC
The Smell of Rain
**I exist to resist all your heavy-headed hits. Your words in stone, more absolute than death. The way you glance below your jagged bridge, a grin dried in arrogance. Your footsteps frighten the earth, but cease to shake my defiance. Gravels cave, underfires exposed. But even then I'll swim, in your ocean of shallowness, tigers on my tail, Paradise Mirages mocking my waterless skin, even then, I said, I will swim to the Revolution's Shore. Nevermind your ignorance, seeing blue skies and arguing them RED. Deluded certainty, swearing on a man's soul to prove your point and feed your obsession. I say "yes", you say "of course", but no doubt I'm in the wrong. I say "maybe" you say "perhaps, and so you've proved your wisdom blind. Mastered conspiracies, you've convinced your lies true. In your mind you walk on water, as you strike your soles on mere tar. Governor's Confetti lay dead on Governor's Ground; fool's bravery in act, leading souldiers from behind. This world, The Principal's Playroom: clay towers and cars, play moneys and guards. In the sun, your tin castles smile and glimmer in the shine. But inside, hollowness reigns and you fail to see. Eyes and Eyes fall to your sleep, calamity by the masses as you care not to care. Seconds linger as misted windshields shield the drunk driver, and not even the death he brings can break the glass. Deaf man with hearing ears, the blind one who can see.**
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Sep 9, 2013
Sep 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM UTC
GOVERNOR.
The kind of cars that I like, are those 87' monte carlos, subs big as aircraft carriers in the back. Gold spoke wheels, able to turn holes in the sky. Chameleon paint jobs, green and full in the sun, fading to black and glossy in the shadows. When I was a teenager, the kings used to ride by in the monte carlos with open windows letting loose a humbling roar so loud that it put ubiquitous vapors into the air. The neighborhood smelled like the thumping and the hard hum of their vibrating windshields. The kings always let the car slide slowly in neutral, and as they took stock of their domain, Their glossy gold fronts made you realize why gold was so important each tooth looked like a tablet of commandments. Our wife-beaters were stained with ketchup and other things that bleach could never get out, and we smelled funny. But the kings wore hawaiian shirts and smoked cigars. The kings were the preachers. One of the kings was Luke's brother, whenever he stopped at a corner we'd pile around putting our fingerprints everywhere until he told us to **** off, don't you have any home-training?" Luke would stand closest, squinting as he leaned on the driver-side window, all that bass hammering his bones. "How much did you pay for it?" Reggie would ask from the back, peeking his head over, trying to see the king. The king would smile, and say "enough." we'd all be rapt. He'd get a call on his cellphone, and we would come up with crazy numbers. Luke didn't even know how much was "enough". The kings held the secret of god and power. I wanted to be as close to god as they were, I wanted to know the secret to contentment. I wanted to come back home with money like the kings with gold teeth.
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Nov 24, 2011
Nov 24, 2011 at 12:42 PM UTC
Monte Carlo.
The kind of cars that I like, are those 87' monte carlos, subs big as aircraft carriers in the back. Gold spoke wheels, able to turn holes in the sky. Chameleon paint jobs, green and full in the sun, fading to black and glossy in the shadows. When I was a teenager, the kings used to ride by in the monte carlos with open windows letting loose a humbling roar so loud that it put ubiquitous vapors into the air. The neighborhood smelled like the thumping and the hard hum of their vibrating windshields. The kings always let the car slide slowly in neutral, and as they took stock of their domain, Their glossy gold fronts made you realize why gold was so important each tooth looked like a tablet of commandments. Our wife-beaters were stained with ketchup and other things that bleach could never get out, and we smelled funny. But the kings wore hawaiian shirts and smoked cigars. The kings were the preachers. One of the kings was Luke's brother, whenever he stopped at a corner we'd pile around putting our fingerprints everywhere until he told us to **** off, don't you have any home-training?" Luke would stand closest, squinting as he leaned on the driver-side window, all that bass hammering his bones. "How much did you pay for it?" Reggie would ask from the back, peeking his head over, trying to see the king. The king would smile, and say "enough." we'd all be rapt. He'd get a call on his cellphone, and we would come up with crazy numbers. Luke didn't even know how much was "enough". The kings held the secret of god and power. I wanted to be as close to god as they were, I wanted to know the secret to contentment. I wanted to come back home with money like the kings with gold teeth.
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we can paint this whole city gold like a giant oil spill, blinding and much much heavy on your tongue and enlist a gleaming marching band whose buttons are falling off, the tuba player is a gum chewer, there are mint chunks caught inside, barely playable all she can do is honk we’ll get limos with cracked windows and yellow fire trucks, with flat left tires acrobats in risqué costumes that little boys will point and giggle at with sick clown faces, sick clown faces white, 7 or 10 layers of powder and people from the slums of Uganda/Somalia/Niger or something, poor areas won’t be hard to find, foreign tenants who live in dirtied-down shacks and we will release from plastic cages, doves that have lost their pure color that have been injected with toxic who-knows-what to be captured hookers with big hair from the streets of large cities, they will blow kisses at the children and wink at grown men pigeons will **** on the windshields, and the air will be so thick with pollution and filth that no one will be able to see the deflating balloons of Mickey Mouse. it will be The Biggest Parade the-world-has-ever-seen.
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Aug 1, 2010
Aug 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM UTC
The Biggest Parade the-world-has-ever-seen
Please come save my body from my soul. Even my fingernails ache with the weight Of those thousand wine-induced truths. Every eyelash carries a lost dream, Neverlands and rain on windshields In which I go nowhere in the night in a car I can’t drive. And my calloused heels! Imperfections rendered by faulty directions, U-Turns, And Leaps of Faith I’m surprised when my chest still rises and falls And that breath still whistles through my nose When all these bricks lay there, Heavy and unmoved. My body will someday reject me, I fear. Too many sleepless nights and coffee cups Will shatter me So please save me
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM UTC
Rescue
**** feelings Hurt feelings Good feelings and bad feelings Feelings about **** all feelings. **** crying Crying can **** the **** off Catch your tears with your tongue Wiping them away is attention grabbing It’s ******* crass. **** shouting **** screaming **** pounding windshields **** putting your fist through a wall **** your ****** hands Get a ******* hold of yourself. Also **** your joy **** the light in your eyes **** your inspiration **** your wisdom **** your compassion **** that **** **** burning eyes **** tender throats **** holding and hurting and grasping and missing and dying Go **** yourself.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 8:14 PM UTC
Untitled
Maybe she sees Gentle rays of the sun Glimmer from my face Just like how I see her: The light in the darkness Of life's obscure fog I wonder if she feels The warm summer breeze That would slowly blow Upon her soft cheeks Whenever I speak The same breeze I feel When she tells me Nothings and somethings I hope she feels The slight glow Of white moonlight When my arms wrap around her The very same glow Whenever her arms Lock themselves behind me Sending me a message To never let her go I wish she forgets seeing The heavy rains That flood the roads on my face Whenever I asked If I were enough for her Or if I were too much to handle I wish she understands The cyclones in my head That clap thunder and flash lightning Whenever the anger in me Boils the chaotic saltwater And creates tsunamis In the vast ocean of my mind I wish she forgives me For the hailstorms in my words That fall to the ground And break like glass shards That shatter windows and roofs And car windshields and windows I am a force of nature
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Mar 1, 2017
Mar 1, 2017 at 8:29 AM UTC
"I am in love with a force of nature."
I guess they've adapted to our debris the wedge of geese flying north over south bound traffic the hawks perched on top of parking lot poles and the great blue heron paddling air with enormous wings shadowing hissing lawns and lifeless pools but what about us hands clenched on wheels weary eyes scanning mirrors and windshields wingless and waiting for red to turn green Tom Spencer © 2018
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Mar 19, 2018
Mar 19, 2018 at 8:09 AM UTC
but what about us