I’ve wondered…
IMPLODE or rather how long
Fire. Crock the look it doesn’t really suit you. Suite. Sweeeeeet. How long before the sanity breaks and my skull goes? but the dragons nails are digging deep scores of blood I bellow below and plead plankfully. It’s so much harder now. swallow. Gurlp. Gulp the pain and he saunters away anyway. Its ELEVEN ELEVen I won’t be sleeping much tonight.
“It’s not the same without you lying by my side”
Look over let me keel at you. Penetrate the surface and see the broken glass stuck in the shadows of my veins protruding clogging my arteries and cutting into my _____. Dig deep.
“ the chicken made a pit stop.
where are the original ideas
words seep out my eyeballs
I will not succumb to the pressures
of this twenty-first century idea
of life’s greatest treasures.
I will trash on your Wharton books
and stomp on your Blackberries
before you can BBM for help.
I want people because stick figures
don’t suite my desires
I need that inside.
There’s no emergency button
to get you out
of this beautiful mess.
I’m wasting time,
but I’d rather waste that
than throw myself
away.
Twisted works
behind the job.
He smiles but there
are no beats.
SKIP.
See?
Tom Cruise does.
Poetry can be broken into
phrases but where do I
put the linear algebra?
Version 1:
held back today
she wiggles
in the garbage can
bursts free the chains
fall and she rolls away and away
Version 2:
garbage bursts
chains the fall
and rolls she
away
she away
held wiggles
today back in
the free can
and.
Version 3:
and
can free the
in back today
wiggles held
away she
away
she rolls and
fall the chains
bursts garbage.
Apples beam colors decorated exiting faraway gaga homes
Injured, justifying kinked loops melting nomadically opposite
Purple quaint roosters staged tactfully
Under vagabonds withering xenophobia
yellow
Zion.
I remember silhouettes of strangers but they called themselves Mom and Dad and I remember planes and trains and trucks and buses that took us away from both and I remember tumbling cars and the piercing screams that sheltered them from the storm
I remember broken robot arms and Legos to take up the time and I remember planning on forgetting it all
But I also remember summer nights sprawled on Brainard Road and I remember leaving notes on the sophomore boy’s cars and feeling like we had finally found “our guys”
I remember Junior year basketball games when the spirits brought everyone together forever it seemed
And I remember Sterncrest and looking for the tackiest Christmas lights in town
And I remember sitting in the backseat with tears dwelling in my eyes at the thought of growing out of this
I remember thinking that the tears would never dry.
I remember hating Leo for going to college and letting me face high school alone and I remember him worrying about me always and
I remember telling him that I didn’t need him to protect me anymore. I remember lying about that.
I remember the first time I talked to Jane on the phone and feeling like I wouldn’t rather be doing anything else in the world
I remember when studying for a test always gave you an A and I remember when I realized it wouldn’t always be so easy and
I remember when I wrote notes to remind myself how happy I was.
I remember waters over days and days and took my breath away
