putting on my shirt
the scent of last night lingers
smoke from the fire pit
around which we all gathered
revealing our thoughts and lives.
Day: October 19, 2008
artificial light
poetrythey’re eating you up
piece by piece
those people in your head
(the only ones left to
talk to)
are eating you up
and when they finally let
all the artificial light back in
you know it wont make
you see any better
you know it wont make
you feel any better
and the icicles on what
used to be the sun
hang so low you try
to jump to knock them
down but it’s hundreds
of feet up
the sky is ugly from the
street lights
you feel ugly from the
street lights
and right before they take
the last few bites
those people in your head
(the only ones left to
talk to)
laugh as the incandescent
rays freeze your face.
if i ever write a poem about Cruella de Vil this may be what it says. but we won’t know for sure until i do
poetryblue and golden brown
to be the touch of new
in your otherwise decadent
beehive hair
the home of your frost bitten
heart