say what you will
what you’re thinking is
boobs
p.s. take that noranoir
say what you will
what you’re thinking is
boobs
p.s. take that noranoir
its awkward when you look
over my shoulder at what
i write and i feel so emasculated
as my words leak from my watched
hands
like a pot… watched…. i dont boil?
the question remains
do i get paid more
for leaving behind skid
marks as i pinch and squeeze
and struggle my way home
knowing i left my house
in far too loose a condition
to be running around with
these lubed up bowels
and making it home
on time?
*sort of?
flight brought tears
not to my eyes
but to an (interesting rhyming concept)
did you ever know that i eat gyros?
i’ve always been a fan of real greek food
i can get plenty at the foodcourt
’cause you are the one who buys me things
they’ve forced me unplugged
and removed my pen from my hand
so i sit emasculated in what
they claim is class all day
weekend long wishing for my
fingers to type something
to be sent into the nether
for your eyes to read because
ive forgotten how to bleed ink
into the canvas that doesn’t
glow with power
thoughts and theories
not of truth but concepts
you say you can say
but dont know how to say them
thoughts without words
do you think them?
i know an old puppy who swallowed a guy
i dont know why he swallowed a guy
perhaps the humane society will come
and take him away and put him to sleep
through some sadly not altogether very
humane means such as a shot through
the leg that they claim is pain free but really
just paralyzes the puppy before the pain
sets in and causes early rigor mortis
but thats just a thought i dont know much
about what happens to old puppies who
swallow folks
flat paper edges on
paper cut fingers from
pulp of evergreen
seems oddly white under
my fingers
its odd for a man so vein as i
to peel back the flesh and find
the underneath so bloody red
and oozing with forgotten pus
with lack of picture support
my words
they atrophy
wishing they’d been backed
by waves or at least a sunset
instead of contrasted so
painfully black on white
and surrounded by
nothing but white space
routine hits morning with a lack
of poetic beauty as i address
your problem of peeing on yourself
by changing your children’s depends
and tossing them to the hall way as
you smile for the camera to say hello
to great grandma and wonder if you’ll
ever know who she is or she’ll be
gone first but now its time for o’s
on your plate or lack thereof and a
nap before its off to the only place
we go all week with childcare and
you smile knowing nothing of what’s
about to be said, or sung, or done, all
the while i just keep hoping you know
hope
joy
lack of fear
before your father did at 20
speaking your muddled mind
you breathe through pain filled
throat ache smoke filled rooms
of unheated cement walls covered
in ancient plaster leaking none
less dangerous insulation drinking
fermented re-gifted tea leaves from
paper pixie sized but not branded
cups thinking these folks understand
your words when really they’re more
fascinated by your fashion statement
of plastic mold poured foot accessories
popular where you’re from but that’s
nowhere near here
you take things so dirty
and word them so beautiful
you cause me to
desire to speak the things
i despise the most
and then back them up with
czech etymologies
for the words i wrote last night
and published into the neversphere
i forget what you said
but your brilliance will live in
the foreversphere
on flight through a campus on two legs
old trees seem newer than beer kegs
we stop to walk slow
on ground they dont mow
“graduate” me to God begs
(others)
worthless
you died and your followers saved
your remains bowing to them even
to this day
(you)
perfect
you died and your followers came
looking for you only to find the living
do not dwell with the dead
hand meets point in perfect
burning harmony giving
messiah-esque scars on the
reality version of the worst
television show ever
literally in a darkroom with some
ancient artifact one called film
whom some like many other things
will argue is artistic because it’s
old but as time wears on eventually
people will pick up paper and say
this is strange…
why so tactile?
and then you’re reminded vanity
is you writing you reminding yourself
of you
and despite it’s otherwise stunted growth
manages to stand on its on 5 legs
and crawl blissfully into the barren
future
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