I’m obsessed with the trade of
beautiful people and especially wives or slaves
or prostitutes who were at times the most
educated, independent, but those were just
exceptions, weren’t they, unlike the men who
wore their perfumed skins like softest leather
and then smothered them under their
mass delusions of hysteric femurs screaming
about a revolution to come and rip
their penises straight from their bodies,
and I think; whales have a language
we don’t understand, there’s never been
a system of government that doesn’t become
Feudalism in practice. I prayed to a god 3 times a day
just because someone told me t
I didn't know the bridge would fall
or that the water beneath could consume
the last structures of an identity,
when held still I don't
fight anymore.
The architects were ignorant.
I make gills and breathe,
submit to pressure,
the last car to fall is black.
I don't care anymore.
The shore persists.
You are a collection of atoms
expressing sentimental miscellanea,
introverted processes designed by coincidence
to always prove the theory of chaos,
I am unstable,
but you are decomposing. I wonder,
sometimes, if you contemplate futility or peace
or constance or value or the fate of our mortality
in a universe that holds its dead stars
for millennia, a history of dust,
implosions,
but then I remember
everyone does.
And that is what you never learned,
never sought to.
My associative prism
has lost a color
or a shade,
a shape of long grass
from the eyes
of a spun child lying.
I collect evidence
for naivety,
none,
but without abscence.
The blades tripped
into each other,
water beads,
laughter,
shiny leather shoes.
I discovered a man
who makes me feel incomparable
the same way Columbus discovered America:
he existed beforehand and was probably better off
without a directionally challenged sociopath,
no matter what those Thanksgiving crafts
peddle to Neoamerican children.
Regardless, his persistence
withstood my apathetic exterior,
and I like his music even if I don't say it,
"You're okay," translates to something meaningful,
"Pretty great," says exceptional, "I'm really senstive,"
adresses that he knows what he's doing
with his tongue, his lips, his cock,
and ten competent fingers,
but now I'm making excuses. I have a big nose,
countable ribs, narro
Some number of days
become one: a thought bound together
by the number of pills I took, 12 on Wednesday,
you forgot Thursday, when God lets his head rest
a blackhole forms,
and you ask for your poems back.
Maybe I took a reflection gold like yours,
a few back hairs, the phone you bought, a German market,
your accent, but my hand was possessed:
I spun a new era,
knocked around plastic bottles
and shattered a dropper. My lines were perfect,
nothing like the fizzy bits of an atom,
when your car never started,
a roach on the nightstand,
my eye imploded,
but I send my poems back.
The ones on napkins, dollars, candy wrappers,
unduplicated sinew
I wish I'd met you once
in passing, with our friends,
talking equipment and nonsense.
I saw you on Stephanie's instagram,
then onstage behind your drumset,
only wood and white plasma
left of your hands.
Fuck Nihilists,
and Nihilists with Realist guises,
and a Realist who Nihilistically surmises
when he counts his passing days,
graphs millenia beside decades,
defines a pointless human condition
brought on by a predispostion
in our repetitive cognition,
so he says, "
Suffering isn't tangible,
and perspective is a fallacy,
and faith is stupidity,
Charity an inverse to productivity,"
though I can't help reaching --
Tomorrow,
we are shameless specks
in a clear glass.
His teeth were endless,
but sometimes a whistle chirped
when he spoke with his tongue wet,
I snort and grind what's left,
the last day's always best.
He asked for my address,
where my hips split and bent,
but I listened to my head:
that room's been compressed,
and silence settles better
when I hear the lighter crackle
without his lips caked and circled,
my afternoon is running.
Now it throbs outward
from a center which
expands, scripted,
ringing,
though matter remains constant,
pupils dilated and glossy,
his pipe still smoking.
I’m obsessed with the trade of
beautiful people and especially wives or slaves
or prostitutes who were at times the most
educated, independent, but those were just
exceptions, weren’t they, unlike the men who
wore their perfumed skins like softest leather
and then smothered them under their
mass delusions of hysteric femurs screaming
about a revolution to come and rip
their penises straight from their bodies,
and I think; whales have a language
we don’t understand, there’s never been
a system of government that doesn’t become
Feudalism in practice. I prayed to a god 3 times a day
just because someone told me t
I didn't know the bridge would fall
or that the water beneath could consume
the last structures of an identity,
when held still I don't
fight anymore.
The architects were ignorant.
I make gills and breathe,
submit to pressure,
the last car to fall is black.
I don't care anymore.
The shore persists.
You are a collection of atoms
expressing sentimental miscellanea,
introverted processes designed by coincidence
to always prove the theory of chaos,
I am unstable,
but you are decomposing. I wonder,
sometimes, if you contemplate futility or peace
or constance or value or the fate of our mortality
in a universe that holds its dead stars
for millennia, a history of dust,
implosions,
but then I remember
everyone does.
And that is what you never learned,
never sought to.
My associative prism
has lost a color
or a shade,
a shape of long grass
from the eyes
of a spun child lying.
I collect evidence
for naivety,
none,
but without abscence.
The blades tripped
into each other,
water beads,
laughter,
shiny leather shoes.
I discovered a man
who makes me feel incomparable
the same way Columbus discovered America:
he existed beforehand and was probably better off
without a directionally challenged sociopath,
no matter what those Thanksgiving crafts
peddle to Neoamerican children.
Regardless, his persistence
withstood my apathetic exterior,
and I like his music even if I don't say it,
"You're okay," translates to something meaningful,
"Pretty great," says exceptional, "I'm really senstive,"
adresses that he knows what he's doing
with his tongue, his lips, his cock,
and ten competent fingers,
but now I'm making excuses. I have a big nose,
countable ribs, narro
Some number of days
become one: a thought bound together
by the number of pills I took, 12 on Wednesday,
you forgot Thursday, when God lets his head rest
a blackhole forms,
and you ask for your poems back.
Maybe I took a reflection gold like yours,
a few back hairs, the phone you bought, a German market,
your accent, but my hand was possessed:
I spun a new era,
knocked around plastic bottles
and shattered a dropper. My lines were perfect,
nothing like the fizzy bits of an atom,
when your car never started,
a roach on the nightstand,
my eye imploded,
but I send my poems back.
The ones on napkins, dollars, candy wrappers,
unduplicated sinew
I wish I'd met you once
in passing, with our friends,
talking equipment and nonsense.
I saw you on Stephanie's instagram,
then onstage behind your drumset,
only wood and white plasma
left of your hands.
Fuck Nihilists,
and Nihilists with Realist guises,
and a Realist who Nihilistically surmises
when he counts his passing days,
graphs millenia beside decades,
defines a pointless human condition
brought on by a predispostion
in our repetitive cognition,
so he says, "
Suffering isn't tangible,
and perspective is a fallacy,
and faith is stupidity,
Charity an inverse to productivity,"
though I can't help reaching --
Tomorrow,
we are shameless specks
in a clear glass.
His teeth were endless,
but sometimes a whistle chirped
when he spoke with his tongue wet,
I snort and grind what's left,
the last day's always best.
He asked for my address,
where my hips split and bent,
but I listened to my head:
that room's been compressed,
and silence settles better
when I hear the lighter crackle
without his lips caked and circled,
my afternoon is running.
Now it throbs outward
from a center which
expands, scripted,
ringing,
though matter remains constant,
pupils dilated and glossy,
his pipe still smoking.
the first and last signs of succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning
are the yellow post-it notes on the walls reminding you of the upcoming eclipse
and the sheet of welding glass in your skull,
[if the bull with a man's head approaches you at the nexus of the road and tells
the same lie thrice does it become true?]
[if the siren never rises from her bed to make coffee is she anything
but a hag?]
[if the boy in the desert learns to wear the skin of a coyote is he your only
true brother?]
[and if the writer is present at all, has she been speaking to her reflection or just
staring into the toilet wondering about the fleshy pieces that keep
you can't cure sorrow. The rain
on the windshield is painted
by this traffic's color and you
are just the driver.
Other people pass
with faces blearing,
though I do wish
you could see highway
swallowed by a wash
of lightning,
questions spark in halos
of low street lamps as you veer
toward the center,
her laugh is absent,
ceaseless.
Blink your eyes.
She will be at your left and the gust
through the tinted window
will be humid,
you could taste her last spirit
in the smoke and
saliva and
water.
to the girl with hungry footsteps by intricately-ordinary, literature
Literature
to the girl with hungry footsteps
I'm sending all my words back
to the people who need them--
people who wear scars like
war trophies, like jewelry, like
an identification for those suffering
from the same acceptance of
self-hate. this is to the people
who sleep with one eye open, who
cry when footsteps enter their room
at night; this is to the girls
who love by cutting their hearts
into snowflakes and watching
them melt. I left you behind and
I can't be sorry for that.
you are the type of beautiful
that kindly asks the world
to fuck off. the days we buried
have decomposed, headstones are
snapshots; sanitized breakdowns,
rusty tongues, sighs laced
with fear, I love you, I
days eat days
like I eat potato chips
monotonously
on a couch whose
springs have thrown out
their backs no longer able
to hold even the remote up.
it sinks between the seats like
I do every lonely saturday night
or every evening I can’t quite
make it to bed, cupped with
similar back problems,
a similar sag.
I’ve begun to
take after my furniture.
"the only unattractive curve,"
a girl once said to me with a few
desirable curves herself,
"is the one a person develops
in their back.”
we dated for a month and
she called me her
hunchback of notre dome
(it’s dame, babe.)
and I called her beautiful.
just beautiful.
and not
1997 Chevy Monte Carlo by muscularteeth, literature
Literature
1997 Chevy Monte Carlo
For once,
the lanes seem constant
and I place myself at a slush center,
the right-way drift which balances
an unsteady clasp,
my fingers shake to warm themselves.
Months have made the lights
a point, an aspiration,
the pictures of a clean before,
or maybe I am tired.
DOC was the last trip.
The flurry becomes a drizzle.
My mother,
she waits in the kitchen,
a lovely disarray, shadows and lines
design her mouth. Her hair is bleached,
strands tied in memory knots,
a bracelet she gave me
with the same beads
and braids.
She says,
when I was 9
a boy held me down
and french-kissed me,
he was 16 but I,
I talked to him,
I was a girl,
but also a
I wrote you a letter -
tried to phrase a suicide note,
but instead came out
with words that butterfly with hope
and blades that divide decisions
and not wrists. It spoke of love,
of that quiet desperation that I feel
when I am waiting for you to meet my glance,
your averted eyes poised with concentration. It spoke
of how long I waited to build a lifetime
with you, and how in many ways I still am.
It spoke of promises that balloon as uncontrollably
from my chest as panic sometimes drums from
my feet. But mostly,
it spoke of the destructive power of trust;
moment by moment, you destroy my barriers. I
mutilate beyond repair.
We cut each other halflong (simple
cell division) to find answers;
nothing spills out and nothing
floods in and nothing
ever changes.
It is a bleak burden, this
stargazer syndrome, near-sighted symphonic
strangers sipping endless streams of data
exchanging bits and bytes in and of the void.
Dark chasmal pockets
full of doubt, full of fever and strife;
we odds and end-less ebbs flow
back to the sea
as we are teased by landfall.
We will break in the fury
of the sea, depth rising up ash
in the mouth, thick and volatile.
After the fogstorm takes us
down the long dark road to oblivion- when
an unseen sun licks our skin to bronze
and we are melted to crude oil-
then we will know what it is to be gods.
the short answer? writing a novel about a character who was originally a side character in a series of short stories i posted here years ago. the slightly longer version? working a job where i make good money, bettering myself and my life, clean of alcohol and drugs (this time including marijuana) for a year now, and generally just attempting to get through this thing we all call life.
thanks for sticking by.