January 2010
8 posts
“Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s...”
– J.D. Salinger
A wonderfully brilliant man, you will be missed.
New poem from this lazy son of a bitch.
I’ll write you a story.
Your story, in fact.
I’ll clothe you with adjectives
And waltz with you, verbs
Hanging like jewels from
Our necks.
In my head, you see,
I form your live,
In scenes that seem
Too short and perfect.
In my head, you are
The unmarried, troubled
Artist, one who has only
Felt love once, to a character
Of fiction who,
Through bitter words and
Qualms of injustice,...
“I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the...”
– White Oleander
“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a...”
– Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988
Another one? Golly.
Sinking
Into a swell;
Air garbles my throat,
My mouth.
I can hear the stars
I can hear their oxygenated sighs
The pressure encompasses me,
And
I have feeling
A sinking notification in me
That tells me
I won’t be coming up again.
I break the surface,
Bobbing there
In a sunless sea.
Hair in tangles,
In heartbreakingly untamed curls,
Sinking and sinking
...
New poem
This one is untitled, as are most of my poems..
With feathery down
Caught in between the albumen and the dark pit,
Fluttering and frantic,
Soft and
Noiseless.
I watched the creatures,
Watched
And watched them
Dance in
The dying
Orb of helium
That salivated
Its last burst
Onto this
Water-encrusted
World of mine.
These small,
Hollow-boned things
Filled me
Consumed me
Tore at me
With...