I'm still counting chromosomes and odd numbers
still playing hopscotch over the symmetry
of your shoulder blades, your whispers
skipping 'cross the seventy percent water
the one forty proof rum, still running
running sheep
until we can sleep,
we,
that thing they called relationship
something common, like counting
rocks at the bottom of a wishing well.
I am slipping through, sliding into
a seamless cervix, and she's serving
throat lozenges in the mean time,
mean time and mean country
serving time in this union, this marriage,
they served cough and coffee
held the Capricorn, held up the register
held the infant to the sag
worms they said,
worm like wood they said
in the underbelly of her bonds,
in the something we termed domestic
we termed it pet and we termed it love
we termed it a virtue, anything a virtue.
we terminated her ill our relation ships
the vessels that will carry these mites they
breast stroke like the Monarchs,
and hang-glide the dolphins arch,
the dog just will not make it they said
and every bitch has its day
so make love they said
with the sweat of the sun,
with the pillows of the pavement.
somehow we will make it
so they said.
so I said I love you in panic,
I love you under a busted fire hydrants shower.
remember? &
that i do
still creep low the repressed
engine steam, the smoke upon
an afterglow of a shadow
snug deep with false teeth in
my own anomaly,
my own. wishing there,
i
were a way.
eyes kiss
away
the candle smoke
ever green your i's and
take the rag to time,
take it to the Blues.
it is me still playing for
any of us
anie oves us
eny ov us
to get her
again on the evergreen
it is me and it is me
with a half of u
lying into 1
or
too some 1's others
half
ever say
ever green
eyes.
if only we could
"kill pigs by letting them become
shits peanuts".
[phase 3]
we met in stables
where above
the soiled doves
drank from the
fermenting sun.
where the backing
track was set to
she said she and
she says with froth,
"the slaughtering of
the market stock",
if only and only if
WHO could save her
and if only swine flu.
[phase 4]
that my fear rises with
an onset of winter creeps
from healthy slum greets
her suburban sty, we are
clawing to keep quarantined
from this cherubim's dream.
she is squealing my ear with
"change! yes we can!
YES WE CAN!"
yes she can, spare change-
begging for bailout
and a l
cat feces made me do it by seeyouinjune, literature
Literature
cat feces made me do it
my pet,
servile, obscene and so rabid
that she dribbles down
the side of my mouth
and over my chin.
my animal,
never migrates,
never hesitates,
but these children do
when summer turns 'round.
swimming the rainbows
of my slobbers grease
with broad strokes.
but my organism,
you see, she never laughs
anymore, never dances
anymore, she insists upon
keeping all of thirty-four
vertebrae columns towards me
at all intervals of sleep
forced to house myself
in my cold thoracic cage.
*
the lint provides the inspiration.
the dead animals provide the loneliness.
the art provides the malnutrition.
the propaganda provides the
I'm still counting chromosomes and odd numbers
still playing hopscotch over the symmetry
of your shoulder blades, your whispers
skipping 'cross the seventy percent water
the one forty proof rum, still running
running sheep
until we can sleep,
we,
that thing they called relationship
something common, like counting
rocks at the bottom of a wishing well.
I am slipping through, sliding into
a seamless cervix, and she's serving
throat lozenges in the mean time,
mean time and mean country
serving time in this union, this marriage,
they served cough and coffee
held the Capricorn, held up the register
held the infant to the sag
worms they said,
worm like wood they said
in the underbelly of her bonds,
in the something we termed domestic
we termed it pet and we termed it love
we termed it a virtue, anything a virtue.
we terminated her ill our relation ships
the vessels that will carry these mites they
breast stroke like the Monarchs,
and hang-glide the dolphins arch,
the dog just will not make it they said
and every bitch has its day
so make love they said
with the sweat of the sun,
with the pillows of the pavement.
somehow we will make it
so they said.
so I said I love you in panic,
I love you under a busted fire hydrants shower.
remember? &
that i do
still creep low the repressed
engine steam, the smoke upon
an afterglow of a shadow
snug deep with false teeth in
my own anomaly,
my own. wishing there,
i
were a way.
eyes kiss
away
the candle smoke
ever green your i's and
take the rag to time,
take it to the Blues.
it is me still playing for
any of us
anie oves us
eny ov us
to get her
again on the evergreen
it is me and it is me
with a half of u
lying into 1
or
too some 1's others
half
ever say
ever green
eyes.
if only we could
"kill pigs by letting them become
shits peanuts".
[phase 3]
we met in stables
where above
the soiled doves
drank from the
fermenting sun.
where the backing
track was set to
she said she and
she says with froth,
"the slaughtering of
the market stock",
if only and only if
WHO could save her
and if only swine flu.
[phase 4]
that my fear rises with
an onset of winter creeps
from healthy slum greets
her suburban sty, we are
clawing to keep quarantined
from this cherubim's dream.
she is squealing my ear with
"change! yes we can!
YES WE CAN!"
yes she can, spare change-
begging for bailout
and a l
cat feces made me do it by seeyouinjune, literature
Literature
cat feces made me do it
my pet,
servile, obscene and so rabid
that she dribbles down
the side of my mouth
and over my chin.
my animal,
never migrates,
never hesitates,
but these children do
when summer turns 'round.
swimming the rainbows
of my slobbers grease
with broad strokes.
but my organism,
you see, she never laughs
anymore, never dances
anymore, she insists upon
keeping all of thirty-four
vertebrae columns towards me
at all intervals of sleep
forced to house myself
in my cold thoracic cage.
*
the lint provides the inspiration.
the dead animals provide the loneliness.
the art provides the malnutrition.
the propaganda provides the
night's limbo is retrospective,
lights whim & akimbo and the shadows are epileptic
but stiller than still this is me leaning on my windowsill,
testing nonsleep's nimble rim till I tumble upwards etched & wrenched come early morn,
thinking what my wallclock must think of time & I
hounding sane, sound sounds, dreaming of the brick tongues of fireflies
and the many realms of the weather.
god yes
such as
well I
have you ever tried miming a dialogue with a handheld moment
only to find its spasm as warm as a cat's ninth life?
and that the past that the present has passed is a limber lie
from the moment your eyes pretend to memori
Wasp swings low
as a sweet chariot
carried home on the
ethanol of sun seasoned
pears that blur the trees
until it seems that they are seen
through droning wings. 'Leave
that nest and build your own,'
the cider addled instinct sings.
Wasp swings low
as a grandfather-
clock's pendulum
plumb, caught high
struck dumb by an ox-
tail's swing, and thus
Belly-up these birds are buoyant
monuments to cathedrals,
women, lovers and the submerged.
The clutch of flannel necks, black
spoon eyes, laundry white bodies
rhythm the water
and their scaled explorers are a keen
loose-lipped audience. The swans dress
beaks in algae and beneath surface
they study intimacy, anchored
limbs and shadow one another
to play stage. The pond ceremony
shapes the partnership. But at night
teenagers with gun hands swell
about the waterway.
One swan hums on her eggs,
the other arcs panic. Alone
and pearled black with mud.
noon's looms
string loose taut bones,
and set fire to the stones
in the street's roofless rooms.
noon's looms
spin nuclear & worn,
and blare their bloated horns
over clear, lazy fumes―
trees are opening the palms of their hands,
with their lines of fate
borne low with the waiting leaves' weight,
& drawn on the noon-air's sand.
birds are screaming and surprise themselves
with their leaps & caresses & fights;
their wings are still much too bright,
and the winds are collapsing shelves.
men in the road are all clear as glass,
worn through & see-through, with wine in their lungs.
their bloated arms are rusting guns
and the
nobody can make you come back by Indigo-Streetlight, literature
Literature
nobody can make you come back
"nobody can make you come back"
the afternoon of youth beats down on his
hand, still twitching like a desert
wind, an unpredicable pulse. belly up
on a bone pillow with small yellow flowers,
faded yet numerous, hating most
seconds without distraction.
I'm like candy for the thinking man
When seated upon
a large pineapple lifesaver
to do
her business,
do not
laugh at the premise;
he just doesn't know
where it will go.
breaking up with the day by seeyouinjune, literature
Literature
breaking up with the day
of nights when we eloped
trodden, the tarmac lax
metropolis skyline looming,
an entire graveyard
of sleeping transmissions,
bricks and beggars
and boulevards littered
bedridden with nap.
we roved the docks,
piers twisted in lumber
moaning, creaking, flexing
with the sea's insomnia
and us overlooking
its abysmal waters.
I stare her heaving bosom
as she reaches my
bony knuckles, clutches
and turns to me
with the full moon in her face,
she says,
Im late.
and I know that the
blood red
sunrise will not be coming up
this morning.
I can no longer sit back and allow, communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy, to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Thought I'd make a sort of guide for people who write and like to listen to music at the same time. I see a lot of threads in the forums with people asking about writing to music and which music they like to write to. So I've decided to make a journal of my personal favorite songs to listen to when I write complete with links to youtube. Generally speaking I tend to listen to music without lyrics as I believe that the lyrics tend to conflict with the writing process. So without further ado:
Buckethead - Aunt Suzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHPlxBQlOM
I prefer to listen to very tranquil music while i write. Stuff that really relax
'Autumn already! But why pine for an everlasting sun, when we are embarked on the quest for divine light, far from those who die with the changing seasons.'
Just doing the obligatory pimping for The Second Chance Polished Poetry Competition which ~BibleOfDOOM is hosting this year. Please heart the article and spread the love. Tell everyone! Circulate the article and you'll have my forever
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