20101124
things with time (what if cancer was little babies being born?)
T-B(e)arries
is there a creepier
word than antibody?
no, the answer is
"I don't recall."
Naw. Ghome.
Fleshin' thinkin'
chocolate bars
gray brick & fire
black background + pixelated fire
Forever
share with me
Or else i'll lose my potential for reception
Actually
gonna go.
compared to that,
actually, isn't my sister over
in her mid-twenties
"Mellowski"
Middleski
Str8 Dood
Wiggley legs, I told you not to flex them.
big baby anti bodies
crashing and eating through flesh in a straw
big swinging rig comin' thru
going clamming for the sake of stringing
clambering
crabs crushed strained in cage
ghost crabbing
Now, show the adults how
many you have caught.
Arrow spider heads
underwater on a beach
flying zipping massive
coconut lasso catching
big bodies,
doses
Old keychains dangling
and looking shitty
once in a blue moon
imagine if someone
gave this to us
when we were "like",
thirteen.
The movie,
damn it,
I dunno.
in celebration
in the middle of the day
it's spicy, it's a lazy river
with rapids and
SHIT
that's probably "like",
the ultimate fucking
RIDE
to gang references
the night before is tonight
when you're on the wave
and you can't complain
you can't look at today
when yesterday is tomorrow
you can't start the bed
when the heat is on top
you can't feel the wounds
when you aren't shivering
with bumps on your skin, reminding you
when you're disinterested
memories are like children born to slave families
Days go by and don't come back
then, when you feel a bracelet of fire,
remember that it is an aggregation;
only strong in numbers.
Sue da Feds
There are several reasons to why I've done (what I've done.)
Pain can make you do something
The pain started and I had to take something
Pain can make you do anything
Pain & Pressure, Pressure & Pain
O Jesu,
The pain starts and it's like
one thousand needles in your hand
Nose, and mind
The pain starts and
You can't do anything
You're like an idiot
O Jesu,
Inside and outside
The pain is everywhere and you are debilitated
Watching and feeling people
crumble. Losing mass at an
equal ratio to gain but
feeling robbed. Watching things
get old and fearing for your health.
Pain is real and everything
when everything is beautiful -
Pain is all there is.
Hopefully the pressure will be released
and the pain is over (it might be something else)
It's not necessary to suffer, I'm not a hero
Barometric pressure? The pain is horrible.
Love. Mom.
Untitled
on a bad day,
I like it better after sunset
In a dark room, through a mirror,
I see my face in forgiving version.
I see myself in generous aversion.
Hours later I deny a fill of wisdom in consumption -
I think, moments later:
Maybe one day I'll learn to finish my soup with my bread
Until then, above,
white stars are blueberries covered in milk.
Muesli, oh thank you mama
Rat Powder
Tonight I am a Raven
Wispy voice
Raspy
Ravens are among the most intelligent
B
I
R
D
S
In Between Push, Pull, Heave
When there is phlegm in my chest,
I can
growl
like the devil.
Butt-end, burning
mass
of a cigarette
twisted out:
my escape route.
It billows, widespread
in the wind
and utters no apologies.
It has no container,
no cage, no palms
or tufts of hair to cry in -
it sings, freely as if
for the first time,
not in surrender but in
confirmation of its
wind-drawn, invisible vessel.
It smolders, with its name
and with its past.
No one wept, or judged,
analytically, even, with
great scrutiny. There were
no opaque webs, not a
single shred of doubt,
only currents.
Flying as if precise, whimsical
dotted lines had been drawn
in good spirit by some dreamer
to indicate its gentle path.
Pasteurized (Butterworth)
Hello, I'm pasture
Eyes, disdain
Flying rain
My eyes are a portrait
of pain
Ketched by a lover
Ao
Whoa
Heeeeee
Restitution
Message to Bean
HAY! Miss Bean -
if you ran away,
slammed the door or
left it wide open
I would chase you.
straight to your abode,
and I'd grip ya
tightly
like a mother,
child.
I love you -
and I don't want broken promises.
I won't accept broken promises.
Turning the key with the car on
breaks everything
Cam Ree
mama i see you movin in
rollin' in, around the bend
mama i see you movin, see you groovin'
movin' in for me
you got it, you got my eyes
i see you rollin', see you movin'
to give me a ride
you know i love you
and you return
always, with your engine hummin
baby will learn
for me, rollin' in for sweet baby
come and give me a ride in maternal empathy
see you rollin', see you rollin', aww
see you movin' see you groovin', whooo
choo
choo, choo!
nickanaym
choo, choo!
rollin'!
of water
Dick
Shit
Cunt
Fuck
Piss
Scream into
torn eyes gazing upon
increasing pitches, unrefinsed
Mar-oo Maroo Maroo
Maroom Marooom
Maroo Maroom amamamama
No apologies of babies bloody hands
No tired eyes line with puss
No shivers and goosebumps
waves that sting wounds
scabs and fresh scars
little embers on your shoulders
Worrrrr - adarooo-ooo-ooo-ooo
Whoo-aa-aa-aa-KRRIIII
Paschal Lamb
Waaa-ra-ra-ra-ra-WROOOOOOmamama
i'm your cooked guinea pig
MEDIUM WELL
4.9.10 R.A.T.
I feel rather disconnected.
Perhaps it is the feverish
blanket swimming and curling
up around my ear lobes.
My head - it's emitting heat.
Not up to par, in a room so bare
devoid of decorated walls:
I feel the same.
My pride for others, this evening,
it is all that blooms, this evening,
this chilly April evening.
My chest growls in a way that
animals are familiar with.
When I growl, they know it is an
act of necessity
I am spilling nails and hair,
not anger.
Killers are prepared by rhythm -
especially this April evening murderer -
a rhythm he seems to float upon -
he is creation and his voice is a teardrop
If the room was a paper,
I would not be able to write on it.
My metaphors are lost to others, and,
days later they are lost to me.
contradiction - 3.28.10 - "It's Better than Speaking to Yourself, I believe it now."
conversations created and contained in my head
are realistic and honest.
hopeful is my temperament -
there is a sweet voice in here
it asks me to recite poetry
i reply that i haven't memorized much
so it asks me to read from my notebook
there is not enough selection.
so, please, let's keep talking
i am going to close my eyes
and hear her again - I lied -
with eyes open I can hear her
reading my words as I write them.
if she is someone
that i have met in absolute
why am i thinking of this at all?
I love to read words for no reason
l o v e is a word
& if i had a library
it would be right next to the hardy boys (love)
and the voice of the girl
so warm and honest
would be on reserve. (my account)
i can manipulate this illusion
to battle myself
now that she is angry
she says i should stop writing
it's not so different from having someone, i suppose
Jessica's House that Evening
drunken iconoclast
accidental
accidental
hello, sweet human opposite
sexual arsenal
i like your dental
please put them on display
until we lay in lust long consummated
hello wooden statue of
ascended physical fixation
for you my brain has
tattooed upon itself your name
underwater
broken skin, remains
i swam so close to my brother
i felt the stones that he kicked up
i crooned unto my mother
until her wallet she gave up
now our regrets lay in boxes
and i'm so lazy
fuck
hello wooden pattern
can i hear you sing?
i won't do more than tickle
you with my eyes, I , king
i won't do more than run me
all across your string
what do i bring?
in the years, time is a thing
outside it's cold and
you are a bushy little thing, i bring
Remorse
rushing down the river
i am one with our father
who art not in vain
I catch a glimmer in the eye of an otter
he seems to smile at me in approval
and i continue on my way
ah ah ah ah ah ah.
and the water will
swim with my every hair
Oh, sweet melody of the current
punctuation in every pebble beneath me
they do not fear me, nor penetrate me
We do not war with each other.
tonight, my passage is swift and
subject to change
like the night when the sky has its way with it
like my eyes when my mind has its way with them
Untitled
here in this room
I am all alone
a cloister chewing on
my pearl, shivering.
Please
Don't let my heart explode
If there's anything you can do
I can't bear to think of
how the meeting would formulate
and by what grace of happenstance
the words would be exchanged
Please
Don't let my heart explode
I can feel it aching, ooh
I heard it's unhealthy
to worry about your health
so tell me, I mean give me
sweet words to regulate
My wealth
I'm wealthy
but Please
Don't let my heart explode
Oh, no no no no no no no
I'm beating
Beating nothing
I"m slowing down
Into nothing
20101122
not chrono
I am all things
By and by
I occupy the spaces
of each extreme in life
in each extreme of life
Genuine, itty, and femininity
A sound, decisive mind
Spite and secondary intentions
A gear at the grind
A gear in a grind
lekcha & letcha skribbels (thinking, spotty)
There is no end to my writing.
I haven't lost my mind yet because I'm not dead yet.
I keep flashin' life my gold card,
it's wearing thin on the magnetic strip,
and I'd rather not step out of the vehicle,
but blank zeroes open up, spill their cups,
get home safely
and inhale silver flashing ash
until their testicles burn
and their eyes look like
cut open tomatoes ejaculated into
Death breathes cold ash, dirty ass smells
Death really does
Do it
Destroy Destroy Destroy (with tiny flowers)
Angles, Cross Sections
opened up a cloud
threw its scars inside
behind bars that she welded
that made lines in her face
money is all that's necessary
Filled & Impressed
with multiple aprons
complex wilting flower
fed the soil,
nurtured the soil.
the soil broke;
it was so dry.
but the seamstress
tied it together, so long,
that one day
it reached the sky
Untitled
i can't sit still, i've got a lot of things on my mind but
my thoughts are impaled by a stick on the ground that i stepped
on and cracked, alerting the predation now creeping on my back
people's voices sound dumb, and so does mind, my head is bound
to swell up and this thought is bound to fly
when the swell's too high
i make a mountain
and watch the birds fly by
hoping the won't see me on my peak
when i get too high
and can not have fun
you should tickle my brain
i'll come back to you again
and the air's so dry
around my head
fill it up, fill it up
with moisture instead
i said the air's too dry
around my head
make it rain, make it rain
talk circles, don't blow away (bound up, )
bound up
tight by the white stripes on the walls
alternating with blue, they do not remind me of you
down up, tea cup
coarse sofa and all the time in the world
i'm wasting it
Lightbulb Forest High Point
fallen, barren, trees in a fragment
of forest that used to be
invasives flooding into my brain
too much of them lately
coping mechanisms not in place
for a presence yet unknown
alert the colony
looks like we're going under.
Side Note (1) - Aoorehension Line Line
my words from pens
and pencils
are vandalism
i'm afraid, to do things
what's graffiti
but writing when
it's not okay
and i'd paint it on
the walls, if i
could
with the skill of
an artist
and my mind
like i should (do)
Girls
I knew some girls, they smiled at me
I had sexual relations, with one or two or three
I had thoughts and feelings, but they did not have me
----------^v^v^v-\/v^----N
S---m----v^v--------/-\--n
and that don't sum it all up,
and - i see it all regretfully
vividly, as are memories with me
----/Swoosh/***8---///-_-/\---
and nowadays, there's this girl i see
don't get me wrong, that's intermittently
and don't twist my words, she's not much to me
but a reoccurring dream,
wake up and go back to sleep
aspect - direction that mtn faces
Pray in the morning
With the back of my head against a pillow
Tell myself that I will, tomorrow,
That I must get out of bed
I want to and need to succeed
My efforts disappoint the source
of my information
Something is bleeding behind the curtains
They don't know because I'm crying quietly,
but out loud with every movement.
Scratching my back, I am
and I'll scratch yours
20100604
pat's furry roommates
[Bella],
I stole your pencil
because it had your name on it,
and because I love you.
Hearts flutter and come to an end,
like bookends,
like butterflies
Hearts are decorated felines,
they pounce, they play,
they sniff for curiousity,
they glow in their beautiful eyes, like gemstones, when illuminated,
they tumble and fall and roll,
their paws are soft and
their whole bodies long to be touched,
to utter a purr when gripped and danced upon.
They dance, oh darling, O love! they
float like petals and strings
in warm summer breeze.
Warm, like a blanket,
like sleeping quarters laid with concern,
with history and with empathy.
Hearts stare with interest
gaze thoughtfully like dreamers,
studying,
listening with concern, with history, with
sweet empathy for dreamers.
Don't fear why they glisten
sing and tenderly lay to rest
(sweetly, singing into the night that is soft)
20100603
7am scrabz
That if you make a mark, everyone can see it.
Make an impact, though,
and it blends right in.
I then proceeded to stay up all night. Once I
had taken my fill,
eyes weary and head like a drum
in the (a) premature stage(s) of repair
I took to my glass of water in a hurry
and swallowed Antarctica.
Everything looks brighter now,
under the strange wheel of sleep deprivation.
Dead Bugs wait for my slumbered ears, ha!
I went on a trip;
for some days I was gone.
It hurt to be there, to be where I was at.
It hurt to rip myself away from
soft skin, crippled conversation
and sincere tears wiped with dirty rags.
When I returned:
Home was lonely and the floor boards
needed to be unstuck.
They cracked like joints
under the heavy weight of my heart.
in my absence, the
Alarm clock in my bedroom
must have cried each day.
It screamed for me yet I was not present
to push the right buttons
that would put it at peace.
After hours of crying, I think,
alarm clocks probably give up.
in some short, sweet moments from now
I will be in comfy sleep.
I've always like the word comfy.
(Michael once asked me if I was comfy
When we had sleepovers years ago,
those years long past now...
I remember sleeping under his desk,
Saying, "Yes, and I like that word.")
"Always" is just what you make of it.
20100602
pohm scratched minutes ago
Whitney Houston and Steve Perry are dead to me
They were never alive to me.
I have no physical features that can be distinguished;
when I am a vibrating box;
I am a penetrating gulf coast
A sweating zebra
A trembling cock,
juxtaposed awkwardly upon a
pin-up board that is
your field of vision.
Clear your head,
I beg,
So that I may find heartbeat.
Scratch your eyes out,
Please,
I do not need them.
I am not a microphone cable,
I am not a cluster of tones,
I am not a thread to hang upon
(your neck cracked and eyes empty),
I am not a song that you heard
when you were a child.
They all tremble for me, vibrate for me,
vibrate inside, outside, in the air,
smaller than I can visualize, they vibrate.
They drive me to your heart -
and they will drive me to extinction.
I was ignored at age 11,
when the hall smelled like green peppers,
disgusting, green peppers,
like some janitor who I didn't give a shit about
at the time had left a trail of WaWa condiments
all over the vinyl tiles.
I cried at my desk with my juice box
and my yogurt,
I couldn't eat my fucking yogurt.
11 years old - completely absorbed
in my own imminent death -
yes, death ached that day;
and the dying of others,
stunk like green peppers.
I was sick for a week.
I was sad at age 13 -
one baby blue and white spackled wall day,
Reading Fleming pepper hallways consumed me,
this time, fear gripped my prepubescent testicles.
I threw up what food I had eaten that day.
My fingers write this because I am a machine.
It all amounts to nothing except that clear,
trembling, elusive vibration;
not trembling like the aforementioned cock,
or chord or box,
trembling like appreciation and passion.
Finally: I'm acculturation of chords
and the culmination of vibration,
where I swallow smoke and saliva.
20100527
first update in awhile, followed by my apologies, followed by 1 poem written 2nite, followed soon after with many more 2b posted in the next few days.
A Dove is a Glove That I Borrowed to Wear on my Heart
A subject that is broken has been freed -
unleashed:
bones, once stiff and
with a fixed purpose
are now fluid, amphibious.
Free and flowing with
something to prove
like a spore, or
like gleaming star-pollen.
A healed star is
bursting
forever winking rays,
progressive and honest.
A wrist once mercurial (((OOo
gaunt with structure
can cry;
it has a ghost, a
predator to run from,
eternally. It has a scent,
and can be hunted, traced...
chewed upon, its flesh savored.
It falters inevitably,
and tantalizes tears.
It can tickle every·little·one...
Then, in private introspection,
it cracks - suddenly nostalgic,
remembering cold, iron chains and
painless rotations of blissful youth.
A once broken subject dances
dances...!
like grass, tall grass -
like fingers, like memories -
like funerals and open ears -
it screams in grace,
movement.
At times, it is hollow (( · · ) ) )
holy and empty,
a crystal glass of dirty water
painted by stained glass that
tell stories of a good man -
a troubled man -
a sad and contented ghossst;
certain death and sunken
flesh followed him like an
angry crowd...
like a dog drooling with rapacious
hunger, closing in
on its
trembling apparition.
And I
I am a light emitting diode.
I glow like the sun,
sing like the wind,
like love and magic and cry
cry like love and magic
I soar and am nothing,
often, just a seed floating
on broken wings, over
lush landscapes and
aching smiles - I fly.
20100502
tidbit while procrastinating
I'd perform magic for all of us.
If I were a magi, Oh Darling! -
I'd surround us in envy.
We'd dance in the company of swirling spells; you'd cry for joy.
Don't cry now.
20100328
some pohms
I'm alone and though
Last night my call was heard, now
Able ears are closed shut.
The warmth of comfort
Brought wishes and contentment
to a frozen boy.
That boy, loving as
He was, could not regain what
has been lost in greed.
And so, my pillows
Have not changed their shape, they are
inadequate, gone.
Time will be wasted
Stolen by the past, I thought
this impossible.
How long will I be
Forced to endure regret, will
I revert back again?
Doubtful, sounds persist.
Everything is persistent.
it screams for the past.
Many things are forced.
The end, I truly hope, will
deny this fashion.
COLD TO THE NEW PAW
They put me in paper
And they watch me crawl
Knowin to themselves I won't get anywhere at all
Not moving
Cemented still
Cold to the new paw
Old enough to kill
Oh to the merchant sailor
When you shipped yourself away.
Did you ever hurt your neck
Thinkin bout your mama's days?
Have you ever stood in front of a mirror
Petting on an open wound through a dead tree
My father is the king of angry voicemails
And sucking hard on pennies til they gleam
I'd give you a whopping piece of my mind
But tomorrow I won't know what it means
Tomorrow is too far out
Tomorrow is too far out
Tomorrow is too far out
Tomorrow is too far out
I'm oozing, yeah, I'm oozing
The volcanoes are swelling, mama
Though I try to eat right
I'm bleeding (dripping, dribbling)
Bleeding (dripping, dribbling)
Sometimes a grain of sand can stab you like a shard of glass
The padded feet and wild eyes of today are
But smeared rubber discharge cast to quicksand
Ripping through the days to come
UNKNOWN
The looking glass
Has
Become a kaleidoscope
I walk with
Rivers flowing
AT THE EAGLE DINER 3/20/2010
I dislike the phrase hopeless romantic
And I like it when I blow into the mouth of my coffee cup, fogging up my glasses
I had my first helping of scrapple in Maryland
And in Pennsylvania,
At the Eagle Diner (border sanctuary)
I am drinking my second cup of coffee.
Within my peripheral vision,
Captured in the mirrored glass window reflection
I see the haunting and beautiful
Full-form hallucination of a guitar.
Maybe it belongs to Dennis -
He owns it, especially
With a metal brace and expectant face.
Coffee, it is a
Warm best friend in the rigid
Company of boots.
Boots that have been worn
By a man who passed before
My birth: we're strangers.
Three rows to my left,
As I sit perpendicular to the standard seating of this place,
Is a girl who says that she is unlike the rest.
She mingles with the devils -
Men who are grown,
And have nothing to show for it.
They are approximately twenty eight years of age,
And make sexual anecdotes that the girl doesn't catch on to.
She entertains them with loud exclamations of excitement-
She is pretty,
She lives in lumberville and has nothing better to do
At two in the morning.
Her hair is multicolored
And her smile is wide.
Sexy, if I may -
I don't know anything,
But that they best go home tonight.
I'd take her home if I had to.
SIMPLY: BAD SAD
Can you be a stranger to yourself?
Or is that just a depressed proclamation of sad songs?
Well this isn't a sad song, though it could one day be a bad song
If anyone remembers me when I'm gone
Well then this is so long
BRYTER DAY COMING?
Beneath my mask
Boils. On the surface,
Underneath: an aching,
Growing cyst. Inside,
intruders bide their time,
Strategizing against my
Future conversations.
Interactions where I am
Hardly present for I
Am not myself, for myself.
Inside my head there is
An apprehension
To be.
Not to be has proven
Painful to those who are tied
To me.
There is a shell on my skull,
I hope it doesn't go away forever.
For now, it is my curtains -
Open, close, open when you
See me - it's a gamble.
Would you take me before
A change occurs?
Would you have me preceding
A fire on the stage?
Lines in my skin reflect
Artificial light
That is our custom.
Would you hold me
If I turned away?
Or would you have me
On another day?
Would they ever have me at all.
20100310
early march pohms
Either nobody ever said shit -
or I never listened to a goddamned word
that i was given.
still -
with dirt on my toes and twenty years young,
I have carved my own dent in the riverside.
and as the sun begins to set on the Delaware,
I hold my coffee cup between my whittled knees,
tasting and licking the flavor of its contents
from my scarred and waiting lips.
If this is the freedom that many men have
died for to protect -
I'll take it in vain.
This is my moment, and
oh will I cradle her until
the sweet nectar in my
stainless steel mug is gone.
Then I will feel myself pounded by the sun.
As she shimmers and glows
the trees and birds are baked with her
retreat. And I, a brother of nothing and
So much - I am lost in my sophistication.
Blue can really fuck you up
or it can be the eternal canvas
on which trees are painted.
Their trunks, like me,
are carved.
Birds are a certain type of stupid -
their ignorance is significant only when
you are not around. When they feel
the breeze in their feathers, or a ruffle
of your Levi's,
they'll find a new moment.
A human can wander thru the forest
unnoticed by his own flesh - until eyes meet.
untitled for C.S.
C -
There is something to say about the name
that you have
picked for yourself.
u c -
We, here in our homeland,
We are all the river's children.
c a
Sunset lasts for a long, long time
with mud between your toes and
A name like that is -
the garments which
set us together.
C -
if your purpose is to unite us
Sons and Daughters
in squinting golden indulgence...
in bare-toed sentry -
in sect blo wing
bashful, safety & contentment,
Well,
C -
You are
the River's Sun.
AND I WILL
FOLLOW
you, past the muddy banks -
further, below the reflective,
black cloud
that separates us from
that which we are really not
that far off from.
That
this, could be, a final
escape and as the Canada geese
play their games in unison,
As the cars slide across the bridge
in sight of their destinations,
as my hand becomes aged and my
head begins to prespire between birdsong
you'll be the prodigal hand, C.
U -
will have our trust and a crown
of no matter -
a crown that eyes cannot see,
you will,
WEAR IT PROUDLY,
we will beg you
to do so for it is yours
and we are all one.
And should there occur a decimal -
your crown may find weight yet.
and C -
as your knees begin to shake
and ache
From submission to your art -
be strong of heart.
Scars on the knees will heal and
when fire thirty rolls around
You'll be awaited in the morrow,
my brother.
20100223
pohm
You walked in, what a nice jacket
You were wearing, I thought to myself.
You looked unenthused, and the thoughts
I was bearing, told me it's done you no good.
I glanced at you infrequently, because, honestly
I don't really care for
You, but something about the way
You sometimes steal my words for company
left me watching You through my peripheral vision.
20100222
pohm
Riding in a Suitcase
riding in a suitcase
feels like knocking on your door
my feet creaking on the floor's
wood boards
at night
something just isn't right, still trying with textured might
warranted progress effervescent, will surely drown
in metal lighted town
i want to ride the pink highway
and read a good book
i want the pages to be open
sentences my way with understanding looks
if i'm ever fully understood
complete with standard limbs
i want to grasp my cherished flight
and give thinks for my wings in hymn
I'll clutch my pilots in birdsong
I'll try them 'til the end
while the bulbs are flickering in and out me
i'll search with neon sight for bright light
if a box appears too tight around me
i'll suffocate just like a candle would
my Hummingbird will be stolen from me
she's one of my greatest concerns
inevitability has a way with that
will i ever find my ferns?
I am the candle creaking
I am the candle creaking
I am the candle creaking
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difficult phone posting (i hate blackberries)
Will someone pull me
From my legs
Or hips even -
So that my torso stretches and
My back cracks back to snap
Into the place where I belong.
If the days bring an increase of things that are
Ill be crooning over a street corner with a bottle
And perpendicular assets
When a hinge in my spine twirls
And laughter spills from lips
Ill be a statue among the blooming spring
Full of withering suckers
They can sip shit and hum away
Before I collapse in envy