Tuesday, July 26, 2011

All Those Silly Americans

medicate me America
fill me with those drive threw hand outs
pump me full of all that naive freedom
till my veins fill up.
till I’m bleeding at the spot you stuck your needle
bleeding all that red white and blue

You make me feel like a young starlet
all swooped hair and painted eyes
and that fake beauty mark by my lip
all Xanax and Prozac in the hotel room

Take another
put it in your mouth
let it all fly

“I want you”
you tell us
but how?
how do you want us?
doped up?
a nice calm?
a nice nothing?

drive by all those quick stop stores
with their drive threw stands
I’d like a sandwich, a fry, and a handful of Oxy
I’d like a mind, a life, and
you to mind you own fucking business

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Your New Love

I can’t decide if I like you better
in love or out
in love you smile wide
your star hair is fussed with
your eyes shine a better blue
and your eyebrows pencil heavier
you laugh more
you sing more
you talk louder

out of love your eyes are sad
you look thinner
you look estranged
you look agitated
You yell more
You throw things around
You look at me with your
grey eyes
so similar to mine

But out of love you are
mine
Out of love you are
his
in love you are
the other’s

and I still remember when
you smiled wide for him
when your hair was fussed with
for him
when your eyes shined that better blue
for him

and I still remember
when your laugh was for me
and for tickle fights
and when your songs were
for bedtime tuck-in’s
and your loud happy voice
was for us.

and now it’s for the other

and even though you look so happy
I just can’t decide

Constricted

My head blurs
till I loss my balance and tip
on the way to the bathroom
till the left one is bigger
and the right one is just a prick

and that head of mine
it dances
and it throbs
and I press at my temples
and wonder if I took
that ice cream scooper
to those spots and scoop
out my brains

if this feeling would stop
so I drink lots of water
and watch all that tv
and hope the feeling
drifts away

and I lay in my bed
and I try so hard to rest my head
and I just keep falling

and I get to that point
when I need someone to catch me
and I don’t think anyone can
and I clasp my hands tight
and I curl up inside
and pray that I’ll be ok

and then the morning light comes
and it burns all I am
and I shield my self with
those blankets
and you knock on the door
and I let you in
and I hope that you’ll
be enough

please be enough

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Sextape

lay with me on that bed
the one that moves like your
floating on a million balls
like you could just float away
lay with me and float

clasp your hands with mine
let me rest against your breast
the rise and fall of it
the beat increasing and increasing
in volume and intensity

fall out of these material bodies
lets continue this with the stars
a million faces staring at us
they wont understand
they wont comprehend

wrap your arms around me
swim with me
let the water pass bye you
let the seaweed ensnare your feet
let the water fill your stomach and lungs

lay with me in that bed made of
a million Styrofoam balls
fall into that euphoric embrace
fall into that rhythmic beat
fall into that beautiful song

Friday, July 8, 2011

Floppy Ears

floppy ears,
sink onto the floor
lay and grunt and dream of flowers
bit the heads off
one by one
two by two
eat them up

Floppy ears,
so soft
don’t give me that look
all exasperation
don’t give me that look
all funny eyebrows

Floppy ears,
so disobedient
I lead you around
and you pull away
“get away I don’t need you”
But when I’m gone you cry

Floppy ears,
cuddle up next to me
keep me warm
Keep me safe
and I’ll return the favor

Actresses and Actors

Minds such a blur right now
too little sleep
too many people talking
plugged in
its stabbing at my temples
make it stop
it’s boring its hole
get away
all you people
all you things
you never should have come here
too much noise
don’t let it distract you
your talking to me
your talking insane
so insane
everyone is just running around
in my mind
getting their filthy foot prints all over
how rude
haven’t they ever heard of floor mats?
and God why wont anyone shut up?
Shut up!
I never wanted you here
I never wanted any of this
but I’m too tired
just too tired
and you scream so loud
I can’t fall asleep

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Toy Soldiers

why do they talk so loudly at me?
all those toy soldiers
getting lost in the garden and Christmas tree
they talk so loudly
they lay buried in the soil
six feet deep
too deep to crawl back out
all those toy soldiers
getting lost in the garden
their heads chewed off by children and worms
they shouldn’t have been there, the garden
father said it was wrong
father said keep them close
keep them warm
But what father doesn’t know
wont kill him
It will just kill them
the little toy soldiers
lost in the garden
getting their heads chewed off

Barbie

Barbie’s painted gold
oh how pretty with their perfect hair
but that paint it chips and
Little patches of skin show threw
How ugly
Little monsters cant keep clean
so wrap all those scraps of cloth
around them and tie bows
it keeps them modest
it keeps that sin out
Barbie’s painted gold
their perfect faces frozen
in that dumb stair
but careful of the mouth
you don’t want to swallow that
gold
it will choke you
it will choke you dead

Porcelain Bertha

Bertha dear,
you look so pretty today
your pin curled hair
and that pale bow glued to your head
But Bertha,
your eyes look so distant
that electric blue isn’t doing it for you
they just look so empty
I guess your stuffing insides
aren’t enough to gain you a soul
but you hold your little teddy
like you care
and I’m sure if a spider ever crawled up your leg
you would flick it away
bertha dear,
you aren’t like my other friends
the ones with the smashed faces
or the plain ones with no spark
You could light a fire
Your pale lips give a faint smile and
God Bertha
You look so pretty today

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

sooo.....

I haven't posted anything for a very long time. I have however writen things, so I am posting everything I have writen in about the last year, everything I like. The newest things are farther down.

Being an Emo Child

I can’t do anything right. Everything I do just gets me yelled at. Everything I say just ends up shattered with the dishes, left broken on the dining room floor. Once loving words are now turned to venom. Every exchange just adds to the flames. The world turns to ashes around me. I use to remember the good days, the days of sunshine and smiles and flowers. Now I don’t believe there ever were flowers, they all wilted before I was born. Now I don’t believe there ever was sunshine, the sun burnt out ages ago. Now I don’t believe there ever were smiles, I can’t remember the last time I saw yours. You use to be everything I ever wanted to be. Now you’re everything I can’t stand. Looking at you is like staring into my future, I’ll probably end up looking just like you. I have your hair, I have your eyes, do I have your failure too?

The Lake

I want this cold snow on my bare feet.
I want this biting wind against my skin.
I want this frozen water surrounding me.

I walk to that waters edge,
the one we use to play by on those winter days at dad’s house.
That house always gave me the creeps
too many dead deer heads.
too many sad car rides back to mom’s.

When did all this go to hell?
When was the last time mom smiled?
When was the last time dad prayed?
It took me so long to realize I have no idea.
It seems that my brain hasn’t been working for years now.
Please don’t be mad,
I never meant any harm.

I take off my tightly tied shoes,
my brightly colored winter coat,
my nicely knighted gloves and hat.
I leave them neatly folded on the sand.
I step onto the icy lake.
The cold makes me numb down to my toes.
The sharp ice cuts into my feet but I don’t mind.
The Lake has frozen in waves,
like all time has just stopped here.
There are no sounds around me,
the quiet is frightening.
I shiver slightly at the cold and my teeth chatter.
I get to the thinnest part of the ice.
I hear the ice crack around me,
The last thing I hear,
as I float away into that breathless,
black nothingness of Lake Michigan.

You’re Labyrinth

Your words entered through my ears staying stuck eternally on my mind.
The way you said my name: like it was something special,
well it turns out you were lying through it all.
I was never anymore then a fleeting after thought in your ever growing life of lies.
Those words you say to me get lost somewhere in my comprehension.
“I love you” sounds so shallow in your hollow mouth.

White

Her hands lay white as snow
getting whiter
whiter
Her lips are that red smear
Her eyes are so glossy
I did it again
I did it again
But oh god she was so white
so white
getting whiter
getting whiter.

Rain Rain

rain rain go away
my heads too cloudy to deal with you today
all the thunders too loud, and the lightings too bright
just leave me alone and I’ll be alright
why wont the sun come back and chase away this gloom
so I can breathe again and bloom
take your hands out of my head
and your teeth out of my  bed
The tooth fairy’s not here tonight

My Check List

A splash of orange, a little yellow
the smell of gasoline and hot, sticky leather
music turned ear drum blasting loud
swishy skirts of multi-colors, and nice tank tops
sunflower seeds and raisins and crisp honey-golds
bare feet on the dashboard and knees tucked in tight
bags packed in the back, ready for somewhere new.
and you

Little Sister

Do you remember
            when fairy dust could still make you fly?
            when sticks were pirate swords and pistols?
            when a knee scraped meant certain death?
Do you remember
            when winter meant running barefoot in the snow?
            and summer meant playing in the hoes?

Do you remember
when we would hold hands and become twins?
when leaves, mud and orange berries were witches potions?
Do you remember
            hot nights in yellow rooms?
            snowball fights and red balloons?
            Grandparent’s cats held upside-down?
            and screaming fights that would get too loud?

I remember
            laying down, just you and me.
            first kisses, first bike rides, and last cookies.
I remember
            how you cried and screamed when I tried to run away.
I remember
            all those scary stories, told late at night
dancing on the trampoline
            and all our stupid fights

Life

I want
Simple
no strings attached
no promises need keeping
easy
excusable
lonely

Gasp

I feel that desperation swallow me.
It fills me with that blur,
The static consumes me.
It weighs me down till I can’t move.
I want to live again,
Cast away this wood overhead,
Once again walk with the living.
All my wind comes rushing in.
I jolt with the unexpectedness of it,
My throat tightens as I gasp for air
All those tears I’ve captured are let go.
I hurt all over,
Sobbing
Sobbing
But at least I can breathe.
My hands shake.
I curl up into myself,
I’m held there until I drift,
Off to the stars.

Communion

when I was young
the circle was so big,
so inviting,
so warm.
the people all smiled,
and sang
and believed.
the bread was sweet.
the wine was rich and unknown.
I held my mother’s hand
and prayed in belief.
now
the circle is empty
and clinical.
the people frown,
mouths shut,
and they falter.
I take the bread
and dip it in the wine,
its tasteless on my tongue.
and I pray to believe.

Just remember to Breathe

Those hands close around my throat
I can’t breathe
Oh god I can’t breathe
Those hands wrap around my mouth till I can’t speak
I cant speak
Those hands rip my stomach
I feel so sick
oh so sick
 I curl up in my self
I can’t think
I don’t want to think
I need someone to save me
but I don’t think I can be saved
I’m so dirty
I’m so dirty
so dirty
I want to rip those hands off of me
I want to so badly
But those hands hold my wrists down
till they shake
I can’t stop the shakes
Those hands close around my throat
I can’t breathe
why can’t I breathe?

Too Little Fun

Sunshine sunshine
why do I hide?
I want to see you
You make me explode inside

Why do I sit away from you
Why do I stall and say will do
I never go to see you anymore
I feel cramped and muted and dead

I’m so Asleep inside
and I don’t know why
I thought this would end
when Summer came
But it just got worse

I need inspiration
I need devine intervention
I need to get up and move
I need
I need
I need


A life…

How you Make Me

Suffocate me
Tie me to that bed
Light me on fire and call it a day
You’re a child
You know nothing
You know nothing

Why didn’t you carve out my heart
Like you carved the silhouettes of your hands on me?
Why don’t you do that now?
You’ve crippled me
why don’t you finish it?

I was just a child
I knew nothing
I knew nothing
Pin me to that wall
Like that little purple butterfly
pin me to that wall
leave me there to look at
Your sick
You are nothing
You are nothing


I cant stand those eyes on me
Get them off
Get them off
I hate you
I hate you
Don’t make me look at you
I’m sick
I’m nothing
I’m nothing

You’re a child
You know nothing
You know nothing

Mind the Gap

I have this feeling in my chest
Its what drives me
Its what freezes me
Its what will kill me
It is this pit
This absolute nothing.
Its that spot of emptiness
But if it is this empty why is it so heavy?
Why does it feel so full that it will burst?
It is that spot that hurts when I listen to something beautiful
It is that spot that burns with passion
It is that spot that makes me silent
Is this my soul?
Its my driving force, my pain, my joy, my loneliness, and my completeness
I want to rip it out
Take that big kitchen knife on the counter and dig it down my chest
Right down from that spot above my collar bone
Too the right below my ribs
Then i could dig around inside and find that spot, that pit
I could rip it out
I could burn it on the driveway like some twisted pagan ritual
Dance and dance and fall and.. and...
Be no more
Just a shell with glassy eyes looking up at the sky
or looking at the pavement
Or looking nowhere
Because I am nowhere
I am nothing
I am just that shell with a soul no more, ripped out till nothing remains...
"But you, you’ve gone too far this time" -Mumford & sons

Nameless

Here I lay
Too cold
Too warm
A clash of thoughts
The blur of nothing
My heads a pond
I just swim around
Too cold
Too warm
I just swim around

Those Stupid Aunt Farms

jumble jumble all these thoughts in my head
So cool in the shade
too hot in the sun
You look so pretty
You are so ugly


stop


no more aunt farms burying around
they took too much
they lost it all in that mad desperation for
a place to call there own.


Stay still
chill out
It will all work out


easy for you to say you dont have to live in here


all you happy love songs you dont know shit
there are no happy endings
Not here
not here
Not here
Not there either


you can make your tea and sing your little songs
like "God bless American"
and that one where all those miners die
but i wont hear you anymore
the music
stops
too short


Nonsense nonsense this is all nonsense
A trick of my mind
used on myself
in a vain attempt
to loss it all
or maybe win it


Stay still
chill out
It will all work out


Its all so jumbled

Red rover

The shiny metal in my hand
pressing temple
one two three


All gone


those feelings of inadequacy
I soar above the aunts of the earth
my body floats in between the stars
I make them my friends
We play red rover up on the horizon
I always seem to lose


Take me away to that spot in your chest
hold me so close, too close.
You burn
the dead are falling from the sky
Don’t fall with me
The stars they scream too loud for me
they would be too loud for you too


hold my cold hand
touch it to your cheek
Is it warmer now?
put it in the stove
Is it warmer now?


Take me away to that spot in your chest
Hold me
now let me go
"but no" you say
"Let me stay"
don’t stay
leave
your too hot for me
stop thawing
thawing
thawing me out.


i'm too warm now
i'm too warm now
i'm too warm now
i'm too...


follow me up to the stars and we can play red rover
red rover red rover send me over
and we can scream that they are too loud.