Thursday, December 25, 2008
Ironically ironic
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i love
My body is a cage
We take what we're given
Just because you've forgotten, that don't mean you're forgiven
I'm living in an age
Still turning in the night
But when I get to the doorway
There's no one in sight
I'm living in an age
Realizing I'm dancing
With the one I love
But my mind holds the key
You're still next to me
My mind holds the key
Set my spirit free
Saturday, December 6, 2008
breathing patterns
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Begging you to wait for a minute by the wall where your creeping feet have never been before
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Ageless beauty
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Anniversary
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Fall Meal
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The light and the sound
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Selfish selflessness
I got some fancy shoes to try and giggle away these blues
They cost a lot of money but they aren't worth a thing
I wanna free my feet from the broken glass and concrete
I need to get out of this city
Lay upon the ground stare a hole in the sky
Wondering where I go when I die
When I die.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Your finger tapped me on the shoulder, with a sneer like that you might as well be a cartoon you look so god damn comical. You added a comment that's dripping wet with ignorance. I ran across the tile, leaping over everyone and dodging questions. My hands grab both sides of the sink I look at myself, where has all the color gone? I am so pale. I wipe off my makeup and head out and there you are telling everyone about what I did. I was humiliated, looking around at everyone's faces, I tried to read them, did I let them down too? I storm out avoiding looking at the black holes, I can't but yet again you jerk my shoulder backwards. It takes everything in me not to lose my composure and walk right out that drafty door. I dive in, I don't feel the temperature I just glide right through gritting my teeth so hard my jaws starts to crack. I got out to stretch my muscles thin, my head is down and no one seems to get the message. When were any of you ever here for me? Why is it now you are swarming? The slip of paper told me to check off what I need help with I took my pencil and made heavy check marks next to grieving, mental diseases including paranoia, anxiety and depression. After my big race you say
Hey all you have to do is listen.I do. But everything you're saying has been forced, repeated to you, a lie, the right thing to do. No I will not accept you can't make me look weak in front of anyone. I took a chance, I took a fall so crucify me. I walk away but I feel more like running this isn't a joke, I'm done I said. And after's all been said, done and I proved you wrong, you take it upon yourself to publicly apologize. I feel 20 sets of eyes on me, and I shrink back into the wall, you haven't learned anything.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Our lips are sealed
Friday, September 5, 2008
It seems so out of context
I'll show you a magic trick, your disappearing act.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
I am nothing but foolish
I have already invested far too much
I should just play it be ear or year
I can never be sure
But all I can think of were those hands and that face, how my face fit; just so in the palm of your hand
Every time I looked to my left there was the smile I had become so well acquainted with in these short couple of months
"We deserve it more."
things have never been so unclear and paused, put on such a huge stand still
You simply just don't, you just don't say things like that,
make me rack my brain and waste hour upon heaping hour of simply analyzing
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Fuck what you heard
its not the milk you seek
its the sun you need
and the sleek sleek skeleton i hold
where are the hidden folds
where is the meat?
did you eat it?"
Friday, July 11, 2008
already half gone, already half here
moment.
That used to be all I was capable of, living one little moment at a time.
Because it takes something more than just sweet lies
Monday, June 30, 2008
Armsandhands
Abandonment: to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert.
-to yield (oneself) without restraint or moderation; give (oneself) over to natural impulses, usually without self-control.
To me abandonment was being left to a pack of wolves. Torn in every direction by sharp teeth I couldn't fight off. You left me slowly. For whatever self mutilating reason, I know the exact moment you checked out I can pinpoint it back to mid-May. What changed; you fell into a deeper trance to your drug. If it wasn't going to be inflicted into your body, your body had to create it. You and I know the meaning of truly living in one's head. That's where we spent all our time before we met. The year before I remember fighting for a reason to hold on at all, the year before you were too busy lying to yourself that that was all it could be. I hear your voice skip over the words I took for granted, no they are accidental, a mistake. Reality creeping at my feet, but I don't dare dive in completely. A scab I love to let bleed wide open continuously, what pain, why is unhappiness a feeling I've gotten used to? How does that happen?
Hurt: to affect adversely; harm.
-to cause mental pain to; offend or grieve
Pain and hurt used to mean scraping my skin on the sidewalk, breaking a different bone every year it's how I inherited my childhood nickname. Then pain morphed into emotions and feelings; the loss of a hero I was supposed to grow up to be. I wasn't supposed to have all of this afflict me at one time. A constant reminder of his legacy is left in my features. I feel sad for my family members who look at me and see his daughter, see little flecks of him in my eyes. He's in these hands I produce my greatest gift with. I could only hope a little piece of her will be ingrained in me. But how you deal with loss that is a constant reminder? Staking out its home in my chest which has never been so hollow.
Truth: a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like.
-ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience.
I think truth to me is made up of little secrets and white lies. In just three long hours I expelled it all, feeling instead of hollow, heavy. Finally being able to grasp the weight of what cards I was dealt. That day I stared out into the sun I did not feel its rays or its wonderful heat, I was given my answer and as much as I denied it the inevitable would follow. My best friend's voice does not effect me in any way. There is not a hint of a smirk, there is nothing. I find myself sobbing, not even crying. My tear ducts being over used for all these years that I buried my feelings, my ideas and myself. There was so much comfort in knowing that I would be held together for the rest of my life by something greater than me. Instead I have to start all over again. It begins with shock, denial, acceptance, and possibly giving it another chance, reaching out my hand.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Love is everywhere
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
And don't call me pretty baby anymore
These hands I shake are not mine, my skin is bare, stripped down
Your voice is static and harsh - we lack warmth, and desire
love slowly faded, I never knew
a pang in my chest, tetanus, a rusty nail staked out
so we sit here watching everything unfold lacking all the melodramatics
take it back I said, take it all back. I took you out with the trash
verbatim I can recall
here it is the climax of it all, I'm still stuck in the spiderweb,
the more I falter the harder you bite down.
Where are we now, who were you before you were mine?
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
When something is right
Me and my lover; we sit adjacent on the antediluvian couch
I can only imagine being equiponderant, to everything in his mind
Lungs begin to hurt, my sides; dolorific
I delineate the indentation of his spine with my thumb over and over
My favorite place is in the crook of your neck
These hands fold into yours, my body folds into your body
Here we lay, here we stay
Mapped out in your bed, little countries, and oceans we sail to and fro.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Comme il faut
Comme il faut
In my the interstice
Lilliputian rooms you are made of millions, hundreds of rooms
Melodic tangent zephyrs encasing
I’m still cross legged, wide eyed and frivolous
It’s the hours where I am able to postpone clocks; it’s the fence I’m draped over
Little lashes, big lies, big love
Azures, Slates and the colours of the dimming day dance upon your face
I take repose on your bureau knowing I’ve filled all its drawers
I got the hours, I got the owls, but I let my paranoia show
Comme il faut; dear.
Friday, May 30, 2008
One love, one life,
rest in peace dear
Friday, May 23, 2008
love is a place
You punched a hole in the sun, I’m flat on my back
your heart is black from all the coal, you’re a smokestack
let me hold your features in my infinitesimal hands,
you’re all angles and bones in my arms, a slack face with a protruding jaw line
I spend hours tracing this outline, these sunken in cheeks are mine
I love the way you paint my canvas skin
A shadowed silhouette passing by in front of my eyes, Swimming Eyes
locked up for years in a measure of mind
some times i check that i'm still breathing, most of the time i hope i'm only dreaming
you are the ghost that I can not scare
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Who were you after you were mine?
I'm not sleeping I'm up all night thinking, better yet comparing, I'm comparing you
I think back to last year and I wonder if I'm doing the right thing
Nothing seems right, "why'd you put that makeup on?"
I remember art galleries and hurricanes, small closets enclosed spaces, you'd kiss my many faces love and mathematics it was always our morning routine coffee and the cover of Naive Melody sitting in the parking lot holding hands getting ready to face the day, nothing else mattered. I never felt so appreciated, so special things were always right, never faltering. Power lines and laying in the fields, so cliche and yet so original with everything we did. I'm grateful, I'm sad, I want to feel that way again. I want to not bite my lip and hold back tears I haven't let out all year.
"I loved you, did you know that? I fucking loved you."
"I know I love you still"
I find myself remembering that night, wishing they'd played our song
This means nothing to you it's just what it is, nothing. I don't want that though, I want the light of the moon, I want Lover's Spit I want you to finally let me win.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
with our clothes on fire, I guess we both can wait
time is matter, atoms and cells
Zappa and Cursive wrapping their notes around our bodies
Exes and Ohs
The sky was crying, I was burying my face and you were just sleeping, sleeping. How can you sleep?
waiting for me to fall into place, but it wasn't me that did it was everything that was around me carrying on routine
my paranoia was showing;
live below the waist
it's a capturer
please dont scratch me out
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Hours waste turn into weeks then months into me, a lifelong disease
there's an anvil on my chest, it might be the pollen, but it might just be everything else
So loss ain’t bad
I’m trading processing for sleep
So it don’t seem sad that I’m losing you
Blotch the face, blood vessels
Broken heart and canvas skin
Write it all out you won’t ever quite describe it
Loaned to father for weekends and given back without the interest
Trivialize memories, dumb it down to make it fit
Syllables, grammatical, read and rewrite for the reader
All the bitter nights in my room alone
They won’t know all my secret problems
Or the love that overcame us both
An untold twenty-two year story
So it’s one tale and then another, I was saying earlier
Thursday, May 8, 2008
I remember those years they're hard not to and all the things you wrote then, I know them word by word
And I do remember sleeping in your house, on the floor,
With the dust in my eye.
I'm moving backwards, all the little hands are rewinding, practically warping moving so fast. I'm probably making a huge mistake, but I'm really sitting here trying to debate the pros and cons. I want to, I want to see that factory you told me about. I lied, I am lying through my teeth, I know you see it.
I will not sleep tonight, at all.
I miss Gingers.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Remember how her eyes would shine, They made you come home on time
It's weird I'm not exactly certain what the similarity is between you and that actor, vaguely looks,voice certainly, mannerisms hardly. But every time I watch him I just want to kiss your face.
I miss our rides to the Notch we'd run around the vacant lots, sand in my toes your hands in my hair, climbing up to the lifeguard chairs just to watch the waves crash, just to watch the sun rise. Sometimes we'd entangle on an old blanket watching for shooting stars, completely happy being cliche, I would have to shake out the sand for weeks. Our first party, the first time you introduced me as your girlfriend, I choked on my drink. I remember the night over a year ago when we rekindled our friendship your eyes lit up and we danced to the most assorted mix. And then I fought, for weeks I did so that this would work so that I... Anyway I don't even know how I got here.
"You disappeared off the face of the Earth Britt, I miss you. It's been months now."
I desperately need to develop film.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Only love is all maroon gluey feathers on a flume sky is womb and she is the moon.
I miss everything about the first time I was there. I'm more than glad Summer is approaching. Spring is here and I just want to ride my bike with someone. Lately I've felt more alone than ever being blind sighted by inner battles. Burying everything Alive like my favorite book of poems. I'm going to start throwing myself into art even more so than before.