one.
Each drum against the glass as she
Cups her ears around mason jars lit
And in the absence of the olfactory
Secures knotty fingers through each eyelet small
Creatures use to breathe
Holds her own to wait for the gasping
I.
Naively in letters, he speaks.
Sweetly, the boy
Who will teach me to be a man
II.
I in return, the chills, English language
Between cigarette butts and the growth of our stubble,
The blond girl sleeps her way home,
Grammatical fears apparent in the con-man's spindle fingers.
III.
She dreams in rusted & bloody bicycle spokes.
Death on a rocky, dark & desolate cliffside,
The man who just recovered from a tired heart
& his son who slaps her in her fleshy face,
Flirts endlessly with my mother,
Runs the local convenience store where she
shops for her lacy things.
- - - - - - - - - -
He dreams of
I tried my best to hold you,
Though forced with metal arms my
metal mouth ajar to breathe you;
All feathers and flesh-
Imbued me with your worldly wings.
Together fed to flame.
June was mostly spent
Pasty fingers wrapped around my raw fists
You held my hands at my sides
We were always clammy, damp
Melting through chairs,
Tables, Gravel, Sheets.
Mostly we slept
Waking up each time more slick
Eel skin, we'd turned and tossed
Never lost entwined fingers
Hours of fluttering eyelids
Beetle breath, dandelion windows
Wake up screaming.
One day movement ceased
Still in my bed,
I'd torn at your jaw leaving
Toothless gaps.
Slack, I crawled inside
Esophagus, dripping with
Asperous, fleshy chunks of
Saliva, vomit
You were a jumble of
Organ, tissue, mucous blood and
V[e/a]in like everyone.
There is a sound I recognize
Resting between the pitter patter
And the splashing splatter
Of water
Or of turmoil
the clawing of teen
Minds astray
Life Jackets will only
Preserve us in the ocean
We cannot be can'd and chemical'd
I am restless at the thought of decay
We do not know
What makes us great
Lately I've had a
Strange new predilection to
Roadkill and
If I avert my eyes
It's only because
His breath gets
Thicker when he is
About to kiss me
Sicker and more yellow
To the touch
You could see it upon
Exhale if it wasn't so
Very dark in this room
Just the way I like it
Cigarette smoke and
Bad intentions and I am
Breathing it in
Breathing him in
He gets rougher
Around the edges
More like wide tree trunks
With bark on top of bark
On top of bark
Suddenly
He does not care
How old I feel or
How many teeth I've lost
Or about the time when
We shared water ice
Winter on the bus
His breath-
Cigarette smoke and
Bad intentions
I am breathing it in
He is still the
Only one who knows
How to hold me without
Awkwar
Let's try something different
Let us wrap you in seran wrap
Real tight,
Real tight,
So that you cannot hear or see
[hear or breathe]
And he threw me
To the bottom of a well
The impact hit me so hard I
I almost came
Let's try something different
And he left me
In the bottom of a well
With hair in my mouth
With stone, cold stone for shoes.
She calls
Calls me Kid
Sighs to
Scraping metal
The thought of being late
She's looking for
Forearms in a crowd
It is a
Jam a
Three car pile up
And she's back to me
I can hear her smiling
It always sounds like smiling
When she
Talks about him
I am part of something
I do not understand perfectly.
Amber beacon of health standards down the drain.
It's all you can see once the sun goes down.
"It's just half. Last night I decided that I'm finished.
Killing myself.
I am finished killing myself."
&
"I think I might have better things to spend my money on."
Inhale.
Exhale.
"It's like, you know. When you drink a lot of milk"
Stickystickysaliva webs.
Cocoon for the heavy tongue.
"You don't have to talk, or even try."
She's a couldbe. wouldbe. Teenqueen down the drain.
Lace peals off in sticky layers
Porcelain is slightly more permanent
More embracive, though distant
I find white tile, white curtain
Somewhat reassuring
It's around every corner
For a price
Such contrast I have never seen!
Well, never in myself
I have time to make up for and
Some extra on my hands
To discover that
Every quiver is a glistening trail
Racing for demise
The drain is a trap!
Aspire for evaporation!
Each gasping breath makes way for a new
Drip
Dew drop hair
Is breaking!
Every touch another
Soap bubble mess of a finger print
But I can pretend
Eyes fixed on the ceiling
Hey buddy,
I promise
This one is for
I'll slosh right down this sandy street
And so will the contents of my stomach
I'm thinking
Something in there
Something in there is feeling awfully acidic tonight
And I'm not feeling so stable
But the sand between my toes lets me know
I'm still on the ground
And I'm still in this crab trap
But I'm not a crab
However, give me a few more hours in the sun
And I'm baking
"You.. You do whatever you need to do"
And I'm thinking, thinking, thinking
Well, I'll be just fine right here
But I needed to sit down
Thanks to jelly legs
Theres sand on my face
And there's sand in my hair
And theres sand in my eyes
But they mig
I'd rather swallow freckles
Than gray
Gray snow diving from flourishing embers
We're raising fire in our home
I'm alarmed, it's
It's alarming
Feign a fluttering lips trail down
Milky skin
Would make you
Dance quite as much
And flames grow under flesh
If it'll light you up
I'm all for it
Apathy is for wolves
We're drinking it down with coffee and
A sugar or three
Trying to supress anything that might come across as
Bitter
I'll evaporate if it means
Condensating on your eyelashes
I was so looking forward to tight lace feeling,
He'd fill me and alow me to breathe
Slender hands on my thighs and
Yellow tinted breath
Paper cups and string breach a thousand miles
Distraction ensues with the static addition and
I'm still lighting candles for myself
Watching rusted classics,
I am engulfed in dust
Previously steel parted to make way for pebbles
Spilling under excited skin
He fell into my arms and together,
We into lime sea
My eyes begin to wander once again and
It's not for the thrill of freshly spotted flesh
Or a raw taste in my mouth
I'm so afraid of losing love
I'll never stop pushing it away
He is
Cracks in clay
Deep ridges carved out of
Cheek and brow
Within the site of this excavation
I find only
Idolatry, adoration
I am
OnethousandChristmasses
Alight
Beneath my own unfolded
Shredded skin
When those
Creases are
Ruddy and brown under my own
Rocky fingernails
I feel accomplished
I am an accomplice
His importunate ribs allow
A thickening gush of air
This winter season
Drags the sickly green
Out of us all
I am
Taking shallow breaths
With ten sec[c]ond thoughts and
Dark eyes bleeding
Darker eyes
With nothing else behind
I find it increasingly
Pressing to be pasty
When wit is oozing out the ears
I am
Amber beacon of health standards down the drain.
It's all you can see once the sun goes down.
"It's just half. Last night I decided that I'm finished.
Killing myself.
I am finished killing myself."
&
"I think I might have better things to spend my money on."
Inhale.
Exhale.
"It's like, you know. When you drink a lot of milk"
Stickystickysaliva webs.
Cocoon for the heavy tongue.
"You don't have to talk, or even try."
She's a couldbe. wouldbe. Teenqueen down the drain.
She calls
Calls me Kid
Sighs to
Scraping metal
The thought of being late
She's looking for
Forearms in a crowd
It is a
Jam a
Three car pile up
And she's back to me
I can hear her smiling
It always sounds like smiling
When she
Talks about him
I am part of something
I do not understand perfectly.
Let's try something different
Let us wrap you in seran wrap
Real tight,
Real tight,
So that you cannot hear or see
[hear or breathe]
And he threw me
To the bottom of a well
The impact hit me so hard I
I almost came
Let's try something different
And he left me
In the bottom of a well
With hair in my mouth
With stone, cold stone for shoes.
June was mostly spent
Pasty fingers wrapped around my raw fists
You held my hands at my sides
We were always clammy, damp
Melting through chairs,
Tables, Gravel, Sheets.
Mostly we slept
Waking up each time more slick
Eel skin, we'd turned and tossed
Never lost entwined fingers
Hours of fluttering eyelids
Beetle breath, dandelion windows
Wake up screaming.
One day movement ceased
Still in my bed,
I'd torn at your jaw leaving
Toothless gaps.
Slack, I crawled inside
Esophagus, dripping with
Asperous, fleshy chunks of
Saliva, vomit
You were a jumble of
Organ, tissue, mucous blood and
V[e/a]in like everyone.
Nearing the end of school,
Finding particularly inspiring literature.
As well as particularly inspiring music.
I'm thinking about acting upon my random urge to "borrow" back my guitar of Brandon and letting Mr. Bee teach me a few chords so I can play around with that.
My voice is not spectacular, but it could be fun.
Look at Bob Dylan, anyways.
Okay. Also, this was taken from phoenixmemory who is amazing and lovely and.. yes.
'The first 3 people who post in this journal will be featured. I will go though your gallery and choose three of your deviations I like most and post them in my journal for everyone to see! It's pretty much to show you off. Who doesn't want that? The catch? You gotta put this in your journal as well if you posted. And remember, if you don't post this in your journal, I'm not going to put your art up.'
So, comment. And be merry. [:
Happy New Years everyone!
In all seriousness, if anyone who reads my stuff could help me out with this, it would be greattttttt.
I want to submit at least two or three poems for my schools literary magazine, The Continental. I'm not sure what I want to put into it and unfortunately most of my favorite poems that I've written would be considered "innapropriate" for it, because.. you know. It's not like anyone is having sex/doing drugs in highschool and, God forbid someone should be exposed to it through creative writing.
Anyway. Any suggestions would be nice. :]
Thank you.
Edit;;;
Okay. Also, this was taken from phoenixmemory who is amazing and lovely and.. yes.