Thursday, June 2, 2011

Curved / Corpse Paint Waiting Room / Cracker Barrel / Litmus Test/ Down On the Coroner / Re-Examining Priorities/ Dis-Taste Test

Smells like dirt

And tastes like shit.

Plastic,

With the illusion of substance.

Falsified connections,

A pill crushed,

Bumped up,

A make-believe superhero emerges.

Crashing into each other,

Egos collide,

Consciousness connects,

Layering over the events that transpire.

Fools,

Pretentious and beautiful,

Fold into themselves at 2am.

Alone.

Go home, the uncluttered path.

Find yourself by mistake,

And let whatever may

Consume you

for the sake of having

Something you can

Finally fall inside of.


Corpse Paint Waiting Room

Running around

Rampant with scissors

Tearing into moments of adrenaline-fueled

Frustrations like ribbons on baboons

( Gibbons would have rhymed)

Tasting poorly,

Testing extremely…

Awkwardly…

Wanting to touch third base without

Hesitation,

First dates don’t require tact when

The fact remains

that this moment has been sponsored by

Spirits, and maintained / sustained by substances

Otherwise deemed to be a federal offense.

Tempted?

Taking on the night, two fight for dominance,

Mammals become animals,

Beasts release base instincts while succumbing to the

Scandalous inebriates procured this evening.

One wants while the other grows weary.

Is this night ever going to end?

Cracker Barrel

Sheets of rain,

But the captain demands rum.

Something needs to be done about this weather.

The visibility’s for shit, and we’re

Growing restless from the voyage.

Two months became two years,

And we conquered nothing but our sense of

Comfort.

Cast aside,

tossed asunder.

We left with plans to pillage and plunder;

Blundered,

Fell face first into the shit of circumstances,

And now before us a storm of

Sorts that will certainly lead us to our doom.

I pray for blindness upon this deck.

Litmus Test

I wanted to test her sense of humor,

So I asked her what’s the first thing you’d

Do with a dead body?

She said, “ Make sure my sister was dead, then

Grab the $20 bucks she still owes me.”

I married her three days later.

Down On the Coroner

Today I’m a little dizzy.

A little distressed.

I’ve been rubbing my forehead for the past few minutes,

trying to make sense of everything around me.

Taking a mental inventory of what just occurred in front of me.

I was merely attempting to cross the street,

then sirens passed.

Not the sirens of a police car or an ambulance,

But the Sirens of forgotten mythological times.

There were three, riding along on bicycles racing

through rush hour traffic.

I leaned over to ask the elderly man next to me

if he just witnessed the same thing as I.

He turned to me and said,

“ Yeah, and I’m Icarus. Why do you think I have this

fucking walker?”

Re-Examining Priorities

She walked into the bedroom,

dressed like Emma Frost,

The White Queen from the X-Men comics.

She called me her, “ Wolverine”, and demanded I make love to her.

“ No,” I screamed back at her,

Half-asleep in our bed.

“ We’d ruin the continuity of their relationship!”

Dis-Taste Test

Only for the truly horrible,

For the truly miserable,

I consider this an open-ended

Valentine’s Day card for those that

Leave their bitter-sweet love stories unfinished…

Ahem.

Dear Sucker,

Let it go. Let it go, now. If you were a dog, I’d slap you with a newspaper.

And it’d be a newspaper full of crap journalists,

Like, “ Star” or, “ USA TODAY.”

You know, the paper written for idiots?

I swear, I found more depth in those, “ Weekly Readers”

We’d get in elementary school.

Stop grasping at straws. Find a hobby.

For God’s Sakes, for once don’t drink your breakfast!

Eat a goddamned bagel, at least!

Or a banana!

What I’m saying to you is,

This is an intervention for your

Spirit.

Get up, go out there, live a little!

Live for yourself!

The worries and wonders of someone who

Has discarded your heart should be thrown away,

Along the wayside with the wilted flowers you considered

Giving them, but got choked up and cried about instead.

Seize the day, take on the night!

Eat, Drink, Breathe, Fuck, be a goddamned animal!

And please don’t post their nude pictures online.

That’s just tacky.

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