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ptsd (12/31/2015)

the bitter soapsting
of measuring spiders
eyeing them up
by dinner plates
As if one day I'd be eating next to them
Those jumping wingclippers
of the afterlife

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sometimes i wake up crying for no reason

Jack the Chaser (12/30/2015)

Flexed, tightened leather
second skin to none
abraided by the pounding dunes
gaze-burned in by setting suns.

cactus juice and guzzoline
books bound in human skin
lovesplit, explicity and obscene
loyal to the laughing kin

where law is lead-lined majority
powder-talk where rule is skipped
stranger-king's dplority
Big-iron holstered on his hip

rewritten tumbleweeds will tell
of glo...

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psycho reign is a fleeting high isn't it?

Stephen Furst 0342 (12/29/2015)

Meeeeeeep

>Hi

What are you doing up?

>Um I am awake.
>That's really the only reason. And me eyes are just sort of making tears for no reason
>so that's sweet.

I am wipe and loving you

>um ok
>How was work

I am drunk. Tracy is a dick.

>Why

Bcuz I had a lot of shots

>Tracy is a dick because you had a lot of shots?

Oh lol Hahahahaha
She's a dick bcuz she has to be a ...

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i wish you could see what i saw

Long Light City (12/27/2015)

Sirens: howling urban coyotes
making quick trails to the wounded
and slow to the dead. 
You think the city eats you up, but really, it's just you instead
wearing the face of yesteryears
floundered in dollar store whiskey
dirty dishes, midnight tears
crying up and insisting 
that you're a boiled husk
a trail gourd filled with bad stories
And a drink to never sate
a thirst what never belo...

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the dream of azlan the dream of heroes lived too l

bluelit 2 (12/23/2015)

x. 
If I laid next to you right now, my lips would find your throat, gentle and dreamlike between your breaths as not to free you from good dreams. 
x
my legs would coil and cradle around you, inching you closer, settling like sediment against me, perfectly warm, and my arms would slide up your sides so I could feel you stirring.
x
and my heart would break, shiver and shatter
when your moan ...

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Baby please come home

azucar grim (12/20/2015)

In for a penny, in for a pound; into the casket, into the ground.

it's all bones, down here. it's all dancing and all watching. it's all lipless smiles and the endless, unrelenting sound of a thousand woodwind chimes as we march, weightless, t'ward the incredulous glow of ember. 

Hell's a lot more fun than they promised you in catholic school, albeit a little more routine.
what i'm trying t...

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grimm fandango the day of the dead

Left 2 (12/13/2015)

'why i am the way i am? you had a choice, and you chose betrayal. i am an old man giving up dying pieces of history. There's fewer and fewer survivors trustworthy enough to hold them with me. so i'll hold em to myself until im cooling in a six foot hole, shaped like january, by myself and for myself.

I loved you; I loved the man I thought you were. I thought you were my brother, but now I see y...

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not really poetry

to sleep (12/13/2015)

smaller, and smaller
secret like a bruise
crushed, dried, and pressed
keeping pages sealed away
of whats never to be read again.
sleeplessness:
true vacancy and void
To wither and to writhe
stained and buried
dug up, shaken in sacrilege
dreams exhumed, breathlessly
by merciless graverobbers
engorged on paradise

smaller and smaller
spiralling and tracing
abyssal cosmos and frayed f...

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when you can't sleep em join em

here's a story of where these marks came from
scribbled here by hometown pens
upon our mirrored cheeks
laid to rest in permanence: impermanence
spared by pride: by iron and oil
sealed with blood, and ink, and pain:
my familiars, just a tattoo gun away.

interesting phrase:
self-excommunication. 
self-emancipation
self-immolation

color me synonymous, helium.

open me and take only w...

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biopic monologue

cynicism (11/25/2015)

when I talk to hippies;
'there's evil in this world.'
'sure.' I'll humor it.

If you're my ex, I'll call you on new years.
if you feel used, don't worry. I do too. 

There's no feeling worse to me than being flirtatious or coy or fun with someone (any sort of connection that gives you that little nervous, electric spike of adrenaline when you lock eyes with them a half second too long) unti...

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early morning bathtub slumbers

iceberg (12/06/2015)

 icy freedom cracks the hull
death's ode screeching to a hault
i named the ratchet in my skull
"Stillbourne Small, the catapault"

found wading in marshy bogs of chuke
saved by crows and carrion alive
woven by blood and the almighty nuke
seeds from whence i was derived

perfect gods and perfect men
can't live outside their pastel pens
there's work to do: the dirty, the wet
and i haven...

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the titanic didn't crash here but it feels so cold

hope you can guess my name (11/29/2015)

a gaze that pierces veils
of iron curtain tragedy
the weight of painkillers 
it all presses in like a phalanx of soviet states.

rolling thunder, blurred and blistered
shame as dull as anything else
anti-focus and step-sisters
ground up and bottled by the pound.

it looks like it's made of marble
but really it's just convincing glass
hewed by two-sided buyers
protesting your front doo...

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but what's puzzling you is the nature of my game

there

cuttin daisy
oh, we gettin hazy
forgettin the trophy wives
paying in time, midnight tithes

pearly grins chasing irrespose
knife kept close to the table though
we're beginners to skullduggery
past the age of forty five
self-manager funeral the righteous ones
we're scandal like a saint suns

blood for iron 
that's how we've always traded it
prove your worthlessness in a cage
earnt re...

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no no no no no yes

lost compass magnet (11/22/2015)

sunlight breather, 
gills for success
high on cold moon ether
blue ribbons tie the best
Marked and made for slaughter
Picked and packed for dollhouse daughters
I have known captivity in my escape

living in fleshy detritus (if you'd call me alive)
Paralyzing empty flashing printer lights
terror tears would carry us (abandoned by our tribe)
beacons on a sea of fast food bags and cowardic...

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not sure where i was going with this

4300 (11/15/2015)

laying here, tipping the edge of hurt

living in precipies

a mongrel of our omniverse

 

an everything, an always

writhing in exquisite pain

limbs caught in quantum vibrato

love breaks me like a hurricane

 

'i can't do this anymore.'

fervic fluid fills my cheeks, bites my tongue and poison leaks

cleans me like vinegar

climbs me: i am a diving board

chokes me: i...

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im not really sure what i feel

John Wayne 1613 (11/05/2015)

sometimes I feel guilty for participating in the distraction culture circle jerk of facebook

sometimes I just want a cheap copy of what feels like people liking me despite it all just being selective avatars of internet celebrity expressing their appreciation of content I did not create

it's a plastic chase. it's plastic chess. You know? but sometimes I need it. Like how balogna scratches a ...

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not sure what to do with myself when im happy

Waiting on a locksmith

brittle 'no' like a teather,

riotous blood and dead weather, 

steam and cog alike in Congress,

emulations of embrace, flipped sideways,

handshakes of covered mouths and scared, streaking mascara: 

dyed sensuous, brimming with ruin and ruse.

regret: 'baby won't you be my muse?' 

 

cold, deep as dark

spreading, sprawling climax

in a wardrobe of betrayed memories

stin...

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im sorry

facebook feverbrush (10/25/2015) -- found

'anyone alive right now to feel like i'm like me?
 next on the first
On an unfamiliar sting of betrayal to augment an even uglier truth to say anything, chaos stands apart, just.
 not sure if i had an artist's lives.
i am but ain't paradise.
saw a guy literally know you
Lemonhart and coke
kind of ducked his throat; a legitimate dream.

album is pretty ok to nod off to, slowly. My lips are...

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brought to you by zuckerberg and his brood

Sick's Last Entry (10/21/2015)

sands through a sieve in my shape, with my name
sleeping fevered in my bed
tumbling inside out, choking
midnight daydreams to rest my weary head

reach out for that cooling glass of drink
fearful shaking, lifting anchors, creaking elbows
vignettes of nightmares left to rot and stink
permeating sickness smell, sweet and stale below

stiff as a board, light as a feather
begging for not to...

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Left writes a tombstone

to drown (10/10/2015)

fuck each other ugly
milkfed on an authors' arm
drip-bled from a tourniquet
tied ink ribbons end to end

swollen veins gone vericose
herniated heroes turned adipose
doctors' diets, beach bronze
catacombing self doubts
checking out of comfort food inns.

name me famous like an animal
namely maimous: Raw the Cannibal
pitbull terrier so terrible
but it's not the breed that bites
the po...

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nonsense needed that great wash of idea garbage

waxwood prayer (10/04/2015)

Retired to a place where men die
old and comfortable by their favored brand of cigarettes,
burned themselves down and down into heroic coals 

down and down , the flags of the fathers
ashes reigning benevolence over sons in memoriam 
a tired, doomed sphere in the middle of nowhere,
dandered with bones and renamed home.
It's all just a place with a hearth for hearts
where these earned embe...

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waxwood panama shuffle

heather (10/04/2015)

I knew you by the dew of beauty
hanging off of your too-familiar curves
paired venom on glistening fangs..

It's all too bright: its all too much like sunrise

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i wish it was you

sequels to helena (10/04/2015)

the day the night went moonless,
a chorus cried out,
bleary eyed and tuneless,
us in our long shadowed innocence
never stood a god damn chance.

sticky lipped like vampires,
spinning drunk on changing tides,
bleary red chills: goosebump dances
(brushed with death to breathe alive)
yellow leaves in hearse rides.

Painting theromin by numbers,
feeling-hearing split and folded,
a snicke...

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if you're bound and you're gagged bleeding and bru

vultures are good people with bad intentions (9/28/2015)

Man makes opportunity
Bleach boned gratuity
picking teeth in the blazing sun of ages
the weak are meat, 
So the strong say as they eat
Atria strained and skein stretched, 
bursting by design
this high tides earth inheritance
for the meek, the malign
those porous, jealous strangers
familiar high noon encounters
of a stilted, different kind
a familiar so close its alien
suspicions of an...

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vultures are good people with bad intentions

Scott Peterson 0000 (09/24/2015)

My home smells like sour and sweat,
post-partum regret
a quarter century flipped
for the malmanager's bet.

Prayers buried in letters,
asking for days that're better
but getting by on mediocre
life that doesn't hurt, but doesn't smile neither
mama cries when she don't understand my need for either

scrawling words when I'm feeling it
days and nights when we're spillin it
saliva and la...

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i drink too much i smoke too much but i can never

math 30 (9/22/2015)

i remember how small the world used to be, when I wrote the date on my floundering math papers as "today" in a desperate attempt to inject humor in front of the torrent of self-doubt and feelings of obsolescence that stood behind a mental velveteen rope. i remember a vignette pressing in on every aspect of my life as i continued to struggle with the numbers and expectations and what it might mean ...

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mr perozak was a Ukrainian dancer until he divorce

letters from an alchemist (9/20/2015)

I've grown to know you
to need you
like a reigned-in blurred line
shaped in clay and fired in kilns
afraid more than most, of chasing you away.

'call me. I just need you issall.'

Nightchurch choir of wreckless closet love,
piles of scented skins
worn not as trophies but as friends

Wyrmwood;
life as an absinthian lover is hard as I pen your address
(the apartments everywhere that w...

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444 555 666

the ballad of the beartrap

A silhouette of sawback spines
Wisps of storms and dreams alike
Memory winding, surpentine.

23 floors;
a long time to reconsider
the one way street of hearts that wither
elevator sights in passing
a continent ready for glassing
frozen and inert in time
a glimpse of dawn by our design

48 stitches;
scalded and scarred man-made witches
maimed and renamed
reshaped into a willful lamb
...

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the end of aimsto meTo you

part 2 (08/31/2015)

smoke spiralling toward a retired ceiling fan
long exhausted, still spinning
over shaded stucco,
worn and grey as home.

I'm remembering black lipstick, eyes locked
far away, at the peak of a phantom cathedral roof 
built so much higher than this apartment
in a space between the cracks,
in a place of sunken, silent ships,
queued onwards and thru sonic trances
as the thought of midnight ...

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horsekiller daisy cutter heroin dreamscape

ether shuffle prayer (8/30/2015)

Never really crooked
Never really straight
occupying a blissful vacuum
made up of the Gaussian blur 
between frayed moral lines
sweet stucco speckle void of half-baked thoughts and premature prayers, 
high on the milimeterse between lips
before a kiss against a stop sign.

No loitering
no littering
the cliche of cigarettes under a no-smoking sign
Devoid of meaning in the aftermath of p...

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karma police no reply

motel (8/23/2015)

BLEED BLEED BLEED
soaked innit and spat out
a reign of fists and averted eyes
split from spine to stomach
stuffed back in with crime and malice
COWARDS--

DIE DIE DIE
a hate stamped thin with leather boots
prostetic burning incest, battering
spattering: spit and bile and semen
storms of slamming doors and midnight, smiling purges
BASTARDS---

FUCK FUCK FUCK
Lipstick theives of ruby ...

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this is hell this is bliss chasing at your fingertfaster

karaoke 3 (08/21/2015)

Pistolero,
a last survivor of mint and blood
awash with basin fresca lite
drunk on blood and mint
spinning down the drain
as one would circumvent the globe.
Hot air ballooons of vehemence
fuel burned for going notwhere
faster than the trigger fingers
of cooler hands and hotter heads.

the romance of retirement is wasted
on the young
joints aged by the artisans
talented in taking live...

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i can't keep doing this

afterthought 2 (

when a conversation is like pulling teeth
stop.
unless you need a necklace that badly. 

then i guess you can always talk to people about your necklace.
then i guess they wouldn't be able to say much back without their teeth.
there's a metaphor in there, somewhere. 
but mostly I figure if you're the kind of person that only wants to talk about their faerie necklace, you're also the kind of ...

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waiting for your turn to talk tooth faerie necklac

lucky lager shuffle (08.16/2015)

the greatness of man
splitting the atom, cutting the earth
drawing invisible lines in the sand
divided to half-sate thirsts where you can
gunplay nicknamed firefighting.

for thine is the kingdom of blood and iron
destined to chase thy own heaving mass
across earth, scorched and buried
scarred and refit, adapted, rebroken, repurposed, rebuilt
re-rack the 8-balls into these gangs of guilt
...

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im not so sure about this craft anymore

Ray Charles 0414 (08/11/2015)

>for lack of things to do when im tired
 
>i usually just eat
 
>is that unhealthy?
 
hhihihi
 
>hi
 
im super sick again
 
idk its probs unhealthy
 
i am being unhealthy too
 
i just wanna be well
...

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what we do with ourselves this early what the fuck

Scott Peterson 2049 (08/09/2015)

As I lay here finding sleep
I found you in its stead
drifting down into the deep
breathing in molasses black
stretched out thin as cello wire
abyssal tides to rip us back

event horizon duality
cliffjumping back into my chest
miles back in this shell named home 
shocked stockstill by my deafening breath.
You never were, and I never roamed
not once
not once to the ends of the earth
th...

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unfinished her name was pasay i call her like i kn

first will prompt (08/09/2015)

gripped in hands so paper dry and thin
inscribed a letter, these words scrawled out within
so plain, so haunting, so sinister
so monumental to my mountain of shame and sin.

sealed and stamped, bearing no name
no return address, none to blame
but the matte page, moonbeam bright
from the hands and eyes of a confidant
shipped here from overnight

perhaps a bride was in mail order
gaining...

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letters written to yourself papercut

why i don't mow my lawn (08/06/2015)

where the weeds grow in
crooked wicker thimbles
sideways in sin
but never wicked, only twisted
as the hole they were born in
taking the sunlight, hard and fast
for feast or famine, saving thirst for last
deeper roots, their greatest parts
growing harder when burned down
spiked and prickly, better learned
from life's hard lessons passed around.

In life they come and go
but in death --...

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real men don't kill coyotes

Ray Charles 2428 (08/05/2015)

I've got this bad habit
keeping on to jagged relics
harboring oceans of stained, discarded pits
of long-consumed fruits
original sin lining my stomach
blocking my ventricles,
sliding over one another
Plates, reptilian and tectonic
thirsting for the wearing blood of old wounds 
reopened in their passing.

I've got this bad habit
falling back, twisting and crushing
contorting backward, ...

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bury me it's too hot for sleep

echolocate (08/01/2015)

a magazine filled with glasnost bullets;
a body drawn in dots.
a truth cut deeper and harder
stillness painted in red and black.
placidity before pain
lucidity in the rain
washing away ten thousand drops of me
all bearing my name
none bearing my face.

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wash away noir dames black and red jack and queen

captain hook 0730 (07/24/2015)

Balogna and hot dogs are god's noble blue collar meats.
They get the ugly, thankless jobs that nature did until we killed her, outsourced her, crushed her with tank treads and replaced her with a miracle of soviet era automation designed by the germans, made by the chinese, shipped by once-proud thai peoples, assembled by grunting aussies, and handed off to the regular malcontentious beta male fa...

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im not sure where i was going with this drunk uncl

karaoke 2 (07/23/2015)

Jesus christ.
This crucifix is heavy,
leaden steps through the rehearsal
granted wishes: role reversal
twisted sisters; men of cloth
drawn to flame as man to moth
a panoramic curiosity
low-fi infidelity
delivered evil, picked and packed pieces
the familiar scent of me.

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it doesn't hurt less

haiku dump 1 (07/17/2015)

Amalagous spike
sitting white hot in my chest
hurts to know it's love

swilling the stars back
ebbing as the tides bleed through
beer ain't paradise

anonymity
living with no fingerprints,
no children in tow

 so thin, so brittle
self-scribed autobiographs
littering sad shelves
 

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five seven five could be a calibre

Napkin 4 (07/20/2015)

a breach of vacuum
will not always yield the vacuous
the same as how a void
is not described simply as emptiness
and antithesis
is not so easily made silent.

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the abyss gazes back parabolic reflections at the

Scott Peterson 2149 (07/17/2015)

My thumb is a fucking talon muthfukka
Uhm, IDK. Everyhing is basically the same with me. :/ 

>Churchill's imports also has van and cher coke. Closer than west ed. Also walkers chips.
>It's not necessarily a bad thing you know.

Well wtf why no one tell me dis?
How is that a good things

>Cause yuu aint' dead baby

At least dead would be something new.

>As they say
>To die would be ...

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this is my meditation scissors love company

malignamania (7/17/2015)

laughing at your own jokes:
hellbound, hellhound
dying at the speed of sound
white picket fencepost
rustic words of glastnost
coldwar kids half-lived on lithium
swept away in chariots, swung low
taken away, stillborn to the medium
of red star paradise
blossoms filtered, drank on ice
the innocent and damned
synonymous, milked and fed
to the anonymous
lying laying monogamous
fueling br...

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funeral home blues fire is a fascinator urns urns

bar prayer 1 (07/08/2015)

12 hours elapse
Willfully, I've relapsed
shaking my conscious addictions to sleep,
turned to edges, looking over precipices
painted cocaine white
"...fuck it -- " as I breathe in deep
teeter forward, 
break like green glass
in the weight of glasgow handshakes.

manic haze sets in concrete
and I'll beg you to leave your name on me,
carved into my wretched body
atop piles of bad history...

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i could love you if you let me

stepson icarus I (07/03-05/2015)

there is so much to be consumed;
there is so much to consume you

the flame-licking candles of summer love
the zenith where bending over backwards finally breaks
shatters the sky you've met as limits
and you come tumbling down, breaking every branch
at first trying to climb back up 
'I can fix this, I can fix this: I can be whatever you need me to be!'
then, trying not to fall so far
'Pl...

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the audacity of a ring i've never been so paralyze

hospital gown green (06/28/2015)

burnt bridges grown back by the flesh of sacrifice;
regrown and abraded: ground up as red obsidian
made for careless feet, tapping on solemn, hallowed ground
Bled dry and fed back to the living.

Sigh
so much time spent making noises
mouth-mimicks hiding treasure like a throat infection
coy as is want to do, need to be: my predilection
Parroting:
Insidious, obsidion, ponchus pilot myrmid...

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lung butter rum butter never meant to live this lo

A Maui Closer to Home

'I dream, day and night, of becoming one of those invisible little saints; I dream of touching the world with my actions unseen, but their effects rippling for miles, as stalks bend by the grace of the wind.

Were it only so easy for my clumsy human hands to lift the hearts of a panorama.'

words to drive fast by,
cheap and fleeting with the windows down,
summer screaming in and the life ins...

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hawaiian shirts feel like home

poutine chips are ok (06/22/2015)

watching what's trending
tickers ticking life away
brittle and pretending
pried off by news struck home today

shaky breaths, aerosolized and augmented
one more burner day, spending skeletons
losing memories, sentences segmented
just for another shot at the big score 
promised to yourself years ago
under the spreading, sky blue tent
of your alter ego. 

life is a study of how thin you...

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the pretender strikes again feeling that black lip

Knell is actually a great word (6/21/2015)

mischief measured in brigades
overgrown innocence, painting
and dancing, arm-over hand grenades
 
wield the strength of a thousand ants
to capture picnics, dine and dash
fleeing like sand, chasing like chance
 
guilted hands, worn as boxing gloves
forever stung by dogcatchers, becoming
immune to poison chatter and stairtop shoves
 
laugh it off like staggering r...

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i live i die i live again i am the man who grabbed

malinsky common ground (06/14/2015)

nothing quite as trite and ironic, symbologic and iconic as describing the ires of consumerism and existentialism in equal parts panic and brave in an early afternoon mcdonalds dine-in.

parades of flipping cars done with a life's work of idle hands hardened by axe heads deadened to the screaming of crushed heads, paying a lifetime for vices, working graveyard shifts in daylight hours. 
Dayligh...

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talk is cheap protesting everything apathy is not

long light short shadow (6/10/2015)

Cheers,
to all my fellow one-trick ponies
as we spend our time scrabbling to the plateaus of rhinestone history
written by dreamers named liars
looking for the easy life.
until you all asked to marry me.

idle, better known as bridal
t'ain't the coupled life for me
as couples are and I'm to be: water and oil
sooner, I'd be drawn, ductile, into misery
thrashing for enlightenment, 
gaspi...

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a glass can only spill what it contains wet shirt

run-on 1 (06/07/2015)

The weight of a veil meant for vain shoulders
pass onto me, through me
threw me like a bolt of crushed-quiet lightning in a board room,
scheming and festering, full of faces
with smiles too big and skin too tight.
This tribe is my brand to bear, now
straining my voice and stealing my air,
thin as their disconcerted expressions
painted on their sallow plastic sheet heads.

They look how I...

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dip one toe in fifty feet my arms won't move get o

Cary Grant 2142

had this dream trying not to forget it so i'm writing it down you, me, and malinsky were driving down a country road. it was set up so two sort of realities were running at once. one where allan was driving in his bmw with me in the back and you riding shotgun, and another where we we were all standing in a loft somewhere, allan's foot on a pedal (the machine deadman switch from the wire machine a...

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it's weird how dreams work sometimes

karaoke (05/29/2015)

Sung: from rung to rung
whiskey-oiled voices
pushing the greats out of their graves
climbed out of styx asylum on day passes
overstaying through the night.

Folded vocal cords,
cannbalized from others sooner fallen
drunk like bravery,
screaming for enlightenment
up into darker skies, daring
spitting, spraying blood and scar tissue
one more friday to stave off death:

Hope is an opiat...

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say it ain't say it ain't say it ain't so

Napkin 3 (5/23/15)

Veritas,
A partner in crime
blowback better days
bought in parts
instead of by the hour.

How alien:
touched mid-post, mid-text, 
pyrex glass, winning
new old west.

a reign ended in splinters
busted in the heated crucible
of the apocalypse. 

Yet here we are
survived, only by ourselves for certain. 
never buried, close the curtain,
a history wrote by us as best
as best and brig...

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no kisses here to speak of

Sweetheart in A-Sharp (07/28/2011)

Not really poetry but something I wanted to share from a while back.

'"You're the knife."
Words. Clumsy words. Taught to me by my father, and his before, and worn into my skeleton like a bad habit. This was a bad habit, and still is. 
"Be the knife." 
A hoarse whisper in the dark against the swinging, hanging light. Ten competitors, thirty spectators; all losers. Two in the middle. All my li...

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something borrowed

Captain Hook

>Wb. How are you feeling?
-Disgusting. Pathetic. Exhausted.
-How is your night going?
>Bipolar, switchblades, exes, pending hatefuck. Save me from myself.
-We will make each other drown.
>Then the abyss it is, unbreathing with each others doom on our shoulders, held under the itchy palms of lottery destiny.
>We'll drown upright on the count of three, a gaze a thousand miles past due.
>1,
-...

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what it means to love and trust a soundless echo

cleanup (05/17/2015)

'the crushing power of a tiny momento is something that I've always scorned, yet like stockholm syndrome my life is adorned with them. hung up around this room covered in lint and sweat-stains in places that I'll never look or touch again. waves upon waves of memorabilia, worthless if not for the weight of it on either side of my conscience from decades past, buried in layers like a trifle until a...

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what it means to be a polaroid

Solicitation (05/16/2015)

'In my past I'd get day drunk and share secrets, unsolicited and unwanted with pretty strangers. Not the fun kind, either. Not the kind you'd tell at parties between sips of margaritas, giggles, and flushed cheeks. 
No, I'd tell them the secrets that would be the bile boiled out of my bones if you went to make graverobbers' soup out of my body, sent mangled, scarred, and weeping off a hundred tho...

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trading secrets why don't you call me

Mirror Prayer 2 (5/16/2015)

am i a narcissist if i should admire
the way i'm cobbled together
a microcasm of how things have lived so far
hairy wreaths stuck out, pointing in all directions
like competing Polari
begging blindly, plainly, loudly
screaming in hyperbole and hypochondria
swallowing and wallowing in knowing, scathing hypocriticism
cutting deep as a saw, running back and forth
machete-pacing to the tune o...

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I made me this way run on and on and on and on

table scraps 2306 (05/07/2015)

dach zafoe
the cutting, the cunning ironist
the bulletproof monotheist
of megalomania bought in bulk
dollars a pound-- bervatim chokes
on words too big and concepts narrow
slow lips and fast thoughts, 
getting by selling spare bone marrow
outsourced and infamous
faceless and nameless
praying at a telephone booth
halfway to damnation
calling collect on debts you don't owe me
can't owe ...

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how dare i

slush time pun (05/06/2015)

call him: an eclectic,
spurned and burned
crippled by antiseptic
branded by the sympathetic,
closed the coffin lid
when you called a paramedic.
 
Listed in the obituaries
filed under ritalin,
our son, the grand
the inconvenient truth
teeth capped with sin
melting bi-polar
post-panic postpartum depression
a spiritual recession outrun
by questioning wheth...

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medic

Danny Nucci 0637

Broooooooooooooooooooooo
>Yooooooooooooooooooooo
>Sup hero?
Just monday ing. Haven't text in a while, so now is the time! Sup with you?
>Stuck in traffic. Had a bad day in the kilts so im gonna eat some chicken with my hands
That seems like an appropriate reaction. Whole chickens or just the parts that make them airborne?
>As much of em as possible, condusive to flight or not. 
Haha, good a...

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secretly im in love with everbody

Napkin Kiss 2 (05/03/2015)

Hate and Spite
a vignette red-eyed veil
dimly lit by liquor bottles,
cheekbones warmer than waxy panama wood
where i carved your name more than once.

We were clean then.
back before you knew my bones,
learned how I lived by taking up 
that little vacancy beneath my skin.
Til the day an eviction notice came.
Til the day I flooded the spiritual basement and ruined all your vinyl:
your c...

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if you only fucking knew

wallance hunting bastard tartan prayer (4/30/2015)

ye rest not
and do not cry for the departed
the driving rain bears no sympathy
for the spiritually destitute, 
nor the broken hearted.

the lost and found carry 
the same umbrella
woven with holes 
for our hands to do their want and will
as fencers thrust and parry

as a whore simply loved too wreckless
as the drunkard just tries to spin
keeping quartz with a heavy draught of life
a...

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waiting for the buckets to fill this is my life no

freudian slip sheet (04/26/2015)

breaks the ayre waves,
tidal-powered pools
dried, applied on graveyard days.
make me painted brave,
a white ghost haunting,
hunting for a resting place
gilded and gliding,
rankless and writhing
chained up to the tides of better ways.

coming, going, lapsing and lapping
pleased as a summers day
to soak up, dabbing away
the vibrant laughlines of the world.

Draining, drawing, determin...

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worst best horsekiller history

short n sweet

celebrity, living life
with brevity, fast as catcher's mitts
fleeting as spliffs on fox trails
green as surgical gloves.

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sierra whiskey echo delta

shared (aug/sept 2013)

She sits up at night
Moon makes her restless 
and beds give her nightmares, says.
So she smokes with the blade by the door.
Her feet dangle gingerly, 
flirting with the dark circles under her eyes.
'Babe, come to bed. You don't have to fight no more.'
A tired smile and iron grip,
hard earned and hard lost since the war.
'Sure, just a few more minutes,' says. 
It's been weeks since I hear...

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old just old i bleed a lot

Removed the Silver Ring (04/12/2015)

here, the iron sits
a spear rests betwixt my bones.
led this way and that, by cooling, ruling whims;
the treelimbs creak as the wind moans.

'Do not run, you cannot hide

nary be,
fretful of this phase of red
fitting pieces,
spectures, geists tailing
upon the broodsome foot of your bed. 
peace has come to take you.'

aye, and by the golden-eyed piercing gaze
freezing my knowing fa...

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never getting that ring back mythril dead dead dea

Tiny Tim 0716

In life
PADDLED ONWARD THROUGH THIS STRIFE,
KNOCKED BY BRANCHES,
SLICED UP BY SKIPPED ROCKS,
SUNKEN BY A CENTURY OF MOLLUSKS
JUST INCHES BEFORE I REACH THE DOCKS

Grown men, groan, men:
Provisions for the visionary,
Incisions for the wild and weary,
We re caught up in this soylent fishnet panic,
gasps draw mouths araw:

WE RE MADE OUT OF FUCKING PEOPLE!

SO LIFTED TO THE ATOMIC,
RE...

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baby's breath long draw slow draw

Kimura 1

We took a walk.
A long, quiet walk with a forty-five.
If after that many miles, a hundred thousand sleeping breaths of numbing, bitter breeze, you still have it in your hands to chamber a round, it must be fate.

"If you're not chasing, or being chased, you're nothing. Nobody shoots at nothing, but nobody writes its eulogy either. What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that you should always take...

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kimura all you need is love

First Laugh, Last Laugh

 let's run away together
living in the road and on the riot.
It's too late for me anyway,
I'll be the plane, you be the pilot.

Let's crash into all the fucking buildings you want,
write 'em all off as inside jobs
keep our blood hot as white, smart savants
turned streetwise by irons of the same color.

Blackwater?
I was raised in a similar institution.
Brackish, bred for war doctrine
...

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connie and blyde

notes 3

sometimes it's better to stand out of the worship, treating self christened demi-gods like people.

'if I interviewed one, they might try to borrow a cigarette. (I don't smoke, not yet), they might have had to sneak away. Exasperated, they'd tell me about how hard it is to be "on" all the time -- how the parlor tricks get tiring to them, how the attention is draining, how the novelty of the curr...

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i was thinking about you there was something i for

Let's Talk, WoL

what do you live for?

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what do you live for

Late Night Acousma

Aptly called a rescue dog,
filed under white noise
there was only a thousand different ways
that I could've fallen under your spell.
 

this seat, on a sunken iron lung
in the abyssal, clawing cold
a bog of wet denim on laundry day.
It's here, gateless and voiceless
I'll sit and wait for you to find me
knowingly pressing my cheek into my knees
fitting smaller and smaller into the space...

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stop drinking

speech oil (03/31/2015)

There are people that have pooled into my life, collected in the soft spots of my heart like burrs of a machine worked too long; there are so many people to hold up, to entertain, to be someone for. There are so many people that only understand how to take and get scared off at the idea of giving. Maybe their hands have been bitten one too many times. Maybe they're selfish, and just don't know it ...

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sarah pasay

14/30 (04/01/2015)

my dream:
a march of thousands lost
searching in vain for one another
to find themselves
but at what cost?

the plaintiff, shuffling feet
cast indecision, stares mirrored.
Our juries scattered for miles and years
the horizon naught to drawing nearer.

let us be a lens, prismatic
turned to all injustices, so small and burned
let us be the spades, sharp and blood-oiled
turning earth to...

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there's still damage to do before they rest the ax

Left Behind

November 2, 2013 3:48 am
boo
 
November 23, 2013 10:50 pm
yo
 
February 10th, 11:43pm
Um hi
 
about an hour ago
This one girl i used to see came by like christmas, throwing pebbles against the glass of my window in the middle of the night like in the movies. I wonder where she is now.

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unrequited a thousand kisses left in the breeze

long light (03/29/2015)

the lion and the lamb.
ferocity dealt with a gentle hand
pawns toppling queens
hoarfrost dancing on the brow of land.

spring breathes again,
reigning back the innocent
to whom should I commend? 
absorbed in eroding riverbanks:
the death of an enemy surely 
isn't the birth of old, familiar friends.

survivors ever-cautious
of the warmth upon the empire
heati...

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long light quick write not great v1

Eye-Toothed (03/26/2015)

Hipbones are wishbones;
Pulled apart and laid out
Torn and flipped and splayed out
Left in entemology rapture
Pins and pleasure
Night terror capture.

A familiar weight sinks
Touching my adrenaline
Stop--oh god dont let it stop
Torso bruised like carrion
Picked apart, left dizzy; panting
Staring a thousand miles past this ceiling
Letting you take everything and loving it
Swallowed ...

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like you fucking know my name say it anyways

Holly Buddy 2213

>hello frent

sup
IMG__433.JPG

>Sitting. Watching people play the video games. Thinking about girls and manilla paper.
>Fantastic drawing.
>How are yuu?

bad combo.
manilla women's fashion
Ur new clothing line

>Incredibly itchy but very flattering.

On the other hand I love watching people play video games. My internet is down so we are roughin it in the garage blasting metal and ...

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no news is good news

keanu Reeves 0926 (3/24/15)

throttled with a hatefuck
driving graveyard in a junkyard truck
buried in armor stained in friendship
better left as molten slag
from the twisted heat smoulder
of a shared life dressed in drag.

if anyone asked, we'd bite
that feeding hand, hurt and bleeding
amputees weighed in matrimony
what remains to make it right.

you've been interred in a bingo drum:
limping by on auto-dialers a...

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i miss you already

autumn division notes

"-444444444444444444 (4*18=72)
-count the rings something sings if you let go of yourself you might just hear it there's not just one; more than one name for a spirit
-a house cor churches; banners of lament built of pills, blood, love and cement flags at half-mast, though good intentions never fall reader kind, what good we sow
-irony is dead
-roads that spiral in shattered like glass rewrote...

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this is how

doctorate (3/14/15)

knees shaking,
wet pieces of manilla paper
guts quaking
use the scalpel and the scraper.
honed flesh,
separate piles
flay the waste of our race
measured in miles.

even me; especially me
worth so much less as pounds of flesh
storyless, shapeless leather
put out to pasture in famine weather.

molting, shucking, jumping free
each reduction, reduced
further from the itchy wet skins ...

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no gods no masters a machine named dennis

Men of Sand (3/12/15)

To be buried in an ocean gray:
The red-lipped demands of a cocktail,
hypnotized the dawn toward which we set sail.
Onward! Forward!

With such vigor, bombs and powder,
on wax wings of what it meant to leave home
how could we ever doubt her?

Salted letters written by these men of sand,
written in anticipation of coming home to you
tempered glass copies made in this foreign land.

we'r...

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poly amorous lie who cares if it's broken

Paint Thinner (03/07/2015)

This house held up on walls, 
Proud on the outside, barren within.
Our shame strewn in pearlescent coats, rolled on these halls,
clamped-quiet dinners, spilling and spelling
the litres squeezed from our sin

What is it to be an eraser in a planet of taboo? 
Surgeons are a dime a dirty dozen, 
labcoats selling truth out of desperation, 
junkie peddlers, collecting the walking human remains...

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fucking sloppy lonely bullshit

Featherweight (03/04/2015)

the world's a bunch of pink and white faces painted silver and gold, 
skins outgrowing souls, gnarled as inpatient fingernails
clipped by death as they grow old.

Beauty is fleeting; ugly moves in to stay,
mining cracks in the asphalt, bearing roots and twisted leaves
meaning well, being honest
smoking cigarettes and swearing
ladelling light-touched showtime beer soaked love
clumsily on o...

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at least i tried

Ray Charles 0553 (02/28/2015)

11 hours ago
>ugh
 
>totally overdid it
 

how
 

>drank way way way way
 
>way
 
>too much
 

uh oh
 
lil puki?
 

>not right now
 
>like
 
>i was passed ou...

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does this count as found poetry?

The Moon I've Felt (02/27/2015)

called from the depths of a rock named home
brought, knee height to rest in rapture
what I thought was the world in my hands
a meagre, fleeting, single-framed capture

this is what it had meant to be lost in your eyes
glazed over with stupid love, white hot without reason
an oscillating sum of parts, clumsy and lost
grasping, huffing helium, heads hung in treason

man-made and pin-stripe...

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neptune i'll love you before i love anyone

Keanu Reeves 1252 (02/27/2015)

Ether. Of the quality ethereal,
non corporeal,
living poor but breathing royal.

Squirming is a past time of mine. Squirming in anxiety, repression,
rolling around my bed, my floor, my room in depression
turning my own skeleton in my skin
waiting for the right pain, the left pain
borne affluenza from within.

Chicken walk discomfort, 
a too-tight skein tearing
and I'll hide a smile 
i...

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happiness is a warm gun

he means well (02/21/2015)

if only you knew
how you made me weak in the knees
bending like the taiga bows in the breeze
I hang onto your every word like a glider
I laugh at your jokes, cry at your woes
but your smile is the jagged, ragged cliffs below

and how I've prayed you'd pierce me, 
to this used car's salesman named Dog
he gave me my repentance 
when your car stalled in the fog.

my mouth is dry for you, ...

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when things get desperate things get weird

Crucifix (2/10/2015)

daisy-cutters; storm gutters
bring us yer trash, the leftovers of leisure
masters of cruel improvisation
we'll trade your pain for our pleasure.

dog-killers; roughneck bashers
burying yer secrets in the quietus of night
stoking ash and fingernail coffins
a tarnished future burns bronze, just as bright.

sore lovers; strong haters
basting yer alligator boots
eyeglaze bristled by stor...

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i wish i'd get on my knees for you

Wreckless Calendar (02/08/2015)

peeled back, there exists only layers

brimming with retreats and sacred spaces
porous: life breath contained within
savory, sweet, and saccharine
make-up, latticed shit-luck aces
a tartan of a gambler, 
we've got memories of glass and amber
stretched too thin and relived daily renamed the trauma
pulverized to make for fuel; you ran when she first called you mama.

so secretly alone in ...

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i want you to hurt me like you used to drive it li

Tin Heart II (02/05/2015)

This game's been fun but it tires of me.
It's time i made myself a memory,
boxed up and filed away amongst the others of my kind:
brothers in another life, grieving silently, each on our own.
We're volunteers of indefinite imprisonment.

 

Skewered between the tines of humility, 
fed like spare parts to a war machine
Left for scrap, deadened and oily
Reaching for that cleansing fire
M...

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i've earned nothing but your pity i've earned noth

Second Thought

I kissed your picture on the dash
gasoline on 67th, shut my eyes with all my might
face my last death, ignition turned
buckle up; driving to Valhalla tonight.

sometimes less words is worth more, to describe regrets of a life lived in hindsight
the final spike in that slippery railway, recapitated hitch-hike thumb slows me down 
enough to get a break, aboard the tunnel with the light so far...

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mishto triba tribal fever

Long Knives (02/02/2015)

a lot of lights extinguished
in the vacuum of the wintry night
so many families buried
flash frozen
beneath a flash of muskets, bright.

crumpled like a paper cup
crushed beneath god's dirty work
no glove can keep you clean
midnight-soaked
back to where the nightmares lurk

so many of those orders followed
cursed us with long sunset lives
antique bullets;
planted daisies in our eyes...

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right on past kristallnacht too many fucking feeli

Amalgomyte (1/30/2015)

It started one drop at a time
sweat, tears, blood -- it didn't matter
to quench the impatient parch of our pop culture.

when the flood came, we were already living 
underneath, we barely noticed, on our own
down here in the abyssal zone.
we barely noticed until the fear came

crushing and collapsing under a sun so far away
we built beath that burning ball of ambivalence
and when when o...

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too dead to live too fueled to die burnt and build

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