Posts Tagged ‘desperation’

I hate the Edge

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

I hate the Edge Pub­lished at Red Fez

Don’t throw the corpes on our doorstep

Monday, June 13th, 2011

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Shard

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Like damp claw
Like bro­ken tooth
Like frac­tured bone
Like snapped neck
Like rusty razor
Like shat­tered glass
Like splin­tered wood
Like bit­ter scalpel
Like sharp­ened stake
Like twisted rebar
Like impaled spike
Like rak­ing thorn
Like stab­bing shiv
Like frag grenade
Like split skull
Like rup­tured sewer pipe
Like punc­tured lung
Like barbed words
Shard

Meant to Bleed

Monday, November 8th, 2010

All my fault
I wanted to belong
To be a part of it
Always peer­ing through that gate
That fence
That cage
That caul

So they gave me
The white pills
And the tan pills
The big pills
and cute lit­tle foot­balls
All very sci­en­tific
Stamped and approved
By the FDA

Would they change me?
Would I no longer be
Who I am?
They laugh at me
Ain’t that the point
You stu­pid mother fucker!

I took em
I hear them Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yaying
Through by blood­stream
like kids on a water slide
But when they get to my brain
Oh they get seri­ous
I can hear the clang of ham­mers
And dron­ing sounds of drills
And the rum­ble of heavy machin­ery
Earth movers and cranes
A mech­a­nized symphony

And they don’t change me
They don’t change any­thing
Numb me for an hour or two
Bout it.

You can never fix a bro­ken mir­ror
or read a book
With miss­ing pages
Mute peo­ple can’t talk
And the deaf can’t hear
Some things are just meant
To be bro­ken
cracked and imper­fect
Some things are just meant
To bleed

So I can never have their love
or their joy
or their beauty
their con­tent­ments
their smiles

I don’t under­stand them
And they’ll never under­stand me
Noth­ing wrong with that
Just the way it is
Some things are just meant to be bro­ken
Some things are just meant to bleed.

Shadows

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Color left the world
And…
The Sun called it in
A pen light
Shin­ing
In tombs
In misty grave­yards
In silent hells
In undis­cov­ered mass graves
In yawn­ing pits of despair
In the widened eyes of the murdered

In the halls of the damned

The Dead call to me
In tongues
At Once
Whis­per­ing
Cajol­ing
Stri­dent
Con­sum­ing
Ter­ri­ble
Only I can hear them

Objects are dimen­sion­less
Depth flees
Width and length
Have no size
Only shad­ows
Only shadows

The world stops
I can hear it strug­gle
To Breathe
Sip­ping breath
Like an elixir of doom

Smiles become winces
Joy – hys­te­ria
Love – obses­sion
Altru­ism a car­cass
Devoured
By beaks sharp­ened
On the cloaked shores of mys­te­ri­ous lands
I can hear waves crash
In unimag­in­able vio­lence
I can hear screams as bones snap
The watery sound of sev­ered throats
Plead for mercy
Plead for meaning

They’re only voices
Only sounds
Only shad­ows
March­ing to war
To a cadence
That has sounded
Through the ages
Can you hear it?
Deeper than a heart­beat
rum­bling
Shak­ing moun­tains
Like A hur­ri­cane wind
It blows

It will never stop
it can
Never stop

They’re…
Only sounds
Only voices
Only dark­ness
Only wind
Only one heart beat­ing
Only shadows

Blood Write

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

I’m sick of it all
Flow­ery verse
Cheap prose
Shal­low mean­der­ings
Play­ing with my cock
Blow­ing loads on paper
Say­ing Van Gogh was here
It all runs together
Like mag­goty meat in the trough
Feed­ing the mass man­nequin market

I’m the Poet
With my head up my ass
Exam­in­ing
My colon
My intestines
Report­ing to the world
Some­thing
Ain’t quite right in me ville

I need poetry that bleeds
That makes me uncom­fort­able
That has an edge
That cuts me
If I get too close

Poetry
That grabs me by the throat
And tells me
YOU GONNA DIE MOTHER FUCKER!

Dan­ger­ous poetry
Poetry that guts me
That is banned in schools
Poetry you can’t read
In polite com­pany
Poetry that gets me arrested
Sent to prison
That will rape me with broom han­dles
Flay my skin
Till there there is noth­ing
But the words

Poetry that rages
Assaults me
Rips the pil­low out of my hand
That drags me from under the bed
That tells me
YOU CAN’T HIDE MOTHER FUCKER

Poetry that speaks of love
Not in rhymed cou­plets
Nor wist­ful sighs
But shakes the fab­ric of time
Shat­ters the foun­da­tion of the Earth
Causes the Plan­ets
To break free of their orbit
Stops the heart
With its pain and loss
Poetry that changes me for­ever
That allows me to finally live
If only for a second

I need poetry
That I can’t read
But only feel
Ink inter­min­gled
With blood
With tears
With shit and piss
With sweat
That vibrates off the page
And becomes the North Star

I need Poetry that bleeds
I need Poetry
That
Fuck­ing
Bleeds

Broken Word ~Malt Shop Blues~

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

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Malt Shop Blues ~Bro­ken Word Piece~

The Ground Upon Which Riots Flare~para

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

My words and thoughts are sought
On the mat­ter
But blocked
Dis­man­tled by the uni­ver­sal cock
Of the mad hat­ter…



Block it.
Seal the dark­ness from the light
Of the lat­ter.
Light always has a way of pen­e­tra­tion
Forc­ing its way into the degen­er­a­tion
Of white on black
That lacks noth­ing more
Than the sub­stance of color.



It calms
It claims vir­tual real­ity of valor
In the sub-sequential dual­ity
Of twin peaks
Wink­ing at the sun above the mist of cloud.



They want me dead
And so do I…
Aloud…
But you just can’t let the grip slack
No mat­ter what turns black
And what falls to frost bite.



Des­per­a­tion isn’t a pretty color
At nightvi­o­lent
Some­where between the ultra vio­lent
And infra-readiness…



I won’t live on the edge of your rib­bon
As less
As adorn­ment
Or sed­i­ment dried
By blaz­ing sun­light and ter­mi­nal winds
As for­lorn spent
On Sun­day after­noons.



I am every color of the rain­bow
And the moon
Muted to mono­chrome too soon
By the whimsy thrown
And tied at the ends of braids…
I’m not here to pretty the parades
Of black and white cha­rades.



I won’t stay
To wit­ness your decay.
I won’t stay
To wit­ness my mon­soon of tears…
Not tomor­row or today.
You could claim your fears
But they knew you wouldn’t…
There’s so much more
That means so much more to you
That you couldn’t.



I’ll refrain from weav­ing chains
That grew
Around the cir­cum­stance
Meant to only drain you
And the color from the worth of dance
And it wanes…
Con­se­quen­tial panes
Of mir­rored glass…



You turned me into you:



Chaotic and lost
In Won­der­land alas…
Where the only way out
Is through
This
Pass.



Unfor­tu­nate to be left with only
Through.






©Jen2010 2–6



Cours­ing
Under­stand­ing
Only nul­li­fies
Ther­mal heated electro-magnetism
Of top­i­cal heroic ego­tism regur­gi­tated
So I dream ethe­real…



Release me ~Para~

Monday, February 1st, 2010

My face is blis­tered by the demands

The sug­ges­tions to free

Cut and cauterized–

They’ve hurt me.

Have you not heard me pleading

For the release of all that caresses?

His release.

Have you not heard me beg­ging to the presses

All these years?

I’ve done what was asked

Walked across acres upon acres of shards of glass

Passed razors through the maze of my soul

Dis­sected my heart with a mon­o­cle mirror

And I’m whole

I’ve for­given my fingers

And I’m whole…



But his release–

His release demands of my mind’s eye

His suf­fer­ing rakes the embers of my need

To sus­tain my high

Blis­tered and scarred

Ris­ing to an inferno I can’t disregard

And my fin­gers beseech thee

As my con­science screeches to me daily


Release him


Just release him so my sight can see

He lives with­out me

Sat­is­fac­to­rily

Allow me to wit­ness him serene

In the wild

Liv­ing out his most desired dream

And he will be filed under case closed.

I’ve done what was asked

I’ve inhaled the rose

And suf­fered each thorn as it passed

Licked the morn­ing dew from your boots

Uprooted roots I thought would never be free

And rotated eye­balls to view within

The bloody inter­nal mas­sacre of sin and debris…

I guess I just don’t know what you want from me



But you know what I want from you

Oh you’ve always known what I want from you

And you hold it close to your chest

Under lock and key and duress

I could kill myself, leave a sim­ple note of sin­gu­lar pleas

But you still wouldn’t give me what I need–

His release.

For his release is mine



And you’ll never let me go


Blis­tered and mangled

You’ll never let me go as such…

I’ve seen too much.



©Jen2010 1–31

I need sex! I am a desperate Man.

Friday, January 8th, 2010

As you no doubt do not know, I have been through a divorce where­upon I lost my house and every­thing I worked for all my life. That will be the sub­ject of a future post. But for now, let us exam­ine sex and desperation

I was mar­ried, which by def­i­n­i­tion meant I was not get­ting sex from my sig­nif­i­cant other. I was required to employ the ser­vices of a pros­ti­tute. Now some of you might cringe and say: “Dis­ease! Dis­ease!” Never fear, I would do the Odd­poet Babe Check. I would open the door upon hear­ing the knock and, ”Okay, she has two legs, check”; “let’s see, no vis­i­ble scabs on her face, good, very good.”; “Honey, roll up your sleeves,” no vis­i­ble track marks, “Come on in babe!”

My sec­ond choice for sex would be a Bar, Women there are usu­ally:
1.Of ques­tion­able moral char­ac­ter
2.Drunk
3.Desperate
When I was younger, I would prey upon Women in bars, sure as shit between 12:30 and 2:00 AM a few would either fall off bar stools or their nog­gin would slam against the bar passed out. I would imme­di­ately swoop in like a vul­ture on carrion.

Well I had fun, they did not remem­ber. This, of course, worked out for both par­ties. We did not have to do that stu­pid phone num­ber thing. Ladies we never call.

Alas, since I have no shekels I am forced into the ulti­mate humil­i­a­tion: Dat­ing want ads. How far have mighty fallen. What fol­lows are things you do not want to say in your ads:

Look­ing for my Knight in shin­ing armor”
First of all I do not shine my shoes let alone armor. Sec­ond, I do not have any frig­gin armor. Please!

Look­ing for my soul mate”
Well not sure I have a soul and if I did it would an ethe­real, spir­i­tual entity not remotely inter­ested in exchang­ing pre­cious bod­ily flu­ids! That’s a loser girls.

Look­ing for Mr. Right”
This is a sure fire way to have your ad passed over. When men see that alarms go off, “Shit! She will want to change me into her “ideal man.” Pretty soon she will have me watch­ing Liza Min­nelli movies.” Don’t work Ladies!

What does work? Briefly:

I swal­low”
Top of the list! Of course you run the risk of being con­sid­ered a slut, but you will never lack male com­pan­ion­ship. Like every­thing in life it’s a trade off.

I love to drink but I can’t hold my liquor.”
Highly rec­om­mended, It has two advan­tages, first men dig that, sec­ond, you can engage in all types of obscene behav­ior and who can blame you! Shit, if you’re drunk. It’s kind of like a get out of jail free card.

Lastly,
“I am a widow whose hus­band left a whole lot of money, look­ing for one night stands.”
Very good one.

Hope this helps; I will be explor­ing this topic in the future. In the inter­est of soci­o­log­i­cal research, of course.

Till Then,
Humbly I remain,
Oddpoet

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