Posts Tagged ‘desperation’
Don’t throw the corpes on our doorstep
Monday, June 13th, 2011Shard
Monday, April 25th, 2011Like 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, 2010All 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, 2010Color 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, 2010I’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~
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The Ground Upon Which Riots Flare~para
Sunday, February 7th, 2010My 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, 2010My 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, 2010As 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