Strong, porcelain Cup on a plate Hot is the taste Only the grounds As clay stay behind Consuming realitea Bitter, bold, and black Cleansing the palettes How welcoming
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Thumper
Does a beetle Feel pain When it walks on The carpet And is set upon By any blunt object I can find? When its legs are Paralyzed Does it know That it’s its time? As it writhes, Does it writhe? Does it know that’s What it’s doing? When it slows After it sustains Another blowContinue reading “Thumper”
Learn
Now you get up And you go home You nurse your wounds And try to hone What you missed before In the skills aquired Something went wrong But we know what it was We can make use of This lesson offered hard Lest the scars be wasted Like tattoos you mark The wounds from losingContinue reading “Learn”
Cryptsinfreeze
This homesickness Twists with tight grip Things that have Long since passed I’m coming home To the yesterday I say I’m coming home Distorted moments Dolled up and vibrant I’m twisted, too To revisit you I’m coming home To dead memories Crypts in freeze I’m coming home Remembering it all So much brighter Than perhapsContinue reading “Cryptsinfreeze”
Out With
Eating curry and Orange chicken That stuff you said You had In Thailand Hot tea Sticky rice We made back when We took the leftovers Home But before we could Do that We drove for A few hours Looking for a gas station All the while we poked And prodded each other On the lateContinue reading “Out With”
Coast Starlight
Coast Starlight 9:35am, Seattle, WA: I romanticized it. 10:21am, Tacoma, WA: Luggage 11:11am, Olympia-Lacey, WA: Prepared. 11:35am, Centralia, WA: Packing my things 12:19pm, Kelso-Longview, WA: And getting ready 12:58pm, Vancouver, WA: To leave home 1:50pm, Portland, OR: And set out 2:27pm, Salem, OR: On my own. 4:10pm, Albany, OR: It was scary 5:10pm, Eugene-Springfield, OR:Continue reading “Coast Starlight”
Home
Home I feel safe I radiate warm I know happiness I am loved This has become my home And into it I have deftly grown Into bright walls And open blinds In this place Of such tranquil sanctity It takes my breath away To occupy its wonderful spaces And bask in lavish decorations All theContinue reading “Home”
Dye Rats
Dye Rats There it goes Again We’ve seen this place So many times before Same thing happened here As it did the last time But we Were Here Before Flipped the coin, another try Same result and we know why This was meant to happen You can’t escape the result It’s all the same It’sContinue reading “Dye Rats”