We are the coffee generation Steaming with sense Shaking with sentiment Names on cups We’re the generation of unopened post Avoided bills Begotten ills No landlines Looking back on a timeline Of when we did go out The people with whom We knocked about But are now only acquaintances We’re the credit kids Who can’t … Continue reading Reverence
In anticipation Of the waiting To be over A lover Moreover A keeper Of anti-social thoughts And filth behind closed doors Of red skin And scratches Of doors With new latches To hold in the lust Trust In the hand that feeds The hand that frees Your desires That raised it higher Stoked it’s fire … Continue reading Everlasting
You can touch it If you make it out alive If you can steady Shaking hands Long enough To hold the stuff you need You may yet Be happy Whatever that now means Happy is product Happy is contactless Happy is the screen Happy is wireless Happy is likes Happy is greed Happy was me … Continue reading Happy
You were freezing cold bones Left rigid Skeletal scaffolding Only there to hold me up You couldn’t move me Or build stuff Just support That wasn’t enough You were acid Through a paper cup That burned the skin That only wanted to touch Only wanted to feel Connected You were concrete Poured over flat feet … Continue reading Jigsaw
I lonely Suspended without sentence Impending the doom Of fallen comrades Inferred fate A consequence Of everything changing around External developments Out of my control Every gust Could be my last It’s been happening so long I’ve grown used to the fear Another year I lasted longer Stayed stronger Than all those around me You … Continue reading Apple
Meet Nita The margarita eater Greet her With a stuffed crust It’s just a must So she’ll show you all the while Her pepperoni smile She’s never very far From a garlic marinara She will always know If you kneed the dough Her arms she’ll wrap you in Like you’re her one and only To … Continue reading Nita
What’s more impressive? Writing a song from scratch Or being able to play thirty seconds Of a million songs Other people wrote? What’s more depressing? The fact that I asked you a question Directly related to your job And you didn’t know the answer Or the fact that you told me to ask the internet? … Continue reading What
Universally Blessed by frequency Funnily Turning from purple to red All by what’s said Behind closed doors Of whispered youth And fractured consequence Hence You seek a recompense So unworthy But more unnerving Vying for beauty Craving for duty Longing to serve Hitting the nerves That chime with indifference And love to worry Continue reading Hence
Out of the present In with the past The paint spreads like blood But surely will last A picture of planets Too good not to see A want just to watch Eternally Glass onto wood A high pitch note A searing refrain It’s hard not to note Your exquisite pain “I’m acting again” Is it … Continue reading Being
As you choked on the coke And fled with the flowers Days became hours When bitten fingernails Prevailed Against the anxiety Symbolically swollen With a need now to hold on As if dangling from The Grand Canyon Watching a sweat bead Leave me Bound down Where I could fall If only I’d give in to … Continue reading Ropes
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