The Empty-Handed Man Explains
Not forgot, I think it's bogus -
chem-trails wafted from the groin
perform hormonal hocus-pocus,
juxtaposing 'brain' with 'loin'.
Then, swift to lose its jizz-ness,
romance knuckles down to business:
passion vowed on bended knee
replaced by kids, the SUV,
mortgage dues and renovations.
What about idyllic smut?
Sure, the urge may linger - but
who's got time, or inclination?
Hence (and wise to keep in mind),
the Romans stoned St. Valentine.
The clouds are solemn, sky-hobos down
to wander the city drunk in frowns
and loose, grey trousers. We appear to be lost
in newsreel salvaged from the second World War:
mechanical suits, umbrellas flickering
in and out. Drear-drear-drear, cars shout
in captions of gutter water and blue smoke.
Where are we going. The ones with beards
dig their fingers in and scratch. We don't know.
Does it matter. Isn't there a place down the street.
The Irish fire. The fuggy wool. Four pints
of dark. Salt and vinegar crisps. Two girls
in red lipstick, kissing in a booth at the back.
Italic represents the inner depths of our emotions, an endless well of truth. Within lies the rawest image of the self, the naked reality of vulnerability, doubt and discovery.
Will I ever find love? Am I destined to be alone forever?
It also depicts instant sparks of thought, blurted words mute to the world.
Shes cute! I wonder if she could ever like someone like me. Did she just smile back at me? Was she being polite, or ?
Bold equals bravery, chance and gamble; the lion heart in which shaky words express daring suggestions, challenging the fate of solitude.
Want to go for a coffee sometime?
Can I c
They Would Be Dead Anyway by Colornote, literature
Literature
They Would Be Dead Anyway
Once there was a woman named Hannah
Born in Boston in 1910
While in Chicago there lived Sarah
Also born in 1910.
For Hannah, a string of tragedies:
Two children died young, her husband left.
Destitute, sick of calamity,
It's what you'd expect: an early death.
Sarah married late, but into wealth
Produced four children, eager and smart.
She herself, the pinnacle of health,
Lived to be ninety, gave millions to art.
What's the point of two such different women
They'd both be dead by now regardless.
Exactly, you've posed the real question,
Does it matter, or just a point of interest?
Is there still tragedy if they'd both
Be dead b
or requiem for a boy
i am typing this to you on a notepad. the letters are
spaced and even, and there are
no imperfections.
they are simple and numb
and the line moves as you type and that is okay;
i don't have to see what i just typed.
i'm only going to chop it up later.
no regrets.
i am writing this to you to tell you that i will be your boy.
even though i am your her, i will be your his too.
it is much more
possessive. his implies ownership.
her is just an object.
you are just an object to him.
but to me, you are and you are not.
i am your boy.
i will cuddle when it is appropriate, and be
standoffish on occasio
Witches
So you thought we were gone
when our blackened bones had burned to coals
and you'd washed our ash
from the back of your throat. When you exhale
into the face of your wife, does she smell us?
Lately at night, familiar as cats,
we've taken to creeping about your dark home
reeking of bonfires, empty-headed
pumpkins, poppets of wormwood and rue.
In dream you consume us, come
morning, you dare not
pass a hedge or linger where three roads meet.
We are slowly collecting your fluids
and fallen hair, diffusing our dust
into all of your meals. Soon we'll leach
like salt from your skin, fly
on specks of spittle, out
of your
this one's four you three two by choirsoftheheavens, literature
Literature
this one's four you three two
her name, if i remember correctly, was laura, melissa and purple.
picture this;
a girl stays far away from the swing, too scared to touch the sky and follow in the footsteps of wax-winged men. her mammy said the branch would give in. her friend crowns the tree with whispered words, and tells the petrified bark never to give up on itself.
they learn how to spell, fumbling fingers holding fat crayons in fists, racing each oh-tee-her, el-ih-ay-ar-ning to-get-her. it doesn't matter to them that they don't get full marks even though "l-e-a-r-anne" and "d-e-c-laura-t-i-o-n" are clearly wrong.
they are four and nothing's stopping them from livin