Flawed
On my
Charcoaled Pedestal
I am
Measured
Scribbled
Into
Newsprint Booklets
Never to be
Exhibited
Never to be
Revisited
Me
In True Form
Just a
Super Exhibitionist
Carefully shade me into gray
Forever and Always
I will Remain
Your Work
In Progress
01 April, 2009
Short Lived Life Expectancy
Boxed me In
The Doctor did
Told me
I Could Never Live
Not like this
Just
Not
Like
This
The Doctor did
Told me
I Could Never Live
Not like this
Just
Not
Like
This
Self Preservation
Pick Pick Pick Until the nail bleeds Tear away the cuticle Bite the nails down Chew on the fingers That taste of nicotine Down Down Down Goes the enamel of the teeth Pick and Scratch
Until yellow fingertips Color themselves red Taste of blood Instead Instead
Instead of
Gnaw through damaged nails Just to get to Bite off the callus Chew the scaled skin between chipped teeth Grind fidgeting fingers Down into the wrist Repeat Do this Do this Do This
Do it Again
Bloody Scabs
Instead of hands
Make it
Impossible
To pick up
Until yellow fingertips Color themselves red Taste of blood Instead Instead
Instead of
Gnaw through damaged nails Just to get to Bite off the callus Chew the scaled skin between chipped teeth Grind fidgeting fingers Down into the wrist Repeat Do this Do this Do This
Do it Again
Bloody Scabs
Instead of hands
Make it
Impossible
To pick up
Fishbowl Mind
Fishbowl eyes
Stuck
On the rash
On the arm
It is
Redder
and
Redder
Does not
Cease
to grow
It climbs
limb
By
limb
Ever present
It eats away
First
It gets at the skin
Just a sink hole
Fishbowl Eyes
Seeing
Only
The
Inevitable
Void of Solutions
Harping
What’s outside?
What’s up there?
Surely
That fishbowl
Has an Opening
But
Fishbowl eyes
Can only see
From
Left
To
Right
Side
To
Side
Stuck
On the rash
On the arm
It is
Redder
and
Redder
Does not
Cease
to grow
It climbs
limb
By
limb
Ever present
It eats away
First
It gets at the skin
Just a sink hole
Fishbowl Eyes
Seeing
Only
The
Inevitable
Void of Solutions
Harping
What’s outside?
What’s up there?
Surely
That fishbowl
Has an Opening
But
Fishbowl eyes
Can only see
From
Left
To
Right
Side
To
Side
Red Woman
Oh,
She lies, She lies,
She lies All the time, And
All the time, They cry, cry, cry,
Please, Please, Please,
Don’t lie to me.
Please, Please, Please,
Just be Mine.
And
Even though
They know, They know
They try their best to turn their head
Blind their eyes
Push up their nose
But
Blind eyes fail to quiet the mind
And still that whisper continues on
Continues to chime
Rings in their ear with that
Same old line
Oh,
She lies, She lies, She lies.
But
They know They know
Oh,
I know
That they know when I lie
And
Anymore
I don’t
Even bother to hide
Anymore
I Just
Don’t Even Try
But
Little did they Know that
Though
There were many
I loved them all
And
Little did they Know
That
Though
There were many
I loved them all--
I loved them all Full and Whole.
She lies, She lies,
She lies All the time, And
All the time, They cry, cry, cry,
Please, Please, Please,
Don’t lie to me.
Please, Please, Please,
Just be Mine.
And
Even though
They know, They know
They try their best to turn their head
Blind their eyes
Push up their nose
But
Blind eyes fail to quiet the mind
And still that whisper continues on
Continues to chime
Rings in their ear with that
Same old line
Oh,
She lies, She lies, She lies.
But
They know They know
Oh,
I know
That they know when I lie
And
Anymore
I don’t
Even bother to hide
Anymore
I Just
Don’t Even Try
But
Little did they Know that
Though
There were many
I loved them all
And
Little did they Know
That
Though
There were many
I loved them all--
I loved them all Full and Whole.
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