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Mute Button

I love the sound you make when you’re shutting the fuck up

well that’s no way to talk to someone you supposedly love I replied

shhhh

did you hear that

no

well if you’d shut your fucking gob hole you might

no one else can get a word in edgewise when you’re around

and you’re such a goddamn negative Nancy all the time

can’t you ever be positive

and talk nice

I think I’ve forgotten how she said

well you know the old saying

if you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all

oh christ on a cracker, now you sound like my mother

can’t you just give it a break already

take a rest

a siesta

a nap

I wish I could, I’ve almost forgotten how to sleep

I’ve become a zombie, the walking dead

eyes glazed over

feelings dulled

but in my mind I still hear you

you never fucking shut up

you’re a goddamn broken record

so zip your mouth

button your lip

lock it up and throw away the fucking key already

give me the silent treatment

because I love the sound you make when you’re shutting the fuck up

 

Bird Song

The cardinal visits me in my backyard
I know he’s my grandma, reincarnated
he sings his tune, but they are her words
calling me Stephie
wishing me Happy Birthday
we talk about recipes
and peanut butter and pickle sandwiches
and the popcorn made in an Atom Pop,
washed down with grape juice mixed with 7-Up
we speak of my son,
who she never met,
and how he’s taller than grandpa already,
at only 15
I smell her talcum powder,
and the earthy scent of the geraniums she grew on the glassed-in side porch
I remember the picnic lunches packed in the hamper
and tell her I bought one just like it at an auction
and how I like to look at all her little glass bottles of extracts in her pantry, hoping I would have the same one day
and we laugh over her frustration at my inability to learn crocheting after numerous lessons
and I tell her I miss her and wish
I had spent more time with her
when she was still here in human form
‘I love you’ I tell her
and she says the same as she flies away
but I know she’ll be back to visit me again

Barren Ground

barren

 

I pour the words out on the page

hoping to arrange them in some sort of order

to make my feelings known to you

and understand them myself

but it’s all just so much claptrap and drivel

you wouldn’t notice anyway because you don’t pause to read it

“Ugh, it’s poetry”, you think

“Don’t waste my time with that bullshit”

but it’s not merely my words you disregard

it’s me

you pay me no mind

even though you are all I can think about

show me who you really are

so I can stop this idol worship

and return my heart to its former state of hollowness

where butterfly wings fail to flutter

and no hope grows

 

 

Battle Wounds

I was never good at walking away

feet dragging

legs leaden

so I push. . .

barrages of gunfire from the arsenal

which is my wounded soul

you stand and take it all like a soldier

I wonder where your armor has come from

and how you dodge my bullets

Why do you stay?

What makes you dig in

and establish a bunker which can’t be penetrated by my ammunition?

You should retreat

run far away from my enemy lines

and the grenades I lob to keep you at a distance

But you don’t.

You stay strong through the fire fight

never once raising the white flag of surrender

Always my hero

setting me free from this prisoner of war camp I’ve constructed for myself

 

 

 

 

 

No Succor

 

 

leaves, void of chlorophyll,

scratch along the ground,

 

blown by a ceaseless howling wind,

which echoes the sounds of my soul

 

naked rose hips, petals long discarded,

scrape against the weathered wood of the fence,

clawing at it, like the hounds of hell

knocking at my door trying to gain entry

 

why do you hunt me?

constantly searching for the shell I have become

 

even camped in the depths of despair,

you persist in driving me further down

into the abyss

 

I’m lost forever to your darkness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m a surly sourpuss and

You’re. . .  fingernails on a chalkboard

and a toothache

and a paper cut with salt in it

and the itch that can’t be scratched

and the screaming neighbor kid

and a piece of hair in my mouth

and the peppercorn in between my teeth

and the underwear that crawl up my ass

and the jeans that let my ass crack hang out

and the package that never gets her on time

and the customer service agent whose English can’t be understood

and the gum on the bottom of my shoe

and the person ahead of me in line who needs a price check

and you’re the late plane

and the early departure

and the crack in the sidewalk to be tripped over

and the pizza cheese that’s too hot and sticks to the roof of my mouth

and the lukewarm coffee

and the slow driver

and the road construction

and the black ice

and the long nose hair

and the pen that runs out of ink halfway through my signature

and the sold item in the store that I went there special for

and the bum wheel on the grocery cart

and the bird shit on my freshly washed car

and the hole in my favorite pants

and the broken underwire in my bra

 

You’re just annoying the fuck out of me, so get out of here and leave me alone.

 

 

Products and Factors

numbers

 

I’m the common denominator

but I’m not much good at math

and your words only seem to add up

to problems

always more than just the two of us

in this equation

where I come from I can only do

1 + 1 = 2

I don’t need any other variables

making their way into my life

mutually exclusive

I’m uncomfortable with odd numbers

but you always seem to follow a particular formula

wanting a range of women

as opposed to 1

I am not an absolute value

I’m a scalene triangle

obtuse in the figurative sense

and running perpendicular to love

merely a fraction of my former self

after your bisection of my life

 

I fucking hate math.

 

 

 

Precipitation

breeze

 

the breeze blows through the windows

ruffling the curtains

carrying the scent of rain

 

like parched, cracked earth

my soul needs a deluge

to quench its thirst and

wash it clean of all that has sullied it

 

lightning cracks

charging the air

the thunder rumbles in my bones

 

 

no storm

has the power to free my soul

of the filth which inhabits it

 

it rains in vain

I doubt even death

holds a release

 

Condensation

frozen

 

Your words

hang

suspended in the air

on the droplets of your hot breath

stuck in condensation limbo

never reaching my ears

it matters not

what you uttered

as you grab my cold hand

and warm my heart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disremembrance

stop_time_iii_by_vimark

 

The clock marks time

tick

tick

tick

it’s been long enough now

that I almost can’t recall

why I fell in love with you in the first place

Maybe it was your stellar acting skills

A regular Shakespeare of the long distance relationship

prancing on the stage

waiting for my applause from the front row

and you, merely

throwing me crumbs, always giving me excuses

of why you couldn’t give me actual time

More of the

tick

tick

tick

I chastise myself for holding on too long

ignoring what was staring me in the face

anxiety mounting

tearing at my fresh skin, newly healed

Your claws digging deeper

into the fresh carrion which was my

already abused heart

the wounds you left more devastating

because they were poisoned with the lie of love

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