Let's Not Call it Dark... Just Not So Much Light

Scurry

jdedj — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:36:00 +0000

Scurry

I don’t want
a movie where a man takes 52 sips to finish his beer.
He should take no more than 5.
He doesn’t get
the girl

His mistress is the pen
Candle lit
dates
Upon his pad
Spending hours
on end
Showering each
other with understanding
Pure
Diamond clear
Cutting the
glass
Between
Hordes
Marching
On
To dungeons
Prisons
Cubicle grey
Washed out
Clicking
Clacking
And cackling
Carrots dangle
Unreachable
Beat down
Enslaved

Dying the
death of a thousand flickers
Florescent brain
wash
Buzz
Droning
Eyes glazed
Brighten at
the
Promise
Of two
consecutive
Swallows of
freedom
Tired
Weary
To much
So much
Sleep endures
Laughter
Creativity
Poetically
Crammed
Into Polos & Hawaiin shirts
Flipping burgers
Flipping opinions
Compromise Soul
For another
Beer
Another
Argument
Silent
Sulken
boiling
Etching into
faces
Lines of
Rats
Caught in
the trap
Their neck
Nostril
Oozing crimson
Regret
Scurry
Scurry
Scurry
Flee
Don’t ever
look back…

Duck Shit

jdedj — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:31:00 +0000

Duck Shit

Insecurities
the turn off
unflattering
and pathetic
so what is
self defacing honesty?
when all I
share is all that I am
empty words
pandering
and patronizing
tide me over
with sugary lies
tied in tear
ropes and crippling
short breath
an elephant
named Anxiety
on my chest
sits
apathetic to
this squirming mush beneath him
pack away my
pain in your trunk please
real and
imagined eyes scrutinizing me
chump,
punished rightfully by Karma’s paddle
shut up and
endure
good for the
goose
better for
the gander
duck shit in
my eye

Sunny Day Sweeping The Clouds Away

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:58:00 +0000

Dog to his vomit
Meth head to their copper
Tweaking
Over deaths outreached
Hand
Arthritic joints
Impatiently waiting
Snapping for a quicker pace
Hurry hurry
Die

Biting tongues
No longer needed for wagging
Slip the stitch through the zipper
Jacket is bound round
Tight
Wound in allegory
Injected
Infected
Padded
Electricity is calling
Your mother is tingling in your temples
Father unplug the toaster
Pop tarts don’t taste the same
Underwater
Sputter
Spit
Cough
Hack
Leather is unforgiving
Even wet
Chirping wheels
Imitate the birds in mind
Squeal
Scratch
And grind
Nails bitten
Gouge eyes
Reddening
Salt blasted and dry
Screams
Screams
Screams
Screams
Screams
Screams
Screams
Screams

Leave Bukowski His Whores

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:44:42 +0000

Bukowski had his whores
Yes booze
But
His true inspiration
whores
Succubus
The depressed
The soulless
Crave
Wedding bells
Sugar
Lace
Happily ever after
And 2 car garages

Bukowski had his whores
Ugly as sin inside… and out
Words
Ejaculate
From the
Disturbed
Find a writer who is “retired”
I will show you the
Do not disturb sign
Hanging on the rusty gate
Of his nursing home
His pen inkless
His typewriter silent
His paper spotless
Gleaming in the late morning sun
Amongst the shit stained adult diapers, chatter, and lip smacking

Salt N Vinegar

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:19:00 +0000

When it rains it pours
That’s what they say
“They” Don’t know a fucking thing
Torrential disappointment
That is all life is
Tidal wave
After tidal wave
After wave
After wave
The “happy times”
That’s just the brief surfacing
Just to catch your breath
Get ready
Here it comes
Boiling
Churning souls into chum for the rest of us
There is a reason these waves taste so salty
They are
Our tears

Look How Big You’ve Grown (in my heart)

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:45:47 +0000

8 years down the road
Heart aches crank out tears
Readily flowing
As always
I could take grieving so much easier
If I had you to hold
And weep over
…again

Sleeping With The Obvious

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:20:34 +0000

Left up
Sobs
Split the air
In subtle cries
To be noticed
Lonely
They bounce
Off shattered dignity
Fogged by humid esteem
Dripping from everything
Clinging with salty licks
Batted away by
Her true intentions
Wiped away by blinking
Fluttering
Eyes
Sinking into
Carefree Dreams
Of far off places and faces
Free of
This

All The Stars Even John Wanes

jdedj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:04:17 +0000

Aquatic limbo
Warm caresses lapping at my neck
Peering past the shaggy tree gently tickling the
breeze
I scour the sky for the pinpoints of brilliance
muse
Faded
Obscured by the pollution
Light
That stagnant reminder
This town ain’t big enough
For any of us

Scratch Cat Fever

jdedj — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:10:47 +0000

Drowned in sweat
aches echoing off the pillows…
throbbing drums
beat in time
clocks stop to count backwards
endeavors laid upon the roadside
to sit
bloated and wasted

Just… Speak

jdedj — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:03:48 +0000

Speak as if spoken to
by higher power
speak
to be heard
as if
your words are the shower
all souls should bathe in
and silence will you;
eventually sour
Power & grace
convey
counter opression
break molds & stereotypes
smash these doors
these doors keeping minds closed
Leave no splinter behind
take us back
back to the days when
innocence reigned even when
it rained abusive speech and fists
when summer freedom was all that
mattered
and a bike gave you wings
to soar
above dreams schemese and so it seems
death.
before the time
role models fade
and innocence chips away
take me back