Thursday, November 29, 2012

West

They have said that I am eloquent
Well you can say that again
Always love a compliment
It keeps me feeling relevant
But I've found a new predicament
Found that all my time is spent
Taking breaths and breathing in
Pheromones that's heaven scent
Brown eyes I am drowning in
A love that was so instant
I've got to say I'm finding it
Hard to believe I am sober

But I know
That I am
This man
Got me overwhelmed
And I can't
Understand
How it opened
Like a can of unplanned
Morning Folgers

He's the best part of waking up

It's insane
Roaming
Free through the plains
Calling his name
For years it's been played
Out again with no gain
Calling names through the grain
Feeling trapped in the weed
Now I'm finally free
And bam like lightning
He comes running to me

So I know they call me eloquent
But it's funny now I'm finding it
Hard to find the words to get
Across what I mean
Because he not only took from me
The luggage that I've been lugging
But every single air I breathe
And the words from my chest
And I'm doing my best
To try and undress
The little distress
Of wordless obsessions
But I must confess
I've no words left
The boy from the West
Came straight to my chest
And stole the wind out and left
Me with the best
Kind of addiction
Love

Take Me

Take me somewhere
To a place of cobblestone
And ferns side by side

Moment by Moment

Moment by moment
Completely contextual
Case by case
Situation

Flip-flop

You know I'm not Pinocchio
Appropriately quotable
Appropriately poet-told
Trusting in the functions
Of the folks that I find notable
Giving up on what you thought
Looking for a solid rock
To stand on but instead you got
A slushy bunch of baja sauce
A house built on some sand and jocks
I told ya not to wear those socks
You faking saying you forgot
But now you stand on sand that hot
In socks instead of soft flip flops

Night Owl

I'm afraid to set the candle too close to the coffee cup
I'm afraid i'll drink wax on accident.

You can't just have a fire lit under your ass.
You need time to realize its hot.

Ryan

So many reasons for why I'm pissed
Taking out the time to decide which
Most of all I guess it boils down to this
I gave you a part of me as a gift
What I gave you caused you to shift
So you tossed it away like a piece of shit
And cut me out again each time it was mentioned.

Running

Everywhere I stand
I find water running next to me
In a sink
Or down the street
I didn't put it there
And we stand together quiet
The water and I
Like two men who promise
They aren't trying to check one another out
On a elevator
Until eventually
With an almost impossible to hear sigh
One of us leaves

Excuse Me

I have a lot of decisions to make
Excuse me
To continue to make
Excuse me
For that, I ask you
Can you please understand
That my pushing you away
On the ripples of our little pond
Hurts half as much as the tidal wave
Of our ocean deep romance crash
Would have
I am sorry to have come all the way
To your place
To say this
But I'm afraid
I left my One Year Chip
Here.

Wheels

The truth of the matter is
Stuck somewhere inside all of this
That I would never be with you
Out of choice
I am barreling down a road of recovery
With the windows down following sunsets
While you idle in the mud somewhere in a bitter Dakota cold
You spin your wheels
I use mine to move forward
I thank god for them
I see you and I see
And that's all
I don't feel something tingle in my chest
But rather I hurt from the chain around my dick
Pulling me closer and closer to yours
Knowing that your pain
And your poor choice
Are what hold me back
And pull my dick until it bleeds
You do not need me
You need to run out of gas
Run out of battery
Sit the fuck down
On the side of the road
And ask for help
I would sooner stop to help a stranger in need
Who wishes someone would be kind in the cold
Than sit in the winter
Next to a man who thinks he is doing fine
Just sitting in the cold
Like I don't know
Any better

Jealous of the Red Bud

Jealous of the red bud
He stood frozen
Close to spring

Christin

She paints in leafless trees
With summer breezes
Air conditioning
We sit - Daphne and Dionysus
With laurel wreaths atop our heads
Chakras blooming
And understand another side of love
Thelma and Louise
Anne and Sylvia
Two sister spirits
With tongue and pen
Paintbrush and friendship
At the gates of an opening
So deep and so vast
When we think of it
We gasp
Her and I
We can barely muster up the courage
Sometimes to face
Ourselves
But we can paint
Sing and lament
As a cat purrs along to the hymns
She hums and
I whisper

Moon III

When I got here and when I
Woke up are nowhere
Near the same
I came with the moon
To a land of dancing in the garden in the moonlight
And floppy discs
I let myself assume it'd sustain itself
And I fell asleep
Like a damned fool
But when I finally woke up
It was clear I'd lost some time
And I needed to get started
Right away
A thousand dances
And poems
Showed up at my door
Marked urgent
I removed the sticker and wore it as a poem
Around my neck
I heard sirens sing to me
The what was next
And I felt guidance counselors
At my shoulders
Ready to push me forward
When I woke up
I realized I should've already
Hit the ground running but
I arrived glued to the sky.

Begging

My dick it
Is confused
It only
Responds to
Abuse

So my ass
Brings the back
Won't relax
Unless its
Attacked.

My dick hurts
My ass burns
No more cheeks
Left to turn

Give me time
Give me time
Leave me be
Alone inside.

Please.

Matt

It's not just dirty old men
In public restrooms
And creepy relatives
That sexually abuse me
Its not even limited to
The sexual lovers that break
My heart or disrespect
My body...
Sometimes people can abuse me
With their clothes on
Every time he gets angry that
I'm beautiful
Every time he hates me
Because I won't fuck him
Then they tell me
Still dressed
Under layers of actions
Instead of words
That if I am not for sex
Then I am useless
And if I am not doing my job
My job of pleasing other men
Despite myself
Than I am being a god awful person
And I deserve punishment

I deserve love
And i find it ever difficult
To maintain that truth
When the world is filled
With so many pricks.

Take Me

Take me somewhere
To a place of cobblestone
And ferns side by side