nicotine ash in the air
morphing neutrality
to potential cancer
one of us is
decomposing while alive
putrid body soul
and everything else
one of us is in the wrong
you're the one holding
death between your index finger
and other tumour-stained digits
one of us is in the wrong
let me be clear -
it's not me.
April 28
a blue thread wove in and out of cotton dyed blue. it was in motion. now it is one. unseen and camouflaging. my physical body and my soul. your physical body and your soul. some of me and some of you. we wove in and out. in transit we became one. unseen and camouflaging.
April 29
love like a shadow
may gallop away as a horse.
but come sunrise
there is a shadow again;
a caress over its muzzle
sparks kindly warmth.
perhaps the horse trots not away,
but takes you with it
April 30
in a world
vastly reliant on venting
through war
there was a quaint period
of combat without violence
in a world
vastly reliant on hope
during war
there
April 22
trample upon a leaf
and it will not cry
eat a leaf
it will not cry
it comes from a legacy
of a majestic brambly network
a persevering forestry
an elephant wades its way through
unsuspecting
a mouse rounds its eyes
upon the behemoth
the leaves do not cry
the mouse takes its prey
apart tusk tail trunk
the mouse eats the elephant
leaves lay trampled upon
not crying
April 23
wheee
i scree
-ch, tsk, ching
my armor cling clangs
i wield my sword
swoosh whish
it dances in the air
i cut invisible
demons to
de-
mon(ster)
s(ea)
whoop
i
April 15
cruella de ville
had a dalmation problem
it all started when
she lost her family to war
and the coat her mother
left her was stolen
it had comforting polka dots
finding the best replica
was all she ever wanted since
to remember her mother again
April 16
choose a token piece
i’ll be the rocking horse please
roll the dice
move six places forward
i now owe pretend money
to some pretend entity
is this game plagiarizing monopoly
roll the dice
move two paces ahead
you did better than me
my six versus your two
does it have to be a game
you nod
i roll the dice
April 17
my memories are rusting
they are anaemic yet
oxygenating orange
April 8
i want a pet
a fire breathing dragon
that kindles away
all the sadness
in the world
crushing every
tyrant into nothingness
and after we’ve wiped
all the tears off to never
i want it to fly me away
to a good kind of forever
April 9
cherry cola was a ladybug
that found itself in the gathering
dust of a crumbling castle
she glanced around
till she spotted a friendly face
loopa the matriachal pigeon
the two caught each other’s gaze
and flittered into
a new beginning
spurring the castle
to life again
April 10
affecting decibels in my ear
i speak in a high pitch
my heart beats, my pulse shoots
stars stare intensely in
the
April 1
i am ashamed of my anxiety
it falls over me
like a gossamer curtain
and i let its sheen take me
i am weak under its slippery
now here now there
demeanour, sometimes i
forget it’s only a curtain
and i am only human
April 2
are you okay?
yes, umm
i want you to tell me
are you okay?
no, i have to…
okay okay, all right
the voice outside knew nothing
about the voice inside
but still
it tried
April 3
fried velvet sticks
magnesium nuggets
double spaced novel burger
ash chip cookies
rainwater with iridescent swirls
April 4
chest hollowing
in tandem
breath extinguishing
you watch a cliff
crack and plummet
assuredly
aimed to
See now, I don't like cats.
I see you're appalled by this.
I reckon any
thinking person would be.
How can you not like cats,
you ask?
See now, in their presence,
my throat closes up,
my eyes itch like they'
re on hairy fire prickles,
my trachea threatens
the bronchi inside my
lungs - you will collapse,
I'm telling you,
you will collapse -
and then, say I do
I do collapse.
See now, the blood
rushes to my head
my face reddens -
redder than any red -
while the air in
my lungs thrashes
about like a half-cut
lizard daring to
regenerate its other
half but then they
inject me with epinephrine
and antihistamines and
I don’t really kno
One – enjoyed dancing while holding a glitter-stained mask to her eyes. Nobody wants to see those unsightly tears, her mother said. They slowly made their way down her blush-ridden cheeks, adding a layer of illumination that the unmasked coveted with disdain.
Two – unconsciously tapped his right foot, faster than the rhythm of his heartbeat. He was neither nervous nor anxious, simply a victim of time.
Three – laughed a lot, even when things were particularly unfunny. But according to Wikipedia, he lived longer than the other four.
Four – stared at screens twenty three hours a day. Even in his sleep, he watched his d
I am endlessly fascinated
by the contradiction
that is
to be human.
Human being -
completedeficient
wholehalved
fullbare
spillingstifling over
betwixt teeth
within sinews
across white blood
with such feeling.
doomed to end at birth
yet hopeful for
sweet immortality
upon death
yet this passage,
most human(s)
gladly endure
for their heart
remembers to rain
(and sometimes fails to -)
that good love,
that concretes
over mortal cracks
the wisps of my body
are strained exhausted dead
tell them i was brave
draw a tree on my epitaph
root me down to what matters
my heart used to be made of coppermercurycobalt
but your nothing sorrow
unalloyed me &
i am all the better for it
nicotine ash in the air
morphing neutrality
to potential cancer
one of us is
decomposing while alive
putrid body soul
and everything else
one of us is in the wrong
you're the one holding
death between your index finger
and other tumour-stained digits
one of us is in the wrong
let me be clear -
it's not me.
April 28
a blue thread wove in and out of cotton dyed blue. it was in motion. now it is one. unseen and camouflaging. my physical body and my soul. your physical body and your soul. some of me and some of you. we wove in and out. in transit we became one. unseen and camouflaging.
April 29
love like a shadow
may gallop away as a horse.
but come sunrise
there is a shadow again;
a caress over its muzzle
sparks kindly warmth.
perhaps the horse trots not away,
but takes you with it
April 30
in a world
vastly reliant on venting
through war
there was a quaint period
of combat without violence
in a world
vastly reliant on hope
during war
there
April 22
trample upon a leaf
and it will not cry
eat a leaf
it will not cry
it comes from a legacy
of a majestic brambly network
a persevering forestry
an elephant wades its way through
unsuspecting
a mouse rounds its eyes
upon the behemoth
the leaves do not cry
the mouse takes its prey
apart tusk tail trunk
the mouse eats the elephant
leaves lay trampled upon
not crying
April 23
wheee
i scree
-ch, tsk, ching
my armor cling clangs
i wield my sword
swoosh whish
it dances in the air
i cut invisible
demons to
de-
mon(ster)
s(ea)
whoop
i
April 15
cruella de ville
had a dalmation problem
it all started when
she lost her family to war
and the coat her mother
left her was stolen
it had comforting polka dots
finding the best replica
was all she ever wanted since
to remember her mother again
April 16
choose a token piece
i’ll be the rocking horse please
roll the dice
move six places forward
i now owe pretend money
to some pretend entity
is this game plagiarizing monopoly
roll the dice
move two paces ahead
you did better than me
my six versus your two
does it have to be a game
you nod
i roll the dice
April 17
my memories are rusting
they are anaemic yet
oxygenating orange
April 8
i want a pet
a fire breathing dragon
that kindles away
all the sadness
in the world
crushing every
tyrant into nothingness
and after we’ve wiped
all the tears off to never
i want it to fly me away
to a good kind of forever
April 9
cherry cola was a ladybug
that found itself in the gathering
dust of a crumbling castle
she glanced around
till she spotted a friendly face
loopa the matriachal pigeon
the two caught each other’s gaze
and flittered into
a new beginning
spurring the castle
to life again
April 10
affecting decibels in my ear
i speak in a high pitch
my heart beats, my pulse shoots
stars stare intensely in
the
April 1
i am ashamed of my anxiety
it falls over me
like a gossamer curtain
and i let its sheen take me
i am weak under its slippery
now here now there
demeanour, sometimes i
forget it’s only a curtain
and i am only human
April 2
are you okay?
yes, umm
i want you to tell me
are you okay?
no, i have to…
okay okay, all right
the voice outside knew nothing
about the voice inside
but still
it tried
April 3
fried velvet sticks
magnesium nuggets
double spaced novel burger
ash chip cookies
rainwater with iridescent swirls
April 4
chest hollowing
in tandem
breath extinguishing
you watch a cliff
crack and plummet
assuredly
aimed to
See now, I don't like cats.
I see you're appalled by this.
I reckon any
thinking person would be.
How can you not like cats,
you ask?
See now, in their presence,
my throat closes up,
my eyes itch like they'
re on hairy fire prickles,
my trachea threatens
the bronchi inside my
lungs - you will collapse,
I'm telling you,
you will collapse -
and then, say I do
I do collapse.
See now, the blood
rushes to my head
my face reddens -
redder than any red -
while the air in
my lungs thrashes
about like a half-cut
lizard daring to
regenerate its other
half but then they
inject me with epinephrine
and antihistamines and
I don’t really kno
One – enjoyed dancing while holding a glitter-stained mask to her eyes. Nobody wants to see those unsightly tears, her mother said. They slowly made their way down her blush-ridden cheeks, adding a layer of illumination that the unmasked coveted with disdain.
Two – unconsciously tapped his right foot, faster than the rhythm of his heartbeat. He was neither nervous nor anxious, simply a victim of time.
Three – laughed a lot, even when things were particularly unfunny. But according to Wikipedia, he lived longer than the other four.
Four – stared at screens twenty three hours a day. Even in his sleep, he watched his d
I am endlessly fascinated
by the contradiction
that is
to be human.
Human being -
completedeficient
wholehalved
fullbare
spillingstifling over
betwixt teeth
within sinews
across white blood
with such feeling.
doomed to end at birth
yet hopeful for
sweet immortality
upon death
yet this passage,
most human(s)
gladly endure
for their heart
remembers to rain
(and sometimes fails to -)
that good love,
that concretes
over mortal cracks
the wisps of my body
are strained exhausted dead
tell them i was brave
draw a tree on my epitaph
root me down to what matters
my heart used to be made of coppermercurycobalt
but your nothing sorrow
unalloyed me &
i am all the better for it