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Back Packers Packing on the back Of Kickstarter Backers Backpacking past the Blast From The Past Inspired by a couple of rappers And star-spangled Tangled Stars thought to be from Mars Driven away by the fear of driving cars Haunted by the face I keep inside of a jar Inside a room I keep slightly ajar Sometimes I think I've gone too far And feel as though I'm being eaten by the bar Even though I've kept you on the other side of the bar I promised never to drink How'd I end up in a bar? A parent destined to be a star Apparently the parent didn't go very far Apparent that her errant future found her way out of Illinois The youngest child Destined to meet a boy Who couldn't love with his heart A stupid, brilliant boy Who became the father I want to tear apart Well Sometimes Sometimes during this ever so frequent Unloading of my shopping cart heart It's difficult to tell my feelings apart OR WHETHER OR NOT I CONTINUE TO BE LABELED A...

Jumping Hurdles

School is the only thing I can talk about anymore This thing's swallowed up my whole life And I'm not studious I am only a student Assigned to climb Mt. Vesuvius And it's tedious And it's ludicrous And I don't plan to climb mountains later But should I be listening to myself? Or this thing the teacher's telling me? That I should " try out for the school play Because it's the only place where you can be yourself " And Iv'e been getting so afraid lately To do all of these things I thought I had gotten comfortable doing And Iv'e been finding it a lot harder to talk to people And it makes no sense I thought I had beaten it. But I don't know anymore. School is the only thing I can talk about anymore

Relate To Her #1

You try to help Try to help another person Within your power and permission Aiding of your own volition Because you wanted to and because you needed to and because nothing else now matters In the world now spinning patterns The silent stirring Teething; Chatter Nawing on the simple notion  Tear down the wall Complete devotion The Screaming Slurring Sound Commotion Drown in the ocean In slow motion