Long Chapstick Poems

The stilled portrait tells of a past
A past where the painted girl in blue ran wild
Dandelions clutched in her small fists
A penny in a wishing well
Her ear pressed to a conch
Wanting
Hoping
Needing to know you really...

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Fresh lavender, vibrant peonies, towering sunflowers, 
Mystery unnamed flowers, and a sweet young girl in the center of it all. 
You would think among all of the flowers 
Your smelling ability would be overwhelmed with...

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Sometimes people ask me... What's in your purse...
So I tell them the best that I can...
Lipstick, chapstick, matchstick
What’s in your purse?
Billfold, change purse, money counter, and clip?
Aspirin, Tylenol, Tums, coupons and stamps…
Tissue, pressure bandage, Mom...

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Where is me?

Does anyone realize or have the time to see me inside.Where is me?
Being sure of who that girl is in the mirror scares me because she is a distant 
memory.
She screams at me...

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I heard the radio say we won’t make it
the announcer was quite sure of it

I’m fearing the sound of sirens 
Welcoming the sound of detachment

From inside out
Outside in 
From last nights drink to tomorrow nights...

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There was nothing left for me to do but put on chapstick so I rubbed the soft 
mush into my lips with my head facing every corner of the abandoned 
restaurant—full of people.  

I...

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Something's on my 
Tounge
Words
His taste
Gum

Something's on my
Back
Bag
You
An itch

Something's on my
Lips
Chapstick
Your lips
I bite them

Something's on my
Mind
Fixing this
Fixing that
Maybe not so much of that

Something's on my 
Glasses
Visions imparied
Your too close
Now your too far

Something's on my
Bed 
Looks like...

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Jaymee king


Friends friends friends they always have your back their there if you have 
problems and make sure no one steels your lunch sack.A best friend is 
something you just cant get you have to...

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Come hither, Mister Delicious Sir.
Satiate my craving for saturating kisses.

Read these ready lips like romance fiction.
Practice your best parched desert depiction.

Slurp up this mist smorgasbord to savor
cherry chapstick and cinnamon disk's flavor.

Caress love's breath, pressed...

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