Cornfield aluminum recycled communion wafers.
We drank Gatorade wine from a stolen lunchbox,
sat Indian style in the irrigation ditch,
reciting Tool lyrics as scripture.
My IPhone had a cracked screen,
Her Android played only static and KORN.
We smoked straw wrappers,
wore hoodies like vestments.
God, in the form of a substitute teacher,
glassy eyed and smoked menthols.
She named a dead bird “Ezekiel.”
Buried it with her wedding ring
underneath the bleachers behind the gym
where someone graffitied “THIS IS NOT A revolution”
the snow didn’t remember our names.
Just a pager in her pocket,
still blinking after the apocalypse
Categories:
menthols, 7th grade, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
I think it was because you noticed the things that weren’t very important.
My favorite movie, the brand of cigarettes I smoked.
You were observant
You made me feel as if the sun would rise again the next day, light would come, the warmth would spread across my face..
And that would be okay.
Categories:
menthols, adventure, anxiety, crush, cute
Form: Free verse
For more than forty years my pistol
And - trust - me - in the dark like a pistol,
Sadly competing with my loved Christ,
Mostly after quaffed Stout cruelly iced!
Years back wore the look of Machine gun,
When it stopped ripe deaths from crazy fun:
The times I’d dared wrestle with Rothmans
Also with Menthols raunchy romance;
Once in my bag wouldn’t feel luckless
As it kept licensing The Reckless
The Asthmatic: An Idol Worshipper
My Dream Business: Inhaler’s Shipper.
Till date smuggles it into a church
Christ’s priests won’t see it, unless they search.
If my mum were alive, she’d slap me;
Would it – I know - reserve like Hot Tea
Categories:
menthols, christian, cry, death, health,
Form: Rhyme
You keep yourself so busy
you don’t have time to die
One day Death will drop in
for a cigarette
for a chat
for a soul,
“I still have so much to do,”
you will protest,
“I wanted to buy another car
build another house,
love someone else’s child”
one cigarette span for Death
could last an entire second lifetime,
but you don’t have the menthols He likes,
and it’s starting to snow.
Categories:
menthols, allegory, death, father, fear,
Form: Free verse
The scariest thing is opening my soul to you my guest.
As I watch you walk up the red carpet in my chest approaching my heart, the thought of opening these doors in my heart is inflexible.
You the flawless guest for the perfect event behind these doors.
You dressed in Gucci from head to toe, cologne scent too perfect to be gasped.
The knot of your tie perfectly made no slave was to survive this knot.
Shoes shinning like a mirror I can see myself smiling to your approach.
Menthols were made from your breathe as I can feel your breathe from miles and miles away.
You are the perfect guest for this event happening inside my chest.
The touch of your finger let alone the hand is just magical.
Magic I never felt since my mother touched me for the first time.
Smiling as she held me in her arms close to her heart.
As she touched me with those hands that had magic at that moment, butterflies flee in my tiny tummy hence I gave my first cry.
You give the same touch yet I struggle to cry, instead I just freeze.
This feeling I have felt before yet it was from the purest love, could yours be pure?
Could this feeling be as pure as that I felt on my first hour on earth?
Categories:
menthols, cute love,
Form: Verse
the benches
they sit empty
as if no one sits here
but ghosts of the past
their faces i see there
we share smiles
and laughs
and chatter about
memories still haunt me
the words that they had spout
i see smoldering ashtrays
smoke rising
off the brim
remnants of menthols
and what had been
many days
pass on by
each day the faces
less clearly seen
and beginning to die
Categories:
menthols,
Form: I do not know?
Embracing into wee hours
Within a glancing night
Eternities passion
Of interim flight
Resting,a soothing refrain
A menthols touch to each
Tearless adieus
Of Wistful sighs _ _ _
Softening smiles,
A fearless good bye,,
Categories:
menthols, life, passion,
Form: Free verse