Nobody cared.
You could tell from the cracked and broken windows.
You could tell from the maggots and moths in the kitchen cabinets.
You could tell from the nails scattered across the dirt-caked floor, waiting patiently to be stepped on.
Nobody cared.
You could tell from the way their way shattered brown and green glass bottles littered the floor and the way the doors creaked every time they were opened.
You could tell from the way all the rooms smelled of rot and how poisonous ivy snaked its way up all the windows.
You could tell from the sounds of yelling that echoed through the house day and night.
Nobody cared.
You could tell from the tear-stained pillows on the ripped and tattered, sheetless mattress in that pale yellow, tiny room.
You could tell from the spider webs in every corner.
You could tell from the scent of alcohol on her breath and the slurred curses she yelled at the children sleeping in their beds.
Nobody cared!
You could tell because you were told.
It was right in front of you the whole time.
You saw, you heard, you smelled, and you touched.
You knew, yet still, you did nothing.
You cared just as much as they did;
Not at all.
the sunshine dancing about the nebulas
lands squarely upon the earth
then peeks through the kitchen window
with a most inviting smirk
the guitar resting quietly
plagued by strings out of tune
prays there will be time
to play those Mississippi Delta blues
a sonnet screams for pronouns
there is no answer to this call
lying on a sheetless mattress
staring holes in the apartment wall
I am busy, yes I am busy
don’t they know I am busy
I am busy, oh so busy
busy dying
stone glaciers
it dont mean
nothing
nothingness means me
questions
of
what
have we
what have we
transparancy murkier
what closet
doors
knob
"try to set the night on fire"
blazes follow
echoes through brokenness
which flame am i
answer the lunacy
answer the me end
answer him not at all
be sheetless
with me stains
rose bush faced
pedals merely
missing
kissing me
through you
kiss me again
and again
lets do it
again
stop it
leave me
alone faker
you have
stone glaciers
?
I started off out of my face,
I danced and lived the night away.
A beautiful group of students to make me love again.
When the sun went up and I was dying of the Aberdeen
Night,
A taxi, over the hill, around the corner,
Saved us from the icy ecstasy,
To few hours of sleep later,
I woke up with a folded heart
I couldn’t find half of it.
I found it later, around three,
I was early, she was deadly.
We walked, we talked
I was all alone, my folded heart an embarrassment.
We arrived and I knew it was going forever,
She promised and cried for her lost effort.
I sat numb from the toes up and tried to stop
the Mississippi’s mighty flow
the bump on my head, from the book of clichés my half
heart threw at me,
still throbs, drenching all else, in the grey of the world.
I hugged my life goodbye and promised to be friends,
My heart is gone, not forever I hope,
Now im sitting on a sheetless mattress,
Hugging myself to sleep.