Short Deplorably Poems

I am meeting a friend at this restaurant
her eyesight is deplorably bad
I feel brave, sitting across from the front window
with large pieces of glass behind my back
her blue Ford could jump the curb at any second...

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he's dead
the first to make it polish
lifting it pointing up

murdering thoughts
his mind reasoning twisted and irrational
a few knew why

failed deplorably
his desire to retaliate the other
just turned upon himself...

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It feels like I gave away all of my soul
All in false hopes of saving his own

And what now have I left to show for it all?
There’s nothing left but nothingness

Alone with my thoughts once more
Alone with what I can’t ignore

I have far less to react with now
Far less to feel with, you see
there’s less me

Ever as deplorably far from normality
As I can possibly be...

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when growing up
getting to stay up
the tv's day ended

an on screen flag
waved as the anthem
played and then

white noise which
soothed me always
sounding like an ocean

then a time came to pass
that that wasn't enough
they not we wanted more

the waves no longer hit the shore
just hate added with more
negativity deplorably

we cleansed the house
by burning sage the day
the garbage truck took

away the television
happily to say
my son 

can
see
clearer...

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