Horrible things.
Toothaches and no one does anything about it.
On my skin, there are pores where anything possible could grow.
No one knows much about me.
When you’re depressed, you just nod.
Facing toward nothing.
Taking your time like a bored toad.
Wishing someone else would take over your thoughts.
I could get in a car crash.
Or my car could just laugh at me.
Just the thought of the crash that never happened.
Is like a swelling feeling.
The feeling appears like an apparition.
Which feels less scary somehow.
It’s just a ghost.
Who floats like me.
Shaking hands.
The aching feeling slithers around my being.
So I try to be less.
The possibility of a crash enters my mind again.
I could get in a car crash.
Bits of glass in my hair.
Everything is sparkling like a panic attack.
Touching my car and it’s really real and not destroyed.
I don’t drive much.
They are probably laughing.
Like apparitions, but they’re just people I love.
So I turn on the tv.
Nothing happens anymore.
I just sleep a lot.
The toothaches do not last
But, the memories, they do,
Once Halloween had passed
And my childhood, too ...
But, the memories, they do
Remain with me still ...
And my childhood, too
I am sure always will
Remain with me still ...
The magic and the fun,
I am sure always will
When all is said and done
The magic and the fun
Can so easily get away,
When all is said and done
Let them eat candy this day
Can so easily get away ...
Once Halloween had passed,
Let them eat candy this day
The toothaches do not last.
Was going to look for my missing watch
But just couldn't find the time
Simply no telling where my mind is going
This very strange mind of mine
Here's an ultimate groaner, my friends
I used to be a good tap dancer
But then one sad day I fell in the sink
Asked how I was, couldn't answer
D'ya hear about the crime that happened
In a downtown parking garage?
It was so damn wrong on so many levels
Heard it was a case of sabotage
With the scary approach of the apocalypse
Armageddon out of here
That's silly, whoever's coming up with these
Is more than just a little bit weird
A man had a difficult time bouncing back
From a serious bungee cord accident
Been to the dentist and I know the drill
Tells me toothaches you can prevent
Reading a great book about anti-gravity
Find it almost impossible to put down
It's floating around the living room all day
One time it bonked me on my crown
Dead batteries are sometimes given away
Free of charge I've heard
Think someones's trying to brighten my day
Now that is downright absurd
Poetry contests. How ridiculous. Silly even. It is like comparing:
dogs with underarms,
underarms with toothbrushes,
toothbrushes with giraffes,
giraffes with garden parties,
garden parties with throw pillows,
throw pillows with coffee cups,
coffee cups with light switches,
light switches with spitballs,
spitballs with cinnamon buns,
cinnamon buns with alligators,
alligators with rubies,
rubies with motorcycles,
motorcycles with sumo wrestlers,
sumo wrestlers with bubble gum,
bubble gum with swimming pools,
swimming pools with rabid skunks,
rabid skunks with toothaches,
toothaches with garter belts,
garter belts with police officers,
police officers with dinosaurs,
dinosaurs with sauce pans,
sauce pans with an art show,
an art show with a pumpkin pie,
a pumpkin pie with a speedboat,
a speed boat with a stepmother,
a stepmother with another step mother.
Poetry contests are silly.
Tortures the nerve constantly
Ongoing severe painful throb
Only abstraction is the cure
This pain is worse than labor pain
Horrendous sharp electric shocks,
And advil is just a temporary fix
Can't sleep at all
Hurt all night long
Eating food is not an option
Alexis Y
08-19-16
* Author's- May not be writing for a while due to bad toothaches.
I have
I am
I live under rain
With a roof in-between
I still live with the pain
Toothaches and dementia dreams
Seems so unreal
Young, with boldness, I grasp at the future
Blizzards all white… nothing to see
Dead babies, lost wars
Falling bombs that never land
Petty crimes, handcuffs laughing
No legs to carry my hopes
No arms to reach for the sky
I swim inside the horrors
I have it all
No monsters under my bed, nothing to fear
Cotton candy dreams
Lovers who only scream
Alone sipping coffee, forget the cream
Sugar coated illusions
My life camouflaged unseen
So I smile and laugh as I stand tall
No one sees the desperation as I fall
Black rose and sanguine pensive moods
Why?
Am I so miss-understood
Headless
Driftwood in the sea
Halloween: The Best Time of the Year
Halloween
Frightening
Everything about the nonliving
Everything about the dead
Scary stories to be said
Monsters coming out from under your bed
All in one night
All in the biggest fright
Lock your doors really tight
Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Don’t give me no rotten meat!
Candy everywhere
Scary masks giving you a stare
Giving you a scare
Toothaches
People acting fake
Zombies come and wake
Knock on every door
Abandon houses to explore
Stay safe worried moms implore
Flying witches on brooms
Wake up the tombs
You are doomed!
Pumpkins glow out light
Clock strikes midnight
Kids wandering around is still a sight
Children eat pumpkin pie
Watch movies where people die
This night is no lie
Old men hitting teenagers with their canes
People loosing their brains, all aboard the haunted train!
All humans drinking cider
Watch out for hooligan hiders
Watch out for creepy crawly spiders!
Halloween is my favorite time of the year
Everything is to be feared
Everything is a little to near
heavy legs cannot tell a lie
yellow spots with wings reveal the most truth
visions of black has a punch that can knock you back into reality
when the hand is in a toilet stool full of soggy wet used toilet paper, rock bottom feels like pebbles with incurable toothaches
icicles on eyelashes are the most accurate meteorologists
sweat stained shredded pillows are the pillars of an insomniac community
red devil moons seduce like temptation on angel dust
when a toboggan is over the feet as a wool blanket podiatrist, rock bottom feels like endlessness stopping for lunch but still in motion
heavyweight windstorm powerwalks expose stubborn tears
picnic table graffiti nothingness removes the veil
spinning clock lifestyle shows an age rapidly receding
when the triple layers plastic bag is at its full capacity, rock bottom feels like exactly what it is....rock bottom....
Was going to look for my missing watch
But just couldn't find the time
Simply no telling where my mind is going
This very strange mind of mine
Here's the ultimate groaner, my friends
I used to be a good tap dancer
But then one sad day I fell in the sink
Asked how I was, couldn't answer
D'ya hear about the crime that happened
In a downtown parking garage?
It was so damn wrong on so many levels
Heard it was a case of sabotage
With the scary approach of the apocalypse
Armageddon out of here
That's silly, whoever's coming up with these
Is more than just a little bit weird
A man had a difficult time bouncing back
From a serious bungee cord accident
Been to the dentist and I know the drill
Tells me toothaches you can prevent
Reading a great book about anti-gravity
Find it almost impossible to put down
It's floating around the living room all day
One time it nearly broke my crown
Dead batteries are sometimes given away
Free of charge I have heard
Think someones's trying to brighten my day
Now that is downright absurd
© Jack Ellison 2013
Don't go to a dentist, you can have your rotten teeth removed for free.
All you have to do is find and cuss out Mr. T.
He knocked out all of my teeth with only one punch.
But now I'm starving, I can't even eat my lunch.
Call Mr. T a sissy and you won't have to live with toothaches anymore.
He'll remove them for free but dentures are something you'll have to pay for.
Dentures cost five hundred bucks, it's a situation that makes me brood.
Until we can pay that amount, you and I will have to eat baby food.
(This is a fictional poem.)
A bell will meddle sweetly,
Dancing to it's chime.
A shadow casted openly,
Smothered with design.
It's contour shaping softly,
A pillar of gold strength.
The shadow glaring back at it,
A sickly dripping stain.
It's heart is sudden single
It's muttered phrase reclined.
It's rocking you to sleep at night.
It's dwindling down the twine.
When will a gilded car crash
Take it's place tonight,
To ease my troubled waking
And set my stomach right.
I've not yet wanted anything
But to be that charming drain.
To settle all the whimpers,
The toothaches and the pain.
To ward off all this wanting
And replacing it with need.
To chip away a coveted bell
Tainted through with greed.
I'm pulling on it's pendulum,
I'm knocking on it's door.
It's halo slightly dimmed of light.
It's riches nearing poor.
Defeated just by patience
And slowly slipping time.
A weakened stifled laughter
Will never hear her chime.