Helplessly figuring life without your support.
Were you my first love?
Trying to mend the mistakes you caused.
Did you leave me on the shore?
Building a wall no one can tear.
Is this because of your faults?
Remembering what it's like having you around.
How did I live while having you damaging my core?
Scared to connect with your mirror,
because if I do, my life would be a loophole.
Guilt crawling into me while distancing.
Is this the power that a father has on a soul?
Smiling while I navigate through this world.
Jealous when I see that other people have more.
Triggered by every word that you spoke,
because only you know what's behind that door.
Am I slow?
I've asked for quite a while
Everything I do
Always seems peculiar
A minor fault in the way I'm perceived
I felt left out
My words
My thoughts
My expressions
They were different from others
I thought hard and well
Though not quite like the rest
Processing seemed hard for me
A slow dismantling of how I was taught to think
Like i needed time
I felt I was ok
The environment didn't think so
I got quiet and awkward
Loud and talkative
Not quite like the others
Like I was always the opposite
Stares from all angles
Emotions I couldn't understand at that age
In my way of life
My writing
My advice
It was twisted
No one seemed to understand
Only the villains in pages
I lived in reverse
I wanted friends
But we didn't have the same ideals
I was approached
I seemed different they said
Not like them quite enough but funny to be around
Like a comic relief
I want to change
Or maybe find the right people
. 'round mine
tickle
mine torso
hern purty
nimble
hern
That satans got his 'horns in a twist' and a tail on fire, come to think of it.? Its the souls he's loosing, just driving him mad
If he wasn't so ridiculous, it even could be sad.? Yet i preffer it the way its all gone with Jesus proved right and him, shown
Most wrong.'
Yesterday,
I saw the rivers,
the veins of Africa
from between, above,
and through the sinews
of clouds and never lying
dreams
in a plane from the early
twentieth century
before the world
had ripped the flesh
off every antelope
and color of the country
Will I ever reach the grace
of the Maasai?
Or am I being too
romantic?
I entwine my neck
with yours, my mismatched,
stretching giraffe
Reach me where our plane
still dances
desperate designs
in early century
clouds
this nutcracker is twisted, warped, there is something wrong
he does not know he’s not supposed to kick up in this throng
his feet are supposed to be stationary, his ways are not right.
This dancing, twirling and kicking give the others a fright.
Muffled mutterings
gibber refrains of madness
in my twisted ears.
a new year comes
how twisted the path
from here to there
impish urchins flood the streets
all seek tasty sweets
something as sickly sweet as them
~ marijuana
The plot in anything interesting
Always gets thick and twisted.
It’s the reason for the season
And the season and the season
Year after year.
Thick and twisted after all
Keeps ‘em coming back for more.
And sooner than later
Sooner than you know it
You are so thick and twisted
That you just can’t extricate yourself
And a lifetime has past
Then a thousand
And a hundred thousand
And you are not only not better
But way worse than it began
But you don’t even know it
Because of all those lifetimes.
The moment after all being everything
Seize the day, and all that
While what has really happened
Is it has all gotten just thicker
And more twisted.
(10/8/25)
When I turn the corner
there you are
When I drive home
There you are
when someone walks pass
your perfume is there
every part of you is twisted in my brain
their teenage teacher—they twisted to torture them ten terrible times
Little Red Riding Hood took a lunch
to her grandma who liked to munch
Riding Hood liked to play like waiter
until Wolf spied her and then ate her.
Little Bo Peep had trouble with sheep
They'd follow grass. "Stop it," she'd peep.
One got lost, causing Bo to sniff:
"That's it!" and pushed all over cliff.
Cinderella got dressed for the dance
Mean stepsisters said, "Think you have a chance?"
Cindy lost shoe, Prince said, "Yeah,she'll do."
That wasn't hard, she said. (gee, who knew!)
Jack traded cow for a magic beanstalk
His mom was angry, said, "take a walk"
He climbed stalk, killed giant, stole gold bullion
invested in bitcoins, and made a gazillion!
There's surely a moral to the fairytale story
Beware what happens when things get gory!
I wore my sins like velvet lace,
Then set your garden all ablaze.
I never once said I was kind--
I only promised not to mind.
The chandelier you loved? It fell.
I laughed and called it “doing well.”
Your rules were quaint, but far too tight--
I loosened them with fire and bite.
Abandon all grace here, my dear--
The wine is sharp, the end is near.
The guests are ghosts, the cake’s a knife--
Let’s toast to your once-perfect life.
I dance in boots of shattered glass,
My lipstick’s poison, bold as brass.
The night is young, the mess is mine--
Now smile, love. You’re doing fine.
He slips the noose around her slender neck
Cloaked and masked with heavy breath
He can't help but be obsessed
All the dolls hangin' around - pretty little lies that make not a sound
The poison of passion imagined as they are undressed.
The dead in their eyes is magnificent
Ivory skin - chill to win
Realm of the dark, lips apart, he just has to do it - again and again
The equinox of evil with the essence of sin
Is it vanity or insanity - his dressing up to lure them in
Disquiet Devilry and a sip of gin and the perplexity of the evil twin.
The morbid beauty of death and dying
The lovelies I have twirling in the twilight
Death has changed my life - the quiet peace holds the ladies and - I tight
The divinity of debauchery - death is not treachery
It's like an estuary of decadent innocence.
Dainty damsels dangling Breathless but fabulous
Envisioning slitting their throats as if they were flowers
Heinous and horrific the macabre abounds
A carousel of corpses, a ballet of cadavers, a symphony of death
Dazzling
The eloquence of the end-of-life - exquisite and eternal
His masterpiece just hang'in around.....
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