Vomit Up Poems

Lemonade

...Ceramic smiles,
Stupid ceramic smiles,
Filling stupid ceramic bathroom walls.
Tiles lined up like teeth.
Lemonade words spit in lime colored ways,
Across an ocean of tiles and walls.
And someti...

Something is coming

...Something is coming. 
Something terrible.

I feel bugs burrowing under my skin,
Making homes underneath my flesh
And inside of my organs. 

They attempt to escape from
The acid that fills my ...

The Deepest Well

...(Sick with grief over the loss of our old blind cat, sick because we'd put her our last night to vomit up a hairball and then forgot to let her back in. In the morning I find her dead on the highway,...

An Apology

...Get your claws out of my heart
The pain's too much, can't take no more

It's like swallowing peanut butter
Five pounds
All at once
Without chewing
You do strange things to my throat
Not to me...

Via Con Dios

...Clinging to the angry gnashing teeth of gods,
Cursing the thousand misfortunes there endured
Yet in mortal terror of letting go,
We suffer.

A dying multitude,
We listen to drizzling turbines
...

Change

...The world spins on and on. 
Whether I want it to or not.  
I can cry for the earth to stop, but it wont.  
It doesn't care if I want to die or live.  
I can shoot dope or be sober.  
The world d...

Pocket Change - a Night Owls Lament

...Collect days like pennies;
hope they’ll add up;
hope they’ll be enough.
Go begging when they’re not.
Each morning vomit up the night
like a drowned man clearing lungs filled with water.
Gather ...

Too Much Fiber In the Diet

...I never knew that most monkeys will swoon
To eat bananas in a real saloon --
  They'll snarf down bunches
  After monster lunches --
Then vomit up the peels in the spittoon...

Brutal Brute

...You're a brutal brute who barks at the sheep clothed in your bite marks.
The phrases you tattooed within me are maggots crawling into my brain.
While they lay eggs made of tainted Ivory...

Tsunami

...Teardrops had fallen 
and wrung my heart dry 
too weak to cry
sweat had trickled down
to feet and palms
hiding in my bulging 
eyes. 
I had searched 
for three days
trembling at a doorknob 
...

Cosmic Shoeshine

...this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics
wink wink light the fuse and
bow only before your own image
for we are each a TV studio
with really huge detector molecules
recall that consciousness ...

Queen Alexandra

...a post from 2014
for my beautiful granddaughter, Alexandra

After 13 days of confinement, 
a caterpillar broke out of her butterfly egg,
Then ate the shell and pipevine leaf, 
upon which it was...

Failed Relationships and Financial Ruin

...failed relationships,
broken pieces of people
left on the pavement in
memory, burning forever,
crushed inside so many
different ways that all the
king’s horses & men wouldn’t
have a ****ing chance &
...

A Calmer Process of You

...a calmer (process of) you

III.

drifting (still) just beneath
what horror awaits (in roaming waters)
in present day (the calmer you)
the meek hopeful (pretends)
twitches (as if the world is not teet...

A Welcome Home: Part Ii

...the soldier knows many of the 4,500 who died 
in bashing Iraq,
the soldier may be one of the 32,000 who have been wounded,
or s/he may know any number of these individuals
who for 9 years spent their...

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