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Milledge Webb Poem
Chloe
Chloe's are the smallest hands
smaller than the hands e.e. cummings gave the rain
Melting the snow of my white glove
together we look out over the white domino tombstones
Chloe's are the brownest eyes
Wet and sad like a spaniel dogs
Tracing the shiny brass buttons on my uniform coat
Chloe is to young to understand why i clench her hand tighter
each time the guns fire for her Daddy
To young to hate me for not saving him.
Copyright © Milledge Webb | Year Posted 2015
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Milledge Webb Poem
Pretty Broken Things
In dreams I cut away a piece of your hurt
chew it
Bloody and raw
Pain dripping from my chin
Streams of salty warm copper
The way hurt must taste.
In dreams I stand beside you
Shouldering the weight
Impossible bags of wet sand
Heavy like hurt must be.
In dreams I piss out the fires
Lit by the monsters that follow
People like you
Pretty broken things
Born into golden houses
One day
Forgotten by the sun.
Copyright © Milledge Webb | Year Posted 2015
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Milledge Webb Poem
The world you where born into is burning, Hopkins.
It's big and Ugly and smells like diesel exhaust.
Literally, because the hospital Insurance sent us to is on an i-95 off ramp
Just north of the South Carolina/Georgia Line.
You where born during an episode of House Hunters,
Two days after i lost a rigged BBQ Cookoff,
Our Brisket game was solid.
The world you where born into is not fair,
and your daddy is the poor son of a rich man.
I tricked your mother with my manners and air conditioning,
and here we are.
The Doctor asked the nurse if she had Ham at thanksgiving dinner, the nurse told him ham and turkey and told your mom to push....
You came out eyes wide open and on the TV two people from Charlotte found the perfect granite countertops.
You where the type of perfect that turns words into sparks and smoke.
Your mother holds you to her chest and you look me right in the eye. I cry like the second runner up in a high school beauty contest.
The day you where born the world continued to burn.
Copyright © Milledge Webb | Year Posted 2016
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