I found an old home video.
I’ve never seen it before. It’s really blurry... it was recorded 15 years ago, on my first birthday. The camera is on me. I am sitting in a miniature ship that is rocking back and forth as gold coins are deposited. The muffled sounds of the arcade in the background ...
one shadowed day
the weary sun
ceases its struggle
against the looming
grey rain cloud.
the last leaves
have fallen
and gone are
the signs
of autumn-
a cold wind
sighs across
a river
of ebony glass.
the forest
is silent
devoid of life.
and from t...
is
it ‘abstract’
if it’s
what
he
really sees ?
i think he
must
have
technicolor…
eyes
and
has
de co ns tr
uc
ted
the
-W O R L D-
with
his canvas
and paint
-brush.
...
Good morning poor abandoned website
Lacking updates for browsers of this age
The web server was not configured right
A confused coder has quit in a rage.
You don’t qualify for search optimization
You were left to die in a pixel wasteland.
Your HTML’s been dumped in the recycle bin
The...
S.G., remember in chemistry, when we learned about the scientific method? What was the pattern? The purpose yields research which yields the hypothesis which yields experimentation which yields the analysis which yields the conclusion, right?
Scientific Purpose
Why has S.G. not yet come to term...
on the inside
i think the little boy
must be crying.
he looks wearily at me
with his huge, shadowed eyes
blinking vapidly like a
confused baby fawn.
his dry lips are drawn
downwards and parted
slightly.
his soft, rasping
breaths are that
of an elderly man.
he reaches weakly toward...
i stare at her face
delicate ink flowers swirl around
her
left eye
blue petals that must have taken
forever adorn the flowers
and i
think
why
a flourish of
acrylic tears that look like
the plumages of an aging bird
pour from her right eye and i
wonder
why
her lips ...
broken glass
slipping through
my hands.
looked like
rain bows…
under the sun.
shattered
pieces
upon the ground
if it’s so
silent
why do
i hear them
fall ing.
hide the
sharp shards
in my heart.
puncture me—
no blood will flow
broken glass....
i’ve always
feared
the Vanishing road-
hidden amid the
Sometimes trees
ten Feet HIGH
my headlights
are casting
yellow shadows
over the fine grey
Mist-
the Road wavers
like an illusion-of-a-river
and nature is
Silent
in reverence.
the atmosphere
deflates
and
a glass...
i clasp rough hands
with the sallow faced man
one evening on a
deserted road.
golden rays of darkened sun
trickle over
our inclined heads. The silence that
surrounds us
works to make itself
prevalent in my ears.
The only sound is the
occasional dry whispering of
browned leaves...
soft whispers…
fading on
aged wind
is that what
falling leaves
sound like
their dying
breath
a gentle
utterance
mingled with
the
sigh of weary
winter air....
at dawn
the sun
pours a waterfall
of golden light
upon the paper sky.
the misty darkness
is washed away
with every amber tear.
an array of vibrant hues
bleed through the
violet palette
as the sun drags
her paintbrush
across the shadow sky.
sunrise....
is Pain the same shade
as happiness
i can’t remember when
Black and bliss
began to blend
winter Moons
shone as the
sun
white and Grey
soon became one
blood inspired laughter
laughter led to tears
tears were but a substance
why did Death
seem so near
with every bre...
a man without
a face
is staring at me
a mime without
motions
to set him free
he has no eyes
yet they
wade through my inner sea
without a mouth
he throws
harsh condemnation at me
without hands
he takes my heart
blood flows as rain
without ears
he hears...
an inferno of ice
a dark sunlight
a thirsty rain
tracks with no train
roads without death
life without breath
death without smiles
lacked heartbeat all the while...
bodies.
skeletal bodies.
naked bodies.
gaunt faces,
empty eyes.
dead eyes.
it’s the eyes that
strike me
most…
where is the
contempt?
the confusion?
the sadness?
I search these dark eyes
and I see nothing.
Nothing.
is this what death is like?
all of them live…
but st...
summer nights and
endless days
have found me on my bed
“could’ve saids” and “if insteads”
replaying in my head
i sigh
and watch the ceiling fan
turning round and round
my thoughts a broken record
on a dusty phonograph
i contemplate
i do the math
i analyze the chance
tha...
a hoarse wind passes
over the deserted playground
dry autumn leaves tumble
across the cracked grey lot
a small
boy
sits alone
on the carousel
turning
ever
so
slow ly
he hums
a slow
forlorn
melody
to him self
and
the song
echoes quiet ly
...
An undulant ocean
Nearly lacking the fluidity of water
Is a sea of caramel
Beneath a ray of liquid gold.
A girl’s distant laughter is lost
In the gentle lapping
Of a thousand hands.
Her brown feet patter through
The warm, glistening sand
That could pass for snow.
She releases ...
hey
what’s up?
how’s it been since I last
saw you?
since you
were hanging on my
shoulder
since we were the
best friends in
the world
and you were
an all knowing sage
in my
naïve eyes
since I
gave in to you
and I
willingly told you
all my darkest
secrets and all my
b...
i sit
with my legs dangling
over the edge of
glass blackness
that day
i watch my
mothers hands
more than
i watch the
Figure in the hospital bed.
her hands
clasp and
unclasp
i
see little red marks
left behind and i
wonder
whether
god makes other pain
go away when
there...
hair
floats in fallen sun
light.
glints of gold
catch upon the
dark
ness.
sweetened breath
frozen violet
dew
drops.
slide from leaves
once dead.
life and death
crossing at the sun down.
yield to moonlight
once known as the sun.
winter veils
all the signs of
warmness
...
today
i did
what
I thought
I’d never do
i was amid
a flock of Sheep
baaing
at the Shepherd’s cue
today
i was
one of those Sheep
baaing
when Shepherd
told me to...
my easel
sits in
the corner of my bedroom
without a
canvas
my canvas
lies on the floor
with
nothing
painted upon it
my paints
are dried
my brushes
are stiff
and my broken
pencil
is poised
above clean paper...
i’m lost on purpose
I know my way home but
i’m going the rightwrong way
over train tracks rust
and through careless litter
I’ve never been down
This street
Before
the lady
stands in the gleam of
a lone street lamp
in the
graphite grey
darkness
her back
...
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