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  Help me, I've forgotten how to swing!

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  I took a walk tonight up to the elementary school a few blocks from my house for some reason I felt the need to shed my shoes and socks and walk barefoot I guess I wanted to feel the cold wet sidewalk or something I flipped over two swings before I found one that was dry enough I...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Seams

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  And him with that ball in his hands tracing the worn stitches with his thumb And her with those ribbons up her calves weaving back and forth around iridescent flesh they saw it coming saw the stitches pull and the ribbons slip And you with the world at your feet watching the midnig...
• Fiction > Romance
  Don't Tap On the Glass

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  Don't tap on the glass Says the pink sign taped to the wall, to the right of the bullet-proof window. Just like the one taped to the fish tank in the doctor's office Don't tap on the glass I highly doubt these fish would even bat an eyelash if I suddenly started pounding on ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  And a 5, 6, 7, 8

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  And she said Let us start from the top Never in my life have I ever started from the top...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Freeze my ass off

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  Walking down Juanita Drive On the wide shoulder Littered with empty juice pouches And soggy dead pine needles Its raining Not pouring Just regular late March raining Enough to need an umbrella But not enough to keep the die hards inside I'm on the wrong side of the road The left side ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  It goes a little something like this

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  Peace To those Who can't find A better reason Peace To those Who fight for Nothing at all Peace To those Who run around In figure eights Peace To those Who won't stop Because they can't Peace Peace Peace Peace...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Johnny Loves Cakes

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  She's been baking The evidence is everywhere She thinks she's sneaky Covering the scent of baked goods with pine-sol 'Been cleanin' babe?' 'Mmm-hmm just a little dustin' here and there' The white flour handprints on the back of her jeans would beg to dif...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  The Reign of The Queen

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  The reign of the Queen ended that day. It was after an altercation with a half crazed spanish assassin hell bent on an unsupported revolution in a neighboring country too contented by feasts and balls to bother much with anything. The attempt on her life (which, mind you, lasted only moments, an...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Vampires; (Not) A Love Story

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  The world of vampires is always filled with blood, sex, and impossible decisions. So is mine. But I’m still very much alive brandishing wooden stakes and garlic strings Its the eyes those are the ones that always tell stories sure the words come from the lips but the lips tend to lie th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  So I'll bite my lip and bloody my knuckles

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  I was eight years old when my father brought me out to his garage and introduced me to his well-loved punching bag he always wanted boys as most fathers do but my mother gave him me and my princess of a sister it took him eight years to come to terms with this finally he pulled me aside one ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Daddy's favorite Carhartt

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  Carhartts I will always remember Late fall football games Shivering inside your hole-riddled Extra large Carhartt jacket With the creases in the worn canvas And the distinct scent of welded metal Madly cheering on a losing team And not giving a damn Just you and me, Daddy grease-smeared...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  This isn't worth reading

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  I stayed up all night writing poetry I thought it was all brilliant Now I'm looking at it and I see that its all s*** I'm reading the words sounding out the letters in my head I get frustrated because I drifted off again in the middle somewhere dammit I'm trying real h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Regular Miracles

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  I spend money on the regular miracles just like everybody else I want to be a breadwinner I want to write about something worth while something my senator would read I want to be productive So I write little notes on my hand but then I wake up with black ink smeared on my face It mak...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Last Stop

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  My salvation came in the form of the last bus home in the pouring rain. I had a panic attack today I had just gotten off the wrong bus to nowhere it was ten at night it was cold enough to be snowing my phone was dead I hadn't eaten since 1 and I had one wrinkled dollar left in my walle...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Bridget's Rules to Live By and Things to Remember

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  Sleep in as long and as often as you can (Remember; artists stay up late businessmen wake up early) Never wear pants before 10 am Its only awkward if you make it Scream in places you shouldn't Cry a lot Sober people pee in toilets, Drunk people pee everywhere else Cats are not the o...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  We live for the companionable silence

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  We're just trying to love each other like we've seen in the movies We kiss the bruises And cook the meals Laugh like its funny And cry like we care But we just can't stop Hating each other Oh wicked love! It shall eat us all alive! But isn't that what we want? To be...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Young and Dumb

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  We're just sitting around burning holes in the carpet swatting at the the flies and drawing dirty pictures on the wall getting drunk on boredom and loving every minute of it smoking inside because we were told not to eating junk food taking our fast metabolisms for granted screaming ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The F-Bomb

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  I swear because I'm angry at the world I swear because I'm not just lost I'm also blind I swear because I didn't just cry last night I balled my goddam eyes out I swear because I'm brimming with excitement and anticipation enough to make me want to squeal like an air-h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  She's beautiful but She doesn't get it

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  If you're beautiful and your friends are beautiful and your house is beautiful and you're surrounded by beauty do you look in the mirror and feel beautiful? Or do you feel half alive like the rest of us....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Eat Me

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  my proudest moment was when I sat in the middle of your dinning table crown atop my beautifully barbequed head and you called me delicious please, I'm begging you come sink you teeth into my soft flesh leaves grotesque marks on my pale skin ravish my naked body with your lusty fan...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Stale Potpourri and Talc

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  You are all just filthy fish on a hook dishonor left in your wake smothering your rotten stench with stale potpourri and talc you, are a filthy liar I am not stupid I am ignorant Reject your truths and supplement my own worry worried worrisome I cannot stop you cannot stop me I cannot...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Document

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  fringe fanged wolves and AIDs ridden placentas beating doll hearts and pink suede love what was I talking about? piece by smothered piece living in the infestation leaving and going and running and turning and leaving again we’re going to hide the plants will just have to suffer with...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Transcendium

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  See the problem is I started thinking I mean really thinking Deeply Way too young I grew up faster than the other kids I was forced to There was no room in the world I lived in for children so I learned to adapt an adult in a child’s body an old soul I like my sky dim Not dark but ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  yellow raincoats

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  He bought them yellow raincoats But yellow isn't their color Construction yellow. Just like the road signs Before they fell He bought her a gray leather jacket But gray makes her sad Deadpan gray. Just like the weather Before they moved I bought him a baby blue blazer It brings out hi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hurt

  

  By I8Grass, Gingerland, WA

  My heart burns Maybe it's the nachos Maybe it's the breakup Either way I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt...