We built an anthill, just the two of us; by the end there was dirt in my mouth and sand in between my nonexistent toes. Persistence is key, but Im not sure if we ever finished Im claustrophobic from the collapse and dont see how I could ever go in there again.
But we deal with each others little problems. Tolerate them. I love you, fondle you with my antennae even though I dont need to. Because I want to feel you.
Though Im not sure if my brain is big enough to harbor that type of feeling, I cant really say because Im not actually any sort of specialist or know-it-all on ants and this
wayward bumbleberry bees by SweetBlackRose13, literature
Literature
wayward bumbleberry bees
Oh my, do you have an odd way of existing.
You speak when your faucets leak and paint
insufferable madness on white-washed walls.
Oh, dear, kiss-kiss, couscous and youre sprayed
by a skunk on your wedding day; no one
mentioned tomatoes until after your honeymoon.
[Its okay, darling, he married you before he knew
your screws were loose, anyway. Wasnt long til he
was a painting on your bedroom wall, one more
added to the collections of failed obsessions and
faded dreams. But love, oh lovely, oh sufferance
do you have a putrid taste in interior design.]
We are mellow mellow marshmallow fellows, hey
sweet
One day, it will be real.
There will be no diamond ads or cubic zirconium or hybrid Buicks or "real people" on Proactiv infomercials. There will be no Beverly Hills emos or gangstas wit da bling bling or middle-class guys who wear their pants at their knees because they must conform to stereotypes.
One day, there will be an Aboriginal Awareness Month which people actually pay attention to. It will be like Remembrance Day or Black History Month but other than regretting the past and honoring those from it, we will have a chance to change our current ways instead of just ignoring them.
One day, things will be real. Friends will be true and k
Envy and Pittering Angels by SweetBlackRose13, literature
Literature
Envy and Pittering Angels
morning?
There are dreams which hold testimony to your words, and I hear them when you sleep under the flimsy tent above us. There was a storm moving in from Toronto and we got it, blowing the cover off while we huddled together and laughed with margueritas and Crispy Minis.
(Im sorry good morning no thank you.)
Exhausted, you slept while my eyes ached and I listened to damp little angels trying to make their way to shelter.
afternoon?
Soon enough, the sun came out. Chased away the gray and dried off the rain and the dew the raccoons were sheltered, I suppose, rather than breaking in for the food foolishly left b
one step at a time - by SweetBlackRose13, literature
Literature
one step at a time -
your wounds are soothed in provocative touch
and soon enough, will heal.
(repeal your lies and travel cross,
hitchhike by train tracks
abandoned for years)
Youre always one step ahead of the last;
one step
one step
one stride
swing it; two notes hacked into a triplet
one beat sashayed into music
you follow Charlie Parker and Gordon Goodwins
Big Phat Band
out of your mental chrysalis
you can forget what you remember
one step, one step at a time
(one step
one step
one stride)
pine woods empower your scenic route
as you watch, you lengthen your steps,
your strides,
you
and the cradle will fall by SweetBlackRose13, literature
Literature
and the cradle will fall
When they told you to go for your dreams
the skies were short light years away -
just
at the tip of your fingers.
Say rock-a-my (rock-a-my) rock-a-my baby
and needles appear in your bundles of hay -
cashmere disguises and potties of sloth
rob your piggy bank, travel around for the day (
you crave contact and find broken ketchup packets strewn across movie screens. you sing in the shower, drop bubbles and take walks (runs) at night to let it out, let it burst / spray / in platinum leaves and stainless steel words
and the train
you were waiting for passes you by
in a blur.
(chase it
its all youve got)
chipped edges and swings on back porches and all the other random crap that flows past your eyes because you dont want to be where you are. dont have a story (yet), dont have a big kid bed or access to the grassy side of the playground (you might get hurt and bleed from your forehead while the
See you around the bend,
near the weeping willows and
red brick college campuses.
[Take a down-turn left.]
In two years,
you will propose to her
in the way she will have
been hinting at
most. Live up
to her fantasies,
I'll listen to the rain
(pitter)
and review my mistakes
(patter),
make it seem like it wasn't
my fault.
The successful are alone.
Those who swoon and
revel and kiss at the final
fireworks, brand-new
African violet forms
twisting their way between
(Christmas colours) -
fail History because they're lazy?
There is a stone (rock)
in the park down the street
that has been their since
our childh
Good Luck, Thunderkitty by SweetBlackRose13, literature
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Good Luck, Thunderkitty
They never said it was your fault;
though swallows crawled up mauled
at your doorstep and there was a
portal which let entities in through
your pillow, into your dreams and
out through your nightmares.
The sun rises violet.
Your card was always the jack of
hearts and somehow, beginnings
never fail you. Still, eyes follow
your footsteps along with stray
animals and mosquito bites,
bruises and scrapes from camping
trips.