I have heart strings playing to the
tune of your spinal chords -
and I'm trying to cut every
single
one of them.
The photos from my camera throat may
be negatives, but my chemicals just
develop them differently - a concoction
of bad memories, of nightmares and photos
pushed face down into the desk
in the middle of the night in a sweat -
ever since the time regret started to
bloom like a corpse flower
in my chest, my words have been poisonous,
passive-aggressive pin pricks;
making you sad isn't a pastime;
it's a cry for cease and desist;
look at the photos
ejecting from my lips - pretend you
were me tonight and see
them de
Words around me ring of success, quantifiable
just as much as it is buyable, at the cost of
incomplete dreams, perfection, when all that is
real is imperfection, and all we want
is to dance down dirt roads and find truth
in the dust that makes its home on our skin, kicked up
by our sub-par moves, but we've got a rhythm
when no one is watching us, when no
pupil can carpe our diem, only
rain puddles to splash in,, rippling
funhouse mirrors
Sometimes the most success you can quantify
is how high you can jump
and I have a record of a bajillion feet.
NaPoWriMo 7 -Lord of the Flies by immortality-in-words, literature
Literature
NaPoWriMo 7 -Lord of the Flies
We were born into this world,
learned the meaning of hate
before we heard the word 'gay',
'faggot' boxed our ears before
'homosexual' ever could.
We were placed in our pink and
blue baby suits, tucked into our
race car and flower bedsheets -
Congratulations, it's a girl.
Congratulations, it's a dyke.
I remember that night, my mother's
eyes frozen in fear at her
'just confused'
daughter, that needed a ride to a date,
her daughter, who (she thought)
would be scorned by peers
never hold public office
never get into a good college
not be allowed to any more
the progression of love by immortality-in-words, literature
Literature
the progression of love
It began
Freshman year, US History Class, 6th period, First Day of Highschool
I'd never seen you before, and knew nothing about you.
My body felt like a bundle of tightly tangled threads, small and a mess, and, if pulled in the wrong way, sure to snap.
When I saw you, I felt myself unwind, just a little bit.
I wanted to know you more.
---
They year passed in silence and awkward social skills, smiles and waves unseen and words muttered too quiet to hear.
I would sometimes see you in the hallways, walking by, and I would want to say something, but was unsure as to whether I should.
You were always holding a smile, on your lips o
Between Alaska and Russia by immortality-in-words, literature
Literature
Between Alaska and Russia
I know those coasts.
I remember, it was an long time ago, but I do remember those coasts. They were flat and motionless in the textbook in my Geography class, but I still know them.
So that's where I am now. I'm right between Alaska and Russia.
I remember when someone told me you could travel between Russia and Alaska in a hot air balloon in under 20 minutes. I didn't believe him, and I never cared to really check whether it was true or not. That was highschool.
Maybe I'll find out today, if island travels at the same speed as hot air balloon.
As I look over the side, I can just barely see the waves down below. They look like ripples, sm
Como Crecer Alas by immortality-in-words, literature
Literature
Como Crecer Alas
Todo el tiempo contigo -
dulce, como anticongelante
que me manejó en los días
invernales; salvo del frio, salvo
de dolor, de verdad; yo estaba dormiendo
en un ataud de mariposa, hermosa;
felizmente en los sueños sobre el libertad de
amor, cuándo en realidad -
atado en una jaula,
ahora
estaba ido
desaparacido
desaparacido
a- d i o s ;
ahora
tengo alas, pintado
con ojos
NaPoWriMo 13 - Dubie by immortality-in-words, literature
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NaPoWriMo 13 - Dubie
A kiss is like a dress falling off a tall building,
(and you're in it), like
a letter slipped
into a locker, it can only be taken back
with a crowbar and enough
regrets; it is a morning coffee
so hot, your tongue recoils;
take a sip again, take that love-
letter, place it, wrinkled,
right into her hand, that
dressed
red envelope.
Let go
of the windowsill.
NaPoWriMo 10 - Untitled by immortality-in-words, literature
Literature
NaPoWriMo 10 - Untitled
Party-starved tintinnabulations of the restless
minds under the build of stress and the exposure
to too much comedy
too soon,
and much too late.
They knock their head
on the wood
that used to be
childhood
and let their blessed brain cells
ooze down from
the desk, onto
the floor.