Monday, July 12, 2010
Little Girls
Have something to offer in the form of skirts and flavored lip balm
They don't quite understand but they follow the example
Of their high-heeled, lipsticked mothers.
Little girls get older and stop crying over scraped knees.
Instead crying over boys once they see that they possess
The ripe red fruit that is never meant for them
Daddies guard their precious treasures but daughters give out bite sized pieces
In the form of chaste kisses.
Teenage girls are the troublesome ones
They are a hot commodity and they know it
They are pretty and ripe and tantalizing
They're allowed to be gazed at and groped for and wanted
But never, ever to be picked
So they play the dangerous game of cat and mouse
Until they're finally captured.
Little girls don't stay little
They become women whose greatest possession
Exists folded neatly between their hairless legs.
They become mothers and wives
And keep on showing, but never telling
Because this isn't their game to play.
Cavities
With a smile so sincere and a smooth, warm voice
I was a child with a sweet tooth
You were the Novocaine, numbing the ache
Of the last man to drill a hole in my heart
I was desperate for relief
You went down like a packet of Sweet'N Low
Saccharine, syrupy, pleasant, til that awful aftertaste
I was left with a bitter reminder of you on my tongue
You crumpled me up like an empty gum wrapper
Spat your experience on me 'cause you'd been chewing too long
I was thrown aside
Now you lure another girl in
How long will you go this time
before you start to make her rot?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Black Market Bodies
And taste your fat lips, gritty and sweet like unrefined sugar
While your warm hands rest on my heavy hips
And your heart holds up my brain
Exchanging fantasy for a reality that bounces
Between your ribcage and my skull
Dust
passion and blind devotion until we burn away our flesh
beyond recognition and all we have are our bare,
ugly bones with no eyes to see or ears to hear,
collapse into a pile of
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Virginia Summer
While the sun is high in the sky
Sweat soaks through my shirt
Mosquitoes gnaw on my exposed skin
There's no escape from this oppressive heat
Wind rips at the trees greedily
As rain pours from an unforgiving sky
Lightning illuminates the world for a moment
In a bizarre bluish haze
Thunder rumbles in the distance, an ominous warning
A gentle breeze teases me
The moon shines down kindly
As I lie in the wet grass
Humidity keeps me from feeling the chill
Of this cool Virginia night
Friday, March 26, 2010
Lovesick Monster
Bustles with half-truths and empty eyes
Give me all of you or give me none
Together through this burning sky we'll run
Into the gauntlet that awaits
A lovesick monster's china plates
It devours us with razor sharp teeth
That rip through our hearts as our hands meet
The screen fades to black as our screams cease
We spiral downward into the belly of the beast
We prepare to die in our newfound home
I'm glad we're finally together and alone
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Lady in Waiting
Paint my face and--
Close my eyes and--
Wait...
Every evening I pause and--
Remove all the paint and--
Discard all the skin and--
Wait...
Every day--
Every hour--
Every minute--
Every second--
I wait...
But you never come.
Monday, February 22, 2010
My Name
ugly
Spoken with a twisted face and squinted eyes
Tasting foreign and frightening on your Anglo-Saxon tongue
you stumble
Over it and wonder where such a strange name came from
It's a scary name, you think, as sweat
Beads on your forehead like oil droplets in a glass of
water
Ethiopia?
Ethiopia.
Some little place in Africa you never cared to learn of.
My name is Ethiopia
I am my name
A foreign, scary place
I am my name
I am Ethiopia
Unspoken Words
Dribble from your lips like honey
They're so hard to hear because they've never been
Said
Like an unplayed symphony
The silent notes blend together in my mind
Losing each other in this grand and terrifying
Chaos
You never play my symphony
No, you never sing my song
It just lingers in the air waiting to be
Heard
Sweet words
Dribble from your bitter mouth
The aftertaste is undesirable but remains
Unspoken
Sexually Transmitted Desperation
Just me and you
My lips and nails are painted
And you seem so frustrated
Relax, tell me your name
Baby, don't be so ashamed
It's just a way to keep us entertained
Uneasy silence, hollow motions
Sweeping through us
Like shallow oceans
A sudden stop; yes, that's the end
I ain't your lover
And I ain't your friend
But I'm lonely
I'm the only
One I can trust, so stay
If you must...
If I show you cleavage and a fake smile
Will it be enough to make you stay for a while?
If I listen to your stories and sing you a song
Can we stay like this all night long?
Oh, I'm just a desperate girl
And this is cheap entertainment
Go back to your wife, go back to your life
Don't give me a thought, don't give this a thought
Just cheap entertainment, just a cheap thrill
I never gave a damn and I never will...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Best Friends
But it's okay because I stick around
You only need me when you wanna be a bitch
When you need someone whose life is more pathetic than yours
When you need to stand next to someone who makes you feel better about yourself
I'm tired of your ugly heart and your ugly words
I'm tired of how toxic you are, so fuck off
Until I'm lonely and I need reassurance that someone cares about me
And I come crawling back to this hazardous "friendship"
Just so you can tear me down.
Great Expectations
Butterflies and love
I guess I've always been
A little (dis)obedient
Raw emotion stains
My pages and (de)flowers them
But good girls write about other things
I guess that's why the best poets are men
Black Girl's Lament
Your Heart, Hourglass
You see the world through your pretty pink glasses
I wish I could try them on
So that maybe the world wouldn't seem so dark
Stay here beside me
Be my sunlight
All the goodness of the world lies within your heart
Hourglass
I feel you in my hands like
Sand in an hourglass
Our time is up
The American Dream
We are the people who own this land
With our pale white skin
And our pink fleshy hands
We are the people who brought the world
Across the ocean on the back of a Great
Plague us with guilt of the sins we have committed
We will pay no mind, we will pay no mind
The historical facts that our textbooks have omitted
All is pure and white and kind
Speak our language
Ignore the cries of your ancient people
Who brought us across the ocean on their
Back to the issue at hand
You talk with your gibberish in words no one can under--
Stand here, here in our home and forget every story
That your grandmother told
Join us in our purity
Join us in our unity
And this can be your land, too