Monday, August 25, 2008

face plants and all the latest fashions











© Copyright Miss Carly Marie 2008-2012

transit funeral

lest we lack reasons to look
i swear i took a moment, brief
and tall? me? no, Sir.
if it were, you might have something to worry about.
blue seats crushed all over doubt
when I look at you, in my head, from an empty bed
and insanity wished it made sense
hence, the struggle.
are you so troubled to understand and overhand
and deem doom due command?
alone, I
force my body up smooth, vertical walls
expecting no signs of breathlessness.
suspecting no lines of helplessness--
grains stacked like mountains pushed up by credit cards
not just snow-capped but low and
chapped lips roll licked down canteens full of confidence.

and daydreams spilling ambience to real situations
with real people, with real lives.
to hesitation with steal steeples and heel dives.
all this and how it matters, shatters, batters
the ladders I walk under rolling thunder
sucking colour out of my words
trends coming saying anti-anything
is absurd.

if it’s backwards, track birds and lay an egg
but stay
it needs warmth
it heeds faith

no back talk
no reflection
no critique
no objection

sanity sees solid souls
and all I see are holes, holes, holes.
can’t talk about things nowadays
too old fashioned to tear away
too much of this to sum up that
can’t say it all, so that is that.

try to start
grant us health
and watch us part
wealth holds the finest art
but broke we’ll be ‘til death lights dark

you’ll howl, hark, scream
skin on skin

behind towels, sharks dream
and chemicals react
so I conform
but smell the past
it’s warm, warm, warm.

we’re on a track
and trains come
and trains go
slow
I know, I know, I know.


© Copyright Miss Carly Marie 2008-2012