Sad Poems : Alcoholic Poet: Spawning Upstream Sad Poetry.

Alcoholic Poet. Poetry Equals Distance Over Time.

Distance Over Time
Tuesday 1/22/2008 01:01:00 AM

Eyes like bus stations. Terminals. Where the end meets with the start in a paradox of confounded senses. The taste of transport. Tin and calm as we jump through these portals called memory. The stories our brains tell when confronted with limits.

Skin. Its subtle time machine dropping us off in moments passed. Places where the bone is all we are. Decorations in place of the person. Hanging loosely. The meat falling quietly off.

Someone else's dinner. Or the knife that cuts it. Someone else's broken arm. Or the cast. I see the pictures in row of numbers. The drawing counting how hard it is. To prove it means something.

I have the pictures. I know the men. It's myself I forget.

I have the language. I know the conjugations of the verbs. It's the tense that makes me feel foolish when the stories want to be told.

Searching for the next nightmare. In bit of skin left over from the demons we've chosen.

Hot spigots at the back of her ass. Pissing reasons to wait a little longer for the war to end.

2 comments:
Craftsman of light said...

Time tatoos memory on your skin..the fatale relationships of your life all etched in there...
This is how we look at it.
But, there is a self generating rythme that beats in the invisible spaces of the flesh;
It dances; it rejoices; it celebrates ; it escapes the tangible claws of pain and the carresses of the false promises of joys.
Have you ever found yourself on this road of such a freedom.
I'm not your angel yet....yet, angelically i brush against you as many moths against a flame.....Will it help you??
What use of being a feather when you can be a bird??

alcholic poet said...

nah. i'm a paper plane.




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