in wet wool wrapped up to
sunken-eyed city glass,
i dreamt tattletale grey cloudcover
or heavily, a beaten ocean
sent to the sky on swollen fists,
a white blood thickened ground.
wind with a warm tongue
raises fever.
there is some fear
that this sweet, ash rain
is the Devil come to love us,
seeing us pallid,
pitiful sons to be sure.
notice,
bad habits of dirty hands
yellowed as we drowsed and slept.
even Paving Men lay stone-dead
our unraveling body
Winter, luke-warm,
is made naked too soon;
the sun wakes quieted crickets
to witness sticky, new breath.
but in your bones, above the heart,
you wait to cripple.
no more alive than an earthworm
tiring of the insanity of being his own wife,
perpetuating their bed.
and not one birth but
the vernal food of your own remains,
our heated ghost in the risen soil.
new flesh
bathes beneath the dim, bird-fractured sky
and bones of snow numb our limbs to panic.
we act as the s
an oceanic cold staggered in
grasping his bellypain
supposing he'd likely be
only a skinny trickle next year
and a languorous drought
to finish us off.
he looked longingly after each cigarette but
you've never seen him so faithful,
tired, industrial, drowning out the hours
(eastern salt makes him itch
and eats his patience.)
i watch him
i warm as i think
we've killed so many old men
what's one more.
and this one the oldest,
glimpsing spring by winter absent
worrying
orphaning us all
to pray in the heat.
the christ i continue in,
prejudiced, cotton-cleaved
unfolds into pa
waist-deep,
man blinks his only eye with a good lid
rubs the other with his fist
trying to figure.
some fish dart frightening quick
right between him,
if just for a taste.
similarly,
clouds of pigeons strain low,
about to sink gut-first
into floodwater.
might be
nothing to fear
from the mundane in strange order:
plumbing grown through seizuring asphalt
or cars coated gangrene,
seem headstones
the irony of Providence
is that i live there
or that anyone does
or that christ is a mapless twicefound spot, hanging
apparently right above your head-
and the Noose God oh
could save just about anyone i guess
as long as panic paints with a meaner fume
and cars crank loose our boney exhaust
and garbage shimmers in the water like slow fish,
everyone might get off.
its not our fault the city has liars
more than home-
how we got here anyway,
there being no highway to take you
or vision produced at the height of our hysteria,
is hard to figure.
i could be a false wi
this is very american,
savage.
going back to the street,
former decembers,
to the sooty-eyed women
strangled in the trees.
at least life
can be stripped of wives
and the thing we see in scratched, public glass
is our only self,
goggling on eyestalks
arranged in a starched collar.
there are numbers i might arrange to look like words
like immense, smacking, biblical tirades
skinned into old papers
yellow gamy streaks
to break your skull and penance.
maybe christ was alright at accounting-
the death i know is a commer
the ground is a clean ice black from the dissolution of asphalt.
on a few limbs
skulls ripe reddish gold-
fruit for desperate days.
on the last nerve
feel low throbbing
as if this skyline has finally found his knees,
your brain-blood its proper course,
heart sinking immaculately into
heretic drums.
you've won
you've won.
apocalypsis proves us right.
so
our race survives a few seconds more:
eyes warm and white as rubber eggs,
arms loose, soft,
recently pickled
spilled alarmingly over the bedside,
mucus-gloss drizzling off
each pinky
or to
tonight Providence stinks of stale fire-
he is all my heartache,
my shaking fists,
the only fear howling loud enough
to be heard.
of all the old, stinking Men in the world
people were sure to remember him as my father.
he said he couldn't take the pressure of caring
whether we lived or died. and that was all he said.
gold ripples through his brick-skinned boroughs,
streams of minnows sidle along salty vendors
as they grease the sky.
even my heart shivers
wit
if you've come to say some last lingering thing
you're out of luck, the Devil has already died;
you can kiss his tombstone
and read the skinny etching about his life as the good Sad, the bad Happy.
he left us that clammy June, quiet and painless and wearing the face of someone's old grammy. everyone got real heavy, counting up their own sins, figuring their own temptations, expeditely damning ourselves knowing the material even better than he did. there was no one else to do it now. we prayed but
all the manuals against the antichrist didn't work on ourselves. things began unravelling quickly.
the world grew volcanic, blubbered tearily
i have not survived a dream for weeks.
i've gotten sluggish.
stalkers and assailants get pricklingly closer now, get all my hairs erect
and i feel their sore lust sharply through these antenna.
formerly i outran lightning eels and slaughtered humunculi like butter
but my carnal brain has gotten soft.
i could touch them,
if i strained i could feel their breath and the reverberations of their half-hearts
and if i was still and small enough they would surely mutilate my chicken-like carcass with unimaginable teeth.
they've even said i've got to murder them some
that i designed them for death to hold my own peace
and that things can't
denim drips down his legs
pools around his feet
soon we're all swimming in this holely cup of jean,
but he just wades down the street
(a concrete bottom-feeder.)
sea weeds writhe within cracks
running up the crests of skyscrapers
that crash foamy and discrete
caressing the feet of a human beach
laid out to sun in February,
umbrella bridge holds off penetrating
atmosphere.
sirens clear salty soprano notes choke
a drowner who once would float,
she feels the tug of the real at her throat
as the blue tempest broke
our dungaree Atlantis, sunk lower
than we fathomed, denim mermaids of a fashion,
denim d
a hallway built from centuries of flesh,
the untranscendent stuff that we might eat or
fear, generational food for many more
than the most brilliantly acclaimed despots.
a hall for walking down without legs.
but what do i remember from before; a hospital room
in the white it ought to have been but without instruments
or the synthetic clack of machines pumping fluid life,
two dead men who were not(in the simplest terms),
who stood up to excrete their last in an explosive off-yellowish deluge
that ran after my feet.
i left, waiting, with others, seemingly young but knowing more than me
with a history of men they car
This text is a sort of profile on the artist Grier Blumenschine. In compiling the content I searched for a form that would somehow relate (not reflect) the paintings and personality of the painter. The italics are written statements by the artist and the rest derived from various multimedia(s) and conversation.
Paint (ing)
-Sometimes Grier paints it then sees it. Other times he sees it then paints it, he prefers neither.
-Upon beginning a work, Grier seeks to inhabit or re-contextualize utter emptiness.
communication outside of contextual constraints- paranoid of reference, in this way a language decipherable by only universal means of c
The Emperor's New Poem by tightwhitepants, literature
Literature
The Emperor's New Poem
I am just one of the many subjects
you will never write about.
Mine is just another life
your sentences will judge too innocent to serve
Your rhymes will not waste time
reasoning with me
Your verse will walk free
without my testimony
and I will join the mob
bearing inexpert witness
to the emperor's new poem
A poem that is as ugly as siamese twins
and as incestuous and fecund
as my Irish cousins -
botched and ill-conceived
as a foetus cooked
from cow
and Christian
and I stand with the crowds in my muttering mask
as merry as mutton
straining to catch the airy recitation
of the emperor's new poem
-
I.
[Any human who is dutiful toward the dogmas of contemporary prosperity knows nothing absolute about survival, and thus shall be driven toward his or her solitary breed of madness so long as survival is allowed under this convention.]
The irony is tragic:
six billion "citizens"
pasted to a warm sphere
and whirling;
swirling straight
for the sun.
II.
[a. Language has suffered from our inability to understand that reality is a chemically formulated and delusional sequence of events. Reality for us is merely a concentration of perception and only exists so long as we are a part of that reality, which we, singularly, create of our o
certainly I shouldn't be god by warblytwitflizz, literature
Literature
certainly I shouldn't be god
-
for months
i have kept
women alive.
they are razadyne, detrol,
singulair, baby wipes and gowns:
be so older
that her covering
go cowhide,
so dead-eyed
she sleeps as
near me now
as we allow:
them skeletons
that stand
sometimes shed and
not only skin.
they are mupirocin, cartia,
namenda, pitted skin and hospice:
so be my patience
a sinner's sanctity,
and have my heart
a loser's gun.
-
decided to check this account today on a complete whim, and i was surprised at all the requests from various groups wanting to add my remaining pieces here to their galleries. i consented to all of them, but just wanted to advertise that i no longer utilize this account. stupidvagina (https://www.deviantart.com/stupidvagina) contains all of the poetry that used to reside here, along with new writing and my shitty visual art.
that's all. cheers. :)
Did something happen? Or did you just kill your other account on a whim?
Hey, this will probably seem a little random, but the conversation we had a while back (about hotness vs. perception with regards to intelligence and creativity) got me thinking about a character in the novel-thing that I started a couple of years ago (and have been taking a break from since early last year). I have started kicking the book around again, and I would like to have an e-conversation about it with you at some point – if you are game. If not, no worries.