Poetry

ADOLESCENCE

As a kid I learned that

A universe can exist on the surface of a red balloon

Where galaxies are drawn leaving

Lingering aromas of black sharpie

Where all are marked for a first breath

And then a mysterious death

Any which way

We will all be blown full with endless nothing

Till all our belt notches run out

So I ran for the hills after been caught red handed

With my red pills and their cheap thrills

These cherry red lifesaver candies

So artificially sweet

Well it's sweet, right? I would say What's so artificial about that?

Any which way

We will all be blown full with endless nothing

Till all our belt notches run out

COLLEGE

For me studying math equaled

Hauling around an extension cord plus a staple gun

While wearing a color of safety orange

So bright no one could look at me for very long

I would haunch over with a ladder

Worn awkwardly on my back

And breathe heavily into everything

Readying myself to step up

If I only could find the first step

I was so hungry to bathe in the stars

Yet I settled for a constellation of electric screens

That I could secure all around me

With the proper coding and voltage

ADULTHOOD

At the end of the day

A fever will melt

My shattered pieces

Back into glass

And the birds

Flying through my body

Will find themselves

At a window

Listening to their thumps

I say "Don't worry..."

If you are hurt

I will nurse you back to health

With the rest I take

Between each breath

Your hard beaks can peck away

I will still kiss you goodnight

SWIMMING

The type...

Where you barely pull yourself out of the pool Hot flesh welcoming the cold crisp of cement

The body raining down

You are your own lucky cloud

As muscles and their sockets twitch electric

The heart is now a popped eardrum

And the speakers of the lungs have finally blown out

Ribs are begging

Crawling to embrace one another again

Like a hunter using every ounce of flesh and bone

A monster's creator flipping every switch up and on

READING

My new arena astounds

Despite its sumptuous sound being bound

In two dimensions

With rubber bands ran through and round

In my mind

Fluttering flashes from a roaring crowd

Frame each second

I am wiped down in gasoline with shine and sheen

I am perspiring from a ferocious fire that's thundering

Hear it

drip drip

So I strike my match red on this bloody fever dream

Trickling out my temple and down my jaw

I'm ready to be knocked out

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