having a clear out – the fourt post of my own stuff today!

glass on the pavement
glistens like snow
and i remember autum and winter with you
before everything i came to know.
red lights flare into puddles
sky of a better world in there
a world that is full
of gentle boys
and clever happy girls.

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Coming Up

Ani Difranco recites Coming Up on Def Poetry

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excuse Plathian obviousness 2

Where is he?
This undressed man
who wails the wail
of a victim.
Where is the nail
that drags the skin?
Blind and torturous
like a white eye.
The screen fills
with thighs, stomachs scratched
women bleeding lust
men wielding power.
What is a victim?
A writhing, wailing woman
oversexed and underdressed
fearing the clothen blade.
21.3.08

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excuse Plathian obviousness 1

The undressed woman
beautful and bare she lies
but with no mystery quickly
she becomes old
swooping and dipping
she plies for new attention
but no one will buy her
when she does it for free.
But, she says, I don’t
do it for free, everyone pays
in one way.  Eventually,
I will never be for free.
The undressed woman
unbelievable and bold she flies
topping our hearts with [...]

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I don’t remember who this was about, it was in my drafts

you
with blue hair
putting the world
to
rights
one homoerotic
mans man
posh pastey
fish out of water
geek
at a time
(don’t like my use of the word geek.  I am a geek and I love it but no word fits better)

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