One track mind
Remnant visions
Squinting blindlight. Dust motes doing pirouetts all around me.
A dizzying calliope.
A whirlwind of flavors and hues.
Rusty mornings.
The determined call for obsidian in a cup and the staining orange nicotine.
A buttey golden sun smiles through soot stained windows
Tickling my calico cat into an unprovoked sesame Sunday languor.
With charcoal tinted apprehension I clothe myself
in scratchy tarragon tatters and ebony wool.
Then drag a comb through me perpendicular plaid promenade.
Outside.
Traipsing along pie crust pavement
and ika sumi side streets,
the BRASH, CLASH, BANG, CLANG of jalepeno hog horns, mustard motors and broccoli brake shoes pursue me.
Dive, Me do, through the doorway of the cinnamon clouded, custard creamy, doughy donut shop.
The incessant, insipid banter
of bubbling springbrook bottle water patrons
drowns out the caramel coated backround music.
Forcing me into a sweet-n-sour silence.
Cookie cutter purchasers
porpise in and out of pinapple portals.
Clutching paper parcels with parenthetical perplexity.
Work.
Syrupy students slide slothy and slowlike into class.
Settling their softsides on swiveling suporters.
The ruffle riffle rustle of notebooks and textbooks
trick me out of a transparent trance
into a molasses mahagony work mode.
Plodding through a salt n pepper winters day
sprinkled with confectioners snowflakes.
Orange to Amber....to Puce then Purple
Turns day into
Life.
Dark.
Vixens and vampires
dressed in Violet, verdigis and vermouth.
Cajole Cajun style on cayenne countertops whilst
Peppermint penguins in polka dot bowties
pour crystal colored cocktails from silvery steel cylinders
with swizzle stick style.
Laughing lunatics, madcap morons, sodding sycophants,
pleasure seeking princes, the rightous and the wronged
all set afore me
in a cacaphony of complaints
and dulcet tales of desperation.
Perfumed, in polyester and pleather.
A pizza pie complexion invites
with sea salt smugness.
A libidinous levitation of illicit love.
Douse the neon fire.
Snap click the lock.
Slippery swish of soap suds saturated rag
on the brandywine bar.
Sit , Me do, in silence.
Sipping the eau de vire.
White lightning.
Washing out the wrinkles,
On the rocks.
Slaking the sandpaper sound pipe
and mellowing
The mutifaceted mind.
Home.
The cuticle curling creations
of a sound byte society
flash across me fool tube.
Kitty Kat crouched in a curlicue twist.
Color bars and the national anthem (imagined).
Mullberry bed time and goose down dreams.
Crawling into cold crinkled comforters.
Wriggle for warmth.
Turn on the tender tunes and out with the Thomas Edison.
Sleep.
Me no blog.
13 comments:
goo goo g'joob
I like your free flow...the colors, textures, tastes and smells..fascinating..
Wow...
Just wow.
Amazing and beautiful as well, but mainly just wow!
Fabulous imagery. I didn't know you were a poet, Scary.
Serena Joy, Kanrei, myself, and now you, Scary? How many more poets do we have in the audience?
Visit the SFPA site (there's a link on littlebird blue). There are many, many submission venues for poetry listed there...
Scary, you are a man of many talents, a true Renaissance "monster." I am blown away by this glimpse you've shared of your poetic side. I am a piglet, of course; I want MORE.
Am I the only one feeling like the gauntlet has just been thrown down and a poetry slam is afoot? I mean this is really good. Better than anything I have yet to produce. The bar has been raised once again due to the Scary Monster. I think he is becoming our blog muse.
POETRY SLAAAAMMM!
Me be really surprised that you all like this so much. Thank you, thank you, for the positive comments
Me No really understand "slam", but me likes the wat it sounds. Can someone explain it to Me. Me can try some stomping things...
Yo, you got some mad rhyming skillz! Seriously, this was good stuff.
Poetry Slam would be a meeting of poets each bringing their best work and displaying it to others. A contest without winners or losers.
I'm printing your poem- for me to be able to read while I sit in my bed...with a pen- so I can make notes.
Sunggled into my cool crinkly comforter...reposed against perfect placid pillows-
Bringing a monster to bed could be serious business- but he's only on paper ;)
Grunt~ Thanks man that means a lot to me. Me was just goofin with some flavors and that came out.
Kanrei~ A slam, Hmmmmm. Sounds like a lot of fun. A conglomerate of contemporaries, a plethora of prose. Me is getting tingly jus thinkin bout it. Where? when?
Mrs.C.~ being a little risque there ain't we. Me be quite warm, but me is hard on the sheets; me claws keep tearin dem up.
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