Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[ellajam]

disparate selves
our alien infinities
unhinged

unhinged
forgetting key
in my pocket

[just mercedes]

the witches brew
glowing an eerie green
watch out for eyeballs

"I'll keep an eye on you"
she said
just before she vanished

[maximumjake]

"I'll keep an eye on you"
she said
just before she vanished

eye see you
yellow eyed assassin
you came to kill the king
but couldn't match his mage

[Keith]

eye see you
yellow eyed assassin
you came to kill the king
but couldn't match his mage


Yellow washed our vision
with blankets as our guests
we dreamed the afternoon to life
and slit its throat at dusk

[ChristopherSea]

Yellow washed our vision
with blankets as our guests
we dreamed the afternoon to life
and slit its throat at dusk

outside a piss yellow asylum,
suicide's crimson tainted ochre wheat stalks
and canvases that could have been

[maximumjake]

outside a piss yellow asylum,
suicide's crimson tainted ochre wheat stalks
and canvases that could have been

crimson cloaks that steal your face
reveal a certain half-remembered state
fear is a parasitic organism  

[ChristopherSea]

crimson cloaks that steal your face
reveal a certain half-remembered state
fear is a parasitic organism  

the organism is a parasite,
unwelcome guest with no respite;
a blood-red rose with piercing thorn,
toxins discharge with callous scorn.

[ellajam]

the organism is a parasite,
unwelcome guest with no respite;
a blood-red rose with piercing thorn,
toxins discharge with callous scorn.

No thorn, a dagger: callous scorn
that pierces fragile armor worn
to guard the ego (soft but stout-
now belittled) oozing doubt.

[maximumjake]

took all my life to build a shell
so far it has served me well
the soft inside stays protected
just in my eyes is it reflected

reflect the eagle, talons black
reflect the wolf reflect my act 
on a cliff side specked with sun
we merge together as we run 

[just mercedes]

our separate entities
twisted into a rope
to hold me

suspended over the abyss
while two mice gnaw at the rope ~
a strawberry! how sweet!

[bena]

suspended over the abyss
while two mice gnaw at the rope ~
a strawberry! how sweet!

my blood boils
used sump oil
blackness below suits me

[just mercedes]

my blood boils
used sump oil
blackness below suits me

all my dark thoughts
will drain away
and leave me blonde

[ellajam]

my blonde
has faded to gray
and now me smart

gray streaks in
lightening what had been dark
shock of survival

[Keith]

gray streaks in
lightening what had been dark
shock of survival

days of grey-scale
coffee in bed
the sky-light rain
swims sperm to eggs

[maximumjake]

days of grey-scale
coffee in bed
the sky-light rain
swims sperm to eggs

pleasant grey and pleasant black
coffee is the thoughts we lack
feel the rain fall on our hands
thankful for some common land

[brandontoh]

pleasant grey and pleasant black
coffee is the thoughts we lack
feel the rain fall on our hands
thankful for some common land

after a night of pleasant sex
it's nice to wake up
and smell your pungent breath
thankful that you're still there

[just mercedes]

OK - so who decided the format here is changed? I liked being able to read both poems in the same post - easier to follow changes and responses. The last two posts don't even seem to link to each other.

[Keith]

OK - so who decided the format here is changed? I liked being able to read both poems in the same post - easier to follow changes and responses. The last two posts don't even seem to link to each other.

I did a bit of tidying, all is well again and the two words are there in each.

[just mercedes]

OK - so who decided the format here is changed? I liked being able to read both poems in the same post - easier to follow changes and responses. The last two posts don't even seem to link to each other.

I did a bit of tidying, all is well again and the two words are there in each.

Thank you - I woke up cranky. I'm sorry.

[ellajam]

after a night of pleasant sex
it's nice to wake up
and smell your pungent breath
thankful that you're still there

Thank you - I woke up cranky. I'm sorry.

although she had a night of sex
somehow she woke up cranky
maybe she needs a bit more sleep
or a good morning spanking.