All entries for December 2009

Belly Button

i want to pluck out my belly button

from its ------

stretch it

i want to pluck out my belly button

not dancing unless 

i twist

my belly button

in circles

a rope, a bloody rope

not umbilical

a dancing

bloody ship rope

almost a nail, every twist

hardens

tight metal

tall

screwed to messy sheets

watching

the show

my show

or

just a scab

or just a scab

that peels

and leaves

no imprint

i want to pluck out my belly button

: 27 Dec 2009 23:22 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

i. will.

i’m in the mood

for falling
inlove

with anyone



this year

everything
will be different.


i’ll catch
bullets
with my eyelids

before the
sun melts

alloverthegrass


i won’t shatter


dreams.

and i will try
with my head
on a stick,
a cocktail stick,
to make sense


of
my-

i will dream again.
i will dream again.


become a hedge
and grow


if i can

grow stolid
stuck in someone’s gnome ridden lawn
foreverand



i will
try not
to fallinlove

with anyone.

: 25 Dec 2009 22:33 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Feather

feather

words

words

fall

soft

on

crippled

eyes

oh

eyes

cannot

see

cannot

cripple

feather

lies

oh

eyes

fall

foul

to

soft

crippled

lies

fool

for

getting

words

:

quilt

my

lies

.

: 24 Dec 2009 23:19 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Best

i thought
in the car haze
that this week
was the best week
in ever and ever.

then i got home
and he told me
that he waited
.
.
.


i think he made
me sick.

i think he made
me sick.

i want to tell my mother

i think he made
me sick.

: 24 Dec 2009 21:38 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Christmas

i only cry on christmas day

because I'm supposed to be

i only cry on christmas day




like we never want to on

mondays to sundays minus

christmas days

i cannot
on any other day other

it’s col.d.
outside.
see that it’s cold

so we huddle
broken twigs
over the fire

so patiently
wait brittle
for our ash

then we
can be
together.

for another christmas.

: 24 Dec 2009 21:25 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Man on Train

THERE’S A MAN ON THE TRAIN.

HE HAS A MOLE ON HIS EYE.

IT LOOKS LIKE A TEARDROP.

his foot accidentally touched mine,

twice, and he peered around to

either adore or ignore me. I never

understand. I never understand.

: 19 Dec 2009 19:05 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pinocchio

pinocchio, apple core in hand. walking with honest john. walking to stromboli. i am, i am, i am.

smoking cyanide

birthing bleach

cumming bleach

smothering bleach

smoking bleach

bleaching cyanide

disney shouted

BLEACH BLINDS

so john throws the apple core to the floor. so i skip. so i stumble. so i bleach, bleach, i bleach.

i am a real boy

i make puppets

: 19 Dec 2009 02:34 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

THE DECADE in albums

Just for fun I thought I would stop grumbling about how awful the critics' choices for the DEFINITIVE ALBUMS of the 00s and make my own TOP 40 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE LIST. This is by no means comprehensive. I have probably forgotten a few bands, but if they're not on my iPod they're worthless to me. And Yes, there is no Radiohead. Deal with it. This is my list: feel free to disagree with it at will.

40. Girl Talk- Feed The Animals
39. Outkast- speakerboxxx/the love below
38. Panic! At the Disco- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
37. Madonna- Confessions on a Dance Floor
36. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
35. Lady Gaga- The Fame
34. Bjork- Volta
33. Gorillaz- Gorillaz
32. Florence and the Machine- Lungs
31. Laura Marling- Alas I Cannot Swim
30. Regina Spektor- Songs
29. Santigold- Santigold
28. Kanye West- College Dropout
27. Libertines- Libertines
26. Damien Rice- O
25. Au Revoir Simone- The Bird of Music
24. Muse- Absolution
23. Scissor Sisters- Scissor Sisters
22. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
21. The Killers- Hot Fuss
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz
19. Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers- By the Way
17. Bright Eyes- Fevers and Mirrors
16. Razorlight- Up All Night
15. Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope
14. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
13. Bowerbirds- Hymns for a Dark Horse
12. Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
11. Britney Spears- Blackout

10. Late of the Pier- Fantasy Black Channel

9.   Arcade Fire- Funeral

8.   Fever Ray- Fever Ray

7.  Battles- Mirrored

6.   Libertines- Up the Bracket

5.  Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago

4.   Rufus Wainwright- Want Two

3.   Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles

2.   Antony and the Johnsons- I am a Bird Now

1.   Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake it's morning

: 15 Dec 2009 00:46 |  Tags: Music |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

WAR MANIFESTO 1: Cold War Bunker

I WANT TO LIVE

IN A COLD WAR

BUNKER. I WANT

TO LIVE IN A COLD

WAR BUNKER. I

WANT TO LIVE IN

A COLD WAR

BUNKER.


and i will storm
onto that stage

and i will stage
that storm

and i will stride
through storms

and my storms
will stage

another cold
war.

But
one
man
will
change
nothing.

I
keep
telling
the
estate
agent

that
one
man
will
change
nothing.

: 11 Dec 2009 13:48 |  Tags: Manifesto Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

I cannot believe that she was my dressing gown

Madeline McCann was lying
as a pile of crumpled flannel
under the haze of the drizzle
of the morning’s curtain smog.

The fabric folded around her
face, pleating blonder hair
around the heavy hand resting
on her concave cheek.


She lay like a statue. A toppled
-don’t say fallen, she was never
fallen- statue. Don’t, there was
no sediment. There was no dust.

I did nothing.

: 11 Dec 2009 13:11 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem