i have claimed countless
nights like this;
sleeping on a floor when
a bed even would
be too cold.

and the lingering
sting of limes
across fingertips of memories
pawing
at my lips
opens me wide like a science project
grasshopper,
good for students of craft.
over-ripe smelly replaceable, yes, there
have been claimed nights like this one.

my most faithful whores were virgins
and my most forgiving readers were
lovers,
cherry stem hips
tongue-tied to the dirty bed

i don't own.

and the floor smells like a solvent
and my lungs burn a little
and i'd rather keep
it empty as i can

when they come for my poems
i want them to have to
dig
like dying ants
against the soft grey tissue
i belong to.

if you love me so much
why
don't you lick my eyes
taste my sorrow
or
at least help me
shop for a new lamp.

then she twisted the knife as she pulled it out of my side
and we cuddled for a few minutes
before i couldn't stand to look at
her bedsheets.

one word, AWESOME

Read this! You might try to hate it, but it will be impossible if you like your meat rare...Amazing content, second helping please!

nice to see you and your writing again

Amazing write PP..Love how your words talk..

Even nice and kind feels like a whore.
Headless unable to taste the cake
of retribution in this execution.

You seem to always make me relate although we couldn't be farther apart. Amazing as you. So have you left for Cali yet?

wonderfully done...

plastic_pancakes...likeit!

Your poems always make their OWN very COOL STATEMENTS of expressions and voids we sometimes fall into in our own Worlds of living out life..
I like most of everything I have read that you write,,and trust me here,,I AM NO-ONE to give YOU justice in your writings.
I read,,and make sillys of my own complications of this life?
I personally think and feel,,your DAMN GOOD at working words with that dark area WE ALL CARRY inside us.
Now,,only because I am maybe a simple man of thoughts here,,lol
When reading most of your writes,,TO ME,,OK?,,lol,,
They seem to TRY and go ,,,just a little to long in statement around the feelings your making,,not greatly,,but less,,would be so much MORE, in the whole to me?
I LOVE the depths you draw us into,,and the perceptions using the darker interiors to draw an awareness with.
But some seem to over-GIVE THAT!
Like YOUR trying to hard to dramatize that picture in our minds?
OK,,IF any of THIS made any sense to you at all,,lol,,
I don't EVER give ANYONE my ALL in thoughts to be this critical of any ones writings,You see its because I truly feel your above MANY in your way of expressing the inner truths to so many lives..
I hope THIS doesn't offend you as its truly a compliment HERE,,I have never given to a writer..I DON'T CRITIQUE,,,,YET,,I did here for this and for you,,in hopes of one day saying,,I KNOW THIS MAN'S WORK,,
He USE to be on Mingle,,,As A friend reads me a poem from a book you wrote....... GOOD LUCK in ALL YOU DO,,and ALWAYS,,keep on writing with all you feel.....

Great write.