Thursday, January 31, 2008

Comme une fleur
sans le soleil,
je suis perdu.
Comme les nuages,
je n'ai pas une bouche.
Juste comme moi,
je ne peux pas parler.

cold oceans of you

exist/to appropriate/ being/believe/breathe.
dream.
lie/alight/aligned
across/cold/oceans:
you.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

something to believe in

here's something to believe in.
like a dreaded spot, showing dark in the film--
pinned up for everybody to see, to see and
point and stare.
I was always different they say but here's the tragedy:
i'm the same again. and again! How can this be?
Selfish, selfish, selfish.
I tried to hard and yet the future's
past again and selfish selfish selfish i sit with chocolates and crumpled paper napkins, like the wake of some great hurricane.
I used to have eyes like paper prophets, sucking the fear out from those unwashed faces: my world was wonderful sometimes but yours just gives me stomach-aches.
and now it's all money money grab grub food food fix me fix me!
why did you bring me here? I screech, i really didn't want to be here.
I thought, I thought i was ready and different i escaped my earthly womb but i was wrong -
I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Miserable mantra of self-loathing, they laugh you poor white girl you've had such hardships.
She always has trouble with those crazies, he said, laughing.
Well i do too, those attacking crazies in my head like whirligigs
insects upon the water: again and again and again they tell me:
fail, fail, fail. You didn't get a choice.
they're all like me: same, same yet feeling different and all they need, all they require is something - anything
to believe in.