Blurry Outlines and Bad Words
Based on my inability to remember anything I write after one week.
I am caught in the teeth of the moderator,
Stuck between their molars and making the King of censorship
Chew on something they don't quite understand.
Is it twisted black metal coated in blood?
Or just rust glimmering in the moonlight, wet from rain?
Am I digging my nails into something that should be untouched?
Or is this just a happy little rhyme?
.
Who would ever know if I can't read the hieroglyphics myself?
The words drip, they pour, they run out of me
Without thought to their meanings or insinuations
But sometimes I look back and wonder
Where did they come from?
I have no recollection of these words, these stories, these bad dreams
But here they are, with my name slapped across them.
.
Maybe the moderators can taste the smoke of a fire I can't see.
Maybe they can feel the erratic pulse of my writing,
Hear the screaming souls of other worlds trapped in the bottle of my poems
Begging like a genie to be let free.
Maybe that's the thing to pull the trigger.
Maybe that's the reason so much slides through and lands in the ravine
Of my reader's soul.
.
It's all blurry outlines and bad words.
Misunderstandings and mist.
Everything is coated in the fog of relentless dreaming
And slathered in the slime of nightmares.
I'm pulling the gold teeth from another version of myself,
Melting her down into coins, and tossing them across the crowd
Gathered at my beheading.
.
I wonder if I'll remember those words
Or if they'll fall into the bucket with my blood.
I wonder if those will stick with some sort of finality
In my throat clogged with sorrow and chocolate
Or if everything will just slip away again.
I've eaten too many dandelions and they've all gone to seed.
And now I've got a head full of fuzz and blurred, bad words.
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Silver Serpent Books
Writer. Interested in all the rocks people have forgotten to turn over. There are whole worlds under there, you know. Dark ones too, even better.
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Comments (15)
Never have related to anything more 😂Congrats on TS!
Congrats on Top Story!
I'm pulling the gold teeth from another version of myself/Melting her down into coins, and tossing them across the crowd/Gathered at my beheading. - this is the best bit!
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Back to say congrats on top story!! 💌🥳🎉🥳🎉
Gosh this was so intense! There's just too many lines that hit me hard, I can't choose. Congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
A strong, self-reflexive poem that richly merited TS recognition!
Congratulations on top story! 🎉🎉🎉
Love the concept and of course the execution is marvelously done! I was really drawn to the second stanza, just so good! Congrats on Top Story! Someone made an excellent choice! The last two lines are dynamite too! Did wonder if the second to last line is meant to end with the word "seed" instead of "see"?
Love this! Makes me think of all the ideas lost because I didn't write them down in the moment. Congrats on top story!
Oh, wow...this is exactly how I feel. I am so glad you decided to write this all down, I would have hated to miss it. Congrats on your top story
Congrats on your top story.
that's exactly how I often feel when I begin to write. you captured my inner mind. very well done.
"Maybe the moderators can taste the smoke of a fire I can't see." I like that line a lot. Incredible poem, Silver! 💌
Beautifully written! There's so much imagery and emotion packed into this one... love it!!!