The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

VEN COMO ERES, COMO ERAS, COMO QUIERO QUE SEAS

No pueden salir volando las mariposas. No me importa si están listo: necesito su calor. Pero mientras trato de guardarla en su tarro, aletean lejos las otras; y mientras trato de reconquistarlas, la ultima me deja y me deja sentirme bastante frío. Basta, ya. Entonces es mejor que yo use prudentemente mis reservas, porque dudo […]

Posted in Española, Poetry

Funnybones

You probably think this is some kind o’ joke, some kind o’ game. I bet you think it’s a true dickslapper, you cock-nosed pile o’ cu-- No! No, it’s worse! You think this isn’t funny! You’re sitting there bored, saying to yourself, “Yeah, yeah: you’re a freak; I got it, bro.” Well, let me tell […]

Posted in Crazy, Poetry

Awoken

Suddenly, finally, I woke from that long, fevered dream, only to find myself in an empty, dark void. Damn.

Posted in Crazy, Poetry

Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness In’t

I. A soufflé carefully cooked, hour by hour... SLAM! Oven door’s open 1 second suddenly. It’s dead. I can hear the bomb ticking in my brain... I can feel the knife scraping my neck & forehead; constricting, suffocation, moldy blue skin. A tepid leaf floating flimsily on the edge o’ a bough till the hands […]

Posted in Crazy, Poetry

WHAT I FOUND IN THIS TOWN I’M HEADED FOR A BREAKDOWN NOOOO!

No! You can’t leave. Not yet! … We’ve just started. I won’t let you! … [It slips out the fire ‘scape.] Though in my eye ’twas all the time, it ‘scaped my sight till th’apex of its flight. Where did the warm orange tea go? Ran out the door hours ago; & it didn’t even […]

Posted in Crazy, Poetry