Garbage

A Poem by apennylate

Baggage...

Garbage

okay, got it

Garage-band gallivanting with capes fluttering, cops chasing

caught-flossing between innings, despite needing to win winnings of side-bets on the side

hustling on the side all the time, its back to hussies on the side, jaws open-wide

Wait... Banned-from cussing?

okay, got it

Gotta think-quick... my verbs can be-like...

Phoenix-re-birthing-zen-at-my-cursing-will-he-need-learning

But no, I'm of earning my own stripes

and depending on days unfurling, I will curl back my fist and smash-strike

despite the respite in my tone, drips of despise 'n' spite still spitefully in throat

I will stay still to avoid blow-back frequencies lit by mescalines perplexing efforts

damn masculine tethers to herculine efforts

Her 'n' me backwards...

Curve of the rapture grabbed at the slaughter for conjure its polite burn

but recycled lines can harm-yeh, so read-on-higher

To strobe too far from ode-light

define lines when you write, don't hide-blind from the less-designed

its not the comments that carry

Its the voice

its not the spectators that are remembered

Its the stage

its the action release traction avoided barrel-rolls fathoms-to-go

Yet still

I fear the end of...

Turn the page

© 2019 apennylate

Author's Note

One mans garbage....

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Sami Khalil

Well recycling garbage is big business. We can even generate energy from garbage. To some it is garbage, to others it is tresures. We are all actors on the stage as your state marvelously. We have a voice or a say in matters. Life has its pages, its chapters to be written and maybe published. Our low ebb or high ebb stories unfold day by day. Your poem says many and conveys many.

Posted 5 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

5 Years Ago

Thank you, Sami...
Means much to hear your interpretation...
I just kept the notion of.. read more

5 Years Ago

It is indeed. You are welcome...

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gram linski

another barrage of sound/unsound/mind/don't mind... the voice … the stage … turn the page …, sometimes within the garbage little nuggets of gold can be found

Posted 5 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

5 Years Ago

So much agreed, my friend...
Apologize for not catching this review
Means the world t.. read more

Ted Kniffen

One man's garbage is another girl's treasure...you can laugh with fear and cry with pleasure...plastics fuel perpetual motion to create an island in the ocean.

You've taken bits and pieces and turned them into a cohesive thought on recycling words and people.

I quite like it.

Posted 5 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

5 Years Ago

I quite like your wonderful take on things...
Because...
They are pretty darn spot-on... read more

emmajoy

Ultra musical, masculine and multi-faceted words.. style as ever interesting! You must be related to Margie and bad bunny, would make a great combo!. Life and Language have their own pile of garbage: words and actions without glory;, themes discussed but discordant, many and much interaction without rhyme or reason. Could find more so needs re-reading - will return.

Posted 5 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

5 Years Ago

Ah, EJ...!
A pleasure seeing your whimsy here again...
I am related to all that is a .. read more

jacob erin-cilberto

is another man's riches...i like this much...the metaphor of recycling and how we recycle words to create more and more poems...
often we are afraid of the response from those who want to trash us...and yet they do it out of spite and often jealousy...because they can't recycle themselves.
crazy good write,
j.