Snapshots Of The Living: A Different Angle

Snapshots Of The Living: A Different Angle

A Poem by Matthew Bass

True beauty: Tiny pixels of ugliness 
surrounded by collages of true ugliness
 
  
  
  
It´s 
afternoon hidden by street lights 
                and       the look of death 
  
when nothing is diffferent from before. 
  
  
Everyone is 
tired from apathy   and 
newly forgotten vows. 
  
  
Still I 
suffer through the mud puddles 
  
of petty misery. 
  
  
Psuedo fires 
line the streets twisting up and down and old hill 
on cobblestones beaten by the feet 
of animals 
with purple eyelids, 
and they point like lasers through holes 
between their toes. 
  
And there is 
s**t from dogs, artists, and babies; 
smeared like colorfields in the rain. 
  
  
  
  
The skin 
ripped off the bone of my fingernails drags and bleeds 
against the edges of concrete sinkholes that collapse 
                                                like sand. 
  
  
The Police:Figments of my imagination 
chase me for breaking all the windows in the warehouse 
for the sake of breaking all the windows in the factory, 
pushing old ladies down the street because of the sound they make 
when they fall, and telling everyone to F**k Off! with a tongue 
that was cut out by my parents when I was three. 
  
As the rain trickles 
seeping through the remains of tattered blue Chuck Taylor´s 
oblivious to the trenchfoot slowing me down 
in the sick maze of the half-dead not-alive   who drag themselves 
to something they hate now that the party is over 
with nothing to look forward to. 
                                - January 2nd 2___.

© 2012 Matthew Bass


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Matthew Bass
Matthew Bass

St. Louis, MO



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