love in a mutilator

sickly smile sheers thick air

 

ominous fissure opens the stone façade

of a mossy cemetery cherub

 

I immediately wish I remained in the grave

this time,

or, at least, hit the snooze button,

but I'm too stupid to stay dead

 

your words explode out

like angry hornets

and me(n)tal shrapnel

 

I  am slain

again

 

one last steel-toed kick in the heart

 

a girlish giggle laced in rattlesnake venom

 

echoes like smartass thunder

in my eternal shellshock ears

but, I get up,

wipe blood from my scarred chin,

dust off my old jeans

and try to stand up straight,

even though my spine has snapped

again

 

you've left me stranded here

so many times,

I can limp straight home

 

even with my eyes swollen shut

 

it'll take weeks until I'm confused enough

to smile

again

 

see you then

Reviews

[Kerry O'Connor]

I immediately wish I remained in the grave
this time,
or, at least, hit the snooze button,
but I'm too stupid to stay dead

This is what makes your writing stand out from the rest: an imagination that sees the world from a completely different perspective, and forces us to take a look too.

[Abysmal Savant]

this is what ive been looking for. indeed.

[Brianna Brie]

a girlish giggle laced in rattlesnake venom

Awesome poem! Anyone that has tasted of the death and destruction of love can surely relate to this one.

[Kenneth The Poet]

This is a punch in the f*****g nuts of awesomeness, because awesome does not describe how awesome this poem truly is. Did I say that it was awesome.

[Brad]

"but I'm too stupid to stay dead"

bahahahahahaha...i'm totally using this as my favorite quote!

[Robin]

man , I think they'll have to go to dentals records to identify that one