I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

why the hell did i save this one?

 

The mandolin music in the background

I guess it’s been there forever

But I never recognized it before.

 

You settled too early

Cashed in your chips

And left the table

Before the hot black girl

In the lime tube top

Got drunk

And lost the green nuisance

I hope Matlock was entertaining.

 

How does it feel

Knowing Scarlett Johansson

Is forever beyond your grasp?

Her breasts are too perfect

And she makes Phoebe Cates

Look like my grandmother.

 

No one but you

Still goes to K Mart.

Six packs of Coors
Sit unrefrigerated

On wobbly shelves

Covered in dust.

 

Those flowers in the vase—

Where did you find sunflowers

At this time of year?

Can you feel passion

In paint strokes?

Can your tongue taste pride

In a dead mans dry blood?

 

Go home and lay on your couch

The lawn can be mowed tomorrow.

What hunger did you once have

That you satisfied

With a grilled cheese sandwich

When you wanted roast beef?

 

Some are born great

Some achieve greatness

Some have greatness thrust upon ‘em

 

He is only known as “the little boy”

History has forgotten his name

The years have flattened his grave

But what we remember

And will always remember

Is the wolf

And how the boy’s flesh

Hung from his jowls

Muffling his cries.

 

Anakin scorched away his flesh

And was reborn as a lord.

Lucifer fell for nine days

And awoke a king

On a lake of fire.

Who else has lost everything

And gained so much?

 

The ship sails South

From the land of ice and darkness

The monster watches the corpse burn

And weeps not for the death

Of his father

But for the loss of his enemy.

 

We couldn’t all be cowboys

And soon

We won’t need astronauts anymore

But you can always be a mailman.

Reviews

[Calypso]

This was so beautiful, thanks for posting it!