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and our poets are becoming more
and more of painters while
our painters
are taking pictures of trees
and
flowers and
photographers are
composing words out of
nothing.
into nothing.
-
i fell sideways and
down into a rabbit hole to
soothe my aching
ears; but silence makes us
stronger and we
can't run too far
away.
we were born in homes
on the street.
-
i'm a bit of
and insomniac and
it's morning again; but i
haven't slept in
three weeks and four days
and thirty six minutes.
exactly.
i've been counting the
seconds since you left;
i'm quite pleased with
the improvement in my
math and motor skills.
now that you're gone.
and more of painters while
our painters
are taking pictures of trees
and
flowers and
photographers are
composing words out of
nothing.
into nothing.
-
i fell sideways and
down into a rabbit hole to
soothe my aching
ears; but silence makes us
stronger and we
can't run too far
away.
we were born in homes
on the street.
-
i'm a bit of
and insomniac and
it's morning again; but i
haven't slept in
three weeks and four days
and thirty six minutes.
exactly.
i've been counting the
seconds since you left;
i'm quite pleased with
the improvement in my
math and motor skills.
now that you're gone.
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and the point to this is.
The people are dying.
Torchlight, moonlight, street lights: what's it matter? They're dead now. Their stories will fade, their marks erased, their generation just another mark in just another history book. Maybe they're buried; maybe they aren't. Maybe their obituaries aren't even written. Who keeps up with it, anyway?
The children are going hungry. Life just ain't what it used to be, the old say; and maybe it isn't, or maybe it never was. But what does it matter? They'll be dead. Their idea of 'a better life' goes with them.
The candles go unlit. "We have forgotten how," they cry; and where do the fingers point now? To the old for not tea
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that your parents don't know.
that your parents don't know you, the way you, in the nighttime sit on the rooftops downtown while a boy plays the guitar. the way the wind blows and you are cold and there is no one there to tell you to button up or to go inside when the rain begins, slowly, to fall. that, even if they did know, it would not matter because you, thank heavens, are not a child anymore. having children is tiresome. they'd rather not know where you are and so you don't call to tell them that tonight you hung your hungry body half over the edge and contemplated gravity. and you don't call to ask them did you ever do tha
Literature
something to write about as home
I'd been drug sniffed
addled & otherwise
by agents in
deep
blues
demanding
points of origin
questioning allegiance
mis-
or
re-
placed
hope to heart to god
like father thought
or
hand to fist to mouth
like mother taught
as if no one had
colored those pale
shades of
in between
so I shook
as all good books
taught me
stretched taught
toward
a sinuous
trail
of spread
skin
a constant
a(c)cord
a consistent
connection
to the shape
you've made me
I tried to trace
this journey
as a map
but found you'd
folded us
into
song
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subtle abstract.
"you're like picasso, except you can't do a damn thing with a paint brush." xD
that made me laugh.
"you're like picasso, except you can't do a damn thing with a paint brush." xD
that made me laugh.
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I like it so much!!😍