One
Backwards eyelids
Shut
Two at a time
Shoe at a shine
Scratch my style
Hurry up and take your time
A sure impulse
Stand away, you cannot do as monkeys
Leave my pen without its head
Ink my clothes
My pockets
Cause commotion
Ends
Connections
Inky eyeballs seek attention
The stormy night will not be remembered in the morning
Without the sun’s light, water is turned into market
I just might chill; it’s no surprise
That I’ve realized your lies, I waste nothing more
Asthma, asphyxiated by the smoke
Burn through the throats
The un-holiest grails are sought by vaporized hope
The ordinary
Extraordinary, as long as my chin is spontaneous
Not combustible, my brown tail wiggles
And giggles, I nEED tHE yELLOw pEELS.
Because I trust the greatness
The world is my playground
Our playground
Let’s make it last
Life is too short and we live too fast
stevehi
January 24, 2013 at 10:16 am
We do live life much too fast . Good writing .
alesiablogs
January 24, 2013 at 10:26 am
You speak of so many things in this writing. The asthma thing though was interesting. Do you have that? It is really a scary thing to have. As a RN, I worked with a nurse that was hiking and ended up dying from it because she could get no help. Her family did not know what to do. It still haunts me today for some reason, but I was not there and I could not do anything to have changed the cirmcumstances.
thatdudeeddie
January 25, 2013 at 9:26 am
Woah, that’s terrible! :O It was her time to go, however, and it wasn’t vain. However, I do not have Asthma.
alesiablogs
January 25, 2013 at 12:03 pm
I am glad you do not. It was so sad for sure.
Christopher Shawbell
January 28, 2013 at 6:51 pm
I like this piece a lot, Eddie. “The un-holiest grails are sought by vaporized hope.” That is a powerful line there. Its placement in the poem is great too. It was like a gust of wind in the sails, grounding and pushing the prose forward with a kind of urgency. I experienced the read, my friend. Well done.
Thank you for visiting my site yesterday, I recanted, and decided to build a site specifically for my poetry, lyrics & the like. I have more up, and you can expect re-blogs—I love to have other writer’s work up as well. Thank for posting this piece.
~Chris
thatdudeeddie
January 29, 2013 at 9:26 am
Thank you so much, Chris. I appreciate you reading my piece. And good luck with the blog. Just message me from the new one so that I can follow it.
Christopher Shawbell
January 29, 2013 at 1:41 pm
I’ll see if I can figure that out. I think you’re following already. I’ll check it out, my friend.
C.