I talk to who on the phone? My work for 1min and my mom for maybe an hr a month. My brothers? no not really. My aunt not so much. I text a greeting here and maybe a question there. The fb sometimes teases and or tortures to a point I cannot bare. The games, they really bore me. The battery life sucks. A blank notification bar I see. Waiting and watching, for what? Damn phone gives headaches that are really pounding. This phone beckons, calling out to me to ignore my surroundings. So y do I have a smart phone? Bc I’d sadly feel lost without it.
July 30, 2011
July 4, 2011
Tear
“A beam of light shimmering through. Bounces around like a prism, giving off an airless carefree radiance. The beauty of this shine does not run deep. Inside lay the truth behind the visible. A trail of moisture remains, descending from curve to curve. Smells like nothing. Salty to taste. Each speck carries a memory, as if to discard the thought. Harder and faster the fall. A throbbing pain and a weakened structure.” – Me
March 2, 2011
THEY-Lesley
The shirtwaist factory workers made blouses for women. The machines got faster, so did the quotas. Women would be running their material through, accidently some finger would run through too and they pulled rags off their dresses to bandage the wounds WHILE THEIR EMPLOYERS DOCKED THEIR PAY FOR THE NEEDLE THEY BROKE OFF and the time they ‘waist’ed… plus… they locked the doors…it’s so…they.
February 24, 2010
FLOAT-Lesley
My Childhood was incredible, it set me up to understand the world in some mighty different ways…that is why I can’t ever blame my parents for anything.
This poem is for Anna. Do you regret your childhood, Dear?
Lift* raft,
Lift it,
Hear the fish clapping
It’s a pain,
Circling of elation
I should be thinking about my day,
When is my dad suppose to die?
Pink star ‘Possy” it’s a pane,
Real “it’s a plain pain”,
Because…
Left home,
To my talking…
my,
children,
into,
… survive
say…take the colors and patterns
And use them the way your
toes feel in sand,
or snow.
Always, against the wind.
It will show.
Forever
Let me point
Fish, birds, flowers, mountain views, and seascapes, eye color and a smile,
heart beats in the hands…
Float.
October 2, 2009
Anna-why do you say that? Yawn, just needed to tell somebody something. It can wait till, stretch again, Monday?
well that’s my knew motto…yawn.
I figured out one more thing about men- the left right thing REALLY DOES MATTER….yeaaaaaaah.
July 23, 2009
Mistakes-Lesley
Only come from one thing
Trying
If you were trying something evil
Then your mistake
makes out that way
If you were trying
and it doesn’t go forward
That day
Only time says
Mistakes are inevitable
June 13, 2009
All the Things I Hear-Lesley
It’s not rain falling,
These trees are being preserved to die.
I don’t get it;
I don’t want to face the danger,
With all the browned out,
Lullaby.
June 6, 2009
In My Ears-Lesley
In my ears
To swallow
Wish I could be a bird
Compelled to call out perpetually
And eat living things that crawl
Then I could rid the world of evil
But only law does that when it can
Circumstance is unavoidable
When you are a worm
May 2, 2009
RAPACITY-Lesley
Rapacity
Can one imagine what one word says?
Pretty sure it has pants’ lengths versus,
Skirts,
Render everything then
The earth,
Problem from me so
I sag,
Figuring blame
Somebody in the
Lag====
Oh well
Water creeps up
Even where
It ain’t needed
Then the power
Of showers feed
It
That lonesome
Dove
Making miracles from
===it’s credence