Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.
Jan 07, 2010
⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)
rabid midnight miscalculations under a streetlamp
fuck you and your little dog, too
I've had enough--you can't
force me to submit, I don't
run around in circles chasing
my own tale and I
sure as hell don't carry any
sad tunes to play on my itty bitty
violin, what makes you think
you can pick me up like some
kind of raccoon-eyed streetwalker?
me under
the lamplight, looking for a key
to what the Pandora in me has opened
a thousand times before, trust me,
there wasn't anything in there but a
few poets dwindling away the dull day,
and if you should come back again
like a needle to a thread, I'll stitch
up your mouth
so you'll never have
anything more to say;
what is mine alone to brush away--
these sodden words of love
like so much dirt over freshly dug graves
flowers already wilting, our names
not yet engraved.
I am foaming at the mouth with memories.
I abhor their emptiness and
I don't know how to end this poem.
I've had enough--you can't
force me to submit, I don't
run around in circles chasing
my own tale and I
sure as hell don't carry any
sad tunes to play on my itty bitty
violin, what makes you think
you can pick me up like some
kind of raccoon-eyed streetwalker?
me under
the lamplight, looking for a key
to what the Pandora in me has opened
a thousand times before, trust me,
there wasn't anything in there but a
few poets dwindling away the dull day,
and if you should come back again
like a needle to a thread, I'll stitch
up your mouth
so you'll never have
anything more to say;
what is mine alone to brush away--
these sodden words of love
like so much dirt over freshly dug graves
flowers already wilting, our names
not yet engraved.
I am foaming at the mouth with memories.
I abhor their emptiness and
I don't know how to end this poem.
— Kailashana, Jan 07, 2010
Share this poem
Critiques
Seren
16 years 5 months ago
Dearest Mum
Kailashana
16 years 5 months ago
Hahaha! And I’ll tell
Seren
16 years 5 months ago
I think that there is one
Kailashana
16 years 5 months ago
I wrote a poem some time
docmaverick
16 years 5 months ago
And well....
Nordic cloud
16 years 5 months ago
Your f big head is flowering
Pamela A. Lamppa
16 years 5 months ago
Jaw drops, hits floor...
bjp
16 years 5 months ago
Dear Anna,
Kailashana
16 years 5 months ago
Returning to the scene of
Idlemindwondering
16 years 5 months ago
There are few places where
Orphani
16 years 5 months ago
It must have felt good
weirdelf
16 years 5 months ago
Mais oui!
Kailashana
16 years 5 months ago
Dear L… I have an on-going
themoonman
16 years 5 months ago
Anna...
Kailashana
16 years 5 months ago
Hi Richard, you think I
themoonman
16 years 5 months ago
oh yes...
Lunegirl
16 years 5 months ago
OOOOOOOOH i wish i knew
hippiepoet69
16 years 5 months ago
Powerful, I enjoyed it. huey
Damo
16 years 5 months ago
It’s clear the anger was
orgami
16 years 5 months ago
righteous anger