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Alcoholic Poet. Poetry Equals Distance Over Time.

Distance Over Time
Monday 2/18/2008 12:52:00 AM

He brought in the speakers. Inch by inch until everything sounded like she remembered. Too much treble. Too much bass. A lot of strangers paying for their highs with drunken women. Or postcards from their mother's they'd yet to read.

She turned off the amplifier and tried to listen to the nothing. Feigning deafness until they started scraping the chalkboard.

All the erasers gone they decided there was still time to lie enough. Black markers seeping through thin paper. She thought about saving what she'd written, but changed her mind when she found out the words had decided she couldn't be trusted. With all those little shoes that barely fit on the feet she'd gnarled playing so often with dolls she'd only remember by hating herself.

Taking off their clothes in tiny doses of hysteria. Sad clown smiles losing their makeup. Sirens at the back of her throat looking for someone to blame. Besides herself.

The fruit is over us. Bored.

Too cold to bleed.

The battery is dead.

2 comments:
writerwoman said...

Intensely sad. Your work is always brimming with emotion.

To make this one better, you might want to fix the spelling on the words found and doses.

alcholic poet said...

i always type poorly when composing. thanx for the heads up.




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