(Image by Ryan Schude)
I wrote a lot of poetry back during my undergrad days, but once I found that I enjoyed doing fiction more, I never picked it back up (despite filling a huge notebook with well-transcribed versions along with accompanying images). Since Steemit seems to have a thriving (and growing) poetry community, I thought I'd add a little fuel to that particular fire. I hope you enjoy :)
One gun, one bullet
One trigger, why pull it?
Two clicks of the hammer
Three second-guesses made
After lights turned low
You pulled down the shade
You sit on your bed
Sheets dirty and unkempt
From the last time
You choked on insomnia
Reaching out into dreams
Trying to pull yourself up
Hand over fist into sanity.
The barrel tastes dirty, iron on lips,
Like the last owner’s thoughts
On the last bullet tip.
Tonguing the chamber,
And flirting with death
Outside the window
Flashes neon temptation
Screaming "Live Nude Girls"
As the bloody sensation
Of bullet through skin leaves
Smoky suicide curls.
"Arizona"
"Lasso the Moon, George Bailey"
"Sphinx Song"
"Purgatory's Visiting Hours"
"When Atlas Shrugged"
"Christmas in Viet Nam"
"Apocalypsis"
"New Novel, Issue 2, Vol. I"
"Star God (My Final Thread)"
"The Universe is Right on Schedule"
"Absence of God & Time"
"Hale-Bopp"
"I Want Out"
"Good Morning, Creation!"
"Reflected through the Looking Glass"
"Symbiosis"
"Dream of a Dream"
"Azure Interlude"
"Hubris, My Love"
"Sin"
"So Many People, So Little Time"
"Deafening, Shameless Horror of War"
"Weary Traveler"
"Dead Poet Society"
"Untitled, 12.13.05"
"Untitled, 01.17.06"
"Untitled, 01.25.06"
"Untitled, 04.17.06"
"Tongue Painting"
"The Orator of S(kin)"
"Insert A into B"
"Mornings"
"Wake-Up Call"
"As If Hanging in Dreams on the Back of a Tiger"
"Mano Viejo (An Old Hand)"
"...And on the 8th Day"
"Choir of Anvils"
"Paris"
"Epilogue"
"Accident in C Minor"
"Scaring the Stars into Submission"
"Raising Hell in the Garden of Eden"
"The Push"
"Thong Decision"
"Kline in Love"
"Un-"
"Hollow Points, Anonymous Tips"
"Poke, Process, Repeat"
"Healthy Living"
"Natural Selection"
"Icarus"
"The Religion of Ink"
"The Chaos of Thought and Passion"
"Attempting Patience"
"Tongue-Twisted and Blistered"
"Ice Drift"
"Once Every Forever"
"Nude Unbending a Stare-Case"
"No One Smokes Here Anymore"
"First Memories"
"A Lifetime in Tijuana"
"When the World Ends"
"Deaf Market, Blind Speaker"
"The Blackout Tenor"
"New Wings"
"Loss of Breath, Pt. 1"
"Loss of Breath, Pt. 2'
"Stripped Years"
"Plain & Simple"
"Autobiography of a Mistake"