De(Me)ntal

by Everlasting   May 12, 2014


I

Retrieve the metal,
the canine barks loud;
with crown in gums,
an office chews
patient at the door-
like meat in fork
mouth swallows
the day in gulps.

II

Bark like a seal coughing nonsense, sea
seaweed caught in turbine, Jesus! See the tree
the palm, the hand, the tea
Stir! stir! stir the vessel into thee.
Polka dotted skirts - the wind, the wind.
the ladies walk in heels.
news papers in the deck, I see
I see

the sun setting in between
sandals exiting a beach, seagulls flying to the east
Fear splashing into tears
the night cruising waves to an aquatic drink
chaos bubbling in a ring,
in a brink of a cliff
I see

III

have you ever seen the nothing?
that emptiness that fills the air
the oxygen we breath
the vastness of the universe
like your eyes

Have you ever seen anything?
the nothing in a coffin
the carcasses of dead man
those corpses that sleep day and night
like your eyes

Have you ever seen the nonsense?
the kind of words that coil like snakes
to then bite
the ones that spring from within the ground
to confuse our senses
and then attack
like your eyes

lV

STOP, Speak with headphones in your ears,
manic, decrepit weasel, spit the metallic donut!
no, swallow it down to your stomach, cut your guts.
Go open down the track to trains. Don't you miss
butterflies? See them, vomit all the garbage
into the sewer, run run run runrunrunrurn

No, don't hit me, I tripped -
open your fist, seeeeeeee see the sun
it's summer, petals bloom , petals bloom!

I don't want to see another day, the window
is blurry, I want my mommmmmyyyy
Outside looks dark. the trash-can showers the kitchen floors
with soda and blood. Ahhhh don't see meeeeeee!
it's disturbing. My image creeps like nights
in winter. It cuts between cheeks and nose.
Skin peels apart, lips become brittle
crackkkkkkk,
ahhhhhhh, put it away-
the hair spray burns my eyes. It's the mirror:
a pool in the garden like your teeth chewing
the moon with popcorn in your tongue.

Don't walk away. Don't you dare walk away!

It's autumnic in between the fall, hiroshima
went booomm with a bomb
and me goes boooooooom with a song,
and cha cha chaaaa chattttttttttttttttt...
I tell you to chattttttttttttttttt, cha cha cha
with left and right, it goes cha cha cha
one to three, one two threeeeeeeee
no, no , no spittttttttttttttt speeeeeeeeeeeed it up.
like grab my waist and go one cha cha
two cha chat chat with your lips
like typing in keyboard with fingers sliding
in my spine, touch the keys and make me dance.
let's do the acrobatic maniatic decrepit torturing
ephemeral whatever something was
that I was telling you to do...

just goooooooo
goooo dollls, don' ttttttt open
your fishhhhhhhtttttttttttt to my cheek,
You weasel in the sea
swim towards the shore, and open the tracks
for the trains to sprint like the runners in
the olympics

Or else, you'll be late!

V

An office chews
patient at the door;
the canine barks loud
retrieve the metal!
mouths swallows
the day in gulps

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  • 7 years ago

    by Fading Memory

    Have you ever seen the nothing?

    great job ' filled the void between nothing

    • 7 years ago

      by Everlasting

      Depends... idk.

      I'm not sure. Have you ?

  • 8 years ago

    by Dancing Rivers

    Oh shucks it's an old one so I can't nominate it :(

    • 8 years ago

      by Everlasting

      Lol thank you. The thought counts.
      And the comment too.

  • 8 years ago

    by Dancing Rivers

    Dammnit!!! This was such an exhillerating, mind altering, view-shifting focus grasping, life questioning, sanity draining, art inspiring, movie creating piece of I have NO IDEA WHAT but I LOVE IT!!! WHAT THE #%^(&)*( IS THIS MASTERFULLY WRITTEN COMPLETELY SENSICALLY NON SENSICALLY MIND DRAINING PIECE OF POISONOUS BEUATY THAT I have just read??? I was taken into a sci-fi fantasy-rom-com-cartoon-thriller-horror new age vintage GOD KNOWS WHAT artwork styled movie. #$$$$&*&( brilliant and most definitely nominated

  • 8 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    Lucero.

    Many thanks for pointing me in this direction. This is odd, certainly, but brilliant too. It is without doubt the most hectic write I have every read - it left me short of breath by the end. There is such a desperation in your words that I can't help feeling moved by them and , as others have said, a little disturbed.
    This really is free verse at its purest - free! I can tell this was written right from the heart and just laid out there and it really is a unique and fantastic piece of writing. I suppose it could be interpreted a few ways and it is certainly confusing at times - but some of the best poetry has those exact qualities.

    All the very best,
    Ben

    • 8 years ago

      by Everlasting

      Thanks Ben. Not sure if this came from the heart or the soul, or just pure imagination... Or a little bit of the three, or the three together.

  • 10 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    Judging comment:

    I have never read anything like this before. What took me by surprise was the range of emotions I felt during this. I was confused at times, uncomfortable, and feeling like what we live and see each day may be an illusion. I am not sure if this is open to interpretation or if the author had a direct cause for writing this. Upon first glance at the title, I thought of a mental illness, or trying to rid one's self of those troubling thoughts or even rationalize them. Then, with the (me), I thought of "dental", like a dental office. What intrigued me most was that the author did not shrink back or become afraid to be eccentric, and even deluded with the tone of voice. Because sometimes, we do want to scream as humans, be irrational, or do things that absolutely have no rhyme or reason. The individual parts that stood out to me were the author's emphasis on certain words, the onomatopoeia that seemed to echo like in the "crack" or "spit".

    Part of my interpretation is that this person is going through a manic episode perhaps, they were in a depressive state (feeling emptiness, thinking of death), then ask for someone to be there, for someone to not walk away but dance with them. This person is broken, they crave someone to reach out yet push away at the same time. But they are at their lowest. The most moving part to me was the transition from a harsh tone of "STOP" and "Don't you dare walk away!" to something more soft and almost childlike with the call to make this person dance. Not sure exactly the meaning of the ending, or the "weasel in the sea", maybe that they are witnessing this person breaking down and are asking to be saved, to be brought back to some kind of clarity before it's too late. What a captivating write, gave me shivers! (7)

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