Eight-for-an-hour factory scent.
Struggling paths through library shelves
And self-taught speculation.
This is how the world works.
I'm headed for welfare.
I sat and cried over lost time,
Lost years in paper-trail pursuit.
A couch to sleep upon
Imbedded in photo finishes
And photogenic fights.
Malnutritioned stomachs and summer pain
Covered by upswept hair and tearless eyes.
Roommates of rejection,
Rats behind walls.
Intention doesn\'t mean a thing.
This is how the world works.
Rip the title from the front of the Bible,
God don\'t live there
Too many inconsistencies, too much mystery
Picture the Pope, laughing and drinking and singing and
Kissing me
I stand with God whether I\'m paid or cryin\' broke
Ask these politicans
\"would Jesus vote?\"
The way we view God is a freakin\' shame
Church is to blame
We trust God, but bomb Hussein
We simply lovin\' the scripture
Same scripture that whipped \'cha
And religion\'s gettin\' richer
With that European version of Ch
Chromosomes and Red Wine by eyelie-ewelie, literature
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Chromosomes and Red Wine
God is gutting the sky he gave us
And we are blood cells,
Reds and whites,
That spill out and soil
The universe that hides
Beneath
The sky he gave us.
A pathetic stain we leave
behind
with all of our manufactured
D N A -
will be the legacy to the stars
that have nowhere left to go in
The sky he gave us.
You Cant Suicide on Television by eyelie-ewelie, literature
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You Cant Suicide on Television
There\'s no verb for suicide. It\'s something you commit. You can commit murder, but you can just plain murder, too. You can\'t \"suicide.\" I mean, don\'t try it or anything to prove me wrong. You just can\'t.
Maybe it\'s because if you do it you have to be successful. If you\'re not succesful, then man...you oughta just kill yourself. No, don\'t! It was a joke! But if you do it, you can\'t very well tell anyone what you\'ve done. \"Sally! What happened to your wrists?\" \"Oh, I suicided.\" You can\'t do that. You can\'t talk when you\'re dead! And every successful suicide I know of has ended up that way. In severe deadness. (Deadness is al
My art has failed.
It had to end with Betty. She didn\'t deserve it. The rest did. Poor, lost slaves, shuffling around this world in lines and forms. I saved them. I freed them. Life is slavery. They\'re parasitic bacteria - microorganisms in the host that is the universe. They\'re filthy, disgusting slaves directed by their most primal urges. They NEEDED to be cured. And I cured them. I set them free. But Betty, poor Betty. Betty never had the chance to evolve or learn or understand. Sweet Betty. I saw hope in her eyes, those pretty eyes. I saw an answer. She wore no shackles. She conformed to nothing. She was a free bird. And we cut off he
A couple nights ago I was watching Jackass on MTV, and this segment came on entitled "Devil v. God". Chris Pontius dressed up in a devil Halloween costume and walked around with this sign that read "Keep God out of California". Most people just laughed or stared or some similar reaction. Except, as Chris is walking across a street, this fanatic Bible-pusher grabbed his sign, broke it, and started beating him with part of it. He actually goes to the extent of pushing the supposed Devil up against a car and slugging him. Honestly, I have little doubt that this man seriously believed attempting to beat someone up in the name of God was a "r
Oh, Billie. Why\'d you have to go and kiss that poor girl\'s brain?
She was breathing loud.
It wasn\'t bothering me.
It was bothering me.
YOU told me things would be different. YOU told me things would get better. But they\'re not!
I didn\'t like her.
She has pretty eyes.
Stop playing with her eyes.
Okay.
Her name was Betty. She had pretty eyes. It was late, sometime after midnight. I was coming back from the store, pockets full of pixie stix and Nyquil bottles, when she bumped into me. We stared at each other for 48 seconds before I mentioned how someone with eyes those pretty shouldn\'t be out at this hour. She giggled and asked wh
Laughter as a Panacea by eyelie-ewelie, literature
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Laughter as a Panacea
So I walked out of class into the overcrowded hallway and felt someone grab my shirt and pull me aside. Jon. The annoying little fucker. He immediately launches into great detail about some worthless girl who wanted to tell him that he was worthless during their worthless period two english class. This cute little preppy chick decided that since her boyfriend cheated on her last weekend because she wasn't willing to "fulfill his needs", she was gonna take it out on my favorite sophomore buddy (even if he is an annoying fucker). Now Jon knows he's not worthless, plenty of wonderful people like me everyday remind him that he's wonderful ju
She said \"Darlin', you talk too much
And I can't stand the sound of your voice
When you're hurt and cryin'
Over my shoulder
For the things that should have
Stopped long ago
For the sake of us both\"
And her words are cluttered
By the sound of the running vacuum
Through the silence of the room
To the dismal stairs where she
Had taken that first
Fall - when
They shared their first kiss
In the limelight of a car
Beside the yellow traffic light
And he says:
\"I've put in my two week notice
Honey, and I'm packing up
To leave this town and this year
In the dust of what never really was
And won't never happen.
It's raining to
Billboards, television, magazines, movies...everywhere you look, there they are: the beautiful women. Airbrushed, make-uped, and computer refined. The cause of the average woman's misery, and sometimes the average man's as well.
The world worships beauty. Poets write of it, men fight over it, awards are even given over it. People magazine's best selling issue is its annual 50 most beautiful people. And Sports Illustrated probably sells the most for its swimsuit edition. In every way, the world over, people strive for beauty, and most of the time, it only makes us sick and vulnerable.
The contrast effect afflicts us all, and not just i
Laughter as a Panacea by eyelie-ewelie, literature
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Laughter as a Panacea
So I walked out of class into the overcrowded hallway and felt someone grab my shirt and pull me aside. Jon. The annoying little fucker. He immediately launches into great detail about some worthless girl who wanted to tell him that he was worthless during their worthless period two english class. This cute little preppy chick decided that since her boyfriend cheated on her last weekend because she wasn't willing to "fulfill his needs", she was gonna take it out on my favorite sophomore buddy (even if he is an annoying fucker). Now Jon knows he's not worthless, plenty of wonderful people like me everyday remind him that he's wonderful ju
Oh, Billie. Why\'d you have to go and kiss that poor girl\'s brain?
She was breathing loud.
It wasn\'t bothering me.
It was bothering me.
YOU told me things would be different. YOU told me things would get better. But they\'re not!
I didn\'t like her.
She has pretty eyes.
Stop playing with her eyes.
Okay.
Her name was Betty. She had pretty eyes. It was late, sometime after midnight. I was coming back from the store, pockets full of pixie stix and Nyquil bottles, when she bumped into me. We stared at each other for 48 seconds before I mentioned how someone with eyes those pretty shouldn\'t be out at this hour. She giggled and asked wh
A couple nights ago I was watching Jackass on MTV, and this segment came on entitled "Devil v. God". Chris Pontius dressed up in a devil Halloween costume and walked around with this sign that read "Keep God out of California". Most people just laughed or stared or some similar reaction. Except, as Chris is walking across a street, this fanatic Bible-pusher grabbed his sign, broke it, and started beating him with part of it. He actually goes to the extent of pushing the supposed Devil up against a car and slugging him. Honestly, I have little doubt that this man seriously believed attempting to beat someone up in the name of God was a "r
My art has failed.
It had to end with Betty. She didn\'t deserve it. The rest did. Poor, lost slaves, shuffling around this world in lines and forms. I saved them. I freed them. Life is slavery. They\'re parasitic bacteria - microorganisms in the host that is the universe. They\'re filthy, disgusting slaves directed by their most primal urges. They NEEDED to be cured. And I cured them. I set them free. But Betty, poor Betty. Betty never had the chance to evolve or learn or understand. Sweet Betty. I saw hope in her eyes, those pretty eyes. I saw an answer. She wore no shackles. She conformed to nothing. She was a free bird. And we cut off he
You Cant Suicide on Television by eyelie-ewelie, literature
Literature
You Cant Suicide on Television
There\'s no verb for suicide. It\'s something you commit. You can commit murder, but you can just plain murder, too. You can\'t \"suicide.\" I mean, don\'t try it or anything to prove me wrong. You just can\'t.
Maybe it\'s because if you do it you have to be successful. If you\'re not succesful, then man...you oughta just kill yourself. No, don\'t! It was a joke! But if you do it, you can\'t very well tell anyone what you\'ve done. \"Sally! What happened to your wrists?\" \"Oh, I suicided.\" You can\'t do that. You can\'t talk when you\'re dead! And every successful suicide I know of has ended up that way. In severe deadness. (Deadness is al
Chromosomes and Red Wine by eyelie-ewelie, literature
Literature
Chromosomes and Red Wine
God is gutting the sky he gave us
And we are blood cells,
Reds and whites,
That spill out and soil
The universe that hides
Beneath
The sky he gave us.
A pathetic stain we leave
behind
with all of our manufactured
D N A -
will be the legacy to the stars
that have nowhere left to go in
The sky he gave us.
The sanest nights are the coldest
Left on to bear the world without you
And simple words, letters strung together
Endlessly end hopelessly before my futile attempts
At exercising the command you boast
Upon the language of life.
Play my desires to whimsical upbringing
I cannot find fault in you.
Leaves in fall could never fall
Or fail to fall on honey coated happiness
Steal away the vicious, viscous heart
Persistent manipulation of my only possession.
An' yet I feign
Love is not an emptiness
A paradox [for I'm in love with your words].
So I work at the range management department just outside base. It's mainly a civilian office, which ain't too bad cause they tend to have a little more fun with their work.
I was manning the radio when Doc calls in from the bombing range. He asks me to get the warden on the phone, so I do and ask him what he wants:
"Yeah, I got an illegal."
See, Mexicans try to cross the border through our range because it's a wide open area and they don't realize what we actually do there.
I think he might've been fucking with me, but Doc said they used to shoot 'em when they tried to cross over. Now they just take 'em to customs. How boring.
But w
Last night I got so frustrated I threw a bottle of sunscreen at the wall. Except my aim is terrible and I hit the lamp instead.
Just wanted to share.
it's time for me to say fuck the world.
i met kevin the second week i got here. he's three ranks above me, not to mention a sailor, so it was a little weird for us to be hanging out at first. but as time went by, he reminded me so much of my brother i didn't mind our obvious outward differences, and didn't give a shit what anyone else thought of our friendship. he even sat with me the entire night in the hospital when i had to go to the emergency room. things were cool. i almost looked up to him, except his uniform was always nasty and he never seemed like a prime example of our naval forces. we drank together, played cards with the re
omg i wanna blow up your icon and put it on a tshirt and put a tiel under it like "BABIES HATE YOU" lol that would be hilarious--anyway, i;m off to rtead some of yo poetry Anyone's poetry has to be good if you like perverted babies