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Amanita Mary

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What (About The Ladies) ?

I feel like i am finally utilizing words in the way i feel and think them. this, to me, is a breakthrough i'd like to share.




WHAT
Is the matter

With you

Sleepless girls
In cities
Dreaming

Of junkies

Rolling and
Rolling
And rolling

30 minute circles
On mattresses
And bedspread shackles

Joints

Ecstasy

Health Stones

Fat waitresses
Battle for bucks
And your eggs
Look like they
shouldn't make it

To your mouth

-like-
His cock
Last untainted
Fucked your Face

Breakfast Recovery. GO

Over-medium's
Lookin' like hard

And the lard
On the lady
Clad in apron

Is bruising retinas
As the food
Runs to gums
greasy

Mamas bleeding ones
And crying
Soggy child
Slumps

Over applesauce

STOP

Wait

(...run)

"He was scum"
Mama knows

That's why she's dressed up
and all alone

Slouching baby's bow

Fork scrapes,
Orange Juice

No pulp

Large purses
Ugly leather
Sulk
Chair-side

Hairspray
Clumped lashes
Blue-eyed gift
From who i won't know
Mascara,
Shadow,
Barely meets rent.

hmm
...Shadows...
On walls
That used to move

While lying
-------------------> ^High^

With you

WHAT-----do you care
But
Continue to stare
upon
?
To wonder
And dream

Of lover's long gone

Like ladies
With babies
in cafes
~blue eyeshade~

Matching waitresses
As runny
Plates
Of
Eggs
Glide away

She's waiting
for tonight
her favorite
Truck driver
Stops in
At nine

Asking for liver
Or a sandwich
Or milk from the carton
With ice

And the lady's
Panties
Stay hidden
With her Pearls -
and thighs

And lace around the sides
Her nights spent Like Mine

A toss off
Between me
And the sweat
And the silence
And the sheets

And the dreams

Of scents
Of ~indigo~ boys
Worth waiting for
-Again-
AND
of those
Deep blue
Scarring boys
Who took you
To plush drug land
Raping blushes with
~pieces~
still in their
Hands
-as toys-

She's up
And hushing
Cries

From the child
Whose eyes
Are him

Wrapped in robe-Red
grim With dangling
Tassels

For hope

(it is) for the weak

Doesn't she know

He'll always be there
To speak kind hushes
In midnight battles
Of logic and longing
?

They'll always
hang in the
gaping caves
of your mistakes

Rummaging in wait
as comouflaged
trash
in your hair
stashed in back
as potential dispair
for the Day-time
tasks

To rush the sun
and crash
as Kristelnacht
--------(You lie)
fragile glass memory---

Coughing fit
Infused habit
cheap checks
and an
even tinier
-tip

House shoes...
cigarettes
joggers outside
sidewalk windows
(Rule-breakers)
flow.... unnoticed

Diseased poets
order omelettes
and request them
--Scrambled--
?

Lingering
yellow-toothed
ash tray
plays smelly
circling games about
scratched tables
among the filling
belllies and
rambled gay Fables

Chef's sweat
over
Peppered Steak
and it's only
Eig8ht o' clock
-(you know)
Down at
GOLDIE'S & Don's
24 Hr
little busy
Cozy Country
Kitchen Diner.

And so the tickets
tack on
flapping Metal reel
Meal Requests

Demand
is in
Supply

and so is the #5
with biscuits
and gravy

"fruit's for pansies.
like that chick and
her kid
this ain't no place for babies"

it's now 9 o'clock
and the truck Drivers
commentary
is 12 hours early
our fellow
Curly Red
waitress
must've heard wrong.

Flying Flooded
and eager
She scuttles to
Delliver fear
and liver to
the table in the corner.

This place traps
SaDNeSs
like a graveyard

-crackers-noodles-chicken broth-
-garters-pearls-see-though bras-

Some women wear lace
for ghosts
men who walk their heads long gone
others for whom
they don't know
but flaunt and gaze
and continue
to dream upon.
 
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wow.

im gonna read through that again tomorrow (i think it could be a bit shorter), but damn girl.

working in the business... and being raised... yea, that is really good. i love your stanzas and the flow of the words.

its beautiful, your emotion flows so well and i identify with it because ive been there/seen that.

its really amazing. :)
 
what you have exposed is a painting of splendor. so honest and pure, well done, this is excellent.
 
that's a damn fine piece of work, you have arrived, dear mary. this is the stuff bukowskis are made of, melancholy...heavy hearted and raw.
elements of lament never broken through, i am spun into your mind
and beautifully sad.

bless you.
 
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i don't think that shorter would've worked wesmdow... everything's right where it belongs with this. Each word is attached to the other, like a symphony...
its beautiful, your emotion flows so well and i identify with it because ive been there/seen that.
yea, you were the spawn of plenty of the troubled emotion in this one.
but thanks! ;)

i am thrilled with the outcome of the power in this piece, and the little things i keep finding with each new read.
 
thanks guys! %) I read it for the first time last night, the way it sounds in my head, and everyone got real quiet until i finished... which is always a good sign. I finally found a more suiting title... and am 100% satisfied with it (right now).
 
I thought it was really good as well. I liked the ambiguous nature or more so double-application of certain lines: ending a thought as well as beginning a thought. There certainly is a lot of abstraction or maybe that is just what I am looking for. Well done. It reminds me of a more stream of thought Beat style of writing.

Peace,
PL
 
Absolutely stunning. Every one of your pieces leaves me numb, but at the same time pulsing with feelings that almost resemble colours, such are their vividness.

Thanks for sharing.
 
It's people like you that make me feel like our generation will have a moment. I look at my poetry and your poetry and feel like we should write to eachother like burroughs and ginsberg.

This is really harnessing your voice. You seem to have found your unique voice. Go with it. That's what I've been doing lately. I'm about to post a poem here I was looking for some critique on, and I felt awkward with it at first but by showing people I realize it may be good.

I think you have a beautiful voice. I want to read more of your stuff. Lets get published and write letters back and forth and when we're long dead and gone confused people will make sense of them.


Fucking brilliant.
 
I just read through the whole thing...and it's very, very raw. I'd say refreshingly raw, and I enjoyed it.
 
I have no other choice but to go with my voice. I never ever force anything, just tap into reserves i didn't yet know were there.
Lets get published and write letters back and forth and when we're long dead and gone confused people will make sense of them.
I'd like to spend another year writing, and then make a book that's sort of like a story, with pieces that i've written within a range of 4 years or so. Im confident that getting published won't be too much of a task... cause all im lookin' for, is a book to carry with me (all my own) to share with those i encounter along my travels... and when your heart's in the right place, things tend to unfold in brilliant ways before you.
Post some things atrocious, I would love to eat them with my eyes! Always down for a refreshing piece and a thoughtful critique.
Thanks PL, 33-33, and New for your sweet comments... I love sharing with you guys!
Love and Light brothers & sisters
 
An amazing piece of flowing observation with woven mini-narratives. Love it! :)

I'd love to hear it spoken (although I can hear it in my head, I'd be really interested to hear the rhythm that you give it, how the tone would ebb and flow, etc).
 
I really enjoyed this piece. I saw two poems in there but perhaps that is because i constantly break things apart and reasemble them even while reading. I loved the flow this particularly was amazing

Mamas bleeding ones
And crying
Soggy child
Slumps

Over applesauce

STOP
 
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