Born Pretty
I’m sure all natural
Straight out of the
Mouth of hell
Almost too pretty
To tell anyone
About it but I’m
Sure if I can see it
Everyone else has
Caught your spell
That means I’m
Not the only one
Who might be
Lusting after you
I’d settle for a kiss
You know maybe
Just a little taste
Of those delicious
Lips of yours yes
I’ll take what
I can get yes
Even if it’s
Only once
© GÄ
Weird how I was thinking about
Writing something down without
Love or finding love or love
Finding me but then I got
Caught up thinking about
Who I would be writing this around
A bunch of make believe
Lots of fantasy talk in my
Mind and my romantic dreams of
Writing again something that
Is actually real but not until you
Get here already or at least for now
You know how I really feel
© GÄ
Like being on vacation
And feeling ill at the same time
I want to have some fun and
I can’t get you off my mind
Like being on an island
And feeling homesick all the while
I want to have some fun and
Kiss your gorgeous goddamn smile
Like having wishes granted
But living with the question why
I want to have some fun and
Make you feel good all the time
Roses are red violets are blue
Let the blood drain from my veins
And pool around me too
Like a red sea of raw passion
I would never abandon you
My heart is strewn about the world
But my soul belongs to you
Scribbled on the walls
Is the writing that construes
The meaning of our friendship
I could fall in love with you
Bursting through the doors
I could fall in love with you
Walking down the street
I could fall in love with you
I’m running out of words
I could fall in love with you
There’s no better way to say it
I think I tripped over myself
And took a faceplant into you
© GÄ
I come here
Because I want to
I come here
Because I wanted to
Spend time with you
Do you want to
Be my purser
Sail my ship
Cast a net over
My heart and pull
Me into your shadow
I can feel myself
Getting comfortable
Being close to you
Closer to you than
I thought that I could be
Again to someone who
After being with
Other folks who barely
Knew how to show up
Barely knew how to
Bring the best of themselves
Mostly just unfortunately
Incapable of loving me
In the way that I needed
Them to because
The love that they had
Was strictly for them
To hold on to alone and
As the hand of the clock
Tic-toc turns around
I can picture a fire on
The beach with you
An electric blanket
Unplugged because we
Don’t need any help
With the heat
If you know what I mean
We are the difference
Between pretending to know
What feels good
And owning up to the
Truth of our inevitable
Dream closing in
© GÄ
Take a bite out of my love
It’s there for you to partake of
Usually at my own peril
My lips are open and
Ready to taste
When we experience how
To have sex with one another
We will have to learn again
How not to because
We cannot always be
In the embrace of each other
All the time though
It will feel like my arm
Belongs with you and
Your neck belongs with me
Take a bite out of my love
I can think of no better way
For us to spend our time
Who knows where the
Barrel will land once we
Spin it round and point it
Down, could be the love
Roulette we’ve both been
Looking for I’m willing to
Bet it all, let it ride on you
Risk it for the biscuit
If you’re willing to open up
Let me inside be your
Number one none of this
Poly stuff amorous yes
But only for you, nobody else
Can do what I want to
Be doing with you if you
Want to take a bite out of
My love, will you…
(ЯEPEAT) ||:
© GÄ
What’s wrong with the
Whole world and why
Do I feel like I want to live
In a cave somewhere
Far away from these redundant
Songs being forced into
My ears at the market
While I’m shopping
Somehow having this
Symbiotic experience with
The world just like a clone
Of everyone else as I sift
Through objects that
Don’t matter and won’t
Matter even five years after
From now on… and what is the
Bland stale scent of
Nothingness in the air
The humming of electric cars
It’s taking it too far for us to care
Sounds like we have money
Driving through the parking lot
Where there are so many
That have nothing am I part of
The problem or the solution?
Want to get away from
The pollution of our existence
People are so sweet gentle
And kind walking through life
Why do I feel like I’m losing my mind
Like I’d rather be deaf
Dumb and blind unable
To process everything
That is going on around me
Wait a minute hold the door
There’s someone on the ground
I spoke too soon because
Some buffoon of a jerk
Knocked a gal down in the street
I saw it with my own eyes no joke
Backed up with the car door open
Knocked her off her feet
Provoked? Looks like nothing’s broken
She’s okay but how’s my faith
In humanity today? Or the world?
I think it’s sad when a Pop-Tart is
What we’re left with
To make it all better
© GÄ
I think of this friend
When I got to the grocery store
It’s an outlet market
I’m not sure if she works
There anymore the pandemic
Created a divide
Kind of like a divorce between us
I figured let time just
Run it’s course
Perhaps we’d find another way
Around the mountain
Have a picnic at the
Fountain of our youthful
Friendship beginnings
Always a sucker for
Happy endings but
Still waiting for that
Part of the fairytale
To find its way out of
The forest nothing abhorrent
Just a lot of absence and
Possible rumors through
The grapevine I know
Her style so I’m not surprised
Really don’t care if she is
Telling lies just like to remember
The friend that she was
Which then back to my story
About how we lost touch
Might be a bit boring
But I realized I need to
Be clear that a friendship
Is jointly a union not
One person stewing just
On hold left on red
Running thoughts through
My head, Is it something I said?
Then I was invited to a
Last minute party too soon
To rearrange all the things
I’m so sorry but still let’s keep
Trying meanwhile two years later
A new meaning for see you
Later alligator (I don’t think
That’s what we meant)
More like see you never
Maybe we should just go
Grocery shopping?
And then came an invite to
Shop an open closet event how clever
A personal yard sale to get her a couple
Of bucks not the meeting I hoped
For so what but I’m not
Feeling great about how
All l’d really like is just a cup of tea
And maybe a biscuit
Not some glorified ticket
To a garage sale
Or a party just a little
Personal time to swap smiles
Looks like I’ll be waiting again
For a little more while
© GÄ
My appetite
Bare
Black veins
Dark sky
Sweet mouth
Open wide
Different
Than before
Changed
Somehow
I’ve not
Known
A darkness
Such as this
Demon kiss
Ghoulish bliss
The dimming
Dynamic
Where light
Has been
Contrasts
A monstrous
Love
Consuming
Bath of us
© GÄ
In the delivery room
Eyes gleam in disbelief
To think that miracle could be
Sitting there right next to me
If I knew then
What I know now
I would hold your hand
Again somehow
I would pass the energy
That slipped away from me
Into your palms
© GÄ
Spirit strokes me
With synchronicity
Dare I say it out loud
For fear of losing touch
Of what I have no control
Of anyhow
Superstitiously
Symbolically construed
If my soul was crying
I would only hear it echoing
With laughter
Meet you after
The duplicity
Resounds
© GÄ
Poétique 