Alarm. Caffeine. Fiber Commute. Timeclock. Email. Caffeine. Carbs. Meetings. Invoice. Timesheets. Requests. Reports and summaries. Copy. Paste. Delete. CONTROL ALT DELETE. I can’t pretend to feel As okay as you Pretend to be. Control Z Escape Undo I wasn’t made for this. I want off this ride. I’ll take the […]
Author: Melissa
Sticky Rice, My BFF
Where have you been all my life? Decades of Sweet cornbread and chili Egg noodles, beef tips, mushrooms. Flings of pasta Every shape and size Every sauce Daily devotions Of my beloved tubers Only a Gamgee would understand All meant nothing The moment I had you My dear sweet sticky […]
Bologna
I didn’t throw the bologna That you were afraid Would ruin the faded paint Of your car, The car with the sub woofers And bass you thought Could give a woman pleasure, The car we got busted parking in, When the officer ran our names over the scanner, But I […]
Regrets at 17
I should have known by the way He worshipped his car And chased younger girls That he was not worthy to bask in the glow Of my lava lamp and plastic constellations. The Magic 8 Ball did not warn me of The thousand cuts brewing ahead, Only telling me what […]
Photons
Winking old starlight From there to here Bouncing off telescope mirrors Hurling across the universe Waving at the speed of light Merely to be perceived Highlighting suspended motes Fading spines on shelves Electromagnetic radiation Crisping skin through clouds Eclipsed by moon and earth Refracted and broken Never to have mass […]
RUN!
Needle stuck on scratched track No signs forward, no breadcrumbs back Habits here have made my bed Yesterdays, tomorrows fled Acquired tastes sour the drink Leaden regrets rinsed down the sink Snipped and frayed, coil undone Tattered laces, no maze to run Fault the Fates for what is done Veins […]
The Letter G
The letter G was missing on his maps But he memorized the route to my body in the dark The trailheads to get what he wanted What he couldn’t get from the younger peaks he chased Each pursuit fracturing my bedrock Until I commanded the thunder in my veins Mended […]
Pink Frosting
Bridge threads waft from your lips, Another lure whipping my gray matter Into brilliant pink frosting In the well of my skull. After the high Comes the crash and confusion. The realization that You’ll never know the depth of my flavor. The first smile, an anchor point, Dividing time Into […]
When Alan Tudyk Calls You Beautiful (2)
Mads tantalizes, “Hello dear. Where are you from?” John L in my DMs, trailing breathless along my collarbones. Sugar daddies on boats and horses, “Let me take care of you babydoll.” Sculpted men follow me for numbers. Middle aged men seek to fill me with babies, for God and country. […]
When Alan Tudyk Calls You Beautiful (1)
Or at least the scammer pretending to be, does, As your partner fills their life with everyone, but you, It’s okay to cry as much as you need. Ignore the scroll of self-fulfilling deceit, Iron straight the warped mirror and scope, Correct the tilt of pelvis and rabbit ear antenna. […]