Two poems by me. I'm influenced by Bukowski, Norse and caffeine! Now I just need to learn how to rhyme:
BIRD ENERGY
If a bird hung
From the telegraph wire
It would use less energy
Than if standing
Yet it does not,
Preferring the whole
Trapeeze standing
Shebang
Scientists invested millions
And personal time
Too
Just learning to talk
To birds
And got to understand
"...seed twigs grasshoppers eggs..."
And other shit besides
And the personal time passed
And grated
Scientists feeling
The crunch
"The results remain inconclusive"
became
"Will we ever present to the board?"
became
"I looked in the mirror this morning
and I saw a scab"
and
"Das rug - es ist pulled, Gunter!"
All over.
More wasted energy.
Now I hear that the
Scientists went up on the wire
Joined the birds
Making time
Back in human spaces
Others are talking about the birds
And will join them
Soon.
WINNING
I was sounding her out
Every second of my silence
Worth two of noise
Just taking her apart
I had forgotten
What was the argument
Haha now I'm lying to you
Because
I never knew
Just lying in silence
Rouse me
When all my enemies
Are torn asunder
The sofa was as welcoming
As
Ice cream,
Sun lounger,
Blue flowers,
Computerland,
Full time.
"Help me," she barked
My cue to leave
"Bitch you can work this one out
Alone".
BIRD ENERGY
If a bird hung
From the telegraph wire
It would use less energy
Than if standing
Yet it does not,
Preferring the whole
Trapeeze standing
Shebang
Scientists invested millions
And personal time
Too
Just learning to talk
To birds
And got to understand
"...seed twigs grasshoppers eggs..."
And other shit besides
And the personal time passed
And grated
Scientists feeling
The crunch
"The results remain inconclusive"
became
"Will we ever present to the board?"
became
"I looked in the mirror this morning
and I saw a scab"
and
"Das rug - es ist pulled, Gunter!"
All over.
More wasted energy.
Now I hear that the
Scientists went up on the wire
Joined the birds
Making time
Back in human spaces
Others are talking about the birds
And will join them
Soon.
WINNING
I was sounding her out
Every second of my silence
Worth two of noise
Just taking her apart
I had forgotten
What was the argument
Haha now I'm lying to you
Because
I never knew
Just lying in silence
Rouse me
When all my enemies
Are torn asunder
The sofa was as welcoming
As
Ice cream,
Sun lounger,
Blue flowers,
Computerland,
Full time.
"Help me," she barked
My cue to leave
"Bitch you can work this one out
Alone".
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is reading your poems,
in Hell.
Getting drunk
and laughing
at all the good
writers
who are
living.
Nice things,
n.