Note to Note
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Cut-throat Capital
Cut-throat Capital the man of the hour has the power. our boys and girls die over sugar, tea, the unfathomable craving of humanity.
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Recovered Unicycle
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Brain Drain
Brain Drain i go to bed with what’s in my head, walk around all day while my brain plays; it rambles like a horse. it even thinks it’s me, but it’s not, of course.
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Tense Shoulders
Tense Shoulders Custodians of one way conversations and unwanted observations, librarians of lies and whys, rangers for hidden dangers.
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Family Business
Family Business Money was invented by a clever man who already ruled the land. Love was not his thing. No one heard him sing. He is gone. His currency lives on.
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Why? Because
Why? Because Why am i blessed with wealth and health, comfortable in the skin i’m in, at home where i roam, free? what does World want with me? Because, i would like to know how it got decided…
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to Mr. Mean
to Mr. Mean You’re deaf to your shrunken heart. Your skill is to kill joy. Your art is to break a boy’s toys and smother his sunken dreams. You look after your things and hear only your drunken…
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to Worry
to Worry You linger in my gut, warning me about old news. You hold onto sh*t you should release. Feel free to fly. Go fertilize some flowers.
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to Which
to Which you can say it didn’t happen. the whole world can say the same. but it did. if i speak and not one believes me, it still happened, can’t be unhappened. call me Crazy, Witch, B**ch. it…
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Love Note
Love Note oxygen and fire conspire in a sweet-scented frenzy that can’t last but comes again and again.
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April Moon
April Moon She traverses Spring’s pregnant dreams, sets on Morning’s mystery.
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To Silence
to Silence my conversations gossip in the ladies’ waiting room, where the timeless door to participation remains locked, soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. you are beyond reproach, vacationing on my hesitance, reticence and competence.
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Note to ForeMan
Note to ForeMan i almost took a fall through the rotting floor, but i clung to the crumbling walls and climbed through a giant gap in the roof. i know you won’t. please don’t call.
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Note to Rude
Note to Rude you come to your party with false charm, doing harm. you don’t care. you dare to demand your desire. you light a fire, then take the cake and leave a fake phone number.
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Tree & Me
Tree & Me i follow beaten trails to the tender tips of your questing roots. i return to rest in the shade of your senses and we speak.
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Language of Silence
Language of Silence even when you were you weren’t. now you aren’t cuz you wouldn’t and won’t. there’s just broken toys and white noise.
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Tree
Tree your roots point around Earth. you see what was, is & will be.
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Thinking
Thinking doesn’t cost anything. anyone can do it. no one can stop you.
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to Me
to Me i avoided you. i kept company with Cupid’s Cavaliers; cuz you weren’t enough. but clearly, i am still here, Dear.
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to Mind
to mind You forgot who you work for. You’ve been running amok. You wake me with target practice. You have endless ammunition, but you don’t like division. I’m back now; so just do your job and then take…
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Note to Memory
Note to Memory i sail your sea, navigating joy and misery. you’re here but you’re gone, touching me and moving on.
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to the Man In Charge
To the Man in Charge you say one thing then do the other and tell me that i don’t see: you & you don’t agree.
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To Anyone and Everyone
to Anyone & Everyone passing through my heart is made of yesteryou.
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Note to Tree
Note to TREE i didn’t know that i’m here because your roots brought me now you want me to touch the sky before i die
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Note to Insincerity
Note to Insincerity i don’t know why i thought i was special everyone is bait waiting and you forget what you didn’t mean like it never happened
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Note to Hero
Note to Hero i robbed my solitude in the light of day surrendered my right to say i am me i am free dread climbed into my bed when i sighed you took me for a ride
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Note from the Other Side
Note from the Other Side a faithful man believes in equality trusts his wife wants to see her fly free to be who she is
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Note to Belly Fat
Note to Belly Fat after a few days of just enough we part ways but you keep knocking nagging me about having more than i need indeed
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Note to Whoever
Note to Whoever said they want to tap that have at a first crack of purity surety and sent that girl down the road tipping on wobbly heels with squeals of spinning wheels shady deals touch feel kneel…
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Note to Shame
relations domination depression negation automation isolation impregnation criminalization civilization menstruation masturbation procrastination penetration inattention inadequate incapable inescapable ignorable ignorant irrelevant irreverent isolated overrated sexuality confinement inprisonment negativity rigidity unworthy unliked unloved unpopular unrepresented uninteresting undeserving unflattering diminishing moralizing…
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Note to the Here and Now
Note to the here and now GOD doesn’t Need interpreters or mediators or translators or prison guards or gender or time
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Note to Heart
Note to Heart Mind never rests she never gets working learning sewing an endless seem she joins us to this dream
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Note to Brick
Note to Brick You bestowed gifts but you didn’t give them. You left me your legacy but you didn’t tell me. You talk to me daily but you never spoke with me. You obstruct me so I lean…
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Scribbled Note
Scribbled Note worry hurry scurry stress search suspect spin suffocate stagnate screw tense clench contract cancel want flutter foresee believe constipate regurgitate anticipate hesitate ruminate consternate procrastinate hyperventilate dissatisfy deny degrade dread doubt ignore tighten hold grip grasp…
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Dear Tummy
Dear Tummy, They weren’t yummy, I know: the words Left Ear and Right Ear fed you all these years, and Brain too, but they weren’t true. You’ve been clenching miles of lies and unanswered whys, throttling feelings that…
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Note to Let Go
Note to Let Go those fists are holding All that You Never struck back at the fight is over the flight is cancelled feel fresh air on your open palms
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Present Tense Noted
Present Tense Noted There’s no gain in holding pain. Memories living in your head should be Dead. Thoughts and oughts aren’t Real. How You Feel is Now.
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Note to Anxiety
Note to Anxiety i didn’t see what i saw hear what i heard say a word my brain’s a train wreck the tracks are whack no fight or run just frozen and dumb
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Note to Mister
Note to Mister You know it all but nobody calls. Your ship is tight; you’re always right. You live in an empty house with a mouse you named Dumb, who takes your crumbs. You spin the wheel and…
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Ruminote
Ruminote thinking is a verb already spoken word heard by your heart and gut leading you to this rut but you’ve been breathing weaving, working, wondering this whole time writing your own rhyme Ruminote thinking is a verb…
