Subs & trains,

trails & lanes

keep us in line

when we give up the brains.

They lead us where we hope to get,

more assuring than the governors we’ve let

dig us new tunnels,

under the bridges long by crashed.

They say too many blocks on the road,

the prince we voted for

just turns back to toad.

We killed the snake

just a few months [...]

I can’t help the way I was born,

& no, don’t feel torn – by what you feel ’bout me!

It’s your shit to deal with, mine to smell,

but I can tell – you’re not well ’round here /(me),

probably uncomfortable as hell.

You suck on the cigarette like mama’s breast,

poison in it connects with such in your soul.

Smokescreen turns life green on your side.

Brings dreams (that) never appeared real to begin with…,

Blunt truths open your eyes wide-

-to [...]

subway poem
on the subway
i learn something new everyday

on the subway
i see things i wouldn’t see
if i was locked up in my car

focused on the road
for instance
right now
i keep staring at this man
with the craziest pointy mustache
and a stern look on his face
(i bet he’s german)
teenage girls can’t help but giggle
while others laugh
he is very out [...]

jan.28.10

i forgot how good skin feels to lips
in the box of who i am i don’t do this

where i’ve come from love precedes lust
and lust comes after trust

but we
just went on a backwards date
where dessert was the first course

and of course
i get that for most people the terms
love and sex are not synonymous

but in the [...]

holland landing         jan. 1. 10

blue new year’s eve moon
freshly covered vines of snow
dancing, chanting, be (ing)

-lauren corindia

“love isn’t black and white”
sound waves rattled in disgust
as these words
uttered in Germany
crossed the ocean
crashed into the phone
and hit my ears

just last year
you took a direct flight
from Frankfurt to Toronto
and told me you’d never let me go

so i’d like to think
your change of tune
came from someplace inside of you
i never got to see
that this black [...]

On the way back from the beach
tiptoeing through this coconut graveyard
flip-flops pinched between fingers
because it’s easier to dance barefoot

He said, miss, you gon’ leave and forget we.
You ain’t never coming back.

Halfway between home and all day
running dizzy on the beach
stomach sick with too much ginnup flesh sucked from bone
teeth stained yellow with curry and cheeks
turned [...]

The light reflects off his eyes
Showing who she is inside

Beneath lies a chest of treasure
Wisdom of an unknown measure

Always living in denial
He screams beneath her plastic smile

Fighting about shades of grey
Slowly dying everyday

Causing him to be depressed
Getting along how he knows best

A battle with humanity
The biggest fight with he and she

Narcissistic and so vile
She really [...]

Granddaddy used the mason jars for homemade holy water.

We’ve seen him bring back to life

what was long since buried

and speak truths in tongues–

we still work to decode.

Donovan catches fireflies

in the jars now.

Everyday they scrimmage–

training for when the dark swarms,

like fleets of [...]