Eleven Little Poems

Yeah.  Nothing is capitalized because that's just how I write when I'm throwing ideas down, which is what these are.  Some are vents and some are just really dumb.  Sorry if you're getting sick of my poetry by now.

I don't feel good and I'm unbelievably ready for spring break.

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I

they wanted

a miscreant

someone

who was enough of

a grenade

to explode

and paint them

in a false but

saintlike light and

whose escapades

would cause enough

noise to hide what

happened behind the

curtains so i became

their renegade

II

someday i'll

turn my back

on this dark age

ensconce

myself

and wait

for the renaissance

III

when it rains

all i want is to

curl up in a pillow

fort like the ones we

used to make

as kids

with a cup of

my favorite tea

and my laptop so i

can watch old black

and white movies

without leaving my

nest of nostalgia

and listen to the rain

fall down

IV

we are

a silent film

a single washed out

picture

with shaky edges

flickering in

and out

for hours on end

and

fading to black

before the producers

figured out how

to capture sound

so no one hears

the noise we had to make

V

it tastes delicious

but

who the hell

looked at a pomegranate

and thought

“let's make tea out of this”

VI

if it's not already

a citrus tea

then please

don't put lemon

in my mug

because it curdles the milk

VII

i still don't know

how to get

to the grocery store

and somehow that

feels

significant

VIII

i saw a flower bud

yesterday but today

it snowed again

and the bud is dead

dammit jack frost

IX

time to muddle through march's things

with all it's violent mood swings

and tantrums and feuds

and two-day-late missed cues

time to wait for the april's tears

to once again be shed here

to wash us clean

so that we may be seen

running wild through the rain

so that we can start again

X

it's almost

midnight

i need to be up

in six hours

why am i still

awake

i'm really hungry

XI

even though we can

agree that the world

isn't a very good place

right now and

even though we don't

know everything about

each other yet we

see each other

clear

enough

when we hug