Poetry

By the-real-jaw

 

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The Parasite Pities Its Host

By the-real-jaw on Thu, 20 Dec 2018

Poem
Certificate PG

The Freshness of the First and Foremost of the Finest of the Lines

By the-real-jaw on Thu, 20 Dec 2018

All philosophies condense to a line, with time, and all songs dwindle to a single sooty melody and even if you sawed the locks off your senses even...
Poem
Certificate 12

The Chief Managing Director Has a Few Requests

By the-real-jaw on Sun, 23 Dec 2018

I I want a dirtier sunset with tar and molten waste Got it? Give me sewer pipes that spew and rusty black scaffolding dewed with distillate of...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate 18

cradled over cold rails into the 21st century

By the-real-jaw on Sat, 29 Dec 2018

Hello, I’m Stef-Stef Whacket, and I come from your planet, just another sperm walking this flooded toilet, frankensteined from genetic alphabet and...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate 18

dancing in a cage wheeled through a forest of eyes

By the-real-jaw on Wed, 02 Jan 2019

Outdoors the air is hostile and nervy, it bothers glam willows and the swan navy, and me, a slug hunched in a shell jacket, haunting the canal and...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

O O

By the-real-jaw on Sun, 06 Jan 2019

way back at the beginning of time all reality except us was a cold corporate hallway and her body was my daily bread we made the trees shout before...
Romance
Poem
Certificate 15

you

By the-real-jaw on Tue, 08 Jan 2019

okay let’s see you’re in debt your significant other left you for a profile pic you feel most alive when you’re on drugs I know you you failed the...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate 15
Cherry
Pick of the Month

Rise and Fall of the One-Man Empire

By the-real-jaw on Fri, 18 Jan 2019

I unsolved a few mysteries (a good night’s work) then strutted the morning streets with a candle in my head, half-believing that everyone was...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate 15
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Some Days Even Water Gives Me a Hangover

By the-real-jaw on Mon, 28 Jan 2019

but here I lean swigging black beer listening to colleagues diss cocaine and curse and reminisce about the binges of yore every drink hardens my...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 15

Reminder

By the-real-jaw on Wed, 13 Nov 2019

Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate 18

Apart

By the-real-jaw on Wed, 20 Nov 2019

Unless she focuses, the universe reverts to void. Unsettled by emptiness, she creates an apartment: oddly familiar walls and couches coalesce, and...
Surreal
Horror
Poem
Certificate 15
Cherry

The Thief & The Thief

By the-real-jaw on Thu, 05 Dec 2019

Night and day are like two table racquets smacking Gerhardt back and forth, and every contact with the blue or black paddle ages him visibly. At 19...
Crime
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes

Song of Discipline

By the-real-jaw on Fri, 13 Dec 2019

You have to cultivate obsession. Read dirt and decode clouds. You must become detective of your own mind, and uncover the gruesome secrets that’ll...
Spiritual
Rant
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 15
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Exhaling Stars

By the-real-jaw on Thu, 19 Dec 2019

I exhale galaxies in my sleep. Behold my right hand: its fingers are light years apart, five pale towers clothed in gulls and clouds. On each...
Surreal
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate 15
2 likes

Black-Collar Worker

By the-real-jaw on Fri, 17 Jan 2020

Hot evening in my pet rotting parkette: I notate as chubby bugs buzz through foliage above an impromptu bohemian jamboree like a dystopian Midsummer...
Humour
Poem
Certificate 15