Vanilla Coke

By Luigi92

Wed, 27 Mar 2013
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Cut your wrist to sew it back up
strut the false story with a big heart and
an empty stomach
as the bugs and maggots get wiped away
only to eat at all who
were taught to love their enemy.

Your blood rusting the nails you bought
inspiring generations of decay
and gave you a name.

A mother's love
defecated onto her seed
wiped away
and became clean and pure and cold

Lift your spirits as you reach to save your
drowning baby just in time
to stop you from killing him.

The apple you poisoned as a game
eaten by those who gave you their safety
thank God you revived them.

Your world, turned into a sitcom
with each red-stained wall praised and cheered
and begging for your next joke

crying for your deceased
you no longer get to save him.

Certificate 15
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Comments

Submitted by Hades502 on
I don't understand the title. Are you using "vanilla" as a shade of normalcy and boredom? If so, it doesn't seem to fit. Just curious. Interesting poem, shitcan the simple grammar errors. The maggots should get wiped away, not "gets" methinks. Well written. It made me think. GGHades502

GGHades502

Submitted by Luigi92 on
I don't really name my poems, because I don't want the title to influence what people take away from it. But on here a title is required. So I chose Vanilla Coke for the following reasons: 1. I was drinking one at the time, and I love vanilla coke. 2. It was 1 am when I submitted this. I'm sure I had some awesome reason for choosing that as the title, but I don't remember it because it was 1 am. 3. Ever since I watched the South Park episode where they wrote "Scrotie McBoogerBalls," years ago, I've had this fascination with how different people can look at something and come up with their own interpretation of it...and then use that to justify their interpretation. And especially when the different interpretations are incredibly contrasting and different, it just showcases how what one thing means to one person may mean something completely different to someone else. So, I'll sometimes add a word or a string-of-words (or, in this case, a title) that may not really make sense in the poem or whatever I'm writing, or may just be loosely tied to it and just super ambiguous, and see see different people's reactions or thoughts on it. Obviously I do that with all my writing in general, but I just find people interpreting and coming up with a deeper meaning than the author had incredibly fascinating. Hope this answers your question.