Taken lyrics

Written while listening to Senses Fail

Mug Falling

It's a slo-mo disaster unfolding on the draining board. The tilt of the chopping block keeling forward, the slide of the dish drainer toward the edge. The nudge of the mug.

It started with a kiss

I hear her telling him to look in the kitchen. Her blackberry is on the table. The apples of my cheeks burn. I cut my hand on the unruly blade of the liquidiser. “Darn it.”

The Legend of Old Pesky

Dedicated to those with paranoid schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder
Cherry

She's leaving me.

'...rocking horse for sale..'

Eroticism and the Intellectuals

Alabaster Kneetrembler first came to the attention of the general public in the late 1980’s when the concept of fully-consensual mixed naked chin-stroking first became acceptable in polite society.
Cherry

Me, The Fly, and Psychobabble (Part One)

Re-titled. Re-edited.

Rebellious

It is good to be rebellious with one's friends...
Cherry

Nola Darling

This poem is named after a character in Spike Lee's film "She's Gotta Have It" And then, as a Tarantino heroine I’d slice his neck and blow into his severed head so he bursts like bubblegum.
Cherry

Seasons Change

Softly as dawn breaks by lakeside ripples mist,

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