Never Better

CONTENTS
Perceived
Goodnight...
What Goes Around
Scorch & Glory
Waiting Her Out
Illicit Indiscretions
Still Life
Why Is It You?
Goodnight, Love
Speechless
No Ordinary Hunger
These Consequences
Vision & Verse
...Allergic to Hair Dye
The Hangover
Fifth Wheel
Complex Refusal
Persistent Delusions
Last Apology
Living History
Biased Advice
Renewal
The Difference
Ballad of a Ring
Infinite the Way We Are
Ashleigh's Song
Saying Goodbye
Certain Lies
Living Hell
You Always Are...
Me & Brian Krakow
The Wrong Way
In One Year
Benefit of Hindsight
Fallen
Today
Waiting
What We Did Was Wrong
Chronic Doormat Syndrome
Gestures
Skirting Perfection
The Rose
All I Offer
Behind the Scenes

Scorch & Glory  

I want to smoke an impossibly cool cigarette
I want to breathe sophistication into my lungs
I want to suck in poison that will
destroy my goodness
my empathy
my weakness
my innocence
infect me with the cancer of apathy
with glorious arrogance
with ugly black truth

I want to light this cigarette
and savor the flavor of my downfall,
my undoing

and as I smoke it,
I will grow thinner
and thinner
flesh will fade away
until I'm size zero
and my impossibly thin face
is the color of ash

2 Comments:

At 6:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuckin' awsome.

-Stick

 
At 9:04 PM, Blogger Kellie said...

This poem was published by Flask and Pen in November, 2007.

 

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