come on baby, just one more
time we've got time for a quick
one shot to the moon and back
like that song baby don't you remember
how that voice used to make us feel
like we've got time baby, lets give it
another try we've got time baby
we've got time
but darling there's no time darling
for dreaming or boozing when all
we've been doing is losing out not moving
up like we used to there's no time
darling for fun and games and thinking
of that 'good life' shit darling there's no time
for anything but working and working darling
there's no time
but baby, baby hear me out we'll
always have time we'll always have
time for each other we'll always
b
There's a dangerous lack
that swallows my city,
inhales it and sticks like a
suction cup, leaves its mark
on everything, dirty footprints,
grubby fingers, smeary mouth.
It follows when I rub
at the back of my head.
Do my hands swipe through it
(like smoke)?
Do my eyes see through it
(like air) when I turn?
I taste it, bitter,
and sour, and sickenly sweet.
Cloying, cloves gone bad,
cigars, yes, bitter, bitter,
that poisonous way.
"You've got two out of three,"
he says, the door closing,
a tendril reaching for him in the air.
Two out of three,
when the lack is the third
that covers my mouth
and slips down my throat
and
The Little Mermaid by felixishomicidal, literature
Literature
The Little Mermaid
i
She thrashed,
horribly tangled in the net
of he who had fallen into the sea.
As she caught him,
breathed life through his lips,
cradled him toward the moon,
the breezes of the ocean sang
a melody of mourning.
Dawn found him on the beach,
a supposed dreamer.
ii
She curled around herself.
No number of pearls could slow
the river of tears that mingled
salt to salt with the ocean
while she sang haunted songs
for the color of his eyes.
The tide grew with her longing,
but could only lap at his toes
as he stood on the shore and searched
for a kingdom under the sea.
iii
She traded her voice
for legs and was silent.
The sea
come on baby, just one more
time we've got time for a quick
one shot to the moon and back
like that song baby don't you remember
how that voice used to make us feel
like we've got time baby, lets give it
another try we've got time baby
we've got time
but darling there's no time darling
for dreaming or boozing when all
we've been doing is losing out not moving
up like we used to there's no time
darling for fun and games and thinking
of that 'good life' shit darling there's no time
for anything but working and working darling
there's no time
but baby, baby hear me out we'll
always have time we'll always have
time for each other we'll always
b
There's a dangerous lack
that swallows my city,
inhales it and sticks like a
suction cup, leaves its mark
on everything, dirty footprints,
grubby fingers, smeary mouth.
It follows when I rub
at the back of my head.
Do my hands swipe through it
(like smoke)?
Do my eyes see through it
(like air) when I turn?
I taste it, bitter,
and sour, and sickenly sweet.
Cloying, cloves gone bad,
cigars, yes, bitter, bitter,
that poisonous way.
"You've got two out of three,"
he says, the door closing,
a tendril reaching for him in the air.
Two out of three,
when the lack is the third
that covers my mouth
and slips down my throat
and
I love to watch you sleep:
the slim whistle of breathing through stuffed nose;
the sweat at your hairline and ice of your toes;
jelly bones, slack-jawed Brigitte Bardot.
oh and
the hums and gasps of slow-wave sleep;
the trace of your warm spittle left on the sheets
the fling of your elbows and starshaped bed greed;
I love to watch you sleep.
Something happened to me today,
said Emily Jefferson Rosie May.
I fell behind the sofa's cushions.
I met Ben Franklin and Zander Pushkin,
and they told me how I could build trees
with leopard hairs and the white wings of fleas.
I've spent all day crafting the plants,
and now it's too late for me to dance;
I wanted to dance in the shade of the oaks,
oh how I wanted to eat wood smoke.
Emily's mother was basting the chicken
and the featherless coat was beginning to slicken
when suddenly our dear Emily May
thought she saw the bird glancing her way.
A rather
This is the first evil of exercise: water tastes like salt and grease as it slides down past my tired lungs. My right calf twitches. I pass that girl from American lit class; she stares at the dark grey V of sweat below my neck. I pretend I am someone else. The second evil of exercise: a tired body does not exhaust the mind.
In my dorm room, I remove my shoes. My fat red feet pulse with their ebb and flow. I point the fan at my face and sit waiting. The air, the pounding of my thoughts with the tensing of muscles, the flavored clear liquids with electrolytesthey do not clean me. I do not forget as I am meant to, I do not lose sight of
Beth polished off her three pokéballs and entered the Pokémon Research Agency of Hoenn. Today was the day. Today, she would get her first solo research assignment. She had barely slept the night before. It might have been because of her neighbour's Loudred, but she preferred to associate the insomnia to excitement.
It had been a long three years. Interships were hard to get, but she had weaseled her way in. Actually, she'd hypnotised the lead researcher with her Kirlia into letting her in, but that was another story. She'd made it, and she'd earned her place. She even had her own cubicle!
She tucked her hair behind her ears, straigh
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