We escaped two fires
The demons said
One appeared in a loaf of bread that I was eating to defeat a hunger that has started in my ribcage and never ever slipped down to the stomach where it belongs again
You know
the type of hunger that will make a man gnaw on bullet end of a gun
if you tell him convincingly enough that nourishment will come out of it
come out of all this
The other one had the shape of wine that I was drinking to celebrate the decline of all
I ever believed to be knowing, to be dreaming, to be thinking about love.
We escaped two fires,I lost my limbs in one.
One of them said
I looked at him and he was in fact made out of my o
Song for Scrubbing a Floor by citizenerased, literature
Literature
Song for Scrubbing a Floor
Freediving on pavement
I can only listen to one song per day
on repeat
You are
getting skilled at using window hammers
escapeballet out of carwrecks
no matter how tiny the shape
into which they have been compressed
laugh about butterfly wings
for hours
because lungs all punctured and hollow
fly so much better
than everything you used to know
give birth to your new baby inside of a car engine
running
you can do it
running a mile with a burning body
put on a beautiful finish line smile
as you turn around to harvest the applause
and
your heat melts everyone else around you back
into a puddle of plastic
back into their or
lakewater for champagne by citizenerased, literature
Literature
lakewater for champagne
put some flour on your tongue
let's bake bread using the heat that rises up
from your lungs and then
have our body of christ / space / time - and eat it too!
I'll transplant my mouth right into you
right into yours
to be more specific
because you like when I am specific
you like when I mark places on a map
before I take you there and make you stare at things in awe
that I have measured and photographed
20 years ago already and you are
human number 60 that I take there
and I say :
I chose this place cause I knew you would like it.
"oh, you fool!
how many people can you squeeze into a "you" ?!"
you ask
but how can you even ask
this here is really that there by citizenerased, literature
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this here is really that there
Make me unstoppable
Replace my teeth with fleets of hungry sharks
they will bite the head off of my stagnation and make it bleed so that it will
all by itself
reach out for a mirror to observe its bleached-white blouse covered in red stains and say
oh dear
I didn't know I could feel this way
looks quite nice on me!
I want my apathy to have its eyemakeup running until moist pigmentsnails invade the corners of its mouth
taste the taste of cosmetics that wastes your eyespace
taste the taste of colour injected into your eyewhite
it doesn't make sense to cover it up and up and up and up again in whatever new costumes you choose
right?
things start in the very moment that I
find the atomized crumbs that you left on the floor
from chewing the handle to my door from shredding down wallpaperstripes around it
with your delicate delicate lips
onto which bits of all this debris made just for me ( just for me!!!)
will remain sticking long enough
long enough
until they continue their cycle of life
upon mine
they will have to adapt
to new conditions
new types of rain swallowed
new dryness
will they or will you will they or will you?
I have the stamps left and that is it, dear
stamps and that is all
I can forget all about animal hearts if you hold my hand just no
Let me plot it out for you
in the moment that I will wipe off this cake smear from my eyebrow, pull the warm cookie dough out of my nostrils I will
I mean
I will change something!
in the moment that I blow the feathery feathers from the pillow I like to chew on for days and nights
and nights that are in fact only
transvestites of pure sharp daylight bodies in dark glittery flowing gowns
as soon as I
get all these feathers down and out and down
I will change something!
I have already planned a certain number of possible attempts and
would be quite pleased if you could
stand next to me and
cross them off the list
with this
pen th
to advertise a vacancy by citizenerased, literature
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to advertise a vacancy
we are done with using this room
we collected the last remaining strands of hair , that were still on the broom
as we swept the thin layers of tobacco dust, tobacco crust off the curtains and into our lungs where they will have a good and caring home
and soon will ripen to become
a deep familiar cough that visits us at night
just like our mother's.
we rubbed off the glue residues from our fingertips
that were still left from times where we used to stick
pictures freshly taken onto the wallpaper and hope that by making
the empty space around us disappear
magical things would suddenly appear right there right there in our skull where
you have just
spilled me from my bucket back into the sea and
the surface of my skin still feels the plastic walls
still searches for
a circular shaped arena to swim under your eyes
I cannot forget
the scent of
being there on the steps infront of your door
swimming circles in the sun that I smile at while it
chews on me
tears my skincells off like children tear of flower petals that are
in their reach as they run
as they run
I have released myself
and it hurts
it is nothing close to what I have felt before I mean
look at me
flipping through the pages of
everything that I have ever written down , every moment of me br
a promise made
for invigoration
she kisses stones
meanwhile he
prefers to let his hair grown long
long into his head
in the hope that the tips of his hair strings will tickle
whatever he should be bringing back to life
instead of what he designs
as life when he wakes up in the morning
she however
refines her definitions and expectations of a lover
meanwhile this poor fellow
will have to have
four pair of arms
enough water in his eyes to let waterfalls pour down when she sings
him a selfwritten song
and enough air in his lung to sigh whenever their phonecall comes to an end
he
sitting in his room on the other side of town
w
We escaped two fires
The demons said
One appeared in a loaf of bread that I was eating to defeat a hunger that has started in my ribcage and never ever slipped down to the stomach where it belongs again
You know
the type of hunger that will make a man gnaw on bullet end of a gun
if you tell him convincingly enough that nourishment will come out of it
come out of all this
The other one had the shape of wine that I was drinking to celebrate the decline of all
I ever believed to be knowing, to be dreaming, to be thinking about love.
We escaped two fires,I lost my limbs in one.
One of them said
I looked at him and he was in fact made out of my o
Song for Scrubbing a Floor by citizenerased, literature
Literature
Song for Scrubbing a Floor
Freediving on pavement
I can only listen to one song per day
on repeat
You are
getting skilled at using window hammers
escapeballet out of carwrecks
no matter how tiny the shape
into which they have been compressed
laugh about butterfly wings
for hours
because lungs all punctured and hollow
fly so much better
than everything you used to know
give birth to your new baby inside of a car engine
running
you can do it
running a mile with a burning body
put on a beautiful finish line smile
as you turn around to harvest the applause
and
your heat melts everyone else around you back
into a puddle of plastic
back into their or
lakewater for champagne by citizenerased, literature
Literature
lakewater for champagne
put some flour on your tongue
let's bake bread using the heat that rises up
from your lungs and then
have our body of christ / space / time - and eat it too!
I'll transplant my mouth right into you
right into yours
to be more specific
because you like when I am specific
you like when I mark places on a map
before I take you there and make you stare at things in awe
that I have measured and photographed
20 years ago already and you are
human number 60 that I take there
and I say :
I chose this place cause I knew you would like it.
"oh, you fool!
how many people can you squeeze into a "you" ?!"
you ask
but how can you even ask
this here is really that there by citizenerased, literature
Literature
this here is really that there
Make me unstoppable
Replace my teeth with fleets of hungry sharks
they will bite the head off of my stagnation and make it bleed so that it will
all by itself
reach out for a mirror to observe its bleached-white blouse covered in red stains and say
oh dear
I didn't know I could feel this way
looks quite nice on me!
I want my apathy to have its eyemakeup running until moist pigmentsnails invade the corners of its mouth
taste the taste of cosmetics that wastes your eyespace
taste the taste of colour injected into your eyewhite
it doesn't make sense to cover it up and up and up and up again in whatever new costumes you choose
right?
things start in the very moment that I
find the atomized crumbs that you left on the floor
from chewing the handle to my door from shredding down wallpaperstripes around it
with your delicate delicate lips
onto which bits of all this debris made just for me ( just for me!!!)
will remain sticking long enough
long enough
until they continue their cycle of life
upon mine
they will have to adapt
to new conditions
new types of rain swallowed
new dryness
will they or will you will they or will you?
I have the stamps left and that is it, dear
stamps and that is all
I can forget all about animal hearts if you hold my hand just no
Let me plot it out for you
in the moment that I will wipe off this cake smear from my eyebrow, pull the warm cookie dough out of my nostrils I will
I mean
I will change something!
in the moment that I blow the feathery feathers from the pillow I like to chew on for days and nights
and nights that are in fact only
transvestites of pure sharp daylight bodies in dark glittery flowing gowns
as soon as I
get all these feathers down and out and down
I will change something!
I have already planned a certain number of possible attempts and
would be quite pleased if you could
stand next to me and
cross them off the list
with this
pen th
to advertise a vacancy by citizenerased, literature
Literature
to advertise a vacancy
we are done with using this room
we collected the last remaining strands of hair , that were still on the broom
as we swept the thin layers of tobacco dust, tobacco crust off the curtains and into our lungs where they will have a good and caring home
and soon will ripen to become
a deep familiar cough that visits us at night
just like our mother's.
we rubbed off the glue residues from our fingertips
that were still left from times where we used to stick
pictures freshly taken onto the wallpaper and hope that by making
the empty space around us disappear
magical things would suddenly appear right there right there in our skull where
Smile my dear,move the corners of your mouth a bit
I will try to keep you alive.I will help you survive as your body
floats down the river on this tire that was hit out of our car as we
tried to reach the moon
I will loosen the wire that
hangs around your neck.
It was all just because the sun had left this country
carrying two leather suitcases and a few paper bags
in which it took our eyelight away.
There was no reason for us to stay and count the cracks in the ground
Analize the fading of the buzzing sound as there were
clouds dissolving over our heads.
So instead we are here and you must agree that it has something lovely as
May I rent your ears for a certain amount of time?
I promise I'll pay a fee that hopefully comes quite near to
what they are worth
Or I can give you those tiny coupons you can exchange at your local store for a new birth.
Things work faster today.Except for me.
I still pretend to be a calm old sea waiting for victims.
Relicts.To explain my behaviour.Ship wretches like long abandonned domino stones stapled.
Children in the court draw arrows to your door
But I spend too much time watching the line itself and cant seem to focus on the direction anymore
And scratch marks in the wood remind me that maybe I should have
followed their call
unrealistic nonsensical... by pseuDOVAgrant, literature
Literature
unrealistic nonsensical...
please detach your eyeballs
and empty them of the imagery you retain.
let the memories spill out onto the floor,
i will search in there for a glimpse of a blocked past.
i can find a key and unlock your body so that
your soul can move. i see the frozen flesh
transform to stone, but with these warm, forgotten memories
i remove the icy layer and unlock your body
so that your soul can move. dance, or swim,
or sing, or run in the ocean of white roses,
prickly white roses, beautifully fragranced
and fatally ornamented; run among the white roses
and remove their heads from deathly real bodies,
save them from self-destructive limbs; remo
I swayed back and forth on my
(mood)swing.
And each time that it brings me a bit closer to the sky
I cry out
from this day..from this day I will not take a breath unless its a deep one
I will only take deep breaths
And I will let my hair down and I will find out where my frowns come from and shut the door
Will flood the floor with gasoline.And light 10 matches just like that..
And if one falls down.I'll call it coincidence.
I wear paralization like some sort of designer pants that has
an integrated print where to put your hands
on incase you want a moment alone with me
I have the tendency to breathe backwards.To feel weak and tir
shaping yourself a new head
by falling down the stairs
changing the angle in which your nose grows
by standing in the way of heavy things whirled around by the wind
I like these things
don't you?
sipsapsup
my new found love for everything fits into a glass a cup
a bottle
and I will drink it down in lightspeed
and then we
need to
sit down and
have a long talk
Just like to say that I love your stuff. I found you many years ago, when I first started on d.a. and it blew me away. Now, i still love every piece. I hope you never take anything down and never stop.