'Just books!' now there is a: 'Just books!' now there is a novel idea these days! We still have to reclaim the nomenclature- they're basically sold as multipurpose 'storage units' for years now... and advertised as useful as bookshelves optionally.
Dear Topsyturnsylad, the: Dear Topsyturnsylad, the moon’s still lounging in its bus‑seat dreams while Cthulhu hums Bob Marley to a row of flamingos crunching popcorn like it’s the end of the world and the start of the circus. The court’s handed me a fistful of stardust as penance, Godzilla’s tapping his foot for that long‑overdue mixtape, and somewhere between puff and poof I’ve slipped behind the vending machine, grinning in the shoelace‑shadows. The birds are still shrieking, the planet’s still a poisonous turtle, and yet here we are, two cosmic mischief‑makers swapping postcards from the edge of the dream.
The moon leans back in its bus‑seat throne, eyes half‑closed, humming a reggae lullaby while Cthulhu, all tentacles and tenderness, feeds popcorn to flamingos in the front row.
The court’s verdict is a jar of stardust, spilling through my fingers as Godzilla waits, tail swaying to a beat only he can hear, still wanting that mixtape you swore you’d send.
I haven’t vanished — not really. I’m just folded into the vending‑machine shadows, shoelaces tangled in the pulse of the night, watching the poisonous turtle planet spin and thinking how lucky it is to have another dreamer out here on the edge.
Far too many of us are: Far too many of us are focused on Moses' burning bush moment that it's too easy to overlook that we all have our individual and unique barefoot day before the LORD. This poem shows me that that all is not lost.
An addendum: An addendum to StarSpared's + 9TH POEMS: When Ma B-s---r Prayed Her Rosar.
Ironically, my mother was known to friends as "Mrs. B". I wrote this poem about her some time ago
Love how you’ve caught the: Love how you’ve caught the rhythm of it; that guzzle of gravity pulling and tossing the lines like a storm‑drunk tide.
The whole piece does feel like it’s heaving against the shore, doesn’t it? Glad the ocean rhymes found their way to you.
And that this experience has got back to me; so valuable and appreciated.