The days are dragging into May and the March Hare is getting restless. I'm getting antsy because I'm waiting for tea time and it isn't coming. White breezes flit through eyelet curtains in the dining room. Breathy voices ask for cola. The kitchen sink has started dripping.
I thought that being a teenager would happen when I turned thirteen. When it didn't, I assumed that I had missed a cutoff date and that It would occur on my sixteenth birthday. It has been two weeks and I can assure you that I feel no more different than when I was fifteen and when I was fourteen and when I was thirteen. Time isn't necessarily a strict progression of cause
You'll never call me sugar,
But maybe you'll let me be your artificial sweetener.
And sweetie, I'm not going to give you my heart,
But maybe, if you're lucky, I'll cut out a kidney
And sell it on the black market.
Don't get your hopes up though.
Spoon me into your tea until I am unable to dissolve
And incapable of melting into your arms.
Drink your Earl Grey,
Which must, by now, be the consistency of pudding,
And don't worry about talking to me Sweet and Low
Because this isn't Splenda
It's absolutely splendid.
You wanted to test the sharpness of the knife
so you ran your fingers against the blade
and it bit you.
(I guess you got your answer.)
But, because you didn't want to admit your mistake
(Were you embarrassed? I never asked.)
you left the hardware store, holding your own hand.
And you walked away.
Down the street. Up the driveway. Through the back door.
And then into the kitchen.
The bleeding hadn't stopped yet
and you ran your fingers under the water to clean your red hands.
(I saw the water go pink and became frantic.)
You joked about bleeding on the sidewalk all the way back to the house
while I searched for bandages.
Inspiration for your words by pisthelimit, literature
Literature
Inspiration for your words
The clam opens its maw,
reluctantly,
In order to spit out that annoying grain of sand,
Which has suddenly become a pearl.
You, however,
Leave your mouth open,
And the only thing that falls from it
Is spit and senselessness.
And so:
Id like to take a hammer to your face,
And forcibly break your jaw.
And while you spit out your teeth, one by one,
Maybe youd scream a little bit of wisdom
Amidst the profanities.
And perhaps, in that moment from which
I have saved you from your perpetual ignorance,
Enlightened blood will ooze down your throat,
To be regurgitated at a later time
As poetry.