duct tape

I don’t have the energy to sail the boat
Untie the rope and make things float

I don’t have the energy to walk the plank
To dive right in and sink my fate

I don’t have the energy to set the sail
To take the wind and maybe fail

Toxic, Quixotic
Slightly psychotic
mix me a Tonic

stop.

“I love it when the rains come,” she said. “Let’s drive.”

Sometimes, I don’t want to make the bed; I want to build a bonfire.

All I’ve done today is drink Pepsi
and ponder
and hold my breath
and wonder. -iztaes

Guilt by association, association by guilt.

Revolving door, revolver 

~iztaes

I do what I’m told.

Bought and sold.

~iztaes

flirty talk,
fool’s game
time of kings

I sit adrift and remember
Ocean’s salty water
Matted dog hair
Breeze

Tie up my words
Bind my wounds
Pull down the rope

I can’t see

~iztaes

You can walk the path that’s
Paved and smooth,
in padded, silken shoes.
Or barefoot walking go
Into the woods, armed
with cake and stolen goods.

-iztaes