Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Every night Laminex coats
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Gum pushed and smoothed
Into the underside of a desk
Demented body on the Gravatron wall
Fluorescent light ebbs
Over your forehead
Washing hair from your scalp
Nausea pulls at your eyes
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Nothing behind the doors
Just gummy walls
A child stands exhausted
Grips a doll by the leg
Belts its gummy face
Against the gummy wall
Picks up its limp head
Sees a perfect little smirk
Sees dazzling eyes
And tries again
A sign hangs
From the ceiling
A step away
A mile away
A step away
A mile away
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Do not sit on the seat
It is not there
Nothing you want is there
Nothing there is there
Except Laminex
Looking at you
The way the fat boy did
In grade four
Before he fell on you
Grunting your name
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Smothering
Trapped in the tubular slide
At the playground
Static stuffed in your pores
Hair clinging to your face
There was no way in
There is no way out
Noise
Machine din
A step away
A mile away
A step away
A mile away
A droning
A voice
Droning
Words
Words
Words
A step away
A mile away
A voice
In the distance
And then
Nothing
Endless hallways
Corridors passages
Tunnels a maze a lair
Endless hallways
And the voice far away
My voice
These walls puddle and purr
They ripple
Into words
And noise
Glass bottles clink
Fridge din computer din
Cutlery and lawnmowers
The rattle subsides
A warm hum
A warm mum
Pins a child into bed
These walls swell
And fizz with words
Words on the wall
Words
Words
We used to fit like a puzzle we used to play we used to fight like children we used to play in the rain we used to fall and fly in the wind we invented her face we wandered we wondered we stole her rose petals and ate them we used to run and run we found her photo in the bushes by the beach we used to hide and run and hide we used to mime we used to watch we used to care we used to cry we used to scream we could sleep we used to sleep we used to sleep we used to hear we used to see we used to sleep we used to dream we used to sleep
To be continued.
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Every night Laminex coats
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Gum pushed and smoothed
Into the underside of a desk
Demented body on the Gravatron wall
Fluorescent light ebbs
Over your forehead
Washing hair from your scalp
Nausea pulls at your eyes
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Nothing behind the doors
Just gummy walls
A child stands exhausted
Grips a doll by the leg
Belts its gummy face
Against the gummy wall
Picks up its limp head
Sees a perfect little smirk
Sees dazzling eyes
And tries again
A sign hangs
From the ceiling
A step away
A mile away
A step away
A mile away
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Door wall door seat
Do not sit on the seat
It is not there
Nothing you want is there
Nothing there is there
Except Laminex
Looking at you
The way the fat boy did
In grade four
Before he fell on you
Grunting your name
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Floor wall ceiling wall
Smothering
Trapped in the tubular slide
At the playground
Static stuffed in your pores
Hair clinging to your face
There was no way in
There is no way out
Noise
Machine din
A step away
A mile away
A step away
A mile away
A droning
A voice
Droning
Words
Words
Words
A step away
A mile away
A voice
In the distance
And then
Nothing
Endless hallways
Corridors passages
Tunnels a maze a lair
Endless hallways
And the voice far away
My voice
These walls puddle and purr
They ripple
Into words
And noise
Glass bottles clink
Fridge din computer din
Cutlery and lawnmowers
The rattle subsides
A warm hum
A warm mum
Pins a child into bed
These walls swell
And fizz with words
Words on the wall
Words
Words
We used to fit like a puzzle we used to play we used to fight like children we used to play in the rain we used to fall and fly in the wind we invented her face we wandered we wondered we stole her rose petals and ate them we used to run and run we found her photo in the bushes by the beach we used to hide and run and hide we used to mime we used to watch we used to care we used to cry we used to scream we could sleep we used to sleep we used to sleep we used to hear we used to see we used to sleep we used to dream we used to sleep
To be continued.
2 comments:
Eloise, only some poems rhyme not all. oh yeah and you cant rhyme the same word it has to be a similar sounding one, i wont mention that you tried to rhyme a whole four lines by repeting the same sentance four times. i guess your it might work if the poem is too short, but im sure people would realise and get bored of reading the same thing every four lines. very disappointing. i thought you had gone to uni and been honnored by the honnor?
yeah, stuff that doesn't rhyme is shit - if you like went to university you should like know that like humpty dumpty is like totally the apex of poetry and like when you read it...or have it read to you then youre like totally never bored and shit.
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