terminal blue

By verablue

“3:30am, all the streets are a blur. Heading for a wreck…the end of the world”




Stranger than andricon pictures…your steel
Wire frame.



Laced in temporary psychosis



I lick up trashed poems and dropped lyrics
From your doorstep
Dirty needles…leather boots.



And every word I bleed is just a cheap imitation
Of something I once saw flicker in you
Through grey eyes


Hydraulic haikus
Out of time




And I was once asked to write of heroes
I was once asked to write of you




I was expected to stain your glory onto paper
With cheap ink and recycled metaphors


But I choked.




Because every word I bleed is just a cheap photo copy
Of every phrase you ever disposed of


And deep down past all the sea of metallic imagery
Past the false pronouns
And over used adjectives


Every poem I’ve ever pulled from my flesh is…



Really about you.


Because every word I bleed is just a cheap imitation
Of every phrase you could never get quite right


I watch them trace through black light sandstorms
Supernovas falling apart through your mind

(Scarred track lines in the lower east side)



“We’re taking a ride with the pretty things tonight”



And every word I bleed is just a cheap photo copy
From a machine that’s running out of ink


Every sentence the same shade of blue



Your forgotten moments rewind
Re-energized




“We’re taking a ride with the pretty things tonight.
You know its wrong but it feels so fucking right”



“She’s terminal blue”









(all quotes taken from the song "verablue" by chemlab)

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Published on Saturday, February 10, 2007.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: very nice poem, i know excactly how that feeling wher everything talks about a cetian someone

  • A former member wrote: one of the best poets on the site!!!!!

  • Mylissa On Saturday, February 17, 2007, Mylissa (845)By person wrote:

    I am unsure how I missed this, but you are perfect in your words. beautiful inside and out.

  • zanewill On Thursday, February 15, 2007, zanewill (84)By person wrote:

    "laced in temp. psychosis" HA! i'v always considered most haikus' Hydraulic i read this over & over!!! 2coolTerminal-balew. Bazil Zerinsky!! what a great name>>>>>>>

  • Lynaes On Monday, February 12, 2007, Lynaes (859)By person wrote:

    Ditto what Z said.. This was, just filthily gorgeous. "I lick up trashed poems and dropped lyrics From your doorstep Dirty needles…leather boots."

  • Lynaes On Monday, February 12, 2007, Lynaes (859)By person wrote:

    such deliciously raw and dirty words, it's like you bled them through a tube coming out of your heart, onto the paper. You are fantastically, gloriously artistic with your words.

  • blue On Sunday, February 11, 2007, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    ~b

  • Bella Butchery On Sunday, February 11, 2007, Bella Butchery (724)By person wrote:

    stunner

  • A former member wrote: Beautifully woven indeed. You always amaze me with your writes.

  • zanewill On Saturday, February 10, 2007, zanewill (84)By person wrote:

    this is beautifully woven/stark Raw insight! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • carlosjackal On Saturday, February 10, 2007, carlosjackal (3010)By person wrote:

    "verablue"..and thus your username is explained!! Great piece..sounds like you feel indebted to the song and/or the bands work as a whole particularly the lyrics..or else I'm reading WAY too much into things :)

  • verablue On Sunday, February 11, 2007, verablue (111)By person wrote:

    jared's writing is indeed an inspiration. he was a poet before he was a musician. he's also since become a good friend.

  • carlosjackal On Thursday, February 15, 2007, carlosjackal (3010)By person wrote:

    That's so cool that someone who inspires you to such a great extent has become a good friend..I suppose my girlfriend Sara is my great inspiration..without her I wouldn't be writing the stuff I do, though she probably doesn't know it!

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