Sunday (wishing)

By jack paper

headlight supernova exploding
through whisky soaked irises
erupting into the vast empty
recesses of my inner universe
where droves of brain cells are
dying like ancient stars
along with the fading lights
as they keep on moving
making twin bright white
streeks that seem permanently
etched in my miasmatic mind
a horizontal white light ladder
with no rungs and no way to
escape from where i sulk and

the wind can't make up its mind
wether it will be or die
as the sounds of the city
force it trough the taught
grin of the open window
along with some cold stale
air that raises goosebumps
like ten thousand tiny nipples
all screaming to be carressed
so i take another drink hoping
the burn will spread and stop
their incessant demands and

here i am forever looking out
hoping for a glimpse of perfection
among the rusting cars and dirty ice
and my hopes go unfulfilled but still
i find myself just wishing on
a smog tarnished star praying
that you would find your way back
you with your alabaster smile
that radiates light into my obscurity
you with your dark windswept tresses
and those haunting brown eyes i
could fervently delve forever into


unblinking streetlamps stare steadily
as i faithfully maintain my vigil
and far off trains and semis
hurl rythmically through my blues
lulling me into a stupor, sending
stubborn eyelids into cataclysmic fits
and i feel moments from defeat
as i try to cling to Sunday
like a homeless fist around
its last donation of the day
huddled in a locked liquor store doorway
desperate but overcome with a torpor
induced by the cold and too many tears

how come you never let me in?

so i curse the frigid darkness
wanting it to be illuminated by
the headlights of your car, your smile
seconds falling into minutes falling
into hours falling like the snow
snow being shoved loudly into icy dunes
left obliquely and directly in the way
by a sadly sententious snowplow driver
who looks up over his shoulder and waves
like he is the reason i sit in front
of my open window frozen in time
counting every set of headlights
hoping for a glimpse of perfection
and wishing you'd come home


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© 2007 jack paper
Published on Saturday, May 12, 2007.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • NikesRain On Thursday, July 19, 2007, NikesRain (1298)By person wrote:

    the visuals and weight of emotions blend for a flowing read... it's melancholy yet the hints of light are drawing and sigh pulling...nicely done

  • stormtalk On Friday, July 13, 2007, stormtalk (729)By person wrote:

    this renews my appreciation of poetry

  • K_Love On Monday, July 9, 2007, K_Love (525)By person wrote:

    I love love loveee the visual. This is so easy to imagine, almost like a dream that I seem to be floating through while reading this. Beautiful and wonderful.

  • Mylissa On Wednesday, June 27, 2007, Mylissa (845)By person wrote:

    I need more, more please. Write more. This is exceptional.

  • capt_funguy On Friday, June 8, 2007, capt_funguy (778)By person wrote:

    this was awesome .... you should have a posse cuz youre a giant ...you guided this beautifully ...but please note.. the guys plowing your street were on doubletime and there was nothing sad

  • capt_funguy On Friday, June 8, 2007, capt_funguy (778)By person wrote:

    about his sententiousness, he was just saying "hi".. great work ... funguy

  • A former member wrote: your words penetrate my very core with such intense images.You, my friend, are a paragon of poetic perfection!

  • Mistress Shadow On Saturday, May 12, 2007, Mistress Shadow (252)By person wrote:

    I turn to a hobo for five minutes more of sleep too. I loved that liquor store stanza. Even with all the imagery the lonilness still managed to get through.

  • Mistress Shadow On Saturday, May 12, 2007, Mistress Shadow (252)By person wrote:

    It is a different foot to be on instead of begging to be able to let someone else in, you are trying to get in, so neat perspective too. One word of beauty is unjust to this art. ~T

  • A former member wrote: wow..... it's.... amazing

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