Kissed the pavement
Kissed the pavement Full speed, good entertainment
Emergency room No need, flowers bloom
Facial card Declined, discard
Left arm Broken? No harm
The good news is Right arm’s fine, head unaffected I think, bad news for my journal readers Terrified? Not me, first for everything, infected
Reconstruct Murder scene, elevated Misconstruct Garden seen, concentrated
Semi-permanent purple eyeliner Semi-permanent hot red blush, lipliner Pretty corpse
Immortality Jump through hoops Circus Atari game with lions X-RAY images burned on a CD They still make those? Ancient technology
Beach visit Gone wrong, really wrong Scooter was it? Head strong, really strong
Before riding a scooter Full speed into the sunset Ask yourself a simple question Which is, do I know how to do that?
Oh no That’s the chords’ arm
Give me the good stuff Pain killers to the brim, tough Not really, all an act, it’s rough
Road trips Surgeries, bedside flowers Funerals and sunset hours, meteor showers
Crippled programmer That’s it, that’s the joke You may laugh, have a stroke
Somebody Forgot about limitations Physical, constraint shins
Same emergency room Year after year, violent life you lead Eye tears, skin tears, either way, rare breed
Evil is their eye Said my fallen sky Said my battle’s cry Said my gallant’s a lie
One armed Once harmed Once charmed Now unswarmed
Gone The money maker The heart breaker The earth shaker
Reliable Credit cardable Camera flashable
On a hospital run Day one and done My sun, your stardom Your moon, cardamom
An opinion Caught in the wild With an onion Complaints are filed
Interrogation Heart inflation Death rotation
Streak Going for decades Lost in band aids Haunted arcades
Baby cries Someone dies Stale are fries Hi and byes
Scared In pain Code red In Spain
Dropped my pills and marbles When I went flying through the dashboard Flying through the base chord, cold heart, my lord
It was your pills I relapsed on, hands off Your contrabands I denied harm from, back off
Let me go Release me Fast or slow Un-seize me Please, please Please, please me Let me die Let me die Let me lie Let me live Let me try Let me try Try once more Let me give
Cover me One last time Hover me After your crime
Love the fall Hate the landing Love the wall Hate the standing Love the take Hate the handing Love the break Hate the branding Love the start Hate the ending
Concrete walls Freedom halls No phone calls Bathroom stalls
Break open Elbows Wired up Kill both
Give me oblivion Then let me be Give me amnesia Then set me free Give me my freedom Or so help me
Iron woman With arms of steel I’ll be running Soon, I won’t feel
Needed compassion Got cruelty and fools’s tea No flowers of passion Or crimes of fashion Bounty, loose entry
Distract me First act me Flow tact me Contact me
The darker the night The brighter the sun Hand me the gun
It will pass I shall pass with it
Visions Revisions Being searched up Being held down Getting away with it Time and time again
Scan me like an item Why don’t you? Stitch me up like a doll Why not, too?
You’re laughing Your elbow bones are sticking out And you’re sleeping Your brain cells must have fallen out
I could have asked for help I could have begged for my hand held But it was inconvenient Silence was preferable to what comes with your rescue
Yes, I’m okay Yes, more painkillers No, I can’t move my iron arm Can I have a pen now, and papers?
You have hand I want to hold And sorry if my claim’s a bit bold
Hospital food Lunch for breakfast? Oh, it’s afternoon
Survived Coming for you What was so funny About an elbow surgery?
Hurts like hell But that means it’s alive An extra hand to slap and punch with
Coffee, please I can’t yell, or refuse to Garbage man, go to hell
You love them more than anything Don’t even have to do anything, just exist You know that was you too once, right? To me
Generic bakery chocolate cake If I can’t have heaven, I’ll take a short dip in hell Come up for air here, where I’ve always been well
I’m explaining life and death here What are you smiling at? Really, that’s all? You think I’m cute? No consequence crossed that mind
I know one hand doesn’t clap But it can write verses, and steal lollipops
Fell harder From the scooter And into something else
Forgive me For being lost in your painting Black is all the colors combined For me, red, green, blue, yellow mix Shit stain, forgive my language Messed up an otherwise beautiful work of art Dark enough and it can be black Black to your white heart, that is
You know what ward sounds like right? Flowers Mine
They put me back together I put my faith in them, strangers When I came to, I remembered nothing My unconscious body in their hands, their un-shooed eyes
Act like Tony Stark Look like Mother Mary
No, he’s not Oh, yes, they are
Not Arkham this time Funny, I see what you did there
And why is it not? Because I made sure of it, honeybear
War won, war lost No matter the cost Keep your donuts Off my brothers’ hands, get lost
Google the acronyms ChatGPT the images and poems
Artificial Intelligence Allegations, not my allegiance
I may be enjoying this A bit too much Giddy with excitement Waiting for your surgery to start Now I’m a robot too, a real life robot Keep your doll, Gepetto, this is where it’s at
When life gives you accidents Make accidental remakes and covers
I feel bad for that surgeon, smiled wide every time I looked at him, what for? I liked him, or what he had to say, anyway.
Nothing, you Flower, me Without you Mine will bloom Blue moon’s room
Didn’t yell like a boy Didn’t scream like a witch Only wrote and sang and danced Like the gracious being that I am, rich
Doctor How long? Until I can code Until I can chord
Word is me Hours few Or not true?
These are the good old days Reporting live Before they became old and good Well almost, in five
You talk Big shot Big shit, I say I act, parking lot
If it makes no sense Back to front, or switch Your blind eyes go rinse Sing it too, you might twitch
I hope my mother doesn’t know You know she worries a lot so Shh
Many names Many aliases You know who I am When I step off the plane You know who arrived
Who talks like I talk? Well, many Who walks like I walk? Also many Deliberately Who writes like I write? Who plays like I play? Who sings like I sing? Who says what I say? Exactly
How does a cat land? From the heights or moving vehicles All fours, my madness brand
One time a customer ordered a banana bread scented candle, as one does. Imagine what they asked, dear reader. Does it contain nuts? I’m highly allergic. I think about that odd interaction often. I never did land on a single answer, though. For all I know, heavenly smelling soy wax might as well contain nuts.
Apologies For kissing and telling Hold on, geez That costs a Sterling
Keep your broken arm Above heart level Can’t I just wear that On my sleeve?
That’s a C chord, okay? Just trust me
Delusions Of grandeur Amusing My bland heure
Hold on Wait a minute How many layers Are there to this? Yes
Candle lit nights Burning sun sights All me, my old kites
Narcissus Who could blame you? When you look like that
I told you what I meant You went reading between lines And found what you liked, or hated, pay fines
Is this a new addiction? God no, I barely got out, new option
Who wants to sign my cast? Not you, I know you’ll stab it, asshole
Stalkers Back walkers Shit talkers, folklore markers
You read, I write Inhale, exhale, in, out Keyboard, mouse, screen, speakers
Let me go home No, I love this place But I can’t see anything From my death, sorry, hospital bed
Vincent, darling Is it better out there? My cat’s alone, I can’t bear
Haven’t slept a wink Except for anesthesia’s pink Frankenstein’s bride doctors’s cut link
Too late Spinning plate
Only with your hand Over my heart, can I shut my eyes This is not wonderland
Green hands Fix what they don’t break Owners take, givers make
My future is bright Red, full of fight Stop cutting Break right
Your Athena. I am, what you looked for all along.
Not an unfamiliar sight, right?
Razors disappear Somehow reappear Phone calls cause fear Come back, stay here, hear
You say you know what you’re doing Been there before, know where it’s going
You’ve ruined it all now My future is gone now Plan’s blown over now My death was then, now
Anywhere I want Just un homme A gnome home Not mine, I roam
Why do you hang my pictures, but hang me?
It’s all good now So I can cry They’re all good now So I can die
Not my arm, my heart.
Not using Nor abusing Stop confusing Brilliance, losing
Not your mother To forget your slights Not your brother To forgive your fights
Leonardo Not DiCaprio Not DaVinci The turtle, blue
I do I love the sun I care Not just anyone
Stop that You’re scaring people off Anyone worthy stays, the rest fly off
Not just anybody Will sleep at your hospital bedside And ask nothing in return
It’s hard to sit It’s hard to stand I got my special stance Can’t help but dance and prance
It’s Friday I failed to notice Background noise Regaining all my poise
Don’t be scared Show me the X-RAY I’ll hang it on my walls Wallpaper and profile pictures
I’ll make it easier for you to quote me Don’t go around spreading nonsense Anything I say will be held against me
I should have gotten more empathetic But all I am is bitter and mad, pathetic I swallowed it, why couldn’t they? Epic
No one’s emergency contact anymore No one emerges to contact you anymore
Taking pictures in my gown Pretty gown, hospital gown Don’t blame me, no sound Gorgeous still, I have found
I hope that you burn instead Break all your bones instead Fall on your face first, lose head Roam the earth alone instead
Useless Pointless You do nothing Because I saw nothing And I’m blind, all of this? Oh, I thought it all just worked itself out Somehow Makes perfect sense In my head Nonsense I’m very sensible You belong in a loony bin You’re but a measly hen
Strong, you? Don’t make me laugh Went through you Head to toe Found nothing to lash out at But your perfection Deep inspection No can do No brain lube Solve your cube With one hand now Show me how Who’s laughing now?
Forgive my sadness And bitter madness It must have gotten to me What, with having a broken elbow Barely sleeping, and everything else You would have done the same Who am I kidding, no one but me Dances around the lava holes Steps and balances on cobble stones
I knew they wanted me bad When I lost my mind, got sad And almost said yes, ungladly Give me back my life, die for all I care
Not the only one That wanted me dead Fed to the wolves or bred Not the only one, I said Either you or no one else Have no one else then, die alone Why should I care? I’m not a care bear
I hope your brain short-circuits If you even think of me, biscuits
I needed a break Time doesn’t move Discharged, then move Let me go, then, prove it
Unarmed Harmed One armed
Gratitude For all of you Who helped stitch me up Who tried to shut me up And switch me up Who tried to trip me up Then helped me up Can’t make me stop Might slow me down Eat up your slop
No harm done One winged butterfly Soon you’ll fly again
White fox Let me see you Gray rocks Can’t unsee you
If you can do all of this one-armed My dearest, one-winged and harmed Imagine your full flight mode, Icarus Still dreaming about the Sun, charmed
What’s with the scars? I forgot I had in my stars
Don’t call, don’t ask Don’t beg me to come home You know what you did How you chased me out and away With every losing beat of your heart
Roadtrips With the ones you love No matter the destination Or the nation, or the weather
My god, so cruel That’s my hand-holding arm You crippled
On the bright side You’re stuck with me now All the time, your plan all along
I played stupid because I felt bad I pitied you, your state was so sad
Unlike you geniuses I don’t advertise my debauchery
Sorry I missed your call They were cutting me open I know I said nothing at all You know now, what changed?
Days in the sun High hopes for the run
My way or the highway I hope you get ran on Stampeded by goats Merciful fate for you
Asked for favors left and right Who snitched? Feels like a hidden camera prank But not quite, it is as it always was Uselessness highlighted by disability Paranoia telling me that they know Somehow, it’s a personal dig Something small turned big Who did this to me? I did Who’ll get me out of it? I will No thanks to you, insect
I’d rather play the villain I refuse to help you On purpose Than admit helplessness I am unable to help you I myself need help How humiliating
Gregor, is this how it felt? Useless to them, absent Ugly to them, restless Lifeless, with a hint of I wish I could But I won’t I woke up like this With one wing
I just made it up Don’t look too long*