djtockpoetry

Tag: relationship

  • The Woman Wants Me Shot Down

    The woman with the radiance of nuclear spillage waggles an ear at a bothering fly and tags shut the envelope of a day with a dry out-pointing tongue. Her eyes are inefficient sentinels harried with orders, grim as cardinals facing ordure. She has windows in her backside, sits sharply, sees everything. Her loneliness once owned…

  • Now we’re at least talking once again

    Now we’re at least talking once again, or, at least, sitting in the same room – well, at least for more than a moment. The Guns of Navorone have boomed and now there’s quiet. Krakatoa’s sleeping for a while, and almost purrs. There’s been, of course, silence like this before. An armistice, a shift in…

  • Except I Probably Don’t

    I should be dead. The best I can do at anything is no good. I wake up eagerly every day and every day I’m me. Useless, useless, useless. I was better off just being alone, Rather than being as I now am, consistently lied to and hectored by needy, using people. I don’t even know…

  • I’m sick of being true to love

    I’m sick of being true to love – I’ve seen it all before, I love her, she kisses me, goes gallivanting out the door Barely a bye of her hand she’s off, she says, to meet her friends, always a colleague, she has, in town, and that’s how my evening ends I’m not being true…

  • She’s Dumped Me

    She’s dumped me – dumped me dumped me dumped me. I’m flummoxed and gazumped, bumped – I fly off the handle, like a – fly, fly to the candle mad as a moth. I froth like boiling broth. My faith is that of a thief, is that of death. The only thing I cannot do…