me and a tube of crazy glue

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me and a tube of crazy glue

mud sucking at boots
covered in filth
yelling for help
but it never comes

slogging alone through
sulfur-stinking mud
insect ridden
leaches suck

quite awhile back it seems
I ignored the signs and dreams
the warning's of this dismal track
stuck in a bog there's no way back

long I've struggled on this way
long I've dreamt away the day
juggling long-lost memories
imprisoned in this sucking clay

one last sunrise calls my name
and now I've one last choice to make
stay here dreaming I'll expire
or pull myself up from this mire

my future's not so far away
I've just to make it through this day
out of this clay
get away.

and find a
long
hot
steamy

bath, with sandlewood and oil of myrr
scents both herbal and demure
something that can make me pure
and feel whole again.

that and a bottle of bleach
to remove the stains you left on my heart
and a tube of crazy glue
so I can piece it back together.

and give it away
to be broken and muddied again.

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christhamF commented on me and a tube of crazy glue

10-31-2009

I'm making my way through your poems..... and liking what I read, thank you.

cagallagher commented on me and a tube of crazy glue

09-04-2009

Been there, far too many times, myself. Luckily for me, I have always found the path out. Seems that you have as well. The wonderful thing about crazy glue, it holds very well, but don't let your fingers get stuck together, we would miss your lines.

lithiumblack commented on me and a tube of crazy glue

07-25-2009

This is such a distinct metaphor, it's a bit scary that such understanding can come from a human being when there isn't much to be had anymore...scary in the sense of what's lacking in the air around us. I can always relate to poetry that tugs at things long shoved aside, or takes images that we've tried hard to scrub away from our souls and taps them upon our window late at night.

ginga commented on me and a tube of crazy glue

06-24-2009

This is masterful. I was hoping for a happier ending but then again many go back to what they know. Maybe you could write 2 versions, this one and one with an uplifting ending? Anyhow I loved the sticky stinking metaphors and irony. Ginga

catarino commented on me and a tube of crazy glue

06-05-2009

you make the casual, catastrophic. the subtle expression and depth of your work is genius wrapped in sanity.

tenderpoison

06/06/2009

thank you. I quite like the way you've put that.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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