Friday, August 29, 2008

Putting Me First by Katie

I wanted to feel special and I wanted your time.
I wanted your attention and I wanted you to care.
I wanted things to change but yet I wanted to wait.

I tried to believe the lies were true.
I tried to do the right thing secretly hoping it would change you.
I tried to move on, that just didn’t work.
I tried to tell myself you weren’t being a jerk.

I should have walked away and stopped playing your games.
I should have called you out on being a selfish shit.
I should have slapped you in the face and called you a dick.
I should have told you I was worth more than that.
I should have listened to what my gut told me to do.

I wish I had left with a bang instead of just drifting away.
I wish I had been honest about the pain I felt.
But what I regret most is not putting me first.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A Rough Night: By Katie

Muffled yelling, blurry eyes
Confusion overtakes my semi conscious state
2:30 AM, frustration replaces confusion
Why is she so mad?
I toss and turn, silently cursing the indignity of the hour.
But most off all I lament my lack of understanding.
Time elapses and he begins to yell.
Escalation!
I curse the insulation.
The wall reverberates from the slamming of a door.
The fight dissipates and I am left in silence wanting to know more.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Poem about being bored

Is anything worse
Than the sound of nothing?
My face blushes with fatigue
I try to calm my head, but it always
Goes back to throbbing
Whispers in the distances
The sound of a stapler stapling
Phones ringing a few cubicles away
“Ok. Ok. Thank you. Ok.”
Cubicles away!
Footsteps marching on
Heavy footsteps
No face marches by
Do I have work?
Yes, I guess so. But there’s nobody
My head’s in chaos, my eyes weary
A sponge drying up,
And spilling water into my tired
Sockets.
I love. I love. I love.
But there’s nobody
And nothing.
Laughing in the distance
Introductions going on
Every sound amplified tenfold
So few sounds
The keyboard mocking me.
Work, yes.
Polished turd, yes.
Polished turd.
So many windows open
Too many windows closed.
Youtube
You too?
My headphones.
My headphones
Blessed headphones.
Still ____
But at the very least
With someone else’s voice
Reminded of a turtle in the swamps of sadness
Is that poetry?
As my drums die
There’s rhythm.
A radiated screen
Scorched eyes with mono
“Gettin’ jiggy wit it”.Nah Nah Nah….

A Haiku

Omen memory
Truth’s ghost echoes empty chair
Taste the air and work.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Epic Poem of the Tidget Princess

This blog, which will probably only be read by Matt Casey thanks to Google Reader... was inspired by my coworkers who thought I should post my random musings. So, as promised to them, here is a poem. Your misfortune if you choose to read it.

The Epic Poem of the Tidget Princess

And the rabbit came upon a hut
With lace and web and spider gut
To fetch the last of carrot's taste
Within the land the witch laid waste

"Arrah Arooo Arrah Rah Roo"
The witch doth snarled!
With hate, venom, and huger taboot,
She poured the ingredients from her boot...
And cried with greed and avarice
What is soup without bunny poo?

And the evil witch with her wicked ball
Peered at the rabbit's fluffy tail
Near the chambers of her crooked hall
Alive, the rabbit who could not fail.

"Arrah Aroo Arrah Rah Roo!"
The witch set up her mighty cage
Within the mirror a tasty carrot
To deceive the rabbit as were a sage

The rabbit hopped
The rabbit whistled
"Hurrah hurreeeh!" under its breath.
For a wrong move, and, whoops behoove
The witch to bring upon its death!

But as blonde to karat
Rabbit to carrot
And like mosquito to human lights
I cannot spare the coming frights!
For its excitement not withheld
And, slam, the trap, the rabbit smelled.

The bars enslaved our little bunny
While a witch thinking it all too funny
As the time was coming for her soup
If only she could make this rabbit poop.

She brought the starches, she brought the meat
Cereals, livers and human's feet
But the rabbit sick upon its stomach
So she took out a pole to prod out its rummach.

Away, far away, from all this evilness
Were a beautiful lass, the blood of princess.
Who happened to believe her cubicle a castle.
As common sense was always a hassle.

Our princess heard the cries, she heard the screams.
For observant she were within those cranial beams.
And she gathered her troops, she gathered her hair!
"C'mon soldiers, WE MUST SAVE THAT HARE!"

Into the computer she doth did leap,
She zoomed and spun throughout that net
In and out sites that men hath peep
The princess zoomed along like a fighter jet

And out the evil witch's Dell.
Our graceful princess gracefully fell.
To save the rabbit, to save the day!
While keeping crazy employees at bay!

The witch had reached her hundredth pole
Determined to fit that little hole.
But then she heard a bit of a crash
Turned, alas, we have the Monster Mash!

To describe a princess ten feet tall,
May happen to surprise all y'all.
But our princess had to slouch to fit
Soul food had made her bean stalk lit.

The witch was sly, the witch was fast
With every swing, she flew right past.
She had her cunning she had her tricks
And, surprise!, a chainsaw, for giving licks.

The princess, tall, had stuck her head
What had that genius in her office said?
Beware being tall, for if you are
The greater the chance of getting SARS!

T' evil witch hacked her belly with saw
Out came intestines uncooked and raw
The princess's body was cut in half
Generating maybe now a shock and awe laugh

The following all happened in the time of a smile
As to say it didn't take a long while
And if you don't believe what I say is true
I rue the day I ever met you!

Cloud's retinas flamed from white to red
Pouring tears upon the witch's bed,
Buckets of sadness rained upon the earth
The gods' ethereal love transformed to hearth
Mountains formed and rivers flood
Watery tears were turned to blood
Carrots sprouted and rabbits were born
The world endowed with hope and scorn
For a land given soul within a blink
Marched arm and arm and link to link
To kill the witch and tranform the land
And start a "princess" big rock hair band.

They prodded the witch
They clicked the switch
They watched her brains go tickety tick

And then they surrounded the fallen princess
Still breathing although sawed in half
A top still good, to make more with less.
They treated her as their very own calf.

With divine inspiration and bit of skill
They saved the princess from death's tough pill
And though she were now an inch over 5 foot
It seemed everything had been correctly put!

What to call one of such a size?
They called out to the kingdoms to gather the wise.
They knew in Oz 5 foot were a midget!
But at 5'1", and taller, whatelse but a tidget!!!

And with joy the princess returned to her land.
To punish goofballs with brain lands of sand.
But if your land is in danger, don't you ever fear,
For life's all good with a tidget princess near.