In the spirit of poetry month i offer shit

It's poetry month and I have managed to feel the need to produce at least one poem. Well, I have been working on a few poems for the last few months. What I have shared recently have been written hastily. I also feel the need to apologize for posting poems that were written in a matter of minutes under the warm buzz of some spirit. However, due to some genetic defect I am unable to do so. It is what it is folks. The really good poem, the one that will knock me on my ass, leaving me to wonder where in the hell did that come from, is going to manifest itself. Until then I do it out of ego and insecurity.

© Charles Scott 2014

In the spirit of poetry month i offer shit

It's poetry month and I have managed to feel the need to produce at least one poem. Well, I have been working on a few poems for the last few months. What I have shared recently have been written hastily. I also feel the need to apologize for posting poems that were written in a matter of minutes under the warm buzz of some spirit. However, due to some genetic defect I am unable to do so. It is what it is folks. The really good poem, the one that will knock me on my ass, leaving me to wonder where in the hell did that come from, is going to manifest itself. Until then I do it out of ego and insecurity.

© Charles Scott 2014

One Should Never Surf The Internet Looking For Art While Drinking Whiskey

 

Everyone is an artist, writer,

poet or some sort of bullshit

creative type.

The shitty “artists”

are the famous ones,

famous for making shit.

The real artists,

the ones who are greatness

work, create and starve.

Marketing is king,

art (good or bad) is relegated

to clicks and likes.

© Charles Scott 2014

One Should Never Surf The Internet Looking For Art While Drinking Whiskey

 

Everyone is an artist, writer,

poet or some sort of bullshit

creative type.

The shitty “artists”

are the famous ones,

famous for making shit.

The real artists,

the ones who are greatness

work, create and starve.

Marketing is king,

art (good or bad) is relegated

to clicks and likes.

© Charles Scott 2014

A Bit Of Something I Am Working On

She dropped her bag on the floor

and plopped all 95 pounds

of her body into the seat next to me.

She had a smell of cigarettes,

day old Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

and bus toilet sanitizer.

She had just smoked a cigarette,

washed her hair

in some bus station bathroom the day before

and, as far as the toilet smell,

if you use the bus toilet

while rolling down the great american highway

you will have that lingering smell

until your next chance

to wash your clothes.

© Charles Scott 2014

A Bit Of Something I Am Working On

She dropped her bag on the floor

and plopped all 95 pounds

of her body into the seat next to me.

She had a smell of cigarettes,

day old Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

and bus toilet sanitizer.

She had just smoked a cigarette,

washed her hair

in some bus station bathroom the day before

and, as far as the toilet smell,

if you use the bus toilet

while rolling down the great american highway

you will have that lingering smell

until your next chance

to wash your clothes.

© Charles Scott 2014

Because I Like This Poem: Humanity by Gregory Corso

What simple profundities
What profound simplicities
To sit down among the trees
and breathe with them
in murmur brool and breeze —

And how can I trust them
who pollute the sky
with heavens
the below with hells

Well, humankind,
I’m part of you
and so my son

but neither of us
will believe
your big sad lie

Because I Like This Poem: Humanity by Gregory Corso

What simple profundities
What profound simplicities
To sit down among the trees
and breathe with them
in murmur brool and breeze —

And how can I trust them
who pollute the sky
with heavens
the below with hells

Well, humankind,
I’m part of you
and so my son

but neither of us
will believe
your big sad lie

Toxic

 

I had to leave, under the cover of night. Any other way

would have made me second guess my feelings for you and

I would have stayed.

You cut me deep, the wounds are still bleeding.

They won't heal. The blood a constant reminder,

along with broken bone limp.

It was hard to stand tall with the weight of

those who suffered before. Standing in line

for the next handout, from the benevolent adviser,

from those who control.

But I see you are broken too. I see through your veil,

a glimpse of your pain, of hungry nights, lonely days

and yearning for something better.

As I pick at these wounds, I see bits of you inside,

I tweeze them out with medical precision;

casting them aside for the dogs to eat.

One day the wounds will heal and the scars

will be a distant reminder.

© Charles Scott 2014

Toxic

 

I had to leave, under the cover of night. Any other way

would have made me second guess my feelings for you and

I would have stayed.

You cut me deep, the wounds are still bleeding.

They won't heal. The blood a constant reminder,

along with broken bone limp.

It was hard to stand tall with the weight of

those who suffered before. Standing in line

for the next handout, from the benevolent adviser,

from those who control.

But I see you are broken too. I see through your veil,

a glimpse of your pain, of hungry nights, lonely days

and yearning for something better.

As I pick at these wounds, I see bits of you inside,

I tweeze them out with medical precision;

casting them aside for the dogs to eat.

One day the wounds will heal and the scars

will be a distant reminder.

© Charles Scott 2014

Hey France, hook me up!

According to Blogger stats I am building an audience in France. Any French followers looking to pay for me to come and read hit me up. 


© Charles Scott 2014

Hey France, hook me up!

According to Blogger stats I am building an audience in France. Any French followers looking to pay for me to come and read hit me up. 


© Charles Scott 2014

Found Fortune on the Way Home

 

Walking, at 3 am, in the land of

Bathtub Mary, low rent and cockroach colonies;

I find a 10 dollar bill.

I pick it up, smile and know

that tomorrow I eat.

© Charles Scott 2014

Found Fortune on the Way Home

 

Walking, at 3 am, in the land of

Bathtub Mary, low rent and cockroach colonies;

I find a 10 dollar bill.

I pick it up, smile and know

that tomorrow I eat.

© Charles Scott 2014

Poets I Like

I have finally started to add to the Poets I Like tab. Check it out now and periodically. I will be adding to it as time allows.


© Charles Scott 2014

Poets I Like

I have finally started to add to the Poets I Like tab. Check it out now and periodically. I will be adding to it as time allows.


© Charles Scott 2014

Tinnitus

 

It's 1am

and I feel compelled

to write a poem.

In the distance

a train sings it's

lonely song.

I imagine it is

going to some place

I haven't been.

Maybe Denver,

Omaha or,

Frigid Fork something

or other.

It's taking coal to the

power plant.

No adventure in that.

The train cries off

into the distance,

and I am left with

silence and this damned

ringing in my ears.

© Charles Scott 2014

Tinnitus

 

It's 1am

and I feel compelled

to write a poem.

In the distance

a train sings it's

lonely song.

I imagine it is

going to some place

I haven't been.

Maybe Denver,

Omaha or,

Frigid Fork something

or other.

It's taking coal to the

power plant.

No adventure in that.

The train cries off

into the distance,

and I am left with

silence and this damned

ringing in my ears.

© Charles Scott 2014

One Day in the Park

 

People walking by

as I sit and watch,

my super power,

reading of minds,

kicks in.

An old man,

with a stern face

is thinking about

how he shouldn't have answered

that email from the

deposed king from Africa.

Now he's out $200.00!

And his bank account is closed.

A lady walking her

shizu, wishes the

damn dog would crap

so she can get home

to watch American Idol.

That was an easy one.

She was holding a plastic bag.

A lady in a long skirt

and pentecostal bun

is fretting over the idea that,

any day now, the government

will force her to get micro chipped.

She sent money for a prayer cloth

to a televangelist.

A homeless man

talking to himself,

has all sorts of crazy shit

going on in his head....

He's nuts!

A cheap bottle of whiskey

will quiet those voices later on.

This goes on for hours;

a suicide case

waiting to happen.

A couple of frat boys

hoping no one finds out

their love for each other.

A Chinese man

who I can't understand

(all super powers have limits)

An old widower

wishing death would come soon

so he could see his love.

A banker and a drug dealer

thinking about one thing:

Money.

All of these people

have one thing in common:

Life.....

© Charles Scott 2014

One Day in the Park

 

People walking by

as I sit and watch,

my super power,

reading of minds,

kicks in.

An old man,

with a stern face

is thinking about

how he shouldn't have answered

that email from the

deposed king from Africa.

Now he's out $200.00!

And his bank account is closed.

A lady walking her

shizu, wishes the

damn dog would crap

so she can get home

to watch American Idol.

That was an easy one.

She was holding a plastic bag.

A lady in a long skirt

and pentecostal bun

is fretting over the idea that,

any day now, the government

will force her to get micro chipped.

She sent money for a prayer cloth

to a televangelist.

A homeless man

talking to himself,

has all sorts of crazy shit

going on in his head....

He's nuts!

A cheap bottle of whiskey

will quiet those voices later on.

This goes on for hours;

a suicide case

waiting to happen.

A couple of frat boys

hoping no one finds out

their love for each other.

A Chinese man

who I can't understand

(all super powers have limits)

An old widower

wishing death would come soon

so he could see his love.

A banker and a drug dealer

thinking about one thing:

Money.

All of these people

have one thing in common:

Life.....

© Charles Scott 2014