Offbeat

Reading a lot your eyes
can get outrageously blurry
You feel like you’ve went in
circles for hours and hours
BUT
if you’re just walking and
get dizzy out of nowhere that’s different
or if blue and purple striped monsters
make you feel whirl winded all the time
then
you might be offbeat but the
radio will always talk kindly
best advice I got from being
offbeat is that when quiet I seem okay

Manipulative

An older couple seem so sweet
and together for 40 years
They’ll invite you for dinner and
listen attentively to your words
Give you a small gift that
they thought you might like
They can be just like sunflower
seeds- occasionally come across
An empty shell or terrible tasting one
you’re not going to spot them
Just by looking around but
you’ll come across those bad seeds

Rewind

Your button will not work
on yourself ever again
You can’t go back to
scene 12 act 34
You can’t go back to time
turning back pages
You wish you could the
way you’ve been feeling
For the past you wish to
change that never should’ve been acted

Bubble Girl

Air is fresh
no ones touching you
No one talking to you
don’t have to share food
No one can fit in with you
no fighting at all
Rolling around playfully
the bubble girl loves
her life
Living in a gigantic
bubble that rolls
with time
Breeds exactly what
only she wants or
whenever

Bills

I’m not worried my credit cards
aren’t being paid
I’m not worried the power might
be out for awhile
I’m not worried about paying my
drug dealer that I owe
I’m not worried I can’t buy some
toilet paper
Others are though and nervously
go crazy when financially frustrated
ashamed to ask for help, not
realizing resources or get lazy
hawking everything, having yard
sales or even resort to stealing
or the extremes of murdering,
selling themselves or even their kids
Even the suicidal person that lost
everything- harming themselves and others
Shame on you banks, loan lenders,
credit card companies and so forth
Burdens you put on people will
be paid back “with interest”

Ugly Girl

You can put puzzles back
together
Cars that have been
disassembled
Tonka toys that sat in a
box
A quilt just patch up when
scissored
Glue together some shoes when
split
But when you call a girl an
ugly girl
Its different you have to be
tender
You can’t patch up a feeling on
to her
Sew up a torn emotion that is
swollen
Damage control of an ugly girl begins
with you
Tell your daughter no matter her tiny flaw
she’s beautiful
That flaw is in YOU only that you never got
fixed
You’re just letting it rip into her and
will never patch

American Thing

Parades in the streets to cheer
on the hard working families
Selling foods made with the
heart of the homemade kitchen
The joy of smiling, waving and
tons bringing young and old together
Unique crafts are all brought
out to sell, trade and even display
Lonely come out mingling with
tons of other soul seekers to play
Yes this is the all American
thing- the grounds of good ‘ole USA
One nations under God with
welcome arms and peaceful hugs

Earphones

Parents are fighting over TV shows
Earphones go on
Boyfriend believes I eat too much
Earphones go on
Local news- don’t want to start
Earphones go on
Another brilliant cashier with no brain
Earphones go on
Girls at the m all tell me what to buy
Earphones go on
Siblings know what I should be doing
Earphones go on
Heading to Sunday mass
Leaving the earphones

Self -worth cup

Two things make an impact on your
soul
One is how much you love others with
purity
The other is how much you hate others with
anger
Either one can be flipped like a coppered
Coin
One will jealously rage in anger, steal money
for one self, curse out of anger and so forth
Plus, there are some previous angry folks
that swallow their pride and then hide shamefully
ya never know when the table is
turned

Desserts

Ever stuff yourself slothfully with
a dozen desserts?
Just to have the next day with
pimples blotched all over
or the stomach feels like one huge
bowl of jelly
Oh no?
Me neither

Dismissed

Class ends. You either have
to go to your next one or
Head home on the bus or car
you either have little homework
Or the entire semester of work
to do in one weekend
Once its all done completing all
your work getting a passing
Grade its either more summer school or work
more get up, shower, head off driving to
and from, getting lunch, work for a
paycheck to support yourself and maybe spouse
You do your work so you can
be part of the cycle of school- dismissed,
work dismissed or divorce dismissed
When you find the answer to all of the
why’s of the many dismissals you’ll
meet your final dismissal to heaven

Dead Bolt

I thought about putting a dead
bolt on all the doors of the home
Doing my kids a huge favor by
keeping them locked in from humans
their innocence kept in and grown
into mature little angels of peace
Their freedom to be students though
always comes back like instant soup
How can I protect them, watch them,
guide them and teach them humanity
The kangaroo has the pouch, the bird
has its next- other animals have it set
My babies though- this is a lot
of time and work for me and many parents
I’m starting to think that the
dead bolt isn’t looking too bad

Better Pepper

Walking around an event you see
a multitude of personalities
The sugar cubes that everyone
wants to suck like a sucker
Fresh oreganos who still don’t know
many other spices yet
onion powder bringing more
flavor than many could ask for
Garlic powder coming on sometimes
too strong with no inhibitions
Cinnamon spice that are an aroma
of sultry sexiness and positivity
All too common salt where they’re
like everyone else but hidden
Also, the better pepper in a league
of their own making you sneeze when huge
A mixture of them is nice to
have every now and then
Adds a lot of flavor to ones life
with a sometimes distasteful course

LA- LA Adventures

Walking deep in the fire you insanely
get hotter
Chipping deep into the ice and you get terribly
chilly
Running in a sand dune you’ll get brushed in
wind
Dancing with the electricity you get super
shocked
Bathing with fish and tanning with tea you get
slippery
Flying with the bugs being so small you can get
squished
Flinging in the dirt you’ll get dirty and continually
dig
Oh my when you dig be careful with digging
you can be digging your own grave
Back to the frogs we’re out to go
hopping
My scariest adventure is riding the bullet being
shot fired

Great Together

I doubt any potato chip will
tamper with salsa
The dirt will argue with the
clouds giving the rain
The soap touching the skin
giving us softness
The car with the tires
because it wouldn’t go
The paper to the pen or
there’d be no words
Nope, this makes no sense
they need each other
compliment each other
and do great together

Insecurities

Fighting with my insecurities
I’ll commonly make the worse
decisions possible
Food will be my best friend
telling me I’d look good in the
fashion plus world
Just so I’m the talk of town I’ll
hide my inner monster and turn
into fun Jane with alcohol
I will be absolutely loud and
obnoxious trying to overcompensate
my weirdness
I’ll take the 5th amendment most
of the time claiming I really do have
the right to remain silent
Best of all, I’ll get crazy with
mirror plucking, pulling, combing,
brushing or even adjusting

Problems to Jesus

I give my problems to Jesus
sometimes he frustratingly gives
them back saying you still
haven’t learned
Years go by and I give it
to Him again and accepts
with hugs even
I asked what I did differently
because I was confused
This time, He said, you did it
with profound love and apologized
for your actions
Before, He added, your anger
was apparent and faith under
the covers

Crickets Still Sing

Mom wanted me to be a beauty queen
I had four older brothers
Dad wanted me to date the day I turned thirty
I twirl a baton at the best carnivals across the globe
Grandma likes my singing and thinks I have a future
I make records and CDs crack at the sound of me walking
I did a job for my neighbor out of kindness
Now she's spreading the word I'm the best at what I do
Preparing for my day choosing what to wear takes awhile
Doing everything for everyone else while crickets still sing

Helpless Victim

Oh my dear poor girl
Always the Marilyn but never
The Jacqueline
When will you ever learn?
Rats can live through rough
Times and then some
Lions feast fancily in even
The harshest jungle
Their prey never comes to them
They have to work hard with
Claws teeth and instincts
Just be the hunter honey and
Not the helpless victim

Drawing Eyes

I'm an emotional nightmare
I cry if I squish a beautiful bug
Jump in the middle of disasters
Dance at funerals of mourning
Hold my breath when real intense
Create imaginary memories of past
Speak freely to the forest trees
Hold tea parties with three cats
Religiously read to sport the ticker
Fantasize about pink striped moons
Meanwhile, creatively drawing eyes