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Let me save you some time. We begin
with two incomplete and co-dependant morons, at least one
preferably hiding some socially debilitating yet somehow
charming eccentricity, exhibits signs of mild schizophrenia
obsessive compulsiveness, hides it like a pulsating
baboon heart under his coffee shop apron or is possibly a whore.

Our fools meet through a series of zany incidents to find
they’ve never been truly happy until now, the way you never
knew you needed Cool Ranch Doritos til the day your finger
slipped on 2 at the vending machine, and each accepts
the other’s oddities. Surely we can find something to do
with your dick shaped nose.

Now the dilemma, since good lovin’ should be hard to come by;
One must chance upon the other in the act of what appears
to be treachery; their lizard lipped lover in the embrace of some
stranger, when really it was two secret agents speaking in Morse
Code through an innocent series of nipple pinches and THIS
is what distends into some unbearably gut-busting side-splitting
nun-punching hilarity because it’s gonna take a monumental
act of courage to reconcile.

Here is where you can hardly stand to wait for some bastards
to plow their Jaguars through store fronts
bust up the wedding, sob and grovel into the loud
speakers of your childhood, run naked through airports in nothing
but ranch dressing and hang from helicopters screaming
I love you I love you I’ve always LOVED YOU, and the drivers always
pull over and the crowds always gather cooing like jerks
with nothing better to do because oh my god Barbara it's love

and the speech always flowers like I know I lied and stabbed you
three times in the face but if you can walk away from something so right
I just don’t know what the fuck
. And there you have it
cue Mentos cue strewn glass cue sidekick blowing a sheepdog
cue incredulous janitor roll credits You're welcome.

Date: 2009-04-03 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quiet-flame.livejournal.com
I can't wait to buy your book.

Date: 2009-04-03 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
that remind me i just got paid.

NOW i'ma buy YOUR book, SUCKAAAAH!

Date: 2009-04-03 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quiet-flame.livejournal.com
Aw! Golly. My first instinct is to say "You don't have to do that!" I'm not very good at this self-promotion thing.

But srsly, I really want a book o' Stacie. Your voice is so original, and your poems have this really remarkable complexity to them: fragility and strength, humor and sorrow, illusion and candidness. You are sorely needed in the poetry world. You wouldn't believe the shitty books I have to read for work, often award-winning and boasting all kinds of elite credits. Gag.

Date: 2009-04-04 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
i will call it Stacie's Book o Crap :D

shucks. you are one of my favorits. i want yr book for mahself.

and i feel you on the unfounded prestige like WHO are these people blowing to get published or WHO are these readers getting blowed by to be convinced to purchase these books? my frinlist on some days puts some ploughshare shit to shame grl

Date: 2009-04-04 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browniegirl322.livejournal.com
id still buy it with that title.

Love it!

Date: 2009-04-03 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
It made me think of at least 6 movies!

Re: Love it!

Date: 2009-04-04 12:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
perfect! i meant for that to happen.

Re: Love it!

Date: 2009-04-04 07:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zombienought.livejournal.com
When did my life become a Simon Pegg romantic
comedy?

Date: 2009-04-03 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piedpiper.livejournal.com
marry me already so i can be all like "that's my famous poet-artist-mama-hotstuff wife" OKAY

Date: 2009-04-04 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
i do! matching bubble wrap weddin gowns!
From: [identity profile] tom-sizemore.livejournal.com
This poem gave me a good time
because it told a story (or
a parody of a story [even better]).

I thought of Blind Date when
the car drove into the building.

Did you know that poetry was
invented to tell stories(?),
I think, you know, in old days, those days:
back in Ancient Greece?

That's what I read.
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
thank you, it is easy
for me to be a smartass

i read
that in the olden times
the blind or crippled
had to learn to sing
or tell stories or they
would be abandoned to die
in the cold as they would
otherwise be a burden
to their tribes.
back then you n me
may have lived
all the way to 30.

Date: 2009-04-04 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] createdestiny.livejournal.com
I am bowled over, a drunken romp.

Date: 2009-04-04 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
haha, aw.
i'm just a jackass, really.

cue slo-mo spit take

Date: 2009-04-04 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
that was pencil-breakingly good

Re: cue missed flight

Date: 2009-04-04 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
variations: bleeding pencil, screaming pencil, pencil on fiya

Re: cue missed flight

Date: 2009-04-04 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
what is going on.
you've been like a new, clear bomb that blowsup into a bunch of machine guns that shoot machetes made of dogs whose teeth are poisonous grenades, but, y'know, with writin'.

not that i didn't love reading up what you were puttin down before but damn, are you taking typcpewriter?
did a sham-man bless you?
didja die and be reborn as poetry isself?

Re: cue missed flight

Date: 2009-04-04 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
aw, tutti fruity.

i wish it were any of these things but i think it's just hormones. :(

boo-wa-hoo

Date: 2009-04-05 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
things get better when they get words

fight volition

Date: 2009-04-04 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
also, the dogs' fur is psychic and it knows your greatest fear.

fright vocation

Date: 2009-04-04 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
and how do you know it knows that?

quiet ovation

Date: 2009-04-05 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
how do you know i don't know what you don't know about me knowing what it knows you know, y'know?

bright formation

Date: 2009-04-05 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
i din't SAY you din't know. oooh NOW wutchoogonsay?

slight frustration

Date: 2009-04-05 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crooksandlucy.livejournal.com
oh NOOOOOOOOOO

Date: 2009-04-04 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com
i want to grow my hair real long for you to put pretty flowers in it like i am bottom in midsummer nights dream and you are the fairy queen titania

Date: 2009-04-04 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
don't make me giggle like a school girl!

Date: 2009-04-04 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com
o please?

i can't think of anything more worthy of effort than to try to make you giggle like a school girl.

Date: 2009-04-04 05:14 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-04 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
i did write it in a bit of a huff?

Date: 2009-04-04 05:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browniegirl322.livejournal.com
oh good good

Date: 2009-04-04 03:38 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-04 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pruneduchess.livejournal.com
hilaaaaarious, this whole montage sequence of a poem. why do movies think it is awesome to hinge an entire friendship/relationship collapse on a misunderstanding that can be explained in one straightforward sentence? WHY?

Date: 2009-04-04 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
i KNOW, and the whole time the other person won't admit to what they saw or thought, just sits there pissed about it? i guess the tension has to help the movie along but it's so damn OLD and unrealistic and pissing me off.

if it's not love, then it's the BOMB

Date: 2009-04-04 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theazureman.livejournal.com
Why is it that the big, heart-melting, emotional payoff in a romcom is NOT the romance, or the developing intimacy, or the dedication, but the BIG HUMILIATING PUBLIC APOLOGY scene? Is the msg here really he can treat me like poo so long as he grovels in front of my friends once in a while?

And as always love your writing it's so clever & unexpected & wryly conceals its emotional wallop & gush gush & aren't you getting a little sick of my fanboy jibber-jabber by now?

Re: if it's not love, then it's the BOMB

Date: 2009-04-05 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flightviolation.livejournal.com
sadly, i think the reason is because it's riveting and makes money.

i'm glad you enjoy reading my mess. i must say i enjoy yr gushing. i didn't even know i was doing all that stuff until you told me.

two thumbs up

Date: 2009-04-06 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp0rk0.livejournal.com
Feel-good entry of the year!

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