tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14438948753645238212024-02-08T07:12:44.410-08:00Majestic CabbageLogan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443894875364523821.post-715436288725019442009-10-23T16:05:00.000-07:002009-10-23T16:08:02.735-07:00Plaything<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is it odd of me to think of you,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a paper doll all shiny and new, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Folded just right,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So thin and so tight,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a toy which hangs for consumers to view?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is it crude of me to only see,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You unwrapped and I controlling thee,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Removed of fabric,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Left soft and so smooth,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Or do you like it when I peel back your plastic packaging?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Does it turn you on when I press,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Along the buttons of your chest,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So your face lights up,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And you huff and puff,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Until your hands start to fondle, then caress?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do you always tend to be,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So willing to test your flexibility,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Playing so rough,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So noisy, so gruff,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That we melt in each other’s flame of symmetry?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then let me have my way with you,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where I’ll pull you apart and violate you,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Until your paint chips,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scratched and bruised,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Beyond repair from ever being sold as used,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But don’t worry doll, this bond is strong,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Which is why I wrote my name down on your underarm.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Logan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443894875364523821.post-80507050685929011722009-10-07T16:56:00.000-07:002009-10-07T16:57:08.367-07:00Alone<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal">A line that lingers in your mind for days,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">On repeat,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And repeat,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And repeat,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But know not what it says.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Splice it together and tether a knot,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of notebook,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After notebook,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After notebook,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of misbegotten thought.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Let it lead you to where your mind may roam,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In excess,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And forever,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And ever,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So you don’t go insane,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And you always have a place to call home.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Logan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443894875364523821.post-3608544789893112932009-02-12T12:52:00.001-08:002009-02-12T12:52:32.215-08:00<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>2/12/09<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">To enter the dark,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We sit stationary twelve to one,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In separated seminary circles of thin design,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">On a red carpet plain to guide our discussion,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of relaying on religion while shaded by blinds,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But she stares me down with a thick-lipped sneer,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Such shades are drawn like a snuff nosed whore,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whose only source of income’s a black haired boy,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Balanced upon a pole with hands clutched below the belt </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ever enticing consumers with unbroken pallid posed skin,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So white it is to touch which resonates such rainbows,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And casts small shadows across the backs of men,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Who walk thin corridors lined by narrow light,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Lasting longer than most, but shorter than many,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">More ready than all to progress to the past,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where twelve is to one, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">And one is to we.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Logan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443894875364523821.post-74751768244579884982009-02-11T20:18:00.001-08:002009-02-11T20:18:55.081-08:00<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>2/11/09.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Impoverished and unwelcome,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The universal lamp is partly lit, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Providing light to the better half of earth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where semi-precious buildings made of oak submit to the skies,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And birds made of plastic fade from the sun,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While fish fall upwards with weak willed wings,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Like balloons let loose to roam the ocean,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Only here, the world’s constructed of rubber bands,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Binding flat faced beauties behind panes of glass,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So they find time to read their own obituaries,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While pre-teen girls cherish lawyers like holy relics,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And come to find love in laws and government,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where men wage war over a cup of tea,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Leaving seas of fabric to hang like cloisters,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Giving in to habitual tendencies,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And shit faced with lust.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Logan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443894875364523821.post-77575844316699063612009-02-04T08:01:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:02:19.519-08:00<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Resurgence <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Never chance to assimilate where hearts have broken,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In a land of unbecoming beauty, <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tarnished by war devoted to love,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Skin like streamers hang from limestone walls, <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Blemished by blood soaked sand,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where metallic beasts roam,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A cultural division sewn together by conflict, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Trained to live by enforced truths,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">They walk with internal disrupt,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Skies stripped of splendor by power line scars,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where man made clouds billow white,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And tragedy tangles with grief,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Black bags adorn heads of men like crowns,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As a staged presentation commences,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And cheers arise like prayer,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Widows who wither with malice intent,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Holding decapitated trophies of war, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">With a past that’s never present, <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new world upon the same earth,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You wish you were home but you’re already there<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Logan Everett Faerberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891900488636057230noreply@blogger.com0