I'm Sleeping in a Submarine by BinhUlrik, literature
Literature
I'm Sleeping in a Submarine
I'm sitting on a stone park bench watching people. The bench is named after some rich fucker who gave his name to public works and his money to hookers. I mutter some Socalist bullshit about 95% of the wealth belonging to 5% of the population. It's hard to take seriously.
The park is a reverse breast implant. It's a fleshy, alive place full of squirrels and homeless people within a silicon, granite, stone, metal city full of the walking dead. I'll never see the nipple.
I'm watching leaves--- no, not leaves. Credit card receipts. The documents of our national debt float like autumn just began. It'd be more fitting if they were yellowororange
My best friend, Scott, and I were up, in his basement watching DVD episodes of 'Arrested Development". We're in a boring, cinder block, suburban basement on the northside of Indianapolis, typical. Scott loves graffiti, neither of us have spent a minute on real streets, just the suburbs. There hasn't ever been a fucking carjacking within 3 miles of my house, it's pretty safe. The neighborhood is one of those post-war boom planned housing developments for incoming soldiers and their families. We're a subdivision of a subdivision of a subdivision of the Midwest. Somehow, our neighbourhood escaped being branded with a sign and a name like "Shady
I.am
t(otally angable)
y(ou)
a(ought (t+o) arise nd)
Realize
I love you in the most
H(allmark sort of way)
but I should hide that with
metaphor or something
well, we're both ducks
fighting over the fiber content of the bread
the other ducks are now eating
An iron Arabian prince wounded by foxes
night crawlers fucking in the dark
fucking invisible monster monkeys speak of
lemon merengue pie
and other slight deformities of the mind
cell phones dying
streaking bolts of lightning
I can fix the roof over the slanted world
it's sickening
I am so
real being fiending
meaning freedom
to eat
for men(wo)
two spiders seeking men
we can't write in English
we spend our time fighting
fungal wars with soothing spring bats
dinosaur cheetah raping
blonde teenage queen
My ship sinks into that
Fucked up grey couch
(Yes, the one we usually make out on
It's imbedded with cat hair and
Scratched up, but you never seem to notice
And yes, my mind is in the gutter
And, no, I will not return to the street, I like it down here)
And I think about how pathetic it is
That I'm reading the Communist Manifesto
(4th time, HELL YES KARL MARX)
And listening to Radiohead
Non-stop 6 albums
(Thom Yorke and I are
emo kids together, don't ask)
AND FUCK!
You looked fucking amazing and shit
If it were the middle ages (fuck yeah, it's not)
You'd be considered royalty
Mostly because you aren't
Covered in shit
But
The moth floats toward
the tungsten light imagining
a sun
She will love fluorescence
Indiscriminately
The flame induces a desire so strong-
it cannot be controlled
What about the blue light?
It is a killer
She has been destroyed by her dreams of a sun.
Ironically clad in
Soft garments in
Stark contrast to the
Angry metals of my
Forefathers that I
So love to ignore
So American
"Fuck Europe"
My emotions have
Overflown and
flooded the Black Forest
the Alps and I'm angrily being
Forced to read the Edict of Nantes
Fuck the Pope! Fuck Rome!
Fuck Washington and Paris and Nairobi
and Sydney and
Fuck Indianapolis
Oh, Fuck Kansas, too
and I sink down
hippie dreams of sleeping in a forest
I'd be afraid to enter (fuck prescription drugs!)
Over the course of my entire life,
I shall only speak English
I am barbaric and illiterate!
I do not form formal thoughts!
I am angry…
I do
"Hold me closer tiny dancer,
Count the headlights on the highway,
Lay me down in sheets of linen,
You've had a busy day today."
The words of Elton John floated across his room as a possessed wind, hell-bent on making his well up in tears, which he cordially obeyed. It had been one hell of a day. It had been one hell of a week. It had been one hell of a year.
Her name was Daria. She generally referred to herself as Yoko, in a most spiteful way. She found herself saying outrageous things about politics. Her hair, which changed colour like it would die without doing so, carried a weekly average of four colours, but it ranged from two to sev
if you happened to be sending
signals my way
they
gargled and scrambled
or my receiver is
fucking up again
i never did get good reception with this shitty antenna
i think i'll just read a book
or change the channel
i can't fucking stand
this show
The wonderful mushroom cloud of happiness
We love your atomic bomb
Blow up the world
Leave me gone
Frankly, I want to be dust
To disappear like magic
To melt in an instant
If someone attacks America
We need to drop the bomb
Goodbye Iraq
Au revior, so long
By the time I'm fifty there will be no trees
Earth will be a barren wasteland
Full of crack cocaine
And marijuana leaves
We're all already addicted
To one thing or another
When I'm fifty
Cancer will be cured
But everyone will be dead
So it won't matter
When I'm fifty
There won't be global warming
It'll be a nuclear winter
Ha ha let's go sledding
When I'm fifty
Looks won't matter
We'll be deformed
And "beautiful" will be a state of mind
When I'm fifty
America will be a third world country
But so will every country
When I'm fifty
We'll all be dead
Hell
I hope I live to be forty-eight
A Metaphorical Look at Me by BinhUlrik, literature
Literature
A Metaphorical Look at Me
I am the clouds
After the rain
Full of nothing
It's already gone
I am the arctic
Cold and barren
Home to nothing
Just ice and snow
I am the lightning
Striking quick
A bolt
A surge
Then nothing
I am the leaf
Fallen off the tree
Dead and gone
Forgotten and frozen
Brown and broken
I am the wood
In the fire
Burning up
Turned to ashes
I am the cow
In the slaughter
One moment I'm here
Then I'm gone
Food for someone
Who won't eat half
I am the rat
Test drugs on me
Don't hurt the good
Hurt me
I am the things in your head
I'm not real
Just thoughts
Pictures
Images in your mind
I am the answers you need to find
The world is a bullet,
And we are the gun,
Pull on the trigger,
And we're all done,
Shot into nowhere,
For no reason at all,
The violence will kill us,
We'll blow ourselves up,
Nuclear, Hydrogen, Atomic bombs,
"Road map to peace,"
Who's driving the car?
Don't run out of gas,
When you've gone too far,
Because I might have "freedom of speech,"
But no freedom of peace,
And before you know it,
You'll be destroying me
today
i stopped
looked
waited
tried to
make something happen
it didn't
nothing changed
it's all the same
pollution
poverty
war
didn't stop
don't look
you'll fuck yourself up
don't stop
don't care
don't you fucking dare
the world will
knock the wind out of you
split your chest open
steal your wallet
and your conscience too
we're all in it for money
don't you know?
it won't change
not tomorrow
not the next day
or the next
give it a rest
you're hopeless
or am i?
but
what if?
i didn't stop?
didn't look?
just let it be
what if?
it were different?
what if?
it was ok
to be me?
what if?
we could be norma
Listen up White America,
I have an idea,
It will bring down you're almighty "children of freedom,"
We'll create an economy with no limits on commerce,
Everything will revolve around the dollar and cent,
People won't know where they're money's been spent,
We'll set the prices for oil and gas,
Making ourselves rich and creating a lower class,
Suddenly money can buy you anything,
From votes to death to whole companies,
We'll make everything overpriced,
But they'll still buy it,
They won't know,
That it can be different,
It doesn't have to be all for show,
Let's create fashion and make things "cool,"
The kids that don't wear it wi
Prostitute
Whore yourself out
Sell it to the world
Take the insults
Make your money
Feel good
Have sex
We're all whores just like you
The world revolves around
Sex and money
No one cares
We're all too high
And we feel good.
Another Bad, Hypotricital Poem by BinhUlrik, literature
Literature
Another Bad, Hypotricital Poem
Choke me with your politics
I can't swallow it
Your stupidity
Confuses me
I can't understand
How you think this way
Anti-gay?
Pro life?
What does this mean to you?
Why can't two people
Who love
Marry?
Why can't a pregnant
Teenager
Choose life
For herself?
Why do we all need guns?
Why does the land of the free
Believe in god?
That lie you tell us
Every day of our lives
Make me say your pledge
I'll fake it
So fuck you
Republican
Fuck you
Democrat
I don't share your views
Force-feed me
Make me the good little American
Because I will
Destroy your world
Destroy your views
I'm sorry Mr. President
I don't believe i
Recall me
Take me away
I don't want to live
Another day
Tell me what
You want me to be
Take it away
Call me free
Depression is fun
Black every day
Cancerous thoughts
Nothing is free
Wear me down
Erode me
I can't amount
To anything
I want to go
Anywhere but here
So goodbye
I'll see you later
My life is dead
Nothing to me
i could've just commented on your actual writings, but just wanted to say that i really like it. i like that it's different. Oh, and i'd like to see the U.
so um, this is mandie, i havnt been on this thing for about a million years, but i just read some of your stuff and its really good. and as always, i really hope you dont hate me!