Submissions by CultureVulture (Penelope Diaz)

Tommy-gun mania peppers pen to paper
amidst hefty heists n' daring daylight capers
Seeding faith trees to feed the praise of saviors
grounded morals buried beneath rude behavior

Nest egg faltered under weights of the favors
left an apathetic taste with no flavor to savor
While dew painted people purposefully envy
following frantic fellows for their feast of frenzy

Left a stale zest of no passion or fire
unrelenting wants to transform desire
Cowards clenching cotton coattails
hoping an apology would curtail...
...

(instead)
you asked for time n' distance
against my own insistence
that moment my friend
it was doomed to end

in-between the lines of
horoscopes and vinyl's
heeding the fine signs
fled somewhere inside

if history was kind
earth to reach the sublime
we could mind the time
but now's not what I find

minor indiscretions
language of deception
wise goodbyes left unsaid
should have left nothing instead
major indiscretions
language of deception
wise goodbyes left unsaid
should have...