Submissions by Taurek
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction Soft westside boy.
DARK POEM
Published
1st Apr 2020 7:42am
1st Apr 2020 7:42am
The Mason Era Comes to Town
What happens when you find
out you’re actually living in
the life you created for
yourself?
That’s when the suicide
rates spike and new
drugs need to be
administered
It’s unfortunate, the
people that we’ve
met
You get tired of
everything being
a tragedy
The litany of
bad seeds and
lesbians with bad
tattoos making out in
your living room
Stockholm Syndrome written
inside palindromes and the
idiosyncrasies that defined
this generation of ...
out you’re actually living in
the life you created for
yourself?
That’s when the suicide
rates spike and new
drugs need to be
administered
It’s unfortunate, the
people that we’ve
met
You get tired of
everything being
a tragedy
The litany of
bad seeds and
lesbians with bad
tattoos making out in
your living room
Stockholm Syndrome written
inside palindromes and the
idiosyncrasies that defined
this generation of ...
#hope
#lesbian
#suicide
#drugs
#apocalypse
56 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
31st Mar 2020 6:51am
31st Mar 2020 6:51am
Plasticine Days, Freon Nights
#sex
#war
#death
#alcohol
#drugs
63 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
25th Mar 2020 4:41am
25th Mar 2020 4:41am
Too Red-Pilled to Have the Blues
Leveraged a mortgage and a car note
on a job that’s soon to be obsolete
Radiohead spawned a generation of
creeps
Watching Mr. Robot will turn you into
a misogynist
The empty streets of Culver City. Food
lines at Trader Joe’s. A little taste of
what’s to come.
The boss says I gotta work during
the shutdown because I’m
“essential”, i.e., disposable.
Listening to Delta Spirit’s
“California” got me feeling
sad and nostalgic for times
I imagined happened
Does anyone know who ...
on a job that’s soon to be obsolete
Radiohead spawned a generation of
creeps
Watching Mr. Robot will turn you into
a misogynist
The empty streets of Culver City. Food
lines at Trader Joe’s. A little taste of
what’s to come.
The boss says I gotta work during
the shutdown because I’m
“essential”, i.e., disposable.
Listening to Delta Spirit’s
“California” got me feeling
sad and nostalgic for times
I imagined happened
Does anyone know who ...
#anxiety
#murder
#death
#drugs
#illness
71 reads
6 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2020 7:22am
3rd Mar 2020 7:22am
The History of Me!
I got fall-down, blackout
Drunk again on
Saturday
I went to the closing
Of a friend’s bar in
Downtown LA
After swearing I
Wouldn’t drink hard
Liquor in public
Anymore, I swiftly
Downed a Balvenie my
Friend ordered me followed
By a Glenfiddich on ice and
Some other whiskey on
Ice the bartender suggested
From their dwindling
Supply
Then I was talking to
Another friend’s immigration
Lawyer about how I
Didn’t find Joker
All that impressive and
Then...
Drunk again on
Saturday
I went to the closing
Of a friend’s bar in
Downtown LA
After swearing I
Wouldn’t drink hard
Liquor in public
Anymore, I swiftly
Downed a Balvenie my
Friend ordered me followed
By a Glenfiddich on ice and
Some other whiskey on
Ice the bartender suggested
From their dwindling
Supply
Then I was talking to
Another friend’s immigration
Lawyer about how I
Didn’t find Joker
All that impressive and
Then...
#sex
#friendship
#war
#alcohol
#marijuana
151 reads
10 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
26th Feb 2020 7:04am
26th Feb 2020 7:04am
Sing Sing’s Dreaming
Radio silence on
Miley Cyrus
The only chick you
think about now
You know what the
male gaze is? It’s hardcore
pornography, war, pillage,
rape, sadistic
violence, subjugation.
And you know what the
female gaze is? It’s the
same thing.
Now you know why
we’ve survived, thus
far, at the top of the
food chain
Clementine’s on
Tuesday
I’m never going to
forgive you
As the Madame
laments
me
There will be a
reckoning and
this...
Miley Cyrus
The only chick you
think about now
You know what the
male gaze is? It’s hardcore
pornography, war, pillage,
rape, sadistic
violence, subjugation.
And you know what the
female gaze is? It’s the
same thing.
Now you know why
we’ve survived, thus
far, at the top of the
food chain
Clementine’s on
Tuesday
I’m never going to
forgive you
As the Madame
laments
me
There will be a
reckoning and
this...
#violence
#abuse
#war
#porn
#prison
96 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
21st Feb 2020 5:01am
21st Feb 2020 5:01am
The Complaint’s Explanation
Every time your skin
touches you’re fuckin’ I
ain’t come here from
nothin’
I’ve been
here for years and
It’s always
something
Crumbling
infrastructures,
Oscar
nominees
There’s something to
be said about
shadow
accomplices
You want to ask me
about humans and
resources?
Nothing dies harder than
a dream in Hollywood
A scabbard’s...
touches you’re fuckin’ I
ain’t come here from
nothin’
I’ve been
here for years and
It’s always
something
Crumbling
infrastructures,
Oscar
nominees
There’s something to
be said about
shadow
accomplices
You want to ask me
about humans and
resources?
Nothing dies harder than
a dream in Hollywood
A scabbard’s...
#sex
#death
#shadows
#hell
#PopCulture
93 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
19th Feb 2020 6:00am
19th Feb 2020 6:00am
Drones Over Playa del Rey
Forty-two, turning a
deeper shade of
blue
The grimaces come from
somewhere else now
Listening to records from
2004, the last year when
things seemed
possible
Before the blackouts and
backstabbing and television
deals with billionaires on
their deathbeds
Before the production
company on daddy’s
dollar and the bad
movies produced
Before you reached out
to me four years
later to return damaged
music equipment and again
after a year of sobriety after ...
deeper shade of
blue
The grimaces come from
somewhere else now
Listening to records from
2004, the last year when
things seemed
possible
Before the blackouts and
backstabbing and television
deals with billionaires on
their deathbeds
Before the production
company on daddy’s
dollar and the bad
movies produced
Before you reached out
to me four years
later to return damaged
music equipment and again
after a year of sobriety after ...
#city
#music
#alcohol
#drugs
#aging
58 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Feb 2020 5:14am
17th Feb 2020 5:14am
What Did You Do with Your Time?
I just try to figure out what she
wants me to be and I become
that, and it’s always the
same thing. There is no
feminine mystique:
There’s the sword, the
flesh, there’s blood, and
then there’s
Death
wants me to be and I become
that, and it’s always the
same thing. There is no
feminine mystique:
There’s the sword, the
flesh, there’s blood, and
then there’s
Death
#death
73 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
15th Feb 2020 5:17am
15th Feb 2020 5:17am
Sing Happy Birthday Every Time You Wash Your Hands
Torture is knowing
what you really are
There is a garden where
scars are the fertilizer and
roses are serial
killers and trapped
water harvests this
new strain of
whatever it is
that ails
you
I’m taking the advice
of fools
These phrases ain’t
gonna save you
These phrases ain’t
what they used
to be
These phases just
had a baby and it
looks just like
you
Solipsism rears it
beautiful phallus once
again and I’m into
it because I’m...
what you really are
There is a garden where
scars are the fertilizer and
roses are serial
killers and trapped
water harvests this
new strain of
whatever it is
that ails
you
I’m taking the advice
of fools
These phrases ain’t
gonna save you
These phrases ain’t
what they used
to be
These phases just
had a baby and it
looks just like
you
Solipsism rears it
beautiful phallus once
again and I’m into
it because I’m...
#birth
#murder
#identity
#birthday
#illness
79 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
12th Feb 2020 4:14am
12th Feb 2020 4:14am
It’s Time to Meet with Bill
I’m still fucked up
I haven’t learned a
goddamn thing
And I’m really starting
to believe this
is a disease
I haven’t learned a
goddamn thing
And I’m really starting
to believe this
is a disease
#alcohol
#drugs
#tobacco
#addiction
#illness
94 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
11th Feb 2020 4:09am
11th Feb 2020 4:09am
Cure Me of My Illnesses
Bless me for my sins
I’ve been around this
block before and I’ll
be here again
You’ve told me of
your troubles and
you’ve absolved
me of my
spirit
There’s nothing worse
than visiting aging
parents
Three hundred dollar
birthday check and five
hundred dollars’ worth
of grief
Old trauma manifests
itself as irrational anger over a
forgotten Apple ID
password followed by
weeks of regret
I have my own state of
grace,...
I’ve been around this
block before and I’ll
be here again
You’ve told me of
your troubles and
you’ve absolved
me of my
spirit
There’s nothing worse
than visiting aging
parents
Three hundred dollar
birthday check and five
hundred dollars’ worth
of grief
Old trauma manifests
itself as irrational anger over a
forgotten Apple ID
password followed by
weeks of regret
I have my own state of
grace,...
#vampires
#LifeAsAWriter
#illness
#aging
#morality
77 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
9th Feb 2020 4:54am
9th Feb 2020 4:54am
My Whole Family Is Trying To Kill My Girlfriend
#politics
#death
#marijuana
#satirical
#rebellion
77 reads
3 Comments
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