Popular Misunderstood Poems

She said I was “so quiet”.
I smiled and thought
 that’s because I have little to say
 about comings and goings I can’t track,
 drama and gossip I never understand,
 faceless names I’ll forget tomorrow.
Your words buzz around my head like gnats
 and I am not a part of all that.

It’s not that I don’t try to speak.
My commentary is simply
 the wrong shape
 to penetrate their ear holes
Words tumble from tongue to floor
 getting nothing but blank glances
 as if I farted or confessed an unsavory sin
 or made random...

do not regret
    or mourn a
       broken heart

it's life's way of
   reminding you
     that you actually
        gave a shit about
           someone or something

I don’t know that smoke,” I said and turned
my face away from hazy,
lazy eyes  
that spoke with swirling blue,  
shameless lust –
a guise I know when we  
are on our own.
 
I watch the cherry  
glow from mouth to mouth,
the unfamiliar night  
creeps in and I
don’t know the smoke  
he’s blowing out tonight.
 
She don’t know that smoke,  
he seeps into the dark.
She gets shy,  
his smolder hands are slick
with heat. I cut confusion  
eyes to his.
He’d never touched,   ...