Bottled Water Sleep



Bottled water sleep, emptied, standing
flies drink without contempt.

Neon lights glow, creeping towards me through the shutters, across the ceiling

Wretched crumpled sheets empty
Stains of innocent lust the night before
Scattered news of worldly affairs covers the floor

Dreams of something infinitely gentle
time for murder in the streets, six o'clock news, fuzzy dot interference, decaying madness, endless, ever continuing, never ending

Noise of door latch clatter
entering a closed conversation
don't open till morning

One or more bags of a weeks wages
blown, without control, rent now due

Confused sexuality, is everyone lost walking these streets of Long Beach.

Got to go, no longer can breath
Love no longer a desire, a must!

About this poem

Emptiness... Part V "Invading the Privacy of Others" 1992

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Written on January 15, 1993

Submitted by geoffnet2000 on July 26, 2023

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Scheme AX A XBB XA XXA XX X XX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 740
Words 125
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2

Scott E Smith

Born 1968, Kentucky Began writing prose and Poetry in 1977 Completed Eight Chap Books in 1996 more…

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