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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2 |
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