Monday, 28 June 2010
i do believe it is time for a new theme. this time round, we will be tackling hector's choice of DENTAL TRAUMA. please feel free to go back and generate more delicious content for the old topics though (NEW YORK, FOOD STUFFS, WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE______, FANTASTIC MACHINES, SONGS).
if you have any suggestions for new topics, just shout me a hollar yo!
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
dental trauma: first kiss
I have bit
my tongue for too long
on this one.
I know that conscience
and the cold bite hard,
and rhyme is a twisting
tongue, is a sound leaf
caught between
two lines of teeth,
but this was torture.
II
Your cigarette
was a lovebite at the night's
cold neck
a brush of teeth along her black
back, a perfect kiss
in the cold air. So when
your lips brushed mine
I could not help but wonder
how,
between the rush
of teenage lust and tooth
and tongue, salivasap,
your lip
managed to trap
itself between my metal brace
and gum, biting
itself into submission
bleeding, suffering, then numb
as kisses became kickboxing
attempts
to escape, save face,
to free your tongue
like a bird of song
from its newfound cage:
my bruising, glinting brace.
Monday, 14 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
welcome to the black parade- my chemical romance
my body is a cage- arcade fire
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
The Headmaster Ritual- The Smiths
Lail Arad, Everyone is moving to Berlin
It’s all going down in East Berlin.She swept her long hair over her shoulder and swayed the table decisively. He looked at her and took a little sip of his cool beer. He'll never be able to fit me in, she thought, between that faded old sofa and the cranky fridge with half-drunk bottles of Weisswein and the hung-up washing and steaming cups of dark tea on the sideboard of the shop. Never, if not tonight.
She thought he'd liked her that day on the U-Bahn. She couldn’t work out what was a memory and what she’d invented. Was he itching to take her bottom lip between his teeth, as she was, and gently bite?
He paid for her drink and winced. “Sorry, my contacts, hang on a sec.” He was so polite, it was exhausting. It was a little cold. She wanted him to warm her up, to put his electrifying fingers on her shoulders and squeeze.
“Got a light?”
“Sure.” He flicked a flame between their lips, briefly. Crumpled lung chrysalis. Was it just breath, or was there something else forming between them, as sweet and flickering as smoke?
Lail Arad / Everyone is moving to Berlin