The Great Lie

I want the perfect body

the perfect smile

the perfect laugh

I want to be like

the perfect

women in the glossy, slick expensive

magazines.

 

I’d kill myself

starve myself

punish myself without mercy

to be like the perfect women

revered

in the bible of female existence

the glossy, slick, expensive magazines.

 

If I am like that

tall, cool, white and blond

maybe

I will love myself

like one of those people

who fall in love

with the women

in the slick, glossy, expensive magazines.

 

But, oh the magic but,

if

I loved myself first?

Love thyself is a lie

who can do that

when your mirror screams in horror

when you stand in front of it

and it’s just the three of you

hating each other.

Like the dark twisted figures

hidden between the pages

of the

slick, expensive magazines

Daily Addiction Prompt: Frail

The Graceless Cadaver

Wrapped in a silken fantasy

swaddled in a velvet lined delusion

bathed in smoke and wine

and

homemade embalming fluid

The Graceless Cadaver

feeds on stolen time

and

the ruined dreams

of the dark and

unveiled

other.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Daily Addiction Prompt: Disclose

The Question of Bones

Photo L.S.. Moscoso

Can I afford to not look up

to look straight ahead

with my eyes shut tight

Can I afford what that will cost me?

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Don’t think

don’t speak

do not wonder

Can I afford to do that?

I’ll save a lot and have time to spare

one day.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Or I could hang the cost

run up the tab

and let my curiosity run free

a wild monster roaming the world

looking for more, feasting on too much, it doesn’t wear a watch

it doesn’t care about the bill when it comes due

Can I afford to do that?

Can I really afford to dream?

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Daily Addiction Prompt: Afford

When The Moon Hits Your Eye

 

Once  on my morning commute  my  train had mechanical issues and was cancelled.

That meant that there was standing room only and the people further down the line who normally caught the ‘pickup’ train were put off and angry that there was standing room only when they got on.

One passenger had issues, my guess was I was sitting in the seat he normally sat in. He could have stood anywhere but he decided to stand in front of me, with his back turned towards my face.

All I could do from my seat was watch the waxing and waning of this new Moon  whose orbit seemed to degrade at times and appeared to be in danger if crashing into my head.

I kept hearing Robot warning Will Robinson of Danger.

Eventually I was able to settle down contemplated the wonders of the Universe, the dangers of the Universe. Why was I here at this exact moment in time with that man’s posterior swallowing up the horizon?

I could not think of  polite way to say, ” Could you get your ass out of my face?”

It was gross situation,  but what could I do?

Then it hit me.

Reclaim my space! That was the thing to do.

But how?

And then it dawned on me.

I took a picture of it.

I wasn’t going to look up or down. I wasn’t going to go to my happy place. I wasn’t going to stay right where I was.

That’s the thing about standing your ground, most of the time it’s not a glamorous place to be in.

But one can make the most of it.

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Daily Addiction Prompt: Gigantic