By MVR
Submitted by scqueen
Date: 2005 Apr 12
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Quotes from Misti’s Poetry

'Anyway, I've always wanted to go to the pen 'cause it'd give me a chance to catch up on my writing.'

'Without the Schizophrenia I'd Be Invisible'

'The subconscious is an unruly beast'

'I'm one of those freaks who thinks certain colors taste better than others.'

'and our clay feet
won't let us fly
not in this world
of blonde beauty idealism
that's really nothing more than realism
gussied up and shining for the early show'

'We're out of tune, you jackass. I say tomato, you say tangerine'

'My head feels like a pinata. Filled with bad candy, swatted with a stick a few times too many.'

'no canyons for the echoes'

'a psychedelic pop art candy green thwump
thwump dream'

'I was a crazy little space chic
you wanted a bird feeder instead'

'the whole world should have nothing more to
worry about
than a subscription to Modern Maturity
and ten dollar paper cards...'

"Strange days, indeed"
said the Walrus
but that was long ago
my sister looks up at the sky
crying
and says
"I told you so."

'O Holy Hollywood
Caste System for the MTV Generation
you slobber over the pretty ones'

'the romance of it all
is that Southern men love them, anyway
and breed with them
in trailer parks
where plantations once stood
when the South was rosy'

'after a frightfully long day
I need some blue bath confetti
homemade spaghetti
maybe you in a black beret'

'you are throbbing at the center of
my headache'

'I need to touch the fire with my fingertips
and carouse with sultry abandon'

'it should be a familiar Saturday night
sitting at the bar toasting the ghosts'

'I went inside, anyway. I was hungry. No, I didn't knock. People in fairy tales never knock.'

'I don't know
I have been places
facedown on the floor
I have been ashamed.'

'the washateria isn't all it should be'

'you don't go to school
to break down the meaning
of lust'

'I crave the parade you cram inside
each smile'

'we were very poor
and disillusioned
city love was hard'

'boring my brother with my pretense
as I live our life like fiction that sits on the shelf and never sells
even at drastically reduced prices'

'I know Southern fried religion, yes
I've worn the One True Key to the Kingdom
on a string around my neck'

'then I met him and I knew
true love was getting something back
without begging for it.'

'at virginal didn't know shit fifteen
you seemed like a good idea'

'already have a harmonica
just blow
and the rest
will come'

'Santa Fe won't save
the maniacal
but it might ease
the asthma'

'I was never your yellow rose, Texas
you cheated on me with cheerleaders/rodeo queens
irony deficient drawlin' good ole gals
you loved them all more than me
their heads weren't filled with raindrops
how could a state so grand and red white and blue
love a girl with a soggy head?'

'but my neck is broken from looking back over my shoulder
one second later I'm colder from the chill
of knowing I don't love myself
still.'

'to be tame and mild
   seems a fairy tale
  I much prefer this deliberate hell
I love the game
   cherish the attack
  it's boring when They love me back'

'and all that is left
is cigarette breath
and a long drive
       home'

'advertising myself to you
I inadvertently gave away
what I was trying to sell
and you love bargains
so you didn't object'

'he made love to her with ink and paper
sing songing her beauty
             her wit
             her talent
             her charm'

'my feet were always doing the wrong thing
but you knew how to dance
even in second grade'

'but I will always be starving
staring through the window
at the display I can't touch.
maybe at the moment of death
I will at last
break the glass.'

'the shoe fits but you want to kick it off
and run through the daisies'

'hell has no air conditioning
or Cherry Limeade
for the tired tirades
of an ex
almost Dixie Doll.'

'I want to forget.
I want to focus on now.
I want to feel everything and think nothing of it.'

'I love you the most
even though I know
you would never forgive me
for being Judas in smeared lipstick
crawling in
at six
a.m.'

'we would have been great Valentines
in kindergarten
with Snoopy and Woodstock saying it all
for us.'

'driving to Santa Fe
speeding down the interstate
with two dollars in my purse
holy Jupiter
I could walk inside a casino
put it in a slot
and hit the jackpot
'cause today I am radiating
luck, baby
of the very best kind'

'We said our vows on a mountain
and complete strangers smiled upon us
and applauded
as red and purple and yellow balloons
were released into a sunset technicolor sky.
Was I lying?
No. I was just trying really hard
to be the woman everyone
needed me
to become.'

'you see
I need the heat
I need to dance on fire
I like to burn'

'and now silence pervades
and I am free
to kick buckets across
twilight
and trap bugs
I don't need
because they bite
am i alright?
no
not quite'


' and those of us
         who aren't given many feathers
         yet somehow manage
         to breathe in the joy
      and with ebullience...
              fly.'


'...if the trolley arrives
      and you are in it
   that won't alter the fact
    that there are 60 seconds
        inside each minute.'


'I don't need to be filled
the violets in my field are many
you ain't gettin' any'


'it's just us
you
me
we are flawed and fragile
whipping
in the wind.'


'I went out to the stoop to watch the sun
rise like an unpoppable bubble
smoking a pack of Marlboros
but not
inhaling'

'and if we find each other
  somehow, sometime
on this strange, mad planet
    my arms will be open
     and you'll know me
      by my smile'

'everyone should come face to face
with snarling demons
on vacation'

'put your ducks in a row and learn to QUACK'


'if you ever saw me you wouldn't have
seen me because my hair was in the way'

'he stares at her hair because
there aren't any tangles
she throws him like a yo-yo
and he just dangles'

'these days
we are surrounded
by new subdivisions
and the road is paved
and the night isn't deep dark
you drive a car
I forget what it's called
and people think I'm eccentric
'cause I walk
to town.'