Tag Archives: poetry

My’Stroke

 
 
Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
 
 
I play the keys

you know,

I caress them,

polishing characters to & from my QWERTY,

(offset by one key always, but I have an ear)

arms rising & diving quite dramatically
 
 
 
Dah–nah–nah–NAHHH!!!

I orchestrate sentences

arrange notes

& sample sounds–

plunk

plunk

plink

snapping fingers beatnik style between composures..

wink-wink-wink

composures

to remix,

harmonize & synthesize

the ize within.
 
 
Chewing long-handled pens

I wear black pajamas

(dba sweatpants)

and plenty of extra pencils in my do too, I forget they are there

weaving braids, harum-scarum style, on my days off…

fingers fall in agreeable waterfall

sometimes unison

> a Chord <

sometimes singular

> a Big note<

each digit

respecting the path of the digit before.

 ©Karen Robiscoe

Grey-fitti

 
Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
I am moving into

another head

where thoughts are kinder to me…

With more breathing room

frosted Windows, and better wiring.

With fluffy pillows of cerebellum

to soften nooks and crannies

and fewer doors.

Where Disney daydreams never get interrupted

by the Emergency Panic Service

(conducting a test in my area)

and Night Terrors

are just a show on TV.

When I move, the only prerequisites

for my new, grey space

are “fugue it” rooms

(for wall-scrawling)

a widow’s walk,

& guard rails….

maybe one of those gliding, stair-lift thingeez,

to facilitate illogical leaps, and breaks in rationale.

When I move, I am throwing most everything I have already, away

Boxes and boxes and boxes

and boxes!

(bet you knew that was coming)

of stuff Pandora likes

but me not so much

and a few, dead cats the reek of which

permeate every, single meta-phor of my current mind-frame

> even high heaven <

since death

(like heat)

rises.

©Karen Robiscoe

The World Wide One-Horse Town

 
 
I am tribal

not global

foot to earth

is my mobile

eye to eye

is my bible

as DPI’s liable

to be less than noble

a writhing immotile

a mall

for a shopper

who’d rather boutique…

I’ll take face to face any day of the week

(and then only when I desire to speak)

I’ll grip hand to hand

I’ll choose side to side

since language is more

than a character tide.

I am tribal

not global.

©Karen Robiscoe

 
 

Wood-burning

 
 

She had a parting of the ways

with her houseplants

—a falling out.

it bore no rePeating …

& she kicKed them to the curb

—succulents, first.

Everyone secretly hates succulents,

and in that regard, she was no different from anyone else…

Creepy shop o’ horrors plant,

and not even attractive

the plant for the:

I am too lame to have a houseplant, plant-owner

Released to the wild, these plants were free!

Both deprived and granted rooTs,

it was their inability to ambulate that spelled disaster

since cities limit Trees.

 ©Karen Robiscoe

Lucky Charm

 
Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
like a cat

a faerie only gets so many lives.

Each bubble delicate,

candy floss soluble,

& magically propitious…
 
 
Chimney sweep lucky, and a good deal less sooty,

it’s a good idea to hang in her general vicinity.

Quietly, though, since Tipping Tongues kill faeries,

& only water affords her attention–

—method more so:

/ waterboard verses /

/ bubblebath verses /

“oh-oh, what was that?

did you feel that?”

(cursing)

That’s a big difference

to the skin!

–and like Rumpelstiltskin

a faerie must go if beckoned,

since some faerie rules are universal

and delivery is critical.

Just think of

Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse

Betel…just a skosh more demonic

than sprite, but distant relations all the same

the 6th fact that bears remembering

(if forgotten will evidence evenso)

a faerie cannot, absolutely cannot

live within walls,

cages, or books.

Any page written thereto

will contain only the Faerie Tail

Faerie story, and other stored, faerie bits,

omitting the X factor entirely.

(the best part of the faerie besides Y and Z)

Equal space distancing

between all

3 eyes.

©Karen Robiscoe

15 Minutes Later…

 
Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
 
I am sick of painting

blackbirds blue…

trilling a vacuum hose in wind fans

as if the background Musak suits

as if I’d play it otherwise

when frankly, my loop plays for a reason–

it suits me.
 
 
 
with operator slash deejay slash bad pyrotechnics slash amazeballs punctuation which is nevertheless cliché at day’s end, and who cares, since it all sounds the f**king same.

Here we are,

La-la-la-la-la-la-la.

a ba-jah-muh-f**king-try-zillion of us.

Each one of us

(and that’s a lot, in case you didn’t do the math up there)

broadcasting our views,

like–
like…

Like I dunno what…since it’s unprecedented, but try discussing that with someone, parroting that to someone, paraphrasing that to someone, pirating someone’s work–who no one knows, not even the someone Zero

(No one knows everyone except the someone Zero)

Some people!

The class room broadens and narrows, and blindfolded—

sheep follow rams off cliffs in staggering numbers

stag-ger-ing

to me, at least, and who has time for it?

Digital Walls strewn with bathroom graffiti

just a Smart phone shy of originality

(I hope I spelled that right)

proving each of us had a closeted blowhard, all along

Everyone.

(god bless us all, etc.)

Just itchin’ to get out

Even the * good ones *

since blue crow

is crow

with or without paint

and 21 crow salutes proceed like normal

as normal as radiation poisoning will effect, and it’s safe to say no one really knows in the Western World

(bit by bit)

It’s very hush-hush,

and very harsh-harsh

> a big f**king deal <

and at least origami crows have paper going for them, and presumably, instructions at some point.

Not like this…

No.

I’ve taken stock.

(no more fish!)

consumed as I find myself by myself—

a by-product, and not a rewarding one, and quite possibly damaging

(for me)

as intended

>since all systems intend<

…and I am sick of painting blackbirds blue.

©Karen Robiscoe

Colliding Scopes

 
stars
 
beyond this Am

of written page

is wild élan
 
 

–and though pens plan

that heart persuades.

beyond this Am
 
 
of Marching Band

& Fretting Stage

is wild élan
 
 
–and such demands

no mortal gauge

beyond this Am
 
 
is Rock, not sand

is Life uncaged!

is wild élan
 
 
–and Siren’s chant

–and songs of Age

beyond this Am

is wild élan.

©Karen Robiscoe