Poems from alexpelaez
This poem is about listening,
Humans muffle out white noise,
with fireblankets cotton swabbing our ears,
but the earphones of "right now"...
I was a Nutter-Butter, chubby cheeked girl
who always played the boy in pretend
I grew in pink-skirted, princess crowned swingsets
I wanted...
I have a friend who always wants to help me
Who can’t seem to grasp I set sail to sea on a ship called Solo
that’s sinking because it’s got...
They call them Silvertongues
With a sickly, feeble lion throats
She speaks a language
known best by politicians and advertisements
A...
We are stamp-lickers,
Overachieving procrastinators, addicts
The kind of kids that
ran to the depths of local ponds
Just to go screaming
As...