There's an empty cell in Arkham today.
I pushed the door open, let it swing.
The hinges creaked, then silence.
There was no laughter in the stone.
The bed was quiet.
The light, of course, would betray nothing.
I took one step in, kept my eyes on his window.
So, this is what he saw as he died.
Gotham, spread like cancer, interrupted by bars.
The sky was violet like his shirt.
I popped the collar against the damp and drew
my breath deep.
It still smelled like him, like blood, like sex,
like violence.
There'd never be another him.
People wept with joy.
I just wept.
The night was pockmarked with car horns, barks,
sirens.
But i
Tell me, darling, absent lover,
why should I not feel betrayed?
Your eyes, your hands
so mark'd upon my nightmares,
my deepest longings
are nowhere to be felt.
It is not love.
If such a powerful, sweet affliction
drove you,
would you not be here beside me?
The space glares as a wound,
this gaping hole on
one side of the bed
that God, that Great Surgeon
has failed to suture.
It is not love.
I do not mind a walk alone;
the violets, the fireflies will keep me
as
I cried the day the Man in Black
passed into that kingdom of white--
and the fissures, those little cracks
broke me, in the light
of a winter morning crisp and cold
when youth still stained my mind;
Mourning, a gentleman, striving bold,
with his dark suit as a mine
full of diamonds took my hand
and led me far astray,
away from ships and plains and lands
where oft his guitar played.
I may not have seen those Folsom halls
but I would answer, should their bard call.
When the sun hangs like a dead man
in that blue, spread-open coffin
I'll go to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I'll go to Santa Fe
in my Chevrolet,
and I will sing minuets to the asphalt
as I fly over it like a
saint thrown out of hell.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
The mountains will shake their hips
because I'll be blasting Queen,
bleeding that melodic royalty
from my open windows.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I've always wanted to be a cowgirl.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I've always wanted to be new.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I'll cut my heart out of my chest
and keep it in a jar
in my front seat so I have something
to talk to.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
The
We were lucky. These were the slow kind. Of zombies, that is. They shuffled their feet as they trudged over the baseball diamond; some of them were missing their lower jaws, so their tongues swayed as they moved. I found it better if they missed appendages rather than walking around without any skin.
I was with my best friend, Tegan, who was reclining on the bleachers. There was no wind; her blonde hair fell in a sheet. She blew a big, pink bubble with her gum and then popped it. The snapping sound was harsh. "You ready to do this?" She asked me, reaching up and touching the brim of her baseball cap as she stared out at the approaching horde
On the mountain did Chernabog rest
breathing smoke and fog
upon the moors and bogs.
While water dogs
dripping like clockwork--
wheels and cogs
stood on their shores
maws silent as they stared
at the summit, glossed
over by the stars--
though the
demon's shape, his hoggish build
was betrayed by the moon
upon his God-locked wings.
They saw Death
that their masters, so boxed inside
their daily jobs like trap't foxes
failed to notice.
Seeing him walk was like hearing an improv jazz session, complete with a spindly-fingered pianist looking at your all doe-eyed from underneath the spotlight's glare. Jeff always seemed to take up more space than he actually did, but the lank in his limbs was melodious, in harmony with his smooth legato gait.
Affixed to her fridge were flame magnets, the kind you were supposed to put on your car. It looked as though the fridge was trying to fly through the floor, which wasn't yielding. There was also a scrap of red carpet duct-taped over a hole in the front plastic layer of the freezer door. Someone had drawn a crude penis on the fabric with a black marker, complete with a little smiley face. On the inside, several large nails had been hammered in, forming the shape of a cross. There were splatters of something red around it.
Inside, there was nothing save for about fifteen shot glasses filled with different colored kinds of jello. Likewise, ther
There's an empty cell in Arkham today.
I pushed the door open, let it swing.
The hinges creaked, then silence.
There was no laughter in the stone.
The bed was quiet.
The light, of course, would betray nothing.
I took one step in, kept my eyes on his window.
So, this is what he saw as he died.
Gotham, spread like cancer, interrupted by bars.
The sky was violet like his shirt.
I popped the collar against the damp and drew
my breath deep.
It still smelled like him, like blood, like sex,
like violence.
There'd never be another him.
People wept with joy.
I just wept.
The night was pockmarked with car horns, barks,
sirens.
But i
Tell me, darling, absent lover,
why should I not feel betrayed?
Your eyes, your hands
so mark'd upon my nightmares,
my deepest longings
are nowhere to be felt.
It is not love.
If such a powerful, sweet affliction
drove you,
would you not be here beside me?
The space glares as a wound,
this gaping hole on
one side of the bed
that God, that Great Surgeon
has failed to suture.
It is not love.
I do not mind a walk alone;
the violets, the fireflies will keep me
as
I cried the day the Man in Black
passed into that kingdom of white--
and the fissures, those little cracks
broke me, in the light
of a winter morning crisp and cold
when youth still stained my mind;
Mourning, a gentleman, striving bold,
with his dark suit as a mine
full of diamonds took my hand
and led me far astray,
away from ships and plains and lands
where oft his guitar played.
I may not have seen those Folsom halls
but I would answer, should their bard call.
When the sun hangs like a dead man
in that blue, spread-open coffin
I'll go to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I'll go to Santa Fe
in my Chevrolet,
and I will sing minuets to the asphalt
as I fly over it like a
saint thrown out of hell.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
The mountains will shake their hips
because I'll be blasting Queen,
bleeding that melodic royalty
from my open windows.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I've always wanted to be a cowgirl.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I've always wanted to be new.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
I'll cut my heart out of my chest
and keep it in a jar
in my front seat so I have something
to talk to.
I'll go to Santa Fe.
The
We were lucky. These were the slow kind. Of zombies, that is. They shuffled their feet as they trudged over the baseball diamond; some of them were missing their lower jaws, so their tongues swayed as they moved. I found it better if they missed appendages rather than walking around without any skin.
I was with my best friend, Tegan, who was reclining on the bleachers. There was no wind; her blonde hair fell in a sheet. She blew a big, pink bubble with her gum and then popped it. The snapping sound was harsh. "You ready to do this?" She asked me, reaching up and touching the brim of her baseball cap as she stared out at the approaching horde
Seeing him walk was like hearing an improv jazz session, complete with a spindly-fingered pianist looking at your all doe-eyed from underneath the spotlight's glare. Jeff always seemed to take up more space than he actually did, but the lank in his limbs was melodious, in harmony with his smooth legato gait.
Affixed to her fridge were flame magnets, the kind you were supposed to put on your car. It looked as though the fridge was trying to fly through the floor, which wasn't yielding. There was also a scrap of red carpet duct-taped over a hole in the front plastic layer of the freezer door. Someone had drawn a crude penis on the fabric with a black marker, complete with a little smiley face. On the inside, several large nails had been hammered in, forming the shape of a cross. There were splatters of something red around it.
Inside, there was nothing save for about fifteen shot glasses filled with different colored kinds of jello. Likewise, ther
Ava stood in the middle of her bed. Her sheets were a horrific shade of burgundy. Her head almost touched the ceiling. The shaking stopped, everything in her room settling. The vibrations ended as soon as they began, and as they stopped it was like something died, something they ought to mourn, whatever it was. Ava's neighbor, Eve, who used to be addicted to crank, slammed her door open, eyes wide and red-rimmed. Eve, though she had been in the program for several weeks, was still very much in the grips of that great, white monsterat least, she was where it would hurt her the most. "I almost died, Ava! Jesus tits!" That's all she said,
Oh, that I had strength
to walk away from this city!
These bricks, these sidewalks
would fall away like chains--
I'd never look back.
My soul will bleed out
the bottoms of my feet
on the asphalt, that Armageddon
sunrise painting my world
beautiful.
Who knew that all we needed
for a perfect beginning
was this beginning's end?
We've paved our relationship with molten brick;
then tied our fingers against thunderstruck trees
while prudent street dogs spat selfish lyrics
and served lightly-salted soliloquies.
I cried starshine into your emerald arms,
so you could become the meaningful whisper I'll never hear.
I fell for faithless, plastic charms
in rooms that smelled like smoke, white oak and beer.
Our hearts became rocket ships tied to ribbons,
one crawling on an overstuffed belly; always too far behind
like the sons and daughters of Elias Fitzgibbons
who said we would wed us on Tuesday, that holy bind.
Wicked felt-tipped pens, forging "I love yous."
wer
I am not so serious, this passion is a plagiarism; I might join your century but only on a rare occasion. I was taken out before the labor pains set in and now behold the world's worst accident: I am the girl anachronism. (:
Operating System: Mac OS X. MP3 player of choice: Ipod. Favourite cartoon character: Aang, 'Avatar - The Last Airbender' Personal Quote: "Dare to be happy."
1. Whats your name?
Morgan.
2. How tall are you?
5'6".
3. Natural hair color? (if you can remember it)
Brown!
4. What about eye color?
Also brown!
5. What orientation are you?
Hetero.
6. Are you single, taken, or undecided?
Taken. :3
7. What do you do in your spare time?
Dick around on the internet, read, play video games, bother Jordan.
8. What's your job?
I'm a bindery assistant in Edmon-Low. (:
9. What's one thing you like about yourself?
I have a cute nose.
10. Alright, now what about something you dislike about yourself?
Being crazy. D:
11. What's some things your friends noticed about you when they first met you?
I
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:bulletpurple: I really stopped being active on dA after my sophomore year at OSU; I graduate in May with my bachelor's in Arts & Sciences. But, since I still have good friends (like Sindakri (https://www.deviantart.com/sindakri) and HeartMisu (https://www.deviantart.com/heartmisu)) plus artists I really admire (most notably lily-fox (https://www.deviantart.com/lily-fox) and anyone she endorses ever), I keep this account active to keep track of people whose works I enjoy more than my own. I'm not dead. I'm just either offline or in other places on the internet. (Like Facebook LOL oh geez I'm addicted...)(... reddit, too.)
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