Author Archives: schwervon

Show poem… Just more stuff / Sat. Jan. 30/ Lawrence, KS @ The Replay Lounge #Poetry

img_0101Diamond dust in a dogs breath
Panning for gold in the white snow
Of the black hills

It takes a steady hand
To operate with tweezers

Our petrified organs
Will not mind a slip or two
It is the electrified edges
Of each open wound
Plugged into the power grid
For all the world to troll
And comment on

A shock wave before a broken mirror
The worthless worth
A small dish of pennies
At the register

10 lords a leaping
9 ladies dancing
8 hateful eights hating
7 dicks sucking themselves
6 sick Nikki Sixes sexting

5 High Fives

4 calling girls
3 French Fries
2 Donald Trumps
And a greasy pork sandwich
Served in a dirty ashtray

Unwashed glasses
Dogs with bad manners

We keep learning the same things
Over and over.
That’s all.
New stuff old stuff
It’s all old stuff
Just more stuff

Show poem… Only war is war / Friday Jan. 22/ KC, MO @ The Brick #Poetry

  
 A donut is a donut Is a donut 

Only war is war

Seed on the satellite

Water in the brush 

Pride 
The gateway drug to The West

Things turn around here 
Things die and things are born 

But in between things will dance 

And collide 

Shift and slide 

Into place 

Outer space 
Let’s stop and listen 

To the trumpets playing in our ears 
Let’s fuse together 

Two separate elements 
We will forge a new tool
A magic hammer that

Destroys meaningless borders. 
Liquids spears flung 

Over our shoulders 
Piecing gently arrows into 
Lonely late night political party callers 
Calling out our numbers. 
9 to 5 

10 to 2 

1 to 9 

12 to 7 

6 to 1 

Half a dozen 
Break me off 

Break me down 

Break me out 

T’pau

Show poem… Coughing up watch parts / Friday Jan. 15/ Warrensburg, MO @ The Bay #Poetry

photo by Matt Bird-Meyer

Someone swallowd a watch today
I can hear it ticking 

A fish inside an aquarium
Bumping its nose against the glass

An Old woman rubbing her hands together
Let’s get active 

Let’s listen to the water moving
Through the pipes 

The whoosh of the furnace fire
Lighting up 

Whoosh! 

The house slowly warms. 

How many days will we get it wrong.
The voices over voices 

Turning off vs quitting
Trying vs going through the motions 

This basket of laundry at the top of the stairs
More than two sides of a coin.  

Is it possible tonight could be
Something special
Not just another night
A night for the red shoes
A night to dance 

Let’s dance 

Another cold night away
Fighting on the highway
Three quarters of the way to Warrensburg. 

I’m coughing up watch parts
springs and pieces of glass 

With a big stupid smile in my face
I’m loving you
Through the night
Until we wake arm and arm
To the light of another new day