Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[MsBug]

Grief wandered lost among
shiny commercials,
too sad to sell.

 

[vampiredust]

Sand-mountains collapse
as an army of ants invade

 

[The Mutt]

Catholic school girls know;
polished wood floors
reflect up skirts...

 

[Guest]

This was removed
for expansion
in another form
in another place.

 

[vampiredust]

The glass nautilus shell
whispers as waves
consume
it

 

[Tzara]

Shit. Gone native.
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

.....Hollow.
.....Stuffed.


And?

 

[The Mutt]

Shit. Gone native.
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

.....Hollow.
.....Stuffed.


And?

Dialectics, man!
Dialectics.
Don't ever get off the fucking boat.

 

[Tzara]

Dialectics, man!
Dialectics.
Don't ever get off the fucking boat.

Thesis, antithesis.

.....Hegel wisely
.....stays on the boat.

Life jacket.

 

[The Mutt]

Thesis, antithesis.

.....Hegel wisely
.....stays on the boat.

Life jacket.

Put on a life jacket
and you're preparing for failure.

 

[Tzara]

Put on a life jacket
and you're preparing for failure.

I cannot swim.
...O! But
I float.
...Therefore I am.

 

[Guest]

I cannot swim.
...O! But
I float.
...Therefore I am.

Face down?
may be you're not therefore
any more.

 

[The Mutt]

As a great man once said;
learn to breathe water.

 

[Guest]

Face down?
may be you're not therefore
any more.

As a great man once said;
learn to breathe water.

Snap.

 

[Tzara]

As a great man once said;
learn to breathe water.

Arssh! Oxygen trapped,
so sapped, with hydrogen.

Ish thisck lissquid.

 

[MsBug]

Bright of day
safe, secure warmth
blankets scurry of people.

 

[vampiredust]

are you sure you used the right bait?

Lone fishing boat
swallowed by trout

No cameras flash

 

[clutching_calliope]

.....

 

[Maria2394]

temporary surgeon

He sticks around
long enough
to cut out your heart

 

[Guest]

************

 

[vampiredust]

give me a vodka
with a sky chaser

 

[vampiredust]

life in slow motion
dies, nobody weeps

 

[MsBug]

Incessant yellow drift
aimlessly gifting each surface
the midas touch.

 

[Guest]

Perfect ten
curled toes
tiny fingers
shells for nails.

Ten

 

[vampiredust]

They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore

The spray painted drain
washes away

No tears fall down

 

[vampiredust]

Rock pool

sand makes hieroglyphics
that dissapear in my
fingerprints