This is a slam/spoken word poem (hence the lack of standardized grammar etc.). I'll upload a sound file if I can tomorrow, but I'd like to put this up for concrit and comments. I'm performing it on the twenty-second so any help and improvement is appreciated. hey dad you know the feeling when you close your eyes at night when the monsters start rising taller their voices growing smaller through tunnels of black and white technicolor dream worlds puking constellations from smoky lungs a neon interpretation of everything amplified like grey lies somewhere between the truth and i don't want to hurt you you say you have tapes of your fights with my mother and you promised with her whoever cheated would lose so- what do you tell a judge about promises? they break flying dust in razor blade winds slitting skin and cutting eyelids from faces so that you can see so why can't you ****ing see? just open your eyes and look at what's in front of you i can show you the world: lipsplitting earshattering splendid through verses of sea floor melody and poetry flowing through my veins like the blood spilled at my birth standing before you i am a dollar sign another bill to pay more child support money and no they're not my type; i'd take you but you're too young a sickening pandora's box opened unleashed running afraid through gardens of forgotten infidelities and screaming excuses not to listen when i speak a thousand dollars is too much to pay to learn but another night at the bar and sunday football is a fortune of time you say you don't have time to spend i read you the stars from my eyes and the curl from my hair in prose of golden wine happiness and you say you'll see me next time around which could be weeks or months depending you don't go to graduation so you send flowers lillies white not tiger red that grew in our windowsills but white eggshells sheets good morning sunshine like you expect me to forgive you for not coming for not caring for not hearing when i spit beauty from my lips
