Pain
Bringing them out
Like freshly bought butterflies
Like tulips and roses
And tasty ears of corn
Full of joy and bounce
They never surrender
Full of color and chaotic smells
All day I’d like to slip a few
I pass them fluttering on the street
And hear their vibes
And catch their eyes
The warm sun beats down
The shadows created
Between erect buildings
And tremendous skyscrapers
Waltzing along
With cherries at height
Feeling wet
And sparkle cheese
Overcast
Comes over
Shade all around
Casting and engulfing
They scurry like ants
Way down to the underground
Luxurious displays
On pleasure pictures
Following their flutter
I think of something to mutter
Leaning against
A view I’ll never forget
Legs sticking out
All over they wiggle
Under my silver
Gathering clusters of drops
Like embarrassed young children
Like little babies
And hand-held raisins
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.03.12.22:17:29@10036NYC
Guns
Where are the guns!?
They destroy me
They eat at my soul
They make me piss in my pants
Yellow-stained jeans
Where are the guns!?
They make me nervous
They make me cum
They make me hard
Between the thighs
Where are the guns!?
The leftover scent
The touch and glare
The overwhelming blend
If I do so, I dare!
Where are the guns!?
They penetrate my mind
All my senses, all the time
They revolt me
And make my puke
They disgust me and make me fall
Where are my guns!?
They sing to me
In midnight dreams
On wet pillows
And cow cummed disease!
Where are my guns!?
They make me write and paint
And listen and explore
And kiss and kneel
And travel all around
Where are my guns!?
They make my death closer and closer
Near I come
Oh, Where are my guns!?
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.03.11.16:36:27@10036NYC
Forgotten
I forgot her
Damn It!
I did wrong.
Now she is gone
I gave her a painting
She left with my poetry
I have done no good
I scarred myself forever
Forever I am damned!
I threw myself in a cave
Sealed my soul
After pouring out my cum!
I remember squeezing her breasts
In a shower I took
I remember squeezing her ass
In the bed I destroyed
But now I forgot her
Damn It!
And now I am homeless
Without her I am dead.
With her I am a lie.
Today is no different
For she is still at my knees.
From the magazine shelf
To the soul music
She is a memory
Of tiger hood
And overalls
But I have died
I forgot her.
What can I say?
But I am dead today?
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.03.06.01:26:25@07430
Film & Radio
Film
is thin
Thinning like my lost father’s hair
Film is revolution
Rotating around my index
Film is portraying
On the wall in white
Film is a pornographic documentary
Of Presidential lies and palace steps
Railroads and Wildebeests
Plant growth and boxing matches
Radio is a recording
From my history
To this present day
A tune to the lips of a dancer
And the horror which brings back memories
Radio you can’t hear
When fucked in the brain
Nor films to be played
But better than Ra-Dio
Ra-Dio
Radio I can hear it
But it’s not me
It’s not me hearing it
Just the audience
As I try to escape from the toilet flushes
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.26.24:51:00@NJ07430
Wish
I sit here
Listening to the music
As the heavens above open up
The clear skies engulf me
Overwhelm me with powerful humor
And calmness from the heart
I wait here
For her to come
To follow the song
Dance with me
Upon the decks of love
And grounds of diamonds
She is there
I see her standing in the distance
She comes to me slowly
I have waited years
Now she is coming
The shadows are fading
The trees no longer casting
The sun is beating
And there she is; gleaming
I sit here
Waiting all my life
And I will wait until you come
To dance with me
© 1998 David Greg Harth
97.12.20.10:05:00@07430
98.02.24.02:37:00@07430
Charcoal
The man approached the table
Dancing to the jazz
Getting down
A funky dance
Wearing a black cloak
Sits down on the rotated chair
Coffee in front
About to drink
He rubs his hair
On his round head
With his charcoal hands
Dirty from the bum’s life of dance
Like a vampire from Astor Place
Sipping the coffee of heated violence
Rubbing his hair
With soiled, worked palms
He sees his reflection
In the window in front
Beyond the steaming cup
And cookies brought to him by far
A crew cut
Rubbed with blackness
And tan clothing
Portraying a son
He casts out spells
And talks to himself
Conversations about the lover’s paradise
And last night’s opening
He is a clergy man
Mother Superior’s bouncer
With an unshaven face
One complete frigid stare
Yells a potion
And becomes an exorcist
Helps them from the evil they once were
As he draws on the napkin at his finger tips
One white from art of below
And the other
New York City dirt
Rising from the chair
Passing him
I slip him a five
And he holds onto my fingers
The clean ones he once had
A few seconds he is my brother
A lover
Both wanted to hold each other
Caress
To cradle each other’s life
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.14.04:28:06@NYC
Valentine’s Day
Untitled (Running Love)
Hearing your voice
A comment on desire
Traveling in taxis
That take you no where
To find the feeling
Pulsating
Feel the beating in your heart
Run through your veins
Pumping and thrive
Red booths full of numbers
Make a call to the sea
All the “ans”
Surrounding lights
And fog inset in my eyes
Swishhhhh.....
Run by, Run by -
Choosing the life you had
The drugs I saved
The friends I had
Taking the dog bites out of your leg
Feeling the Beatles crossing Abbey Road
And Bananas between pussy lips
Feeling the feelings I found
Wishing I had not written the ones for bartenders
Feeling the revolutions in my head
And the revolution uprising
The dog continues to run
Around the track
And then its dead.
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.13.21:16:47@Earth
Untitled (Red)
A red glow
Silhouettes my shoulders
I can only get a short glimpse
With lights passing by
Long and slender
Leading up to the black shade
Crimson red overflows
I wish I was up my glance
In between the pressure
My lips bitten
Music in my ears
Traveling like a jet landing
Speeding Through
While deer running by
Crossing my path
Purple light go away
Receptionist appeared
Now summer is gone
Another glance
Flesh on the blackness
What do I know?
As my blindness is only
Half empty
And they say,
I can say no to a transfusion
I say fuck it
Give me the lead.
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.10.22:11:00@EnRoute->07430
Words
The words they are bothering me.
I’m afraid of them
They invade my privacy
Watch me as I touch myself
As I think like you and become you
As I favor your scent
and forever I remember your gaze
They define me
My ass as an American
A freedom giver
Blow-job receptor
I beg with them
To let me go
But they put me in shackles
bound me to the walls
as wicked ones rape me of my daydreams
She sucked the daylights
Out from underneath my bloody arse
and all I have to say
is
“Out damn word! Out damn word!”
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.05.12:15:00@07430
Coffee
I thought I met a reflection
But coffee only flows down my back
Alone as it burns
All I have remembered
Is your chaos
As I’m crucified in cold winter nights
I thought I would open a door
And let my soul pour out
From my pale palms
All I have to recall
Is the brief glance
A friend from years ago
I go on
As the boxing crushes my head
My art is dead
As all the fury is dying tonight
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.02.02.01:54:00@NYNJ
utopia, seen from a hillside
progressive thoughts
thru pleasure and pain
the dreams race
across my wild plains
imagery is ghostly
make believe times
I think of you
he and she
together as one
alone
on the hill
away from it all
about to fall
only to be caught
by the hand
hand of love
no separations allowed
no intruders
no darkness
only cool breezes flow
thru your hair
and thru thy eyes
with the intensity of admiration
with the intensity of touch
a skin tone
a lip tongue
a suckle
reach out and touch it
feel the breeze
above the hill
high above
fall with me
into the pit
the pit of utopia
© 1997 David Greg Harth
97.01.30.02:16:00@31USQWNYC
god
god
you bitch
you demon
you make them believe
you make me a product
you make my mother beg
you are dirt
scum from my cock
you are a bum’s last urine
and you still come back
god
I don’t refer to you
I don’t capitalize you
I visualize you
I imagine you
I can picture you
god
you are evil
you are a baby’s breath
lost from a beaten husband
you are a hanger for pros
and lust from nukees out west
you are a marcher and become a face
of a priest or rabbi
even a CEO
god you are my television
you are a cleaner
you are my servant
because I form you
I mold you
you are only my thoughts
which I do not believe
do not believe
god you are a whisper
you are my love’s gate
and cage
and cook
god you do not exist
I am without a chest
I hear the sounds
the revolutions
and repetitions
but all you can give me
is parting seas
books of words
clothing full of assholes
and emblems representing your existence
I say fuck you
as I eat at your heavenly body
your soul
your belief
your printed matter
your trees and nicely cropped bush
I say fuck you
as your servants beg of you
kneel to you
bow to you
I do NOT capitalize you
or socialize with you
I put my hands out
and milk you of your existence
and nurse you as you die
upon my shoulders
god!
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.24.17:51:00@10036
98.01.29.04:26:00@07430
[NOA&S]
Stimulation
two doves sitting in a tree
two birds chirping at the morning sun
one’s beauty in a reflection at the pond
a picnic for two on a grassy green hill
an oak tree
and butterflies too
television and the media
humor and the people who make it
music to my ears
and your whispers too
a cool breeze
or warm hug
a scented red rose
or a furry little friend,
my pussy cat
an enchanting evening
for two at the lakeside
a lover surrounded by candlelight
bathing with too
water down the back
or whipped cream too
experimentation
a dare devil inside
a close dance
body against body
grinding passion
and intimate wonders
philosophy, pornography and people too
beauty and earth itself
and oh, my galore!
navels
navels
navels
a fetish for navels
eyebrows and eyes
perfect hair
skin to touch
caress once more
a belief in blood
and a beach night calm
seasons changing
warm and wet
cold and mine
an embrace
a smile
and painting you
imagination
hope
and ice cubes
temptation
lust
and desire
and most of all
she
she herself
being who she is
she
she stimulates me
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.25.20:40:00@NYCUSA
Myself: Destination
I sat at the front of the 49-passenger-bus
We were going down the highway
Passing all the lights and the travelers
It was dark out, a midnight blue - casted shadows around
The rain on the windshield bounced on and off
I looked down the aisle
And what did I see
I saw myself
About half-way back down the aisle of grey seats
There I sat staring to the front at myself
And I stared at myself, looking, gazed like a ghostly soul
In the center of the aisle
There was a box
A cardboard box with printed black ink
It stunk of fish and meat and octo-pussy
It leaked down the thin aisle to my black covered feet
I got freaked out
Could not understand
How could there be two of me
Right then and there
How could this be
Terrified
I leaped out of my red-striped, semi-comfortable, grey seat
And jumped through the front windshield of the autobus
Crashing through, landing hard on the wet cold ground
Shards of sharp glass punctured my soft pale skin
And blood splattered my structured self and the other innocent passengers
The driver swerved
But it was too late
Before I hit the ground
The bus slammed at my fleshy blurred form
Crushing my hair and eyes into my thoughts
My crucified red liquid flowing
Across bright headlights and creamy-white dashes on the pavement
But now there is one of me
And he
Smells like meat
And is still going to his destination
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.22.00:00:00@07430/10036
98.01.24.00:00:00@07430/10036
98.01.25.00:00:00@07430/10036
The Sky (Looking Up Towards The Sky)
My answer is never
For its only lost in my chambers
It’s like a cornucopia
Overflowing with passionate wonder
A bond of realism
With a surrealist stroke
A graceful touch
Performed like a dove’s dance
Beautiful beginning
At the birth place
A symphony of warmth
Surrounding gold candlelight
Deep brown eyes
Attacked by blackness of night
True difference unheard
While ignited flames burned
Rules and borders
When I only patrol my own mind
Cotton softness
Slender willow scented like a rose
Breath above her neck
Below the listening sense
A life a little ordinary
Conquered by the extraordinary
Rain poured
Down souls of bodies
I whisper to her skin
With my fingertips
Touched once
And forever remembered
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.17.00:00:00@NJNYC
98.01.21.00:00:00@NJNYC
Interrupted Silence
I traveled through her canal
Under her sweet dirt
I listened to her words
Static came in-between
Separated us at birth
Interference melted me
Venom punctured my lips
My eyes rolled back into my scull
I listened strongly
Her words scattering on my lighted horizon
Pollution settled in
Advertised through copper wires
Ruined by Hollywood production
Past deep inside
Surveillance as I pullout
Spotlight on me
Her voice is gone now
I cry in my memories
My camera falls forward
I am unsettled
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.20.13:36:00@NYC10036
Wonder
Sheets of white
Glorious tones
Brown on the bed
Black in the shower
Going down the drain
That forward water
Soap turned hard
Out from the cold
A heating touch
Remember that call
Healed wound
And a pounding heart
Embrace
Heat exchanged
Tongue twisted
Late hour
Over cover
Talk up noon
Tea time
Midnight moon
Howling wonder
Out from under
Beneath stars
Chance of
Strawberry massage
Scented room
Bottle top
Cry no more
Painted picture
Poetry read
Delay of
Secrets shared
A wonder what
Dressed in black
A lifted eyebrow
And an ear left to fall
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.16.15:13:00@NYC
Path
Reaching in
Bending forward
Leaning in
Sun down
Night rising
Trees swaying
Glare opening
Stare conquering
Fingers gripping
Water flowing
People running
Bubbles bursting
Stars above
Air whipping
Warmth heating
Train coming
Catch it now
They missed it
All the children
They missed the train
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.15.16:52:00@NYC10036
Lost Calculations
I knew this woman once. She had a mint green jacket, light weight. On her head was a bright, forest green, well-knitted beret. She wore a sweatshirt, covering her large breasts. The sweatshirt was white, and printed on it was a luxurious cross with blooming pink and pastel yellow flowers. Her pants were of a medium shade of dungaree blue. On her feet were bright blue leather shoes, with rubber soles and yellow stitches. She would push around a shopping cart, a small portable one. It was made of metal, painted navy blue. Inside were white plastic bags and jars of spaghetti sauce; that’s all.
She would carry around a calculator with her, and make all these different calculations. Many numbers, passing by. She would add and subtract, divide and multiply, like the families do in today’s society. While biting the pink collar of her jacket, she would stare at me, under the thickly dense, round-framed eyeglasses. Still, she would make the calculations on her freshly bought calculator. Occasionally, raising an index finger to her mouth, to bite her nails.
The woman would move from the back to the front. Skipping all in-between; on the line. It doesn’t matter to her who waited, what mattered was if everything added up right. Because if it didn’t, she was not clean, and would have to bathe later on that night. As her tight fitting pink jacket, contrasted with her green envy, she would limp across the line, while bracing her portable shopping cart.
And all the time, adding and subtracting. Doing some multiplications and some divisions. All these calculations on her pocket calculator. Over and over again. Until she got picked up and she sat down, in those greens, pinks, and that large breasted cross. She would sit and bite at her index nails. And the line would move past her. Passing her, as she discontinued making her calculations.
© 1998 David Greg Harth
98.01.03.01:04:00@07430
Untitled (New Year’s Day)
It is New Year’s Day.
What did you do?
Just the other day?
I sat in the center.
The epicenter.
Where 7th meets Broadway.
Where the neon lights are.
Where the movies are filmed.
I sat there.
All day long.
Handcuffed myself.
To a chair,
To the lamppost.
Right in the center.
The great big clock,
Behind me.
Coke in front of me.
I have never snorted.
About to now.
Corporate Surroundings
I wish I had a fuck on me.
I wish I had a smoke.
I sat in the center.
Chained to the chair.
To the lamppost.
I sat all day.
As the clock neared midnight.
I pulled the trigger.
Still handcuffed.
My thoughts now on the lamppost.
© 1998 David Greg Harth
97.12.31.00:00:00@NYCUSA
98.01.01.00:00:00@NYCUSA