My poetry anthology. Enjoy!
Florida Project
(based on the movie The Florida Project)
Disney World is a fiction
Mickey Mouse ears hide a long forgotten road too ugly for tomorrow
We live in a shadowed town
Everyone blinded by the shimmer of a fantasy castle
Our only fantasy is getting out of here
Billboards for water parks cover up the stretch of pity and poverty
Empty soda cans
Leftover take out in the bathroom sink
Insufficient funds fall to the inexistence of demanded rent
Donald Duck is here to remind you to look the other
There’s always a wasteland behind a magic kingdom
Fake
If there were angels down below in
But I can see right through compelling
And find a heart that’s rotten and impure
A trickster with the great possession
A mind in which the devil works behind
Grown prone to darkness,
It was a difficult task to be kind
You wear a mask precisely everyday
Made full of beautiful invented lies
But underneath you hid yourself
A horror seeking monster on the rise
You played me like I was some sort of
Prelude to the Post-War
Love was
To the war
Roosevelt says we are
But for the people at home
It feels like we
Already lost
My love was
Somewhere in
Fighting a fight
That was not his
He was a civilian mere months
A clerk at the store
But now his country
And he is half way across the world
I miss his
In our small apartment home
The sound of his
In the morning
I’ve noticed things I’ve
Never before
Like the
Of silence
Stuck in a labyrinth
With the constant
Of desolation and
Never ending, no way out
Sorrow ate away at my heart
Anguish became my new
While I watched misery
Every woman I knew
I prayed on S
For my love to come back
But God couldn’t
Protect everyone
Love was lost
To the war
Our boys came back
In coffins
San Fran
Today I
A parrot in a purple car
Its vibrant
Belonged to the
But it makes its home
By a San F
Why do all beautiful things
Thrive in ugly settings
?
