Charlton Metcalf

Texas Me

should be living

existential coward
everything, ‘cause I need money

low-light lounge,
lake Eerie martinis
jealousy bender for nothing

gradual figment snitches smirk
background small talk,
minimum wage crime choir,
tragic comic wiretaps
ring leader loud laugh

misdemeanor as business
brides as athletes
stretch mark strays
ultrasound ghost cold
teen heartbreak science,
maserati tears
depending on oh yeahs

petty lulling,
homesick almost

all downs
basement apartment burritos
drowsy death lonely

a drunks drunk
youth by devils
so so bored

Texas me…

I can count all the stars in the sky tonight

 

Frogs, Pistachio and Rain

texture of envy
absorbed emotions, venture capital smile
sooner moped,
disinterest opportunist

merely derived,
manners of undoing
experience of reconsidered previous loves

gray sorcery
the day resulted,
ripe for guilts and pretends
short skirt of love

hidden hickey, itching slightly, nonstop
secret scarlet sojourn
motions more than movement
exact stealth
chiseled improv

fingers crossed in the pockets
bleached totem
standing distant,
looking out the long window

tongue resting just inside the lower lip
thinking like a butler with a fresh flower in his boutonnière
frogs, pistachio and rain

caught up with improbable,
and the androgynous excuses of eternity

 

This is Our Last Year

jewelers eyes
smiles linear voodoo

scan aspect,
scientific shy

awash in patterns,
electronic logic
soft propelled cool drone,
center of Tokyo part of my mind

smack dab confidence
intensity a venom
attraction gorging,
random Herculean forever

irresistible evident
bringing up a ricocheted fragmented crescendo,
amusingly raucous trance,
dripping with chocolate body paint

flashback appreciative,
for multiple partners of dubious beauty,
all darling barroom ache,
with a resemblance considered vulnerability
admiring their dexterity beneath restaurant tables,
without spilling a drop of wine

wearing them out,
like a spies set of facial hair

reminding each on again,
whispering,
“this is our year”

 

Vampires Tomato

borrowed contraband knavette

entering a room,
Paris combo tight lust tastic,
rapid in the offbeat

ambrosia rushes,
involving lapses into adorable

accidental touching,
making you talk about yourself, with just kiddings

near miss funny,
muse euphoric, feel the responding

soon enough, all of the sudden,
between and impulse and why

vampires tomato,
dress immortality cherry
eye-contact disintegration

takes time magnified

sympathetic extremist pucker tease

 

Money Clip Feng Shui

Russian Vegas,
insomniac brusque
cynical and suckered

slurred smile
spit-take realism
tempting kindness,
faster than delusions

whistle style interlude
amusing in can’t miss

possibility savage
dead reaction cool,
masculine illumination
legal man, owing everything

all down thrills
relentless weekend,
agenda with a view,
intimate dippy peep
blurry soft,
urged, imminent Cleopatra
loved too much,
quick wrist former cheerleader
nocturnal thermal sweetness

keep it evil reverb, husky coo
bare-ass pickling in limits
Ponytails and fingernails,
trick riding the pussy of youth

money clip feng shui