Chemistry

Then theres days
You spend awake
The whole 24
Just to watch stagehands
Rearrange the scenery
So when the characters
Enter stage left
You’re still stage right
Both moving towards
The center.impact.zone.

When you and I
Meet center.stage.
Critics will call it
Chemistry.

Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

Poems regarding spacial arrangement

012908
It occurred to me
And seems highly probable
That I merely exist as ballast.

That perhaps someone else
May feel that much lighter
Is almost a comforting thought.

Although, it does not illuminate
The fact I am heavy laden
With a burden never lightened.

Liam Elliott 2008. All RIghts Reserved.

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013008[am]
Listening to a song
Makes me think
Good times.
Gone times.
Nothing left but this
Bleak.Extraterrstiral.ism.
Memories of a
Home.planet
Melting into a
Distant.memory
Reach up.
Look back.
Smokestack.
Chimneyface.

Liam Elliott 2008. All RIghts Reserved.

012108

It never ceases to amaze me
Just how estranged we are. now.
Things may make more sense
If I was just a renter. here.
If I was just to leave. here.
Was not your stranger.child.
Not your eternal project.defect.

This feels more like an interrogation
Then a friendly chit.chat.
Do you think you could get your
Righteous lights out of my eyes?

I’m trying to keep an ember burning
But you’re pissing it out.

© Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

011408

Drove down your street
Just to see if I remember
.still.
.do.
As I round the bend
I see the house
On the corner still
.the door.
.the fence.
Where your dogs
Would bark
.out back.
I remember walking
Those dogs down
These streets
They’d stop
.here. and .there.
.piss. and .shit.

Then that day came
.as they do.
You. the airport. your mother. me.
LAX yellow goodbye
.take me with you.
.you can’t. .apology.
.goodbye.

Its clear now .to me.
That these days come
.as they do.
It’s unfair to blame
.my lack.
.of faith.
.in love.
.on you.

© Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

011308

I can’t write
There’s no fuel
There’s no flame
There’s no want—
desire. passion. hate. love. angst.
I’m an overcast second
In twilight.
The sun. no longer. rises.
The sun. no longer. sets.
Everything seems aquiver
The earth is a twitching muscle
On a boy’s un-kissed lips
Moments before. IMPACT.
This continual limbo state
Where everything. hangs.
As if life were on pause
While the viewers
Retrieve. fatty. foods.
Actively. forgetting.
They too. have been paused.
By overweight viewers.

© Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

010808

0108089am
I don’t: talk
Face2face
Make eye contact.
Why?
Everything I feel
Is here.
Honestly, at times
This is a cage…
And I don’t know
What I feel…
Most of the time
I feel nothing.
Somewhere around 17
I hit an ice age
Been pretty numb
Ever since.

Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

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010808am(2)
We all have that one
Who tattooed her name
Across the front of our heart
Leaving an eternal memory
Prior to an eternal departure.
Thing is – I scratched
Out the name…
I didn’t want to recall
What it had said.
And now? Well,
I still have the pain
And no way to call it.

Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

010308

010308
When you told me
You were known as
A Heart Breaker
I remember knowing
I would be the cold hand
Of Karma and I wished
That it wasn’t so
(As I always do).
Nine months later
When it did occur
I remember your
Tears raining on
My shoulder: a plea
To stay a minute longer
I didn’t
(As I always do).
I remember that drive
That feeling of intoxication
But still sober
Shoulder still wet
Eyes still dry
Drifting off into the
Distant setting sun
(As I always do).

z© Liam Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.