Bramble on. Or, Into the Woods.
Hello, Writers and Dear Readers.
In today's vid, we feature a triple threat, to say the very least. Writer, painter, musician, tattoo artist, and on and on. Click the link to the channel and check out this low-key and humble, high-art man of talents. He's right here on our site.
And before any of you decide to take a swipe at the old man, I'm aware that I mispronounced n'ere. But I rolled with it...
Here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGysKxtx1o&t=19s
And.
As always.
Thank you for being here.
-The Prose. team
Remain Calm
The first 3 days are tolerable
Provided you can sleep
Somewhere around day 10
The tedium grabs you
By the haunches
Like an 800-pound gorilla
And by day 11
You're homicidal
Day 12 finds you tearing
Down dark alleyways
With a box cutter swinging
At anything with teeth
For you are an angry God
In need of an ice-cold beer
And a river of chemicals raging
Down the back of your throat
David Burdett
10/31/2021
The Opposite of Juicy
Just last week
My pen wouldn’t stop moving
Now it doesn’t work
It’s like it’s broken
It won’t fuck
It won’t mow the yard
Won’t even smile
Every morning
A one trick pony on strike
Too damn dumb
To realize that being good
At grammar and punctuation
Won’t make you a better poet
And that a college degree
Is a fentanyl patch
Nailed to a boulder
Somewhere
Between Sisyphus
And another trip
To the liquor store
David Burdett
4/4/21
Crazy Train
Drowning
In the garbage
Of downtown Long Beach
I can read minds
When I don’t sleep
I’m not lying
The guy seated
Across from me
Is doing things to himself
And if given the chance
Would douse us all
In gasoline
And run the train
Into a wall
He knows
That I know
That he believes
Human beings
Are cowards and garbage
Unfortunately
I did not see any heroes
On the Blue Line
That morning
I was too busy
Becoming the enemy
Of a coward
In a city full of garbage
David Burdett
3/27/21
Pie Hole
“It’s an evil disgusting world”
He told me
“Right now, there’s a man eating crystal meth off of another man’s asshole”
Think about that he said
So I did
Then I told him
"Or he could be somewhere enjoying a piece of cake and having a staring contest with a cat”
Think about that I said
So he did
Then he receded
Back into
His evil disgusting world
David Burdett
5/18/2022