BrokenFiend• Show poetry

"We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief?"

"There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy... that your life will lead you to some joy... that after everything... you can still be surprised."

"Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?"

Perhaps the quote that summed up my life quickest, taken from the TV show Angel. Yeah, I know, I am sad, but what do you expect? I'm hardly a nice guy, as many of you might notice. And truly, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I'll swear and be nasty, drink and get shagged and shag and not care. I'll watch daytime TV if I can, or sit in a pub and read while getting pissed, quoting poetry...I'll quote Milton's Lucifer to preachers on the street, just to get a rise of them. I want reaction. Reaction of the people. Something better than the stale and boring faces they have every day, the routines. I am sick and tired of the human race and their pathetic attempts to be good, to be 'proper'.

I am the queer one in the corner, 5'11", slim, with a leather duster that has seen better days, dark hair and blue eyes. I am the one with the scar on the cheek, the tattoo on my hand, the cigarette hanging from my lips. I am the one wearing army boots, black jeans, belt with silver buckle. The one with the rings, the one who has a cigarette behind his ear and a zippo lighter. I am the one who flips you a two-finger salute should you stare, and knocks back Jack Daniels as if it was no tomorrow. That's me.

I have a pet hate for people who can't spell or do chatspeak. And wannabe goths who put everyone into stereotypes. I hate it. Hate it with a passion and I shall hunt those people down and give them a piece of my mind.

When it comes to my own poetry, I try to rhyme. More because it is interesting trying not to make it forced. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy freeverse. I used to do only freeverse. Now, I am trying this.

We'll be shooting back

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