Rya• Show poetry

"I didn't want to be cool...it just happened."-me

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness,heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice."~Bethany Hamilton

"our attitude toward life determine's life's attitude toward us"~Earl Nightingale

"Never shall we die!" -a pirates cry

"If our love is only a will to posses, it is not love."-Thich Nhat Hanh

"I wish they would only take me as I am."~Vincent Van Gogh

"In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on."-Robert Frost

"Living life on life's terms and it's not easy."-me

"I will, humbly, admit to knowing nothing in life, except for my own experiences..."-me

"Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys."-from the show Leverage

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in this life that now man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man should never be ashamed to say he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."- Alexander Pope

"The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life."~Anne Morriss

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BREASTS AND TITS

Women have breasts
Chicks have tits
Breasts are admired
Tits get no respect
Breasts nurse
Tits are as barren as Barbie
Breasts nurture
Tits compete
Breasts seduce
Tits tease
Breasts make love
Tits fuck
Breasts are caressed
Tits get sucked
Breasts adorn bodies
Tits fill bras
Eventually, breasts sag
Tits get siliconed
Breasts weep
Tits whine
Breasts come in all shapes and sizes
Titss better be just so
Rubens glorifies breasts
Playboy airbrushes tits
The Madonna has breasts
Madonna has tits
Breasts accept
Tits wish they were somewhere else
Breasts are wise
Tits don't know any better
Breasts survive
Tits wither
Breasts rule
Tits say "Yes, sir!"
In the end, of course,
Breasts will have
the last laugh
and tits?
Tits just don't
get the joke

-Lisa Martinovic


FUCK YOU , I'M WONDER WOMAN

i have cinched my waist
to distort and accentuate
these wide and mighty rolling hips
the childbearing hips you love.

i have worked my thighs into granite for you
because you like them wrapped tight and warm
around your neck,
my feet entangled in your
long
red
cape.
i have learned to accessorize wisely.
my stylish hipster ensemble is
stunningly draped in defense.
while my elegant forearm bracelets
provide a jaunty compliment
to my soft and milky skin,
they also repel your attacks.
fashion armor vogue for today's woman.

i have a magic lasso
because i have to fucking tie you up
to force your honesty.
i need a rope from another planet
to pry the truth
from your smirking lips.

i have knee-high, harder, faster, fuck-me red boots.
my boots have a voice the essentially says,
"excuse me, sir,
would you mind politely
backing the fuck up."
my boots are tasteful
and my boots are strong.

so when you come home for lois' at 3 a.m.
high on smack, as plunder has become boring,
conquer so sublime, sobriety so nineties...and
you quietly snake the keys to my jet from my
utility belt as i sleep naked and alone awaiting
your form on the mattress next to me, and you
take my jet without asking, the only one of it's
kind, and on the nod, too fucked up to even fly
your own tired ass, and you crash my shit into
an untouched tribe, then talk a ganga shit 'bout
saving them from their primitive ways, never
acknowledging that a heroin mishap dropped
you in their midst, and then you begin to
colonize them, control them, in the name of
progress, and then have the audacity to tax
them for that privilege...

i don't think i'm overreacting
"due to pms"
as you so often chide me
to be so bold as to say to you

fuck your speeding bullets
fuck your tall buildings
fuck you single bound

superman,
fuck you

i'm
wonder woman.
~~Sara Seinberg