Winding roads meet up
With the foul stench in the air.
This is New York...New Jersey...
A Tri-State hell on Earth.
Rats munch on what's left of
A pigeon that could no longer
Stand to associate with humans,
And inside those maroon guts
I can see a little of myself,
My own loathing
For a species I am forced
To call my own.
Walking down St. Mark's Place
I do a little soft shoe
To dodge the brainless punks
With orange mohawks
And green liberty spikes,
As they mosh with strangers
To the Aus Rotten in their heads;
I have to wonder
What "liberty" those spikes stand for
If they can't even free their minds
From a song they don't
Even own the CD for.
The light flickers in the window
Of Trash and Vaudville
As I stare wondering
What the two have to do
With each other.
Across the street a girl
Has Religious Sex with
A new skirt she could never
Possibly fit in to;
But who am I to judge
Her skany, fat ass?
I walk away from this
Silent festival of freaks
And geeks trying to be cool,
Or just frighten their parents,
Past Ricky's and the Fun House,
Wondering how metal
That dry cleaner's used to be.
Author notes
From Sorrow And The Stench
This piece is personal on a few different levels. I wrote it upon leaving the area I grew up in, which was NJ and NY, where I spent most of my time. Many of things in this poem are the names of stores I frequented (like Religious Sex, Trash and Vaudville, Ricky's, Fun House, etc. And the dry cleaner's that used to be "metal" used to be a store I frequented) and areas I hung out at (like St. Mark's Place, which is a street in NY along with the people I saw there 
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Written August 10th, 2003
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Wow, I really like this. What an orignal piece it is!!! I like it because you used things you've frequented. I like it. I like mohawks and liberty spikes >_< lol, I dunno though, this poem was amazing. It was excellent, and very well written.
I want to thank you for entering my contest, And I also want to wish you the best of luck.
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Remarkably animate. What a marvelous honesty in this poem! Great work!
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hmmmmmmmmm. excellent. I love it when I visit "new poets" and I find one with bubbling talent.
I really enjoyed this, the depth and detail that you gave the reader, you perspective, your honesty. Lovely lovely work.
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