Poems by Picnic-Lightning, by newest first

• Consciousness

  I am made of electrons and of dust but it's okay
  you don't need to worry.

  by Picnic-Lightning 5 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 25 10:23 PM
• The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

  I.
  What am I left with, and what have I given up for what I have?

  by Picnic-Lightning 43 lines, on Dec 8 9:56 AM 2008
• What I was thinking on Sunday December 7th at 3:53 PM

  In spring, at times
  the sun rises and it becomes too hot.

  by Picnic-Lightning 7 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 7 5:54 PM 2008
• Midnight Ceramics

  There you sat,
  fingers spotted with plaster and underglaze

  by Picnic-Lightning 12 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 18 1:33 PM 2008
• When the Leaves Fall, then Soon I Will be Home

  If I knock on your door
  please let me in.

  by Picnic-Lightning 15 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 18 8:55 AM 2008
• An Invincible Summer

  In the grass, the bastard Caliban
  reaches out his daemon hand

  by Picnic-Lightning 20 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 9 10:43 PM 2008
• Working title (short story)

  Lindsay scratched another mark on the knotted pine wall with her chalk. After sixteen years this particular piece of chalk was no longer in the best of health, and so marking the wall with it proved to be even more of an ende

  by Picnic-Lightning 26 lines, on Nov 8 10:28 PM 2008. In short story
• When I Try to Draw Models (Haiku)

  I didn't know what
  I wanted, but symmetry,

  by Picnic-Lightning 2 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 2 3:37 PM 2008
• The Hermit Makes a New Home

  She was looking for something
  Far, far away

  by Picnic-Lightning 12 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 3 8:12 PM 2008
• Tea with Godot

  Yesterday, 13:37 Me: Who are you?

  by Picnic-Lightning 83 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 29 8:18 AM 2008
• Quanta

  There is no time, apparently
  They say

  by Picnic-Lightning 9 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 29 7:30 AM 2008
• The Wrath has Come, oh! The Humanity!

  I thought it was over After the thumb screws

  by Picnic-Lightning 16 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 29 7:16 AM 2008
• The very last short story, which may or may not be inspired by Daniil Kharms

  I went to a wake for someone I was told I knew. He had been decapitated by a freak lawnmower accident. Because he had loved football so muc

  by Picnic-Lightning 0 lines, on Mar 23 12:49 AM 2008
• Six more very short stories, completely unrelated to the two prior

  I.
  A cannibal moved in across the road this week. I didn’t know what to do and panicked, because I usually bring lime gelatin to all my ne

  by Picnic-Lightning 22 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 23 12:41 AM 2008
• A very short story which is unrelated to the previous, yet still influenced by Daniil Kharms

  I went to a friends house the other day, we were having tea when I noticed that there was an elephant in the room. And so I asked him, “Why

  by Picnic-Lightning 1 lines, on Mar 23 12:39 AM 2008
• A very short story that is most likely influenced by Daniil Kharms

  Last Thursday, or perhaps it was a Monday, I had a fight with the butcher. I do not remember what the fight was about, but it was of a very

  by Picnic-Lightning 0 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 18 11:46 PM 2008
• Chocolate Climate Change

  Cake.
  Delicious

  by Picnic-Lightning 37 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 11 9:49 PM 2008
• If a Cat had no Legs

  by Picnic-Lightning 27 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 17 9:36 PM 2008
• For Robespierre

  by Picnic-Lightning 12 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 6 10:33 AM 2008
• Twilight

  by Picnic-Lightning 30 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 11 10:42 PM 2007
• Acronyms, Anecdotes and the Many Deaths of Salvador Dali

  Don't expect you to have the time for it all in one sitting
  if you do have the time, I feel quite sorry for you.

  by Picnic-Lightning 128 lines, 30 comments, on Sep 21 6:37 PM 2007. In Satire, society, being silly
• 8:11

  An undulating breeze sweeps sun-burnt leaves;
  the last breaths of a dying summer

  by Picnic-Lightning 21 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 8 9:48 PM 2007. In Impressionism
• The Explication of Memory

  by Picnic-Lightning 22 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 13 7:39 AM 2007. In Abstract, modern
• Rhapsody

  A pause of tension / a dignity intense / a saturated mystery of unresolved suspense / like that reflective silence / which invariably follo

  by Picnic-Lightning 22 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 12 8:58 AM 2007
• Dear Mr. Christ,

  "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd" / --Voltaire / Dear Mr. Christ, / I express my condolences. / For all that has

  by Picnic-Lightning 43 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 10 8:06 AM 2007. In Religion, philosophy, satire
• More Stew, Your Holiness?

  I. L'hors-D'oeuvre / Light the candels, / one, two, three / no, best make it seven / seven is the lucky number. / There are only 6 in the b

  by Picnic-Lightning 48 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 8 2:53 PM 2007. In Satire, humour, controversial
• On the Life, Death and Much Celebrated Works of Zugglebort the Great--a Most Grand Obituary

  Part I: The birth of a man most celebrated and renound. / Holland, 1962 / was born a man of great esteem / a man for whom the world would q

  by Picnic-Lightning 94 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 7 1:07 PM 2007. In Weeiiiirrrddd, For contest only.
• E = mc²

  He opens the box / and sees a fountain / crystalline and bubbling loquaciously / surrounded by quixotic dragon flies / questing so for answers / to questions so complex / through the phantasmago

  by Picnic-Lightning 49 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 5 7:45 AM 2007. In Philosophy, metaphor, boxes, [insert witty genre here]
• Groznyy

  by Picnic-Lightning 56 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 3 8:09 AM 2007
• L'age D'or

  "Morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior"

  by Picnic-Lightning 42 lines, 15 comments, on Jul 1 6:02 AM 2007
• I (or: For Cincinnatus C.)

  Just a little something that says more than it seems to
  

  by Picnic-Lightning 29 lines, 5 comments, on May 4 8:16 PM 2007
• Requiem to an Unfortunate Bit of Spam

  Spam, spam, a bit of spam, reposing in a jar
  Oh how my mind is boggled by exactly what you are.

  by Picnic-Lightning 19 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 22 10:10 AM 2007
• The Night I Died

  I died sometime this evening,
  it's hard to say exactly when.

  by Picnic-Lightning 48 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 17 10:42 PM 2007. In Literature-inspired
• The Blood of Leon Trotsky

  by Picnic-Lightning 58 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 17 6:11 PM 2007. In Political ideologies, society
• Delirium Tremens

  When innocence became compassion
  And we squint into the moonlight.

  by Picnic-Lightning 54 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 29 6:06 PM 2007

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