Author Archives: ManninoAcid

Lament for the lost smile

Oh where have you gone, Smilemaker? Once so clear and residing so near And now stricken completely from sight. Where did it go wrong, Smilemaker? Was the formula diluted, the chemistry polluted Or has the magic been poisoned away. Where do I go now, Smilemaker? My smiles are gone, conclusions been drawn And I’ve beenContinue reading “Lament for the lost smile”

Delusional Intoxicant Fit- Part 3 “Fell in love with an stripper”

So incendiary and decadent. Forlorn fruit. Surrendered temptation and sullied decency. Backsliding into adolescence when idealistic intentions reigned supreme and the rain superseded the thunder and lightning superficially ceded inelegantly against the criminally abused barn door of brilliance that suspends our disbelief only long enough to slap us squarely across the face of our fadingContinue reading “Delusional Intoxicant Fit- Part 3 “Fell in love with an stripper””

Perspective

Tonight I sat in the stands of Jack White Stadium and watched a team from the myspace-text-message generation play their hearts out. There on the sideline stood a familiar yet much older coach hunched over and moving slightly slower than I remember. His notorious “ear fro” had become a much more stately gray. Late inContinue reading “Perspective”

On the Breath of Summer

There in the radiance of the retreating solstice sun she suddenly appeared An apparition of elegance or a taunting specter of discontent? A dogged reminder of persistent failures and unquenchable thirst. Yet another oasis in this desert of metaphors. Backlit by illuminance and shining like an angel in the afterimage The light carressing her gentleContinue reading “On the Breath of Summer”

Introducing…Karuna

One last glimpse at what is not mine and I am granted peace. A potential point of paranoia provided glorious closure. The chapter can now be closed, the story has come full circle. In the end I couldn’t kill the love. It couldn’t be surgically removed without killing myself. There is no way to replaceContinue reading “Introducing…Karuna”

Unfortunate Strings

Stretched tightly across the threshold of this life are strings of loveWhose vibrations once resonated voraciouslyThat now lie feverish in their idlenessRust settles across the once well polished wiresDecaying in the acrid air of insipidityPerfect in their imperfectionSlender in their imaginationForm beneath functionAnd function under-formed Craving delicate touches of angelic fingersThe disenfranchised diluvial dreamSomehow stillContinue reading “Unfortunate Strings”