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 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
Snap
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
There's some liquor in this bottle
I know could drown my sorrows
but if  I finish it
I wouldn't speak at all
face down in my bedroom
with the walls looming on my back
a brick stuck in my stomach
and a knife right through my neck
I'm teeth deep in nostalgia
I can't believe I called ya
the message sits on your machine
with slurred words that
sound so clean
I told it straight right at the beep
"Take me home
take me home
one last time"
then I cut the line
mind all left when it should be right
this is the story of another
drunken night
Daniel Magner 2014
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
Swift
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
I swiffer the fake wood floors
using the handle as a microphone
tearing up the stage in my own home
for the first time in a few years
I don't feel that I've grown one bit
I spit out every lyric
like I'm sixteen and stupid
buying her those tulips
then the song ends
and I'm
almost twenty-one
again
Daniel Magner 2014
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
She stated the obvious
while I puffed on my cigarette
"You know smoking kills?"
"Yeah, want to die?"
I held out my stoge
"I like life"
"How do you know
you don't like death
if you've never tried it?"
She stayed
silent
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 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
"Do the first one armed back flip
on a jetski"
were the last words
you spoke to me
as you walked down the street
neither of us knowing
we would never meet
again
.
.
.
happy birthday
Eddie
I never wanted to catch up
to you in age
but here I am
one month away
from being one year
older than
you ever
got to
be


Daniel Magner 2014
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
I watched
my pops cry
in the middle
of a restraunt
apologizing,
heard my mom
scream at the sky
why, why, why

Now I've done both
had the tears on my face
and the yells in my throat
and it makes me wonder
when they were younger
did they think
about the same things
as
me?
I guess we are more alike
than I used to
admit


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 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
naps turn into days
weeks, years it seems
on a shell strewn beach
trying to escape
off in the distance
an island drifting
over hung with clouds
a terrible feeling that
I must get out
climb the shale
all the way down
freezing waters sting
my doubts
stroke, stroke, stroke
away from the shore
till I drown
and awaken
reborn
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still having strange dreams, that make me feel
as if I've lived a million years
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
"Hey man, like your hair."
Hours later I'm bare
and in bed
wine up in my
head
I have so much
love to share
but it's wasted
on birds
sitting alone
atop an electrical wire
my eyes that see
the beauty in everything
slowly expire
till the mirror
tells me
"You're nothing"
naked in my bed
wishing for
something
Daniel Magner 2014
 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
We sat late into the night
cross-legged on a table
brushing what little light
had the guts to reach out
toward the dark.
although the beams
didn't quite illuminate
her face
the stars made it
easy to see
her heart
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 Feb 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
Walking home through the first rain
since the start of an unexpected drought
soaked to the soul by the song
the drops sang across the road
standing tall, stout, despite the cold
peeled off watery clothes
dove into a blanket sea
storm blown seaweed hair
with anchor pillows
to keep me from
drifting
a crew devised of two
a figure in my dreams
and me


Daniel Magner 2014
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