Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Category: Melodie Yvonne
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The 2nd piece in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here Just Driving by Melodie Yvonne Not sure where the fuck to go, not sure what to doYou find the hard way freedom’s got a priceI don’t know if…
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Originally written for Creative Writing at JCHS in October 1993 & the first piece in the print collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here Run Away Home by Melodie Yvonne I feel so trapped. My small light floods the entire…
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Originally published online Feb 2, 2021 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here The Honeymoon Is Definitely Over by Melodie Yvonne Sittin’ here waitin’ and wonderin’ what’s nextI’m tryin’ to stay clean, but my life’s still a messI feel like I’m stuck, super glued into placeI look in the mirror and don’t…
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Originally published online Jan 17, 2021 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here I Watched Too Much Stuff About The Runaways on Hulu and I Wanna Growl Too aka Everybody Can Fuck Off Except Joan Jett by Melodie Yvonne I’m not going to be what you want me to beI won’t be…
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Originally published online Dec 6, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available hereThis piece can also be found in the Poetry Collaboration Sin & Skin — available on Amazon here Death Row Seafood Fetish by Melodie Yvonne Dedicated to bette. ❤️❤️❤️Everyone should be so lucky as to have a friend like her…
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Originally published online June 6, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available hereThis piece can also be found in the Poetry Collaboration Sin & Skin — available on Amazon here Poppy Seed by Melodie Yvonne There’s an inch of life between us and I can hardly breatheYou’re everything I’m wantin’,…
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Originally published online Nov 19, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Stuck Between by Melodie Yvonne Stuck between Hell and a hard placeLookin’ for just a moment of peaceTryin’ to stop myself from fallin’But wantin’ to fall and get some relief Stuck between tryin’ to love you and let goStuck…
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Originally published online Nov 6, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Fallin’ Somewhere Else by Melodie Yvonne I miss you every day, though, you’re missin’ someone elseI’ve been tryin’ not to feel this, but it’s all that I have feltYou turn your icy blues at me and all of me…
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Originally published online Oct 20, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Desensitized Monotony by Melodie Yvonne All these things they pull me downAll these things don’t make a soundMake me feel I’m gonna drown But that’s all so fucking boring Just a bunch of putrid storiesTo relive our foolish glories‘Til…
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Originally published online Oct 16, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here This Week by Melodie Yvonne This week I fell apart, I found an end, but not a startThis week I fell apart, I tried to give and lost my heartThis week I cried and cried, I drowned until my…
