Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world

  • Chimney to Nowhere

    Chimney to Nowhere

    Originally published online Feb 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    Chimney to Nowhere by Melodie Yvonne

    A chimney to nowhere in the middle of the woods
    is where I hid and where I stood
    as I watched each passing day
    fade into memories bleak and grey

    It stood so proud just like myself
    a remnant of what I must have felt
    before my water turned so muddy
    bore a tunnel dark and ruddy

    Mortared tower to the sky soaring just above my eye
    it looks so sad it makes me cry
    all unbelonging in its place
    a weathered tired worn on its face

    Floating through this galaxie
    this random chimney just like me
    a thousand tears in downward sliver
    join the ever-changing river

    This chimney to nowhere in the middle of the woods
    still where I hide just where I stood
    but now this fear has come with age
    and built an ever present rage

    We stand alone as years pass on
    and wonder where the souls have gone
    It wonders where they all could be
    It sits and wonders just like me

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  • In or Out

    In or Out

    Originally published online Jan 29, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    In or Out by Melodie Yvonne

    Let me in or let me out
    You fill my heavy head with doubt
    and right now I know you feel hazy
    but my waiting heart gets lazy

    Itchy soul and mind’s a wanderer
    I’ll not have what makes me fonder
    ‘cause I know the grass is greener
    Chemicals wipe my brain cleaner

    Let me in or let me out
    You fill my heavy head with doubt
    and right now you just make me crazy
    Gotta run unless you make me

    I don’t want you here to love me
    You’ll be takin’ too much of me
    Wishin’ on those stars above us
    Let me go and please forgive us

    Let me in or let me out of
    all this doubt that swallows me up
    and now all your lines are hazy
    and you’ve got me feeling crazy

    Let me in or let me out
    My heavy head’s still filled with doubt
    Distance makes my outline hazy
    Now my waiting heart is lazy

    Let me in or let me out
    You filled my heavy head with doubt
    Gotta run now ‘cause you made me
    Lost me ‘cause your heart is lazy

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  • Looks Like You

    Looks Like You

    Originally published online Jan 23, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here
    This piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here

    Looks Like You by Melodie Yvonne

    Looks like you’re having a comfortable ride in that car that I built for two
    Looks like you’re having an easy time, though, that seat wasn’t made for you
    You’ve taken advantage of my little life and you’ve used me through and through
    You’re such a seductive little whore always looking to suck someone new

    A single white female, your copy paste face changes lies like a bloody chameleon
    You exploit your friends, set your table with men, and ignore them except when it’s mealtime
    A canvas so blank, you are void like white paint, mostly harmless till you get your hooks in
    And then it’s too late ‘cause you’ve super glued fate like an ear to an open mouthed Tyson

    Looks like you’re having a comfortable ride in that car that I built for two
    Looks like you’re having an easy time, though, that seat wasn’t made for you

    I wish I was free, but bound we will be for handles are not often shaken
    As much as I run it’s like you’ve got a gun held up to my mind that you’ve taken
    So I guess I’ll just hide, stay hidden inside, ‘til your beasts sleeps that I have awakened
    And then I’ll be rid of your intricate web and I’ll pray that you leave me forsaken

    Looks like you’re having a comfortable ride in that car that I built for two
    Looks like you’re having an easy time, though, that seat wasn’t made for you
    Looks like you’re having a comfortable ride in that car that I built for two
    Looks like I cared, well, that’s where you erred, I’ll set fire to myself when I’m through

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  • What the Hell

    What the Hell

    Originally published online Jan 24, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    What the Hell by Melodie Yvonne

    What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?
    What the hell do I say when I want you to leave, but I want you to stay?

    I know there’s nobody else like you
    That’s why I left, why couldn’t you?
    When things don’t work you just don’t stay
    ‘cause all our ends begin to fray

    What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?
    What the hell do I say when I want you to leave, but I want you to stay?

    There’s no way you’d know what you have asked
    Foolishly I’m took to task
    I still don’t know just what to say
    But I’m really good at running away

    What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?
    What the hell do I say when you broke all the toys and I don’t wanna play?

    I was always the crazy one
    You were bright just like the sun
    But now I fear that you are near
    And who will get us out of here?

    What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?
    What the hell do I say when I want you to leave, but I want you to stay?
    What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?
    What the hell do I say when I just want you to go away?

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  • 80 Grams

    80 Grams

    Originally published online Jan 17, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    80 Grams by Melodie Yvonne

    Exhausted emotions swinging so freely
    Strayed wishes for someone somewhere to see me
    I’m getting so tired and wishin’ for solace
    This sure as hell ain’t what our parents taught us

    Thought I’d be somethin’ or at least I’d be free
    but I’m guessin’ what really ain’t meant to be
    Tryin’ to be pure and find hope to hold onto
    but gettin’ so tired wearin’ cement filled shit boots

    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    I’m an old broken record you pressed 80 grams
    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    and you’re not gonna change me so why give a damn

    Lost in my mind’s twisted carnival soup
    I’m stuck feelin’ caged all ensnared in a loupe
    Thousands of eyeballs are focused down on me
    from judgmental faces so wretched and beastly

    Digital silhouettes rise with their glow
    and they try to attack my frail analog soul
    Then a smile on your lips brings me quite a surprise
    but I’m over and done with your pixel filled eyes

    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    I’m an old broken record you pressed 80 grams
    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    No matter your patch my whole melody’s damned

    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    Still that old broken record you pressed 80 grams
    Love me or leave me I’m all that I am
    and you’re not gonna change me so why give a damn

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  • Broken

    Broken

    Originally published online Jan 11, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    Broken by Melodie Yvonne

    I’m so fucking broken that I can’t even breathe
    This constant bullshit pressure has got me on my knees
    I only need one person to keep their fucking word
    but a giant bullshit symphony is all I’ve ever heard

    I’m so fucking broken I can’t even breathe
    I’m sittin’ at a stoplight wondering why I just can’t leave
    I don’t know why I’m cryin’ or why the fuck I’m sad
    and I don’t even remember how to go from sad to mad

    I’m so fucking broken I can’t even breathe
    I wish that I could fix it, but I don’t know what I need
    so I’m guessin’ every time those tears pour out my eyes
    I’m gonna turn them ‘round and try to make more pretty rhymes

    I’m so fucking broken I can’t even breathe
    but these lyrics give me oxygen with just a breath of me
    These rhythms keep me grounded and give me what I need
    so that I can last here one more day pretending that I’m free

    I’m so fucking broken I can’t breathe.

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  • Lazy Cyanide

    Lazy Cyanide

    Originally published online Jan 10, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    Lazy Cyanide by Melodie Yvonne

    Feelin’ like I’m empty
    Like I’m dyin’ deep inside
    Comfortably untouchable
    in numbness where I hide
    Feelin’ like I’m drowning
    and my heads a lead balloon
    My scuba mask’s a plastic bag
    and I’ll be sinking soon
    Feelin’ like I’m over this
    I just want off this ride
    It wasn’t supposed to be like this
    The fairy tales all lied
    Feelin’ like it’s gotta end
    or else I’m gonna break
    This time it’s me who’s shuttin’ off
    I’ve had all I can take
    Feelin’ like I’m empty
    and I’m dead now deep inside
    Comfortably untouchable
    like lazy cyanide
    Comfortably untouchable
    like lazy cyanide
    Comfortably untouchable
    I’ll be here ‘til you die

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  • Hocus Pocus

    Hocus Pocus

    Originally published online Jan 7, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    Hocus Pocus by Melodie Yvonne

    Torn between what I got left
    and what I got to lose
    Racks my mind and twists my soul
    It’s givin’ me the blues

    I wanna know just what to do
    and surely it’ll hit me
    Lookin at you seein’ me
    it makes me think you get me

    Hocus pocus
    You’re the dopest
    Let’s go have a good time
    Leave the lonelies
    and the phonies
    I’ll make your days night times

    All I ask is you stand up
    It’s time to pick a side
    Front or back they’ll be no flack
    just join me for a ride

    Hocus pocus
    You’re the dopest
    Let’s go have a good time
    Leave the lonelies
    and the phonies
    I’ll make your days night times

    Oh Hocus Pocus
    You’re the dopest
    Days forever night times
    Hocus Pocus
    You’re the dopest
    I’m your fucking sunshine

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  • My Love Melody

    My Love Melody

    Originally published online Jan 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here
    This piece can also be found in the Poetry Collaboration Sin & Skin — available on Amazon here

    My Love Melody by Melodie Yvonne

    I don’t know that I love you
    but I do know that it’s true
    that I wanna get all dirty like an animal with you

    I don’t know if I feel you
    or our souls are intertwined
    but I want to cross your primal natured need to fuck with mine

    I don’t know if I’d date you
    I’m not your breeding stock
    but I know I wanna high-five my vagina to your cock

    I don’t know that I love you
    but I do know that its true
    that I wanna get all dirty like an animal with you

    Don’t wanna owe you answers
    every time you freak and call
    I just wanna be a bed post notch and pinned against your wall

    Don’t wanna meet your momma
    or shake some hands with dad
    unless it’s just some foreplay ‘til we fuck inside their pad

    Don’t wanna say I love you
    Hopin’ you don’t feel it too
    ‘Cause right now all I wanna do is make it here with you

    Yeah, right now I just wanna make it everywhere with you
    Oh right now I just wanna make it everywhere with you

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  • The Harmony of Symmetry

    The Harmony of Symmetry

    Originally published online Jan 3, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

    The Harmony of Symmetry by Melodie Yvonne

    The harmony of symmetry alleviates anxiety
    unlike the crooked pictures that need straightened
    and here I sit without you drooping low and all askew
    like a worthless piece of trash that you’ve degraded

    I don’t know how to turn around your eyes so they will see
    this perfect mirror image that is here for you in me
    but know that I am with you in your heart where I will stay
    until the day my heart has died and turns your soul away

    I wanna know just what to do and how to make you see me too
    but love is blind and blindingly it binds you
    You shined a light into my dark and gave me just a little spark
    that undid all the certainties that I knew

    Now my mind is full of mazes bouncing round inside its cages
    Walled reflections make my eyes see you in echoes
    Beautiful reverberations making musical creations
    matches my heart with your ever-changing tempos

    I don’t know how to turn around your eyes so they will see
    this perfect mirror image that is here for you inside me
    but know that I am with you in your heart where I will stay
    until the day your heart has died and turns my soul away

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