Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world

  • I’d Rather Be Angry

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein available here soon

    I’d Rather Be Angry by Melodie Yvonne

    Drinkin’ that tequila that I did that night with you
    You was done with me before we drank that bottle through
    And maybe I ain’t finished ‘cause I’m hopin’ you’ll turn back
    But tonight feels kinda different and my hope’s gone all off track

    If I could count the distance that is keepin’ me from you
    The count’d go forever ‘cause you pull back like you do
    And every time it feels like you have finally come around
    You turn right back away and light speed right on outta town

    My heart’s still right here on my sleeve for you to take or leave it
    Just save me all that bullshit where you say it isn’t me and
    Tell me if you can’t move on then why can’t we just try it
    ‘Cause I’m so sick of missin’ you and I’m done tryin’ to fight it

    If I could count the distance that is keepin’ me from you
    It’d be a CVS receipt that goes around the moon
    And every time it feels like you have finally closed that gap
    You run right back away and leave me wishin’ you’d turn back

    Why can’t you just give me a chance ‘cause I won’t ever leave ya
    Don’t keep pushin’ me away ‘cause you think we’ll all be her
    Or maybe I’m not good enough and you just plain can’t say it
    But either way I’m tired of games ‘cause I’m no good at playin’

    If I could count the distance that is keepin’ me from you
    The count’d go forever ‘cause you pull back like you do
    And this evenin’s kinda special better have another round
    ‘Cause this time you hit light speed, love, without makin’ a sound

    ♥♥♥

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  • Join Me in Methlehem wsg Paiger at Indy Type Shop Dec 12!

    The moment has finally arrived… the Indy celebration for Methlehem is happening, and I can’t wait to finally get to celebrate this with all of you.

    Methlehem is gritty. It’s honest. It doesn’t flinch.
    It’s the torn, beating center of love, heartbreak, addiction, and survival laid out in full. These aren’t just stories, they’re survival epics… the kind of tale that haunts you long after the last page.

    Paiger is a force to be reckoned with.
    She’s the calm before the storm, the storm, and the savior you’ve been waiting for. Paiger is equal parts rage and grace… raw emotion wrapped in blues, rock, punk and soul. She doesn’t ask permission. She demands attention, then shakes you awake with truth.

    If you’ve been waiting, watching, or cheering me on, now’s the time to come out and be part of it.
    Come through, snag a copy, kick back, and let Methlehem pull you deep into the messy, jagged world that chewed Melodie up and spat her out to you.

    Join me in Methlehem wsg Paiger and an UNCENSORED Poetry Open Mic:

    December 12, 2025
    6-9PM

    6PM Live music from Paiger
    7PM Methlehem reading and Q&A with Melodie
    8PM Uncensored Open Mic

    Indy Type Shop
    2621 Shelby St.
    Indianapolis, In

    More info: facebook.com/events/2252580268583006

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    ⚠️ Explicit Content Warning: Methelehem contains depictions of drug use, violence, and sexual content.

  • Still Stumbling

    Originally published online Dec 14, 2023 & in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie Extended Edition available here

    Still Stumbling by Melodie Yvonne
    (“STILL TUMBLING” IS THE SEQUEL TO “STUMBLING UP THE MOUNTAIN“)

    One time this boy, one of the most beautiful boys I’ve ever met, told me ”Stumbling Up The Mountain” was one of his favorite pieces yet. I thought it was my weakest because it showed my weakness, but it was a weakness I secretly wanted him to see.

    Later he asked when I’d wrote it with a slight hint of something maybe foreboding? I don’t know and I wonder if I should’ve told him the unasked answers… that yes everything can be summed up to 42, and that yes he was the best thing I ever knew, and a resounding “YES! I’m so in love with you!” but, I had already tried to tell him once before this, and, well… He didn’t get the text.

    I thought that meant he wasn’t supposed to know, but… maybe… it just meant that love words were meant to be written and not cold? And maybe… it just meant that technologies growing young while I’m growing old, but no matter what I’m told now I know it was Tom Robbins that was the one that was right all along…

    “There is only one serious question and that is: Who knows how to make love stay?”

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  • Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!

    Originally published online Jan 22, 2023, in the print collection Photographic Memories: Eight Ways to Nein, and is the title piece in the upcoming collection Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!available here

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my! by Melodie Yvonne

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    Sometimes I think it’d be easier to die
    But I just keep truckin’ along in this mess
    Tryin’ to salvage each day and move onto the next

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    If I stop to think it’ll just make me cry
    I’ve been living this life an I for an eye
    Now I am trying to bury these terrible lies

    My whole fucking life is just covered in piss
    Like a hoe spraying GG’s mouth straight from her clit
    I might as well jump in and get me a bit
    ’Cause I’m already writhin’ and drownin’ in shit

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    If I stop to think it’ll just make me cry
    I’ve been livin’ this life an eye for an I
    Now I am tryin’ to bury these terrible lies

    I really wish that I could just die
    But the money’s so good and it’s just one more time
    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    At least I got friends here along for the ride

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    Sometimes I think it’d be easier to die
    But I just keep truckin’ along in this mess
    Tryin’ to salvage each day and move onto the next

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!
    If I stop to think it’ll just make me cry
    I’ve been livin’ this life an eye for an I
    Now I’m trying to stop or I think I might die

    I just gotta learn how to swim one more day
    Fuck Calgon, fuck me, and just take me away
    Klonopin, Morphine, and Xannies, Oh my!
    It’s not quite enough, but it’ll get me by…

    Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!!!

    ♥♥♥

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    ♥♥♥

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  • Bean Soup

    This piece is in the print collection Methlehem available here

    Bean Soup by Melodie Yvonne

    A hydro strung necklace and Vicodin leash
    makes me follow him quiet like a good lil leech
    He follows his momma, still suckles her teats
    He’s just sweet as puddin’ as long as he feeds

    He’ll open my doors and hug me so tight
    then steal from my purse when I crash for the night
    Snatch all my shit and argue his rights
    Then hide in the toilet and fuck his fleshlight

    Hides behind charms and a smile that melts ice
    My Jose gets warm, his heart chills it quite nice
    Knowing he’s wrong he’ll convince me he’s right
    and then all again he’s in my bed tonight

    Lock up your pills and lock up your wife
    Not joshin’ you this guy will fuck up your life
    He’ll make you pity his make-believe strife
    He’ll suck you right in while twistin’ that knife

    But I just can’t help it he’s got them bright eyes
    And I know it looks bad but he wouldn’t lie
    It’s just a small fib and nobody died
    And I just can’t help it I get butterflies

    You’d understand if you knew him like I did
    I can’t explain but he had a bad childhood
    He’s just so sensitive plus that dick’s magic
    So it’ll be worth it even if it ends tragic

    Just leave him alone this man is my king
    Nobody talks that way ‘bout him ‘cept me
    And we’re ride or die ‘til the day that we’re free
    You mess with my man you’re messin’ with me

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    ♥♥♥

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  • On The Job Training

    This piece is in the print collection Methlehem available here

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    ⚠️ Explicit Content Warning
    This poetry excerpt from Methlehem contains drug usage, graphic sexual language, and adult themes. Intended for mature audiences only. Reader discretion is advised.

    On The Job Training by Melodie Yvonne

    Got a new job… faked my way in, but I gotta pay out some bail
    My old man got nabbed just tryin’ to help and now he is goin’ through hell
    So least I can do is start earnin’ my keep and I always know how to slip in
    A little white lie and a toss of the hair paired with my “I swallow” grin

    Been here a month, got called up to the glass and I’m scared I may done got busted
    Shoulda known gettin’ fake piss for the test from CSL couldn’t be trusted
    But fuck it I’ll face it I done been through worse and maybe I’ll finally get lucky
    I head up the stairs for those giant glass rooms reflectin’ back my face above me

    Walk through the dark tinted mirrored glass doors and I finally get a taste of the top
    I’m hopin’ I don’t get thrown out on my ass so I gotta give all that I got
    My boss throws my background check out on the desk but it sure ain’t the one that I slipped him
    Looks like he got someone in the backdoor at the fucking department of corrections

    He slides the file in front of my face with a smirk I know all too familiar
    Then pulls out a vial and cuts one on top it and throws a rolled 50 down center
    I giggle with glee and take it on in while he smirks and then slips me another
    Then roughly he pulls me on over to him but I’m already his without struggle

    He holds my gaze while his hands wrap my throat and he shoves his tongue into my mouth
    I suck it on in and I dry hump his leg while he teasingly gets his cock out
    He pulls my skirt up and my thong to the side but I pull back and drop on my knees
    I ram it on into the back of my throat while his hips pump like a fuck machine

    I gurgle with pleasure and beg him for more while he jerks me up fast by my hair
    But just as he bends me down over his desk we hear some steps out on the stairs
    I gather my shit and put it together just as the dumb bitch swings the door
    Fuck me now I got myself female blue balls I swear I will get that dumb whore

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    ♥♥♥

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  • Goodbye to Denial

    This piece is in the print collection Methlehem available here

    Goodbye to Denial by Melodie Yvonne

    The time I found your gear was like a bullet to my gut
    I wondered if there’d ever be a time you’d say enough
    I thought of all the lies and all the time I spent denyin’
    But the blinds are off my eyes now and I’m just so sick of tryin’

    Now it’s finally time I’m sayin’ goodbye to denial
    My heart’s done with all your lies and now your soul’s on trial
    Constant lies and alibis are catchin’ up to find ya
    Darlin’, now it’s finally time I’m sayin’ goodbye to denial

    You’re gettin’ half the message and you’re gettin’ that half wrong
    I used to want you by my side but now I want you gone
    The difference in your demons are as plain as night and day
    Now I’ve got just two words left for you and those are go away

    Now it’s finally time I’m sayin’ goodbye to denial
    My heart’s done with all your lies and now your soul’s on trial
    Constant lies and alibis are catchin’ up to find ya
    Darlin’, now it’s finally time I’m sayin’ goodbye to denial

    ♥♥♥

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    ♥♥♥

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  • The Negotiation

    Originally published online Dec 21, 2024 & will be in the upcoming print collection Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!: A Tornado of Love, Lust, Addiction, and Loss — available here soon

    The Negotiation by Melodie Yvonne

    The drugs work fast, but not fast enough
    I just need a break enough is enough

    Everybody’s doing it why the fuck can’t I?
    I’m done tryin’ to control this I’m saying goodbye

    You don’t know what you’re doing this isn’t the way
    Why won’t you listen to anything that I say?

    I know what’s right and I know you’re wrong
    If you’re not gonna listen, you might as well be gone

    I love you don’t leave me I just need a minute
    I just need a minute to try to forget it
    This menagerie of shit inside of my brain
    I can’t fucking do it. I’m going insane

    I can’t fucking do it. I’m going insane
    I can quit anytime I’m just still in pain

    I can quit anytime you don’t know me at all
    Shit I gotta go. I gotta give my doctor a call

    ♥♥♥

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  • Killin’ Raven

    This piece is in the print collection Methlehem available here

    Killin’ Raven by Melodie Yvonne

    If you’d have come straight home from work
    I wouldn’t think you’re such a jerk
    Believe me wasting all my time
    Is not a small victimless crime

    If he can’t stand strong by himself
    It’s a slippery road right straight to hell
    So if you love him make him stronger
    By not enabling him any longer

    I’m just sittin’ here tryin’ to help you
    But you gotta help yourself too
    ‘Cause you’re busy helpin’ demons
    Empowerin’ them to take your humans

    With all my love it’s truth I’m speakin’
    Wanna help you fight your demons
    But my love for you ain’t different
    Than your love that’s killin’ Raven

    Let him stand strong by himself
    If he loves you he’ll go get help
    But if he doesn’t then let go
    These hard truths I’ve come to know

    And if he can’t stand strong himself
    It’s a slippery road right straight to hell
    So if you love him make him stronger
    Don’t you help him any longer

    With all my love it’s truth I’m speakin’
    Wanna help you fight your demons
    But my love for you ain’t different
    Than your love that’s killin’ Raven

    ♥♥♥

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    ♥♥♥

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  • Patterns

    This piece is in the print collection Methlehem available here

    ⚠️ Explicit Content Warning
    This poetry excerpt from Methlehem contains drug usage, graphic sexual language, and adult themes. Intended for mature audiences only. Reader discretion is advised.

    Patterns by Melodie Yvonne

    You dragged me right on back down in it
    Wish I had the strength to quit it
    But I just don’t have the strength to quit you

    It’s just one more for old time’s sake
    It’s just one more, love, you won’t break
    It’s safe if we just have a little fun too

    And that was that enough of chat
    You’ve got that purrin’ in my cat
    You know for you there’s not too much I won’t do

    And suddenly I feel alive
    But it’s ok just one more time
    And I sure missed this feeling like my brain’s new

    And now your dick’s hard as a rock
    I’ve got that fucking shit on lock
    And no one out there seen where we took off to

    We cut it through the parking lot
    Done got one hand down on his cock
    And I’m about to give this guy a run through

    But ‘fore we get the van door open
    On my knees already chokin’
    You push me on in and push it on through

    You whisper that your gonna cum
    I whisper back a lil, “Yum”
    But you pull out my mouth and fuck my wet cooch

    You ram it in me hard and thick
    Addicted to your gorgeous dick
    This van is rockin’ like it’s gettin’ fucked loose

    We take a break, I saddle up
    We’ve only just began to fuck
    I keep on ramming while I take a hit too

    That big thick smoke fills up my brain
    Your big thick cock fucks me insane
    And I’m about to have a phallic breakthrough

    Forever I could live like this
    Just me and your huge perfect dick
    And this time I know that your gonna stay too

    We share a hit now we’re connected
    You’re all in me up and down and
    I squeeze myself tighter all around you

    You spray it on me warm and thick
    Perfect jiz from a perfect dick
    You glance the time and tell me you had fun too

    You rush me right on out the door
    Sorry you don’t got time for more
    You lie to me and say you’ll see me real soon

    ♥♥♥

    Join Melodie in Methlehem wsg Paiger and an UNCENSORED Open Mic at the Methlehem Release Parties:
    December 07, 2025 – 4-7PM – Bear Creek Events, 43 N Pike St, Vernon, In
    December 12, 2025 – 6-9PM – Indy Type Shop, 2621 Shelby St, Indianapolis, In
    Get more details at melodieyvonnerhymes.com/events

    Get your copy of select poetry collections by Melodie: Photographic Melodie Book Shop
    Read more poetry by Melodie: Photographic Melodie’s Poetry & Spoken Word
    Watch more poetry videos: Melodie’s Poetry & Lyrics YouTube Playlist

    ♥♥♥

    Copyright notice:
    All content on this site (music, words, photos, videos) is copyright Melodie Yvonne. Non-profit online sharing is allowed only if content is unaltered and credit is given. Commercial use or unauthorized alteration is prohibited. Questions? Contact Melodie HERE