Charles Malcolm Poems

I tried
honestly
for so long.
We had everything in common
...

I sit here on a wobbly stool
between rounds
with nothing left.
All of the advice is muffled
...

Funny,
the pain that
we endure
just
...

I prayed in the basement
beneath a swinging light-bulb
for a quick death.
i can't remember whose.
...

They'll say
that I died early
and claim to know how I lived.
...

Don't paint fruit.

Paint a naked woman
who desperately wishes
...

'A girl can dream, ' you laughed to me.

I smiled politely with self-hatred
and sipped my beer.
...

Flashes of you slice through my eyelids
like a rapist's face.
A three word sentence that you slur in passing
tosses sparks inside of my darkened mind
...

We have 2 copies of
Love Is a Dog fro...
at $16.99.
We will hold for 3 days.
...

She tastes like fruit punch
and gasoline
and doesn't stare
obnoxiously
...