Bev Nap Poetry


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-----Picklickle--------
Mayonaisse is only
a surface thing
and pickles are 
nothing that matters

But the bread, baby
the bread is in my dreams
rising as the sourdough
tempers what seems

considering the
cucumbers girth
and power to 
heal- endless
possibilities
on the horizon...
produce.

grapes my wrath
but the bread, baby.
but the bread.

-and-

BEV NAP POETRY
AGAIN IN MY GENES
SHOULD I DISCARD IT LIKE LENT?
I'M NOT CATHOLIC AFTER ALL
 OR SAVE IT - 
FOR A BIG FAT BALL?
LIKE WILLIAM SHATNER'S
WIFE A BACON PROPOSITION
Cheese wide candle
While I watch you undress
walking cake light
dripping & dancing I eat

Tousoled, my hair a mess
I raise you to the shadows & get smaller
a fleeting marshmellow bite
Can I touch you just taste

So daunting a feat
Comb my hair stand up & blow you out
my nose, I hold, it bleats

Wrinkle in the sky
stars are a tune
Open meadow
surrounds you

Nativity in bowling pins
blueberry remulaide
Road flare cymbal
Then and done

(with) You stand there
in a light
you clutch your bag
but you look

and your shoulder
is 10 ft. tall

Against the wall, I think
I fell in love with your
touch.


I stood so still
the earth moved
fell and tore the sky
the sky then tore me
Split, I groped for ground
In the clumps of dirt I found
self-absorbed, I am earth-like
even anti-art is art;
that is why I reject it

Dirt full of shes
Our own, others, forming
the soil to someday sow
a new crop of  normality
a sin'L5.....what's that?
an expression of insecurity
or an expression of knowledge
that the knife buried is w-
expected dust for sale
isi es que puedes hazlo!


The masques rise
on every green
I think I've had enough
in every scene

Come on Coney (Island)
Like (the) bird(s) do

Green hdyad Tree

Nine alive
with desert children women
cyber stand white
castle crossroad

Man Facing Southeast


The things I should have said
_____________________________

The things I should have said
Like Hello
polyrhthmic exponentiality
Hello

Things I should have said
you look lovely tonight
can I call you
what's your name

woke up in your dream


Conspiracy of None
__________________

Used to get up
at the sound of your call
Used to fall
at the sight of your smile

If I stood up
and I couldn't walk
what could I do

Caught your eye
through the front glass
Scooby on the phone
there was something
going wrong within



Naked and on my knees
------------------------------------
 
Without a knife
this life
just ain't right
'cause I'm naked
       and on my knees
 
fallin' on my jezebel
she likes the lace
the leather, the fire
 
but if the moon ain't right
I'm not going home tonight
ice sand walk Ste. Michael
dancing on the bar
 
the ladies got snakes in their
hair and stone men
begging at their feet
 
without a knife not gonna
make it thru the night
     tonight
 
With a knife
It just ain't right
for thirty minutes
and not remember
 
But I'm sill smilin'
and thinkin back when
It felt like kisses
 
You think I don't
see your smiles
I've walked
   for miles
 
It just ain't right
for thirty minutes
or even an hour
   our hour


when words come
they buzz like flies
chasing after the scent of
life's decay

a rhyme is four
and too for
evolution walks through
de-evolution's door
windows of steel
flow cast iron

sparks shine out
casting a light
shading dreams
of days gone bye


Sunday cigarettes

Liquid precipice
over steel lips
crushed and peeled
by the flow of time
but fuckit - I love sheep
'cause Mary's always w/the sheep
It was just a little
woolly in the beginning
Bully said Teddy
Wooly Bully - said Sam
Woody Billy took the stand
All my friends watched me as I man fed the alter
they all giggled & toasted when I fell
into a fur blanket
the masked avenger
had ripped off
the crack whores back
a pearl necklace jack
for Bully Billy to take home


knot just words

Waiting tor the moon
it's new every day
and tho it's all gleek to me
why is nothing new so unlike knew nothing

the son shines at night
it's full and round
and it's beyond destined for random
and then we are not
Gordian flay entwined
a slip a square a cross



Searching for answers in the clouds
my feet on the ground
my ashes fly on the wind
like birds between buildings



the sip like light
slips into twilight
and fingers through
trees to blossom
rooting torches
illuminate the mystery
tragical history
tour
of poor, forgotten 
maelstrom of bizarre
love nests azure


Time skips, and back 
in the course now
so in my pocket
I have eleven cents

If what you perceive is real
embedded in every scene

Kristina
the leopard's run
through black lace

Black skirt freckled
Spirit blue ringed
rage of Angels
eyed through red

Your arrival is pure bliss
Seeing you I need that fix

You are my whole food
I'm just your fool


Three Three
*DAHIJ*
And going....
not even confusion
just what we are
that which
on the wicked west
go east young man
lets! 


The Ballad of Falling Rock and Susie Sioux
__________________________________________

I'm tired of hangin' around
seein' others sing my songs
she says, I like your tune
you know, I play the flute

and she sang his song

Chorus: He's falling

There was a road
through the mountains
across the dessert
through the forest
to an oasis

And he sang her song

c: now he's falling, like a rock

the birds flew, the bees buzzed
when he was crushed
by the weight
of the circling buzzards

c: now he's fallen


    Without fail
  there is nothing
that doesn't disappoint
    though some
   still redeem


KatydiD
_______
_______

Chamber meadow aria

Katy did but didn't know
she had in her bag
all the makings
of what she had done

Katy dug in the sand
when the tide came in
the ether calls us
I wish
        she would

the day I saw sasquatch
they were shooting a movie
So I wasn't sure
if it was real

I wanted you for the first time
cause I knew you wanted
to be wanted

that Demon that is you
is the evil of eve
tonight