like a porcelain doll
the old creepy kind with the
open head
stiff wig covering the
hollow, cavernous access
to the soulless shape of a girl
∿₊·∘👱🏻♀️∿₊·∘
instead of living her own
real life
she’s toted around in a basket
∿₊·∘🧺∿₊·∘
cryptic notes detailing days
never chosen, only proximally lived
slipped under loosening curls
∿₊·∘📜∿₊·∘
squashed down inside an
unflinching body until
paper’s fused
all mashed and bulging
her fragile china torso
in danger of exploding
∿₊·∘💥∿₊·∘
pressure sends
chips and chunks
crashing to the ground
in a skin-rending pile
on the bedroom rug
₊‧.°. ⊹ .°.‧₊
now, this cursed wad of memories
must be carefully unraveled
curly letters untangled
each scrap pinned to the fortune board
to be burned when the wind
dies down
∿₊·∘🔥∿₊·∘
every razor-sharp shard cataloged
for an expert hand to reassemble
like a puzzle
with epoxy, repainting
till she’s good as new
K.B. Silver
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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CH 20~ Party Down
Argento’s ninth (eighteenth in earth years) Birthday came and went Thursday, the thirteenth, and he’d already received his father’s gift, if you could call it that. You had to commit a fairly serious infraction to be cut off; the Arch-Baron was keeping up appearances and maintaining his own reputation as much as any sense of love or attachment to Argento with his “gift.”
By K.B. Silver Exclusive • 3 days ago
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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Intense and well written. However, I do not thank you for the nightmares that photo is sure to bring