Jake Shaw's Blog, page 5

Senseless

You hate weakness?
You don’t seem to
Hate
Being vulnerable.

Step by step
Down beaches

Up streets where
We
Were betrayed

No confrontation
By design
It went
But

I’m sorry

Yet I know
There were no
Expectations outside
Foundations

Hate weakness
So you
Destroy the
Senseless.

Invisible Man

I wasn’t there
For myself
I was there
For the moment

When you needed proof
When you needed
A hammer to bring down

So I let you use me

Drove
Parked
Waited
Watched you get out
And confront my past

My proud passenger
“Right, Jake?”

Point to me.

Thumbs up as I sip
A cold brew, thinking
Of all the petty memories

Let it go
Run away

Like it always does

You’re stronger than it is
And I’m more invisible
Than I ever
Was

Happily
Spitefully

Rightfully

Sinnesloschen

Olympia October
In
Puyallup in April

It’s all senseless

We’re both passengers
In a seasonal vehicle

Each sidewalk step
Kicks up loose pieces
Of eroded concrete gravel

Skittering down sparsely
Crowded stalking streets

Oly is fearless except
When she’s not

Vulnerability is a constant

Olympia might be corroding
But she’s also consumed

By things exhumed beneath
The asphalt and grass
Thoughts permeating through
The nightlife

Moons burning to black
Ashes in our mouths
And the smoke billows
To a clo...

Oly October

Just like the city, she’s
different.

Not off, like the way you feel
walking down certain streets
downtown in the capitol city,
but different. A new flavor
of a coffee from Burial Grounds.

A book you never saw before,
In Bower’s library.

Indeed, a store or spot
that you never really had
visited yet, even through what
you’ve said.

You’ve been “up and down this place,
and know it like the back of
the hand”. For certain, but even
then no history can make up
for raw exploring. Don’t you
love it he...

Bad Bitch

I don’t think
You mean much
Of what you’ve said

You’re hard to
See through

News – Miss Information Issues Statement on Dazzle Figures

Day 1,253 – The Administration issued a statement today regarding the people who don’t exist which seem to be roaming the streets.

They say the key word in that sentence is “seem”, as Miss Information holds fast that the dazzle-painted figures moving around parts of downtown are nothing to be afraid of, and in fact aren’t there at all.

This comes in the wake of a month-long stretch where Mayor Dean has stayed silent on the number of sightings reported in by locals.

Miss Information came forwa...

Panic

It’s not about the shot
It’s about the journey

Every riverbank trail
Every cold clearing
That fades
Into forest

Fog lying low
Brisk noontime throe

Looking into the sky
Being stared back at
By abyssal
Overcast

Why has this
Come to pass?

Looking back
At the
Mountain pass

Did these rocks and trees
Grow here to fear me?
Roots in the riverbeds
Turned to driftwood clay

This pass will know
My veiled face

Pathfinder’s tracks
In this place
Stay stratified
Where they’re made

Dug up dirt
Trembles before...

Trixie

Didn’t expect this
Red lipped
Buttoned up
Monologue
And strip on stage

Weird to think I know you
Strange to be a party to
This cold opening
Display of… fragility?

Every color of the rainbow
Cradling the panties worn
Of a volunteer who soon
Removes the lacy bra
That was left behind

Leaving behind stickers
And imagination

Making the most of those
Assets, and moving
For all that movement
Could be worth on stage

Cult appeal so surface
It fucked its way
Across almost
Every continent

Making sex so...

Adrift Key

Roses in our old beds
Laying unmade
Are only wilting
While they rest

And the ones we tend to
Grow mature

Sand is only blacker
The closer to the coast
Tightly packed beach
In between your toes

Lit by a sunset
Closing down the world
It’s time to go home
It’s time to go home

To a tent
To a car
To a house
To a home

To sweet music, jokes,
And a family your own

Sand between your toes
On a border of two states
Cape Disappointment
A bridge between two worlds

We all walked to that wedding
But came bac...

Antennae With Rays

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Sony Alpha 6300, f/5, 1/3200, ISO-100, 42mm. 10/4/2018 3:46 PM.

This photo was taken through a car window. I’m surprised it turned out as well as it did, frankly.