Ashe Vernon's Blog, page 13
June 8, 2017
"A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER’S GHOST
Where is all the woman
..."
Where is all the woman
you were born with?
Everywhere.
I’ve been setting it down
in pieces my entire life.
This is the body your mother and I
made for you. Why
isn’t it good enough?
It is good, but it’s not finished yet.
Do you wish you’d been born a boy?
I wish I’d been born an ocean.
Alive and boundless,
with a name too wild
to fit in man’s mouth.”
- A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER’S GHOST by Ashe Vernon
June 7, 2017
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"Fear wears a pinstripe suit that
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry” like a prayer
in a..."
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry” like a prayer
in a religion no one knows the name of,
but everyone keeps paying tithes to.
A man trying to be holy
who keeps snapping the whip
against his own back. A martyr,
but only for an audience.
He’s dangerous, but
you don’t want him to be dangerous.
You want him to be
SORRY SORRY SORRY
just like you are always
SORRY SORRY SORRY.
He shrinks–until the suit balloons
around him, until he’s just big enough
to get stuck in your throat. Until
you’re choking on him. And he whispers:
“You think you aren’t afraid of being alone,
but you’re lying to yourself.”
And he’s in your mouth and he is your mouth
and he’s a smooth talker. A conman and a
swindler. The boy you trusted up until
the moment you didn’t.
Fear is the hand on your belt and
the breath on your back and
he’s making ugly promises. He says,
“It’s you and me and ME AND ME AND ME
AND I’LL ALWAYS BE HERE.”
And he coos, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”
And he pants, “It’ll just be–us.”
And he says,
“I never meant to hurt you.”
And you don’t correct him.
And you kiss him
just to make him leave.”
- SMOOTH TALKER, by Ashe Vernon
"Fear wears a pinstripe suit that
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry”..."
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry” like a prayer
in a religion no one knows the name of,
but everyone keeps paying tithes to.
A man trying to be holy
who keeps snapping the whip
against his own back. A martyr,
but only for an audience.
He’s dangerous, but
you don’t want him to be dangerous.
You want him to be
SORRY SORRY SORRY
just like you are always
SORRY SORRY SORRY.
He shrinks–until the suit balloons
around him, until he’s just big enough
to get stuck in your throat. Until
you’re choking on him. And he whispers:
“You think you aren’t afraid of being alone,
but you’re lying to yourself.”
And he’s in your mouth and he is your mouth
and he’s a smooth talker. A conman and a
swindler. The boy you trusted up until
the moment you didn’t.
Fear is the hand on your belt and
the breath on your back and
he’s making ugly promises. He says,
“It’s you and me and ME AND ME AND ME
AND I’LL ALWAYS BE HERE.”
And he coos, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”
And he pants, “It’ll just be–us.”
And he says,
“I never meant to hurt you.”
And you don’t correct him.
And you kiss him
just to make him leave.”
- SMOOTH TALKER, by Ashe Vernon
June 6, 2017
"WHEN THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED TURNS OUT TO BE CLINICAL DEPRESSION
Me and the monster
wake up..."
Me and the monster
wake up together.
Every morning,
he sits at the kitchen table
pouring salt into my coffee cup.”
-
THE MONSTER by Ashe Vernon
(from the book Wrong Side of a Fistfight)
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Right now, the amazon reviews for Wrong Side of a Fistfight are overwhelmingly about the first edition, which is a much, much weaker book than the second edition is.
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"They said my hair would fall out.
It never did. Just like they said
my sadness was something
that I..."
It never did. Just like they said
my sadness was something
that I would grow out of.
(They had to cut me from
my mother’s stomach
because I did not want
to be born.)”
- BABY PHOTOS by Ashe Vernon
my boyfriend doesn't love me anymore and I don't want him to leave. I know that's melodramatic and weak, but all I feel is grief and heartbreak. I don't know what happened. One day we were happy and the next he doesn't even want to kiss me anymore. My hear
Oh, honey. I know how hard that is. I do. But listen to me: there is nothing worse than being in a loveless relationship. It’s time to go, darling. You deserve real love, not just the memory of it.
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Liked Wrong Side of a Fistfight, 2nd Edition?
I need your help!
Right now, the amazon reviews for Wrong Side of a Fistfight are overwhelmingly about the first edition, which is a much, much weaker book than the second edition is.
If you bought the second edition of Wrong Side please, please, please take a moment to submit a review. I want this book to be known for what it is now, not what it used to be.
