terminal blue

“3:30am, all the streets are a blur. Heading for a wreck…the end of the world”




Stranger than andricon pictures…your steel
Wire frame.



Laced in temporary psychosis



I lick up trashed poems and dropped lyrics
From your doorstep
Dirty needles…leather boots.



And every word I bleed is just a cheap imitation
Of something I once saw flicker in you
Through grey eyes


Hydraulic haikus
Out of time




And I was once asked to write of heroes
I was once asked to write of you




I was expected to stain your glory onto paper
With cheap ink and recycled metaphors


But I choked.




Because every word I bleed is just a cheap photo copy
Of every phrase you ever disposed of


And deep down past all the sea of metallic imagery
Past the false pronouns
And over used adjectives


Every poem I’ve ever pulled from my flesh is…



Really about you.


Because every word I bleed is just a cheap imitation
Of every phrase you could never get quite right


I watch them trace through black light sandstorms
Supernovas falling apart through your mind

(Scarred track lines in the lower east side)



“We’re taking a ride with the pretty things tonight”



And every word I bleed is just a cheap photo copy
From a machine that’s running out of ink


Every sentence the same shade of blue



Your forgotten moments rewind
Re-energized




“We’re taking a ride with the pretty things tonight.
You know its wrong but it feels so fucking right”



“She’s terminal blue”









(all quotes taken from the song "verablue" by chemlab)

• On Saturday, February 17, 2007, Mylissa (1128) wrote:
  
  I am unsure how I missed this, but you are perfect in your words. beautiful inside and out.
  
  
• On Thursday, February 15, 2007, zanewill (101) wrote:
  
  "laced in temp. psychosis" HA! i'v always considered most haikus' Hydraulic i read this over & over!!! 2coolTerminal-balew. Bazil Zerinsky!! what a great name>>>>>>>
  
  
• On Monday, February 12, 2007, Lynaes (1028) wrote:
  
  Ditto what Z said.. This was, just filthily gorgeous. "I lick up trashed poems and dropped lyrics From your doorstep Dirty needles…leather boots."
  
  
• On Monday, February 12, 2007, Lynaes (1028) wrote:
  
  such deliciously raw and dirty words, it's like you bled them through a tube coming out of your heart, onto the paper. You are fantastically, gloriously artistic with your words.
  
  
• On Sunday, February 11, 2007, dying angel (1076) wrote:
  
  you.are.amazing.
  
  
• On Sunday, February 11, 2007, blue (1604) wrote:
  
  ~b
  
  
• On Sunday, February 11, 2007, Bella Butchery (947) wrote:
  
  stunner
  
  
• A former member wrote: Beautifully woven indeed. You always amaze me with your writes.
  
  
• On Saturday, February 10, 2007, zanewill (101) wrote:
  
  this is beautifully woven/stark Raw insight! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  
  
• On Saturday, February 10, 2007, carlosjackal (1801) wrote:
  
  "verablue"..and thus your username is explained!! Great piece..sounds like you feel indebted to the song and/or the bands work as a whole particularly the lyrics..or else I'm reading WAY too much into things :)
  
  
• On Sunday, February 11, 2007, verablue (139) wrote:
  
  jared's writing is indeed an inspiration. he was a poet before he was a musician. he's also since become a good friend.
  
  
• On Thursday, February 15, 2007, carlosjackal (1801) wrote:
  
  That's so cool that someone who inspires you to such a great extent has become a good friend..I suppose my girlfriend Sara is my great inspiration..without her I wouldn't be writing the stuff I do, though she probably doesn't know it!