Celebrity Scandal

Telling every lurid detail of your broken heart
Is not appealing, but you can find no way
Of being anything other than
that wild goose
In the middle of the swamp
Flapping quickly to lead the pack

It's not a cupcake topped with icing
A candle on a cake
A Christmas bonus
That you're so lucky to get
While living paycheck to paycheck, to paycheck

Your natural affection is delayed
By seventy-two hours and forty-five seconds
The lights usually blind your sense of judgment
And make you feel like a queen for a day
Make you forget what you really want to say

It's all relative to every predator gaining
Capital from the weak
salivating at the next bit
Of imperfection slung their way

And the beautiful souls who can't see their
Own light
as they purchase the magazine
With your face
on the cover




Phone Call

Slow down baby
You're moving too fast
With all this love talk
Making my heart quiver
Bringing tears to my throat
Evoking thoughts
that have been buried

Slow down baby
I mean man
You chose your road
Now walk it straight
This madness is not
a part of my plan

Slow down
Can't you see
How you're hurting her
By
Missing me
You chose your road
Go slow
and enjoy it



© Carolyn Franklin

Bio: I was born in Sacramento in 1970. I have been writing since I was a teenager and feel that writing is what I was born to do. I am employed as a Technical Support Specialist for a payroll company. My poetry has appeared in Poetry Now, and in Shemom. Poetry is my passion. I recently published my first book of poems titled "Kissing Poems in California" available at http://www.lulu.com/content/270440 or amazon.com.