Richard Roser

Radiator Contract

Dotted lines run deep
Cavernous
Centrally aligned under an inked tip
Guilt after steadied catharsis
Timid
Terrestrial in nature, biologically flawed

I’m counting on you this
time, and again
simple tasks are left unwed

but to paper and cabinetry
Surrealistically challenged by a vandalized
imagination

Dotted lines run deep
A porous rooftop
For upside downward agreements
laced with ill-logic

An every-man’s poison

A creator’s D.O.C.

(demeanor of choice)

 S&M (Stolen Memories)

Inching toward severance
Chanting tonal stings at the air belonging to
the stale winter’s end
Feeling wise
Feeling lucid
Feeling Impervious but to doubt

Tall shimmering indolence
buried in the basement of the laund-row-mat
Where the gags are in place
the small red bulbs aglow
sweat pools below the half-repaired card tables
Feeling wise
Feeling lucid
Feeling for the exit that hides because of the fearful hatred that builds in the dry, tempered-steel heart of the twenty-something in the doomsday generation.

Feeling wise
Feeling Lucid
Feeling unwise
Feeling stupid

—

Richard M. Roser, born on November the 10th of 1988, is a musician, writer, and graphic designer living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has been floating in relative obscurity since 2007 performing in his band Colder in Moscow, doing freelance design work for friends and colleagues, and scribbling poem after poem in hopes of finding a creative center to his inconsistent, and often dwindling living conditions.
The intention of the first piece was to expose (for my own personal gratification) the misplaced importance on trust, or the lack thereof in a society that revels in insecurity.  As for the second, it’s about the two sides of confidence that I’ve seen in the hearts of most of my peers. They are either confident in they abilities, or confident that they have none. Could either be healthy?