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Casey Renee Kiser QUOTES

Casey Renee Kiser QUOTES

1 " I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist... for NOTHING "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Swan Wreck

2 " I'm a buried kind of beautiful.
Bring a shovel
and a shooting star
I may be a night's work. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Doll Shaker

3 " I am
Broken single mother
Disconnected lover
Slow motion dresser
Dark secret confessor
White flag trend
Professional dead end "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Darkness Plays Favorites

4 " Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Swan Wreck

5 " He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Darkness Plays Favorites

6 " I get happy and I get sad,
just like anybody else
but they call this a disorder. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , The Moon Said No

7 " Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in...does me in. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Darkness Plays Favorites

8 " Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

9 " My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , I Liked You When I Thought I was Dead

10 " We're in the business of melancholia
and we are married to our work. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Darkness Plays Favorites

11 " love me
get lost in me

but beware

side effects include
a lot of shivering, baby
a lot of drinking, maybe
a lot of sinking, baby "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Darkness Plays Favorites

12 " Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Swan Wreck

13 " I want to sleep in the oven
because I just burn in the bed. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

14 " Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

15 " I won't sleep
if that's what it takes
to not wake up
as myself "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

16 " I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.

I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

17 " why he's grown but, just a boy in the head
shine a flashlight on the monster under the bed
of any gal who's ever loved him
now she gonna know some real dread "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Escape from Narc Island

18 " oh yes, cheers! he's looking good on the outside-
take an x-ray girl, you'll see you've been taken for a ride "

― Casey Renee Kiser , Escape from Narc Island

19 " I remember every single red flag waving
like the first crazy
through the door on Black Friday.
I remember drinking
until each flag waved slower and slower
and seemed
harmless. The voids within you
attract the voids
who sleep next to you. I get it now.

-The Ones Who Adore Your Veins "

― Casey Renee Kiser

20 " I remember every single red flag waving
like the first crazy
through the door on Black Friday.
I remember drinking
until each flag waved slower and slower
and seemed
harmless. The voids within you
attract the voids
who sleep next to you. I get it now. "

― Casey Renee Kiser , The Ones Who Adore Your Veins