Casey Renee Kiser > Quotes

“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

“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

“I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“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

“Nothing breaks like
Boys
Pretending to be men.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Fade Out, smile

“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

“boys don't like
smart girls

they like

push-around-in-a-cart
kinda girls

target-for-their-dart
kinda girls

meat-for-their-shark
kinda girls”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“Potential grabs my inner thigh
Yeah, that's how close we are...”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist... for NOTHING”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“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

“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

“He wants my knees to bend to the bells. I hope there's rhythm in Hell.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

“We're in the business of melancholia
and we are married to our work.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Darkness Plays Favorites

“I get happy and I get sad,
just like anybody else
but they call this a disorder.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, The Moon Said No

“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

“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

“Hey Mommy,
What does sober mean?
"Oh, you shall never know darling."

Hey Granny,
What does trauma mean?
"Why, it's your inheritance darling.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Escape from Narc Island

“Cowards parade around me
calling me weird,
calling me paranoid
then,
calling me for help.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden

“I will not sleep
If that's what it takes
To not wake up
As my mother”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

“I would drown in the ocean every morning
just by stepping out of bed”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden

“Sometimes I look at him
and I want to get on my best heels.
Sometimes I look at him
and I want to be a lesbian.
He says that I'm too moody.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

“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

“I'll put my lips up to your gun and blow, just so you'll know I can be bold once I'm shining bright.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

“The Moon said my spine was out of order
yet everything was in its place
The Moon said a poet must drift sometimes”
― Casey Renee Kiser

“Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“Don't bother pulling my string again-
Not behind those doll eyes anymore
I won't say what's expected, kid,
laugh at your tantrum on the floor

I'm just not looking at you, kid,
I'm not a piss-poor heart anymore;
Not going home with the lowest bid
Out of stock- your projection whore

I'm never going back to the toy box
Elevated up from the cellar-
home of the wish-washed pretty cocks
Out of the dark, preachin' Helen Keller

Bored with the coin-operated allure
I'm top shelf, kid, out of your reach
You can't afford to walk in the store
Turn around, kid, don't slip in bleach


-from 'Ragdoll$ & Riche$”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“Thousands of blue dresses
boring the sun”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Table for One zine

“kick me.
what else is left?
I NEED RAW EMOTION
and you got two good stories
that are getting stale.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden

“one day, you're not You
anymore

you become the Terror
sewn into your spine

there's no safe place to go
because the One you trusted

is the Lost and Lowdown
seamstress

you live for a while as the Terror
and absorb the experience

but after the Terror,
there is something so glorious...”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Not Your Kind: The Gaslit Files