Confessions of a D3AD Petal Quotes

“But unlike Vegas,
what happens in a poet's cave
never stays in a poet's cave...
We tend to release
the bats”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“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

“I'd throw kisses
while they'd throw banana peels
at my feet...
Trained monkeys!

Still, I'd wrap myself
around their thumbs...
when they weren't sucking them!

-from 'Jane of The Jungle”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“I don't let boys make me cry
I write rhymes and fucking fly
Been to Hell- check out my wrists
Came back King- check out my Mist

-from 'Came Back KIng”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“Bad Trash
( I Don't Like the Sound of That)

Runs in the family
R u n s in the f a m i l y-
No, that's an atrocity
you won't hear from me

I don't like the sound of that
Not lyin' in a mouse trap-
I'm a mofo' sassy cat
I don't clean no d i r t y rat

No, not my reality
Said not M Y reality-
Don't shine shit in front of me
and call it my reality!

I don't like the sound of that
Cruel intentions get tires flat

I say what will shine for me
I say what will bleed for me
I call out the trash to me
Bad trash always dies for me

Clawed out my own reality
The top from the back alley
I don't run in the family
I run far from the alley

Calling all my sour soulmates-
Recovering a l l e y c a ts
You all clean up so good now
No bad, bad trash, just LoVe pats!










No bad trash, just LoVe pats”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“He loved me
to feel better about himself
Rightfully, I mean,
have you met me?

He dumped me
to feel better about himself
Rightfully, I mean,
have you met me?

But I walk the beam
all the way across-
away from the team
'cause I'm The Boss

Poetry in motion, I swear...

There's no 'I' in team
I got off the cross
Fuck that whole damn team
Mind-fuckery-bone toss

All that commotion, I Dare You...

I'm a mean machine
Let me balance it out
Gymnast won his dreams
His nightmare found out

Dreams run out of steam
for the wicked, no doubt
Dreams freak on the beam
Dreams just die right out

for the wicked”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“When you decide to go
in the opposite direction
of everyone
dedicated to misunderstanding You,
and not look back,
you start running into everyone
who's waiting
to accept You and the earth shifts
right under feet, like that annoying song

And now, things that annoyed you,
and people that took you for granted
no longer threaten your peace
Only it can be slightly brutal; the cloud
that stays- the epiphany that giggles
while running down the hall,

You always held the power.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal