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argus Apr 2015
I am a shoe wearing a horse
Let me kiss your elbow
it’ll only hurt for a year and seven days.
argus Mar 2015
It is strange, and so so far from my understanding:
that still I should want to bury my
face within your ***** (and yours alone at that),
when still your hand holds tight to the knife so gracefully lodged within my abdomen.

For it was by you that I learned there is somewhere I may rest my head when I find it too heavy with sorrow,
and yet, it was also you that brought me the greatest sorrow; the only sorrow I have felt was too great for me to bear alone, and in it, bid me the quickest farewell.
Never, before now, have I found myself in need of somewhere to lay my head, nor someone to hold tight to and to be held tight by.

And I know, it was not your intention to bring about pain,
rather it was solely in hope of ending such that you carried this out.
But it seems that what you left below my chest was laden with what before ate at your heart, and I see no other fate before me than to suffer what you suffered; you have given me your ill, in hopes of once more finding health.

And it is strange, that despite the violent shaking in my hands, I harbor nothing in me other than the wish that wellness again should find you.
argus Mar 2015
I have taken years of my life, trying to figure out what I have to say.

I haven't much more to say about my life other than that.
argus Mar 2015
There are too many themes running through my head. My thoughts are running away when I tell them "I want to know you". Perhaps I am running. God, I talk weird. Do I really think this way? Do I speak this way? I FEEL LIKE A WISP. AM I REALLY HERE?

There is indiscriminate chatter on the subject of Burger King, happening below me.

And I am alive to the memories I put away, the ones I forgot to hang up in the windows of my mind.

Alive for only a moment, though.
argus Mar 2015
I am looking out windows
I am forgetting important letters
and china glass is spilling on the sidewalk.
Upon my tongue dances something liminal and untouched by
the hands of Man
Upon the empty mountain I stand.
Ravaged and far from ripe,
Standing upon the empty mountain I begin to understand:
My eyes are empty.

My eyes are empty.
argus Mar 2015
I'm manic, and so is everyone else around me. We are drowning in our self prophesied nadirs; enraptured in the drama of our lives; enamored with the devils we chose to let live.

We reasoned "What harm could come from this spirit which suffered to bring me such joy, which rose from the depths to meet me in the eye and kiss me on the tongue?"

And we know, the floorboards are soon to split, that the world was not meant to drown all at once.
argus Feb 2015
Mind’s eye gone blind
Mind’s eye shoved in a cage
Cage called home
Cage built from within
Within
Within the unsettled urn
Urn of the pristine
Urn cast aside
Aside weathered/withered eyes
Aside sensation forgotten
Forgotten ferver
Forgotten despite old words
Words once known
Words wisdom had shown
Shown endearment
Shown patience
Patience to seek
Patience to speak
Speak only to find
Speak only to break the divide
Divide between us all
Divide will end in fall
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