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Apr 2015 · 461
sure
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.
Mar 2015 · 551
strange
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.
Mar 2015 · 334
A Man of Few Words
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.
Mar 2015 · 484
Hysteria
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.
Mar 2015 · 524
Title
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.
Mar 2015 · 1.5k
Winter Bloom
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.
Feb 2015 · 571
mind's eye
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
Feb 2015 · 659
None
argus Feb 2015
Who knows?
None but myself.
Who has experienced?
None but myself.
Who cares?
Surely, none but myself.
argus Feb 2015
the objects in my eyes dissolve
unto an unending sea
that no one admits having ever seen.

i do not know where to turn from here

for i am forever changed, and choosing to step back from this is still choosing to respond to this.
Feb 2015 · 756
Man is an Island
argus Feb 2015
Though, such should not imply what is typically assumed.

For island do not exist apart from all other things. They are chained to the earth by their foundations.

Let us take from this saying, instead of the formerly agreed upon interpretation, that, to be an island is to be distinct, but not separate from all else.
Feb 2015 · 419
Of Truth
argus Feb 2015
I've got it!
I found the answer!
Go home everyone, for the world is lucid to me and so it shall be to you
(if you purchase my book for $49.99 and manage to trudge through my ambitiously pompous cacophony of prophetic nonsense).
Feb 2015 · 469
wish
argus Feb 2015
I wish I could have documented it, whatever it was. I can document the fact that it's now gone, through this, if that's worth anything.
Amidst low lights and dark dances, inspiration came to me - and I was too afraid to get up and shake its hand.
Feb 2015 · 18.1k
sex
argus Feb 2015
***
we spent hours
fitting together our bodies
like two voices
reaching through dissonance
in search of unison
like a ritual
like a dance
Feb 2015 · 510
Times Change
argus Feb 2015
There was a time when I knew everything to say,
Where the world was not indefinite and grey.

I realize now, though, that I was only young;
That that world is gone and a new one for me has begun.

For we are only what we feel
We cannot be anything more than
What in us is urgently real
argus Feb 2015
please don't write down my name
i do not want you to know
i do not want you to know
what hangs heavy in me
Feb 2015 · 604
nadir
argus Feb 2015
Nameless object;
Acute anxiety,
Deem me unworthy, for
In your company
Rests the root of all nothings
Feb 2015 · 245
Day One
argus Feb 2015
cant

                                          keep
              eyes
                                                                      open
Feb 2015 · 598
Mouth Heavy
argus Feb 2015
Mouth Heavy.
Handwriting is really bland right now.
Why do I always alternate between print and cursive?
My right ear hurts again, at lobe, just like last night; feels warm & pulled.

Pressure on my right elbow. Being left handed is irksome at times. I wonder if all the sayings & studies about us are just complete & utter *******. Last morning, and every other spent with her; Sleeping outline.

I’m happy she doesn't snore.

What do I write???

My mother snores. I need to sit up
I hate my rushed handwriting. This is truly chicken scratch.
I haven’t written like this since my Biological Anthropology and Archaeology class. Back hurts.

Is something wrong with me? Probably multiple things.
Should I read this aloud? I always feel others worrying for me. Though, I suppose I shouldn’t assume they always will. Regardless, I fear weighing anyone down. Why does my girlfriend sleep so much?
Do I just sleep less?

turn the page, adjust yourself. I have three minutes to finish this this isn’t even poetry. I forgot my last thought. Oh! How am I supposed to write about anything besides my mind when writing like this?? Well, I’m probably not supposed to.

What does my mind- not my brain- look like? Probably cluttered and unorganized. Everything that comes out is made up of what is within. I could have said that so much more poetically.
Feb 2015 · 2.0k
PRIMAL DRUM
argus Feb 2015
BEAT YOUR CHEST
TO THE MARCH OF
THE PRIMAL DRUM

LET WHAT FLOWETH
FROM THY CROWN
BE SET UNTO AIR
Feb 2015 · 516
Untitled
argus Feb 2015
my mother's tongue says i write too many untitled poems

i am not bloodthirsty like it.
i wish not to **** my creations before they bloom in the mind of any who come upon them.
Feb 2015 · 559
please
argus Feb 2015
Touch me
tOuch me
toUch me
touCh me
toucH me
touch Me
touch mE
Feb 2015 · 727
WESTERN GOD
argus Feb 2015
I GOT KANYE RUNNING THROUGH MY MIND LIKE IT'S HIS JOB




that's all.

specifically "Bound 2", at the moment.
Feb 2015 · 571
baby
argus Feb 2015
tell me about the memories that don't belong to me again

about the days i wasn't there
and you found yourself
in conpany of a blank stare

those are days we did not share .


stop ******* telling me about the things i did when i was a baby
i don't remember ****
and you smell weird.
Feb 2015 · 1.1k
THERE IS A BLACK AND WHITE
argus Feb 2015
HOWEVER IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT ONE IS INHERENTLY GOOD AND THE OTHER, INHERENTLY BAD!
SUCH WORDS ARE USELESS

LET THIS NOT CAUSE YOU TO STRAY FROM YOUR PATH,
OR TO GIVE UP HOPE IN REASON.

WHILE THERE IS NO TRUE, UNIVERSAL GOOD, AND THERE IS NO OBVIOUS, DEFINITE ENEMY:

CHOOSE THAT TO WHICH YOUR HEART HEARKENS. AND FIGHT, WITH ALL YOU HAVE, AGAINST WHAT IS THE ANTITHESIS OF SUCH.

BUT NEVER SAY YOU ACT IN THE NAME OF GOOD.
NEVER CLAIM THAT YOUR ENEMY IS THE EVIL IN THE WORLD.


For Those who Know, will have no choice but to pity at your fallacy.
Feb 2015 · 1.6k
Untitled
argus Feb 2015
A wise man once said:

"Art is long, but time is swift."

To which I replied:

"And the odour of a woman's intimacy is forever. It is a stain upon your hand, between your teeth, and between your legs.
Feb 2015 · 809
1% lowfat milk
argus Feb 2015
I have nothing to say.

Do I have nothing to say?
An empty 1% Lowfat milk carton on the floor says otherwise, and a woman screaming to be understood; for her self proclaimed misery to be reconciled by any other but herself, says otherwise to that otherwise.

I am not sure which side I should take.
Regardless, the heartless engine upon my ear is ready to evolve;
to explode with purpose beyond that of its original design.
"I am not ready to die." I say.
But what knows all knows we are always ready.

Ready to die, to brace the screaming self righteous;
the story writers who readily cast you as the enemy
because the idea of fighting with their selves scares them shitless.
Feb 2015 · 485
the face that i seek
argus Feb 2015
and what shall tomorrow bring me?
is such a question truly valid?
should I seek instead to ask:
what unto tomorrow shall I bring?

deciding which question is more fitting is deciding whether to play victim or the foil to such.
Feb 2015 · 337
no steps
argus Feb 2015
the objects in my eyes dissolve
unto an unending sea
that no one admits having ever seen.

i do not know where to turn from here

for i am forever changed, and choosing to step back from this is still choosing to respond to this.
Feb 2015 · 996
dance alone
argus Feb 2015
Tonight I dance alone, in my red robe.
Alone, with what I have come to let haunt my mind.
The temple of solitude is breached.
If I am the Soliloquist,
I have too many voices within me to be heard.
If I am the Sciamachist,
I have too many enemies to hope to win.

Tonight I dance alone, because pleasure eludes my mind.
Alone, excommunicated and,
in some sense,
left behind.
Feb 2015 · 605
a ghost you can see
argus Feb 2015
Our rope is worn,
and soon we will each be left alone;
only ghosts of what we had once been.

Perhaps it was my pride and your
inability to communicate anything
beyond the objective that stifled
our flame and brought end to our name;

Perhaps we are both to blame.
Lately, I've had this sensation of losing touch with my body. I feel disconnected and estranged from it, more and more frequently. The face that looks me back in the mirror is always alarming.

— The End —