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RuthJoan
“DONT JIGGLE YOUR LITTLE EMPEROR FINGERS AT ME,” the soup janitor finally sneezed, breaststroking through a bathtub full of nickels. “YOU MADE ME SWALLOW SEVEN HARMONICAS IN 1938 AND NOW I CANT BREATHE WITHOUT SINGING.” Outside, the moon hung over the parking lot like a wet ham. Two dentists in wedding veils fought a vending machine with antique flails while a child ate a traffic cone; the police horse’s ears perked up with opportunity to film so he pointed all 19 cameras at the boy. “Nobody remembers the eclipse.” they all whispered at themselves, but none heard, so none remembered, even though they did anyway. All of these people stayed stupid and angry at each other. Grover Cleveland’s took all the taxidermied people to the inside of the Burger King play tunnel and made them eat till they threw up. The tunnel began to sweat violently and the acid from the ***** caused it to erode, and then collapse. Then all the senators removed their shoes, all at once, like a party. This revealed each of their tiny identical clown feet. Sirens blared. The choir marched. Accountants lost their jobs. Then, every living thing in the world dove backward into the ocean, which was now just a soup of meat and god. By sunrise, the ground was made of carpet. Nobody was there to complain.
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7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 5:24 AM UTC
The Spit Parade
Whether Or whether. Is it not? Neither of us know why Because it's too bright to look at. When we do, from now(then, I mean) I hope we will forget not to be clueless for much longer than what has gone on already. Not for much longer than what has gone on already. But but We do not even feel what something is with any solid uncertainty. –Tangible uncertainty– I mean Something we can hold and know that it’s there because that's the kind of things you deal with. What now? What’s now, is what we use to answer. Like real, or true things. ( but thats a lie ) Questions that our mouth cant fit don't come out of there Silly. We do this, We do, And whatever, we will, may, ask, Or may not We will probably not know about it anyway at all though. That is unless… we find a way to stop choosing only pretty things to be real? But that is probably not. ( not is probably the truth )
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM UTC
Weather, or not
My friend is dead. I haven't been able to write one good poem about it. There isn't much to say on the matter. You cannot fill a void with letters. It's insufficient. The poem ends. She is still dead.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM UTC
My friend is dead
Noise. Quiet. Shrinking. Humongousness. Being soft and being sharp. Stuffing cake into my mouth and keeping everything away from my lips. Zipping myself into my backpack. Pouring coffee into my eyes till I can’t see anything that scares me. Breaking my telephone in half. Biting my fingers off so something else hurts instead, and growing new parts to prove I'm still changing. Shaved legs, and hairy ones. My hair up, and down. Eating my computer like a sandwich. I've tried to pluck the worms from my skin and I've tried to let them burrow deeper. I have tried soap and chemicals and satin and cotton. Treaties. Worksheets. Television. The emergency room. I have tried. I have tried it all.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING
You looked So beautiful To a child That felt like You really did Love her. I was made From you; I am your sweating tulip All wrapped up In crunchy cellophane, Tied with a bow. You felt safe Like the ground does. Until eventually, You opened up And swallowed me. A good kid Is what you called me Till my heart started to look A little too much Like yours. Then, once I grew Tall enough To do the dishes You became Too short To reach the sink You taught me love Like a seatbelt How lucky am I To not fly Through the windshield And die. You have produced A horrible daughter By labeling me one. How dare a child Act childish. You’re exhausted? Well I am too. I find it exhausting That I act as your mother More than you act as mine. Now there will be a void forever. Not inside me, but surrounding me. That's the space I leave open For someone to hold me.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC
Mothers
I would like to separate myself The division of my body Scoop it all out of the shell Deep clean my insides Expel my chyme I move through air better Empty. I loose pieces of me On purpose. An unsolvable puzzle, Is a lighter one. But I am still hungry Like an animal; Like a stray dog. Hunting. Growling. Like stray dog Begging for a man's food. I am also the man Who denies him. They say I am no longer allowed To not allow myself. BUT I will never have the luxury Of being thankful for permission, And now I have lost the luxury of occluding myself. I JUST WANT TO GET IT OUT I WANT TO WRING THE SALIVA OUT OF MY TONGUE BEFORE THEY WEIGH ME I WANT TO GORE CHUNKS OUT OF MYSELF LIKE PIECES OF BIRTHDAY CAKE I WANT TO SHAVE OFF MY EDGES TILL MY HEART IS ALL THAT REMAINS I NEED TO SHATTER Into one million shards of myself So I am nothing but a fraction of what I once was. BECAUSE IF I WAS IN PEICES My shards would be smaller. They would be lighter And that is how I would prefer to be.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM UTC
Smaller Peices
The women who did the math The man who tightened the screws Were once pushed away, The engines blowing steam in their faces. But now They wear the suits, The floor protects their faces from smoke. Once forgotten in the ground, They finally touch the stars.
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Apr 13
Apr 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM UTC
Apollo II
did you like being a woman? what does eternal purity offer? what did it feel like to construct the hands of god? was it lonely to create a god all by yourself? how tiring is it to carry salvation inside your womb? did you like being a mother? did you enjoy *** how do you raise a child who holds jurisdiction over the world? how loudly did you sob when you heard your son would soon be gone? how much were you able to breathe as you watched the men slaughter your baby? as they nailed your child to the cross, did your ******* add weight to the heaviness in your heart?
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Apr 4
Apr 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
an atheist's questions to Mary on easter morning
We march to your desk as a family. We carry folders Filled with papers you thought you shredded. But you can’t burn the records That we keep in our minds. We will present the evidence to you. We are angry people. You scoffs toads from your throat Flip your tiny hands in the air Your polished little shoes click dirt on the tabletop. You cement a smile on your jaundiced face, You avoid our eyes, But we will make you stare at us. We are angry people. Our presence contaminates your expensive air With the stench of our rotting bodies. Our untreated disease and open wounds Que you to shield your nose from us. You can choose to either suffocate, Or breathe us in. We are angry people. The steam from our cheeks makes your office sweaty. The wallpaper starts peeling, ********** the ugly wall behind. The gold ornaments begin to melt, A quality of plastic. We break what isn't already on fire. We are angry people. The longer we stand around you, The more inevitable justice becomes. You can't hire someone to turn our heads. No orchestra can drown out the sound Of an army Screaming their grievances. We are angry people. We are the ones you lied to. We are the ones you cheated. We are the ones you starved. We are the ones you abused. We are the ones you ***** We are the ones you murdered. We are the ones that will pour you out of your leather chair. We, are an angry people.
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Apr 4
Apr 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM UTC
Angry People
There is Something In the crook Of your neck, Or, The soft Curve Of your Cheek That violently whips me towards you. And Somehow The maps On the palms Of your calloused Hands, Or, The rivers That guide The warmth Through you, Make me believe that I know where I'm going. And I take The valleys And hills Your touch Sculpts In my thigh, And, The purple lakes Formed By your kisses, As excellent examples Of your changing me for the better. And It’s You, Your body Near me, Your face In my direction, Your hand Holding mine, That opens the hatch to my lungs And unlocks the path to my deep breath.
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Apr 4
Apr 4, 2026 at 1:40 AM UTC
You are the path to my deep breath