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amandabird
amandabird
17/F/San Diego, CA Short and sweet, two things I am not. / Long winded and angsty? I’m your gal.
There's a nasty impermanence in the air, with the cold. As I see my breath, I see what's next. A soldiering on of the highest degree, In pursuit of something that seems to be necessary. A trudging on of tired feet, we meet in corridors for a minute A minute of infinity. Suddenly it seems, infinity has shrunk, Not unlike Alice. Our Prison turns to Palace, We make promises, more minutes to come, and then the best of us are up and gone. Diaspora of the minds, bodies, souls, People we can say we've always known. The next moment is cherished, the next few are farther between, and next you know, lines appear in faces once smooth, until the faces come forth again, but different.
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 2:22 AM UTC
Impermanent
There's a moment, some once, not someone It rests between a before and an after, Between a then and a now. I'm sitting. I'm sitting, and the sun is shining onto my dashboard. I'm sitting and I'm getting sweaty because there you are, quite simply sitting next to me and the world seems to be closing in. Quite presently, in fact. Quite presently, as well, I'm quite afraid I may close to lose my mind and my marbles, and my willpower. I'm quite afraid of quite a lot, I'm quite afraid. At this moment, when this moment was the here and the now, the one you're supposedly supposed to live in, I would have died and gone to heaven just to hold your hand. Just touch me, please just touch me. Instead, in an Olympic Feat I reach across the center console. "Act before you have time to think," you think. I kissed you.
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 2:21 AM UTC
I Kissed You
If I'm itching inside my own skin, If there's a bit of wild carrying on in, around, or perhaps behind perhaps over, around, somewhere besides my eyes, If I seem unseemingly unladylike today, I'm sorry. Scatterbrained? Surely, certainly, you've noticed. If you know me, you know this. I carry on, convincingly all the while my mind careens away. Dangerously, it careens away. Away, attacking the menacingly mundane, away to a place much more pleasant. Plesently, myriad of melodrama unfold. I tell myself stories untold. I'm so sorry I'm scatterbrained, darling. I do know.
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 2:21 AM UTC
ScatterBrain
Welcome to the generation of revolution, Millions and counting, in a few years you’ll be counting on us. While some of us still use a pass for the bathroom, we’ve been programmed Much like the devices you tie us to, To look forward. The skills you instilled for GPAs and resumes have made us unafraid to say That something needs to be done, and from that you run away If we don’t agree we’re immature, uninformed, need to be kept quiet more. You say we’ve become slaves to the almighty “I” But we scourge for information Because we’ve seen a tweet change lives We’ve seen a hashtag bring millions into the fight, Artists, victims, protests blow up overnight We are the first generation with the world at our fingers in such a real way, Here we are, standing stronger than you’ve seen us, These kids; you cloth, shelter and feed us, Just to call us lazy and insane for using the very brains that you instilled, The “common core” you used, because you didn’t want to build a generation of robots, Fear not, guess what, you didn’t.
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Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 at 1:09 AM UTC
Gen Z
I find it funny that the boy who bandaged my battered self, sat me on a bench with razor blade rakes on my hips and heart, could be so hypocritical. He told me I was silly, selfish to think these things and act according to impatience and impulse And now he “needs” the needles and swears by the smoke that fills the space between us and **** I’m scared he’s headed for a place that not even I’ve been. The end. You always think you’ve found it, and then another minute passes And another, And then you realize that everything is infinite and inescapable. Terrifying and terribly reassuring, all at once.
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Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 at 1:08 AM UTC
A Boy
I am a necromancer, the skeletons in your closet work for me. Fear naught, I'm just the doctor arrived too late, it's not as if you could escape, Your secrets, I see them, the dead do tell tales. Don't lie, for those laying under six feet of dirt have given all the dirt on you. Regardless, there's no one who can slip my grasp, I'm the woman who can grab you back from Death's own icy hands. Fear naught, for an army of the dead has little ambition, they simply seek manumission foryour god. Those who seek my refuge need to be...adequate, at best. I am a necromancer, don't hurry, I've got all the time in this world... and the next.
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 1:00 AM UTC
Necromancer
I find it funny that the boy who bandaged my battered self, sat me on a bench with razor blade rakes on my hips and heart, could be so hypocritical. He told me I was silly, selfish to think these things and act according to impatience and impulse And now he “needs” the needles and swears by the smoke that fills the space between us and **** I’m scared he’s headed for a place that not even I’ve been. The end. You always think you’ve found it, and then another minute passes And another, And then you realize that everything is infinite and inescapable. Terrifying and terribly reassuring, all at once.
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 12:54 AM UTC
A Boy
Thee, I compare to a literal witch, In more modern terms I should call you a- Person whom I love for your stinging wit. Intolerable you are, they may say, Insults with which you make my day, so quick; As long as they’re not directed MY way. Beauty, not face, but sarcasm thick, Not liked, but easy it is that you lay, Yourself, you are, lest you’re called a ***** My outspoken love remember, I say In twenty years you’ll be getting YOUR kicks, Boys will be boys, and hell they may pay. Idiots they are and so they shall stay, Catch wind of your wrath, to god they should pray.
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Feb 24, 2018
Feb 24, 2018 at 12:44 AM UTC
Sonnet to A Frigid *****
It's a straight and narrow path, well defined, yours was content next to mine. Hers to the right, his to the left, the intersections a veritable mess. When you treat me, be kind, I know I've crossed over my lines and into yours, but southern hospitality is what you're known for. Pour me a drink, kind stranger, this is stranger than anything I've known before. And I'm a guest, I get it, but I doubt you can get me out of your head. I'm enjoying the tour though, my friend. I'm from the straight laced, early morning-late night, stick up your *** uptight class of those with grand plans of Ivy leagues and shaking hands with presidents and world class scholars, and you from a more relaxed, kicked back, slow motion, 2.0 kind of world, surprising we get on so well. It's probably the wee bit of **** in between us, because normally, the way you speak would have gotten you knocked on your *** instead I laughed. So when our paths cross again, both a little wider, more winding, remind me of the time we had and please, do come again, Priss and ***** Mench and shmuck, thanks for hosting such a cliche new friend.
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 7:12 PM UTC
Paths Cross
Somewhere along the way, I've close to abandoned what of me that used to see a tree and climb it, get hurt and survive it, and so somewhere along the way I shrank. Into myself I fold like paper, delicate like the fortune tellers made on the playground. Smoke goes in my lungs, and dust comes out. I used to spit flowers and now I spit fire. Parts of me are vapor, run your hand through me to change my shape. I sit, diminish, deflate, and deconstruct until I'm naught but nothing. Air maybe? To fuel the fire? Or water to put it out? Is it better to let the ash fly free, let that be my legacy? Let me grow and let me be. I'm withering, unfortunately, be back soon maybe?
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Jan 20, 2018
Jan 20, 2018 at 12:10 AM UTC
Wither