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bakedptatym
I've doubted your passion towards me in the past my faith in the past my faith in our permanence was dwindling fast But as days go by, you drift closer to me and it's easier to see how compassionate you truly can be I'd don't want to have your babies I'd don't want to get married but I could see getting a dog with you maybe just maybe
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Jan 29, 2020
Jan 29, 2020 at 1:09 PM UTC
I'd adopt a dog with you
Look, I really appreciate whatever it is you're trying to do. But, I’m really gonna need you to just Shut the ever loving **** up; Because you mean well But you don’t listen to a word that comes out of my mouth. You offer hollow advice And you sound a hell of a lot Like a guy I really wanna ******* deck in the face So now you’re kinda morphing into a guy that I Kinda want to deck in the face. And hey, maybe I just really need to ******* deck somebody in the face. But then you blame me because you don’t understand, Well you never tried to in the first place. I’m sorry my problems are not wrapped up in pretty packages. I’m sorry they’re not easy to clean up messes like water on linoleum I’m sorry they’re red wine on white skirt I’m sorry I drank all the wine I’m sorry the fact it looks like blood makes you uncomfortable But blood is thick and messy and it stains So don’t expect wine to be much different Only because it’s more socially acceptable to make a mess with it So please, Take your halfhearted help, And give it to someone who halfheartedly gives a ****
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Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 10:33 AM UTC
Now I'm hollow too
I need a car Maybe it’s so I can run myself over with it Maybe it’s because I need a beat up machine That’s in as bad of shape as me So that i know if i care about it Maybe one of these days someone will care about me Maybe I want a car because it’s less poetic and I’m just tired of catching the bus Kinda wanna get a car to run you over Kinda wanna run myself over Racing towards my future and new responsibilities But flooring it to escape just that Open road baby, in the smallest space I could possibly choose Maybe that’s the whole point I get to choose which way to turn To follow maps or to get lost in ******** nowhere I can take care of myself and replenish when we’re both running on empty My fingers are itching to wrap around something And This is the most legal option I can stare at the road and not the empty passenger seat I need a car to personify myself Because I don’t feel human anymore
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Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 at 1:20 AM UTC
I need a Car
Now we've come to the end And I have so much to thank you for so thank you for wasting my time for making me second guess every move I make for helping me weave a tapestry for my teenage years one laced with paranoia and bad timing thank you for pushing me away which forces me to let go forces me to grow and wrap my arms around myself instead of you thank you for forcing me to put the care and effort into myself for making me less hollow by leaving Thank you for letting me know you didn't care and that's okay because now I know it wasn't my fault thank you for letting me breath
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 10:04 PM UTC
Thank You
Throwing silk sheets over a worn mattress I cannot fathom the idea of you sleeping here you accidentally pulling a corner off and seeing the stains beneath. This hotel has been vacant for months. But that doesn’t mean the guests before you Were kind to it. They said **** it’ Left the mess for house keeping, Blood stained walls Feathers from ripped pillows A maid sighs and shakes her head Ten dollar tip for wasted effort Have to put the pieces back together again Vacancy sign illuminated again. Do not do this to me again. Cleaning supplies are expensive. And this business has made me so poor
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Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 12:19 AM UTC
Millennials are killing the hotel market
There you are- minding your own **** business Getting the **** done that you need to get done And it hits you A ******* papercut Funny how something so seemingly harmless and innocent Can cause so little damage That bothers you so ******* much A drop of blood and days of discomfort Something so miniscule disrupting the simplest of tasks Stinging like screams for attention How are you supposed to move on And make lemonade out of what life hands you When the juice stings your fingertips When relief is only resolved When the issue is acknowledged. But it’s fine you know Everything is fine Plenty of people use paper everyday and live to tell the tale So really it’s not a big deal Get enough and your fingertips will callus over Soft things don’t go well with hard edges Maybe by not being soft, then you can get more **** done But by getting hard you’ll feel less And wouldn’t it be nice to feel all things Knowing fully well it’s worth the pain of a ******* paper cut
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Dec 24, 2017
Dec 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM UTC
Paper Cut
My life can be described as a man on the road Never ending road trips to god knows where Beaten up truck Don’t give  f*ck Wind lacing grease through my hair As the radio blares Hitchhikers hopping along for the ride We get talking til I get them where they want to be You know, then they’re done with me Leave me with a bumper slap goodbye   Least they had a destination But see nothing can beat the sensation of finding one Without maps or gas station attendants I honestly can’t decide which one causes the worst headaches Advil a poor girl’s novacaine So I keep moving forward Better to just be lost than be reminded of it I’ll avoid me what shows me where I am What shows me where to go But I’ll get there We always do
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Dec 11, 2017
Dec 11, 2017 at 12:01 PM UTC
Bumper? More like ******
I want to blame this feeling This tongue tied nausea inside me On the alcohol On this hangover But a small part of me The same part that told me To put the shots down And that beer is a bad chaser Whispers that maybe it’s not the hangover at all Maybe I have a flesh eating virus Or a tape worm Maybe it’s kinda like that but kinda not Like maybe my regrets are eating me alive From the inside out Maybe there is a parasite in me Or perhaps I am said parasite.
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Dec 5, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 at 11:11 AM UTC
Self Diagnosis
What’s in a name? What’s in a name? Jack **** that’s what’s in a name. Because the name of a person will not change who they are. If the word ‘war’ was defined as freedom from violence and disturbance, what we now know as “peace” could easily be referred to as ‘war’ Because what makes a chicken so, chickeny? Who looked at this tasty bird and thought to themselves. This is a chicken. It wouldn’t matter if you called it an eagle it would still taste the same in nugget form. Because if Jimmy liked Sheila because she was hot, smart, and funny, Why wouldn’t he like her if her name was Lauren? He would like her the same no matter the name. (Unless he only dates girls named Sheila, In that case it just makes Jimmy a **** with peculiar taste.) That’s the thing people don’t get about disease. It doesn’t appear with the diagnosis, no. It’s been there. Living and writhing inside of you. Just because you give it a name Doesn’t invalidate the before. So when they roll their eyes And say you’re using it as an excuse now An excuse to stay home, in bed An excuse to not be in their presence Tell them no. Tell them everything you used before was an excuse. Because now, you can finally give it a name.
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Dec 5, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 at 11:10 AM UTC
What's in a Name?
There is a difference between holding your breath And not breathing at all One takes a lot more effort One is the product of carrying too much The other of carrying nothing at all When I walk into a crowded room I will hold my breath until my lungs find a reason to relax My face will flush and I will eye the exits And I will imagine any possible scenario that would allow me to leave Which is to say, I’d rather be in danger than be here I’d rather be in a secluded single bed hospital room Than brushing shoulders with conversations that don’t concern me Smiling uncomfortably to an offensive joke because You don’t know me enough to know the fire in my bones That I could ignite and burn you to the ground. You also don’t know how I wish I could extinguish that How I burn down everything I touch How I wish my embers would die down Lacking oxygen might not be the worst thing No, being alone in a crowded room wouldn’t either Saying unironically that I stand alone in a crowded room As if it has never been said before- might just be Or maybe my sparks are burning this poem up too Ruining its changes You gotta understand, The thing about fire is It is a beautiful beast A chaotic dancer who knows both sides of Everything beautiful and everything not In my eyes fire eats its beauty It eats the life from inside out as it spits remnants of relics Too tough to melt So when we are in the flames Like our salem sisters we think How can something so grand So intriguing So important Be burnt down by a people so ignorant Only to reveal what is truly important How could you not see that as a compliment How can you not see that we are all the flames And that we are all also being eaten by them As we consume everything around us in turn And that maybe we just need to catch our breath.
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Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 at 1:15 PM UTC
Fire Breathers
There is a difference between holding your breath And not breathing at all One takes a lot more effort One is the product of carrying too much The other of carrying nothing at all When I walk into a crowded room I will hold my breath until my lungs find a reason to relax My face will flush and I will eye the exits And I will imagine any possible scenario that would allow me to leave Which is to say, I’d rather be in danger than be here I’d rather be in a secluded single bed hospital room Than brushing shoulders with conversations that don’t concern me Smiling uncomfortably to an offensive joke because You don’t know me enough to know the fire in my bones That I could ignite and burn you to the ground. You also don’t know how I wish I could extinguish that How I burn down everything I touch How I wish my embers would die down Lacking oxygen might not be the worst thing No, being alone in a crowded room wouldn’t either Saying unironically that I stand alone in a crowded room As if it has never been said before- might just be Or maybe my sparks are burning this poem up too Ruining its changes You gotta understand, The thing about fire is It is a beautiful beast A chaotic dancer who knows both sides of Everything beautiful and everything not In my eyes fire eats its beauty It eats the life from inside out as it spits remnants of relics Too tough to melt So when we are in the flames Like our salem sisters we think How can something so grand So intriguing So important Be burnt down by a people so ignorant Only to reveal what is truly important How could you not see that as a compliment How can you not see that we are all the flames And that we are all also being eaten by them As we consume everything around us in turn And that maybe we just need to catch our breath.
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