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blake-harcey
blake-harcey
My biggest influence at the present is Allen Ginsberg and his stream of consciousness style of writing. When I write something that I think is any good, it usually comes off the top of my head in a burst of words put into lines.
Humanity's womb is barren The music has died away We ***** our children Lead them astray. Change marched through the streets As they lay littered and free For these corrupt eyes to see. For these corrupt eyes to see. How we bled for peace And we killed for peace But peace was power And power was peace How we bled for peace And we killed for peace Now our blood drowns us.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 1:10 PM UTC
We, The People
death crawls into and out of the ears of a conscious mind that never stopped thinking. from a young age it followed the boy until the day he became a man and beat him back into infancy. for every birthday it seemed like the agony of lost companionship and blood became- a sort of present, reminding him that he was closer, and that one day death would feel it's way into his soul as well. the worst thought he ever pondered was that of the after; the time in which something else might live to see a life without the constant, brutal, aching pain of the ever-so-infinite nagging of death's fingertips. it was almost as if the thought of dying was easier, less painful, because all of his life he never knew hope, although he never was a stranger to it either. but he gave up one day. and he did die. and that's it. no one knows, or had known, or will know what was to happen to him after that. he just died. and people dressed in black and cried, and said a prayer or two for his colorless tumor he once had called his own flesh. but he... he lived after that, in a sense. he'd come to realize in his final moments that death would always be there, knocking on the door, tall, thin, and deceitfully handsome, beckoning for the second he turned the **** so that he did and- only then would he ever know that life is the only true death- that everything was backwards. he'd always hated death, despised it for it's selfishness and the way it inflicted pain on everything it touched- but only then when the last gasp of air drew from his lungs, did he know that death.. death is the only escape from life.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 1:08 PM UTC
death
death crawls into and out of the ears of a conscious mind that never stopped thinking. from a young age it followed the boy until the day he became a man and beat him back into infancy. for every birthday it seemed like the agony of lost companionship and blood became- a sort of present, reminding him that he was closer, and that one day death would feel it's way into his soul as well. the worst thought he ever pondered was that of the after; the time in which something else might live to see a life without the constant, brutal, aching pain of the ever-so-infinite nagging of death's fingertips. it was almost as if the thought of dying was easier, less painful, because all of his life he never knew hope, although he never was a stranger to it either. but he gave up one day. and he did die. and that's it. no one knows, or had known, or will know what was to happen to him after that. he just died. and people dressed in black and cried, and said a prayer or two for his colorless tumor he once had called his own flesh. but he... he lived after that, in a sense. he'd come to realize in his final moments that death would always be there, knocking on the door, tall, thin, and deceitfully handsome, beckoning for the second he turned the **** so that he did and- only then would he ever know that life is the only true death- that everything was backwards. he'd always hated death, despised it for it's selfishness and the way it inflicted pain on everything it touched- but only then when the last gasp of air drew from his lungs, did he know that death.. death is the only escape from life.
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I'm watching the home my mind lives in burn to the ground The sanity that felt comfort there is now crawling around for an exit that can't be found but hey, maybe it never existed. I throw out my cigarette, and as the the last smoke crawls from my throat- I smile. there's a nirvana in the embers that are chewing at the ceiling, and I can hear my thoughts screaming. but hey, maybe they never existed. I watch the last of the shingles smother the ashes of that home, And I'm not so sure my mind was alone. Because the last time I stayed there, The night I started the violent flare- You were in there. But hey, at least now it's not hard to say- "Maybe she never existed."
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 2:47 AM UTC
Untitled
we hold alcoholism up like a trophy that we can wave in front of a girls drunken eye and get laid and then reality hits and reality said 40 years from now we're on the couch knocked out cold and the bottle replaced a wife 20 years ago.
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 1:58 AM UTC
Reckless Youth
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to take. If I should live for other days, Pray The Lord to guide my ways.   My skin is inside out, And my thoughts are speaking aloud. Now I'm on my knees to shout, "Father, are you proud?" All of my life I've begged you for forgiveness, But now I just want to settle this; When you write your list, Leave me off and call it quits. How can something so beautiful love something so weak? I fear to forget what I'm supposed to seek. Is there a purpose to anything? Maybe I'm just not getting the joke. I've always been the one too slow. What is a man with no hope? What is a future with no grace? Even the divine soap Cannot clean this waste. I'm thinking myself into a corner I can't get out of. I'm backed in by a priest with surgeon gloves. Tear it all out, don't leave anything. My heart is hollowed out, and ill never amount to anything. I don't want forgiveness to get into heaven. I want forgiveness for the way I left you hanging. Tell me what it's like to make a child that morphs into a hand grenade. Then tell me what it's like to watch it pull it's own pin and burn away. I would say sorry, But apologies are nothing more than excuses to me. So when you write your list, Just leave me off and call it quits. And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to reap. And if I should die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to forsake. If I should live for other days, I pray The Lord to forget his mistake.
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
Sad, Sorry Sons.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to take. If I should live for other days, Pray The Lord to guide my ways.   My skin is inside out, And my thoughts are speaking aloud. Now I'm on my knees to shout, "Father, are you proud?" All of my life I've begged you for forgiveness, But now I just want to settle this; When you write your list, Leave me off and call it quits. How can something so beautiful love something so weak? I fear to forget what I'm supposed to seek. Is there a purpose to anything? Maybe I'm just not getting the joke. I've always been the one too slow. What is a man with no hope? What is a future with no grace? Even the divine soap Cannot clean this waste. I'm thinking myself into a corner I can't get out of. I'm backed in by a priest with surgeon gloves. Tear it all out, don't leave anything. My heart is hollowed out, and ill never amount to anything. I don't want forgiveness to get into heaven. I want forgiveness for the way I left you hanging. Tell me what it's like to make a child that morphs into a hand grenade. Then tell me what it's like to watch it pull it's own pin and burn away. I would say sorry, But apologies are nothing more than excuses to me. So when you write your list, Just leave me off and call it quits. And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to reap. And if I should die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to forsake. If I should live for other days, I pray The Lord to forget his mistake.
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When the heroes die- And good men go to war; Who will swat the flies? And who will clean their sores? In the dawn of destruction, We seek peace in death machines. In the wake of extinction, We seek peace in annihilation. I fear for my children, And their children as well- For this generation of men, It's safe to say they failed. When the heroes die- And good men go to war; Who will swat the flies? And who will clean their sores?
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 11:04 PM UTC
Warlords
Golden eyes you disguised pain so beautifully you hid my love notes in your shoes you thought you loved the girl I used to be I thought I knew what love was made of pressed against your car you smelled just like the ocean I felt kept inside your arms I had no knowledge of commitment I was only seventeen wanting a body made of heaven born decades before me we smoked cigarettes and danced for hours in the rain you were as gentle as the wind I didn't mean to cause you pain confusion is a cloud that visits every n o w and t h e n when I think of nights spent on the phone and days worshiping your skin whether or not you think of me is fine and either way you were a message wrote in cursive that I r e p e a t everyday
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 10:43 PM UTC
Acoustic
Blood pumps through the veins of a weary traveler, Every pulse salivating the teetering skepticisms of reality; flowing through the fragile doubts of terror- an omen to suffering and constant lack of fervor The burden of unsatisfactory and the tattered walls of a loose mind start, Constantly creaking and promising to give way and crumble unto the molded floorboards of a heavy heart. a bullseye in happiness with a wandering dart. The bones as broken hulls to a ship that’s lost sight, Abandoned shores tempting her for haven and taunting the starving crew with false delight another block of cinder to give way and lose it’s might. 20/20 eyes yet blind in bitter harmonies of fowl follies, Visions of future calls to dreams that were broken before pieced and carried to better men on royal and despairing trollies. remembrances of a body drenched in longing and wrapped in hollies.
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 1:19 PM UTC
A Body For The Birds
In the ballroom, half past the hour I struggle to find place where bleeding walls are curtailing chase. and in the crude mix of masqueraded hearts I found your true face I watched you stroll in and out of fits of love, destroying every good thing left to break In the ballroom, three quarters past the hour I felt your cruelty pierce my skin and bone to a core, childishly toying with an old doll that couldn't take the pain anymore so that one day when pride knocks on your door he'll bestow you upon the floor and may you rest there forevermore. but in the ballroom, as the hour ends, for now you say amen before you feast upon the fragile thin of souls that belong to men whom may never love again. and may love never forgive you for this sin. In the ballroom, for the rest of your extent, may all the lost souls never forgive nor forget you for this sin.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 12:20 PM UTC
The Ballroom
What if I told you of a spell One that could destroy whole countries In the blink of an eye? Would you scoff and turn up your collar at my paganistic ways? Lover, I speak the truth! This phrase is not a lie! It causes violent outrage And it is inescapable. Save yourself: Don't pass it on! It is not worth the carnage, But I will tell the dreadful words, as I have told man after man: I love you.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 11:40 PM UTC
Untitled