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carlos-derek
carlos-derek
i write to try and understand what is both written and unwritten, and i write because people and things deserve poetry dedicated to them.
My arms are infinite extensions of the universe within my breath. My eyes smudged telescopic kaleidoscopes tinted with the shade of reality. My lungs are pretending to move with the harmony of Om and the balance of stars. Stars. Stars that often imagine themselves as warriors and bears, clocking in infinite time for the job of "Inspiration", contractual every few million years. And then they rotate, revolve, imitate and dissipate into new configurations of dead lights. And over a backdrop of pitch black voids of offices after hours, stars are the friendly, warm glowing windows at the next block, in heavy rains. Stars will remain though our own species retains our blood-lust for fellow brothers and sisters and Gaia. Stars that can only be seen through infinite extensions of vision, and only reached by the arms that strive to thrive in kaleidoscope waters viewed from smudged telescopes.
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Jan 25, 2016
Jan 25, 2016 at 7:21 PM UTC
Untitled
against the currents of regret and forgetting i have learned to dive into myself but when i regret forgetting i must dive deeper and i fear i may have drowned.
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 12:06 PM UTC
Untitled
listen to the vibrations. do you feel the resignation of your destination leaving you under trance of the illusion of sound in the air? that, my dear friend, is a hallucination.
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 10:10 PM UTC
Untitled
barbed wire inside my lungs and fingertips accented in irony of the white picket fence around my chest
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 10:06 PM UTC
on feeling homesick at home
i imagined, vividly, that this new year would bring forgiveness and now i see, vividly, it has not. not completely. not for you, not for me.
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Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
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on the edge of the blade of a dying year that cuts dull and burns gray, i abandon all abandons and commend all amends. thank you dear, i'm sorry fear, let us get together soon confusion and water down wine with our blood. outshine all shine lit until two seconds before yesterday of now, i will abandon all abandons and commend all amends.
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Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015 at 10:52 AM UTC
new year's eve
Number One Tell your roommate to hide all the knives because you will carve her name on all pieces of furniture. Number Two Cut your nails because you will still try to carve her name on all pieces of furniture. Number Three Give away your furniture because carvings of her name will remind you of her. Number Four Carve her name on everything until her name looks more like vandalism and less like the name of someone who carved something out of you. Carve her name until it looks less than the war cry that you will lay your heart for, less than the title of the song that keeps you up at night, less than the poem that makes you get up every morning. Though she is was is your everything and nothing, carve her name. You have to.
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 11:14 PM UTC
Four Items Regarding Carving
the skin is an ***** but you have a piano with music between every black eye and white scars of cigarette burns
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Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015 at 12:58 AM UTC
Untitled
mourn the dead for their final white light was stolen by flames and metal pellets. mourn the living for our long forgotten unity was stolen by terror and prejudice.
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 12:53 PM UTC
13-11-15
uni-prejudice-ty should be a word to describe the world of us, humanity
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
world in a word