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A life time wandering
A feeling, an ocean and a dream to describe: / It’s another mid afternoon morning and the sunlight billows through the windows and pierces my eyes; they fight for consciousness and after some struggle with my two-ton eyelids, I managed to pick myself up and stagger off to the shower. Twenty minutes later, cleaned and clothed, I make my way downstairs to see what faces still linger in the house from the night before. With each step from under my feet comes a cold shrill scream; the nails, with a century of twisting and turning wiggled themselves free. With the slightest exchange of pressure, the nails give way and plunge back into the body of the stair from which they had escaped. / It’s quiet downstairs. There’s not a sound; no voices of laughter echoing from the floors and off of the ceilings, not a sound of friends or strangers’ feet as they scramble to rustle up their clothes and belongings from the night prior. I had grown accustomed to hearing this in the morning and in all honestly, I’ve grown quite fond of the array of faces that had made camp here for the night. Usually this means front row seats to a race track where they all spin and run into one another to get started on their endless lists of routines and obligations. For the lucky few who get to vacation rather than push papers on the weekend, this meant a new companion and hopefully a day of company. Unfortunately, today the house is hallow, so empty it could make someone dream.
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Apr 17, 2012
A little bit of something
I'm setting my alarm-clock / Earlier today / I've got class in the morning
55
Oct 31, 2011
A poem from a nightmare day.
with my back to the bench / sew my eyes to sky, its calm and its clean. / It reflects everything that I'm trying to be.
9
Apr 18, 2011
Clouds passing, while time's laughing
Outside, rustling feet and screaming / Kings of hills and peaking children / Hunting playmates like big game and now you’re it
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Feb 7, 2013
Dirt for Abraham
Stand up / Better say your prayers / Better pack your gun
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Oct 31, 2011
Distance is a devil
Distance is a devil, paved with ash and beat up promises / That pours too frequently from tears to misguided melodies and minors / I remember all those nights at the foot of my bed
15
Feb 7, 2013
Flight 844 Seattle, Washington to Omaha, Nebraska
Well I traded the grey scale pine tree scene / for a city less clean, with the same back drop screen / "The good life" so it seems
9
Jun 17, 2011
Havana Hes Got Soul
Every time I hear you play this / I think that we're out walking, talk talking / Daydream talking like it's nothing
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Jun 18, 2011
Les belles choses viennent de la plus triste des mains
Seamlessly savage / In a race to be victims / Drown out the morning
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Sep 29, 2011
Monsters
What is this we’re looking at? / Can we put it in a frame? / The fact that everything is our fault,
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Mar 1, 2012
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