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charles-berlin
American
This head on a spike Well it's turning blue Talking 'bout why I'd like The splendor of his view "From up on high" he says to me "All thing under the sky are mine to see" And long and hard I sat and thought of things for me my body got and then I stood with my decree and hoped he'd make good company
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM UTC
Headless ***** Tonk
Introspection is cheaper than a horror film and its nightmares will chase you long after Freddy's hands are arthritic and the blades they operate are rusty and impotent. Here I am in this roach den with musty sheets and carpet stains. The place I retreat to in blind panic without considering escape. Here it is, peeling wallpaper and cigarette burns are the hems of skirts you tug and cry to, PICK ME UP PICK ME UP! Inside it is empty, truly empty, no trace of a whispering current in the draft or its cryptic revelations woven under the surface, no beetles scrambling around the corpse to tell its secrets. There is truly nothing and I don't know who called this vacancy "inner peace". It's a motel room with empty drawers and the water is some shade of red and every page has been torn from the Gideon's Bible to roll joints and make origami cranes and free throws into wastebaskets filled with scribbled poetry and compulsively written lists.
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM UTC
Roll your eyes back; look inside
Your backseat, that backward pickpocket, that schemer taking cell phones and jackets and wallets the pilfered seeds sewn, like lighthouses when they sprout guiding me back again back to you back to that ******* backseat
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 4:43 PM UTC
Pickpocket
I'm an infant crawling with unformed senses from arm to arm ready to be mystified if I knew the meaning of the word Feeling the curves and dimensions of the world of its curious things with lips and fumbling fingers Green as a rye mold and my dreams are hallucinations brought on by its consumption
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM UTC
Green as a rye mold, baby
A showdown on Sunset At sundown the two met A breakdown of Corvettes Cellphones drawn by execs From holsters, my wild west On speed dial is the best Lawyers to slow down, lay to rest This showdown of suits neatly pressed
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Mar 28, 2010
Mar 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM UTC
Collision of bumpers and egos
Oh, the ineffectual deluded intellectual Cream of the crop barstool philosopher Yes, you are included Potential does not excuse the fool Nor does a place at the top In debates at coffeeshops Indicate a prowess that places beyond school Unbound by reality is your perception Of yourself as some exception Some paragon of cool Please proceed with your perspective Surely there is no source better respected
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Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 PM UTC
Barstool Philosopher
My mind it's bent and sanity spent To stay I must pay rent each day Too deep in debt I must invent The tenents who president and sway They're here and clearly won't relent Grown fond of say in the events They steer me into foggy gray Veer from the sun, its every ray
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Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM UTC
Insanity
A pale clouded gaze betrays his depression To observers of his pained expression The cast of ghosts in his stories Are joined in morbid succession By faceless names that tangle In webs indecipherabley knotted Seldom unraveled are histories Of faces so wrinkled and rotted The tragedy of burrowed dreams The eye's gleam down below When they've already spotted A grave before it's body's has been plotted.
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Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM UTC
Cataracts
Refuge from reality Neverland's necessity Chasing the whims of Shadow Crowing at the moon's sad glow Freedom from monotony A childhood philosophy Perseveres in light of fears Long adheres in spite of years Flee the world of decision Distance mistake's incision A brash heart's circumcision Nulls care of peer's derision. "You gotta let go and crow!"
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Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 7:34 PM UTC
Neverland
Lonely wrath flows undaunted. Solitude grows intentions, haunted. Warped by wayward wanting. Cruelty sharpens savage impulse, A call forever taunting. Twisting, hardly resisting action, Dark fantasies consume factions, Of a psyche ripped in fractions.
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Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM UTC
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