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d-simpson
American "Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'" Kurt Vonnegut
Clouds being blown on winds of the heartless proving that moonlight shines best in darkness. The warmest affection cuts through my thinking, spins me in circles: drunk without drinking. French angel singing, harp music playing, her here beside me: what more's worth saying? I won't presume to reach out and hold her. I hope she won't mind my cheek on her shoulder. From this perspective watching her fingers trace up the wine stem, a soft touch that lingers. The evening has ended, down comes the curtain. Who knows what she wants. The future's uncertain.
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Jun 26, 2025
Jun 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM UTC
Drunk without drinking
Run, run, run, you're gunna run, run, run away. Cold feet, frozen stiff, frightened of the rising sun. Thawed out a bit, and now you're on the run. Silver tongue talking to a golden dawn. At the first ray of light I'm starting to see you turn a cold shoulder, burn a bridge and flee. Too cool for comfort. Too cool to say what you feel. If I want indifference, I'd go try to flirt with steel. Closed-off woman doing too much you never quite learned how to open your heart. Love came by, and you'd rather depart. I'm no hunter and you're not some kind of prey. You choose your fate and make the bed you lay. Elusive enigma, sly little minx. Dark eyed coquette do as you please. I hope you know: YOU'RE SUCH A ******* TEASE. I'm not bragging. There's magic in the things I make so either get cooking or steal somebody else's cake. All my life been putting in work. I see hungry eyes looking back at me. Look all you want. There's no taste for free. Run, run, run, you're gunna run, run, run away.
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Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM UTC
Run, run, run
If you see her, there's no need to say a thing about me. Any word that you say disappears instantly... in her blackhole heart. Don't tell her about the music, the garden, nor the park. Don't tell her about our last farewell whispered sweetly in the dark. Don't tell her I love it when she wears anything where gem and metal meet. Don't tell her that I think her lips are the perfect statement piece. Don't tell her I spend my evenings reading books in the living room alone. Don't tell her I've been lain out on the couch staring at a ceiling fan ****** Don't tell her she can reach me. If she wanted to, she knows 100 ways. I'm probably a secret from her lover. People got a lot of those these days. If you see her, there's no need to say a thing about me. Any word that you say disappears instantly... in her blackhole heart.
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Jun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Blackhole Heart
I promise that thing will get clear, my love, 'though outside the storm's raging fierce. Darkness unbroken and rain, love. Thunderbolts only can pierce. I promise that things will get clear, my love. Dry off those heartbroken tears. Patience is needed once more, love. I know you've waited for years. I promise that things will get clear, my love, clear as your view from the peak. Solitude ends with your word, love! So with your ruby lips: SPEAK! I promise that things will get clear, my love. when you let go of your prayer secretly spoke to your heart, love, not knowing if someone was there. I promise that things will get clear, my love, fast as the tap of your heel. Don't be so numb and so cross, love. We've both got so much to feel. I promise that things will get clear, my love, and firm as the earth and the trees; vast as the ocean and sky, love. I can't wait to melt on your breeze.
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Jun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM UTC
I promise that things will get clear, my love.
I found a message in a bottle, cracked parchment on the shore, a brittle note crumbling to dust. It was written in foreign words but I recognized the sentiment and I thought about you, love. I thought about the oceans between us, the continents and worlds the time, the space, the ether, the chains of luck and fate. And I wonder if you're a specter, a phantom made inside my mind, an elusive effigy of desire summoned on a lonely winter's eve. I see the echo of your movement, love, so I wrote this down to say I just received your message and I hope you haven't flown away.
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May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021 at 7:06 PM UTC
Message
Exalted child of Gilgamesh, what has devoured you today? Were you so thrown off your center that you gnash your teeth and pray? Be careful who you call out to, be cautious of what becomes, for the gods are jealous parents and the titans eat their sons. But, it's good to seek assistance when the transition begins from an isolated wilderness to the company of friends.
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Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020 at 11:35 PM UTC
Exalted child of Gilgamesh
I can hear the muses calling 'Though my hands are tied with work And ghandarvas sing through cracks Beyond the off-white office walls. I know I should be free with them. But instead: Sign here, Date there, Keep the tally, O reckoner of warehouse sheets! The condition of modern slavery Of entire paydays spent at once While knowing that a human life Is more precious than the profit line.
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Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 11:13 AM UTC
Keep the tally
Ghosts of past performances Flicker through the screen As thirty second tidbits Of synthesized self-esteem On display in the electric cascade Of an endlessly rolling wheel. Take a look, take a peak At souls sold for attention. Give a second, give a minute, Place your time upon this altar. But what do you expect to reap Sacrificing your life to this machine Where nothing's holy, nothing's sacred, And nothing's what it seems?
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Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 1:21 AM UTC
On display in the electric cascade
Turn away your weary feet there's trouble lying here where everything you perceive is not what it appears. Fantasy and make believe are rampart in these parts. Discontent's an honored guest here once the party starts. If you stay, you aught to know you can't keep what you find. So take advice from Orpheus: you best not look behind. Insecure anxiety will twist your head around as you clutch the pretty things and trinkets you have found. You may want to talk some more but I just don't have the time and all the folk you come across have too much on their mind.
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Dec 3, 2020
Dec 3, 2020 at 12:05 AM UTC
Turn Away Your Weary Feet
Let the sun shine on the fields of this life where everything's fine and we're taking our time. When the sun has gone to an unknown beyond should we stifle a yawn and pray for the dawn? If you get caught where the dealing is hot you get what you got and that's the price of a thought. It often gets cold so I've been told when you're alone with no body to hold. It's up to you so what will you do? 'Though you can't always choose when the skies are blue. What could you say to the wind and the rain? Don't be afraid, it will all blow away.
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Jun 23, 2019
Jun 23, 2019 at 10:28 PM UTC
All Blow Away