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elizabeth-g
There is no time more bleak and promising than the break of dawn. The eggshell sky beckons with a powdery blue which promises of nobler and greater things just beyond our ever reaching grasp. Rain slaps the pavement, Low thunder grumbles, hungering and thirsting for more, For me. Shrill bird calls the homely call of the crow speckle the air with a spirit of understanding (and a building intensity) that simply cannot be felt ever again. At any other time. And I light a cigarette. And I light a cigarette because just like that. The Beauty is gone. Because in the time that it takes to coat the innards of my lungs with just one more layer of sludge, The Beauty is gone. The soft blue is usurped by a dull grey, --a great that could only dream of the powerful sting of a steel blade. And people come alive again. And my heart is broken. Again. Again, again, and Again with the pathetic whorish promise of what could be, but has not been, and possibly never will be. And yet I still hope, And yet I still yearn for the promise of the powdery blue.
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Jul 8, 2011
Jul 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM UTC
The Title is Key (And Yet I Still Hope)
Your gut feelings are more than superstitions. Do you feel that? I do not understand how you do not lead inquisitions about the superposition of your existence. You may choose to be blind. But the universe will laugh, heartily, at that. As will I, and the smoke, it will curl from my lips as the corners of my mouth transcend into a delectable giggle. And I will laugh, heartily, at that.
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Jul 7, 2011
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM UTC
Inquisitions
It is so strange to think. That the world is nothing. What do we have. If everything we know is nothing? It seems that we might have everything. Do you hear that you insidious close-minded mongrels? We could have everything. We possess the power to control, our dreams. To control, our hallucinations. Do you hear that you spineless congregation? Stop casting the revolutionaries into sweeping generalizations of psuedo-intellectuals and anti-theologians and soulless lunatics. You have no idea what you are missing. You have no idea what you are ******* with. This world will be your hell if you do not embrace it, understand it, control it, unravel it. Do you hear that you mindless sheep? You be lead where you please but I will shake your very foundations. You would fear me if you had the mind. You would love me if you had the heart.
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Jul 7, 2011
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM UTC
Do you hear?
I will survive. No I am not referencing popular culture.   I am referencing a movement so much larger than that.   I am referencing an epic movement which centers around the ***** in the middle of my hand.   I am referencing myself.   Everyone and their brother, literally, can **** off and die.   The amount of a **** that I give is so low, because, I am moving on.   I am rising up.   I will stand up proud.   I am human and I am only human and I will accept this, as will the rest of the world because I will shove it down their throats just like the ***** that have been shoved down mine.   I will regurgitate all your rotting ******* ***** and I will laugh at the horrified look on your face when you realize that I simply do not give a **** anymore.   I will cherish every second of the fear and trembling you ******* cowards feel and deserve to feel as you watch me grow into a giant, as you watch me walk all over you with a kind of self-respect that can only be found in novels and movies.   You will watch me laugh as I wash away the filth you've ground me into, you will watch me morph into a woman that would never look twice at a man that even resembles the likes of you.   You will watch me forget your name, forget your very existence.  And I will not give a flying ****
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Apr 10, 2011
Apr 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM UTC
You Are a Nut Kase
Bag of bones, I adore you so, Now you watch me But I cannot see you through the thick, thick fog Just remember, the worlds that encase us are nothing but dreams
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Mar 30, 2011
Mar 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM UTC
Bones
Colors fade together Lines blur Madly, truly, deeply, for an instant Moved to hate, in an instant I wish so despairingly That I could Love You But know that I never will I wish so desperately that I could Love Someone, Anyone Yet I know I never can Bones elongate, stretch to impossible lengths Soul trapped inside Manically rattling its prison walls Begging to live To be set free to hug the steaming pavement until Skin slithers away like worms; Mindless, fearful Begging to love you, whoever you are
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Mar 30, 2011
Mar 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM UTC
Begging
I slammed the door. an echo strained it's way throughout the universe with a shudder. that made still even the pattering of children's feet. or so i thought. i believed myself to be far more powerful than i truly was, or, perhaps, i was more powerful than i could possibly fathom. regardless, i shut the door. i shuffled throughout the cold room. white walls, black tile floor glinting in the fluorescent light. cold radiated throughout the room it was impossible to tell whether that cold was inherent to the room or if the room was inherent to the cold. regardless, i shivered. my body shook violently with the disgusted vibration of a million angry bees. i continued to walk, the hallway stretched forever. each step added a m i l l i o n inches to the length i would never cross. Zeno crossed my mind. I had never believed he was correct but in that moment, i could never doubt him. I took a step, the hallway stretched, I took a step, the hallway stretched. I took a step, the cold permeated the pores of my body. I took a step, the fluorescent lights stung my eyes. At last, the end of the hallway. I did not see a mirror but, rather, an alternate universe. I saw myself, most poised and calm as I had ever been. I could not be the same person That I was staring at. This being pored into my soul. This person gnawed upon my mind and exhilarated my senses. This could not be me. The eyes across the glass, identical to mine own. stared. stared. until i was forced to look away. i glance back. the eyes continued to stare. continued to stare with an entrancing understanding that i did not even bother to wish upon myself the base futility of this wish rendering it meaningless. this being, this was not me. another realm i had seen, for only that moment. another realm so close, i may just have touched it.
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Mar 29, 2011
Mar 29, 2011 at 9:16 PM UTC
poem no. 1
I slammed the door. an echo strained it's way throughout the universe with a shudder. that made still even the pattering of children's feet. or so i thought. i believed myself to be far more powerful than i truly was, or, perhaps, i was more powerful than i could possibly fathom. regardless, i shut the door. i shuffled throughout the cold room. white walls, black tile floor glinting in the fluorescent light. cold radiated throughout the room it was impossible to tell whether that cold was inherent to the room or if the room was inherent to the cold. regardless, i shivered. my body shook violently with the disgusted vibration of a million angry bees. i continued to walk, the hallway stretched forever. each step added a m i l l i o n inches to the length i would never cross. Zeno crossed my mind. I had never believed he was correct but in that moment, i could never doubt him. I took a step, the hallway stretched, I took a step, the hallway stretched. I took a step, the cold permeated the pores of my body. I took a step, the fluorescent lights stung my eyes. At last, the end of the hallway. I did not see a mirror but, rather, an alternate universe. I saw myself, most poised and calm as I had ever been. I could not be the same person That I was staring at. This being pored into my soul. This person gnawed upon my mind and exhilarated my senses. This could not be me. The eyes across the glass, identical to mine own. stared. stared. until i was forced to look away. i glance back. the eyes continued to stare. continued to stare with an entrancing understanding that i did not even bother to wish upon myself the base futility of this wish rendering it meaningless. this being, this was not me. another realm i had seen, for only that moment. another realm so close, i may just have touched it.
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