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m-elizabeth
m-elizabeth
American
I'm my father's child in wisdom I'm my mother's child in wit When I use the two together Nothing ever really fits. I'm my mother's child in action I'm my fathers child in thought I make a list of groceries Then cringe at what I bought
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 2:42 PM UTC
Untitled
You go out of your way to change yourself for them this time. Well we never thought there was anything wrong with who you really are. You put yourself in a store-bought box, Dust of your shoulders, Commit to sell yourself again. You've done it seven times so far. People come, and they pick you up, They turn you over and upside-down. They don't care what's inside. Head over heels for an idea you can't wrap your head around, Head over heels for a feeling that's not mutual. You're out of this world, but you hinder yourself When you're all cooped up in a box on a shelf. Wonder what made you so **** ashamed of mind, It was something of beauty, but your so disinclined to show it.
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 10:34 PM UTC
Boxed Up
You've got me. You've got me, so far. Don't take me Into the yard, I'll die there And rot There, she goes Here he comes He's got a gun And a bouquet of roses. Don't hate me Hate that bell jar. We're all running In circles, we come And in circles we go. We see the stars But reach out to the dome. I've got you. I've got you so far This moment Will bounce and resound Hither she comes, and thither she goes. Hither and thither we go.
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 10:24 PM UTC
Hither and Thither
You think you're making friends You're making failure Follow trends Just like a sailor That will end up in a ditch, a rut Or just a **** But coke you'll never have enough An attitude alludes That you are better and you choose What we will do And what's yours too If you can see it You can't stop it.
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM UTC
Stealer
It's been four nights straight of witnessing your self absorption three long days of pained response and selfish boredom It's clear that we've failed you again by tainting all that superior air that surrounds you A shame your golden roots draw from this stem Go on home now It's clear that we've failed you again Perpetually unimpressed how did you earn the right to pass those judgments? close your eyes and spin arms open They say that blood is thick It sticks around when water's running yours is long gone good riddance Before it was twelve straight years Of living in your self-projected Shadow within This town you think you were neglected Well I turned out just fine It's funny how some things will never change You were born a prince Scoffing at the sky above your head
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM UTC
Home
we walked there in the snow that sign post equidistant in our heads we wanted justice so we filled space with our heads we thrashed our arms demanding peace be had and then we got it now we know it's true instead we fill our heads with other things we know can't fool us too we lived our lives in wonder chasing lightening through the woods our heads were floating in the wind our hands were wielding cotton strings
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Dec 26, 2012
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM UTC
Untitled
Let the uncashed lie unimportant at the present moment let them be my make-shift mutiny Let the untouched wait delay pleasure and torment both Until the suffering transforms Revealing more pleasure than I've earned And so, suffering gives way to sorrow, sorrow gives way to woe Senseless action is given thoughtful meaning Sequence is deemed absent and uninvolved We can fool ourselves as whole But let us not take in on our own We must not let this go
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Dec 17, 2012
Dec 17, 2012 at 2:12 AM UTC
Paper on the Table
take words make them into non-words rob them of their meaning each syllable is fleeting away poor words think they're moving forwards trap us into corners they're the truest tortured souls safe words what a funny notion it seems the deals are broken these simple laws of motion defy my words though carefully, i chose them it's sad to see them broken they changed right as a spoke them they died
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 4:49 PM UTC
Words
Bad blood on the brain I've got yours too I don't know who you are But I saw you that day Thrashing in the east end hallway Surrounded by showcase glass, Blue ribbons, and too much noise I thought it was best to walk away I think a lot of things I guess Your art was beautiful I liked the girl all bent and blank It forged this tragic kind of silence It held your bad blood But gave it air Beauty without flesh I thought that  you were beautiful In this silent hateful kind of way All that bad blood on your brain I've got some too I really wish we could have met But I can't blame you
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM UTC
Bad Blood
Sticky magazine pages on the desk in the corner of this waiting room I'm in. I'd rather fall asleep and fill my head with things that could be but aren't, than read about the things in life that shouldn't be yet somehow overwhelm. They're at ease with it I could never be at ease with anything. Biding all my time so near and yet so far from anyone I know. Waiting for the life I sold my freedom for, just to get away from halfheartedness You're at ease with it I could never be at ease that This is how it feels to be connectionless it's free but it's a bore Better than directionless like the bulk of people are They're so free with it I could never be so free with anything Sitting in a cloud of idiocy and the unknown building up your negatives and tightening your own shackles You're okay with it You're at ease with it I could never be at ease with anything that.
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Oct 19, 2012
Oct 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM UTC
Sticky Magazine Pages