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meh-1
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I just wanna take a long-ass, sharp-ass knife, and cut myself up some lemons. When life gives me **** I make a crap stained lemonade. And when I'm 21 I'll get myself a gun, and if life goes too south I'll just stick it in a safe place at my house so I can protect myself if something god forbid endangered my life. I hate everything. My brain is a mess. My life is a dump. I wanna go on a bridge and look at the awesome ******* view. It's the small things in life that make me not **** myself.
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Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 1:28 PM UTC
When life gives you lemons
I made myself a cup of tea. It was made of water, sugar, warmth, leaves, and shape. A lonely cup of hot water, birthed into existence only to be consumed. Boring and small and not loved and not hated and not thought of and not wanted by anyone but me. And so for a short interval between its assembly and its death the cup had purpose, to be drank from and enjoyed and digested until its reserve of taste and liquid is exhausted. The best purpose that a drink can hope for. But the cup of tea was quickly forgotten by its busy creator. He, I, had other affairs of a human nature of which a tea could not be aware, or understand, or control. I was gone But the tea was still there left alone on my desk, its warmth leaving its body, its scent attracting ants and flies and other raiders and scavengers of leftover nutrition, its temporary value, its purpose, dwindling away. The tea would run somewhere, everywhere. Anywhere would be better than here, than the cold desk, the dark, so thick and shallow. But the tea had no legs. The tea would scream It would call for somebody, everybody, anybody at all. "Save me! Drink me! **** me! I can't love, and nobody loves me, I can't smile, or hear, or see. I have nothing, I am no one. I hate this world in which I can only ever be dead as long as I am anything. Save me! **** me! End me! Me, who is cursed by existence itself." Save me, end me, know me. Love me, please, love me. Me, who is childish and empty. Me, who cries over spilled tea, and doesn't care about anybody but himself. Me, who knows nothing. Me, who loves nothing. Me, who is no one. Me, who feels betrayed by existence itself.
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Oct 19, 2019
Oct 19, 2019 at 8:47 AM UTC
I made myself a cup of tea
I made myself a cup of tea. It was made of water, sugar, warmth, leaves, and shape. A lonely cup of hot water, birthed into existence only to be consumed. Boring and small and not loved and not hated and not thought of and not wanted by anyone but me. And so for a short interval between its assembly and its death the cup had purpose, to be drank from and enjoyed and digested until its reserve of taste and liquid is exhausted. The best purpose that a drink can hope for. But the cup of tea was quickly forgotten by its busy creator. He, I, had other affairs of a human nature of which a tea could not be aware, or understand, or control. I was gone But the tea was still there left alone on my desk, its warmth leaving its body, its scent attracting ants and flies and other raiders and scavengers of leftover nutrition, its temporary value, its purpose, dwindling away. The tea would run somewhere, everywhere. Anywhere would be better than here, than the cold desk, the dark, so thick and shallow. But the tea had no legs. The tea would scream It would call for somebody, everybody, anybody at all. "Save me! Drink me! **** me! I can't love, and nobody loves me, I can't smile, or hear, or see. I have nothing, I am no one. I hate this world in which I can only ever be dead as long as I am anything. Save me! **** me! End me! Me, who is cursed by existence itself." Save me, end me, know me. Love me, please, love me. Me, who is childish and empty. Me, who cries over spilled tea, and doesn't care about anybody but himself. Me, who knows nothing. Me, who loves nothing. Me, who is no one. Me, who feels betrayed by existence itself.
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Every dreary day's the same. Every important detail is halted in a stalemate over a somewhen that feels much like eternity. I remember it all by heart, my laughable fortress of apathy: the texture of the chair, the length of the motion between my hand and my addiction in the form of keyboard and mouse, the brightness of fake mechanical dreams, and the mess of real ones. Then the line between evening and night blurs or sometimes night and day, and comes the tedious unrewarding process of laying in bed, and listening to all the little pains of human body and mind: little scratches, aches, and too many thoughts. Thoughts about all the little things that make me insufferably like myself: my ego, wishing only to cage the world. and make it dance like a fool, conversing with despair, an extravagant fellow who sees no world outside of mechanical fools staged on a collapsing surface. There are also social thoughts about the game theory, hormones, and stress of playing in human society. People connected by fragile threads. Loneliness is a paradox, as it tends to grow with density. It’s always hard to find the ideal strategy. I also remember well the feeling of waking up. I would have never known how passionately one could hate a series of fragmented sound bites saying: "The time is 7:30 am. The time is-", I know. Of course, you can’t know that I know, or rather you just can’t know, but it feels like you should by now, y’know?? After a period of time equal parts instant and unending I find myself strapped to yet another, less comfortable chair. There are a few dozen others sitting in equally uncomfortable chairs in equally inexpressive fashion. At an opposite angle, stands a bigger one relaying piles of data to be computed and organized and tediously rehearsed, by us, smaller calculators in training. The most exciting and unfun part of our structural data training are the tests to check each one’s margin of error and kindly give particularly special care to the ones on the lower end of achievement. Sometimes one of the bigger ones asks me if I’m fine what a stupidly kind but pointless question. Because, of course, there’s only one correct answer So I make a clueless face and give the same one every time I want to be a good calculator, after all. But it’s far too obvious to even bother saying that nothing is ever fine maybe that’s why no one does say it and when I remember the depth of my unfineness my center of gravity sinks deep into the earth and all that’s left is the feeling of my soul digesting itself, and in those lucid moments when the game of reality ceases and nothing can be good or bad and life becomes too sad a story to handle I can’t help but smile.
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Sep 17, 2019
Sep 17, 2019 at 12:41 AM UTC
Simple Poem
Every dreary day's the same. Every important detail is halted in a stalemate over a somewhen that feels much like eternity. I remember it all by heart, my laughable fortress of apathy: the texture of the chair, the length of the motion between my hand and my addiction in the form of keyboard and mouse, the brightness of fake mechanical dreams, and the mess of real ones. Then the line between evening and night blurs or sometimes night and day, and comes the tedious unrewarding process of laying in bed, and listening to all the little pains of human body and mind: little scratches, aches, and too many thoughts. Thoughts about all the little things that make me insufferably like myself: my ego, wishing only to cage the world. and make it dance like a fool, conversing with despair, an extravagant fellow who sees no world outside of mechanical fools staged on a collapsing surface. There are also social thoughts about the game theory, hormones, and stress of playing in human society. People connected by fragile threads. Loneliness is a paradox, as it tends to grow with density. It’s always hard to find the ideal strategy. I also remember well the feeling of waking up. I would have never known how passionately one could hate a series of fragmented sound bites saying: "The time is 7:30 am. The time is-", I know. Of course, you can’t know that I know, or rather you just can’t know, but it feels like you should by now, y’know?? After a period of time equal parts instant and unending I find myself strapped to yet another, less comfortable chair. There are a few dozen others sitting in equally uncomfortable chairs in equally inexpressive fashion. At an opposite angle, stands a bigger one relaying piles of data to be computed and organized and tediously rehearsed, by us, smaller calculators in training. The most exciting and unfun part of our structural data training are the tests to check each one’s margin of error and kindly give particularly special care to the ones on the lower end of achievement. Sometimes one of the bigger ones asks me if I’m fine what a stupidly kind but pointless question. Because, of course, there’s only one correct answer So I make a clueless face and give the same one every time I want to be a good calculator, after all. But it’s far too obvious to even bother saying that nothing is ever fine maybe that’s why no one does say it and when I remember the depth of my unfineness my center of gravity sinks deep into the earth and all that’s left is the feeling of my soul digesting itself, and in those lucid moments when the game of reality ceases and nothing can be good or bad and life becomes too sad a story to handle I can’t help but smile.
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I always thought it weird When you served the swans Poisoned remains Smiling so sincerely Like the smile of a mother To a newborn child And yet they never learned The virtue of mistrust Over the taste of crumbs Not evil, just weird How is it that you speak Of fate, justice, and pain While drinking black tea Beneath sun and plantation How could you understand What makes life worthwhile Can't you see all of them Are birds of your feather And why do you bother With counting the corpses Did you hate them When you ended their lives Was it out of pity For birds without wings Were you miserable At least for an instant You must have been What could be beautiful About innocent lives Being smoldered by cyanide I don't hate you I just want to know How could you look at them With a spark In the gray of your eye As if bewitched by a miracle Even if they can't Tell you that themselves How could nothingness ever Make the river more whole
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Jul 5, 2019
Jul 5, 2019 at 1:44 PM UTC
Poison
"Roses are red, violets are blue, vibrant as love, my love for you." And yet what of it to the rose, the colour of your love? Why tire her with your cacophony of disjointed emotions, stretching and bending across your heart, giving life to an empty shell? Must you call upon the violet to prove your love? Must you abuse weeds and flowers with no pulse of their own to show that yours still beats? What would you do if the rose were to wither, if there were no gardens, if the sun never set and came so close you could steal it's glow even if only for a glimpse, if there were no rainbows, and no rainy days? Can you ever truly love on your own terms? Can you love someone so much and understand it so little that no rose, lily, or violet could ever come close?
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Jul 2, 2019
Jul 2, 2019 at 5:48 PM UTC
Love and Roses
I live, Therefore I love. I love, Therefore I hurt. I hurt, Therefore I can die. I will die, Therefore I must live.
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Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 at 8:34 AM UTC
Living
A performer can't exist without an audience. It is paradoxical. The water drops become so pretty when no one's watching.
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Mar 16, 2019
Mar 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM UTC
Dancing in the rain
"Death is inevitable". The phrase has circled through my lips to my ears and back again too many times to count. Maybe it's a sick kind of hope. "Death is inevitable. My suffering is temporary. Everything I despise so much about myself will end". Maybe it's an excuse. "Death is inevitable. One day, there will be no tomorrow. Why be concerned with building a future that will get demolished". Maybe it's a reminder, to be strong. "Death is inevitable. Life is a millisecond in an eternity of nothing. I can't afford to let it pass by". Maybe it's the simple act of recognition of an ugly reality as it is: naked, terrifying. "Death is inevitable. Life is meaningless. I am dust". Or maybe it's just the silent screams of a childish mind slowly going into insanity. "Death is inevitable. Death is inevitable. Death is inevitable".
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Feb 2, 2019
Feb 2, 2019 at 9:28 PM UTC
Death is inevitable
Still dancing around the fire, no longer burning. What reason to smile could they have found. What dream so lucid they forgot the shaking. What feeling so strong to silence the ground. Can't they smell the ashes, the stench of the void. Can't they see the wasteland, the decades of hurt. Can't they hear the crying of the burning soldiers. The sea of regrets buried under the dirt. Don't they realise- no, they are busy. Collecting hopes and wood to fill up the space. Pretending to mean it, but they are all liars. Yet again building a new fireplace.
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Jan 9, 2019
Jan 9, 2019 at 8:05 AM UTC
Why Smile
I'll give you everything, because I'm selfish. I'll steal from you every smile I can.
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 2:27 PM UTC
Selfish