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midsummersky
midsummersky
oceans proceed the festivities while birds cry, and across the water i am my own compass.
nuances. paper flights. deliriums. you could buy loneliness in a bottle of wine, and i'd draw a map of this world on your hands. i've got a past like a shadow that follows me around in my head. brown eyes. tambourines. broken bells. like your voice in my ears, and they snap at the sound of glass hitting the floor, that spills liquid all over me, soaking me in your intoxicating sadness.
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
an ode to 3am
whispered dreams and echoes in the dark throwing tantrums at night for a ******* piece of death between my frozen-in-motion lips that mouthed the three words in the living *i need you because i do* i pressed the tips of my fingers to my eyelids until i saw phosphenes and everything hit me like a bullet so i ****** oxygen inward as if drowning and then i realised i needed you even more than that more than the oxygen that kept me alive and alone more than the blood that fills my veins and whole heart more than the alcohol that ***** my liver and lifts my head more than that what makes time move forward more than **** gravitation that has the earth turning more than whatever it is that makes me think at all i need your hand on my back to keep me steady i need you talking to me like i'm real and i'm here for you i need you walking beside me in the alleyways of town clenching my hand in case this is over too soon i need your hair stroking my cheek like it used to i need your eyes on me in all the ruddy colours they are i need you with all your laughter, cries, **** ups, frustration, caresses, shame, fears, dreams, echoes, tantrums and lips you and i it's engraved in our skin that's why.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 8:25 PM UTC
because i do
i don't want to sit on teraces or chill at the park i don't want to drink alone at 1:30am with patti smith playing i don't want to go to sicily like a sellotaped body i don't want any dried out tulips in *** on the table today i just want some confirmation to know if it's still possible to know if it's still real to know if i'm it and if you miss me like i do right now and forever
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 9:35 PM UTC
23/05
just imagine now one day i will lie here in amsterdam on the cold stones on the dam square and i will drink wine and ***** from their bottles warm in my blood spilled down. it should not be so easy to surrender yourself to your own solitude and sorrows not as easy as it's been all my life.
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM UTC
12/05
one glass of ***** to devour two kisses and an intimate hug three punches in the face four cigarettes for all moments i fled five minutes without your hands on me six dried flowers under my bed seven days of suffocation eight matches drifting in the bowl nine short blinks with your bright eyes ten fingers holding stones in cups eleven photos on the bulletin board twelve slow steps turn to echoes thirteen unlucky girls in line fourteen melodies haunting my sleep fifteen eyes demand your attention sixteen drunk doves shifting in my arms
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 7:15 PM UTC
a movement, a sun
sometimes i wish i couldn't think then i wouldn't have to worry about being wrong, humiliated, scared, alive, or even in love we keep circling around in this pattern so every day feels like the next and those sunrises lost their charm, but i don't want to think i don't want to think if i'm this and so much of a coward i don't dare giving you the truth for i don't want to ruin that image even though it's completely unreal, i just can't trust myself to do anything with you, and if i can't do that i can't stand thinking that's how much i think i want you.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 5:28 PM UTC
23/04
one day i woke up and i found myself sleeping beneath the leaves. three nights alone hidden in the soil, where fear was illumination and i was scared of the next dawn's daylight. somewhere high above me birds kept circling in their orbits, dreading the earth that slowly buried me with its old hands at last, making up the rusty casket with room for only one.
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM UTC
last summer song
this is the fifth time today my eyes fall closed. in a minute or two i'll dissolve into the night sky. i've become much more silent, but only a little less eager. i'm tired during her absences, and she vividly walks in dreams. this is the third time this week i think of cigarettes. i wonder how i manage to survive the suffocation. i'm living with severe headaches, and loving my personal sadness. so in turn i put death between my lips, and slowly breathe my life away. this is the first time you affect me this way. and i dug deep in the earth to find you alive. i want you as much as i don't. it's like nicotine and sleep; more than a little and less than too much, just enough, until we are airborne for good.
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 1:40 PM UTC
multiplications
the most humble thing you can do is strip somebody down to the pureness they truly are. forget the shape of the nose forget the colour of the eyes forget the curve of her waist forget the tattoo on his arm forget the unnecessities only this way you will come to love them whole, genuinely and exactly as they exist.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 6:16 PM UTC
the most humble thing
this world is a ****** up world a messed up spidery web you make me feel like i'm split in half i never even wished for you but i still can't lose you you're the atlantic ocean dried out you're silent fireworks in summer you're a cat that barks songs in C sharp you're time ticking backwards you're cells merging instead of dividing you're a book written in punctuation you're something i don't understand and honestly    that's what        frightens            me the               most.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 1:58 PM UTC
a minor concussion