seffy - Hello Poetry

for the greater part of a year mine has been a many (late) tears- depths of sorrow founded below, brain and mind swallow (thick pills)- of which one is founded on (hate), two others describe debts and (ill kills). owed to an enslaved desire- of which anxiety is a (vicious) liar. a plantation of sharecropped (infatuation)- hormones’ many (jubilations) coughed up in personas, numerous (fictitious). verandas of empty space and stoic (face) wrap the cranium in venomous (lace). bound dead without resurrecting (sound), my 140 units six feet (underground).

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Jan 4, 2018

Jan 4, 2018 at 11:11 PM UTC

seffy

loneliness

for the greater part of a year mine has been a many (late) tears- depths of sorrow founded below, brain and mind swallow (thick pills)- of which one is founded on (hate), two others describe debts and (ill kills). owed to an enslaved desire- of which anxiety is a (vicious) liar. a plantation of sharecropped (infatuation)- hormones’ many (jubilations) coughed up in personas, numerous (fictitious). verandas of empty space and stoic (face) wrap the cranium in venomous (lace). bound dead without resurrecting (sound), my 140 units six feet (underground).

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i want to hang myself with a live wire- struggle, strangle, sizzle my neck as it catches fire- life, love, liberty all cliches that are no longer dire- positivity acts blindly as an egotistic liar- gawkiness, ugliness burns my love on an antisocial pyre- that consumes me as wet sound echoes a vain lyre

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Jan 4, 2018

Jan 4, 2018 at 1:25 AM UTC

seffy

live wire

i want to hang myself with a live wire- struggle, strangle, sizzle my neck as it catches fire- life, love, liberty all cliches that are no longer dire- positivity acts blindly as an egotistic liar- gawkiness, ugliness burns my love on an antisocial pyre- that consumes me as wet sound echoes a vain lyre

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I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

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seffy

Jan 3, 2018

Jan 3, 2018 at 6:30 PM UTC

Sylvia Plath

Lady Lazarus

I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

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