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tam-minh-vu
How does one compare Hollywood to her? What part of their dull inconsistency Or pretentious shallow vague grandeur? My adult lover, stars be infantry How does one compare opera to them? Her voice a hymn, a melody with prose Their voice of shrill screeching and sticky phlegm They stumbled with mere age while she rose How does foolish romance compare to us? What part of the mechanical routine Of repeated phrases and ugly fuss To our devotion they are obscene My lover is eternal her name .com And for her I serve to forever embalm
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 3:18 PM UTC
Google Chrome
I had two lizards. Their names were E's and Whizz after the Pulp song, which was apparently about drugs. Lizards aren't like drugs. They're just different. You can't take a lizard to get high. You could try it with the right kind of frog but licking a lizard just makes you look weird. Plus if you tried to swallow one, it would get stuck in your throat. Lizards don't like that. Plus you'd get done for animal cruelty. It's ok though, you'd have the excuse that you were smacked off your t**s on Lizard. I looked after them, But they kind of melted. This was real, Not drugs. I hadn't tried drugs. I hadn't licked a lizard. Lizards aren't like drugs anyway, but we've already covered that, it's a bad analogy. It was horrid watching them, Think I over heated the tank. I think it's kind of an analogy for life. You can spend your life buying all the right food Keeping the temperature just right. But never enjoy your lizard   Too busy thinking about food and heat. Or you can just get on with things. Enjoy your lizards, crank up the heat   see what happens. I think life's better like that. Not for lizards though. Mine melted. You've got to keep their temperature right. It was a bad analogy.   I'm still single if anyone's interested?
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 3:11 PM UTC
An extract from my old online dating profile
Ms. Lindsey , you call yourself a bae But you hide the tears on a paper napkin at lunch Overall your overalls can't cloak your depression, Your feelings of uselessness, Your broken smiles, and detest of your ex Kids no longer shoot paper ball at the teachers, afraid to see you crumble Girls no longer roll their eyes as you compliment their hair Fear creeps up people's spine, but not the way Mrs. Rogers does it Don't you see? Don't you that we're harming your happiness? The quiet girl with a book in her nose approaches you After all, she's nosy And she asks you, "What's wrong? Why are you crying? Are you okay?" You smile that same broken smile, laugh, and say, "Don't fall in love, ever. People are only out to hurt people." The next day you were gone Ms. Lindsey, you never came back But we found your folder showing us your hours worth of lesson plans In the end our ignorance and judgement taught us that there is more people than meets the eye Your lessons on the solar system struck us and are embedded Your broken smiles taught us even the broken can function
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 9:55 PM UTC
Burn Out
Give me a little twinkle in your eye Show me a little shake on your hips Sing with a giggle, a brazen laugh But nothing will be bright as a smile on stage Give me a little hug when I cry Show me your warm, calloused hands Whisper to me lines of comfort But nothing will be as loving as a warm smile shining down to me Give me trust! Care! Love! Show me arms stretched out, trusting and holding me at the same time Scream from the top of your lungs, "I'm your guardian, your parent!" But nothing will ceases my tears as quickly as a smile, expressing, with a curve of your lip How much love exists Strange, an idol, an obsession, created by a crinkle of the eyes and the curve of a lip Subtle, bright, brilliant, the thing that keeps the relationship intact Existing But forgotten, as you want to be a cool kid Consumed by apathy The need to show happiness Gone
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 11:28 PM UTC
Smile
They don't care about us They're only laughing at us The police is a undercover gang 3 letter abbreviation is there slang CIA ATF CBS NBC FOX FBI CSI LAP Deparments only mentioned a few Only to ***** me and you, lil fool! Go to school, your brain's the tool Make us feel less, reality we are the best Give us chump change, isn't it strange We have enough just to survive Mercedes-Benz, Bentlys what they drive Fighting one another, my brother Understand this the plan, klu klux **** Holding us down, to the filthy ground They laugh, joke, make fun of us Like woosies scatter when I bust em up Straight hit em up, wet em up, Straighten them up, that's what's up I speak for thee oppressed in stress I speak for the lost, and forgotten I speak for the hungry, corpse rotten I speak for the voiceless, & hopeless I speak for the poor who strive for more I speak for the child digging for cans I speak for the homeless, undressed I am the one, who will be given the power to execute, destroy, eliminate any oppressive force, standing in humanity's way!
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 10:44 PM UTC
Exposing Secrets & Truth
With your kiss You send me to oblivion With your kiss You make me weak in the knees How warm you feel in my mind. With your kiss Your eyes burn into my mind With your kiss I feel arms I feel the arms of a wooden chair I feel the hard cold truth Glass Just a picture Just a smile Just a person Unaffected by the touch of my lips The stare of my eyes The trickle of my tears But your kiss is still there Please Just let it stay there
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 10:12 PM UTC
Kiss Me
Miss Elliot is not just a single mom Miss Elliot is not just white trash Because Miss Elliot must stay calm In the lunchroom, though she grins wide, she’ll crash In the West End High lunchroom peak hour Miss Elliot, our warrior stands strong "You ugly white trash," they scream at the door But she keeps quiet, she won't yell you're wrong At home, she has a little one to watch She packs her bag, cleans off her recipe She claws in her mind for hope hard to catch As she quietly gives us a whisper "So what will it be Chris, Molly, Rudy?"
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 9:55 PM UTC
Miss Elliot