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the-green-swine
Told 'good morning' and a squeak-grunt 'hello' reply came out my pipes, swallowing saliva and a little burn in my throat; couldn't take talking I'm happy for staring at clouds, Happy to stare and wish I greeted first. Cherry burns into the filter so I go and clock in.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 2:15 PM UTC
Books on Shelf- Not Read
The worrisome point is not (as would be thought of by the conventional person) that I am too abstract, or care too little for my small audience; instead, concern is granted to the even slight recognition of relateable content outside the far-reaching grasp of isolation and confusion that I may produce.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 2:12 PM UTC
Conversing with Life
(looking at my phone) I search for deadpan truths... Attempting poetry to pass the time. _ Your eyes, mine, we stare, and not always at each other. I'll write, for now not knowing if I'll miss these moments; with my muse right here.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 2:10 PM UTC
[ (looking at my phone) ]
Dead names with living faces,         histories behind both partial or unknown. If you want to know me,       let me speak, If you let me speak,       there might be silence.                                                       Because we both know the dangers of familiarity; inconsistencies with life and desire; we both think [we know], yet do so little. To speak of I: to recount,             my actions, strained decency                            and flaws. To form a congruous picture of self... I find ridiculous. Let me swing between these lines and labels and lean on whatever may bear my weight. I will leave you to decide who I am. Whilst I will my chariot to keep to who I am.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 2:06 PM UTC
How can I tell you who I am
Squished. Into this barren plane With time staring into ceiling skies. Wondering if I (have) will make it out of the cave I was placed before I die. Won't you help me, dear friend? I cannot seem to recover, from the places I see and have never been. from what I hear but have never said. From what you tell me, I complain too much. Then you turn to me, and say, it is the strong that keep us meek. The strong that keep us safe. When I tell you, without honey nothing is sweet, and no one has ever been safe. And you turn, and I do, And we are both sitting in the same cave, I, unamazed.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 2:03 PM UTC
Plato's Cave Revisited
Heart attacks in the living room, I don't know where to go but sit in the tub, lights off I work out ideas of ideas Some muse in hand I don't believe in, I have Wants, "go to the hills"-I'm there- and grasslands I haven't seen [More work] Like some words I'm not fit to wear [Fill in] And the people who are interesting Are dying, or shown in true light. "I'll be like you someday" but I actually hope not I hope I may render my darkness from some true light. Lying in the tub.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM UTC
Don't Misquote the Anonymous