the_village_corvidiot

18 / F / Pennsylvania, U.S.A

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MaggotsTwo corpses sit side by side punctuating the silence with daggers of speech. / One turns to the other and moans. / The other moans back.

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A long way of saying I want to punch him in the faceThis anger lives in my shoulders / Tight and hot / Wound up too tight and the crank keeps turning

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Midnight RetinasAs I lay me down to sleep, / I look for all things quick and cheap, / A screen, a scene, needles and pins,

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The 31stThe oil is searing / Just like you wanted it to be, / And the towel absorbed your screams

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Guilt is the ThingIf hope is the thing with feathers, guilt is the thing with teeth, / It nibbles and gnaws at the edge of your mind and your gut, / It pulls your knuckles to your cheek and stains it in purple and grey,

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The 23rdIt's been a long day / for no particular reason at all / and I am steeped in guilt

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Don't TreadEagle's child, / All-American boy, / slide that cold steel from your wrist to your elbows

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Ode to the TideAny fool who fights the sea loses. / The walls of water smacking into your chest, stealing your breath as you tumble through the mess of Poseidon's domain, / seaweed gripping your ankles like hands from hell,

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The ElephantThere's a bustling chaos about me in the midst of these clinking glasses and rattling silverware / It feels like a stalker, like I can always feel the ghost of its presence wherever I go / There's an elephant in the room,

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Stardust AgainThey say matter cannot be created or destroyed, / That we're all made of stardust, / The distant echo of ten thousand supernovae reanimated into clay figurines,

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