the_village_corvidiot
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18 / F / Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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All American Boys
What’s that you call it? / Love? / We don’t do that here.
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A long way of saying I want to punch him in the face
This anger lives in my shoulders / Tight and hot / Wound up too tight and the crank keeps turning
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Don't Tread
Eagle's child, / All-American boy, / slide that cold steel from your wrist to your elbows
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Fight, flight, or...
I see the red heart there / and it is stagnant, but in my mind it's beating, pulsating, / blood dripping down your fingers as you try so desperately to lick them clean
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Guilt is the Thing
If 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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In Defense of Darwin
My dad doesn’t believe in evolution. / I used to agree. / God breathed life into dirt and made a person,
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Maggots
Two 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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Matthew 25:35-36, as written by the modern Christian nationalist
For I was hungry, and you told me / get a job, / work like the rest of us,
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Midnight Retinas
As 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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Ode to the Tide
Any 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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