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98 · 2d
Rib
Lee 2d
Rib
Take one rib from me
But you would never
Take the one that’s hurting me
Because you want a better one
Not only floating and lost
but painfully
94 · 2d
Sleep Paralysis
Lee 2d
I can’t move,
I can’t wake up
I’m screaming for you.
Shake me
Slap me (if you can without hate)
Wake me up
But my brain dropped the gate
67 · 2d
Noxen
Lee 2d
See my knees?
can’t you tell?
There’s not a thing
that when I fell
I should have hit it,
dads loudest yell.
Very personal piece but feel free to interpret however :)
60 · 2d
Trade me?
Lee 2d
If I could sell a saved soul for a smile,
I’d surely sport the most stylish grin
But I don’t care if I do frown
As long as i get to see them win
60 · 1d
Blind(s)
Lee 1d
She always is sure to close the blinds,
As the view is far too beautiful
for her to sleep with it there.
Lee 2d
I’m Sorry, Sorry,
I know it’s lost the meaning.
I promise I know other words.
Or you could Rip out a rib or two,
Please leave me bleeding.
56 · 1d
The Ocean
Lee 1d
I don’t know the ocean
And she doesn’t know me
Surely she remembers more
But I’m a mountains and trees girl
Patience is key
Written on the balcony of the condo we rented for the week
54 · 1d
Tackle
Lee 1d
Treble hook,
Trap my mouth,
Take me out of air.
Discard what you don’t like
There’s truly none to share
Written based on seeing a fisherman catch a trout using a treble hook, which pierced its top and bottom lips, holding the fishes mouth shut and impossible to remove without blood.
48 · 1d
The Balcony
Lee 1d
Tuck it in your waistband
Use her charger
Now the tops full of sand
Clogged, pull harder

Stash is dry
but that’s ok
Grandma will give you one of hers anyway
Hold it under your tongue
Don’t let momma smell your breath
They only approve cause it prevents my death
47 · 19h
Aunts
Lee 19h
Blonde girls crying
Their fourth time in st Pete’s
They had to stop last week
The pastor was dying
Lee 13h
My momma hates fruit
She always said
She’d never take a bite
She’d rather be dead

But since she had medicine
A serotonin pill,
She said she likes the berries
That she always had and will
Lee 15h
I cut it because,
I know that I I don’t.
A cold swollen body,
Won’t always float.
Saltwater’s more harsh,
It stings in my throat.
Traversing the seas
In a decommissioned boat

They say when the lungs,
Swallow it in,
You're taken over by calm,
Three scars on your shin.
Lee 8h
Come here unannounced
Pizza grease trapped in the seat
Say get in you ******* ***
You know I need to eat

Now In the tub I sit
Tears drip down my cheeks
You said If we ever had a kid
You’d only love it conditionally
16 · 6h
The First Garter
Lee 6h
Walk home,
Trot home
No moonlight around the sky
Laces come loose
Balance you lose
lean on the rock wall to tie

Hold up the flashlight
Hold up your head
See there’s a snake leaning on your thumb
Shriek, scare the creature
Dads laugh, beware the creature
But now snakes make your heart thrum
Written about the first time I ever met a snake in an unexpected situation, before I befriended them. I was walking back from my aunts camper when I leaned on the wall to tie my shoe, after I felt something I put my small flashlight on it to see a garter snake. The handsome fella was leaning on my thumb, but I was startled, heart POUNDING. Nowadays Herpetology (The study of reptiles and amphibians) is a huge passion of mine - Lee
Lee 14h
I know you don’t forget me,
Don’t view my posts nor my moms.
But I did have fun Ashlee,
You helped me grow strong.

Your marriage goes well?
I’d do anything to chat.
Besides picking up my cell,
And calling you back.

Should have went out to lunch,
Two years ago,
But I thought we had much more
Time before you’d go.

Military housing,
Did you get to bring the cat?
Do you remember the kitten?
His small fur pattern hat?

You did my math,
While I did your reading.
Now we need help in those subjects,
Do the soldiers have meetings?

I’ll call you again,
Probably text before I do.
I can’t promise you when,
But I want it to be soon.
2 · 2d
Puddle
Lee 2d
Residue of a storm, left behind and round.
A spa for those who croak.
Nature's water fountain for those too small to ask.
A vacation in rock. Minor invertebrate have a home.
More adding into; a ripple effect.
Bespattered by its surrounding walls, some clear instead.

A new stand laced up, a day to face.
A stride cut off by some plash, the sky!
Dark and your steps now dampened too deep.
Look at it this way, the earth had a laugh.
The best you can do is entertain it.
I actually wrote this piece in middle school, I don't write poems this long unless I force myself to do so, so it's cool to see a peak into what I can do if I focus.
0 · 1d
Day Trip
Lee 1d
How numb
Can your toes be?
That the horseshoe *****
Who don’t even have the means,
Can pinch your skin and make you scream?
Wrote this one after a beach day
Lee 5h
I asked if you recalled
the time in the snow
to mega bed you hauled
your bag and your speedo
Got there, you sprawled
said your back had a blow
Said the mushrooms you did
made your self-worth glow

You claim you're too busy though
can't let me know you care
but something warm fills me whole
not happiness, its unfair
How you once trudged through the snow
just to smell my hair
Lee 15h
Crooked hoof, diagonal jog
We moved the tractors before the goat
when I wished that dam would clog
Pinball machines tip over
but when the point is to lean
Upside down, dripping clean

Put on a bubble and keep yourself alive
Scared it will pop and you’ll die
But yet you slam it,
into rocks,
walls,
stone,
slate,
and brick
The bubble will bend before bursting
Lee 1d
They don’t know the numbers,
Loser
*****
Lia
Lazy
Lezzy
Lia
Sorry for the Slurs, but I need to express these things, things that people say to hurt me
Lee 1d
I prefer to sit in the back
Make my instructions clear
and I’ll get on track
I’m easy to joke with
Please just go on and laugh
Partially joking words
Lee 2d
How the squirrel drops the nut-hat,
Perfectly where its to be used
For the millipedes to hide in
But I’m just confused

I have no skills other than to annoy
Unless my mouth is to be used
For reasons like his and her joy
But I’m still confused
Lee 2d
Hunger pangs, keep scrolling
The acids make me suffer
Whether you enjoy men or women
You need to drink the buffer
Based on something a friend always says
Lee 4h
How can I have loans to pay,
when i can't even find a way,
to keep my guts from spilling out?

How can I save each bug,
So many small holes dug,
Where do I get little gravestones?
Struggling with life but I stop to save each bug

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