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 Mar 2013 Lendon Partain
Chloe K
Hunched spines slouched with an air of indifference against backs of rigid chairs
Anxious toes tapping on linoleum floors
A generation of Attention-Deficit-addled youth, subdued with medication because they think our eyes dart too quickly
Minds fluttering more rapid-fire than individual thought can account for
             What is “unique” when everything stems from mimicry?
We think ourselves philosophers (only because we’re naïve enough to make assumptions like that)
All that our naked minds can bear is a sliver of the reality we suffocate in
We reject conformity by conforming
We discard typecast by creating stereotypes
We critique and self-doubt and are relentless in our own auto-denigration
Yet still, we see ourselves as infinitely superior
              Because we’re the sum of earth’s 3 billion year journey
              We’re the product of every galaxy and star-birth
              We’re a shred of every molecule of humanity
              We’re the chosen ones, we’re evolution.
We’re ragged, fraying edges
The living definition of a walking contradiction; hypocrisy in motion
Our pens are still doodling in the margins of our notebooks
We march to a syncopated beat with heads held high but eyes cast low as we count our steps and avoid stepping on cracks
Our heels drag with the showmanship of nonchalance but the eagerness in our fingertips betrays us
We’re all just kids caught in the purgatorial limbo of high school
We’re all just trying to pretend that we’re more than we are
We’re mostly hoping that someday we’ll prove our parents right
when I die
I do not ask that you surround my body with clay soldiers in the depths of the dirt
I ask only for you to lay me down in the grass
and construct over me a monument of your words

I ask for you to speak of me as I was unable to speak of you
for I can not articulate your presence past the word love
see, my vocal cords cannot adequately express the way I feel about you
the best I can do is replace the ink of my pen with the blood of my heart
and splatter it upon the page

you know, its times when you’re there, and i’m here
that my mind fills with your thoughts
that my elbow refuses to bend because it misses your shoulder
that I pick a flower, press it to my nose, but still smell only you

its those times, when this page, is all I have of you
so instead of folding it into a paper boat and sending it down the river
I write words upon it
I write how much I miss you — and then I send it down the river

for I know that the mouth of the river is your favorite place
that you love to catch things just before they reach the open ocean
just as you caught me, before I sailed off without direction

you stopped me, you handed me a compass,
and then you climbed right onboard yourself
and we faced the open ocean together

so when I die
I ask that you speak of our journey
speak of what we learned about love’s tendency to forget the cardinal directions
so that the compass of my soul points neither here nor there
it points solely and unwaveringly to you
Evangeline (is that what you want me to call you?),

While I hope you don't have to use it, attached is my edit of your suicide note. I just tweaked the grammar on a couple sentences and uncapitalized a random "E." Might consider being more specific. It's hard to tell who is to blame, if you're looking to blame someone. The verbs are very passive. Makes your end seem like a commercial break. Just a suggestion.

Love or a near synonym,
Josh
 Mar 2013 Lendon Partain
ashley
The crashing waves roar
And the stormy winds blow,
The tide drowning out
And becoming low.

The sunset peaks
From across the sky
As the dolphins jump
And leap so high.

A woman emerges-
More like half woman, half fish.
She helds a seashell close to her heart
And makes a wish.

"Oh let my father see I belong
In the shore, not the sea."
She whimpers a cry
And whispers her plea.

The waves are roaring
And lightning strikes,
Signaling King Triton's arrival.
He has come forth to fight.

The mermaid cries
And starts back into the sea,
Where her father thinks
Is the right place to be.

She wants to be human,
That is her only wish.
If only her father would see
And grant her the gift.

She wants legs
To roam free,
But all she will be is a mermaid,
Lost at sea.
I actually really like this poem.
 Mar 2013 Lendon Partain
Tayvin
it’s getting closer to summer
and as the ice melts,
the days grow longer
but the night, the night still holds the same loneliness in it’s dark palms, i rest

body thick with sweat,

walls dripping with condensation,
no matter the heat outside
my mind is still warmer,
as vibrations bounce off the inner tissues of my cerebral cortex
friction forms,
something like a silent explosion of thoughts

my skin drips,

so I take those covers off
loose covers I replaced when he left
but they were never thick enough to keep our heat that we made last night inside..
our love would diffuse quickly after so i made my own heat
in my mind, i remembered the way he would trace his fingers in words i wasn’t allowed to say
“stay still” he said
“stay silent” he said
so I did
and he would trace
T. R. U. S. T.
on my inner left thigh
F. O. R. E. V. E. R.
on the adjacent,
moving up, kissing as he would go
B. E. A. U. T. I. F. U. L.
in the middle of my hips
L. O. V. E.
across my chest, tracing the V- line in between my *******,

I let him in

and that night we made heat,
hotter than the sun,
passion God has never felt,
in that dark summer night, we were eachother’s palms that read the same lines, hand in hand,
from the book of psalms I sang the hymn of a grateful heart
we were immaculate conceptions because there had not been any purer love, I had thought
in that dark night, we waided in deep waters that were filled and parted by us,
he was my Noah, in that dark night we were the beautiful ones
I gave him my trust, he gave me lust
I said forever, he rushed
I wanted us to be the beautiful ones,
I wanted us to be love, but I guess that was too much
words, I’d only imagined

the heat rises,

rolling in a bed with last night’s musk,
the walls of my naked body dripping wet with lust
we had a passion God never knew
a love that was always warmer than all the stars in the dark night and the sun that would always come in the morning to remind me of
a love never true

like the night stars, he gave me heat, that always seemed to disappear in the morning
Have ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white?
Or else a cherry (double graced)
Within a lily? Centre placed?
Or ever marked the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl, and orient too?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast.
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