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Sometimes Starr Oct 2018
Your brown eyes sear through the thick mud of your life.

You are like the eye of the storm--
Moving coolly over land and sea,
A rare phenomenon
Cloaked in terrifying walls of turbulence,

I love you.

It seems like everywhere you go,
A black cloud follows you
And the weather pelts your soul.

It seems like everywhere you go,
Beauty erupts like a slow-motion volcano,
And I'm the only one who sees it.

You sip your coffee on a ray of sunlight in the morning--
You are woven into it,
Your brown eyes are looking at me with their brows raised
Your stepsister's chickens are out back
And Daisy is trying to go outside so she can get another duckball treat

And I love you.

Oh my god,
I love you so much.
Sometimes Starr Dec 2019
Miss k8
Is driving
Her red car
Exert all you can over me
From outside my perception!

No, I don't know that artist!
No, I hardly read books at all!
No, I don't know that species!

You are a faker and I know it,
You are ******* and lies,
Things would have to be true
And i loooooove getting to learn more
And having something to do.

But I really detest when you act so cool,
Things would have to be that way,
And I fully
FULLY
Understand why.
Sometimes Starr Mar 2019
I fell between the cracks
But I am still making noise
If the angle chanced you, you would see
The glowing ember
That is me

If time chooses to ***** me out
In this tiny damp cave in the floor
At least I saw my light play tricks on the walls
At least I watched my life burn faithfully til the end

But if fate gives me fodder
I'll be an orchard of fire
In the mode of a phoenix
I would take to the skies
Sometimes Starr Nov 2017
touch my young body,
or it will go to waste

do not be deceived by my stammering--
i will love you like a strong man loves.

see through the circumstances of my life
and realize that i am rich.

touch me, and i will come alive for you.
Sometimes Starr Nov 2021
don't despair to lose me, child--
i will always be.

listen to the music of your youth
and know it's me.

i have died a thousand deaths,
i'll die a thousand more.

to reappear as something dear,
and better than before.

and if i come back evil
or in a lot of pain
i know i might forget
that we'll be lovers once again,

and if it doesn't matter
here's what matters now:
dancing on my fingertips
and furrowing my brow

cradling this moment
a heart full of intent

a cup that runneth over, yes!
and anywhere it went.
Sometimes Starr Oct 2018
Every road rises with the sun,
She does not speak of her decline.

My march is up one mountain
My fingers trace her spine

And hers trace mine--
Sifting creation with me
This way and that
Preoccupied, or
In paradise.

De-
Naturing?
If only with air,
We're making ties.

And now, I really should go--

She's making eyes.

...

Evergreen, deciduous trees
Winding trails and crystal streams
All woven into her halo,

She's making eyes.
Sometimes Starr Apr 2023
With the sacred texts laying there
Ready to **** you
God stands ready to reap you
God will never **** you
Rapture not ****
Reap
We reap the bounty
We are not scolded
We stand alone
Like some cabal of nether beings
We are vicious
We are demonic
We are lost

We are sin
We are selfish
We are queer

We are Satan
We are God
We are everything

We are Dharmic
We are animist
We are the living dead

Motion motion motion
Motion motion motion
Physical law, physical awe
Wring it out a little more
And squeeze it to the side
We can make the desperate fit

This all has to mean something big
I mean really, really, REALLY big
It's better when it doesn't,
It's better when it doesn't

What kind of vortex am I looking into?
I'm starting to doubt you
Starting to doubt you're really ever there

Oh and I heard you want to be my wife
Well that would be lovely
I suppose I'll just scoop my brains off the floor
And put then back in my head
So I can listen to more of this beautiful music
About how my brain isn't very good at its job

And I told my GPS the other day it's not very good at telling me where to go
What are we doing
Why am I so **** stupid
A loser
An object of hate
Why am I what I am
I don't like it
You don't like it
We don't like it

I'm anti-art
I'm denatured
This is not going well
Sometimes Starr Nov 2018
Oh look,
There's more than meets the eye.
Being your mother isn't easy--
You never would believe me.
The branches of the trees that hold
That cradle, and my baby.

And I'm a man who has to know it
But won't speak up to try and show it
Because I have reservations
The truth is strange sometimes, we know that.

And so layers deep, careening
We start to understand the meaning
But we all have different pieces
And reject the things that hurt.

But in inherent association
We call our God a Satan
And the system can't exist
Without the flames of hell escaping.

But maybe the meaning is ultimately nothing.
Sometimes Starr Sep 2023
Do you feel heavy,
Crossing in front of this car
With a black tee draped over aging muscles
Muscle wrapped around aging bones?

I've convinced myself that I'm light
That I'm young
That what I know deep down isn't eating me alive
That it's not that bad.

You lifted your eyes
They saw through the windshield
You saw my levity
And I'm sure I saw stress.

Well I thought the universe was caving me in that day
Well it must be getting us both
Because I saw the weight but it wasn't crushing you
It was making you glow

Yeah you looked worried but I know you're a strong man
I could tell by your eyes
I could tell by the beard.

But it was just another day,
Who knows what imbues the sunset
Who knows why I'm still holding on to hope?
Sometimes Starr Sep 2023
Our skin is like disaster
With radiant ***** of hope
Nested on the precipice
Leaning into death

And death leans into me--
The leaning is preferred to picking beaks or bullets
Because it's the pressure that makes daisies and lovers out of clay

Like a little kid pushing playdough through a plastic toy

And you can lie and cling to meaning
When the hemorrhaging starts
Say: the kid is pushing me through a heart-shaped hole
I hope at least he's having fun
But there is no child in there
And no one wants to feel like a *******'s pen

And I'm scared of what my pen might say,
If pens could talk

But then again, at least I can imagine it. **** on that for a minute, it's a funny thought.

But no, I was never awkward.
Because I only go in one direction
Crossing ether with ether til there's flowers,
Smacking my palm's meat against a tree trunk to confirm that yes, it is hard.

But I know I was low. Oh, I'm so sure I was low!
Bending under the weight of weightlessness to become way too scared of letting go.
This all must be someone's fault,

But we don't know.

So pick your spruce tips in the spring.
You're right, the flavor was bright and citrusy
A nice snack indeed, filled with vitamin C

And eat your food from cans, it's quite a certain thing.
Maybe you're eating from your own stomach,
There's no way to really tell.

Yes, you're giving birth inside yourself--
True, osteoblasts rove bones
And ribosomes fold proteins while you fold your clothes

And the passion with which you make love is noted.
And I am pregnant I am pregnant I am pregnant like the sky
I can't bear to tell you any more,
Please stop hassling me with all your questions.

Are you really made of stone, deep down in there?
With soft tissues between, yes I am, yes we are?
She seems to want to know.
Wants to say that she's glad to know
And she's scared like you
That we are kissing cousins
That our veins go in circles and circles... don't go nowhere

But what if they do?
Can we talk about something else,
Maybe put something on TV
Slide photons into our eyes and mash up matter in our mouths
And I'll watch you fall asleep and see your chest rise and fall
And we can paint a house
And we can be in love,
Oh yes we can.
Sometimes Starr Nov 2019
she writes down the formulas of my dreams
when i sleep
and does chemistry experiments at home--
illegal stuff, stuff that could get her in big trouble

but she manufactures drugs
and puts them on my tongue
just to change the color of my sun
the real ending is supposed to be a different word, a slant rhyme lol
Sometimes Starr May 2019
a mind lost
in the froth of its own thought
largely amorphous,
but sometimes it cuts through.
Sometimes Starr Jun 2019
My brain is rocked.

I feel it listing,
But it's mad confusing
With so many sides in the sea that float
And take on water.

And take in beers,
My motivation crouched inside
Trembling with fear.

When life makes me angry,
I want to rip a hole in my jugular
In the center of my hometown.
Sometimes Starr Sep 2017
Has the forgotten life of you
appeared outside your room?

The monsters that we fear as children,
the death in far corners.

it is very real

You appeared outside of doom,
but it won't be long,
and your head whirls round.

the grim cosmos devours us all,
fool

and the monsters just mature, just age with us
folly

the very cold and forgetful universe
your own complete absence
visits you in nociception and negativity
but you will find yourself again
you always do.
Sometimes Starr Sep 2016
...

****

i love fall out boys
Sometimes Starr Nov 2016
is it feeling sorry
for breaking into her heart?

is it feeling happy
to make a little art?

dying, dying
justice on my mind
definition that is melting

those answered questions just denatured.

the probability that you'll return to the human race.

is it being ripped in half by love
over and over again?

is it laying here all alone
thinking how i'm just young i should live now
not waste my youth
but tracing the image of your body
chucking arm blood into social media expressions

it's on the other side
right in front of my backwards brain
eating away at me
negating the need for me.
Sometimes Starr Jun 2023
I don't want to read Chaucer
I want to forget everything
I don't want to study Van Gogh
I want to forget everything
I don't even want to read Edgar Allan Poe
I just want to forget everything

I don't want to study music theory
I want to forget everything
I don't want to find a way to love you
I want to forget everything
I don't wanna find a way to fall in love with you again
I just want to forget everything

I don't want to hear about Robert Smith at 29
I want to forget everything
I don't want to hear about your Olympic Race
I want to forget everything
I for sure don't want to listen to Taking Back Sunday
I just want to forget about everything

I don't want you to make me cry
I want to forget everything
I don't want to think I'm supposed to hurt
I want to forget everything
I don't wanna feel your scathing words
I just want to forget everything

Harmony, sweet harmony
It doesn't exist here, baby
Harmony, sweet harmony
There's somewhere it don't exist.
It's pretty idiotic to have a dream
Some might say
The way I conduct myself

Is less than great men of history
But I have inside knowledge

Every action has been forced
I never had a choice
This is my natural state
And I live off
The benefits

Work is a concept that makes sense
Demons say I shoulda got a job
But work is a concept that makes sense
When it works to work, you'd work

And when it doesn't work, you're working hard to work again.
Sometimes Starr Jul 2023
We'll drape him with laurels, we'll laud him and praise him
For the work that was done had no basis or justice.
Sometimes Starr May 2018
my ambivalent sweetheart,
don't shy from my love--
these veins run through all things.

i see you on the fruiting vines
a wild-haired woman
running down the street
to apologize

i see it in your homebound eyes,
she's made it just in time.

if you give me what i'm looking for
we'll die a happy death
and no one's words could ever change
our polished paradigm.

and rough in love was breath--
but if you're looking for a body
i will give you mine.

i will give you mine.
i will give you fine, fine jewelry
i'll make it from the sky.

and what do you mean you miss me?
i am right here, we're here
my lover, don't be shy.
have you ever seen the wild-haired woman?
Sometimes Starr Aug 2016
my heart has hallways

it's a lot like valhalla
only a little smaller, squishy and pinkish-red
a lot lamer. in rooms i'm playing guitar
or maybe i am playing with the dogs
or fixing myself something different to eat
hey, it was actually good

these walls caught the sound of your voice
and held onto it
when you walked with me here
i was excited but not ready
you were older
i bought you all these things
but you just got me Emily

and it's coursing through his mind
and he only wants you and he means that
and he doesn't have the patience to write a great poem right now
barely the patience to accept you won't ever date again
he can imagine other things but he rejects them in real life
he just wants you, her voice, her body
he knows it's in there if he could just dig it out but no

i've decided it's much better to leave you alone
considering me and considering you
only i ******* can't
i really, really want you back
and it kills me
every ******* day.
Sometimes Starr May 2019
My lover dances on my lips with a crimson kiss
Sharp as a razor, it cuts through my mind
And burrows deep inside, whispering words
In the tones of her voice
Deep in my mind.

My lover envelopes me in understanding
The paradise canopy I shouldn't expect
But once grown around, I see where I am:
A place in her heart
She's tended so dearly.

My lover is a patient woman--
She should tap her foot to the beat of my heart!
And give ultimatums, but no
She waits.
Sometimes Starr Oct 2017
My lucid hero
You are engaged and impenetrable
Cherished in the full grasp of my heart's eye
Fighting for a cause.

With grace you carry your great onus
With great glory you carry the purpose
Of all things good
When you are small and humble
When you are weak and mighty

When you are alone,
You are a stolid friend
When you are submerged in the chaos of the world,
You do your best.

You deserve recognition,
But you decline, deeming it unnecessary.

Instead you reach out,
Widening the warm touch of your only mission

To bring the world a little home
In the wretched hands
Of a lonely human.
Sometimes Starr Oct 2019
i am in the colors between the colors
luciferian bubbles spring from me
yes
i am effervescent in space
i am more than whole
i am a gathering of bowed hues

leck mich im arsch is playing in the background
i don't give a **** what you think about me
everything
is gonna be alright
Sometimes Starr Jun 2023
Sometimes your vessel will glow with a music that's in-between
Rushing fugues of color
You can't make up God's mind

Your dials rotate under moonlight
What went wrong?
Why did you sleep on the roof of your house?

The perihelion draws sweat from your skin
We buried it in time
Cause we're cryptic kids in a tragic world,
Always leaving us a line.

Nobody knows you're here,
Just you
Distrustful of comfort.

We can't find a way to place it
We don't know what to do
Not in this moment
On this radio station between worlds

I can't be like you,
I'm not like these reflections
Swimming around me.

With shaking hands,
I realize the entire universe ends with me.
Somewhere else in time I fall to my knees
And cry the greatest and loneliest cry of all time.
But here, we whirr and buzz on. We talk talk talk when we're alone to keep this moving. Fibers come loose and fall to the ground every day.

It's red, love. The color you bleed. The color of apples.

It's orange. Like "A Lesson in Romantics"

It's yellow, like the sunlight in the morning.

And green, like the forest you've been courting.

It's blue, like the sky you're scared to look in.

And violet, like the flowers you brought home.

Don't you see, we can't exceed ourselves at all, so it's up up and away with love!
There's nowhere else to go but here
With gravity above.
Sometimes Starr Sep 2019
don't **** me please

-shrug and smile-

okay
Sometimes Starr Dec 2017
chaos and calm lay beneath
and belie my body both.

neither one can say just right
the person that i am.

i escape both fires with my life each time
i even leave behind a rhyme
scheme, i'm scheming
i'm slow dancing,
in love with the devil.

caught in love with the devil.
torn in the torture chambers of,
ravaged by love with the devil.

we both have the same fate,
and we thank God for what he creates,
because we use it for selfish means
only we do It for other beings.

I can't tell you if God wears a grimace or a smile
If he knows romance from death
I only know my shattered breath,
I only know my shattered breath,
Sometimes Starr Oct 2018
My song is sung between tight spaces
In lonely caverns
With cold microphones rigged in the corner

That is the only place I can sing,
(Or at least so far)
My song is afraid of love and life
And light.
Sometimes Starr Apr 2019
I feel the animate corpse of reality bear down
Like a sea of needles under my skin
Pressing with insult and injury, my world is a torture chamber
I am in your gullet, being processed
Stinging with enzymes

You tear pieces of my flesh off and swallow
Caught in the nightmare I assist your digestion--
I reject my eyes, wrenching them out of my skull with bleeding fingers

The pale throat bulges with my body's resistance
Her silver eyes glow when they receive sustenance from my flesh

Hair sprouts from my dying body as I feast on the life of my past self
It is not as good as his but I will create a better mode with salvaged parts


Inside, I cannot reconcile some sort of sick or---sm that will occur with my death
Now bleeding from empty sockets i scream and writhe
Trapped in the gullet of an unknown creature, trapped between life and death I struggle

My new hands create works that astonish
I know you hear the crooked groans of pleasure reaching your punctured ears from the outside
You painful self, my rose
My cause for redemption,
My price
My sweet Adam
My slanted Eve

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Metal lyrics? Roflcopter.

The period at the end is just bc of hellopoetry's weird formatting for the italics
supposition:
derivative external beings
characterized by the tension of being selfless
that is,
people who mainly give
they don't ask for much
they don't often take.

THAT IS,
those who sit opposite the narcissists
those who are tight to ego-lessness

What these words might put them through

strung along on the same series
INCLUDED in the same TOTALITY

they never pride themselves on their egoless state

this poem is meant to drive them insane

I was also a baby who died

Included in my last breath was an innocent child
The last breath of everything, yes
We are all narcissists

And the narcissist who is suffering because of a selfish state
Is more humble than you are
When you feel good about being selfless.
Sometimes Starr Sep 2019
It's autumn now.

The hearth roars on,
So wholesome meet each fertile dawn
The soil's gone to sickled crops
But in each day she's fertile, still.

So plant your seeds and sew your might
And keep the withers out of sight!
We'll work for strong and solid yields
Each day we'll go and reap the fields.
Sometimes Starr Oct 2022
You're crisp as popcorn, baby
Mind the sensation, but you won't have to do it twice
You're dying in a finished house
With all your relatives around

Now don't go thinking it's a big happy time
And start sniffing your own farts,
What I'm really saying is once you're off, you're off
And I know you have nightmares about it
But you never have to do the same thing twice.
Sometimes Starr Oct 2017
Negation song,
Stir me to another world
And stir the world that's never wrong.

String along time's end after end
Yes, I daresay: seep,
Into the cracks between my cells
Tear me apart by with wounds, as I work to please
The only woman there ever was.

It feels so good.
Sing the song that's never wrong
I know somewhere you mean the same
As every lick of pleasure's flame

Good heaven sells its wealth and fame
To seem the way it does, no shame
In Lucifer's fall, it's commonplace
I'm fading grace. I'm fading grace.
I wish I loved you like I should
But I'm a darkened soul
With a heavy heart
This curse I cannot bear

I wish that I could set you right
And keep you warm on every side
But there's nothing I can do
And you
Don't want.

Don't wanna hear it from ME,
I'll be the yoni to your blade
I'll be the sickness in your heart
That feeling
You can't bury 'til your living soul departs
I'll be the shadow in your eyes
Providing contrast to the skies
I'll ****
Every last drop of venom from you.

I wish that I could take this well
But I've got awful news to tell
I gotta spin it like it's good
I gotta feel it in my heart

I wish that you could set me straight
But I was always just a kook
Regrettably, but you
Don't want.

Don't wanna hear it from ME,
I'll be the test site of your bombs
I'll be the blossom of awareness
That knowing
You try to swallow but you've just become your death
But you're still here and grateful now
But what if someone figures out...
I'm ******
Take the last drop of venom from me now!

heavy minor breakdown with thick, slow guitar

I feel damaged,
I feel whole
I'm not with you
I've deceived my soul

Take no pity
Take a pound
I'm all too willing to go down, down
Down, down...

But you--

Don't wanna hear it from me
I'll be the re-posIT-ory
For every finalized sensation
I'll be the broker i'll forsake you
It shouldn't matter if it's forced
Forced to seal the deal
Because you have to live with that
And my god, it just ain't right

And im just making sick excuses
Sometimes Starr Dec 2018
I see everything
And it
Is perfect.
Sometimes Starr Aug 2016
it's funny i think if you zoomed in on matter enough
you'd eventually find some kid blowing bubbles
and that is creating the particles coming out of the vortex
changing the state of things
or this one really big guy whose name is God
and he is very much like what we imagine
or this other really short guy named God
who has a dog named
Cristofer Drew
or just this moldy hot dog
in someone's closet

*gross
"idk this just sort of happened"
Sometimes Starr Sep 2023
Oh, you send out little shoots
Oh, we're all just screaming at the sky
But you're a giant and they sound like cute little cries

Oh, and you're not wrong
But oh, just look at your big toe
It could turn me into mush and you'd just wipe it off and sigh

There's a big rod of silver
Reach across the sky
I've got a gold made from liver
Isn't that why?

Isn't that why we stay up too late?
Me being me made you so great.
'Cause I needed you
Not to feel alone
When I die, solid stone
To stand upon.
Sometimes Starr Dec 2021
I won this heart in a radio contest.
Something so beautiful, I should put it on display
It just falls apart, whatever the context
But it does it in this very certain way.

I thought that sounded nice,
But now I'm not so sure.
Sometimes things seem dark,
Like it's knocking on a door.
Sometimes, I give up
And sometimes I get scared.
Sometimes I erupt
But like a friend, you
Were always right there.


|||

Well, they came knocking on a Sunday
Some stolen property, some terrible mistake
They told me I got time
Well, isn't life sublime?
I wonder who I'm stealing from today.

I guess I'll never know,
I guess that we're not friends
I guess I'll hold my own
When I meet the bitter end
Sometimes we find hope,
And sometimes we just go
On to the end of...
A nightmare!

.
for Mayday Parade :)
Sometimes Starr Oct 2023
**** myself?
Yes I do, in Arabic
They learn what I do not
And gain power over me

But I am Godhead...
How could that be possible?
But it's mathematically necessitated
By the actions behind my skull

I **** myself in languages
So many around the world
And you're all my subtle surrogates
And I'm a white man, sent
Sometimes Starr Jun 2017
mixed moonlight with my spine,
tell the night, oh
how to tell Night
i'm a descendant of the sky
the undulating mission rite.

Night, when the mind wandered free
along the sunless side
Summer nights when silver blossoms
Rustle whispers in the balmy air.
Winter nights, when snowy banks
Like women's cheeks, asleep and fair.

moonlight stirred the seed of astral flight
changed the Chopin fingers moved
wandering halls at vampire's dawn
and the softly bouncing piano
mixed moonlight with my spine

and it reminds me of her eyes.
listening to Chopin's nocturnes
Sometimes Starr Apr 2018
Misty moon
Light sharp through the glass
Window standing over the piano
Midnight finds a shadowed man

The digits limping over keys
They paint in rhythm, a beautiful melody
Nocturne-- darkest navy with twinkling white
Swirling black like pools of night

Up rises a wave of that heavy ink,
It sinks
When quelled
by periwinkle breeze.

The man, the grand, the coffee
Table--
The moon, the breath of Gabriel--
Sometimes Starr Jul 2019
i know the universe works mentally
mentally, i know the universe works
i know mentally the universe works
i work i know the universe mentally
i know i work the mentally universe

kendrick lamar told me

haha

i feel things that make sense for a human to feel
within that context
all of those things are crazy,
some of them are not.

with shades of grey.

all the way to the center:
where does experience come from?

you're a node
part of harmonic series
are you serious
i know
i know everything

you know nothing john snow

how far does this thing go?

i think it's time for bed
Charmer,
Put on your best face.
That's what they see!
Our work is to the curve.

And stay far away
You are not,
You are
You
Y
Sometimes Starr Aug 2021
*******
I don't like you
I don't want you around

I'd rather be alone
I'd rather be alone
For Kate
Throw two stones into still water
And watch the ripples sing:
Where two waves meet
They grow higher

And the valleys deepening.

But when a valley finds a wave,
The surface stays the same
Just like we started
Stagnant water
That did not know how to sing
Sometimes Starr Apr 2018
I am one of those strange animals you may see in the street
Everything has gone awry, I ride my bike
I go back and forth for drug tests, I am lost in the cracks of court programs
I am sized up and knocked about by authority

I am waning intellect
I am what should have been but met toxins in the water

No longer young and full of life
The pain has collected beneath my eyes

I toil in fast food restaurants and watch YouTube videos
I do not know what to learn to save my life
I cannot afford college and I could go to jail for a long time if i wake up late

I do not talk to friends and my heart is going cold
The passion that once drove me now causes pain so I ignore it
Today I operate on fear and that is what powers my bike across highways and roads with no sidewalks

I have receded and become unassuming, when once I turned people on

I cannot transcend myself
I am too weak
I feel the universe
Is starting to transcend me
O, pity
I know how wrong it is
But you have become my bitter meal
I cannot break the habit
You are the easiest fruit to find
Yet so bland
And void of nutrition.

How cruel it is that a thing like this
Should happen to a man such as me
All for a simple mistake
I bleed and bleed and bleed

Masterless, dejected, I
Play with my mediocrity
I used to find brilliance all the time
I dig at the gray place
But it seems each time
I get less light

I dream of a day when this changes
But hope might drive the man insane
Sometimes Starr Sep 2023
There's no such thing as me
Spawning such brilliant memories.

I swear I've lived it all before
I have been noticing things.

But you say that makes me sick,
And I don't disagree with it.

I guess you could say
I've been noticing nothing,
Nothing at all.

So there's no such thing as me,
Why even write about it?

Spawning such dark memories,
Why burn so bright about it?

But we've gone critical now
We are just chemicals now
And now there's no such thing as me
At all.

And now I'm nothing at all,
At all.
It is not good when I just let myself ramble
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