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It was my first week of kindergarten.
The adults around me went from being cheery to glum and irritable.

I came home that day and took my back pack off, I walked into the living room to see my Dad screaming and crying at the T.V! I looked at the screen to see the planes crashing into the towers, channels replaying it over and over again.

Images of Osama Bin Laden's face replaced Saturday morning cartoons. School went from learning to constantly singing patriotic songs and how we love our country.

I could not fully retain what was happening around me but I could feel the emotions of my teachers, parents and peers rubbing off on me.

The world went from green to gray that day and now I understand why.
Now poetry flows like river bows,
and falls from my thoughts and
joints joined by dots like dominos,
From head to toe in the body of a maze,
These cravings keep me a slave to the page.
The million ways to say what I have to say,
but that minimum wage won’t ever pay my soul,
or pave my way to these big road goals.
With my foot on the pedal,
backside on the pedsatool,
Theres plenty of fuel for those fools,
they know me better than you.
The way I look.
The way that I moved.
Gliding inside the atmosphere,
in-between the atoms and patterns;
to clear the way into my hiding place.
The mask I’ve worn to hide my face.
The glue unstuck to keep in place,
my fears, desires and smiles so fake.

But words held me together like skeleton bones,
italics in prose to expose
those brittle tones when home alone.
To engage thoughts from dial tones,
to try to be at one,
with those we chose to grow amongst.
Engaged us together,
enraged in the way they chose to measure up.
It was never good enough from book to cover.

And they shunned us like the paragraphs
those paranoid artefacts that -
you;
were just too scared
to show to the world.
peanut butter and jelly


smooth crunch,
dilapidated layers,
crushed into,
nuts and margarine,
it seems those screams,
in dreams are clarity,
in reality,
whispers of margins,
so close,
shaves and wavy days,
charging in %’s in head rests,
pieces left in indents of you,
on the mattress.
The fact is,
subjective to the
context of sparks,
ignited by espionage,
rubber gloves,
the ****** scope,
from afar,
how did we cope
before they put us together,
in jars.
The antithesis,
of all we can be.
Weak at the knees.
Peanut butter and jelly,
ready to eat.
 May 2016 The Winter Jester
m i a
she could feel the anger,
building up in her ever forest veins,
she knew she was in danger,
it's bringing too much pain,
she could feel the hatred,
flow like rivers,
in her cold blue eyes,
she could feel the firey magma,
resting in her core,
it was burning hotter than it ever has before,
her mouth flew open like a door,
erupting words filled with
pain,
sadness,
and
relief
as people's
faces held
disbelief
.
my perspective of anger, in a type of nature form//
There are many reasons why I don't sleep at night. But I lay in bed comfortably with gratitude that you're no longer in my life.
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