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No one told me what going to a party would be like
No one told me my heart would feel like fire
and every limb would become numb
No one told me I would ride in a strangers car
Packed with new, and old friends
No one told me the five minute walk up the stairs would feel like walking on a cloud
No one told me I would drop twenty for my bestfriend to drop acid
Or forty to get a fifth of ***** and a fifth of whisky from a stranger
Whose number I would drunkenly get wrong
No one told me I would make out with a stranger in  Backroom
No one told me I would leave my favorite hat there
No one told me I would drink my whole fifth
or that my friend would try to drink hers,
and end up puking all night
I was never told I would not be able to support my body at three in the morning
No one told me I would pass out on a chair for thirty minutes
No one told me I would try to sober my friend up
While I was still drunk
No one told me I was going to have the worst hangover of my life
No one told me I would wake up the next morning with hickies on my neck
and bruises on my hips
No one told me I was going to want to do it again every night
I went to my first party and I got wasted, I still haven't fully recovered.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Sky
Burst of light
A shred of a dream
A dazzling display
Something to captivate me
Make me forget
That the world is cold
That the sky is melting
And the stars have all grown old.
Make my heart explode into
A fireworks burst of color
Innumerable shards of  exquisite things
Impossibilities.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Joseph D
Art is playing God.
The pen and brush have the power to create life,
And the power to take it away.
We are art.
We see it everyday.
Each stroke individual,
Like the fingerprint left on the glass.
Singing in color as we yawn the new day welcome,
And staple our now into the past.
Harness the power of the chakra describing what I see in the process stone Amazonian statues surrounded by unknown objects. She told me about invisible trees, then told me how she can create a universe all she needs is one thousand trillion trillion degrees. Distorting the time line, the grand architect the relative radiance of the sky. Comparative sharpness among artists, if you still worshiping money I think you are Godless. Always remember. It's her agenda. No corruption no destruction no budget because politics and perjury bring out the worst of me. Battling my shadow with no media coverage. See i don't want it. I'm rarely seen in public. Basic instructions. Test driving my principle findings sometimes I double the writing as I design a new style of rhyming. I see all their movements. I can't live with the same *******. So what will I become? The spider web nest has been spun. The invisible tree. And me defending it with new alloys in the year 2023. All these poets ain't saying nothing. Matter of fact they have no constituent function. This poem is an alternative route. I used to call names out but it's played out. Have patience. She will give you verification for her space station infrared spectral observation before you take a break. I need you to list and name them. This is from my heart. Listening to Mozart  In space there's unknown floating parts creating unknown art. To be this consistent is a sickness persistent writing with conviction she made all these predictions I'm just documenting what I witnessed.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Sky
Randomness
I'm just typing
Just letting everything escape
Endlessflowoflettersandwords
Nospacesnecessary
Okay, fine, I'll use the space bar
But only because
it would be nice if
You could actually read this.
I'm just typing,
Keys click-clacking away
Tap-tap
cLICKETY_cLACK
RaNdOmNeSs
and insanity
Hand in cold hand
Shivering
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Joseph D
Welcome to my,
Addictive personality.
Where it's always
Just one more glass and one more puff.
One more bite.
One more show.
One more song.
When you never have enough,
The urge is too hard to fight,
A battle lasting too long.
I just don't know where to go.

Where should I be?
Who should I talk to?
Just look at all the drugs we do,
In the process of giving up.
I just can't win.
I don't want to...
Be me in any state I'm in.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Sky
Ending
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Sky
So tell me
Why is the sun falling?
Why has the moon lost its glow?
Why are the stars all fading?
Why has the Earth ceased to turn?
What is the reason
That we've come to see world's end?
What have we done to deserve this
Apocalypse
There is no attack of the undead souls
There is no rampant disease
There is the sky,
It is melting
Coating us in shards in light
And scraps of dreams.
So tell me why
I cannot cry
When I see this, our fate,
so rapidly approaching.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Joseph D
If stars could talk
Would their words shine as bright?
If stars could talk
Would they only talk at night?
If stars could talk
Would they know we are near?
If stars could talk
Could we even hear...

The stars do talk
Not with words but with a twinkle in time
Their speeches paint a picture of the past
Passing along universal wisdom so sublime

Look up at the sky and listen.
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Joseph D
What a sight to see
Your perfection shining through my flaws
A reflection so pure the universe comes to a stop
Pauses in applause
She declaws the frightened dog that learned to act one with the wolves
It pulls me
Yet pushes me greater
For my soul it is the knower of all
The wisest translator
The pen
And paper
 May 2015 Andrew Tinkham
Le Lotus
If the old man give up,
Then who would stay?
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