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Never fall in love with a poet
for their words are sometimes lies
on occasions they're a shield
on occasions a disguise

They will take you on a journey
upon which they bare their soul
in a bid to ease your burdens
in a bid to make you whole

But in every word they choose
for the stories that they tell
lies a little piece of heaven
and a little piece of hell

Tormented souls we poets are
sometimes quite broken and despaired
in search of lost expressions
missed by others who once cared

Never fall in love with a poet
unless you're prepared to share their pain
to hold them close on the darkest nights
over and again
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 Apr 2013 Andrew McElroy
Marigold
I got a new tattoo today,
Of a cat peering round a corner
That Sylvia Plath herself once drew.

It was printed out and traced around
And then put on my arm
Up tight against my skin,
Where the blue ink could leave it's picture.

I sat on a stool with my arm outstretched
And he followed the trace around
With a needle dipped in black.
There was sharp pain
And tingles
And my arm started to go dead as he leaned on it.

He wore a sailor hat over his dark hair,
Tattoos up and down his arms,
Is that a tattoo of an oven?
Yes.
And we talked about old comics,
How they all started as horrors,
Penny gruesomes they used to be.

The ink was injected beneath my skin,
So that i could how onto Sylvia's drawing,
for the rest of life.
SP, it's signed with.

Guess I'm a literary type.
 Apr 2013 Andrew McElroy
August
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© Amara Pendergraft 2012 & 2013

Full screen this *****, put the head phones in, and enjoy.

from November 5th, 2012
I feel very weird today. everything feels foreign to me, like military time and gun powder. animals staring at boys with scared eyes. the uneasy silence of blood stained sidewalks, the airplanes, the buses, the trash cans. the cameras. the police that flooded the scene as the hatred split the glass windows into a million flying swords. a million fighter jets. the city is a rat trap, I curl up on the floor of my room and listen to the police radio feed, heart knocking in tune to the white noise between more news. i said it over and over. the economy is sinking, your face is something I think of as a whole different place. I keep grasping at the tendons, and the threads. such a messy job. i wish I could be one of those people who did everything right the first time. if you don’t recognize yourself no one will recognize you. the hurt, and the ***, and the dark nights riddled with chinese paper lamps. and the feeling of something ugly growing tumors in the sewers. you say only two people died. but who will die tomorrow. who will shrink into history books. how many cities will burn, how many libraries will burn, who will burn. someone is going to burn, the air tastes like charred cities. the panic. you. I keep wishing to be strong but I don’t think it works like that. I don’t need love, but I really do.
I stood in the middle of your chaos,
guitar melodies and melted candle wax,
cigarette butts from another drunken night
and that **** futon that always made
me awaken, toss and turn
but I never reached for you
and you never reached for me
I knew right away,
this should tell me something
about the way we both love
Not enough,
or too much
and neither is ever
right
 Apr 2013 Andrew McElroy
August
It's funny,
Ever since I met you,
My bed feels so empty.
And I'm laying here,
In an oversized shirt,
And nothing else.
Smelling of soap and skin.
Wishing to taste your lips.
To rub my cheek against yours.
Breathe in every breath you take.
And I've never even seen your face.

*The Dusk
© Amara Pendergraft
 Apr 2013 Andrew McElroy
August
When you awake in the morning,
everything is the same.
The white flowers are still white flowers,
and the grass is still green.
You're monsters are still as mean as they've ever been.
And no solace comes from that,
I know.
I've felt it,
but I try not to let it show.
So,
what to do?
I'm going to take you dear,
by the morning sun.
A garden is where,
I'm pulling you.
Though you can't get close,
pull in closer.
Give in to your monsters.
And you and I,
we'll dig up the beating red beast that is your heart.
And if it's empty,
please don't tear it apart.
I'll fill it, fill it full,
with a million murmurs translated onto paper.
You can look at them more closely later.
Tuck it in your pocket,
right next to where half of mine lies.
And let go of loneliness,
as we lay in the grass,
and become part of our own wilderness.

*The flowers grew through their eyes and it was beautiful, as flowers tend to be.
© Amara Pendergraft 2013
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