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Mar 2014 · 1.1k
What I'm Trying to Say
Cardboard Grey Mar 2014
I am human. I think too hard too often. I judge others.
I am judged.
I need as much help as I want to give.
I am self conscience about confidence.
I feel like I am no different.
I fear I am different.
I am love sick. I question my worth.
Wonder if I have what someone doesn't.
I play humble as much as I like to hear praise.
I falsely praise.
I see beauty in people they can not see in themselves.
I falsely praise.
I am loyal and devious.
I am worn down by lack of results.
I don't know what I like to do.
I lack a teacher. I require guidance.
I will help what I love, nothing else.
I want one girls forgiveness.
I want her to know I hurt for her.
I need a partner.
I desperately want to give and take.
July 19th, 2012
Mar 2014 · 844
Apt. 202
Cardboard Grey Mar 2014
From 102
from 6am
I hear those little steps.
Innocent
constant reminders
that no one picks you up.
Even if they hear you cry.
Jan 2014 · 1.1k
1/26/14
Cardboard Grey Jan 2014
Simple words wrapped around stagnant constitutions
written for half *** revolution.
There will be no more Zach and Sineigh.
No more Signature graveyards.
No more Percocet 30.
A real lose, lose.
Shame in what I miss most.

Square one.
Basic education
on top
middle class foundation.
Teased by a girl
eating off China.
Rules enforced
by the best case scenario.
Jan 2014 · 1.1k
Lombard Plaza Motel
Cardboard Grey Jan 2014
Survival
Strung out and pressed
Horse **** force fed
Crowds putting jockeys
on pedestals
Slit wrist attention
for the edible icon
No better view
Nov 2013 · 1.4k
Orange
Cardboard Grey Nov 2013
As the spirit wanes
the form appears.
Well bukowski said it, i never met him.
So i wont capitalize his name.
I romanticized his stories when i was young.
Whatever young means.
Whatever romance means.
I am not writing a poem
I was taught not to use
I or We or You
In a poem.
This is Zach, this is unbiased
10/10 bass line.
This is you clicking back
because you didnt know Hank either
or you didnt believe me.
Cardboard Grey Nov 2013
Some things words will not say
unusual is the subtle
speechless man
Uncomfortable
is the sound of life
Not unfortunate.
Who says
bleak moons turning sons to sun
all before 0600
is a good thing.
Mar 2013 · 817
Speech
Cardboard Grey Mar 2013
Go ahead take a good look.
Go on breathe it in.
I have a gap in my two front teeth.
Still get the occasional acne
And male pattern baldness
Well I need that like a real dad.
Really I don't.
Look at my finger nails.
I barely have them.
It's called stress, maybe anxiety.
We put labels on juice.
Why not emotion?
Mar 2013 · 487
Untitled
Cardboard Grey Mar 2013
It's five in the morning.
Dogs are kicking there legs.
Your friends are sleeping
Or trying to.
Youth stale as drinks
left over night
and wasted.
A lot like your friends
Except no one cares as much.
Mar 2013 · 956
Paper thin
Cardboard Grey Mar 2013
Education sat beaten
Between smoke banana walls
in the southwest corner
Of a building bubbling nonsense
I sat proud and tense
Eager
Clutching at some no name chance
To lurk and let down
I gained your attention and lost purpose
managing to tiptoe
Into sincerity
Mar 2013 · 725
Annapolis Road
Cardboard Grey Mar 2013
Any feeling that I have
comes from my throat
but it's brewed in my heart
and buried in my soul.
A bitter ale
beyond red tail
and Mendocino swells.
The grapes in all
the wrath of fall
and stories that we tell.
Jan 2013 · 568
15 minutes before you sleep
Cardboard Grey Jan 2013
Learn to keep your head above water.
Enough to watch all the ships sail off.
Wading or conditioning,
know you will never build a boat.
Sensitivity is the boot on your head
drowning you.
Always feeling light enough to carry.
Its drowning you.
Just in time to miss the ships,
swallowed in sunsets and blue deserts.
But maybe you find Atlantis.
Jan 2013 · 842
Everclear
Cardboard Grey Jan 2013
I am the emotional ostrich that you have made.
You have bred me to hate
To trust no one of flesh.
Vain outlets you will never read.
The sun will never see itself rise.
You are a list of let downs
And post-its of false promise.
Compulsive like the moon
Spinning through everything and nothing.
You are the core of my being
And remain the sand in my ears.
Dec 2012 · 520
N.V.
Cardboard Grey Dec 2012
And it all amounts to nothing.
It starts where it ended.
Never known for what but
for who.
A bike made for two.
Road alone and long
In the crack you shouldn't have
and the space you never fill.
Its teaming.
Flowing and running and going
never stopping like
emotion
not rational.
Freestyle what they see
they are society.
They are what they say you shouldn't.
You want to be
what you wont accept.
Nov 2012 · 1.3k
Focus Change
Cardboard Grey Nov 2012
Sartre could have taken Ghandi

In a burger eating contest,
or a bar fight;
they are dead.

No matter who you are,
you will die.

Torch your temples,
set fire to the preachers,
and **** on ash.

Embrace it.
Welcome this conflagrative absolve.
Oct 2012 · 910
Marblemount Washington
Cardboard Grey Oct 2012
I have crushed bugs.
Not for science.
No need for class or placement.
What makes better?
What is broken?
Right and wrong,
left and leaving.
existence.
In the palm of your hand.
Waiting
and waiting.
To cross territory uncharted.
Clawing at the what if!
Clawing and waiting
To be squished.
Oct 2012 · 575
2:54 AM
Cardboard Grey Oct 2012
You are sand.
You find a way into everything.
Everything
I touch.
Everything
I eat.
Everything
I see.
Everything is sand.
Keep your hands.
Worry about your own glass.
I'll be doing the same.
Waiting to be more like you.
Oct 2012 · 2.2k
Eulogy
Cardboard Grey Oct 2012
Picture pecan.
Plastering, painted prints.
Plummeting.

Languid Leaves.
Listless, lethargic lives.
Littering.

Sacrificed scenery.
Shattered, struggling space.
Sabotaging.

Beauty dies
This time of year.
Oct 2012 · 3.9k
Pro Choice Aborted Fetuses
Cardboard Grey Oct 2012
The kids chemically induced
Reduced to ego threnody.

Amidst chaos he possessed influence.
Would disregard coincidence
And curse at the omnipotent.
Known as lonely pessimist
Could laugh at their own ignorance.
Pops was drunk.
Waved goodbye
to any kind of innocence.
Patronized
Sympathized
Irrelevant
Sunk below the sediment.
If humans could be celibate
This death would have ended it
Instead of only him.
Oct 2012 · 3.3k
Severed Worm
Cardboard Grey Oct 2012
There is sickness.
Subtle insecurity in the tallest tree.
Pride in roots that try
and wont break
free.
Stabbed propped up
shadows
behind the kindest
smile trying the hardest.
Men leaving nothing
in death but souls.
Cliche communications
speaking in color.
Gray paths never make sense.
Never.
And death is
but not without life.
There is sickness.
Curving straight lines
trying to make
a point.

— The End —