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 Aug 2014 C S Cizek
SG Holter
Such irony that my bus from work
Takes me right past the street you
Left me to live in.

Thursday was the first time
I drew a deep breath and
Looked down it.

Sometimes feelings settle
By themselves.  
And sit.
 Aug 2014 C S Cizek
Mohd Arshad
at the death
of the day's candle,
the night makes fun
of its brief life,
sending the stars
to pin its soul,
forgetting,
nature has no end,
it is only a routine
designed by the heaven.
Speaking of revolutions,
ours was like a train:
slow to start, but nearly impossible
to stop.
And according to the local legends,
those wheels churn on to this very day.

But what the story-tellers,
the bards of Pennsylvania, neglect to mention
is that the first half of the story
took place only in two separate,
but equally hungry imaginations.

She taught herself to love
the same way I taught myself
to whistle:
like a train.
 Jul 2014 C S Cizek
Robert Frost
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
private momentum metal carcass shedding silver skin and coiled husk footsteps on paved roads chewing up second hand rubber,

demanding hydrogen high hope hopscotch delirium on 24th street rose petals,
under the immutable sway of green leaf lettuce
crisp and plastic
crunching over head, these unending tendrils take root deep in the blood and sprout birthing clouds,
buzzing,
left,
and right respectively
surveying, spectating, struggling
with high ceiling tire swing sets on midsummer daydream i fell asleep on a plastic wrapped hammock in string bean circuit space too much junk jamming our brains with thigh high fiber rich and mold free savings or servings or sweet sugar taken twice daily
His voice has that pleading
moan
As he asks
again
Are you ever coming back to me?
The subtle whining
undertone
But the irony
lies
in his query
The question he should be
posing
is to
**himself
He forgets....I never left
I think I have forgotten
How to use my eyes to think
Or maybe
I've studied the art so much
That it has become an impulse
And I will be doomed to dwell
Dwell on the pointlessness
Which corrodes me even now

On the other side  
Where  the screen is shiny
And the sun is lilac
Where a caterpillar's cocoon
Is a castle in the sky
That is where
I will always want to be
And against it's glass frame  
I press my face
Hopelessly praying
For a crack in the glass
Interpretable I suppose.
"There isn't anything good about
anything, and all of my friends are either
****** or Christian, and I'm stuck
somewhere in the middle."

-Teenagers
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