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 Dec 2013 CRH
Redshift
familiar
 Dec 2013 CRH
Redshift
he manages to say things that hurt more than anything i've ever felt
and he's not even special
******* too, ryan
 Dec 2013 CRH
September
Acceptable
 Dec 2013 CRH
September
"Greedy, selfish
street fiend."

I long for the day
when happiness is intravenous.
When people don't find you so
sidewalk sadness.
Your happiness is different from theirs. That's okay.
 Dec 2013 CRH
S D S
Lego People
 Dec 2013 CRH
S D S
I'll strip your skin
with a thought
And rend and tear
All you've got
Violent minds
Make violent hearts
Cold blood runs
And stops and starts
Love is violence
Of the soul
I'll break me down
Make us whole
 Dec 2013 CRH
JM
Right?
 Dec 2013 CRH
JM
If my fear
is an illusion,
so is my
hope.
 Dec 2013 CRH
September
We were listening to California Love when your friend left my room at midnight
and you decided to stay longer and move onto the single bed of my dorm room.

I didn't ask for you and I to be alone in my room.
I didn't ask for bruises on my neck or a permanently locked door or a situation I never thought I'd end up in—
but somehow I ended up with them.

You want to be a model and it shows—
you wanted photos on your phone
of us making out before i kicked you out of my room
with a smile on my face because violence
is scarier when you could reciprocate it
(i know you're not above that).


you started crying because I am "so beautiful,"

taking off my shirt
"too beautiful to pass up."

"Like Barbie"

It took me twenty minutes to convince you to leave
with California Love playing again on my laptop.


California only loved you because they love ****** up try-hards who did too much coke once and dropped out of university.
Tonight a guy pinned me down to my bed and wouldn't get off.
He then started to cry because I told him no.
But he didn't get off.


I cried for the first time in months because I've never felt real fear towards a person before.
 Nov 2013 CRH
September
Seven
 Nov 2013 CRH
September
I dig the guilt out of my rib cage with my fingers and
embrace it.
Seven happened.
And I'm okay with that.
 Nov 2013 CRH
Jon Tobias
It's on them nights I drink alone. Find myself thinking of home. These beers bottle bones empty and shatter. Liquor lung sigh. Chest heavy like a white trash wind chime. Like a six pack of bud ice hanging from some fishing line. Hear them low notes bouncing of the lips in the wind. And maybe you worry, but ****, I'm fine to drive. And on those days when my gut isn't a gas tank for beer refilling at a pity party pit stop, I drive on love. Write love poems on phones before the ***** knocks me out. And sure, maybe my love makes as much sense as the words I slurr. And maybe my love is as unique as the crackheads needle in the haystack, but I'll still love you serious as a heart attack. Like a stroke... of genius... an epiphany about the realness of God. That maybe the story is flawed, but you're welcome to believe. And maybe I'm drunk right now, but I never meant to deceive. So kiss me with your break lights, while a pray to the slow light that I can live life like an old man feeding birds on a bench in the park. Got nothing else on his mind... just love... you maybe. And whatever you might think. I promise. I'm fine to drive
 Nov 2013 CRH
Redshift
control
 Nov 2013 CRH
Redshift
people will try to say you're golden
people will try to say you're ****
i'll try to tell you that life is
what you make of it

ultimately,
you decide who is right
not them
you're in control. you command the cleverness of you.
 Nov 2013 CRH
Redshift
the holidays are rolling around and i am determined to be ok
i will not write poetry about how much i miss my un-broken family
i will continue on as if nothing happened
if i do it long enough maybe i will believe it
maybe i won't have to burn my arms to jolt me back to reality
maybe things will be ok

good things come of it?
good things already have.
i'm just waiting for the good
to out weight the bad
does this count?
 Nov 2013 CRH
September
who told you that you could say that
there's blood and ***** and drunk tears on the neck of your sweater
and in the corner of your eye.
substance lettering not making any sense.

who told you that you could say that


Christmas lights are beautiful
But only out of season

I sure as hell didn't.
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