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Daniel Magner Jul 2015
spiritful sprites exploded color
off in the distance,
a forty in my hand, a roof top
under my feet,
each new rocket was greet,
with a whoop or holler,
as circumstance would have it,
each new rocket also made my heart
feel smaller,
like every explosion chipped away
piece after piece,
and the only one to scrounge them
back up was,
me
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
I was told
that the lines in my hands
looked promising
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Jan 2014
Don't view this
as a permanent removal
of my being from
the world
but more like a
promotion
I'm okay
Daniel Magner Sep 2014
getting high while critiquing
my peers' papers as homework
I feel like a jack ***
knit picking and clawing
getting hung up on single word choice
I wonder if they'll read it in my voice
and think what a pretentious ****.
he thinks he knows everything.

when really
I read my own work and feel
it's full of holes
letting the light shine through
revealing me for a fraud

a fraud
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Mar 2014
I watched videos
that made it through my operating system's
up date
some got lost in the crunch and grind
but a few slipped through
I look happy in the ones recorded for you
but click over one or two
and I seem worn, dilapidated
now I'm incapacitated
it feels like I used up all my romantic love
in a two year span
like after all my sweetness expired is when
I grew into a man
after all, the girls that came after
slowly morphed into women
and the relations I had fell short
of stable
now I reject the label "boyfriend"
I don't make promises because
I don't believe I'll keep them
the last time I held hands
and actually felt warmth
I think I was drunk
and helping someone up
who had fallen
her heel broke, almost did a face plant
I felt sorry and accompanied her home
she babbled and tried to pull me inside
I said
"No"
not because I didn't like her
or want her
I just didn't want to be
haunted by my lack of devotion
someone please come along
set the gears of my machine heart
back in motion
or better yet
turn the cogs back into muscle tissue
change the cables into veins
replace the gasoline
with real pumping blood
so I can once again
feel my heart jump
at the smell of a perfume
a touch
a voice
please
make me
human
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Jun 2013
You were warmth and a path,
now I'm lost and freezing.
Your flame and steps faded
by a year of no contact,
in fact,
I'm still mad as hell,
in contrary to my frosty noes,
and you know **** well
what you were doing
letting me walk your path
till it led to ruins,
but still,
I'm cold and wandering
and can't help but wondering
if you were never a flame at all
just frigid ice with well carved
"loving" eyes
because I look back in my memory
and all the fire between us
came from me,
you just used it to keep warm.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Somehow, the way her face twisted
into a self-inflicted pain,
smoke searing her throat,
made me yern for more.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Sep 2016
Outside the bedroom window
a buzz saw screeches its grating song.
Leaf blowers roar out in an attempt
to accompany the shrill melody.
Minutes into the disharmonious duet
a rumbling bang joins in, trash cans
dancing out, filled with bottles
and pizza boxes.
I want to yell
Quiet! Let me be! Let me sleep!
but the world is awake,
singing its rattle and clang,
believing itself beautiful.
And maybe it is,
maybe it is,
but I am far too tired to listen.
Daniel Magner 2016
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
Only a week and three days
till I get paid
and the fridge light
will have something to shine on,
the acid in my stomach
will have something to digest,
the knives in the drawers
will come alive
while the stove flame
will be burnin' bright
heating the single pan,
these are the thoughts
of a hungry
man
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner May 2013
Disappearing inside a Foster's Freeze
not making a scene of it just easy,
slipping out a side door and wisked
away by a breeze.
I'm feather light
gone by the last drop of grease.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
They don't get it,
I don't have anyone
else.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jun 2013
Front and center
with the thought that
December
was the last time
my blood felt
warm against
the
cold
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
I swore I'd leave this place
Knew the whole time that I was
running away
from that shattered home,
that dead friend, that distraught heart pump

I knew it from the start
of the words that dripped from her tongue
                        It's
                             o
                                v
                             ­      e
                                       r
I knew I'd be running
that was the last straw
I'll use it to drink up
Jägermeister
snort up powder
crush up pills
I knew I was running but still
it's really hard to be a fugitive
from myself.
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Feb 2015
A wicked wind carries a witch's spell
it's chill belying
the magma of hell
brought forth by incantations
drawing deep
from a dark magic well
The willow's sigh combines with the whisper
beckoning  me tither
to an alter made from black iron
crowned by scepters
on which two crows perch
the earth around me seizes and spurts
with dead hands erupting from
the earth
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Oil fumes
wove with
that burst of laughter
so sought after
by my blood
pumper
thump, thump
my god
what is this?
Can it be
I'm finally
ready to
breathe out
love
again?
Daniel Magner 2013

http://magnasaurus.tumblr.com/post/66515535720
Daniel Magner Dec 2013
The end of the semester
draws nearer
I've been feeling bolder
since I shaved my hair
Maybe the past week
has made me older
or there is something in
the air
but I'm ready
to dare ask a question
I haven't proposed
in
years
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Thumpity thump
bump the bump
let bass **** up
in your spine
shake down your behind
quiver in those
pristine teeth
then bump you into me.
Bounce those eyes
side to side
down chests,
up thighs.
Burst out your mouth
in a weighted sigh
that snaps shut
with the snare drum.
Rattling through your thumbs
tapping on
jeans, cotton, skin.
Cymbal ringing like tin,
lifting that chin
while the music
lets you
give
in.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
The gesso splashed
on my flowing arms
and flew through the air.
Not noticing I ran
my paintbrush fingers
through my hair.
The chemical smell hung
in the room
not looming but welcoming
helping to soften
this mind of stone
right smack in the studio,
it's been five years
since I've felt this way
like I'm finally
home.
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
These days it feels like
I'm ghosting
Going from place to place
never in one spot, posting
I'm staying close to
the coast
cause the ocean's the
only place I call home
Forgot about the one
I grew up in
by taking smoke to my
dome
Now instead I feel like an
alien
abandoned by his planet
and sent out to roam
But when in Rome I
don't even wear the Roman clothes
and God knows I don't
think the way they do
I used to have a
group
but now I'm my
own crew
And everyone's got each
other's back right?
Naw, I got my own dude.
tell me I'll pull through
and I'll show you why you're
wrong
There's nothing keeping
me here
by the end of this song
I could be gone
Dust in the wind
with one pill or
one cut
Cause my brain's tired
from thinking too
much
and not getting a
single answer
this thought that it's
not worth it is
spreading like cancer
but I think it's
pretty like a dancer
at my funeral there
to dance me away
while I go
you know?
It wouldn't be too bad
to be a
ghost
© Daniel Magner 2012
Rap
Daniel Magner May 2013
It started as a joke we all laughed at the thought
of slanging coke
or passing cops with a whole bag of thizz
cheesing out ya window, just like Andre and Mac Dre in the Bay and Valley Joe
But now the game got real
I'm broke and choked for skrill (skreel) and this sandwich place can't even contend with the dough I'd make if I dealed
But who could I trust and who would squeal, make me have to peel out in my whip as I dipped
moved cribs and changed homies
Do I have a soul of a drug dealer or one for slapping on pepperoni to a sandwich for another zombie
Do I have the soul of a drug dealer?
© Daniel Magner 2013
A short rap inspired by Andre Nickatina's "Soul of a Coke Dealer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5J2fLD-6Bs
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
Do we got ghosties
up in hurr?
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Disembodied
drifting about the room
as she did her hair
I could only stare
soundless, formless
the blanket I made
still laid
on her mattress
three stuffed animals
won for her
call it a hat trick
each one  a slight
*****
on my
neck
Daniel Magner 2013

another dream
Daniel Magner Jan 2013
Lately I haven't been saying much
chillin' in the corner, that kid with
those eyes, high as ****.
My mind's been working on some
next level ****
about the dimensions of luck
but look,
It doesn't even matter
because in the morning my notes
make less sense than this
mad scratch of an excuse
I call a
poem.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Sep 2013
In the last
day
I've come to see
that people
gaze
right
through
me
.
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Daniel Magner Dec 2014
Two days will see
my blue hair clashing
with a red and green glow
back in San Luis Obispo
a holiday bash raging inside
she'll long for me
while sipping a mix drink
watching as I blow smoke
into the night
I'll hold back a wink
keep my tongue in my throat
remembering when I hadn't been
a heart
breaker
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner May 2013
The little pieces
laughs, jokes, habits
are the things I'm
afraid will gnaw
at my cerebral cortex
and pull me in like a vortex
haunting my lucid dreams
about money infested, putrid schemes.
The little things
won't let me
leave
(mentally)
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Oct 2017
I'm pulling myself from the cracks
of this apartment.
Scraps of memories,
tell-tale signs of my life.
It's not a harsh break up,
just a "it's-a-long-time-coming"
kind of thing.

I found a new space,
ready to be filled with loving,
songs, art,
a place to share,
to unfold,
to start.
Daniel Magner 2017
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
I      miss      the       days      when
   things        were      good    or
bad
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Oct 2015
I don't know about all this
it feels an awful lot like a trap
a pit covered with leaves
eternal peace dangling above it
when I reach it the ground gives
and I'll fall, expect to hit an end,
but end up much worse,
back in the city.
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner May 2016
Cap and tassel,
diploma,
freedom from academia.
A swift, ****** birth
as I'm shoved through to real life,
supposedly born grown,
a bright smile and a firm hand shake,
along with a list of accomplishments.
I have none, my resume made
completely of Diablo Rock Gym
and Chipotle.
Great.
Maybe I can still fail a class,
tell the professor I copied
my A paper, get expelled
and start all over!
Or fade away quick,
sink fast before anyone notices.
I'll slide into some forgotten swamp,
survive on worms,
and my own words,
                                    my own words,
             my            own                 wo,
my                   own            w
                                 my                      own
                                               my          ow
                   my
            m                                                   y
   m
               .
Daniel Magner 2016
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Unfinished sentences
struggling over each
syllable, letter, sound
cane catching every nick
in the fairly flat ground
gazing at photos
that eyes can't see
remembering
what they look like
while fumbling
to flip out the light
lost on some
withering path
deep in the mind
Muttering cryptic
thoughts
Despite the deterioration
that makes you forget
who I am
I still love you
Grandma
and I cherish the moments
when clarity shines through
even though you've told me
the stories about that clock
and the whale
and the picture of Grandpa
over and over
sometimes you slip
out a new piece of old life
you are my luck
my four leafed
clover

Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
My mother always worried
that Grandpa's genes were in me
he was manic-depressive
I was a bit different
so all my mother could see
was a mirror reflection of her dad.
I went through spurts of depression
followed by perfectly cheerful months.
Even right now she is fearful
my move and flight were manic decisions.
I am determined to show her
this time the bright eyes
won't
f
a
  d
   e
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Feb 2013
I try to sympathize
with all my friends.
When they need help
I try to meet those ends,
but I forgot about myself
until now.

If you want me,
come and find me.
I'll be at the beach with my bare feet,
sippin' my favorite brew
with a smile aching on
my cheeks.
© Daniel Magner 2013

Short Song
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
I'm petering out,
the afterburners already kicked in
fueled to the last drop, doubt
taking over my eyes
when I see this small world
from the big skies
Crocidial smiles and alligator grins
trying to lure a fool in
but I'm a picese, I can swim
Gills filled to the brim with green
All I want is that cash, that greed
If love and laughter can't fuel me
fill the tank with money.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2014
I hope you would appreciate
that I still keep you around
by wrapping myself in the blankets
you and your mom made me,
your sweater that I think I stole
is still my favorite sweater
I wear it when I want
to feel loved again
for just a little
I'm not saying
I still love you
like I used to
or that I want
you again
I'm just saying
you have a spot
in my heart
as a
meaningful
friend
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
My brain hurts
all day
from the constant
growing pains
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Flicked from my fingertips
fireworks skip across the
pavement
falling grey against the frost
with no guiding force
but my mindless toss
driven by a twist
in the universe
I hope I'm like them
not actually
lost
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H2O
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
H2O
Glass filled
to the brim
with crystal clear
water
as they all fell further
till balance faltered
met a gorgeous girl
who is the one and only
mother to her daughter
I can't say I'm
disappointed
the burn of alcohol
was missing
I find myself
wishing
for more
water.
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
I found your old
hackie sack
all the beans had
fallen out.
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Sep 2014
a long brown hair
pulled from a coat pocket
must have been yours
laying in there like a mine
then a shorter but still long
red strand poked out of
the knot in a blanket
still yours, but more fake
later an almost black hair
came from inside my pillow case
it was hers, stirred emotions
just a little too late
finally a turquoise one
belonging to a friend
but the kind that ended up
naked in my bed
and left questions
do you miss me?
was it just to get frisky?
does it matter?
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner May 2013
She dyed her hair and everything is changing
I don't care, I want to go back home
And I swear, if her love is fading, I'll get her back
somehow

I'll take her out and go to parties
I'll steal my parents' car keys and drive way out
singing
"Baby, what's going on in that head of yours
Baby, what's on your mind
Baby, what's going on in that head of yours and
are you over me yet."

I cut my hair, cause I got lazy
I'm going nowhere, well I guess I'm going back home
She'll be there, I wonder if she's thinking, "I...
I want him back."

I'll sneak out and go to parties
I'll steal my parents' car keys and drive way out
singing
"Baby, what's going on in that head of yours
Baby, what's on your mind
Baby, what's going on in that head of yours and
are you over me, are you over me,
are you over me yet."
© Daniel Magner 2013

About a year and a half old song of mine...
I wonder if it would be better appreciated now.
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Sailor cap
bandana 'round neck
ready for ***, fun, costumes
and more ***
tomorrow morning
work will be
pistol shots to my
head
but tonight I'll be more
alive
with all the
living dead
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Daniel Magner Oct 2013
No costume
no party lined up
no pumpkin
no day off work
no spirits
no Halloween
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Daniel Magner Apr 2014
As the little timer
on my quit smoking clock
flips to 18 hours
I lazily roll a cigarette,
my quit smoking clock
doesn't know if I smoke,
I lean back, taking in
my whole life, squished
to fit this box
charms hang from the light
quivering as if anticipating
some unnatural occurrence
some lightning strike to
pierce through the ceiling,
a sign,
but none comes
so I walk out to light
this hand rolled cigarette
with a
sigh
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Jan 2013
She's got hands like home
that open doors
when I'm alone.
Her arms are walls
that hold me close
with memories, sweetness
and all of the most
wonderful things
she has shown.
I swear I was homeless
till her hands like home.
© Daniel Magner 2013

But I'm homeless once again...I miss you.
Daniel Magner Apr 2014
split my head open
it already feels like it is
take out the the little
hammer that is whacking
my thoughts
it's hot
so
hot
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But it was all worth it!
Daniel Magner Aug 2014
I call my bed my ******* best friend
it'll always hold me when
my head is cracking, pouring
tequila and brain matter all over the floor
when I'm hacking, dying
from the poison I chose to take
laying naked and shivering
but too hot to cover up
I'm generally not a **** but
for my bed I'll do anything
just put a few thousand shots in me
so I can be with my best friend
so I can finally
fall asleep
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Sometimes I want to share
in remembering a moment
but then I realize, I spend
most of my time
alone.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Nov 2014
I can define
pain
sorrow
regret
they rest in the furrows
of my brow
the ache in my shoulder
no hesitation to place
death I'm my mouth
but ask me to uncover
joy
ecstasy
hope
my words fall short
they flit from my stomach
to my lungs
and right past my teeth
before I can breathe them
back to my body
hurt is a household name
while happiness merely
haunts me
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Sep 2014
I long to find
the one who I can say,
"I love the sound of you"
and hear them sing back,
"I love the sound of us"
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