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 Jun 2014 Dianna
Shaded Lamp
Said the mirror to the poet
"Can you really over think?"
Said the whisky to lonely
"Can you really over drink?"

The coffin creaks to the undertaker
"Are you satisfied with your work?"
She grimly replies to the casket
"Well, it has certain unique perks."

The earth sighs to the human population
"When will this violation eventually cease?"
We ignore her pathetic mutterings
And order "production must be increased!"

The poet sheds a crocodile tear
As the shadow of insanity looms
The lonely empties another bottle
Staggers back from the shop and resumes

The undertaker makes final plans
For her own elaborate swan song
A sun drenched plot of gravel reserved
Beneath which she will soon belong

And the Earth despairs at her children
She did not raise them to be this way
And just like the forlorn undertaker
She is also planning her final day.
Feel free to offer suggestions on how I might improve this. I am but a novice.
 Jun 2014 Dianna
Court
I just want you to know
that my favorite black shirt makes me look skinnier than I am
I never smile with teeth because my teeth aren't perfect
My eyelashes aren't that long without my mascara

I want you to know that I'm happy most days but I'm sad most nights
I take sleeping pills because I'm always worrying too much to sleep on my own
I cry alot. Mostly over my father's betrayal.

I want you to know that I love you more than myself
I find myself avoiding mirrors most days
I know you think I'm beautiful but I will never believe it.

I want you to know that on those really bad days when I can't even get out of bed, even when your hugs and holding my hand can't brighten my dead eyes, take me to the ocean and let the darkness of my heart be taken away each time the water meets the shore.
 Jun 2014 Dianna
Cynthia Malta
It's midnight and all I can think about is his curly hair, and the way his lips curl when he tells a joke and the way he'll never look at me and how somehow deep down when I said I wouldn't do this, here I am, leading myself on into thinking this has a happy ending it doesn't dreams don't come true it can't come true how can I be set free when he is the one anchoring me.
I can't sleep and I know why.
 Jun 2014 Dianna
Manda Clement
Thinking about it, Forrest was right, life IS like a box of chocolates.
you don't know what you're gonna get
I mean it's all part of the game
If I get a box of chocolates I know
exactly what I WANT to get
But on the odd occasion that someone beats me to the soft centres,
I just curse softly
and try another.
I may not enjoy it quite as much as a good strawberry cream
but at least I had a chocolate!
Some people get to the box and they're all gone.
Quick or sorry
I am bored and when I get bored my mind has strange thoughts. Spent a good long time just sat staring into space thinking about life as a box of chocolates. Seen the film so many times and never really got it till now. Am I alone?
 Jun 2014 Dianna
ML
Wonderland
 Jun 2014 Dianna
ML
I fell down
        down
         down
This place is filled with madness
Welcome to my world
 Jun 2014 Dianna
Chloe
Fragile:
She’s thin in a hungry way,
and delicate in a sickly way.
She’s unused to how her hips jut out.
They catch the sharp countertop corners.
The pain whistles out of her like the shriek of a teakettle.
Her hip bones are colored with black and purple bruising.
Starvation has tapered her torso,
into the rungs of a ladder and the keys of a piano.
Countless fingers have ascended the ladder in her ribs.
Other times a melody was plinked out.
The cold easily crawls under her collar bone.
It breaks her skeleton and shreds her epidermis.
Curling inward she hugs and comforts her vital organs.
She feels like sticks and paper in the cold.
Handle with care.
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