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1.3k · May 2014
Drinking goblet
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Whoever wants to
serve themselves can go on an drink
from the sea.
856 · May 2014
Life As We Knew It
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Its Common Logic
There Is Not Much Sound In Space
Where Was The Big Bang
852 · May 2014
House of Poppaeus Sabinus
Maerius J Porter May 2014
If you felt the fires of love,
mule-driver,

you would make more haste to see Venus.
I love a charming boy;

I ask you,
goad the mules;

let’s go.
Take me to Pompeii,

where love is sweet.
You are mine…
Maerius J Porter May 2014
You romanticized things that hurt.
Cancer, suicide, complete and total wanderlust.
Like running away was the easy way out for both of us.
Black lungs and red veins are what turned you on.
Pixie cuts and short tempers.
Lost lovers who know the unloving.
I smoked with my lungs, but I never once let it leave my teeth.
Now, smoking is the closest thing I can get to killing myself.
I wrote this a while ago, thinking about a past lover. Some time in March, or April. It isn't my best work, but it was good at the time.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
"I don't know
what to do
anymore," I said,
between hits of
concentrated cancer and
a constant supply of
countenance.

You were there,
and you were
sharing the smoke
with me. Like
a long lost
brother, you sat
close.

"No ****." You
said,  with the
smoke passing through
the screen window.
"We're both equally
killing ourselves." She
added, and it
was the truth
laced with nicotine.

"I'm so lost,"
I said, with
my head resting
on the window,
as she passes
the cigarette to
me.

"You of all
people should know
that."

I'm holding the
cigarette like a
drunk mother holds
both her child
and the toilet
bowl. I'm holding
the cigarette like
it might save
my life.

Her mother screams,
"You better not
be smoking up
there!"
I went crazy on Friday, do you hear? My mom went crazy, and my dad went with it. I got lost with a friend, and sat with her all night.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
dont cry,
please,
be comforted.

pure and unblemished,
like a humble
sacred object.
574 · May 2014
House Of The Moralist
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Postpone your tiresome
quarrels if you can, or leave
and take them with you.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Decapitator,
may everything turn out okay
so that you can leave this place.
500 · May 2014
A Self Deprecate
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Here lies Maerius Lee,
she lived to be 103.
She kept her virginity till she was 15
She was very good for this vicinity.
463 · May 2014
Behind The Door Of A House
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Learn this:

while I am alive,

you,

hateful death,

are coming.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
It's been so hard to
die, but now, I've been looking
for a means to live.
Maerius J Porter Jun 2014
I shouldn't of told
you that I couldn't live without you,
because I'm still here.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
"No one will ever
love you like I did." Well, that
was good time wasted.
He was a liar in blue and blonde, and I'll be sure to remind him that no matter how many times he dyes his roots that he will always be wrong.
I'm not a defused bomb.
I'm a short-fused fire-work.
I'm ready to go off, but not with him.
373 · May 2014
House of Pinarius
Maerius J Porter May 2014
If anyone does not believe in Venus,
they should gaze at my girl friend.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
I could hope the worst for you,
and believe me, I stopped hoping positively
for a long time.

I could hope that your newfound skill at
the Spanish guitar leaves your fingers in shambles
and splinters.

I could hope that you rot,
like a love-letter
in a landfill.

I could hope you wake up from your trash-heaping heaven,
clawing at the garbage of your past loves
and your skill turns out to be a curse.

But it won't matter.
Because you'll still be kissing her,
and I bet her lips might never get tired.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Oh,
you creature!
Will you be content?
Overcome,
he was content.
At least,
falling into a deep dark pit.

He was gone.
And won’t come back.
It was early,
but he reached very still,
then seemed to disappear in a wave of
sadness and heart-rending care.

In the days that followed,
divided between happiness and unhappiness,
hope and fear,
he realized now that living,
was indeed,
difficult.

He became aware.

He
'tidied himself up'
so he could see too much of the particular
routine.
338 · May 2014
Oh Lovely
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Whoever loves,
let them flourish.

Let them perish,
who knows not love.

Let them perish twice over,
whoever forbids their love.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
It took me so long
to find out that I didn't
come out of thin air.
309 · May 2014
Untitled
Maerius J Porter May 2014
Let water wash your feet clean
and a slave wipe them dry;

let a cloth cover the couch;
take care of our linens.
Maerius J Porter May 2014
The weeds
sunk in the Earth.
The entrance,
disguised by tangles of flowering
eyes.
Something
might be
even clearer.
He considered leaving.
278 · May 2014
Untitled
Maerius J Porter May 2014
You felt heavy.
So tearful and red in the face.
In such a mess.
You don’t mean any of this.
It’s wild words.
You are just not a violent person.
You've simply got to live.
Be what you really like.
You've got to bear it.
There’s so much suffering in the wold, awful senseless insoluble suffering.
Your suffering has sense, if you go on.
And even if sometimes it feels like pretending, it can heal.
It can heal you.
And it won't be pretense because it’s the only way, and the only true way.
If you start hurting people and smashing things every sort of anger and chaos and lies will follow.
You can’t be violent.
You can’t be violent.

— The End —