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 Apr 2014 Eliot York
dreadfulmind
“I keep everything inside; I am
a wine cellar of unsaid things.
This is why my love letters burn
like whiskey - every word is
fermented with all the fluff
evaporated off. I love in a way
that leaves people on the floor.”
— anne, on why you feel drunk when I write to you
 Apr 2014 Eliot York
Joanne Fuda
When I asked my mama how she stayed young
She said,

"By always having someone to be desperately in love with that you can't have. By always having a Muse"

And we sat
under rain
watching with
the same golden eyes
the wonder of the dark driveway
with the old filing cabinet
that we still haven't moved.
Written by my talented daughter - I love you sweetheart **
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
Tony Novak
the clocks went forward
and left me behind
of all the year's changes
this one's most unkind.

less time in bed:
more time to be bad
less chance to develop
new symptoms of S.A.D.

the birds are a-twittering
the cats are a-killing
the buds are exploding
the evenings are chilling

there's no time to linger
gotta pull out my finger
it's time to stop dreaming:
wake up and start screaming!
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
EDB
Waking up the morning after,
I can only recall the excessive laughter.
The great vibes shared in one moment in time,
It was all so beautiful, the highest of highs.
(****)
My glance embarrassingly detects
the frightful fact the mirror reflects.
A bathroom tagged with the night's mistakes,
Rorschach like markings of drinks and rare steaks.
Always said "Yes", lacking all inhibition.
I wish last night I lived its definition.
So I readjust my head and all of the fixtures,
and pray to god no one took any pictures.
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
Molly
I was standing on a beach
in pitch black
when I realized I wasn't special.

Your entire childhood,
your dad tells you you're the smartest child he knows
and your mom tells you that you have the kindest heart
and your relatives tell you you're the most beautiful girl in the world,
And it isn't until your heart has been broken
by a boy who called you the one
or your best friend has stopped talking to you
for reasons you'll never fully understand
that you realize the only loved ones telling you the truth
were your brothers,
who pointed out your flaws
and tore apart everything you found beautiful
and destroyed every ounce of pride you had.
This is the only truth you can find.

On a scale of the universe,
no single star can be considered unique.

You spend your whole life
thinking how unprecedented you are
and how different your life is from everyone else's
And you're going to be different when you grow up,
you're going to follow your dreams
and live an amazing life
and you're going to travel
and have a one of a kind wedding
and your children will have unique names,
And one day you're in your dad's office
and you see all these people in cubicles
and you realize they all thought the same thing.

You may be a star
but the universe is infinite
and there are billions of stars
and no matter what your parents tell you,

Trust your brothers.
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
amrutha
Pause before you say Life is unfair
Learn to make a single flower your garden
Master the art of saying No
Learn to keep curiosity under control.
Watch all your hopes shatter
Just to build them over again once more
Admire before you criticize
Get rid of that good-for-nothing ego.
Following rules or spontaneously living the moment
The choices are always yours
But like the great men always say
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Remind yourself of these things every day
And Ah! What a work of art you are
There is none on this planet
Who is just the kind of beautiful you are.
-Amy. Inspiration is everywhere.
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
Coop Lee
'78
 Mar 2014 Eliot York
Coop Lee
'78
we eat acid &
strawberries &
butter in the cemetery, &
feed foxes lizards face first.

the candy-colored smoke don’t smoke;
sunstruck lomograph light.
her rollerskates are last to come off;
i go south on her body.

as bottlerockets,
we muse on stars & dark.
fire we carry.

go west young man: sell microwaves.
sell particles, pastes, & patina of ameri-cult & ooze.
seek effervescence.
want nothing but to get back to her poetry;
her warmth;
yet never do.
or do.

by manifest destiny: gold bricks & beer.
She doesn't know you
but she could tell you your favourite song
because it reminds her or the backs of your hands,
older than they would seem
and much wiser than her.

You've never spoken but your voice
is her favourite song.
Continuously playing in the back of her mind,
like a broken record
you don't want to turn off.

She too
is a broken record of your name
Yet she does not know what it is,
like its resting on the tips of her lips
I imagine her
resting on the edge of yours.

She tries to write poems
about how you make her
weak at the knees.
Frustrated,
she tells me how she cant write your perfection.
It is endless
and effortless
and compares to nothing.
She often then contradicts herself by
Comparing you to the vastness of space
and the brightest stars.

He is all of me,
she says.
She knows you better in her dreams
than she knows her own mother
who knows not of the love she has given.

She knows you'll love her because she is
the sort of person who steps on every crack
And reads obscure books
with strange names.

You will love her because shes pretty
and ambitious
and astute and charming.
She is endless and effortless
and compares to nothing,
you will often contradict this by
comparing her to the vastness of space
and the brightest stars.

She will be all of you.
Her name
Her lips
Her love
will rest on the edge of your lips.
And you will love her,
as she does you,
as I do her.
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