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Life is a pencil.
I scribble and scribble tornadoes to
use the lead as quick as possible to
forget the time lost
until the blunt tip gives in to
metal holding the
erasure
of all
worth.
Will my legacy be meaningless lines,
poetic words or
simply nothing?
fish-sama Dec 10
Every surfer must fall everyday before they can tame the waves.
you're in the process right now! You got this!
fish-sama Dec 8
i am an inside child,
handles are red-hot
doors terrify me with
screams only i hear if i dare
breathe the fresh air
of scary eyes i am afraid.
mom, why am i not
normal why am i stuck
inside why am i a
hikikomori who
hides why do i cry if i try to
go outside?
from personal experience.
fish-sama Dec 6
Am I disgusting?
No, seriously, am I?
You look at me like I'm nothing.
So answer me.
What am i?
fish-sama Dec 6
I listen
I listen and learn
I repeat nonsense words
I am the collection of songs I have heard
I have listened
I am the repeat-machine
I stamp the test-papers with my mind until I grind to null
I am the flutter of wounded ears
I am the stutter of worn-out gears
I listen
I want no more than a sound
I am no more stilted than the final power-down
I am no longer.
I listen
I listen
I wonder at life
Unreachably supreme, a fever dream that eludes me on all tries, what is it but the soft sigh of soul strokes heart of breathing apart, wings oiled at the seams, flash of black, eyes reflect the splatters of light of laughter twittering, cracks of skin shimmering red dawn engulfing fingers curled upon your blisters, yearning sense of worth and I wonder at
Tasting sweet, dissolving sweat of aching arms slippery, sweltering but comforted by breezes the smell of left-over rain and chlorophyll fills lungs of rusty overuse from the pulse on your left temple, let go at listening splash on stone of shoes on road and of poetry and prose
Unattainably beautiful
I listen.
fish-sama Dec 3
The faint patters of a marimba
greets your entrance, my love,
harmonics strung behind
silken curtains of muted chords
and
all is quiet but deafening in the beating of my heart.
fish-sama Dec 2
Pin her upon bulletin boards
like some poster of a prize to possess             the crowd
putters past the perfect picture,
eyes across her breast
eyes averted from her breath:
for the smell reminds them she is not dead
she is something more she is their darkest moment she is aliv—
forget forget forget

They tied her with string, dulling pain
with sweet words, promises
of wealth
decay.
Maybe with time comes the slow death
of love, the dissolving
of once-revered offerings upon the shrine
of the meaning of "human"
on SALE. Gaze! Gaze upon
her line-marks of your so-called
respect slashing into her,
bands of red sash upon her pillars                      you, YOUR
hands suffocate,
deface that sweet taste of her crumbling of hash marks counting the days until the object falls to waste, discarded to die.
Years and years, again and again.
New posters, new pictures, new crowds.

forget forget forget
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