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Nov 2020 · 193
outgrowing parents
Ford Prefect Nov 2020
I didn’t think this is what would be happening

At this point in my life

I wanted to be okay(?) with it

Whatever it had become

I had no understanding of


How to be able to live with this(?)
May 2020 · 156
We cried last night
Ford Prefect May 2020
I make the best of this brain so
I KNOW
I can make the best
Out of the worst
Anytime

Unstoppable
Apr 2020 · 83
He’s back now
Ford Prefect Apr 2020
now I spend the days feeling dizzy
A head rolling on top of shoulder
Acid in my ******* mouth

It’s a little too familiar
For my taste
Apr 2020 · 97
identity theft fr
Ford Prefect Apr 2020
she stole my identity
but none of the bad parts
she got my credit score
and bank account
but left the ash
and wrappers

i wish she stole the echoes
Mar 2020 · 116
two truths and no lie
Ford Prefect Mar 2020
clouds are falling out of the ******* sky and sometimes my shoes feel like they are metling into the sidewalk
he doesn't know how any of this goes and he doesn't know i'm ******* dying
Mar 2020 · 118
Blue knight
Ford Prefect Mar 2020
And it feels like the end
But worse
Because it’s more like the beginning of the end
A long end
I want it to end
May 2019 · 233
Fuckity fuck
Ford Prefect May 2019
you still make me restless
May 2019 · 237
CSU Chico
Ford Prefect May 2019
they forget that you are just trying to survive and they expect so much too much all of the wrong things from you and it kills you it makes your chest pull it makes you want to give it up and fly up to god I hate it here I hate it here I need to be leaving soon
Apr 2019 · 136
Hello
Ford Prefect Apr 2019
when you can’t get anything right and everything is heavy and the sun is cold and you don’t know what to do so you walk around in circles like a toddler and hope that something changes but it won’t and it doesn’t so **** me ******* and **** the world too amen
Apr 2019 · 149
I hate myself
Ford Prefect Apr 2019
Oh look
The people are caring now
Carrying their guilt
They know better
Too bad
Not sad
For you at all
Apr 2019 · 183
pulled my chest
Ford Prefect Apr 2019
my hands are covered in paint and glue
my hands are not new
they are old and
i'm tired of hearing about them
what have they done
that i can be proud of
nothing
May 2018 · 841
Up 20 mg
Ford Prefect May 2018
not thrivin
but survivin
and *****
sometimes that’s all I can really ask for
May 2018 · 879
dropout
Ford Prefect May 2018
self care isn't
yoga and
pink baths
it's confrontation
you v you
until there's nothing
left
to argue about
Ford Prefect Mar 2018
i'm not his beauty queen
i'm not even his fantasy
he loves me too much
to see me as
anything other than
his beloved human being
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
There is a black form that follows me. Sometimes it likes to get up right behind me and taunt me, look how close I can get.And then sometimes it follows through with the threats and wraps itself around me, like a child given a piggyback ride from its mother, it’s creator. Sometimes I can fight it off. Sometimes it disappears in the light of my inner sun.

But the black form is always with me.

Even when I think I no longer need to run.
Feb 2018 · 199
I’m tired
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
They want me to be soft.
They want me to bend under the strength on their hands, under the pressure of my curated thoughts. I feel like I am dying under the weight of it all. Every day I wake up and wish I were dead, but then I accept that I am not and realize there is nothing else to do but go on and so I go on, shuffling my feet along the same roads of everyone before. Along the same roads they have paved for me, entrenched me in.
I want me to be soft, too, but it seems to come at a price. The others tell me that hard women get **** done. The others keep saying that I can be the same and more, that I carry the armpit of the women before me, that I can be just as strong as THEM.
I want to be soft and safe.
I have been so hard, so calcified for so long, that my knees are forever creaking and my wrists are always sore. I know that I am hard. I know the power it brings.
I want to be soft.
I want to feel the things I’ve been deprived of for so ******* long. These pretty blondes around me are so thin you’d think the wind would break them. I want to be like them. Happy? Soft? Cashmere. Let me experience the luxury of living in a padded world.
Feb 2018 · 177
Mania or insight
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
Shatter me? do it and you’ll suffocate under the pieces of me, under the pieces of me that you wish you could eradicate. You do not like me tall you do not like me standing you do not like me in your way when I’m walking my own line. Shatter ME? you’ll die trying.  I’ve been torn apart before, I know how this goes. Flexibility has kept me alive while we sit in your stagnant world. Shatter me. I’ll only become a greater beast.
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
She is forever trying to understand what it means to be soft and what it means to be hard and how the two are nearly the same thing but given different connotation. To be soft is to be loving but that is also to be hard. To be hard is to be brave but that is what loving is. She doesn’t need you but she allows you to rejoice in her, because that is what loving is.  Being soft is being open and being hard is not?  To be hard is to be ready to be confident to be challenging. Is that not what loving is?  To be soft is to be hard is to be soft is to be HER.  You have required a division of the good of the great of the unstoppable inside of her because you are nothing.  Being soft means being hard and you must watch her do it all.  You must watch her NOW.  She is rumbling.
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
they tell me to be softer
like the snow they love to trample
and I look down
I look down at this body
at these killer slopes and cliffs

they are afraid
Feb 2018 · 191
make it out alive
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
he cups my face and asks me
how is your mind today?
and all i can do for him
is lie
all i can do for myself
is lie it all away
he takes me upstairs and lays me down
i missed you
and i want to cry because
i know i'll miss him more
i know it'll hurt me more
when it's time for him to leave

i let him hold me after
let him own me
*please, don't let me live after you've gone
when you treat me like that
Feb 2018 · 291
sore from last night
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
I cried in his arms last night and I don’t feel any fuller than when he’s inside of me.* I’d rather him be inside of me. He told me it would be alright. It hurt me. I thought that it would help to air out my head. I never helps to air out my head.  It only makes the presser stronger. I cried in his arms last night and it didn’t help one bit.
I cried in his arms last night and it made me feel more alone than crying in the dark.  *He’s watching me die and he doesn’t know it.
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
Eyes propped open by the incessant thoughts that threaten to keep you staring up for the rest of your life, continuing to search for the relief that doesn’t exist. This is how you shrivel up and die in the tub full of self-hatred, in the bubbles drawn from the shadow close behind you. You don’t know how to do it like the rest of them, waking up and walking along and not having to fight off daydreams where a happy ending looks a lot like a fresh pile of dirt in the meadow. Knobby knees knock together and your feet won’t even still while you’re lying down. Always needing to run towards the “more,” the “better,” never finding solid ground to build a hiding place.
Feb 2018 · 134
sad and suicidal
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
LOVE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN A RAFT TO CLING TO IN THE WAVES OF MY SHADOWED MIND BUT NOW IT IS THE ACCESSORY I PUT ON EVERY DAY, THE SIDE EFFECT OF BEING ALIVE AGAIN, AND IT IS THE MOST TERRIFYING THING I HAVE COME TO KNOW IN THIS NEW LIFE.  LOVE IS NO LONGER ALL-ENCOMPASSING.  LOVE IS NOW THE THING I CRAVE AT NIGHT AND ON THE WEEKENDS.  IT DOESN'T KEEP ME FROM KILLING MYSELF BUT IT KEEPS ME FROM THE DULL MONOTONY OF HAVING NOTHING TO THINK OF WHEN I'M GETTING WORSE.  HIS LOVE IS LIKE A ******* PUNCH.  I HATE IT BUT IT HURTS MORE WHEN I HAVE TIME TO BREATHE IN BETWEEN THE HITS.  THIS FEELING THIS FEELING THIS FEELING IT TEARING ME APART.  THIS FEELING THIS FEELING THIS FEELING I CANNOT BEAR TO EVER LIVE WITHOUT.
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
I burned all of my bridges
Without knowing it
And now that I know how to seek
(Not only hide)
I am walking into gutters
Gorges and ravines
Dug by my absence
And the interpretations of
Those who once loved me
And I know that
Not one person is at fault
But it's hard to breathe when I see
The divide
And it's hard to keep stepping
When I can feel
That loss of warmth
No one else can see the person
Taking control for you
No one else can understand
It wasn't me who forgot about you
I am stranded
The old commander is gone
And I'm the only one left to blame
Feb 2018 · 124
Sometime/last/year
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
And I am dead to the world
Dead to your voice
And dead to your hands
Especially your hands
Because they've always known better than the head behind them
And I am dead to the garden out back
Dead to the bed we shared
And dead to our tiny dreams
We've both made new ones by now
And I am dead to you
And it is not because you have chosen someone else to get your fix
I am dead to you because I want to be
I do not want to live on in your memories
Get me out of that place
Get me away from those claws you call your feelings
Get me away from the razor sharp teeth of your hindsight
I am dead to all of it
Dead
Let me burry myself in peace
I am dead to the world
Because I am dead to you
Dear god i am so pretentious when I’m sad
Feb 2018 · 130
12/16/17
Ford Prefect Feb 2018
look at all this *****

Coming out of me
Violent currents
Sinking rocks
I am drowning
In my thoughts
I found in my notes including sorry
Jan 2018 · 339
gold monday
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
how to steal a soul:

blow three kisses to the mailman
two to the dean of admissions
and one to yourself
because you'll always be queen
of your own heart

three days later
drown yourself in sugar,
the hooves of lovesick pigs,
and the chipped tooths
of the bodies from
one-way-loves past

hug your cats goodbye
remember to turn off the heater
(it's hot enough inside you)
don't forget a brain-melting
smile

and jump
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
fifteen fountains
one man to do the job
gibberish, this is
but i don't want to stop
my hands become much too dangerous
when i stop
i could have been like him
locked up
fallen in
thank god, that didn't rhyme
i'd have to **** myself for that

i'm always afraid of killing myself
always always always afriad
scaredy cat
scaredy scaredy scaredy cat

taunting me?
ha
a new low every day
forever something new
fresh dark
fresh *****
fresh new to discover
about the innards of ME
careful!
it has sharp teeth
no petting zoo today


where do i go
where can i go
fifteen fountains deep
with this thing i lug
inside me
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
you don't smoke, do you?*

                                                                        well, now i want to
                                                                        what would you do,
                                                                        hit me?

                                                                        i don't feel it anymore
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
here is the home i have made for you
from my mounds of
tired scribbles
and here is your new mattress
full of feathers
plucked from the wings of song birds
and here are the bills you'll never pay
because my fresh skin
will do the trick

and there was the love
i had for you
before guilt took it
away
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
me without you?

me without you
powerful
perfect
perennial

sad
so somber so typical so bleeding from my ******
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
1.   I seriously contemplated killing myself today for no real reason  If I were to go to therapy tomorrow and have to answer, give a "why," I wouldn't have one.  I don't know how to accurately explain this kind of nonsensical sense of "wow, this cannot get better, I hope it gets worse" while still holding on with all your strength to think about a new day coming.  My nails are permanently red form clawing at the new days I've been told so much about
2.   I like this feeling of sinking.  It makes me feel concrete in a structure that I already believe to be concrete which only serves to make me even more sure that I am real and dissociation can **** my ******* ***.  But from a distance.  Keep that scaly freak away from me.  I sit up and the meds push me down, gently, like they're putting me to sleep because it's just what the universe ordered.  I don't believe in that ****, but right now, I would like to.
3. He likes me so much that he doesn't know what to do with himself because we both made it so obvious, so clear that a romantic relationship, that a  bf and gf relationship, was not on the board and would never be on the board but now he wants it on the board and i'm thinking that what we really need is a new game entirely to let run our awkward lives.  Boys always think they're the best at playing the game.  But their powers are immune to the smart, nerdy, big assed girl like me who can put them to shame in about a month.  usually less  .I love my big ***, and so does he.
some xanny thoughts (centered is where it's at dawg)
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
tummy aches
cold shoulders
list after list
of an
inventory
i forgot to
care about
blistered toes
three cold sores
this is how
you start to
feel again

they'll watch you
and scoff
all day at you
they don't
know what it's like
to cling to
themselves

burnt noses
hairy knuckles
crooked ******* mouth
this is the body
i've missed
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
bright colors
aren't for movies anymore
the water make noise
even just for me
and when i look up
clouds aren't stagnant

i can remember
i can relearn

the bright colors
the sound of waves hitting concrete slabs
the ivy behind the gate that doesn't have to choke like most other does

bright colors
warm clouds
cold stones and ragged peaks
that don't - can't - cut me

keys are tools not weapons
and this pen is not designed for bleeding out

fill me
soft petals
red coral
feel me

bright colors
stilled feet
tender flames

all mine again
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
i'm taking you with me when i go
and most people would think that that's a threat
that i am trying to drive you crazy
both been there, both done that
but they're just ******* idiots
just ******* idiots interjecting themselves for the thousandth time
only just to make their bubble-wrapped lives
look all the more impenetrable
i am taking you with me when i go
because i can finally stop thinking long enough
for the good to outweigh the burden of caring my heart around with me
because, you
you, alone, will always be the good
and your love will always make me feel at home
it is just so hard to hurry along with me
but i am taking you with me when i go
and i refuse to think myself out of something to wonderful
Jan 2018 · 143
i'm sweating again
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
I am in love with a boy
And all of his friends
Because they are so nice
So kind
So smart
So good to me and each other
And I want to hold them
And never let go
And I want him in me
Forever
so sappy so ew so shoot me in the face pls
Ford Prefect Jan 2018
and he loves me
but he's scared of me
terrified of how he looks
at me
and can't say a single
bad word about me
other than
i want her so much it makes me ache
and i love him
and i tell him all the time
because i want
him
to know that i won't hurt him
like i did the rest
he makes me want to be good
he's a little boy at heart
trying to stay safe
without the guidance of
a mother
the hand of a father
he is shaking
in the air that surrounds us both
he loves me
i love him
*i will give him time because it is all i have to offer
Dec 2017 · 215
so the lady was like
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
when i look at him
i think of all the times
i have been wronged
beaten down
by the stupidity
of so many before him
that looked the same
and smoked the same
and held me like i was water
but this time
i am not afraid of him
of it
of myself and my tendencies
to throw away used hearts
used bodies
weathered lips

i know that he will stick
because i'm okay with staying
and he's only a frog
sick of being a ******* prince
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
i'll give you a book of one hundred poems
all worse than the one before it
i'll give countless lines about
his fingers in my hair
and my hand in his
and the way his breath would
tickle my neck
cause an earthquake inside of me
and i'll give you all the lovey dovey
all the happily ever after
and all the heartbreak
that always follows
that always gives us something
to hold on to
i'll give you hundreds
i'll give you thousands
and it'll all be a ******* lie

you won't know any better
no one ever knows any better
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
it's silly to read into drunk texts
as if they are coded messages
with all the hidden meanings
you've been longing for
it's masochistic
that silly boy
with silly hair
and not so silly fingers
(wink, wink)
doesn't love you
and you don't love him
you love the way he makes you feel
the way his drunken slurs make you feel
you love that he makes you feel anything
in the first place
his drunk texts aren't your open door
they can never be your salvation
silly you

that phone of yours
that mind of yours
is playing you again
Dec 2017 · 313
Chinese landscape paintings
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
this week i have spent the night in a boy's bed
twice
and both nights
we woke up together and
made my toes curl
and both mornings after
we laid in bed
and we talked
and kissed
and it felt so good
not because i'm in love with him
(because i'm not interested in that)
but because he makes me feel so
normal
he looks at me like i make sense
and that is the most
comforting thing
i've had yet to feel
Dec 2017 · 202
i fucking miss her
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
i used to know what i would write in my letter
what i would want to read in the letters from friends and family
i used to know who i would blame
who i would torture with the accusations
that could never be resolved from a coffin in the ground
i used to know that i didn't want to be the only one
i used to know that i didn't want to be any one
and i used to know that nothing she did
could ever bring me back
nothing she did would ever be enough to relight the snubbed out wick
i don't know any of that now
i only know the uncertainty
i only know the questions
i only know the black page in front of me
inked from the future that i don't think much about
i used to know that i was ready for the black to swallow me

now i know i i'm more fitted for the grey
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
they always say to me
"you get attached too quickly,
and always,
always,
to the wrong people"
and i tell them

you'd hang on to
the smallest
hints of hope, too,
if you've been left,
been forgotten,
been as faded into
the crowd as i
have


and they don't
get it
they can't fathom
walking up to a crowd
and not finding that person
whose soul meshes with
their own
and going days and weeks and months
******* years
like that
without ties
and without empty lungs

and they say to me
"you just have to be more welcoming"
and i tell them

i have had my home unlocked for years,
windows wide open
and a front door so
tired of never
welcoming
someone new
i have only ever been
a beacon
and you all have only ever been
blind mice
senseless gusts of wind
on a dark night


and they never understand
but the people
i hold onto
so tightly
love so fiercly
after minutes
seconds
of meeting them
they know the same fear
the same
devotion without
apology

and they say to me
"we can be so very wrong and so very stupid
together"
and i tell them

*i am home
don't you dare
leave
don't you dare
rob me and
throw me to the
birds
unless it's
with you
sinking just as quickly
into this
muted crowd
Ford Prefect Dec 2017
if i talk too much
it because i've spent so long
withering
to a single flame
a forgetful spark
and i am only now beginning
to feel the oxygen
to let the air fuel me
and i cannot stop the avalanche
of words
of thoughts
of lost meanings
from collapsing out of me in a
wild flurry of
sore throats and swollen tongues and
savage cries that for once
aren't for help

if i talk too much
it's because i've got so much
that i never had the chance
to say
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
I have been depressed for four years
I have lost more than four friends
and loved fewer than four people
Four times I have tried to do
The wrong thing
(or the right thing, who really ******* knows)
And four times I have been prescribed
A life foggier than most others
But still more normal than the one
That comes to life when left to my own devices

It has been a long four years
But they have gone by so fast despite
The too long days in a town
That only ever taught me how to hate myself
I look behind
Ahead
And I don’t recognize anything other than
The child I once was
Who had no idea a person could be so alone

It has been tiring
And every time I go to sleep
I feel like I’m not yet done
Paying for the past
For the sleepless nights and
Zombie days

It has been four days
It has been four whole days without
Thinking that this isn’t all
it’s supposed to be
It has been four days of arriving
On shores I used to know so ******* well
It has been four days, four nights,
More than four full meals
That have looked something like the
Mirage in the lake
I was ready to die in

Everyday
I must pray
I must beg
I must pretend that this is my normal
That this is my average day
That four days of this
Is what i’ve always known

It takes more than four days
More than four years
Four lifetimes
To relearn how to swim
Without a death wish tied to my ankle
It takes more than four worlds
To feel the pleasure
And not wish for the pain

It take more than four days
To know what
Living means for me
Nov 2017 · 130
Untitled
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
oh, Jon, sweet, *******
*******, Jon,
i will be so happy when
you find the earth
between your fingers
under your nails
clogging your lungs
death won't be enough for me
no, no no no no no
never
you deserve the pain
you need the pain
you ******* idiot
you **** annoying martyr
no one likes the sad ones
who can't see past themselves
everyone leaves
leaves leaves leaves
a leaf on your grave
they won't even see you
six feet under
because it won't be enough
never enough

you'd know that best
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
we don't chase the boys
and they don't chase us
they find us
they stumble out of their
misery
their immaturity
and they latch on
always looking
for another mother
to abuse

they never last long
Nov 2017 · 215
straight for the castle
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
an ugly color for an ugly girl
brush your ******* hair
mommy didn't want you
mommy didn't care
mommy didn't notice until
you had the knife to your throat
mommy still didn't care
mommy, mommy dearest,
i'm not so close to home anymore
mommy, mommy, mommy,
you lost your
first born
a very long time ago
first to cry
then first to die
mommy, stop hiding my pills
mommy, mommy, MOMMY
let me paint my room
let me make it match
the reject inside of it
ugly colors, ugly hands,
ugly, ugly, ugly girls
don't last long
oh, mommy
you know it best
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
i can see myself in these people
these happy ******* people
it is strange but i feel good about it
i am terrified
but growing accustomed
to looking up
to looking ahead
it is strange to be coming back
to these simpler times
these simpler states of being
i am afraid of grasping everything i once had
just to see it leave again
i am afraid of learning how to walk
just to be shoved down again
but i want it
god
do i ******* want it
that cold air without a bite
god
please
please let me have this
i don't know what i'll do with it
the calm
once i have it
but ******
i want it
and i am ready for it
it feels so good to breathe
Ford Prefect Nov 2017
This time last year I was writing things that meant something that could stir something in your soul that could trump the monotony of waiting for a break I could make you listen I could make you lose your breath your sanity your reason I could do it all I could be it all now I am nothing rebuilding again always again and again it never stops the downward ***** I have been dumped in that dark pit too many times I am tired where did you go me or you this is what is left
What it is I don't know I don't know I don't know how to keep the faith how to trudge on how to be like the rest of you all without questions and haunting forms
what now
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