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 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Freddie Rogers
2 2
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Freddie Rogers
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Taking each breath with a rope around the lifeline
Blades infract the skin to produce relief in the world we call "fine"

Her father abusive with every
        poisonous phrase
Leaving the pile of bones left to sit in a desperate daze

Leaving her lost in a cause that has yet to be found
But perfectly imperfect compacted into a love seeking hound


Searching for joy in anything left possible
Left lying helpless in a joyous yet melancholy blood pool

A figure        appears

Numb but feeling right
She turned on the rusty switch to his light

Intertwining into one mind
Tearing off the chains and shackles of the once blind

happiness now instilled
once hopeless but the heart now filled

every word spoken comes out with sincerity
making it together, opening up their vulnerabilities
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Chloe
Do not look at me and say,
“Goodbye.”
As our bodies pass and go
through the transparency of space.
The hushing scrape of concrete
rests in such parting words.
weighing me down with doubt.
“Goodbye.”
It sounds so final
like the last exhalation in life,
or the flutter of a paper heart
mimicking a white flag.
“Goodbye.”
It’s reminiscent of loss.
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Ashtyn Burk
3 a.m
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Ashtyn Burk
It's 3 a.m, she's wide awake,
Everyone else is dead asleep.
In tears,
She tries to find someone to talk to.
None of her friends care..
The guy she likes isn't answering.
There's no one left.
So she sits in her room,
Drowning in her own tears.
She finds herself with a bottle of pills,
Takes one, two, four, twenty, fourty-seven, eighty-six..
In the morning everyone checks their phones,
She said good-bye to everyone over text,
But left a note for the only one who helped her.
No one could figure out why she took her life..
But the one who always helped her knew why.
{a.t.b}
R.i.p Valerie..
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Rochelle R
Absentee
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Rochelle R
Absent body, absent form.
Absent absolutely,
As if you were ne'er born.

Absent voice, absent deeds.
Absent frames,
Of histories ne'er seen.

Absent opinion, absent feeling.
Absent choice,
There's nothing left to be.

Absent, me.
On fathers, some fathers, but not my father.
I wonder how it feels..
To be on the other end of the gun
I wonder how it feels..
To be one the other end of ******
I wonder how it feels..
To be on the other end of true love
I wonder how it feels..
To be on the other end of a break
I wonder how it feels..
To be on the other end of the poem
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Amaranthine
Empty
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
Amaranthine
Emptiness is a relative being
It sits within each
A ******* child born of perception
And floats around somewhere in mocking silence
Between void and avoid

Emptiness cannot be labeled
You can not put a name
On cannibalized shells
But place a light on the inside
And give darkness life
And emptiness can no longer scream
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
SG Holter
Together
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
SG Holter
First poem to Tina as my lover no more.

I.

Three years and eight months.
My closest. My one.
She'd stayed through madness
Enough.
I am a man of demons.
As I slayed the last one
I turned to see her having fallen
For the blow
As well.
Women and children
Die first.

II.

We cry. We kiss and cry.
Make love crying.
Laugh crying.
Leaving streaks on her back
Of salty regret
As I kiss her every single
Detail farewell.
How can gratitude for love
Hurt like being hated
By a loved
One?

III.

I take full responsibility.
Never raised a hand, but spoke
Hard and disgusting
Bottled anger.
Her leaving makes it
Poetry; lends meaning.
I'll drink again, but the drunk
Demon
Is dead.

IVa.

Today I'll come home
And forget to cook
For just one.
That Volvo will never
Come speeding down the
Gravel road again containing
Other than an ex
Coming to collect
More things that are no
Longer
Ours.

IVb.

No longer mine. I say like all
Others in grief: *This pain
Is new to me.

I embrace it on the floor
Holding her sweater
That I burned a little
Warming it on the stove for
Her in winter.
Then it's into the box
With it.
I'll leave a tear on her every
Garment, thanking for
The love and passion
They held within.

V.

I look up at skies as blue
As they come.
I will live here alone.
Thanking for all the beauty,
And all we learned from
What wasn't.
All is how it should be.
This was our road to
Travel together.

Be well. Be loved. Be safe.
You owe me nothing.
Be happy for this;
There's growth in it.
You are no longer my
Girlfriend, but you'll
Always be my
Girl.

"Together" was our word.
To Get Her was
My most gracious gift
Since Life.
Now let me cry
Like a child lost.
Then I'll move on,
Being neither.
 Jun 2014 HiJinx
calion
I know that the clo-
ser I get to you, the hard-
er I fall apart.
not eating lunch. not until he gets his head out of his ***
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