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 Mar 2014 Hands
Langston Hughes
Fine living . . . a la carte?
     Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!

     LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!
Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the
     new Waldorf-Astoria:

     "All the luxuries of private home. . . ."
Now, won't that be charming when the last flop-house
     has turned you down this winter?
     Furthermore:
"It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel
     world. . . ." It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa-
     mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting.
     Alexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished
     background for society.
So when you've no place else to go, homeless and hungry
     ones, choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags--
(Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good
     enough?)

        ROOMERS
Take a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-outers--
     sleepers in charity's flop-houses where God pulls a
     long face, and you have to pray to get a bed.
They serve swell board at the Waldorf-Astoria. Look at the menu, will
you:

     GUMBO CREOLE
     CRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE
     BOILED BRISKET OF BEEF
     SMALL ONIONS IN CREAM
     WATERCRESS SALAD
     PEACH MELBA

Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless.
     Why not?
Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of
     your labor, who clip coupons with clean white fingers
     because your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed gar-
     ments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends
     and live easy.
(Or haven't you had enough yet of the soup-lines and the bit-
     ter bread of charity?)
Walk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner, and get
     warm, anyway. You've got nothing else to do.
 Oct 2013 Hands
Joe Satkowski
blank stare
balancing on spinal columns
tripwire produced by mitochondria
four million breaks

i have the answers to the world carved into my torso
 Oct 2013 Hands
Joe Satkowski
wake up
from slumber you cannot call your own
walk
run
move
proteins block and
blur motion

if i thought i could do it i probably would have done it
being in the hospital long enough
has taught me that colors correlate to days
and that the opposite is true as well

i have too much of what makes you good
and that is why i am what i am
 Aug 2013 Hands
Joe Satkowski
colors matched the name of every saint
and i counted at least a baker's dozen as i fell down, at least thirteen

you cannot *** unless you follow the dentist's rules
nicotine and ******* blur the last twenty minutes
 Aug 2013 Hands
Joe Satkowski
how are you preaching?
with your teeth broken

i can draw lines all day, where i please and when i please
and the lines mean nothing

lit a cigarette
i tried to send you roses but
they wilted as i touched them

many ******* exist outside of your body but only if you let yourself experience them
for how much i enjoy cutting the wings off of butterflies, i never want to be an entomologist
 Aug 2013 Hands
1487
I don't care
 Aug 2013 Hands
1487
The drinks make me numb
So I can't feel
It doesn't matter that time can heal...


I want it now.
 Jan 2013 Hands
Ugo
(the city had fought the fortnight before)
fire burned through the little skirts
and plastic lunch boxes
carrying the nourishment of our future
doctors and worldshakers—

                                 Future
tax paying Americans
And beacon of the nation.

Wide awake, in the thoughts of a light bulb,
(Where sidewalk stairs politic with the devil,)
A raindrop fell and whispered to the asphalt,
“Tell me what you know about happiness…”
And somewhere, in the middle of a pineapple parade,
A Pepsi can smiled and danced the night away with Nyquil labels.
S.H.E.S  
Vicki Soto
 Dec 2012 Hands
Anon C
Do not absorb it
direct it
the anger you mean
giving into false pretenses
ones that bred fear
knowing it would catch up
such an idiot
you want to make this perfect
but in the wake
of your own self hatred
this will be a nightmare
of jumbled words
one bred upon your own fears
but fears that were legitimate
for Chenoah, you *****
how can you rely so heavily upon another
how can you think your glass can be so easily fixed
not just that either
how long have you sat in the dark
yes, you are damaged, WHO CARES HAHA
you have to fix yourself for once
unsure how that is to even be achieved
but let me say perhaps you will get there
stop absorbing all the pain
DIRECT IT
direct it to better yourself
for once in your pathetic existence
you know what it is to be done
so stop wallowing in pain
and expecting others to care
PITIFUL
others can relate yes
but in the end it is up to you to choose
whether you will ever see light again
maybe not, perhaps, probably not
what does it matter really
there are a couple lights who rely on you
so stop with the self absorption
and think about what they need
sure happiness would be nice
must it be sought in the eyes of another
stop letting that control your thoughts
PATHETIC
so many have felt the same thing
nothing makes you special
you were a means to an end, so what?
people die daily for causes much more great
so stop
SELF ABSORPTION
ignore the pain
move on
focus on that pushing you forward
***** about loneliness
***** please we are all alone in the end
we are born alone, we die alone
stop wallowing in your own
SELF HATRED
change the world where you can
touch lives where you can
that is what matters
you expect too much
you know what is right
yet you ignore it and
DROWN
what the ****
GROW UP
you are not all that important
Grade my homework Robert. Assigned therapy. Truth. Raw anger directed within.
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