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Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
Higher planes
Blood is boiling

Cities made of chalkboard scratchings
with mock airplane pilots and people sipping coffee
leaking with black ink
  Jun 2014 Joe Satkowski
Daniel Magner
My eyes must be
from some time long ago
when the world was a bigger place.
All they strive to see
are wide fields
rustling in the breeze,
rolling hills void of tall towers
or crowded city streets.
On the horizons they imagine
there are no silhouettes of planes,
no whistles of trains,
but then I blink
and they are forced to see
this modern world
closing in on
me
Daniel Magner 2014
Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
Dress me in my best suit
and lower me
put me underneath

Dress me in my best suit
and bury me
drown me in apathy
and breathe my last breath for me
Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
If someone loves you
They love you
Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
Gag me
and tell me to breathe easy
Cut me
and ask me to bleed neatly
Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
Nonentity is of no consequence
If you are aiming to please

Well, actually, or rather potentially
nothing
dead and gone
I wrote this after reading a Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

I'm a philosophy major

I greatly dislike Locke
Joe Satkowski Jun 2014
All of my dignity got stuck in an electric fence
My pride mangles itself, trying to unfold on chicken-wire
I am taken by the throat

It is okay to bite your nails
It is okay to talk to me
It is okay
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