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 Mar 2014 Kagami
Harry J Baxter
I’d write you a love song
but my ears lack the right components
and I would write you a ballad
if I actually knew what that is
I would make the hands on the clock
stand still so that we might share an infinity of moments
but all of my clocks are digital
I would buy you a whole closet and then some
fancy restaurants and swanky clubs
but I have five bucks and bills to pay
I would be honest with you
only I have such a hard time being honest with myself
I would be brave at all times
only I am riddled with fears of what comes next
I’d paint you a picture of perfect
but perfect is a word made up to make us want more
I’d give you more
but right now I feel I’ve got nothing left
I’d love you and be with you
but I only want what I can’t have
I’d be everything you need
only I’m a lazy assed poet
so I wrote you this
 Mar 2014 Kagami
Marie-Niege
I'd rather wear my heart
on my sleeves
then let it rest within the
swamps of my chest-
at least then
I know what my heart
is up to.
(they say a lot of things)
 Mar 2014 Kagami
Marie-Niege
I don't know which I'm most annoyed by:

Those who are afraid of titles
or
Those who are in love with titles.
You get what I'm getting at
 Mar 2014 Kagami
Marie-Niege
i wear my baseball cap backwards
so that everyone around me
can see all of my
half-way decent face
and then I pin
paraphernelia
in the shape of buttons
all around its duck-bill mouth so that
everyone around me
that doesn't care
knows that I care
about
  something,
if not
  everything.
and in due time
I lose some things
that surrounds my head:
the people, the relics.
Safety pins unfastening
from its worn fibers,
and fluttering
behind my arched back.
My mind,
therefore there is no
organic thought
vomitting through me although
arguably,
I very well might be thinking in
my purest form,
and so I settle in that comfort,
leaving behind a trail of buttons
so that everyone around me
that doesn't care about anything knows that
I can be just like them.
people
I remember the day
I remember the place
I remember the thrill
As we stood face to face
I remember your lips
How I knew you were true
But I cant remember
Did you close your eyes too?
Lay down beside me
Hold me and hide me
For your love will guide me
Through all of our good times
And all of our bad
I can honestly say
Ive never stayed mad
Cause you have a way
Of winning my heart
And I know that we
Will never be apart
So promise me baby
That youll stay
Cause I need you
Day by day
<3
 Mar 2014 Kagami
kenye
I'm sorry we all blame the victim
     Around here you looked so appealing
Designed with destruction in mind
     oblivious to your inner struggle

Just like everyone

But being like everybody
is like being nobody
and your body
is no body

It's a shell
     a prison of plastic and made up beauty

Sealed away
     You suppressed your inner Goddess

A martyr
     for the material world
           missing out on truth

Just a submissive sacrifice
You believed what they promised.
This was inspired by an exhibit I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago in Spring of 2012. It was called "Fashioning the Object" it was a very disenchanting display of how women in the fashion industry are treated. I also sampled a line from a Twilight Zone episode ;)
 Mar 2014 Kagami
kenye
She's tapped into another realm
Sitting on top of the world
Resonating the astral plane
At least in my mind
She's above me
So divine

A crown wrapped in flowers and gold
Diamonds in the sky
Cut through the noise
and crack down to shatter the Earth
Looking pretty amongst the chaos

She catches my eyes to bring the temptation of the Goddess
Always within reach
but afraid to touch
to release
Let go of everything

This is where our souls intertwined
The tango of our 9-5
Looking forward to breaks in reality
Our survival mechanisms
From the bottom to top
Where her crown connects realms of telepathic foreplay
A mindfuck of sorts
Black and blue balled by the true cowardliness of reality.
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