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Mar 2013 Madelin

March 26th 2013 [I've heard there are tribes in Africa that hit themselves over the head with rocks all day and I hate myself every time I see you smile]

Mar 2013 Madelin

Jessica M

March 26th 2013 [I've heard there are tribes in Africa that hit themselves over the head with rocks all day and I hate myself every time I see you smile]

A friend the other
day
told me a story
  of a cousin-neighbor-friend
some kid
who saw a kid get bullied on the
      TV
and he told his
grandmother the story
  as if the memory was his own
           and she
                      freaked
out and called the school
   raving/yelling until
she found out that the story
wasn't her grandson's at all
          just a fabrication
in a blank space
his mind thought a
   memory
            should be and
a friend the other
day
told me that last week she cut
lines into her
   self
because she needed to feel anything
         and I didn't
                       freak
out because I understand
that we need to feel
pain
and we need to remember
pain
   and you can try to ****
   the feeling out the feeling
       that too much is easy and
you   are    weak
    because of it
or
you can
             fabricate
pain
   in a way that let's you
tell yourself you deserve all of the
love you crave so severely

Mar 2013 Madelin

Remembrance as Punishment, Evermore

Mar 2013 Madelin

Christa Elise Cannon

Remembrance as Punishment, Evermore

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I'd been thinking about writing this poem for a while, and when the media was so concerned over the rapists' future and not the victim (Steubenville), I decided I should stop jotting down random thoughts and actually write it. We keep hearing the term "**** culture." Here's a victim's viewpoint...and remember that this victim could be your mother, your sister, your grandmother, your best friend, your girlfriend, your wife, your child.

I'm pleased with it, but am frustrated that I couldn't get all the NOs to be perfectly aligned! Ah, well.

P.S. The subject is hidden (not too well) in the title.

Mar 2013 Madelin

PRIMITIVE IS TRUTH

Mar 2013 Madelin

Kelly Michelle

PRIMITIVE IS TRUTH

HE              SHE               WE

Seek shelter through the storm

EYES         CAN'T         SEE

Nature's wisdom as she forms

PARTS          BREAK          FREE

Amongst debrie of broken dreams

NEW       LIFE      BREATHES

Amidst decaying, dead treacheries

WHY          ASK          WHY

Layers pile one upon the last

RAIN       TEARS       DRY

Each new life fed by its past

A        STRANGENESS       TO

This rythm, this bittersweet song

PRIMITIVE        IS        TRUTH

We live and die yet always belong

Mar 2013 Madelin

abandon

Mar 2013 Madelin

La Jongleuse

abandon

in the right corner of your room,
the white paint is peeling away,
to pick at it & watch the entire
thing collapse upon you.

much like the empty things i feel:
nothing but chipping little flakes;
fragile little waste that might
decorate the floor of your room,

naked walls enclose this empty space,
but confused excited atoms dance about ,
screaming at each other in a tongue
that I’ve never known nor care to.

cotton sheets, a sweet odor of skin,
***, oranges & things i can’t get across
cause the line is blocked, overloaded.
i want to; bring down the roof upon us

scratch, pick away, take parts from
the whole thing until it gives way
& submits to the overbearing weight
of unseen structural weaknesses

before being buried alive in this mess,
i’ll evacuate & leave behind this expanse
i’ve been squatting in since i first laid
my eyes upon your deceivingly lazy face.

(i’m not in the business of maintenance)

Mar 2013 Madelin

hi, my name is

Mar 2013 Madelin

marina

hi, my name is

tonight, he told of his scars-

drugs and parties and drinking
left no physical wounds,
but when his knuckles tapped
the podium
we could all see he was
cracked
and
bruised
and

still

hurting.

look, i wanted to say,
*my story hurts too much to tell,
but i have scars
just like you,
just like you,
i hurt too.

**** it, jess. i knew you had a story to you. i just didn't know it'd remind me so much of mine.