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 Mar 2013 Marie-Niege
Chuck
IPhone in the sky
Glowing blue background
Long battery life!
He stands on the water
.
Little children
Try to swim to him
.
Try to find their faith
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She sits in the school lunch area
(She does not carry around her cell phone anymore )
.
Images change and swirl!
Desolation
Desperation
Replace the virtual simulation
Of happiness and sanity
.
something more sinister appears
---
She imagines herself naked
She sits  on the bench facing "the crowd"
With her legs spread open
Blood
Dripping down here legs
And ***** dripping from **** and mouth
a typical American girl
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--
Every one seems to be looking her way
She
Looks out at them with her 1000 eyes
Which seem to separate  themselves from herself
.
Independent visions spinning around
Every single atom of the whole world!
.
The universe itself looking at itself!
--
She sighs deeply
She dresses herself
.
Cleansed
Free
.
The bell rings
.'
Geometry class
.
The walks to the fence and out the gate
--
She gathers the world and walks down the street
If I was granted just one wish,
for how we'd spend our lives,
I'd have to give it so much thought,
till perfect plans arrive.

We could be lovers on the wing,
soaring through the air,
but I think flight is overrated,
there's lots more we could share.

We could be swingers in the trees,
laughing with the chimps.
I'm sure we'd be entertained,
but there's so much more to glimpse.

We could see the great savannah,
stampeding cross the plains,
being one with mother nature,
but I'm sure we'd be drained.

I think we're more like little otters,
splashing playfully.
Holding hands we rock to sleep,
we'll never drift at sea.
 Mar 2013 Marie-Niege
taylor roff
My mother was everything beautiful
                        Raising in the morning
                        Setting in the evening
                      Changing with the seasons
My father was the knowledge of the universe
                       No sugar coating
                         Bitter and unwilling to
                          Compromise
They told me I was given a gift
A gift that made the whole world turn
My mother described it as a wonderful transition
Returning all you are back to the earth to be reborn                
                                    a new
My father described it as a horribly dark thing that needed to happen in order to sustain life
I liked my mothers version better
When I was put upon the earth to share my gift
I was alone
No living thing would give quarter to DEATH
I had trouble seeing my gift as good
I felt cursed
Spit on
Yelled at
Looked upon as ugly
But time has past and I still have my gift
I've come to accept the fact that I am not liked
My parents told me I had a gift when I was born
What they didn't know was that my gift was not one of death but one of everything beautiful in the world and all the knowledge of the universe
 Mar 2013 Marie-Niege
taylor roff
You are a dream
Not even a dream
You are a dream before a dream
A subsection of a line of thought to put me to   sleep
And some nights you aren't even there
Which means you can't be real
But as lines fall in a quickening pace
Hands begin to form
Hands and thighs
Legs
*******
Hair
I see you
I've seen you
Or maybe you are just a fail safe
Thought
A way for my mind to sober up when life gets to easy
my mouth is full of silence
it runs down my neck
and hides inside my shirt

i walk the ruins and find my words
tied to train tracks, try though
i might i cannot free them

the city drags me to the river’s edge
i want to weave a raft of words
but my mouth is full of silence

the city too is full of silence
choking suits and skyscrapers
only words are sharp enough scalpels

for the tracheotomy but the world is full
of silence and my mouth is full
of silence until you

open yours
and say

mine, too
the devil allegedly
comes to steal **** destroy
which sounds like a lot of work

but probably isn't
in a place like this
even a first-grade massacre

won't undistract
us for long; the devil
doesn't have to cook

a *** of tsunami
or epidemic or
genocide

all he has to do is let us
worship shiny toys
on the altar of Time

and as ever
i'm as guilty
as anyone
They prefer almost anything to...Reality
-C.S. Lewis
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