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 Apr 2013 Mercy B
Joshua Dougan
Tethered lives blot the page with an ink so effervescent  
The letters lie to mock her grace. A dream that's never pleasant.
Misled, his drive stops to pace his fear. The severed message.
So tethered lives blot the page with the tears. It's ever present.
 Apr 2013 Mercy B
Redshift
i must stop falling in love
with boys who write poems.
they love a love that's lost
they love a love that is misery
they love the cuts on my arms.
they only want
a sad-eyed muse
and i cannot be sad
all the time
 Apr 2013 Mercy B
Skye Applebome
Knife?
Check.
Suicide notes?
Check.
Determination?
Check, check, check.

I slide the knife into my chest, smiling.
Blood spills out onto my shirt
But I feel fine!
I wait, but I appear to have missed.

Slowly, I pull the now blood-coated knife out.
Oh well, second time's the charm.

I hear my name called before I can try again

And that's how I'm alive right now.
I was so close....*sigh
 Apr 2013 Mercy B
Nick Durbin
Left alone on this makeshift raft,
Drifting further into the wake -
All I see is darkness...
Slowly collapsing upon my bones,

Waiting to be resolved -
To be encapsulated with meaning,
A filament of hope to define our love...
Show me my life is not *insignificant.
Haughty eyes bestow a daunting glare,
dismissing true beauty.
Their muffled conversations
reverberate inside my prism.  
Carcasses lie in a stiffened, upright position,
indicating everlasting submission.
My future is bleak; my past stalks me from behind.
Am I not a righteous soul?
Have I desecrated my body; your body?
Have I defecated on the holy scriptures?
Oh, what do I know?
I’m just a fly stuck in a window….
At work the other day I noticed a large, lonely fly trapped in the window.  My coworkers wanted me to **** it, but instead of doing so, I freed it.  It is my belief that all living creatures deserve an equal chance at life.
 Apr 2013 Mercy B
Mike Hauser
Cascading floods of memories
Spilling forth into forgotten seas

Never knowing from whence they came
Never to return again

A tree that grows on yonder hill
Bears the fruit of never will

Picked by those who wish they had
To share with those who seldom did

In the distance comes a pouring rain
To wash what little is left away

The dust of sorrow that covers all
Forever more, Forever lost
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