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118 · Jun 2018
Uncomfortable Truths #1
Nolan Bucsis Jun 2018
I've been places.
I think.
Maybe somewhere.
Exotic.

But I can't run away from these.
Nihilistic chasms.
Of self doubt.
Perpetual boredom.

Unnease with being alive.
118 · Sep 2019
My necessity
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2019
This stability of mine.
Is depressing
The doldrums of routine.
They keep me unfilled.

And,
oh I long.
For adventure that ends in ruin.

And,
oh I long.
For Dionysian ecstasy.

But.
That all lead to squander and squalor.
To trauma and decay.
That all lead to death.
Minutes away from the reaper.

So.
I keep at the Apollonian ordering of chaos and revel in the boredom of banal.
And I'm less inspired.

But well dressed.
But well fed.
But always high.

Maybe just maybe at the end of the dredgery I'll feel fullfilled.
Like all of this mattered.

But I'm a husk of an interesting person.
And the tumult of chaos and drifting.

Giving up.

Still natters at my mind.
Like my unfinished books.
Like my drug induced amnesia.

It all gets forgotten in my mundane days.
My necessity.
118 · Apr 2018
I Only Enjoy. Rejects.
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2018
Today.
An autistic man was playing the free piano.
Turning pages that weren't there.
Not twitching or mumbling to himself.
Not odd.
Composed

And

By God.
It was better than anything I'm capable.
Carved in his mind.
Beautiful.
For a moment.
116 · Sep 2017
How low.
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2017
It seems that poetry has become.
A place to whine.
With form and rhythm.
Simply a minor concern.
In a sea of mediocre futile teenage angst.
Thousands of poorly written love poems.
And possession.
All of it mandated good.
By your own banality.
And fear that you aren't.
That good.
116 · Apr 2019
Non sequitur
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2019
She loved me then.
When I was a potential.
A small seed in the mind's eye.
A possibility.

Yet I let her down.
I turned the greener grass a deeper shade of brown and wilted on a tree.

I'm now regret.
Frustration.
And nagging melancholy.
Twitching in the nightmare.
116 · Sep 2017
Pain is comfort.
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2017
If I could feel like you.
And trust the rest.
Then maybe.
I'd be normal.
But, that's never the case.
So, again.
I broke my hand.
And, the endorphines.
Made me feel better.
Than your concern.
115 · Jan 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Jan 2018
I'm sorry.
I say this with.
Honesty.

I
Gave.
Up a.
Long.
Time ago.

I'm just waiting to die.
Unconscious.
In a drug.
Coma
115 · Oct 2017
Malnourished.
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
Everything is discouraging.

Right now.

As I can't muster enough dopamine up.
To make me feel better.

Everything is ****.
Everything is pointless.

I can't feel happy.
With this poor diet I'm on.
114 · Nov 2017
Somewhere familiar
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2017
I never learned.
How to get attached.
When all I do is run.
To somewhere else.
Otherwise.
These ghosts.
They still haunt me.
113 · Jun 2018
Stupid Little Truths #1
Nolan Bucsis Jun 2018
I have always.
Hated myself.

That's why I'm so surprised.
When other people like.
Me.
113 · Feb 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Feb 2018
Every time I experience or create something beautiful.
It's lost on me.
Like all those long hours of conversations.
With the minds of a missed lover.
I just walk away.
I disappeared.
As though nothing happened.
Blaming myself.
For my lack of perfection.
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2018
No one writes me love songs.

And, if they did.
I'd simply just burn them.

Like so many thrown away possibilities.
I don't want.

Like so many people.
So many temporary obsessions.
111 · Mar 13
Mandatory Poetry
Nolan Bucsis Mar 13
Everything is left.
Empty.

This frustration.
Doesn't end.

It haunts me.

A peculiar poltergeist.

As all my ambition.
Coalesces into feeble.
Poetry.

My metaphoric mantra.
To keep.

An impulse to write.
111 · Jan 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Jan 2018
There are no troubling.
Thoughts.
In the emptiness.
Of another couple tranquilizers.
Far more than I could have taken.
But, how else do I feel like.
Drowning.
While I'm awake.
Other than being consumed.
By chemical apathy.
111 · Dec 2017
M
Nolan Bucsis Dec 2017
M
The mountain won't show you.
Any intrinsic value.
Besides the difficulty.
To get to the top.
111 · Jun 20
My Society
Nolan Bucsis Jun 20
A rage that
Cannot be sated,
I project,
Across infinity
To those I hate.

Destruction.
Desolation.

I offer you annihilation.
111 · Oct 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
I came in on a monday or a tuesday.
I blew in with the wind.
Some seed who drifted into the imagination.
Of some woman.
Who shyly followed me around.
Waiting where I used to be.
To talk.
About something or whatever.

I just never came back.
I was blown with the chaos in my mind.
To go somewhere else or wherever.

I leave the abominable destruction.
Of what could have been.
In the minds of strangers.
Who are always cautious.
And never felt this before.
110 · Jul 2018
No one will ever
109 · Nov 2019
Torpor
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2019
Am I as important to you.
As you are to me.

I hold onto these memories.
Even though I've tried to forget.

And, you were my everything.

And, you were my light.

And,
Now.

I just stare vacant into the soft whimper I've become.
Feed my isolation.

Stare at the wall.
109 · Sep 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2017
I don't believe you when you talk to me.
Cause you do different things.
And, I find it hard to fake interest.
So, I just left.

And, I think about you sometimes.
Remembering.
You've never told the truth.
Just whatever would make you feel better.
You're probably sad.

Go rely on someone else.
I don't have the time.
108 · Dec 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Dec 2017
I seem to exist.
In the tension between.
Each here and now.
In this moment.
Always.
Anxious.
Waiting.
For something.
To happen.
108 · Nov 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2017
We had our secret moments.
Didn't.
We.
Our own.
Thing.
108 · Apr 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2018
I'd get lost in these grid roads.
If the moon.
Didn't show me the way.
108 · Jan 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Jan 2018
I would rather be.
Some beautiful something.
That dies.
Fragile.
In some by and by.
Never known.
By anyone.
The hyperbolic tragedy.
That will be.
The rest.
Of my life.
108 · Nov 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2017
And maybe this too.
Like our lives.
Are stolen.
And sold.
At a higher price.
Than.
Free.
107 · Oct 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2018
I find myself lost.
In that empty space I can't see.
Staring off into nothing.

My life is pathetic.

And I only long.

For some sweet and subtle.
Release from.
All this.
107 · Mar 2018
Truth Bombs
Nolan Bucsis Mar 2018
I don't feel.
Like I deserve.
To be.
Happy.
107 · Aug 2018
Life Goals
Nolan Bucsis Aug 2018
I'm trying to freeze myself.
In thought.
And become immortally relaxed.
In an understanding.
Why.
Is there any of this.
And me.
Just.
Broken
107 · Feb 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Feb 2018
I'm not here to make you.
Happy.
In fact.
I won't even try.

This is how I cope.
With my demented.
Demonic despair.

The **** life.
I've led.

This is me dancing.
In.
The.
Kali Yuga.
106 · Oct 2017
Why
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
Why
I gave up on.
The basics.
Of life.

Now, I'm not sad.
I'm just.
Not here at all.

And, even if these sensations.
Stop.

I'll still be stuck.
Ten years too late.
My body breaking down.

And, my age.
Etched in my face.
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2017
Selfishness seems to be something succinct.
That I use to get through to you few.
As though I can show you what I know.
About peace.
Keeping pace.
With what I want when it's really just.
To keep me sane.
106 · Oct 2017
Utopia
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
I want.
To be.
Normal.
106 · Feb 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Feb 2018
I thought that.
Maybe.
I'd connected again.
To something greater that's outside myself who's existence was so poignant that I stopped for one moment to appreciate an honest true feeling or original thought that advanced both our understanding of ourselves through our shared humanity.
But,
You just wanted to **** me.
105 · Jul 2018
The only one.
Nolan Bucsis Jul 2018
All I have left of my former life.
Is empty notebooks.
A photograph or two.
And her memory.
Written all over it.
105 · Aug 2018
Sad face
Nolan Bucsis Aug 2018
I'm always depressed.
I'm always down.
And I get up.
Oh so very slowly.
On days like this.
When nothing is left over.
But hating myself
105 · Nov 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2017
I desire.
Nothing.
More.
Than a catastrophic.
Chaos.
To die in.
Ecstasy.
Over stimulation.
104 · Jun 5
Sleeping late
Nolan Bucsis Jun 5
From the inside
Of the coma.
I breathe rhythmically.
Out of step
With
The outside world.

Until I wake up.
And,
Mourn the loss of dreams.

Synchronized with the depression
Of aware.
104 · Oct 2017
Podunk
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
Ain't no one.
Not always no good.
Neither are the good ones.
I find.
But.
Doesn't really matter.
You heal or die.
It's it.
103 · Dec 2017
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Dec 2017
I'm safe in this room.
As I ossify my dysfunction.
With more excuses.
103 · Jun 22
Say Tan
Nolan Bucsis Jun 22
I am the blackened
Ashen goat,
Of a black mass.

Triumph of will
And,
Hate.

Churned by a carnal charnel house,
Of blood
And meaty pieces,
Of flesh.

I am the aftermath,
Of an aborted anathema.

Anachronistic,
Iconoclastic,
Filth,
And,
I grovel-
In my disorder.

A barren desolate beast,
Of all nations.

I am the sin eater.

Death of Jacob,
I am Esau.

Undomesticated man,
The bearer of dark,
Light.

The feral fornication,
Of the fauna.

I am a plant that eats life.

Numbers 28:22
“And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.”
103 · Jun 2018
Stupid Little Truths #2
Nolan Bucsis Jun 2018
I feel better alone.
Unnoticed.

It's always away.
From an uncomfortable.
I'm here.
103 · Oct 2017
Things.
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
I got stuck there in that.
Sunset.
I left in my memory.
Hearing songs.
You remember.
From years ago.
That never sound so sweet.
As when they remind you.
Of something happy.
102 · Feb 2018
Peer Review
Nolan Bucsis Feb 2018
Lately life just seems.
Like a desperate plea.
For attention.
Daddy didn't love me.

Send likes.
101 · Apr 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2018
I dance with my shadows.
Until the music in my mind.
Dies.

Sublimated into something.
With no words.

Just a rhythm.
Twitching muscles.
Nolan Bucsis Mar 21
I am the blasphemy.
Of apathy.

And,
flat affect.

In this feminized.
Extroverted society.
Where you're expected.

To be nice.
To be friendly.
To be social.
To be emotional.
To be a woman.

I don't quite know what equality is.
When the deck is stacked against me.
Cause I'm quiet and unemotional.
I suppose buffoons who bluster are better.

Sorry I can't smile today.
That's part of the diagnosis.

Sorry, I can't chit chat about.
Literal nothing.
That's a personal vendetta.

Your tolerance is showing.

Living in a ******* preschool.
101 · Feb 2018
Untitled
Nolan Bucsis Feb 2018
I ain't your bro.
I'm an amiltryptamine.
Away from an.
Overdose.
101 · Oct 2017
Harvest
Nolan Bucsis Oct 2017
There's tall grass.
Hills with groves.
Cactus and painted rock.
Out there.
With the wind.
And the ghosts of the past.
That wasn't too long ago.
101 · Sep 2017
Huwhy?
Nolan Bucsis Sep 2017
Maybe if I think through a thousand ways.
Of saying this.
I might find the one.
That's always right.
Instead of a stream of consciousness.
Designed to help me think.
Through a thousand ways.
To say this life.
Just, isn't enough.
99 · Nov 2017
The Future
Nolan Bucsis Nov 2017
I wanna get lost in that.
Could have been.
We thought we had.
Tomorrow.
Just, a little ways away.
Someday.
Nolan Bucsis Apr 2018
I'm symetrically out of place.
Every where I go.
Covered in the filth of a thousand chain smoked.
Cigarettes.
And, the offal.
Smelling foul.
Mould.
****.
Betraying the lie of potential.
In my face.
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