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 May 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
Boredom
 May 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
Freak me out, please.
Say something to make me drop to my knees.
Not in praise or glory -
I've had it with that story.
I want something unpredictable and gory.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't know what's worse; **** block or writer's block.
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JL
I love you
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JL
I am just the lightbulb
Swinging in the attic
If you would just
Shut up
I am the static

Little ghost
Show me your play things
Tall bedposts
You are always swinging

That's the record
Play it again
If you speak up
You'll only blend in

And I wish
I wish to **** I was someone else
Take my bottle from the shelf
Grin, kiss, smash me

But here you are
Lily hand
Sail my ship
Read my stars
Kiss me

Crystal ball
Palm reader
Your eyes say it all
Your lips say it better
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
Joshua Haines
Everyone
  is born pure,
    I think.
Imagine red-hot
  ****** metal.

Clay is given to two
  people. Two.

Sometimes one person leaves.
  The metal is too hot.

  Hey, this isn't for me,
he or she says.
  Shame if it's the mom.
Push it out. Check out
  of the heartbreak motel.

  But it's all the same,
I suppose:
  Mom or dad.

Red-hot ****** metal,
  sitting at the playground.
Teacher says,
  Play with the other kids.
Teacher says,
  Does the world seem big
    because it's so scary?
Teacher says,
  What is your nature?
Teacher says,
  Play with the other kids--
    think of it as
      networking.

  Time to graduate.

You ******* queer,
  said the news.
Yeah you,
  said the news.
Look over here,
  said the news.
Bombs, ****, *******,
*******, *****, spics,
******, school shootings,
drugs, suicide, famine,
STDs, rap music, Jews,
Obama, Putin, North Korea,
Ferguson,
  said the news.
By the way,
  said the news.
Have you seen
  Miley Cyrus'
nip slip,
  said the news.

Graduation night.

  Rumbling 'round the
warm, bath water
  city lights.
Her hand in his.
  She looks over,
What is your nature?

I had a teacher
  ask me that,
he said.

They ****** underneath
  an apple tree.

This is what the rain is for.
  What?
This is what the rain is for.
  To get us wet?
No, *******.
  Because I already
    had you wet.
Ha-ha. Very funny...
    No, it's for washing away
      memories of ***
        under a tree.

Birth.

Two people. Two.
  Let's name him,
she said.
  Let's fail him,
he said.
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
Art is Dead
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
And its grave is marked by a half-scale vinyl replica of The Thinker
wearing a sharknado T-shirt,
and a novelty beer helmet.
You know, with a beer holder on either side, and a straw.
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
Annabel Lee
Understand this
Understand me
Understand something no one can see
Understand how I write
Understand that I'm without light
Understand the things I see
Understand that without that I'm not me
Understand who I am
Understand that I am me
And that there is no one else I would rather be
Be whoever the hell you want to be
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
Lottie
wind
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
Lottie
I can hear the walls move.
Edging in.
The wind calling,
The wind pushing,
At the box I'm in.
This storm will dislodge
My perfect world.
I know it will happen.
*I can hear the walls move.
Essentially, the wind was so loud that I had nightmares (again) and woke up with "I can hear the walls move" stuck in my brain. This is probably crap I'm sorry
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
Youth
 Apr 2015 Pen Lux
JDK
You can throw your mess into my mess and mix until we have a 17-car pileup with no need to clean because we'll be up to our knees in blood and guts.
We can cross flooded streets with lightning rods strapped to our backs  and pray for the rain to send us some thunderous crash.

If I told you that Jupiter views its moons through a stormy eye,
would you see red?

Who would've thought we'd survive.

Add your bricks to my bricks and we'll entomb our feet with wet cement while we wait for the water to rise.
Grab your bike with the taped over reflectors then we'll ride down one-lane bridges dressed as reapers in the night.
You can throw your mess in with my mess and let it stew until we've got a steaming trainwreck and no way to clean because we'll be up to our necks in blood and guts.

If I told you a new moon happens only once a month,
would you black out?

Who would've thought we'd see light.
Not everyone makes it.
Oh, no creature
like you has ever lived.
You are haunting in form and line.
you intoxicate my mind and very soul.
Oh, how I have fallen for you like a child!
You walk by and my heart stops and sinks
I curse myself for this hopeless hope!
Oh, my heart is hopelessly chained to you.
Oh, how nature calls out your name.
The frees and flowers sing of your beauty.
My heart burns in a hot flame
a flame of endless longing.
My soul lives or dies
with the answer to the question
"Do you love me?"
Oh, how I long to hear those words
those words I so dream of, "I love you."
Oh, the song of every bird in every tree
reminds me of your lovely voice.
Oh, how I am captured by you
and tortured by the want of your love.
Oh, the pain that racks my heart and soul!
Oh, how I long to run my fingers through your midnight hair
and feel your fingertips like raindrops upon my face.
Oh, how the touch of your hand
would return life to my dying soul.
Oh, how my love for you is an endless song
sung by my heart
through all the days of time and eternity.
Oh, I live in fear that you will never love me
that I will never hear those so longed for words
that tell me you love so.
Oh, how my heart is lost in you
in your perfect face and form
and your heart and soul so like an angel!
Oh, I die a little every day
without you beside me
and my blood will flow
like a slow poison within me
and I will die a slow painful death
if you are never by my side.
Oh, my love for you knows no end
my heart sing of its longing for you forever.
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