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Don’t write me poetry It’s never worked before Vanity, all of it, vanity And I don’t want any More-words, just-words, nothing-but words I don’t care for The structure The way It is so easy to steal Phrases lines Automatic sigh-bringers Used a thousand times By history’s pen and Those more worthy to hold it than you All you did Was take the bag Of scrabble tiles Rattling and clacking together And shake Once Twice Thrice Forced Farce Until you were satisfied with what it gave And you threw away the rest That’s not art That’s strategy It’s too neat Neat like summer Neat like children’s books (not the good ones) Formula following Empty and hollow-ringing Give me something real Instead Give me the ramblings, twisting wanderings of your mind give me the dark places the secrets the mysteries that lurk in the depths like sea dragons like the ocean itself there is so much more so much wilder and deeper so grab my hand and pull me in with you don’t flatter me while dipping our toes because why why would we choose the ship the safe little dingy bleached wood, branded logo on the side when underneath lies atlantis and the depths
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 11:44 PM UTC
don't write me poetry
Don’t write me poetry It’s never worked before Vanity, all of it, vanity And I don’t want any More-words, just-words, nothing-but words I don’t care for The structure The way It is so easy to steal Phrases lines Automatic sigh-bringers Used a thousand times By history’s pen and Those more worthy to hold it than you All you did Was take the bag Of scrabble tiles Rattling and clacking together And shake Once Twice Thrice Forced Farce Until you were satisfied with what it gave And you threw away the rest That’s not art That’s strategy It’s too neat Neat like summer Neat like children’s books (not the good ones) Formula following Empty and hollow-ringing Give me something real Instead Give me the ramblings, twisting wanderings of your mind give me the dark places the secrets the mysteries that lurk in the depths like sea dragons like the ocean itself there is so much more so much wilder and deeper so grab my hand and pull me in with you don’t flatter me while dipping our toes because why why would we choose the ship the safe little dingy bleached wood, branded logo on the side when underneath lies atlantis and the depths
(so don’t write me poetry don’t write poetry for me. write the poetry of you instead and trust me enough to share it)
#love#friendship#trust#me#please#poetry
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sparrowsoaring
20/F/somewhere
Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 11:44 PM UTC
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