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Would you like me to get a nose job too? Should I change my hairstyle to contour the slight slope of my cheekbones. I feel squished, pressured, I've been trying to squeeze out what's boiled and festered these uncomfortable itchings of my pent up feelings are expanding into a hot air balloon not the kind to make a loved one swoon this craft protects my perpetual doom It's comfortable up there with every ounce of suppressed thoughts jammed inside my head I don't have to talk to anyone. I don't have to listen to anyone. I don't have to care about anyone. I can eat until I puke I can drink until I puke I can cry until I puke I can puke until I have nothing left inside me Empty, i'm left on the ground writhing I trapped myself in that hot air balloon for way too long re-wrapped, jet-packed, flew down to the throng of people. just like me. breaking and aching just like me found solace in fresh soil and beautiful poetry I tried to stable myself like the earth I tried to staple down my thoughts and feelings into poetry and my everything orgasmically erupted I galloped without stirrups through hazy fields doing cartwheels, digesting meals When I am asked to revise a poem I am clench-jaws, buckled knees stiffening literal un-moving trees How can I perfect a direction of words that grow wild with cathartic freedom? How can I perfect my writing when writing about my flaws makes me a better person?
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM UTC
when i am asked to revise a poem
Would you like me to get a nose job too? Should I change my hairstyle to contour the slight slope of my cheekbones. I feel squished, pressured, I've been trying to squeeze out what's boiled and festered these uncomfortable itchings of my pent up feelings are expanding into a hot air balloon not the kind to make a loved one swoon this craft protects my perpetual doom It's comfortable up there with every ounce of suppressed thoughts jammed inside my head I don't have to talk to anyone. I don't have to listen to anyone. I don't have to care about anyone. I can eat until I puke I can drink until I puke I can cry until I puke I can puke until I have nothing left inside me Empty, i'm left on the ground writhing I trapped myself in that hot air balloon for way too long re-wrapped, jet-packed, flew down to the throng of people. just like me. breaking and aching just like me found solace in fresh soil and beautiful poetry I tried to stable myself like the earth I tried to staple down my thoughts and feelings into poetry and my everything orgasmically erupted I galloped without stirrups through hazy fields doing cartwheels, digesting meals When I am asked to revise a poem I am clench-jaws, buckled knees stiffening literal un-moving trees How can I perfect a direction of words that grow wild with cathartic freedom? How can I perfect my writing when writing about my flaws makes me a better person?
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM UTC
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