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pretty names, but you have the prettiest.*
angel's white dust pushed around by
the dingy desert winds dry meadow murmurs.

heated leather seats, **** smooth leather pants
and slender, skinny beautiful body with
a name attached to it, smoke smelled
of burnt raspberries

and the conversation burned like them too,
i feel things for you and perhaps
transparently similiar damage
bleeding rubies out like sap

the conversations dripped like sap too.
whatever does not love you back
never define yourself by that
for it is the love that you have
that makes you who you are
My shield is shattered
My weapon is worn
My counted blessings are scattered
My emblem is torn
The walls are broken
The gates are destroyed
I have been taken,
Tortured, and toyed
There is nothing left but silence
Not a peep
No longer shielded by ignorance
No tick, not a tock, the clock is asleep
It feels as if an eternity has passed
But my mind has become two decades fast
My patience is gone, replaced with unease
It festers, rots, and spreads like a disease
Grasping the moment, so precious
Then going after the seconds, minutes, and hours
My world of time has only become a thread as I dangle so precarious
I have no more might, slipping away are my powers
I am defeated
My clock tower in ruins
My misery is repeated
More sorrow coming into fruition
 Apr 2016 Rachel Keating
Jenni
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 Apr 2016 Rachel Keating
Jenni
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i'm living between breaths
and resting between heartbeats
and the rest of the time
i'm nothing at all
and how sick is it
that i look forward to the nights
when i know i'm gonna make myself cry
because even that is better
than feeling nothing at all
self induced breakdowns
because the alternative
isn't living
isn't dying
isn't anything at all
and i'm scratching at my scalp
trying so hard
to ease the crawling sensation
there are things under my skin
but i can never get to them
and it's like ice is in my veins
they way i feel numb all the time
i'm never quite sure this is even real
lapsing in and out of third person
and trying to remember my lines
this movie *****
where's the remote
i'd like to change the channel
 Apr 2016 Rachel Keating
Qijoty
Build altars to gluttonous self care, putting your wants and desires before that of your oppressors.  Sing songs to your plump heart, overflowing with love and fed with abundance.  Screech and cackle and shout with womb and belly shaking laughter.  Never doubt the effectual magnitude of your magic.
my psychology teacher asked us to close our eyes
i saw nothing
he told us he was now going to say a word,
and for us to think about the first thing that came to mind
"love"
you
i saw you
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