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Alex Yao Jan 7
I fell right down the stairs.
With a tumbling joy.
And laughed at the bottom.
Jan 7 · 40
Starting over.
Alex Yao Jan 7
My anxiety is furrowed
Too cowardly to stray from the neural trenches I have dug
Dopamine, what have you done!?


Emptiness...
There's nothing like that non-existent void I've never seen.

I'll never be the man I've never--been.

Brain, what am I now?

Sparks. Noise. Entropy.
An engine burning. Dying. Disrepaired.
But a flame still wants to dream!

Emptiness?!
Maybe it's not for me!
Forget who you are or should be!
Be. Be. Be. Be. Be. Be Be be
Alex Yao Jan 7
Did you know how much of everything you lack?

Did you know that lonely people are more likely to die?

Did you know that context is entirely subjective?

Did you know that suffering on an innumerable scale is happening, at this very moment, on this very planet, right under our very noses?

Did you know that it's all your fault?

Did you know that no man is an island?

Did you know that family is everything?

Did you know.

Did you know that every joy you feel is a reaction against a cloying despair?

...

Yes  I did but do I?  No.
changed title, added "No."
Jan 6 · 413
Poison seed
Alex Yao Jan 6
A poison seed is furtive in neglected soil.

From scorched earth it emerges with the aroma of cunning veracity.

But no truth will grow.
Jan 6 · 106
Enemy #1
Alex Yao Jan 6
It happened matter of factly
Exactly as proclaimed to be

Before I had the time to see
I chose the path they chose for me.

Now...
I'm their worst enemy.
Jan 3 · 218
Tower Rise 2
Alex Yao Jan 3
I shall watch them all fall.

My spire has no guardian.
My soul no judgement.

Glory is a peak to crumble.
Jan 2 · 115
Tower Rise 3
Alex Yao Jan 2
Your face is familiar to me.
This light before has played along your contours.
This air has molded to your voice.

Your shadows are reflections,
And your echoes are embedded
In my stone.
In our stone.
Alex Yao Jan 2
Why is the bottom always there?
Climb or jump, or flee in terror.

It rises with me and within,
and compels me to ascend.

Forty years, the tower rise—
Just a plaque that says, “Here lies...

Human, tyrant, coward, sleeper.
Only fear is digging deeper.
Tower Rise 1
Jan 2 · 63
Emptiness
Alex Yao Jan 2
...another ideal to be fulfilled.
There is no vessel without intent.
I'm pretty sure a lake holds water.
sunyata skepticism
Dec 2024 · 81
waiting for the sequel
Alex Yao Dec 2024
Ah with each new thing i see
a fresh surcease of novelty
Passion led me to the end...
again again again again
Dec 2024 · 91
sleepy baby
Alex Yao Dec 2024
sleep and dream of sugar plum dumplings
and dripping ******* dangling to suckle
with your pursed mouth in a perfect “euuuooo”.

what troubles you, o perfect man?
cause man you are,
and man, you are a ****,
and also the president.
from 2017, unfortunate revival
Jun 2024 · 63
Small Talk Gunman
Alex Yao Jun 2024
Hey!
I did not mean to startle
       you so clearly armed.

I only wished to say,
“Hey! Hello. Don’t shoot me.
                Do you think it will rain today?"

— The End —