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Tyler King Jun 2016
Light up a smoke
Start to cry
Relapse just enough
Rewrite your reality
Present a better narrative
Take stock of your surroundings;
Friends, lovers, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, memories, psychoses, vices, recurring nightmares, moments of brilliance
Words that keep bleeding no matter how many times you write them down
People that keep calling no matter how many times you change your name
Spirits that cling to skin, absence of escape routes, confessions that never solidify into repentance, apologies that never pass through lips,
Heretic heart burning vicious under black sky
Bones aching for the weight of mourning
Take a breath
Stop freaking out
Keep your sense of humor
Give it teeth and let it draw blood
Dig yourself out
Kiss your lover
Kiss your friends
Kiss the sunrise as she relieves you of burden
Find the furthest corners of your mind
Keep a candle lit to view the writing left on the walls there
Take photographs of each moment in the event you find yourself missing it someday
Release yourself shamelessly into the night
Reinvent your language
Speak over people when they stop respecting your voice
Bleed it out bleed it out bleed it out
Fill your page
Fill your lungs
It will be enough someday
Drunk poems are hard
Luke OReilly  Mar 2011
Flick
Luke OReilly Mar 2011
The tube, the box, the artificial world
sat squarely in the corner of the room
where once a conversation had unfurled
now stagnant silence peering from the gloom
in want of fun, folly, artificial joy,
no thoughts created, only thought consumed,
where once the pen was our most cherished toy,
now stands the box in which we are entombed.
George believed control through that which we hate
Aldous through bombardment with things we love,
The threat of this electric ******
I fear much more than Orwells famed Big Bruv.
So turn it off, take down a book and find
the thaw to melt the snows that freeze the mind.
Michael John  Oct 2023
the
Michael John Oct 2023
the
the odds against us being alone
are astronomical of course-
do you know how many americans

have been abducted by aliens
and anally probed-
more than ten..

lily-!
they are not so interested
in our minds-

probably picking up spanish
tv on their thing-me-bobbles
-do you like big brother,paul?

what is that?
a tv show loosely based
on a theme from orwells

1984-surveillance-
they take 20 loosely based
humans put them in

a surreal setting and
watch them-the lesson
is 2 plus 2 will equal

anything..cameras will
be our undoing
the man was

right all along
soulless we shall
count long..

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