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 Apr 15 souletry
Traveler
What if you ain’t got no money when the stock markets and the economy crashes?
I guess that would just level the playing field, wouldn’t it?
Traveler
She’s got
a skip
in her system—
spring-loaded joy
that flings her
hip to heel—
yeah no big deal.

The ground
says stop
when she says
hippity hop—
through puddles
past rules
eluding parking tickets
like a polite
disobedient girl.

Not even
the rain
can land
a hit—
the girl
with no diggity—
hop hop
hippity free.
 Mar 16 souletry
Shang
with every passing moment,
I find it more and more
difficult to determine
who is human &
what human is?
© Shang
I used to build words
like a carpenter—
lines hammered out
plank by plank
word for word,
like bridges
spanning waters
for anyone
eager to cross.

And now
I write to meet the page
like aching skin,
like quiet water
hesitant to ripple—
careful to bear a mark.

All the words
I’ve sent off—
paper boats,
adrift.

I let them all go,
travelers,
and bridges alike,
let them sink or rise—
and let the tide
bring the words
home.
 Mar 4 souletry
Kai
Doll-like
Porcelain-like
Glass-like
Fragile
Agile

Being your doll
Is like dirt being swept along the hall
It's exhausting
Bones have turned into mere joints
As you control my movements
You blame it on me and point
Pull on the strings
Move my parts
Remember what the rings
Are made for;
Art

Bendable
Any position you'd like and you got it
You want me on the table?
You got it!
Want me on the shelf?
You got it!
Want me to pose like an elf?
You got it!
Want to place me on your lap?
You got it!
You want to abuse me?
Do it
Those pretty patterns won't show up on me
They won't harm me

“Sit there and look pretty” is something I couldn't do because of you
Requests out of your mouth, going in the kitchen and making a sandwich for you

I can't eat
I can't even talk
I can't control myself
I've set myself up for my own demise
You're my owner
Forever
We built
a tower
with hands
that did not know
how to touch.

It rose,
stone by stone.
Each word, a brick.
Each silence,
the mortar.
Promises—
vanishing into air.

We stood
at the bottom,
blaming the height
for our aches—
but the tower
was never
what broke us.
 Feb 24 souletry
Mark Bell
You’ve twisted
My mind
To a point
That I’m blind
Manipulated
Cajoled
In playing
Your role.
Im battered
And torn
Wishing you
We’re never born,
The love of my life
A nasty witch
Can’t wait to
Bury her in a ditch.
 Feb 24 souletry
VinceV
Everything in my line of sight goes out of focus
Tired, but not sleepy
Just zoned out
Just tuned... out.
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