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Simon Avenson Oct 2014
The burden of a thousand sheets of paper
all with the design to make me smart.
A thousand sheets of paper, so that when I grow up, I can play the part.

Music
the dancing it induces
and the embarrassment that dancing brings

The Day
let the Sun conform you to society's needs.
it can't be that bad, right?

****** drawings and half-assed notes
reminding me that there is room for improvement
and that I am also really bad at drawing.

Legos
a reminder of simpler times
always stay young.

A snorkel
so that if I am sinking underneath the waves of society
I may yet still be able to breath.

A nut, as a reminder that we all had a starting place
and to remind us that we all had humble beginnings.
that there will be time enough for growing.

A ***** dish
to signify that there are always ways you can help others
and that you should clean up after yourself

Failures
and successes
and those things between them which seem to be neither.

The Night
A time for Stars to shine
and the Moon to show its true self, don't be afraid.

Blank Space
for things yet to be discovered
and things not meant to be discovered.

A failing corpse, mine
A remnant of my youth, not quite gone
but on life support, don’t leave.

Borrowed Pencils
Oops
I should return those.

A poem, the final draft
written with a clouded mind
and an optimistic soul.

All these things
yet room for more
full, yet in truth empty, like my stomach after lunch.
Had to write a poem for one of my English Classes
Your fingers linger on the bruises
You put there just last night
Covering
Last week's addition with thoughtful convenience
Streaks of red and blue around my throat
A word too fast
A breath too short
I made you angry
You did not realize
This one time would be the last
A second too long
A lifetime lost
My body in a bag
A macabre sculpture you created like an artisan
Molding my face into a canvas of fear and pain
Into the blank face of death
You created art and like most artists
I(t) will haunt your sleepless night
With every memory of me
for some reason this was darker than intended
'Hands off,' says the bag of cash to the robber.
Or, wishes it could have said,
Because it was an inanimate object,
While the robber was not.
The bag of cash was just a cotton satchel
While the robber was all flesh and blood.

'Where are you taking me?' the bag of cash silently wails.
It doesn't see the light of day
When the robber stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Alone, the bag of cash occasionally jumps up in the darkness
As the robber's sidekick -- his car
Rushes him to an alien place.

'I have been forsaken,' the bag of cash mopes.
Once the robber takes it out,
The bag of cash will have to die.
It cannot imagine the horrifying thought
Of the robber slitting him open.
Its organs -- the wads of cash -- will all spill out in a puddle.
What did the bag of cash deserve
To meet with such terrible fate?

But the bag of cash hears a gunshot
Once, twice, and thrice.
And a flicker of hope lights up within it.
It sees the light of day again as the trunk opens
And, to its delight, sees the robber
Cuffed by the wrist and wearing a scowl.

'I can go home now,' thinks the bag of cash,
As the police officer takes it into his arms.
And once it's home, back in the vault
It can relay the frightening experience
To other bags of cash, bursting with paper bills and eagerness.
A little something I brewed up while I was DMing some of my friends last night. I kind of like this work a lot, to be honest.
R Saba Feb 2014
In the bag,
you can find a dictionary;
you can find words
like
“alone,”
“gone.”

You can find
a week’s worth
of candy wrappers,
too many empty pill-bottles,
blunt pencils
and ripped pages
and crumpled notes
and band-aids
that didn’t help.

If you looked deeper,
you might find lottery tickets,
forgotten phone numbers
and puzzle pieces
and more empty things,
bottles,
containers,
bags,
hearts.

More words:
“lost,”
“missing,”
“unknown;”

some dust
and pennies
and elastic bands
and plastic knives
and drastic decisions
and

nothing

except
maybe

a few more words
From the archives- wrote this over 2 years ago...

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