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THE FOG
Moisture permeates the air, a wet haze.
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Stillness with anticipation, or tension.
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Fresh air conta
@thenapkinpoet
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Illumin@zi
**Most urgent:**
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First we debase this worthless currency,
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To usher in impending new world order
@duderocketship
7m
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Consumption Consumes
I pursued my disease
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With a virulent persistence
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Like the plague
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Or your pestilence
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I fed up
@graff1980
1m
4.1k
trigonometry.
I'm always spilling your
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name on strangers tables,
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and it's like watching
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bottles break beneat
@kaylene-nel
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collar whore
Wet for my blood
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Wet for my sweat
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Hunger over me
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Wet for the ache between my eyes
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Desirous s
@mitakiharashi
1m
2.7k
Black Lace & The Codeine Scene
Crystals of white for a childs first kiss
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Opium is temporary bliss
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Eyes like lace and teeth like
@kaylene-nel
1m
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Dear Heroin
You've been known to reside inside the pockets of our local whores,
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more often in my mother's beds
@kaylene-nel
2m
1.8k
The Fear Inside Me part one? a short story
Utterly consuming, weaving around my body like a snake. Spiraling and spiraling until there's nothin
@thepuppet
2m
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The Celestial
She caught the sun
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for she’d already consumed
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the night;
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And she’d become the night,
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so to e
@liam-c-calhoun
1m
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Distance
I eat my broken mirror
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thinking of my piano that was once used
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is now black with the blackness o
@Danjcocks
1m
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Consumption
I love the sound
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of fresh papers
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as they come
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crinkling and
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crackling out of
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the package,
@megb42290
2m
1.4k
loving like a masochist
creation like an all-consuming fire
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splintering sense of self until a chest fills with bone shards
@moniqueezeh
1m
1.4k
The New York Times
Tender flesh, pale & thin;
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Cigarette burns pock cratered skin.
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Entrails that entail, poison fore
@manx-kronos-pragna
1m
1.3k
Trade Show Victims
Thieves, thieves.
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Christ are we petty.
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Could not have imagined
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such a death
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Such a short-sit
@sean-murray
3m
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Fearing Fear
do you fear fear
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a nail biter? a bedwetter?
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or are there other compulsions
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you cling to
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step
@manx-kronos-pragna
1m
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Age of Misinformation
As I lose my way
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in an endless ocean
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made of flowing knowledge,
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my head feels like an anchor,
@gabriel-burns
1m
1k
Humans
We fight each day
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Crying out to nature
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Like the psychos
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We all are,
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We want redemption
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Fro
@Kayle
1m
1k
those lines are magical they shrink the world...
those lines are magical
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they shrink the world
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bend time and space
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they fill my mind
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make me
@roynesnarom
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1k
Theory of Emotion
This is my theory of emotion.
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It ruins you
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Extracting bone marrow pain
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Rubbing my every inch r
@keah-rose
1m
987
Opaque
I tried,
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I tried to navigate through his opaque eyes
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I tried,
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To collect that little beam of l
@hannah-mariotti
1m
980
Personhood
Am I too much?
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Hard to swallow, a bitter pill?
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Am I raw and unprocessed,
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Undiluted, concentrat
@K_E_Cummins
1m
888
Gnaw.
Your skin splits sweet
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between my teeth,
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a ripe fruit
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bleeding warmth.
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I tear you closer, /
@v4mpy
1m
837
Glazed Eyes
I don't want to confuse you
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I want to consume you
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I don't want to imagine you
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I want to live y
@elyse-lee
1m
811
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