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T R Wingfield May 16
Family game night:

In it to win it, win or lose! "WIN LOSE OR DRAW" -updated edition, 1992-

"now with fewer screws to lose!"

or get unloosened, and then - come loose - and then, ultimately, you know, get lost... .

So yeah! Fewer screws! (Their getting *******)

I'm not in it for what I can do for you. I'm in it to see what we can do together, to make a memory worth looking back at, even if it's bad once it's done you can find the humor in each mistake - so as to make the recap shine from time to time and a little, too, every now and then...
and then again.
Bright like diamond sparkle, sparks pop and sizzle into smoke,
and fade.

And if the lighting is perfect too- and you set a perfect mood -and you find a good tune or better a a whole album you can dig on while you shoot the **** and kiss and tease and beg and plead and win and lose. It's my favorite thing to do. You ever smoke and chill? Yeah me too. (This was a lie) Nah like sitting still in a room is like... my favorite thing to do. (Also a lie.) In fact he was almaost physically incapable of sitting still once high on ***. He had to walk around and move. He walks through all his spiral thoughts and beats a rhythm out of syllabary slices he hopes that he can rhyme sooner or later, at marching cadences and syncopating them slowly, to the sway.

but what if I could say it better, yes I know I haven't said it yet that's the dilema- what if I said it out loud but then I thought of a better way to say it and it hauntes me terribly; because first and foremost, it is imperative that I always be the most clever that I can be at   Bb every beat of every bit and turn of phrase,  oh god I'm rambling, never mind that **** I said... Hey LOOK AT THAT!!

He Bungles the bolt, stumbles and stops, and gives up the retreat. "My bad guys... I ****** that one up... Nah you guys were great! Yeah that's on me... My B. Later dudes."

(Hell yeah! I certainly slogged that one out.  Sarcastically -Yippee I'm self aware now, too!!! ,'.)  

"You too? Cool. So..? Cool, yeah, so— what are you? Like what are you up too? You busy tonight or like, what's up?
You feel like kickin it later?
... Or now if you're into it? You know...

"Cuz I kinah feel like kickin it witchou."
(but do it smooth) [******* dude...]
{don't be rude}(why not? That was ******* cheese *****!* And cheese ***** can ******* ****.)
[whatever man, he can't hear us anyway so what's it matter?]{it's just uncouth}.
I don't know if this spastic chaos stream of consciousness is turned to drivel as of recentlyZzzz...

Hope you like it, or at least you don't feel like you wasted the time you spent with it,

Thanks for your time
Jeremy Betts Nov 2024
My rock bottom
A bottomless pit
Terminal velocity reached
Left waiting for the floor to hit
All I can recall is the fall
I ready myself for the reality bit
Until I reach bottom
I can't pick myself up from it

©2024
Jeremy Betts Nov 2024
Awful is
The particular sound my tears make when they hit the ground
You'd think maybe they'd be entertaining, coming from a clown
But misery echos a history and the volume can not be found
Any smile is a complex frown I've simply practiced upside down

©2024
Jeremy Betts Aug 2024
I'm reminded I'm standing in the middle of my bull $hit
By a credible doomsday profit
Felt like a kidney punch followed by a di¢k kick
A devastating hit
Not a knockout blow but still significant
Physical and mental damage present
Pray it's not permanent
Contemplating what it'd mean if I quit
Then the bell saved me ultimately,
Sending me to my corner to sit
Maybe I just need to cool down a bit...

®2024
Jeremy Betts Aug 2024
Not startin' $hit
Just talkin' it
And I can talk it
'Cause I walk it
I believe in talk $hit
Get hit
I can take a hit
So come with it
Or I'm gonna have to ask you to step back a bit and sit

©2024
Jeremy Betts Apr 2024
A lost grip,
Another familiar slip
Running parallel with a predictable confidence dip
Regardless of every other absorbed hit
No one's record is perfect
It was bound to become evident
Taking a toll
Beginning to show
Worried life will dole out more trouble than one should be expected to tow
Stashed in the back of a mind is the knowledge it's possible
Work to avoid the void of a logic loophole that feeds the unreasonable
While acknowledging life cares so very little
About a big ol' white flag run up a pole

©2024
Kris Fireheart Aug 2023
There was a guy
Who always felt like
He could just slide through
All of the days,

Riding a high, feeling
Like he could just
Shuffle the haze,
They thought him crazed;

They called him Teddy,
And this guy was ready
To help you let everything out!

A piece and a quarter,
It's all you let over,
And he would just rise up
And shout!

Said "I'm Teddy xans, so
Give me your hands,
And let me show you
What it's 'bout!"

I told him, pass me
A couple of bars,
Let me raise up
To the level you're on,

Pass me the liquor,
Let's crash us some cars,
End up with flex,
So what's coming next?

He was perplexed,
Said 'what does that
Make us?'

I said "relax, dude
We're just from Texas;"

He said "go on,  we've got
Time to spend,",  I said
"I'm halfway dead,
Old friend,"

He said "no worries,
We're not in a hurry,
Just rack em' and
Stack em' , and let em'
Be buried,

Your wants,  your needs,
Your life in the streets."

I asked him,  

"So what does that
Make me?"
No notes, this is a requiem for my friend Teddy Xans. Wanna guess who he is? Yeah this is my own funeral rite. This one's for me. My game hasn't ended yet. But may I respawn and play again... without this crutch.
nick armbrister Nov 2022
England And Germany
Twin sides of the same coin
Light and dark the game's the same
Two soldiers doing the same job
Both would be mortal enemies
Yet their stories are the same
On a certain type of mission
Getting the same result
Like it's a scripted storyline
The hit man and the cop
Telling exactly the same story
Each eradicating the ******
Not a tale I made up but real
Or so they say to me
What do you think?
SELL OUT Nick Armbrister new book out soon
Amanda Kay Burke Aug 2021
I'm talking fast
Breathing slow
Exiled from life
Why you left do not know
Your absence stabs like a knife

Because too much time on my hands
Don't go to church or the bar
Stare at the wall trying to understand
How I have made it this far

It bugs me you are fine on your own
I am only half getting burned
Tell me to hit you up on your phone
My messages go unreturned

My tongue itches with irritation
Sentences I dare not say
Can't blame you for infuriation
I kissed you back that day

I suspected you'd never ring my cell
I'm wrapped around your finger
You put my heart through hell
Lasting loyalty lingers

Supportive of you no matter what
Liberated or in chains
Too deep down in this rut
To evict from my brain

All I know
I am tired
Yearning to rise above
Adoration has expired
Why can't my love?
Heartbreak is worse when you have nothing else to think about
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