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neth jones Aug 24
should they sterilize you upon joining up ?
swipe that ability
             when they hand you a rifle ?
maybe they should stable your stability ?
snap up your identity
put it aside for safe keeping ?
file it under 'f' for 'family' or 'forsaken' or 'foreigner'
or 'forgive me'
send you out disconnected
       with a clean bill of obedience  and immorality
and if you make it back  
         you may retrieve those earnings
and then they can turn you loose
      drafted  out  of the military
perhaps then   
after a psych evaluation
  and a tally
    you can reapply
      for your right to fertility?
**** you out
Your broken beliefs
Your desire to extinguish the very thing that makes me me...

**** you out
Your empty words
Your fraying suit
Your fear...

**** you out
Your insistence to destroy anything that makes us happy and human

**** you out
Your dangerous perception that in order to protect a child you must never become one again...

Which leads to suppression, self-harm, oppression, augmentation and homogenisation...

And when the whole world has shat you out
Showed you that they won’t be controlled anymore by your projection...
Yes, when you’ve truly ****** your freedom -

Who will you turn to?
When even your inner child has closed the door on the monster you’ve become...

****; you’re so out.
In seeing it all shrink about
My soul speaks mountains from a needle
For all the pointless pale attempts to wash out human pupils...

My glow is sealed with humble healers,
Ones who won’t get lost or wheel this
Realness in any kind of form/mess
A million messages sung, secret.

I can’t tread sand that hides,
Pretend I understand the croaking lullaby
Believe that we work for fun and always die...

When work is wild and worthy with time
I can’t sign, or stay silent,
With stars around me pulling brightness
Awkward -

Stay gripped by the kiss
Of wide window spirits...
Woken, can’t make a liquid stiff -
Stay outcast where the open love is.
jǫrð Aug 19
Landmarks of years passed.
Snapshots are easier to remember than memories.
I study them like math once.

I looked upon the tiger's year.
And saw my mother's face in my own for the first time.
A milestone of this pain she gave me.

Was I allowed to look like her now that she was leaving?
The History: My mother passed in 2022. I look back to photos of the weeks before her passing and find an angle of my face that looks like her.
Arpitha Aug 15
Customary greetings
Mechanical responses
No affection
No obligation
When did human interactions
become this superficial?
neth jones Aug 15
modern world                                            
so convenient so deceitful
simple tasks    like walking a dog
are given a promotion                                
                       ­ to spiritual level activities
but  without permission                          
sun rises and sets every day
and my toenails keep on growing savage
i clip  hack  and file                  
return to submission
                                             so far  so wound
[maybe                             maybe
it's always been               we're just speeding
this way                         to our
..foreign                              grateful demise]

.
Zywa Aug 11
The dramatic question
..What is
going on with me?
What's happening
in the world around me?

Everything moves
..I follow
and think
about what it means
and the images shift

I bend
..to the wind
which always blows
There is never any certainty
as to what is going on
Thinking reed: "Pensées" ("Thoughts", 1669, Blaise Pascal), section VI "Foy sans raisonnement" ("The Philosophers" / "Faith without reasoning"), Pensée #347 - L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature; mais c'est un roseau pensant.

Collection "Metamorphic body"
Our connection,
is a pale moon above
and stars that shine
they are yours as they are also mine,
we feel the grey of falling rain
the warmth of joy
and the chill of pain,
we live we love, we laugh and we die
with the same yellow sun
and the same blue sky
Spicy Digits Aug 4
Let me feed you, they say
Sat in a puddle of *****
Our teeth are barcodes
Our bones are meals

Let me heal you, they say
Then they take yet more
But Im not slowing down
(You can't when you're poor)

Let me show you self, they say
And pawn their own breath away
Enlightened in pure white light
Blue eyes of divine right

Let me educate you, they say
From the vacant room never left
Of fathers' touches never kept
And dog-eared pages of contempt

Let me, let me, let me
As if I am able to escape
Push me, push me, push me
As if its only me that shakes
Violently, violently, violently
In a regime ripe to break
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