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Martin Narrod Nov 2015
there's not a place like this around
where i don't want myself around
dirt, hair, and soot inside the air purifier
so many orange and white bottles on the ground

dollars, masking tape, and cologne
Dior, Hermes, and Altoids upon Altoids tins
cigarettes and hand-rolled goods,
Vice magazines and fashion too

The things I keep in my bed are worse off
Than halves of horses heads that
Even Hollywood couldn't direct.
Until I set fire to the oil paintings and the books

At morning I'll count my rock collection of ****** conquests
And bury them like dead birds in shallow graves in the neighbor's yard
I'm a stepping stone that was stepped a few hundred too many times
You have to forgot about implementing Jewels on me
I want to be a pedestal
Something that's seen as higher
Because i'm more than your lyre of heavy weight objects
We're all worth more than what we think
But every now and then i don't think
And that's my my biggest vice
If Miami was even paying attention.
JR Rhine Nov 2015
as i sit
unperturbed it seems
i feel the familiar itch
of the nicotine screen
at the back of my head
in the conscious unseen
i feel the familiar itch
of the nicotine screen
my eyes adrift
in the circuital seas
i crave a quick drag
of the nicotine screen
scratch the itch
wipe the conscience clean
but i'll soon lust again
for the nicotine screen
******* is a vice. Technology may follow suit; one, as the medium, and two, a vice all on its own.
Braxton Reid Aug 2015
I started smoking again
Tell me if you can relate
To the feel of a cigarette enveloping your brain
There's a chill that rolls down your body
Then a moment of slight pain
In the back of your throat, then your lungs inflate

A vice that's Juliet where I'm Romeo
We **** ourselves just so we feel grown

Or is it like a lover you've grown tired of?
But you can't quite quit when push comes to shove

No

It's more like a therapist when I need advice
That is the relation between me and my vice
rantipole Aug 2015
i promised i would stop
but,
you are the vice
i cannot give up,
the addiction i will always
hold on to.
the comforting
crippling
reminder
of the fate that could have been
but will not be.

it feels like years
since i've heard your voice,
since i felt your skin
against my skin.
years since
i had something
worth
letting my guard down for.

the flowers were still
in bloom
and the warmth
was plentiful.
we were alive
but,
it is winter again
even in the dead of August,
even in the smoldering heat.
it is winter
again
and i am cold
without you.
Why don't we pray
Until we're sick

Do we not love another
Until death

Why have I not sent a thought or found that which is bigger than me?

I smoke, cough, drink poison
I stay up all night
I bleed, I cry I love
Repeat
And still find it easy
To sleep

Why is it this amnesia?
Why am I fated to pretend?
Year after year
To find yourself alone, purpose unclear
Needs become beyond selfish
And wrecklessly bored
Without a healthy tinge of fear.

No son's head was clear
For Sunday mornings
We all found the time
When the towers fell

A new day comes, horizon clear
The poker master calls my hand
Another year, another wrinkle,
becoming wiser yet it feels like complacency

I guess I'm trying to say sorry
And thanks for the love I feel
And everything that I know is real

Nobody prays
Until self tragedy, all alone
Years of survival, carnal absorbtion
Will then just be like waking from a dream
And a voice unleashed cries " you left me"
"you forsake me to this suffering"
Or was it god, unfortunately?

So today I pray
God, universe?

Thankyou for giving me life, undeserving
Help me not hurt me

I'm tired of meeting god, unfortunately
A thank you to the universe
Marlo Jul 2015
We were only friends because we shared mutual vices . Yeah, we ran around together and listened to each others problems. But throughout that we were high, drunk, or suicidal . How much do you think we could honestly care like real friends do? How often do you think we were together when the sun shined? Smoke clouds held us through brandy-lakes and just above Hell. Without those, apart, we fell . We were only friends because we shared mutual vices.
im back
Liam C Calhoun Jun 2015
Atop her night ‘fore one more broken altar,

The oddity in #309, a special sort of
Pale beholden raccoon ******’d lids,
Was showering mascara’d mayhem
And naked come two windows down.
Shivered and if only by candlelight –
Just her, from cold to ever’d numb,
Her dog, (a lab and, “Sam,” I think),
Endeavor and smoldering wick
Amidst burnt flesh, timid
Added scent wrought a
Stainless steel’s earlier promise.

Alone, and the winds carried
Whimpers, tearless atop
A mixture – sweat, fear, relief,
And, “you’d once loved me.” She
Looks up, under starless and towards
Two wandering eyes, my own.
So much so, that even my
Beer-tainted tongue could taste,
“It,” – ***, cash, and solemn lies;
She knew, I’d taste, I’d waste, come
Her sojourn aimed desperate and pallet.

But I refuse, when she called,
She begged and she gently lullabied,
“Ravage,” as the nails trace spiders,
Seeping, “junk,” and down her leg,
“Come be with me.” Please?
But – the, “Wiser?” I closed my eyes.
The, “Weaker,” took my last swig,
And alone, shuttered my window;
So having dodged her bullet,
I remove my clothes, my ***** socks,
And imagined one wrist’s warmth

Atop her night ‘fore one more broken altar.
*I'll never forget her.*
Charlie Chirico Jun 2015
Overindulgence
can be habit forming.
A **** with diction
expounding
addiction will provide
rudimentary confliction.
Therein lies the problem
engraved on a needle
thrown in a haystack.

A **** or addict
can only shoot up
in a barrel that smells
of dead fish for so long
before stagnant water
leaves a residue and
film that peels off
quicker than a
week long scab.

To search for clean cotton
resembles digging through
a trash can for ingredients to
prepare a five course meal.
Flatware covered in water spots
are placed on a napkin that
doesn't dare dab chapped lips.

Fork to the left,
knife to the right,
and bent spoon shoved
in the back pants pocket.

If life is a box of chocolates,
overindulgence is the empty
box buried at the bottom of a
trash can. Struggle becomes a
wet glassine bag in an empty
wallet. And death is a pair of
silver bracelets. This is all about
over-extending, because if one
is enough, then two is too much.
Pluma Apr 2015
Kling Klang....  Kling.. Klang..

Tunog ng kampana'y sumisigaw ng kagalakan,
Amihan hanging sumisimbolo ng isang Banal na kaarawan.

Saanman pumaroo't-pumarito'y puno ng kasiglahan;
Mga hapag-kaina'y dinadagsa ng iba't-ibang kasaganaan,
Mumunting kislap sa bawat bahay ay pawang madadaanan,
At mga magigiliw na parol sa bawat poste'y isa-isang nagtitingkaran.

Habang ang lahat ay masiglang nagkakantahan,
Isang lalaki ang naglalakad sa makipot na eskinitang daanan,
Maruming damit, gusgusing katawan,
Balbasing mukhang mistulang mga puno sa isang mayabong na kabukiran.

Pasuray-suray n'yang tinahak ang kadiliman,
Dala ang isang boteng alak na kanyang nag-iisang kasamahan.
Mga lasing na hakbang ay pilit binibitawan,
Mumunting yapak patungong bahay na kubli sa kasayahan.

Pagdating sa bukana, bote'y itinapon sa pintuan.
Nagsusumigaw at pilit humihiyaw na siya'y agad na pagbuksan.
Isang babaeng puno ng pasa't sugat ang kanyang naalinagan;
Mayuming mukhang naging busangot ng dahil sa kahirapan.

Ilang minuto pa'ng nakakaraan,
Isang nakakakilabot na sigaw ang pumagitna sa masasayahang kantahan,
Iyak na pilit tinatago, pinipigilan ngunit sa huli'y sumuko't mabilis na nagsilabasan.

Ang katanungan, ano nga ba ang dahilan ng kasuklam-suklam na sigaw na nasaksihan?

Mistulang iyak ng pagkahabag ng kalangitan
Ang unti-unting nagsipatakan.
Ulang nakisabay sa nakakakilabot na kalagayan -
Binubugbog ng lalaki ang asawa; ang kanyang pinangakuan ng pag-iibigan,
Isang taon pa lamang ang nakakaraan!

Dugo'y nag-unahan sa pagpatak,
Nagsimula sa kanyang kaibuturan binaybay hanggang sa kanyang talampakan.
Babae'y nanghina't nagsumamo
Na tigilan na ng kabiyak ang pambababoy dito at sa *anghel
sa tiyan nito.

Ngunit ang tainga niya'y nagmistulang sungay;
Walang bahid ng pag-aalinlangang pinagpatuloy ang maling labanan.
Tengang-kawali't pinag-igihan pa'ng pagsipa't pagsuntok sa tinuturing n'yang kalaban.

Dala ng matinding droga, ang haligi ng kabahayan ay naging sundalo't kaaway sa sarili niyang tahanan.
Mistulang militar na naging ispeya't traydor sa dapat sana niyang pinagsisilbihang kaharian.

Ilang araw pa'ng nakalipas, isang nakakabangungot na kaganapan,
Ang naging usap-usapan sa pamayanan.
Isang inang nilapastangan ang nakitang walang malay, duguan at butas ang sinapupunan.

Sa gitna ng pighati't panlulumo,
Ang kampana'y muling umiyak ng pakikiramay.
Tunog ng madamdaming dalamhati.
Musikang malumanay,
.......dahan-dahang naghahatid sa inosenteng sumakabilang buhay.


*
Kling Klang... Kling.. Klang..
Bells and their ironies.
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