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#badhabits
Bad habits we know all about, just drinkin the best beer, just havin that last smok just one more time to touchin yourself. This all leads to a tedious cycle of thing, one is ok you will think? two will make all my worries go, threes the charm i lost my count after that i don't know. Bad habits lead to meeting strangers at night i don't know if it's good or bad you decide, Addictions lead to people at their worst states of mind contemplating life," Was it worth it? good or bad you decide? Let us work through our sorrows and focus on the life we want tomorrow, Quit out bad habits from our life, and live like a king or night, you decide?
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May 17
May 17, 2026 at 2:59 AM UTC
Bad Habits?
Negative habits, emotions, and thoughts: feel like venom, injected by a snake. Slowly or quickly killing me from within. Bit by bit, or all at once.
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May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM UTC
Venom
You were good for me With your wide-eyed gaze and cheery laugh, your dreamy eyes and strong beliefs I liked you But not enough to break my bad habits
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Nov 12, 2021
Nov 12, 2021 at 12:36 AM UTC
bad habits
drinking alone, smoking, playing dead, overthinking, a psyche made of bad habits and a stomach that's always sinking. this is the summer of silhouette, laying in the shade, apathetic slumber, the figure of a man in the background, counting my ribs and fearing the number. i go transparent in the sunset - the sickness is tangible, apparent, just as i knew, feared - it's buried in my chest, inherent. i can't get better when it's just paper mache and cigarettes; i pray and pray and pray but no one's heard me yet.
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Jul 25, 2021
Jul 25, 2021 at 4:45 AM UTC
field report: the first summer without you
now it’s broken bliss, as my blood pours over from yesterday. never finding solace from god, he tore my flesh away.
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Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 at 12:39 PM UTC
bad habits
Pictures can only hold so much It doesn't mask the difference from a kid to a man, From aggressive behavior to tame Nor does it show my inability, and pain. Looking at him then Shows immaturity and lack of awareness. Bound to heavy weight of trauma and insecurity. Yet not seen resolved Only to make more involved. He was and if not As bad as the one who cut his throat so deep He couldn't find himself enough to speak. He would then damage others who never deserved the baggage.
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Apr 21, 2020
Apr 21, 2020 at 10:36 AM UTC
Humility over Toxicity
‘Side my castle of creation queries ‘trench their tangled teeth ‘to the skin of ideations left by my kindly hearth to sleep. Barbaric! Fixing little ones, woken from their tender dreams, as trophies ‘top their flags of war, proud to wave their silent screams. Drag me, ruthless, from my chamber! Throw me, forceful, ‘pon the ground! Show me, lifeless, cased in embers! Pour me, endless, blood to drown! Look, they shout, amongst the ashes! N' ****** my face into the bones.   Cradled in their kind-less caskets, ugly truths I’d always known.   Now ‘lone I sit in contemplation, scared on stony perch to find, ‘side this castle of creation, hope to ease my loveless mind.
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Nov 17, 2019
Nov 17, 2019 at 6:05 PM UTC
Castle of Creation
i wrote about the beauty of his lips and the lies which flowed from them he's the type of man you can't stay away from you know you need to have to want to but can't he's the type of man to manipulate first and love second he's the type of man you fall inlove with even when you shouldn't
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Apr 17, 2020
Apr 17, 2020 at 8:13 PM UTC
knowing better but risking it anyway
old habits approach me like dealers in the darkness. their faces hidden by shadow, their intentions vivid as they whisper wonderful promises of release, of escape and of freedom. i tell them no, push them away, i attempt to stray towards the light. they grab my wrist and spin me around, holding tight as they look me in they eyes and whisper "you're not going anywhere". i try to hold out, but the fear is building up inside, and i'm not sure if i am strong enough to fight back, to win this constant battle. i want to scream for help, i want to cry out in desperation, but i am drowning.
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Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 9:10 AM UTC
old habits.
All the ways I try to fill the void Seem to make me empty Funny how shallow needs Create a shallow soul
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 4:51 AM UTC
Deep Blue
You say i'll never be secure I'll always be the one jealous of her. I think she's just who you'd prefer. You only see skin color. I'm pale and thinner. Maybe if I was thicker, hair was longer, You wouldn't long for her. Or have me thinking im mediocre and crying all October. I was hoping our memories would hold you over. It's my birthday, no reason to stay sober. Try to remember me before I made mistakes, i just wanted to explore. I got ahead of myself, i wandered too far. Fell from a cliff tryin to get my **** licked. Lost my inocence, then got lost in your forest. Wanted to climb sequoias, now all I gots a toothpick, and kindling, but I cant keep our flame lit. so my hearts ripped and my minds split. Do I choose love, do I choose happiness? Do I walk away? i wont hear the end of it My heart knows what my mind dont admit. I could drive myself crazy, loosing my whits. So i walk slow follow the signals, see it from your angle, stare out my window, watch the smoke flow. I never wanna see you go as easily as this wind blows my clouds low, away from my home. Try to grasp it, but it slips through my hold. Always felt like you broke the mold. Everyone before you was placebo, you were my libido. Turned me into a loving creature, instead of who I am now, feral with fever. ******* for leisure, smoking until I cant see clear. Wish I could go back to who you knew last year.
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Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 12:23 AM UTC
Insecure
Vices, circling tighter. I have slid back into them like a hand into a dish glove, Only to find lingering soapy water in the fingers. They don’t do what I want them to do, Don’t relieve my misery as I had hoped. And I burn burn burn like a circle of hell, While trapped in my own ring of fire. I think about you. But that’s not enough either. What is? The chains get a better hold of me. I take a deep breath and let myself be pulled under.
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 2:39 AM UTC
Relapse
I dont want food to be my adiction anymore I don't want to numb my emotions by yet another drug I dont want to sweep everything underneath a rug. Yes Ive did it wrong, but what could I do? Food was the only thing that gave me comfort, its not like I've could've shoot up ******* in my veins at the age of 10. But I had food, a sick adiction, a temporary fix, for problems that are much deep. It's a miracle that I could've even function under such amounts of stress, But I did it brave without showing any signs of distress. And why, why wouldnt I feel disstress and pain? anyone that walked in my shoes would feel the same. So this is my solution, a sour and sweet absolution, from now on there'll be no supstatution for how I feel.
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Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018 at 3:23 PM UTC
Food
van gogh was so infatuated with the idea of being happy, he ate yellow paint in hopes of it making him more joyful on the inside. to him, the toxicity of the fluid he had digested did not compare to the toll depression had on his mental health. this isn’t much different from alcoholism or drug abuse. see, we often confuse our temporary thrills for happiness and end up broken in the end. you were my yellow paint, until you were the poems i wrote at midnight. you were the sun shine & blue skies, until you were the rain that poured from my eyes. now, you’re just the water i drowned in and the fire that confused my lungs for wood. -a.d ​
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 at 8:48 PM UTC
everyone has their yellow paint.
A rush of blood to the head The excitement of dread Why Do we yearn for the reasons we bled? To be free from reality Can't see your mortality It's no surprise The devil loves hospitality Nobody watches him slide through the door You give him everything yet he somehow wants more Let him tear up the carpet The curtains The floor That was the last time Every time You swore k.d.
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Nov 21, 2017
Nov 21, 2017 at 9:09 PM UTC
Old Habits
It takes some disillusionment and ****** distress for anyone to abstain from bad habits of excess. Some people are caught up very early in life and so can't get beyond them without a helping hand. ________________________
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Nov 19, 2017
Nov 19, 2017 at 11:37 PM UTC
Quatrain #324 - It takes some disillusionment......
You're a piece of my dad Sometimes I find him in your laugh But then your smile goes crooked and your "bugs" act up again You find clarity for a moment and then your thoughts become distorted Was the habit to hard to break or did you think the promises I made for you were fake   You always told me every day to never give up why can you not wake up Dad, Jake.. ? What's your name ? I feel like we're strangers and I feel like your love was fake You took a piece of my sister's away and for that I'll never forgive you Can't you see your own ****** mistakes You're blind and they were right you are a snake You fried your brains and I'm afraid it's to late I can't save you unless you want to be saved
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Oct 28, 2017
Oct 28, 2017 at 11:02 PM UTC
**** you
Inhale Exhale The smoke fades the pst Short hit Long hit Your lungs burn, your mind goes numb Inhale Exhale The smoke fills the car Short hit Long hit ***** the past, that pain won't last Smoke it up and burn the past Bad habits have made me Bad habits will break me I will eventually learn But for now I smoke to feel the burn
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Oct 24, 2017
Oct 24, 2017 at 10:24 AM UTC
Bad Habits
We were stuck in a downpour on Locust
 Shadowed with good intentions 
 Your vices smothered your virtue 
They exist on the coastline of your mind Follow the glow of the neon signs Turn right when you feel your chest convulse   Born cursed with impulse
 Sanity leaks from the ceiling in your mind
 Your gleaming with dishonesty
 You curated needle graffiti on my walls You disappeared liked clockwork
 Down every shoddy alley 
To fill your lungs with manic choas Just another suburban stray 
 With calico bruises Trying to find the glamour in its grip -kellie scranton
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May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 at 2:39 PM UTC
Drenched
You live and you learn, or you die and you burn, either way you’ll get your answers, don’t be so anxious you’ll get your turn… so don’t be so concerned, the rhythm is a dancer, clip’s in clip’s out, Guns & Moses in The Holy Land of White Powders and Black Panthers, Black Sabbath, bad habits, religious ideology spreads like community cancer, the oppressed becomes the oppressor, the suppressed become the suppressors, the best defense is a good offense, so defenders became aggressors to defend against the aggressors, while genetic defects leads to passive aggressive defectors, which is why she watches the world die before her eyes, and thinks it doesn’t affect her, and you’re asking me why, like I have all of the answers.... To Be Continued... from THT available now worldwide: www.amazon.com/dp/B01I4621OE
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Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 12:06 AM UTC
Guns & Moses
i felt it tying weights to everything that used to matter, everything that brought me joy. i looked in the mirror and smiled, telling myself i was fine. i looked in the mirror and smiled at two rows of black soot, crawling with greedy bugs, that I used to call pearly-whites. i felt my nerves and bones and muscles and ligaments snap apart and wrap themselves into each other and it hurt so much. i thought it would never get to me. i thought one day i would wake up and be okay, but i never learned how to stop lusting after dreams not made for me.
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Feb 15, 2016
Feb 15, 2016 at 7:31 PM UTC
envy
and often nights? i - i’ll have no trouble it’s the screens that do me in. the fallen angel the lithesome, spent glow of do-overs it just does me in. i am too possessed by mercurial vapor a dead self at 2 and 3 and 4am egging on, asking “keep looking? it’s somewhere in the archives. it has to be.” i promised, i promised i wouldn’t, i promised or I’d spend months years, decades of life living in the guesswork the in-betweens lying in the pathways between the thought and the reflex. i could scroll a whole lifetime away in wanting. it’s the screens that do me in.
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 2:05 PM UTC
screens I
Alcohol lingers on my breath as I hide my hands in my sweater. I chew on what were once delicate lips but are now dry and often bleed. I am covered in these bad habits that have become too hard to hide. -O.B
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Oct 14, 2015
Oct 14, 2015 at 12:52 PM UTC
Bad Habits