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you stick your head out of the window to look at the stars. star gazing. star tripping. come down from space ! get your head out of the cosmic cloud you claim is "love" (!!!) do you not understand ? you’ve become a black hole devouring me like i am easily replaced. you crave the attention of other planets, never satisfied with my atmosphere. but i would give you the entire solar system if i could. you wouldn’t take it from me. you would take it from HIM. you stick your head out of the window to look at the stars. i never knew the stars had their own agenda in mind. i never knew the stars could be so selfish.
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 8:22 PM UTC
the ballad of the starry sky
There's a radio on Blending into the drone of the car. Outside, it is silent. Silent trees, silent night. Inside, there is weight. All around, may as well be outer space. Dark, there's stars.  I'm an astronaut Gazing through the thick paned glass. Inside, where there's weight, I feel completely Filled. And so separate from what's out there. Not just the stars, the trees, the noise, But the people, the laughs, the bounce. Tomorrow, I'll be buoyant again. Eyes wide, Limbs nimble, A-glow. Tonight, though, I am heavy Heavy in my hips and head and heart and ribs Every breath wraps me in an embrace of air I feel my stomach hug back. My eyelids steal kisses My legs melt. Inside (of me) there's weight Soft, sweet, lulling, drawling Weight.
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Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 1:08 PM UTC
Weight
Wind whipping my hair. The music filling the car. Driving down the road.
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Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 1:01 PM UTC
Car Rides
car ride, to, your house, to, your yard, up, the stairs, to your front door, to, enter, to, step inside, to, look around, to, be leaded, up, stairs, to, stop, to, open the door, to, enter, to, wait for you, to, sit with my friend, in, your room. to, watch you enter, to, ask you about your day, to, be your friend. but, you, lay, down, to, pull, me close, to, not, let go, to, get, on, top, to, go, down, my pants, to, take, off, my top, to, not, hear me, when I screamed, STOP.
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 8:10 AM UTC
maltreatment
"i think you're extremely depressed" you announced turning off the fork in the road *(well look who's finally catching on)* "i think that's extremely offensive" i replied turning up the stereo. "you never want to do anything anymore you just want to stay home all alone in your hot room" *(maybe because that's the one place where i'm safe to be myself)* "there's a big world out there and how are you going to see it this way?" *(cue that one song about the world being better off without me)* "mom i'm tired." *(why do you always decide to talk at me on my way to or from where i don't want to be?)* "well maybe if you stopped telling yourself you were tired all the time you would be less tired! or maybe if you stopped drinking coffee when you get home from work." "it doesn't matter i won't sleep anyway." "it might help if you really tried aren't you taking your melatonin supplement?" *(i am not taking my melatonin supplement because it stopped having any effect on me months ago but i'm not about to tell you that)* "we want to have fun with you even dad's commenting that you don't want to do anything and we want you to go out to grandma's and grandma wants to take you on a trip and i want to take you on a trip i've been planning it for two years and i want you to be actively involved and i'm upset that you'll talk to your friends but not me and i feel like you don't love me anymore and i've failed somehow as a parent and and" *(and i've stopped listening.)* "don't turn up the music we're having a conversation here why can't you go back to the good wholesome stuff you used to listen to?" *(maybe if you wanted to have a conversation here you could stop talking and start listening to what i'm not saying and the lyrics i always sing along with over you or maybe you could stop thinking i'm still who i used to be)* "i think you're extremely depressed." *(no **** sherlock i'm not o-fucking-kay but i wonder why you didn't notice a year ago.)*
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Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 9:05 PM UTC
"i think you're extremely depressed"
"i think you're extremely depressed" you announced turning off the fork in the road *(well look who's finally catching on)* "i think that's extremely offensive" i replied turning up the stereo. "you never want to do anything anymore you just want to stay home all alone in your hot room" *(maybe because that's the one place where i'm safe to be myself)* "there's a big world out there and how are you going to see it this way?" *(cue that one song about the world being better off without me)* "mom i'm tired." *(why do you always decide to talk at me on my way to or from where i don't want to be?)* "well maybe if you stopped telling yourself you were tired all the time you would be less tired! or maybe if you stopped drinking coffee when you get home from work." "it doesn't matter i won't sleep anyway." "it might help if you really tried aren't you taking your melatonin supplement?" *(i am not taking my melatonin supplement because it stopped having any effect on me months ago but i'm not about to tell you that)* "we want to have fun with you even dad's commenting that you don't want to do anything and we want you to go out to grandma's and grandma wants to take you on a trip and i want to take you on a trip i've been planning it for two years and i want you to be actively involved and i'm upset that you'll talk to your friends but not me and i feel like you don't love me anymore and i've failed somehow as a parent and and" *(and i've stopped listening.)* "don't turn up the music we're having a conversation here why can't you go back to the good wholesome stuff you used to listen to?" *(maybe if you wanted to have a conversation here you could stop talking and start listening to what i'm not saying and the lyrics i always sing along with over you or maybe you could stop thinking i'm still who i used to be)* "i think you're extremely depressed." *(no **** sherlock i'm not o-fucking-kay but i wonder why you didn't notice a year ago.)*
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something about the late nights driving alone with the windows down listening to a soft melody reminiscing all the old times the good times when life wasn't so complicated it is pure beauty feeling the most vulnerable the most alone it is such a joyous sensation knowing that i can feel this way whenever i need to get out it's just as simple as starting a car pressing play and rolling the windows down
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 4:42 AM UTC
something about the late nights
im in the car for an hour or so the whole time the sky is grey rain splatters onto the windshield this is what makes me feel okay
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 10:06 AM UTC
car rides in the rain
Within the four doors that make up my Hyundai Elantra surges gasoline of sublime ecstasy.                 *I'm gonna lose my mind and sail the ocean.                'Cause somebody told me there were cherry blue skies...* Reverberates my radio and pours out of my chords to the tune of the bliss hiding in the highways ahead of me. Sometimes, I let my voice steer the wheel and my hands touch the happiness in the follicles flying through the winds of the roads. Other times, I drive without reason-- Without a destination or time limit or objective. I drive to dream about                 *Waking up too early                 Maybe we can sleep in                 Make you banana pancakes                 Pretend like it's the weekend now...* Or to caress the breeze of the sunset's gentle gust grazing my fingers and the spaces between them. On the surface sits a black car, but inside travels the life inside of me that I cannot manifest anywhere else. As       *Don't stop believin'       Hold onto that feelin'...* Turns the corners and the lyrics to my wheels       Come crash into me... I can't help but thank the gravel that I drive on and embrace the euphoria that I breathe in and love the life that I live.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 1:20 AM UTC
Little Black Car Break
My favorite moments aren't significant at all. It's rolling over in the morning to see you lying there, trips to the grocery store, you lying on the floor with your head in my lap while we listen to music. I read my books and you play video games or surf the Internet and we don't speak. It's skateboard dates and car rides where your hand rests on my leg just to grab an impromptu snack. No, my most treasured moments don't seem like very much, but they're my most precious possessions, and I'd give it all up to keep having these little nothing moments for the rest of my life.
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 4:37 PM UTC
Little Nothings