#cell
life is a revolver and the trigger goes off unexpectedly
and i've been stuck inside a shell for far too long love
don't you know that my walls cave in sometimes
and at the hospital i just stare at my reflection to cry
at those empty eyes and loose medical gown falling
i think the both of us are the most extroverted introverts
to ever walk this isolated rock of life called Earth
i really don't blame you for having trust issues either
i am scared to open up to anyone sometimes
something inside me died when you had an attack
cause i thought you were gone and you were all i had
so when you called me to call the ambulance
i had to bite my lip to stop my body from shaking
so i could spit out your address to the operator
i hated putting you on hold even though i needed to
and i switched back to your call as soon as i could
until i began to hear less of your desperate breathing
it was fading just like my hopes that you'd stay alive
i kept on repeating that you were going to be okay
but that was the only thing i could really think to say
because i swear to God i thought you were dying
and there was nothing either of us could do about it
i feel like life just chose to punch you in the face
and then cut open the swollen bruise for the hell of it
i've been hurt before but not like you have
and it isn't a competition i promise
but you really are the boy who lived
you were told you'd DIE two attacks ago
and yet here you are still existing
even though for some GOD **** reason
life keeps trying to destroy you
your ****** ex told you to k*** yourself
so you forgave without forgetting
your dad didn't care to know you
and you want to be a good father
the other foster kids start problems
you choose to make them laugh later
your condition keeps you off the team
you decide to treat their wounds
your sisters decide to fight with you
you continue to love them
money gets really scarce
you decide to help a friend out
your mom gets incarcerated
you join the police cadets
your heart STOPS
you begin BREATHING
you asked me why i love you
well...
you can't truly love someone best
until you've seen them at their worst
and despite the fact that
your life IS the worst
(no offense love)
you handle it not best...
BUT BEAUTIFULLY
Now that, is why I LOVE YOU.
(well, it's the main reason)
(there's more but we'd be here forever)
goodnight babe
EMK & KAJ
4.20.2026
Apr 21
Apr 21, 2026 at 12:11 AM UTC
I’m leashed to a pole
that buzzes and gasps
its needle tube into my arm.
Time means nothing
when there are no shadows,
only neon watchkeepers
that pry my eyes open
with a flip of a switch.
I’m asked, “Do you know
where you are?…Name three
things in the room…What
is the sentence you said you’d
remember?…Write it down.
I order food, but it’s not food.
It was warm somewhere in the kitchen,
but at the lifting of a lid by my bedside.
It is cold, foul, and my stomach rebels.
You have a fever. Here’s a Tylenol.
Do you still know who you are?
An eraser board tells me it’s a new day.
Maybe today I will go where they can
get me strong enough to walk again.
There is so much waiting.
I ride the waves of minutes
and masked faces.
It’s noon, I think…I still know my name.
I remember the sentence I chose
to repeat a week ago and can still write it.
The eraser board black inks it is Friday.
My doctor tells me I’m doing well.
Why am I mourning there are no shadows?
Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM UTC
You’re a **** you know you are.
You the **** in your tricked out car.
You're the **** in your SUV.
The ******* **** in your MGB.
You at the wheel of your Scania truck.
A ******** boy, you don’t give a ****
I see you texting as you speed along.
Checking your social or choosing a song.
I’ve a friend who’s now left alone.
By one like you and your ******* phone.
One day you’ll **** or ruin a life.
As someone did his lovely wife.
I pray that day will never come.
So just stop now, don't be so dumb.
Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM UTC
Googled a bit, man I feel smarter
Spray can painting, operation of a lumber yarder
It showed everything, from shopping to the Walmart farter
How to be you, where to use cream of tarter
Google is so smart, it always answers back
Even us old folks don’t mind giving it a wack
Once we learn to point and click enough
We can actually remember a whole lots of stuff
Google got pictures, more shopping and life advice
All at our fingertips, isn’t that so nice
If you don’t get it, you can always ask twice
AI tightens its grip, now we’re in a smart vice
Google me this and search for all that
Sit in your chair and research why your fat
Learn to tie your shoes, how to wear a hat
Check out funny videos of some **** cat
Google didn’t help Papa talk to his friends
He didn’t need cell phones, dots and dashes he sends
Mamaw never used it to know how to make ends
Now we just all believe, whatever posts then trends
p.s. I” HAVE TO” use it all the time, that’s why I can write ***** about it.
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM UTC
I believe in you with every my cell,
With every atom of my body.
If they don’t believe in you, I don’t care.
I don’t care about anybody.
I believe you with all my wounded heart,
With every fiber of my soul.
I can warm up only when I’m with you.
Just let me be with you in whole.
I believe in you! I believe you!
You won’t forsake or betray.
When you’re nearby, I believe in myself.
I’ll pull through in my life anyway!
Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM UTC
I’m not addicted
I’m just conflicted
This phone’s my friend
Till batteries end.
Fingers prone
I jab this phone
My face lit up
Like a buttercup.
If you’re on your phone
You’re never alone
The world is there
With room to spare.
You’re with your friends
Till the rainbow ends
I’m telling you
This phone’s brand new.
Nov 17, 2024
Nov 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM UTC
An organic cell
An inescapable cage
A personal hell
A shell of rampant rage
Under a digital spell
Center stage
A deadly swell
Safety not easy to gauge
How quickly the bar fell
A sageless age
Shhhh, don't tell
It's the same on every page
©2024
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 27, 2024 at 3:51 PM UTC
They surveyed my every mood
They established surveillance
Harshly punished defiance
Had me locked up, well, for good
They forged ideas in my mind
Had me believe I was blind
Shaped me into a pariah
Repeated they were the Messiah
Repeated for hours on end
A virus had plagued the cell
To this litany without end
No one was safe, they could tell
Words echoed into my room
We were either set for doom
Or grateful to be rescued
By their remedy, they cooed
My every step was measured
Some rebelled, they were injured
One mile is all we had left
To run and not go bereft
While the media explained
The pandemic knew no end
They monitored our thinking
A ceaseless, clueless talking
If you believed me to be
Some prisoner in a facility
Well, I am very sorry
I am just, like you and me,
A human being in 2020...
11:23-11:40 pm
Nancy
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 5:53 PM UTC
The only cells
In my body that
I love are
The dead ones
May 26, 2020
May 26, 2020 at 1:19 AM UTC
Twenty twenty
The world is sick
Locked in my room
And trapped in my head
My thoughts
My eternal prison cell
Screaming at four walls
PLEASE LET ME OUT
May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020 at 5:43 PM UTC
It’s those goosebumps
From your sweet and soft kisses
In my neck
Which make
Every cell of my body
Feel so alive
May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 9:40 AM UTC
Every Man Has a Dream
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Every man has a dream that he cannot quite touch...
a dream of contentment, of soft, starlit rain,
of a breeze in the evening that, rising again,
reminds him of something that cannot have been,
and he calls this dream love.
And each man has a dream that he fears to let live,
for he knows: to succumb is to throw away all.
So he curses, denies it and locks it within
the cells of his heart and he calls it a sin,
this madness, this love.
But each man in his living falls prey to his dreams,
and he struggles, but so he ensures that he falls,
and he finds in the end that he cannot deny
the hope that he feels or the tears that he cries
in the darkness of night for this light he calls love.
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Apr 4, 2020
Apr 4, 2020 at 12:29 AM UTC
I’m forgetting the touch of palm
I’m forgetting touch of human
I’m forgetting the power of touch
I’m forgetting touch of will
only living is living inside closed doors
only living is living with hands washed long
only living is living within limits of the walls
For on the surface is always served living cell(virus).
I’m trying reflection flat and clean on surface,
I’m trying new doors and windows to be locked and sealed
I’m trying for things to not change much yet, it's being months and years I haven’t, purlieu and talk a lot.
I sit home just to tell something and I’m not so excited
Because I have a worry, with a trace returning with every cough,
just like something might happen and it's as bad as it is the feeling
that if I stay with you, you will die.
In my entire life, It pains me to imagine-Living with the Living Cell(VIRUS)
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM UTC
My cell
No bars
No walls
Just my own thoughts and fears
locking the door behind me
My prison
No guards
No sentence
Just my own awkward silence
swallowing the one and only key
Mar 14, 2020
Mar 14, 2020 at 10:29 AM UTC
Hold it so gently
So tightly
Tapping it so lightly
Always giving it
Constant attention
Don’t drop it
Don’t break it
Give it power
With you constantly
Cell phones are like marriage mates
Get a new one
Because this one is old
Ok just kidding....bad example
Feb 29, 2020
Feb 29, 2020 at 11:17 AM UTC
stash in your pocket
keep it for years
don’t dance with your girlfriend
no need for the beer
catapult matches
he’s not short on the charm
over the top
as he hangs from her arm
look at your friend group
who’s fooling who
shadows will follow
as long as there’s food
measurements carry
the very same weight
alone at the top
no time to wait
around and around
cant carry me home
imagine the world
without your own phone.
J.G.Lutes
Jan 23, 2020
Jan 23, 2020 at 6:50 PM UTC