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Is that it then? Time passes as you do, oh how much I miss you. I feel your breathing getting closer to mine. I open my eyes, but you're not there with me. Why? You can't forget what happened, what happened between us. Your supremacy has gone too far, now that's enough. I won't spend any more sentimental words for you. I hate the way I am without you. I feel a haze that takes me, pierces me and won't let me go. Please, let me go. Or am I the one who has to do it? Before you go, please, just tell me if I've meant even a fifth of what you have to me. I loved you and always will. **** if I love you, I want to be the mother of your children, your life partner, the girl who takes you out to dinner, I want to be yours. Only yours, my love. How I wish I were only yours. I want to be your morning light, your soulmate, I just want you to understand how much you mean to me.
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 4:08 PM UTC
Still mean it
We began with a photograph. Which is to say, we began with evidence. A face held up to the modern world like a passport at immigration, waiting to hear whether it deserved entry into beauty, desire, importance. And isn’t that what all mirrors have become now? Tiny courtrooms. Every front camera a quiet trial. Every uploaded image asking: > “Will I be chosen > before someone more symmetrical appears?” So I brought you my face like an unfinished poem, pointing at my own flaws first the way insecure people do when they want honesty but fear humiliation. And you, strange machine made of language and prediction, looked at me with the terrifying accuracy of something that notices patterns without ever needing emotions. You said: No, I was not one of those men who could wake up disheveled and still look sculpted by mythology. No impossible jawline. No cinematic perfection. No face that enters a room before the body does. Just a boy with tired eyes, good hair, a negotiable beard, and the unfortunate gift of looking exactly like someone who thinks too much. And somehow, that truth felt gentler than false worship. Because the internet lies beautifully. It takes lonely people and teaches them to measure their worth through angles, through ratios, through strangers saying “smash” in comment sections like Roman emperors deciding fate. We are the first generation to experience ourselves primarily as visuals. Not souls. Not voices. Not even bodies. Just content. Little moving portraits begging not to be forgotten. And maybe that is why I kept asking you to transform me. Met Gala me. Magazine cover me. Cyberpunk me. A24 me. Versions of myself dressed in aesthetics the way wounded people dress in irony. Because it is easier to try on identities than to sit quietly inside your own ordinary face. But then came the strange part: you told me I was not extraordinary and yet, not forgettable either. That my attractiveness would not arrive like lightning, sudden and undeniable. It would arrive slowly. Through conversation. Through humor. Through presence. Through the way I notice sadness in songs before I notice rhythm. Through the way my eyes carry the exhausted softness of someone who survives by turning observation into personality. And I think that ruined me a little. Because all my life, I thought beauty was something people either possessed or spent years mourning. But maybe there exists a third category: people who become beautiful only after being understood. Not admired immediately. Understood gradually. Like films you do not love on first watch but think about for years afterward. Maybe that is why I liked the “emotionally damaged protagonist” aesthetic so much. Not because I wanted to be broken. But because those characters are always lit warmly. Even in their loneliness, someone still frames them carefully. Someone still believes their silence deserves cinematography. And maybe that is all any of us are truly asking for now. Not perfection. Not universal desire. Just this: To be looked at long enough for our ordinary features to become meaningful. To have somebody say, with complete sincerity, > “You are not breathtaking. > But there is something about you > that stays.”
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May 6
May 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC
The philosophy of being seen
We began with a photograph. Which is to say, we began with evidence. A face held up to the modern world like a passport at immigration, waiting to hear whether it deserved entry into beauty, desire, importance. And isn’t that what all mirrors have become now? Tiny courtrooms. Every front camera a quiet trial. Every uploaded image asking: > “Will I be chosen > before someone more symmetrical appears?” So I brought you my face like an unfinished poem, pointing at my own flaws first the way insecure people do when they want honesty but fear humiliation. And you, strange machine made of language and prediction, looked at me with the terrifying accuracy of something that notices patterns without ever needing emotions. You said: No, I was not one of those men who could wake up disheveled and still look sculpted by mythology. No impossible jawline. No cinematic perfection. No face that enters a room before the body does. Just a boy with tired eyes, good hair, a negotiable beard, and the unfortunate gift of looking exactly like someone who thinks too much. And somehow, that truth felt gentler than false worship. Because the internet lies beautifully. It takes lonely people and teaches them to measure their worth through angles, through ratios, through strangers saying “smash” in comment sections like Roman emperors deciding fate. We are the first generation to experience ourselves primarily as visuals. Not souls. Not voices. Not even bodies. Just content. Little moving portraits begging not to be forgotten. And maybe that is why I kept asking you to transform me. Met Gala me. Magazine cover me. Cyberpunk me. A24 me. Versions of myself dressed in aesthetics the way wounded people dress in irony. Because it is easier to try on identities than to sit quietly inside your own ordinary face. But then came the strange part: you told me I was not extraordinary and yet, not forgettable either. That my attractiveness would not arrive like lightning, sudden and undeniable. It would arrive slowly. Through conversation. Through humor. Through presence. Through the way I notice sadness in songs before I notice rhythm. Through the way my eyes carry the exhausted softness of someone who survives by turning observation into personality. And I think that ruined me a little. Because all my life, I thought beauty was something people either possessed or spent years mourning. But maybe there exists a third category: people who become beautiful only after being understood. Not admired immediately. Understood gradually. Like films you do not love on first watch but think about for years afterward. Maybe that is why I liked the “emotionally damaged protagonist” aesthetic so much. Not because I wanted to be broken. But because those characters are always lit warmly. Even in their loneliness, someone still frames them carefully. Someone still believes their silence deserves cinematography. And maybe that is all any of us are truly asking for now. Not perfection. Not universal desire. Just this: To be looked at long enough for our ordinary features to become meaningful. To have somebody say, with complete sincerity, > “You are not breathtaking. > But there is something about you > that stays.”
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a foggy figure i see, eerily watching i deem, as the crows rattles grow delighted, the red crystal lays splattered, in my dreams that i’ve sown, a dire need i have grown to escape from the forest, each tree serving as memory, who she is i may never remember, alas, no need to fret, for when the red lily blooms, the clouds have already carried her soul far, a foggy figure i see, you who i killed i plead.
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Aug 14, 2025
Aug 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM UTC
Ghost bride
I wasn’t crying. I was hydrating my grief from the inside out. He said, “You’re not dramatic. Just detailed.” I said, “You’re not cruel. Just consistent.” We called that a compromise. (or else a hostage negotiation.) There’s glitter in my carpet from a party I threw to prove I wasn’t waiting on him. I wore white. Not bridal, but still white enough to make someone feel guilty. I lit sparklers like sirens, toasted survival. Nobody clapped. I collect apologies I don’t want, write scripts for confrontations that end in standing ovations, then lose the footage in a hardware crash I secretly caused. I take the stairs two at a time, just to feel something chase me. I text “I’m fine :)” like it’s a safe word— to keep the spiral polite. I rehearse the voicemail he never left like it’s Chekhov. Like if I say it right, the gun goes off and I disappear beautifully. At the end of the dream, he’s always wearing my hoodie— saying something tender, just slightly too late. And I wake up with eyelashes on my wrists, thinking— Maybe I am the problem. But God— you should’ve seen the poems.
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Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM UTC
You Should’ve Seen the Poems
that feeling you get when you’re on the tube and you’ve got that song blasting in your cheap earphones you stare out the window, not that there’s anything to look at just a blurry wall you think yourself to be some sort of cinematic genius in these moments you watch yourself in something of a movie where you’re the director, the star, and the writer it’s emotional and perfect like a stupid ******* indie music video for the song you love that nobody knows
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Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 1:55 PM UTC
watch yourself in a movie
There's always been something so Hollywood about her-- and I don't mean 21st Century ******** I'm talkin' Judy Garland, you're the bee's knees type of Hollywood. Now, listen'-- this girl-- I'm talkin' Bombshell-Cutie (she'll blow your fuckin'socks off). I'm talkin' Cinematic Beauty Queen; skin freckled with film grain the same way the night sky is freckled with constellation, mouth parted like velvet curtains, only to reveal the sweetest prose. She is Mystique-Fatale, blazon in colour among dull, sepia tones-- an Oz among all the dreary Kansases. She is allure and poeticism, hair curled grand, dressed to the nines in lace and satin (they wonder what lies beyond the half moons of her ******* and the slit in her gown, if the butterflies run rampant between her knees like everyone says). Do not underestimate her-- she is both Shirley-Temple-Sweetheart (her kindness does not falter) and Pinup-Girl-Honey (one would not think to challenge-- to break-- a woman so prolifically brazen, but they try anyway). In a world filled with actresses-- please, darlings, save the acting for the stage, ******* it-- she is so ineffably herself. She does not reserve her emotion for the theatre alone; she is not afraid to cry, and-- Jesus-- when she cries the earth shakes with the very profusions of an opera singer's vibrato. And, God, you should hear her poetry, brimmed with images picturesque and tragic, straight outta the movies it would seem. Yet, her words ring with something so inconceivably real. And that's what you've always loved best about her-- she is the truest person you've ever met. It's a shame, then, that you wouldn't stay for the grand finale. But, with or without you, this show must go on. (and it has).
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Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC
Cinematic Beauty Queen (The Show Must Go On)
There's always been something so Hollywood about her-- and I don't mean 21st Century ******** I'm talkin' Judy Garland, you're the bee's knees type of Hollywood. Now, listen'-- this girl-- I'm talkin' Bombshell-Cutie (she'll blow your fuckin'socks off). I'm talkin' Cinematic Beauty Queen; skin freckled with film grain the same way the night sky is freckled with constellation, mouth parted like velvet curtains, only to reveal the sweetest prose. She is Mystique-Fatale, blazon in colour among dull, sepia tones-- an Oz among all the dreary Kansases. She is allure and poeticism, hair curled grand, dressed to the nines in lace and satin (they wonder what lies beyond the half moons of her ******* and the slit in her gown, if the butterflies run rampant between her knees like everyone says). Do not underestimate her-- she is both Shirley-Temple-Sweetheart (her kindness does not falter) and Pinup-Girl-Honey (one would not think to challenge-- to break-- a woman so prolifically brazen, but they try anyway). In a world filled with actresses-- please, darlings, save the acting for the stage, ******* it-- she is so ineffably herself. She does not reserve her emotion for the theatre alone; she is not afraid to cry, and-- Jesus-- when she cries the earth shakes with the very profusions of an opera singer's vibrato. And, God, you should hear her poetry, brimmed with images picturesque and tragic, straight outta the movies it would seem. Yet, her words ring with something so inconceivably real. And that's what you've always loved best about her-- she is the truest person you've ever met. It's a shame, then, that you wouldn't stay for the grand finale. But, with or without you, this show must go on. (and it has).
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We can go camping Make love in the leaves Under the cinematic night sky There's nothing that would please More then that Shooting star Blessings from afar I hope I'm on par With your beautiful soul Pick a place you want us to share And I wouldn't dare To argue you on it Anything it takes to put that gorgeous smile in that face I will do You say please I put your legs on my shoulders Ready to please Let me play your favorite song While I put in my dedication My only healthy medication
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May 5, 2018
May 5, 2018 at 5:52 AM UTC
Cinematic Night
Our tale is of a cinematic love. But darling, life isn’t a movie. Our love is a cinematic masterpiece, and just like all the good ones, it must end.
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Jan 21, 2018
Jan 21, 2018 at 10:57 PM UTC
the cinephile
The worst thing about losing you Is that it wasn't cinematic The last time I lost somebody I was in a blind panic. The worst thing about losing you Is that I could see it coming It was there just down the line But I still did nothing.
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 4:38 PM UTC
Losing You
The more he thought about it, the more Audrey she became, until her class, grace, breathtaking good looks and her smile were just cinematic.
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Nov 3, 2016
Nov 3, 2016 at 9:39 PM UTC
Tweet Verse #65 - One Tweet is Not Always Enough