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I want to pick apart your brain. Cut it up. Chew on it. Consume it. Digest it. There’s no reason to be afraid. It’s simply –what I do –who I am: Brain Surgeon.
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Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
Brain Surgeon
I think divorce papers taste like the ash of a cigarette falling from his lips when he told her the news. Like whiskey burning fiery hot as it slides down the back of your throat, with bitter sweet tears pooling in with umami ink, the saltiness hitting the tongue like the papers to the floor, a weeping widow who does not suffer from a death but an absence. I think divorce papers cut up throats like the edge of a chip, swallowing the news over and over again does not seem to make it go down any easier. I think divorce papers digest like a cheap meal, the kind that you know will give you trouble, but also know is better for you in the end.
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Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 8:20 PM UTC
The taste of divorce.
Turtle in your shell, reading a book or writing a tell. Experience scared across your back. But... ‘Tis it a waste to wash in what’s fell?! Stagnancy is hell. Exploration, brings novelty. Are chains made of poetry? Be elegies you write, or dancing in meadows. Your pen takes time, and mortality slowly ticks to reality. Is this how you want to spend, the last breath from your bellows? Is it really worth its hold? The relationship with time is abusive and finite. Or tis it better to go out and be bold? Make sure you don’t waste your limelight. However, reflection is illuminating. And one might find a place on stage with a mirror. A gaze into which could change your fear. To each his own, possibilities are enumerating.
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Mar 8, 2020
Mar 8, 2020 at 1:37 PM UTC
Are You Experienced?
So maybe, we are glow sticks, that need to break to glow. So maybe, we are caterpillars who digest themselves during metamorphosis, to transform into a butterfly. So maybe, we are stars that need to collapse in order to shine brightly. So maybe, we need to breakdown, to pick up the pieces and cast ourselves as someone different. So maybe, we need to shed to become a better version. So maybe, all this crumbling breaking collapsing was never a destruction but a birth to something beautiful.
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 2:38 PM UTC
Maybe We Need To Break, To Glow
I’m a cannibal. We’ll let that sink in. It takes moment to digest that thought. Sorry I have terrible humor, I know. Why and who? Mostly myself, I cannibalize me, To rearrange my understanding of self. It doesn’t survive upon contact you see. So I slice and dice, chop and whip. Until nothing irritates and the rot sets in. Then I have to cut out the bad parts And try to put myself back together again. So you see it’s really not easy, Being a cannibal. But **** I bet the final product will be delicious.
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Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018 at 1:25 AM UTC
Cannibal
You are fake when you are there. You make me lead a life of damage so disappear. We are not talking all that gobbledygook. If you do not know what you did to my life just look. No more of me trying to placate around. I can not find anyone to listen right now. You just scuttle along your business. Because you ripped me away from my true path of this existence. Always the one to make me a maladroit. Sometimes I think you do this to annoy. It made me feel like a pipsqueak in a vast universe. You will never make the grade with the past you coerce. You were always the one to instigate me to aggress. A kind of quality I could not digest. My heart is beating like a rataplan. If you think I can’t stop you, I can. This is my final written gesture. Now my life will no longer fester. I grow forever fonder. Because I will no longer sit and ponder. As the years grow faster. The years you took forever will remain a disaster. I have been made an ugly creature. So sit back and enjoy what fight I have left in here. Here are the new rules. I have you in stitches, so do not move.
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 1:38 PM UTC
To All Hurt
I was listening to a poet reciting his poem “Times”. He was pondering, could it be like this and that? Suddenly my cup of tea happened to taste so sweet, made me wonder why wasn’t it such an edgy, a while ago any time before now just as tasty. Where on a stony thorn was it stuck this long? It had to bloom just now, so sweet a rose!   No one predicted whether it will rain or not, it just drops. The sun, shedding clouds, suddenly swims so low! Pondering me, I could then only digest it accepting a truth: It doesn’t matter when the bees love to come out, sit on the rose and fly. For the time, its best bard only sings on time!
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Mar 20, 2017
Mar 20, 2017 at 7:48 PM UTC
A Timely Cup of Tea
Feed from my soul Drain me of all life Take away my happiness Take away my mind Grow stronger from my pain Grow happier from my misery Show me your way Show me your hate Bring me to despair Bring me to emptiness Come digest me Come destroy me Make me hurt Make me cry Sink your teeth into my flesh Sink your claws into my throat Carnivore
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Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 3:23 AM UTC
Carnivore
It is the place of ill’s mausoleum; This book is really an imperium Which teaches everyone decorum. A true product of petroleum – To fire out fallacy and presidium And produces highest order decorum. A place of mental gymnasium: Highly creative, productive *** Where ill shaded in mausoleum, The place with lot of decorum, Cannot be found in millennium. It is the place of ill’s mausoleum.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 10:25 PM UTC
On Reader’s Digest – 3
The only book teaching humanism; The only which cures locoism; One and only poem for lyricism Is Reader’s Digest’s mechanism. If you see it through any prism Can find joy, fun, thrill and sarcasm This is a weak agent of nihilism; This is the best known idealism Where all spend individualism To receive mental masochism. Reading it is just like mesmerism. Without it school suffers gargoylism. Indian tradition or let be Maoism, It is well read and accepted optimism.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 10:20 PM UTC
On Reader’s Digest - 2
One of the resourceful books unbeatable; Children’s love, care and comfort biddable Is none better than Reader’s Digest – capable. Articles, reports, jokes and anecdotes audible; All are present in it; all are undoubtable. Changing the mindset of students capable Is a new, systematic thing coachable. Changing the world and its cannibal Into the virtues and values bindable. Explaining itself if anytime culpable; And so is famous for being countable. Teachers, parents, students ennoble Reader’s Digest for not being enfeeble. Leaders or followers who are like a crucible Change their minds and be bendable. Behaviour and conduct – key undoubtable Will keep you atop, elevated, lofty and able.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC
On Reader’s Digest - 1
I could chew my way through all the armless hugs, through all the silences, but an infestation of truth tore away the mask which allowed me to pursue such a mindless task, and now I can no longer act so automatic, no longer just a passenger in my own mind, I'm either indifferent or dramatic. And now the entrace is closed for what I detest, you're a part of me and I hope you don't mind, but darling, your knives were always the hardest to digest.
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Mar 29, 2017
Mar 29, 2017 at 11:19 AM UTC
Policy Of No Return
It's not me, it's not me, you see. It's not me you're questioning. It's not me who propels this dark side of my psyche. Anti hides behind my friend, Hope. Anti hides behind my friend, Light. Anti has resided in me for quite a while. Anti hides behind every face-lighting smile. Anti is not my happiness, It's all the sides of me I'd rather not see, All the sides that feel so right when they speak of the wrong things to me, So real, so authentic. Anti's not who I'm meant to become; a contradiction manifesting itself into my body. Sometimes, I feel it take over me, Sometimes I let it win. That's usually when people start to not recognize me, That's usually when I feel my kindness freeze, I feel my impatience and tolerance cease - I can no longer digest anything around me.
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 10:31 AM UTC
Anti
Love is when you can't control your fast beating heart Your sweat from the stress The amount of words you can't digest And the physical excitement from your body.
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Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 PM UTC
Can't Digest
Will you ever remember The Spring times We swallowed butterflies so often Our stomachs refused to digest them And the cold Winter days The sun hid behind the clouds And cried heavy rain Utterly jealous of the heat We made each other feel. Will you ever remember The early mornings You swore Your love was pure And each time You promised me eternity Because this is not what I see Nor is it what you want of me. F.Z.N
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 8:58 AM UTC
Will You Ever Remember
Writing something when you're full Makes you mix up lion with bull When you stay off the kitchen Your stomach feels some itching Later maybe have some tea Having too much makes you *** Take some time to digest This way you can say the best
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM UTC
Advices for Writers -Just for fun :)
It's funny how inhaling poison can seem adequate enough to fill up your time and... natural. I do remember when your tongue tasted like toothpaste and nicotine and I ****** on it as if trying to steal your pain away and swallow it. But all my stomach had to digest was silent words that I am still hungry for and a desire for you to stop hurting yourself and me. But all you do is smoke one cigarette after the other with such nonchalance. F.Z.N
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 1:30 PM UTC
Nonchalance