#ghaderi - Hello Poetry

waves are like people no two are alike yet they all end up doing the same thing like the one before it and the one after at their own pace they’ll wait until the perfect time that one that just feels right but when it comes the beach is different tastes have changed because the trends have too

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Apr 10, 2019

Apr 10, 2019 at 3:25 PM UTC

maziart

different

waves are like people no two are alike yet they all end up doing the same thing like the one before it and the one after at their own pace they’ll wait until the perfect time that one that just feels right but when it comes the beach is different tastes have changed because the trends have too

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I don't think people realize how fragile it all is how it just falls apart when you're looking out of the window at something else at first you don't realize because it happens bit by bit you'll get used to it the culture war looms it pulls out your skirt on fridays take me out please take me where the boys are you know you want to it tugs at your sleeves saying oh you didn't hear what they said about you? flag wars they sing truth is a preference it's true if it feels right if it doesn't well it's fake news of course oh you didn't know non-player character will you play to win? because feelings don't care about your facts you see I was born in 83 in the newly formed islamic republic of iran three years into the trench warfare that changed the psyche of a nation forever high on the islamic revolution full of fury blood and soil blood and soil the hors d'oeuvres of the war we fled in 88 three months before the war ended nothing gained nothing fulfilled I see the absolute worst in people I watch them and learn much from what they get outraged by and what they don't it all starts small rooted in a search for meaning a sense of purpose once this is defined just watch them turn on each other the other essentially war needs a dragon war needs young men to believe the culture war has always been there like a monster’s nails casting an ominous shadow behind the bedroom door tapping away at your mother's vinyl flooring when people get safe with fear at bay the tapping dims but when an immigrant stabs an infidel or a black man is apparently murdered on video the tapping gets louder what is the dream of the foreigner hoping to penetrate the walls of the golden city to weaken it? from the russian bot to the isis video slicing brody's neck right before your eyes it gets at you doesn't it? doesn't he look like you? your white knuckles are shaking yes yes the monster says I will draw you in because I'm just a monster living in the hallway and I'm nothing without you is what he'll never ever tell you but it's true he aims to exaggerate the divisions within your family to exploit it to challenge your identity to play with your emotions as you've done to them so you know this game very well you just don't know the side of the table that will as in the iran-iraq war both the us and the uk sold arms to both sides the great game War is profitable and the opportunity to cash in on it is tempting people don't have ideas ideas have people how fragile at all is this very society that I cherish that I sought refuge in my family the vast base the stable economy common law democracy if life started in the east then the reason to be of the west is to carry on the torch to learn from past mistakes and to be a light unto the world until our very toes are inching at the pacific with no further to go will I find myself staring at the window pondering what happened like so many countless men throughout history have? how fragile at all this we won't know until it's taken from us not by the formless foreigner but by our own very hand that opens the bedroom door to experience our darkest insides that grows and grows endlessly until we have nothing else the monster in the bed now in all that cold and all that dark

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Feb 14, 2019

Feb 14, 2019 at 11:47 PM UTC

maziart

The Monster You Let In

I don't think people realize how fragile it all is how it just falls apart when you're looking out of the window at something else at first you don't realize because it happens bit by bit you'll get used to it the culture war looms it pulls out your skirt on fridays take me out please take me where the boys are you know you want to it tugs at your sleeves saying oh you didn't hear what they said about you? flag wars they sing truth is a preference it's true if it feels right if it doesn't well it's fake news of course oh you didn't know non-player character will you play to win? because feelings don't care about your facts you see I was born in 83 in the newly formed islamic republic of iran three years into the trench warfare that changed the psyche of a nation forever high on the islamic revolution full of fury blood and soil blood and soil the hors d'oeuvres of the war we fled in 88 three months before the war ended nothing gained nothing fulfilled I see the absolute worst in people I watch them and learn much from what they get outraged by and what they don't it all starts small rooted in a search for meaning a sense of purpose once this is defined just watch them turn on each other the other essentially war needs a dragon war needs young men to believe the culture war has always been there like a monster’s nails casting an ominous shadow behind the bedroom door tapping away at your mother's vinyl flooring when people get safe with fear at bay the tapping dims but when an immigrant stabs an infidel or a black man is apparently murdered on video the tapping gets louder what is the dream of the foreigner hoping to penetrate the walls of the golden city to weaken it? from the russian bot to the isis video slicing brody's neck right before your eyes it gets at you doesn't it? doesn't he look like you? your white knuckles are shaking yes yes the monster says I will draw you in because I'm just a monster living in the hallway and I'm nothing without you is what he'll never ever tell you but it's true he aims to exaggerate the divisions within your family to exploit it to challenge your identity to play with your emotions as you've done to them so you know this game very well you just don't know the side of the table that will as in the iran-iraq war both the us and the uk sold arms to both sides the great game War is profitable and the opportunity to cash in on it is tempting people don't have ideas ideas have people how fragile at all is this very society that I cherish that I sought refuge in my family the vast base the stable economy common law democracy if life started in the east then the reason to be of the west is to carry on the torch to learn from past mistakes and to be a light unto the world until our very toes are inching at the pacific with no further to go will I find myself staring at the window pondering what happened like so many countless men throughout history have? how fragile at all this we won't know until it's taken from us not by the formless foreigner but by our own very hand that opens the bedroom door to experience our darkest insides that grows and grows endlessly until we have nothing else the monster in the bed now in all that cold and all that dark

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I got alotta things I want to say so when you got nothing better than to hear me mumble the usual suspects, the whole ensemble I’ll be the one in leather the one that was just across the hallway at that office on main street you used to temp at, ‘member? in summer ’06 or was it fall of ’09? it doesn’t matter the whole cast is here, yup each is reborn when i tell a tale of theirs but only if you insist that I got alotta things to say and that i want to.

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Feb 11, 2018

Feb 11, 2018 at 12:55 AM UTC

maziart

I got alotta things I want to say

I got alotta things I want to say so when you got nothing better than to hear me mumble the usual suspects, the whole ensemble I’ll be the one in leather the one that was just across the hallway at that office on main street you used to temp at, ‘member? in summer ’06 or was it fall of ’09? it doesn’t matter the whole cast is here, yup each is reborn when i tell a tale of theirs but only if you insist that I got alotta things to say and that i want to.

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