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#grim-reaper
with air turning crisp leaves crunching beneath our feet all is dying around us regardless of it's beauty as death snaps twigs all slows to a stop and just as night falls his hand is on your shoulder now, you don't fret you've been expecting him see, you've made a deal and you hold up your end with goosebumps on your skin you turn yourself in and as death leads you away you maintain a sinister grin because little does death know you planned this all along with guns blazing in the sky you know you've always wanted to die.
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 2:18 PM UTC
a grim bargain
Tell me, do you hear him whisper? Do you hear his footsteps stalk you? He's much more than what you consider, Unseen and unheard by others, he's just a fly Young one, do you feel his breath on your neck? Do you feel his presence following your life? To others, he may be less than a moth- a speck But I know you feel the weight of a hundred corpses My boy, do you smell his stench of rotting flesh? Do you smell the trail of this buried body of his? A rancid scent, any other corpse smells so fresh I'll bet you're wondering how to get rid of him... My son, do you see his decayed, unsightly face? Do you see that grin through the ebony clouds? He will never leave, he will hold on with a lace I'm sorry, but the demon is here to stay, good luck...
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 9:44 PM UTC
Him
Sleep well, my little child For the winds will sing you to sleep And the rain will frost your lips Sleep well, my little child Let the dirt warm your cold face And the dark take your breath Sleep well, my little child Don't rise from your deep place And know who I really am...
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 9:41 PM UTC
My Child
Drop the rocks Full-grown pop in the jaw Bleeding gold Won't save your soul Moving again and again and again and again Until the pacific Closes behind your back because criticism smacks kids out of whack Morphemes-phonemes again and again Given the knowledge of a recycling bin of letters Use them again and again Won't save your soul Atom smash logic replaying and playing before your eyes Some days it's too much coal to mine Mouth covered when you step in time Won't make your life I'm a goner if I can't stand on the rocks and if the laundry doesn't burn If the grim reaper doesn't speak nonsense words from one state of consciousness to the other Drop the bomb Call the mob Stock our shelves Grow the letters Feed all those starving tongues Let me tell you a story Once the grim reaper dressed like an old woman and bought denture cream just to know how it feels to grow old A human is an animal Some think an olive is a fruit A dog is a wolf on the inside Begging to learn the trick Speak Next in line most wait for straight prose pinch their noses misguided Want blood to bleed red Don't want ideas to smash their bread Won't save their minds from a punch in the gut Mine closing in their faces and their Atlantic drowns shattered glass encasing words upon words owned by streams of Consciousness running all around Those nonsense words running aground can't swim though all the world's frowns.
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 11:25 AM UTC
Nonsense Words