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A deck of cards a bottle’s glass Waiting for the night to pass One carries chains he cannot see The other scars of luxury A grumpy soul in a top hat’s gloom Sharing space in a crowded room Beneath the neon, harsh and bright They find a corner in the night No velvet lies, no plastic grin Just honesty beneath the skin A wing tucked close a heavy sigh The truth reflected in an eye The cat who’s seen the worst of luck The spider in the web he’s stuck They don’t need magic gold or art Just the steady beat of a kindred heart A drink poured out, a card well-played In the quiet light the ghosts will fade
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Jan 15
Jan 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC
The Anchor and the Ace
A husk of hope on a window sill With the apricot light bleeding in…. That thing you called a fly had feelings… Had wings that you could never grow now… Their magnificent dreams are suspended in motion… A plane that never has to land… But you - you have to face their luminous breathing - this breathing you thought you could switch off with the notch of your bedside lamp… You must face the apricot blood so bright and butterscotch it burns through you… And as you squash this obstacle for the bin to remove it from your sight; it’s dreams won’t perish - they will scatter out into space carrying their truth to distant planets… But you - you will stay here, stranded… And though you may wish it - spiders won’t side with you over your so-called enemy… They will catch you and ravage you - tear you to pieces, dig their fangs into your dreams and wrap you in freezing shawls of guilt - Until you finally surrender - a clone-roach that never really knew the meaning for its painted circus orders, but; somewhat predictably, followed them regardless…
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Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM UTC
A husk of hope
You are a husk. An empty shell of a human. A bottomless void that knows nothing else but to consume. You drain every last drop of affection, attention, care and love. You give nothing and take everything. You pretend and disguise yourself to get what you want. And when you’ve taken all that there was, you discard. And so the façade falls away, and you are revealed in your true nature. You are a husk. An empty shell of a human. A bottomless void that knows nothing else but to consume.
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May 2, 2023
May 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM UTC
HUSK
I am not here. I want to be part of nature's depth. My body is naught but a broken husk. I do not want to mend the husk. I need to repair its many cracks. I can be here again.
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Sep 15, 2022
Sep 15, 2022 at 6:28 PM UTC
Where am I?
falling falling through space that is only mine this is my tragedy you're not welcome here the husk of my life thrown to the wind wherever I land is where fate intended me to be take your understanding your emotions are your own I am falling falling destiny my home
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Jan 21, 2022
Jan 21, 2022 at 2:59 PM UTC
destiny my home
I lag behind My 'friends', I noticed that I've become Invisible. Unnoticed. A husk of who I was. A shadow. A void in the night. Outshone by the light. I feel so empty, Like a thought of the past. I'm in another dimension, A wall of words separate us. Or rather, A chasm of words unsaid. Lost words they are, Just like me: A shadow. A shadow of the past.
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Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 at 11:01 PM UTC
Shadows
Don’t let the medium dry Moisten This Creation                                    by ANY MEANS necessary It’s vulnerable For This Creation to become pedestal WE MUST : feed it off of a capillary bag mist it under a dense healthy breath lead it to suckle an engorged breast For IF WE DO NOT we risk it becoming husk ; good only for digs and dust shops. For This Creation, WE MUST queue with our blood tapped and ready our breeding fluids our various flows carefully labelled and in sterile pouches our donor cards filled out steady for sacrifice Keep This Creation wet and it shall be a beacon a call to awareness a beckon of craft for us all and not some common art-hole In time THE CREATION SHALL SERVE US
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Jul 21, 2019
Jul 21, 2019 at 3:39 PM UTC
The Beckon (Arts’ Monster)
Some dreams can never be shared, Some dreams can never be told, When your old; when your cold. I look into your eyes, and I wonder where you have gone? and I pray; yes I pray, that you've made it through the stars ! Some dreams can never...... Song link https://youtu.be/n7LMWl9rEfI
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May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 5:47 AM UTC
Some dreams
Like desert birds circling bones picked-clean, you keep hanging around here like I’ve got something to offer. Let me tell you, I’m all out of magic. You bled me dry and though I love you, I can no longer be in love with you. I’ve only enough embers to keep myself warm these days. A shriveled husk, the remnants of a past flame are what I am to you now. I can be nothing more.
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 9:55 PM UTC
Husk
Between ropes all life, can't let up Fight fiends with strife, fed up Life feels like it's sped up Drinking fluid only from red cups Loud noise equals life strats Keyboards, drums, strings and frets People think they having fun and don't fret Eating words from musicians, spoon fed I've led this life and it feels trife Reminiscing of time lost makes me reel and cry When brains feel like they're deep fried When the dream you worshiped, it seems lied. Riding every morning Hiding all the phoney feelings when your roaming You don't feel like going But the drugs just keep on flowing When women exist only for blowing When lean red eyes are showing The life you know is boring So it's either live a husk of party life Or a slow knife in your back as a part of hive.
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Jul 6, 2017
Jul 6, 2017 at 7:11 AM UTC
This concert must be unearthed.
Within lagoons its sins did feed upon its perception,                   Churning in a vacuum                    of malevolent damnation. Its singular words corrupted white satin, soiled by its pestilence.                    Like lacerations upon the substance                       it lingered like vines consuming. A soul drowned within pools of scarlet death Malignant smiles on a polluted husk.
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 3:53 PM UTC
Drowning In The Eyes Of Darkness
Blasted armor cracked open with holes Watch as I crawl on my knees til I find The right place to stand. Pay no mind To the pain wracking burned flesh to The pain of memories empty now In regret after so many years spent Trying to escape, desperately forget All of the wounds that made me the Fire I am. These days my fire still burns down low I can't forget if I wanted and I did and And it drove me underneath. Unearth Me now in this old aching body to Undermine my quest for rest. I sure it's just death now bringing Death and I'm a part of it. Cog. In the dirt. Wet earth. I rise. With all of my brethren. Reclaim. Reclaimers hunt and Claim during night. Safety in Day. That's a queer sunset isn't it? I came here ****** left the same way, Returned with cracks in the head And a heart of mud full of maggots As an ***** We all did. We do. We all did.
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 12:05 AM UTC
Reclaimers: "That's a Queer Sunset"
Hollow husk of man sits in dark room A tickling of the cardiac muscle
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Jun 2, 2015
Jun 2, 2015 at 3:07 PM UTC
Dark
Der er udstilling på onsdag Jeg skal huske øl på fredag Sov hos Emil til torsdag Sidste udsalg mandag Jeg kysser ham lørdag Og mister ham søndag Og glemmer ham tirsdag
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Jan 10, 2015
Jan 10, 2015 at 6:40 PM UTC
Stramt
why are you so sad, my love, i’m always here for you whether it’s dogs that seethe or babies that teeth i’m right here next to you. i’ve walked through a forest in the middle of the night because i was going to fight your fright. but you got scared, you ran away. there was nothing i could say. you left long ago, a husk left with me, i was left among the trees. (r.e.)
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 8:04 PM UTC
But You Ran Away From My Help
Putting the receiver to the cupped side of my leaning face, I'll listen to an old, dead phone, a husk with a sound echoing inside like a seashell: I tune into the static as if they were waves sweeping in and out of my eardrum, hear the whisper of voices asking the operator to pass on last sighs.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 5:57 PM UTC
Husk