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Inactivity online, Whilst it may be somewhat sad, (For followers at least) Means activity in life, Which is surely a good thing.
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018 at 11:00 PM UTC
Inactively Active
We meet here again. In a day of nothing and nowhere, I have remained here all day, yet now you appear. The angry mob coalescing in my head, asking how I have wasted the day, chastising me, a child who doesn't know any better. But I do know better, we have had this argument before you and I, perhaps it was years, perhaps just weeks. I'm 21 now and my mind is still as vicious as it was when I was 18. Will I have these thoughts when I'm 60? Are we always unwilling roommates to an insatiable in-complacency? What do I gain from the constant chatter, the angry noise, the self hate. Because if it had something to offer I feel by now it would have happened. Instead I carry you, my back sore and legs weak, I climb mountains and valleys knowing I will be attacked again each night. Is that life? Is it all just contradiction constantly fighting itself like a snake biting its own tail? Is this the hard truth that everyone seems too scared to speak, the one we sweep under the rug through alcohol and drug abuse, just trying to get a soundless night? See the more I think about it the more confused I become. Without this duality, this mind who points out my failings while offering no help. Would I be complacent, would compliantly work? Since I turned 18 I've been in a constant state of worry, worry about my future, about my place in the world, about what the old man at the bus stop is thinking when he looks at me. It's a pervasive worry that seeps in and poisons any fresh water I try to drink, where I find good times and joy it is the stranger in the corner reminding me I'm not safe. And I wonder how life would be without it, see I think of it as a curse, as the devil on my back but where would I be without it? Would I be happy to lay where I lay now as I write? This same spot I've found myself nearly every night, would I be happy to sink into the floor boards of my home and exist for the rest of my days? I don't know, I don't know if this dread, this anger, this hateful mind. Is the only thing saving me from painting myself into the same four walls that have cages me for the 21 years of existence I possess. But what do I know, this is just another aimless thought that goes nowhere but digs deep into the pit of my stomach, instilling that existential fear inside of me that I mentioned. Another day wasted, you should remember that.
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Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 5:47 PM UTC
Unspoken Thought
We meet here again. In a day of nothing and nowhere, I have remained here all day, yet now you appear. The angry mob coalescing in my head, asking how I have wasted the day, chastising me, a child who doesn't know any better. But I do know better, we have had this argument before you and I, perhaps it was years, perhaps just weeks. I'm 21 now and my mind is still as vicious as it was when I was 18. Will I have these thoughts when I'm 60? Are we always unwilling roommates to an insatiable in-complacency? What do I gain from the constant chatter, the angry noise, the self hate. Because if it had something to offer I feel by now it would have happened. Instead I carry you, my back sore and legs weak, I climb mountains and valleys knowing I will be attacked again each night. Is that life? Is it all just contradiction constantly fighting itself like a snake biting its own tail? Is this the hard truth that everyone seems too scared to speak, the one we sweep under the rug through alcohol and drug abuse, just trying to get a soundless night? See the more I think about it the more confused I become. Without this duality, this mind who points out my failings while offering no help. Would I be complacent, would compliantly work? Since I turned 18 I've been in a constant state of worry, worry about my future, about my place in the world, about what the old man at the bus stop is thinking when he looks at me. It's a pervasive worry that seeps in and poisons any fresh water I try to drink, where I find good times and joy it is the stranger in the corner reminding me I'm not safe. And I wonder how life would be without it, see I think of it as a curse, as the devil on my back but where would I be without it? Would I be happy to lay where I lay now as I write? This same spot I've found myself nearly every night, would I be happy to sink into the floor boards of my home and exist for the rest of my days? I don't know, I don't know if this dread, this anger, this hateful mind. Is the only thing saving me from painting myself into the same four walls that have cages me for the 21 years of existence I possess. But what do I know, this is just another aimless thought that goes nowhere but digs deep into the pit of my stomach, instilling that existential fear inside of me that I mentioned. Another day wasted, you should remember that.
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Am I losing hold? In a hurricane thought storm Little deaths on the television Remind me of my inactions Said I’d even myself Out, after giving into self Doubt. Unstable, leaning toward self Harm, while the world tumbles itself Round Bitter at my own lack Feel the fire dying in my breath While the world Burns and breaks and blisters in a growing wreck Did my stutter break another heart? Did my whisper **** that child? Too quiet for him to hear the reason I searched for myself, at sixteen Is every stilted thought, wasted potential / opportunity To better myself, better the world, And every person I'll ever meet? I will not let Hesitation Separate Soul from body Ever again I am not lifeless I am not cruel I will not be a bystander I swear I am not lifeless I am not cruel I will not be a bystander I swear Ever again
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Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 5:50 AM UTC
avoidable deaths
Blanket state Sun rise, sun set, sun daze Wide eye glimmer maw Go swallow the sky whole And trickle tar . . . Over Death’s mongrel bone.
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM UTC
mongrel maw
I tried to be cordial with inactivity washing it with weeping juice like a pardoned effigy but the diamonds of determination were so wrapped in mind debris that I threw away a fortune in potential The smiles of the platitudes are louder than their laughs An appeasing of their attitudes I warrant with the gaffes of an undertaker's underling bestowing upon epitaphs another deadened and deprived credential *Seeing days in ways that never did occur to me Every end a mending by default, a sour recipe for compromise eroding in a rusty *** of empathy* The dentist rubbed his fingers when he saw my gritted teeth No sermon on the mount from me, more a mumble on the heath My incisor is a tack that would support a giant's wreath Thorns of novocaine will numb my Christmas wish For the sake of universal order I will freeze a yawn Mostly harmless said a hitchhiker of Earth so I can spawn a batch of clones to live on hold where all the battle lines are drawn I'll zip up and in the universal order I'll languish *Seeing nights in ways that never did occur to me Every satellite a telecast of fault, a sour recipe for sleeping juice to boil over in Big Dipper's empathy* Where's a pound of flesh when needed? I've grown tired of these ribs On the grill of soggy marrow, hungry haunts will have first dibs Call on William Blake to send the weepers to their cribs Wishful thinking I'll preserve beneath the floorboards With a hand in nothing new and an incisor in the usual intestine chains surround my motivation's hot pursual Don't read too much into my implied acceptance of a dual with a messenger of fact's implicit hoards *Seeing days in ways that never did occur to me Every end a mending by default, a sour recipe for compromise eroding in an empty *** of sympathy* Sound the bugle for my bed is made, I'm rested for detention Solitaire I'll play in my confinement for the crime of sought attention I revolted the philosophers in plugging my intention I would not concede that lab rats had it worse The satellites are full and bright, the shadows walk on lakes tonight I'll dream of sleep but eyes will play me in my bedroom's voided sight Lay with me and sigh and the elastic laws of nature might halt the quivering continuum of fate's forsaken course *Seeing nights in ways that never did occur to me Every channel plays the same old cooking show's ensoured recipe Compromise a minor seasoning in liver-flavoured empathy* 04 15 14
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
JUST LIKE TOMBSTONE BLUES
I tried to be cordial with inactivity washing it with weeping juice like a pardoned effigy but the diamonds of determination were so wrapped in mind debris that I threw away a fortune in potential The smiles of the platitudes are louder than their laughs An appeasing of their attitudes I warrant with the gaffes of an undertaker's underling bestowing upon epitaphs another deadened and deprived credential *Seeing days in ways that never did occur to me Every end a mending by default, a sour recipe for compromise eroding in a rusty *** of empathy* The dentist rubbed his fingers when he saw my gritted teeth No sermon on the mount from me, more a mumble on the heath My incisor is a tack that would support a giant's wreath Thorns of novocaine will numb my Christmas wish For the sake of universal order I will freeze a yawn Mostly harmless said a hitchhiker of Earth so I can spawn a batch of clones to live on hold where all the battle lines are drawn I'll zip up and in the universal order I'll languish *Seeing nights in ways that never did occur to me Every satellite a telecast of fault, a sour recipe for sleeping juice to boil over in Big Dipper's empathy* Where's a pound of flesh when needed? I've grown tired of these ribs On the grill of soggy marrow, hungry haunts will have first dibs Call on William Blake to send the weepers to their cribs Wishful thinking I'll preserve beneath the floorboards With a hand in nothing new and an incisor in the usual intestine chains surround my motivation's hot pursual Don't read too much into my implied acceptance of a dual with a messenger of fact's implicit hoards *Seeing days in ways that never did occur to me Every end a mending by default, a sour recipe for compromise eroding in an empty *** of sympathy* Sound the bugle for my bed is made, I'm rested for detention Solitaire I'll play in my confinement for the crime of sought attention I revolted the philosophers in plugging my intention I would not concede that lab rats had it worse The satellites are full and bright, the shadows walk on lakes tonight I'll dream of sleep but eyes will play me in my bedroom's voided sight Lay with me and sigh and the elastic laws of nature might halt the quivering continuum of fate's forsaken course *Seeing nights in ways that never did occur to me Every channel plays the same old cooking show's ensoured recipe Compromise a minor seasoning in liver-flavoured empathy* 04 15 14
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