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...I ask myself, "is it real to say I'm in love with you" spelling out the letters for your love … mostly lies; ALL CAPS ON – ....pin a needle through my eye just to pin all of our interests into my mind.... your pinterest feed: mostly emo locs, low-hanging hair covering the shame on your face — yet framing it beautifully, in a cute way. i see my pain reflected in your eyes — pairing ourselves in opposing mirrors, where opposites attract and friendship rarely leads us astray. even when we burn out on each other, tapping our emotions into an ashtray. we are the art of a shared destruction — and if we both walk away unscathed, consider us very lucky.
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Mar 6
Mar 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM UTC
mirror burn
My freedom came when I stopped reflecting myself — and started seeing the mirror. Not to judge. Not to fit in. But to face the gaze no one else dares to hold. What you see is what you want. Not necessarily what’s true. But look deep — deep into the eyes of the mirror. Inside… is truth. Not the kind you polish. Not the kind you sell. Only the kind you carry — or burn from denying. Socrates whispered: “Do you know who you are?” Lucifer answered: “Now he does.” And I smiled. Not because I liked what I saw, but because I finally dared to see it.
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Jul 15, 2025
Jul 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM UTC
Mirror
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam. Was it a car or a cat I saw? A man, a plan, a canal: Panama. Never a foot too far, even. No, sir, away! A papaya war is on. Step on no pets. A Toyota's a Toyota.
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Feb 27, 2025
Feb 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM UTC
Palindrome Poetry
Adam! turn me over and sing me a song of sixpence hearing voices, not seeing faces ... with the radio on it's just me myself and I driving between towns emoting, gushing *hurt me, break me, **** me!* at the top of my lungs finding bars buried in backyards on back roads of insincerity birch bitten and chewed logs wet and rotten and still, chords neatly stacked in ordered rows can you stand me on my feet? back home brushing my teeth yellow biting my nails turgid, hoping she will come with me to a show my state is of a lower-class shambling hoping for a renewal                 or rebirth sweating on the train repeating God's name gasping for air making people nervous staring at their phones wondering if I am going to keel over and die it's just me myself and I that's right, write it out in long hand first, then go back and edit (wishing  to write  like  Tarkovsky) comparing father and son - an unchecked exception they were buried in separate coffins                 one in France the other, in a timber cask but won't I be too? I wish I could say, "we have a saying in my country" or "scripture says" or "I'm lost without you"  (I am and now found). In ruins at the end of a day building pigeon flap (or come what may) ascending a scale of notes in a mirror of songs behold an image in a scale of descending notes at dawn.
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 2:25 AM UTC
Poetry in a Mirror