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Snatched; Kicked, out of the doors; You run away along the paths in the midst of the storms.— Your visible ribs, sunken abdomen, soaked by the tears of the skies. Does hunger always rule your life?
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Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM UTC
Ode to a Stray Dog
The core is cracked, the gauges red, They swore it’s fine—now hope is dead. Control rods jam, the heat runs wild, No turning back, the fuel defiled. Containment’s gone, the walls decay, Fallout drifts in skies of gray. A silent flash, a world undone, The chain reaction has begun.
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Mar 9, 2025
Mar 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM UTC
Critical Mass
He died here And his soul Says, with the Sky, "Look away Child, avert Your eyes, From these Continuous Atrocities You are Powerless to Change. Look to the Colors ive Painted high Those who Could, will Never help" We admire The sunset And search The astral Instead.
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Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023 at 7:06 PM UTC
Sunset
A mother sobbing, a raging mob. What we need is people to do their job. A cop stands still amidst the crowd. To **** or…be killed? His head is bowed. Lock the door and set the alarm. So simple a task to keep some from harm. Collecting a paycheck, is easy to do. But there’s a lot more we expect of you. By the time that you become a grown up you should have learned it’s important to show up.
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May 27, 2022
May 27, 2022 at 1:05 AM UTC
Do your f*cking job
No need to worry, they really do care They'll fight fires with floods, droughts with monsoons If things go to **** they'll go to the moon If you get too hot, they'll smoke out the sun They've even got discounts on water and air! No worry, no fretting, no fear They won't tolerate hunger They'll beat sickness with numbers They'll hire us all on To build them a new atmosphere
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Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021 at 6:28 PM UTC
They Care
One more shot! A scorching heat radiates from her forehead The last of raspy wheezes, rusty coughs and gasps leave the lungs, abandoned towns lined with rows of empty drugstores. Her grandkids watch from behind a thick sheet of glass through a dense fog, asking -mommy how long will grandma be asleep for?- One more shot! On Tuesday she was at work. On Wednesday she got a slight cough. On Thursday her heartbeat was slow. On Friday the line hit the flat note. On Saturday the back of her coffin married the worms in the dirt just below. One more shot! Wiping the sweat off his forehead, is it his mum or the coal; that ****** black is his skin tone? A coughing fit, seizing his consciousness gasping for air; as if he was dying of laughter, watching his daughter dance like a ballerina across their living room into his arms. Those weren't tears of joy, when she was dragged away by masked security guards from the room where her father plummeted into The swan lake. One more shot! The pen quivers in his hand as he finishes up his English exam. Finally, all this work done, the last of the bunch was long gone! Until he sneezed on the paper. His portrait wasn't lit as well as his mother hoped when he received his post-mortem degree, Honor roll. One more shot! They yell as she chugs the bottle, jubilation ensues! Shattering glass all over the floor. Her foot starts bleeding, She wails and sets for the hospital door. The doctor takes tweezers carefully to her sole as from the corridor comes a loud moan; her mother on the hospital bed rides past her door. The last shot she had at seeing her alive. But she never looked up.
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May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC
One More Shot!
One more shot! A scorching heat radiates from her forehead The last of raspy wheezes, rusty coughs and gasps leave the lungs, abandoned towns lined with rows of empty drugstores. Her grandkids watch from behind a thick sheet of glass through a dense fog, asking -mommy how long will grandma be asleep for?- One more shot! On Tuesday she was at work. On Wednesday she got a slight cough. On Thursday her heartbeat was slow. On Friday the line hit the flat note. On Saturday the back of her coffin married the worms in the dirt just below. One more shot! Wiping the sweat off his forehead, is it his mum or the coal; that ****** black is his skin tone? A coughing fit, seizing his consciousness gasping for air; as if he was dying of laughter, watching his daughter dance like a ballerina across their living room into his arms. Those weren't tears of joy, when she was dragged away by masked security guards from the room where her father plummeted into The swan lake. One more shot! The pen quivers in his hand as he finishes up his English exam. Finally, all this work done, the last of the bunch was long gone! Until he sneezed on the paper. His portrait wasn't lit as well as his mother hoped when he received his post-mortem degree, Honor roll. One more shot! They yell as she chugs the bottle, jubilation ensues! Shattering glass all over the floor. Her foot starts bleeding, She wails and sets for the hospital door. The doctor takes tweezers carefully to her sole as from the corridor comes a loud moan; her mother on the hospital bed rides past her door. The last shot she had at seeing her alive. But she never looked up.
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“You were always taken care of” My mother whispers Between drags of her menthol cigarette. Hands so frail They look like they might crack Under the weight. -I don’t know how to break it to her
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Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 at 1:02 PM UTC
Trauma
Avertable impact Ripped open lid The fuse lit And die they did Imo Mont-Blanc The harbor a carcass Their treasures sunk Dartmouth Richmond Tufts Cove One last gasp in the sun Wretched captains As kings who fought over Duchess of Aquitaine Everything to lose Nothing to gain "She may one day queen it over that fair demesne..."
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Aug 19, 2020
Aug 19, 2020 at 10:56 AM UTC
Halifax Maritime Disaster, 1917
The onlooker had something to say, about the yellowness of the tulip and the unbroken dew drop on the lotus floating by I flowered beside, not more distinguished than any, my sprouts, born with a name not known, to admirers, many My tiny florets blossomed, each day the sun’s rays, graced earth and showers moistened its soil. I relished in my creations; Until the day, I withered away, when my roots left the soil not charred in negligence but in content, of living.
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Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 12:24 AM UTC
In the Garden
Why wouldn't you listen When I said I needed help? [I had to learn how to do it all myself.] Why were your priorities Always them and never me? [You never had time for me.] Why did you speak over me When I tried to tell you about my day? [I needed you to hear me.] Why did you let them Walk all over me? [I cried myself to sleep.] Why did you blame me When I walked away? [I had to put myself first for once.] Why was I your dependent And not your child? [I was a kid.]
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Jun 2, 2020
Jun 2, 2020 at 9:40 AM UTC
i was a kid
Mon âme, C’est à toi que je m’adresse, Toi mon âme, qui me tiens toujours en laisse, Qui se plaît à me voir danser D’un œil drôlement fatigué. Tu m'auras trainé jusqu’ici Pour ensuite me laisser faire; Tu espérais de moi produit finit Sans fournir matière première. Parmi les cent pays de l'esprit, Toi seul reconnait les frontières; C'est toi-même qui les délimite D'un air pourtant si fier. Pourquoi donc à présent ces soupirs Qui déterrent de vieux refrains? Je n’attendais de toi rien de pire Que de ne renoncer à ton propre bien. Comme ce corps laissé à l’abandon, Négligé durant tant d’années... Si jamais il se dérobe de ses dons, Est-ce par absence de ta volonté? M'entends-tu, hélas, prêtes-tu oreille? Es-tu de retour d’une quelque vacance? Car sans toi rien n'est plus tout à fait pareil: Et le monde se dénude ennuyé de tout sens. Ne me laisses pas m'isoler à relire ces mots écris Sans qu’ensuite ta présence ne se ressente. Laisse-toi croire en ces mensonges de l’esprit Si pour te revoir tu exiges que l’on te mente. Debout maintenant, debout mon seul maître! Que résonne la sagesse que toi-seul nous confère. Malgré les chaînes auxquelles tu nous auras fait naître, Je suis moi esprit à jamais - ton seul et véritable frère.
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Jul 14, 2019
Jul 14, 2019 at 12:56 PM UTC
À mon Âme (2018) [FR]
Frozen, completely still White squares on the walls You've seen a thousand times before Innate, familiar, completely new Emanated by blackness Dusted over by disregard The memories of garnered squares Digested like a populous pit Halting your pant for an immense instant Exhale. Ignorance is the way to see them disguised As white squares on the walls You wish you could conveniently forget.
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Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 at 9:51 PM UTC
white squares
There are times, my son, when the loss of you shoots home even more than the darkest of days in all kind of ways. The look of you that final time, those tired eyes, puffed jaw, swollen hands and arms, and the total betrayal of the professional staff with their lack of care while stayed there. The moment your heart flat-lined, the world tipped upside down, you gone from us, links cut, you dead going around my head. I could have said more had I known, if I had that time with you that day again, I could have said how much I loved you, it's depth and strength, but I didn't know that death was near, my son, my Stoic man, my one so dead.
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 5:13 PM UTC
There Are Times.
*Your votes could have established dark powers over all control, Such votes could have made the smallest part exceed the whole. Only groundless clamoring’s do the protests approve, Instead, now the power is ours to punish and to remove. But now false gods and evil cast their wares and express, Defending their own evil servants or their own rhetoric’s distress. Oh that my powers of saving truth were not confined, I’d show you how you are being forced to believe that evil is best for your mind, Making an example out of every one of our kind. Must I at length wield the sword of justice and then withdraw? Ore the cursed effects of trying to confuse the law! How ill our fates are by their blood thirsty scam. Beware my people! Of the fury of a patient man. The law is what patience requires, watch the law show her single face. And don’t be content to depend purely on grace. Oh yes, her words are always true with a glaring eye, She can erase terror and she will never die. By their own evil arts 'tis her righteousness decreed, Those dire artificers of lies shall finally be the ones to bleed. Against themselves their own witnesses will swear, Till viper-like their sinister plot they themselves shall be ensnared. For they **** from the nutrients of their own ****** gore Which was always their principle of the evil long before. With Belial and with Belzebub they themselves will fight, Once comrades, now foes, even their foes shall do them right. Do not doubt this event as felicitous mouths engage, They tell lies and show only of their own brutal rage. Then let them all take their own resisted course, To Guantanamo to finally find their long deserved remorse. But when they stand up all breathless late at night, Let their guilt rise up in them with redoubled might. For lawful is powerful and still is still superior all around. Even when long driven back at length it must stand its ground. They all took their oath and gave their solemn consent, So there will be no appeals under this firmament. Henceforth a series of new times shall begin, Though many painful years in long procession has woefully ran. Once more this nation will be restored, And all other nations will know the law is our lord.*
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Feb 7, 2018
Feb 7, 2018 at 2:17 PM UTC
FISA - Only 12 out of 35,000 Were Ever Denied
*Your votes could have established dark powers over all control, Such votes could have made the smallest part exceed the whole. Only groundless clamoring’s do the protests approve, Instead, now the power is ours to punish and to remove. But now false gods and evil cast their wares and express, Defending their own evil servants or their own rhetoric’s distress. Oh that my powers of saving truth were not confined, I’d show you how you are being forced to believe that evil is best for your mind, Making an example out of every one of our kind. Must I at length wield the sword of justice and then withdraw? Ore the cursed effects of trying to confuse the law! How ill our fates are by their blood thirsty scam. Beware my people! Of the fury of a patient man. The law is what patience requires, watch the law show her single face. And don’t be content to depend purely on grace. Oh yes, her words are always true with a glaring eye, She can erase terror and she will never die. By their own evil arts 'tis her righteousness decreed, Those dire artificers of lies shall finally be the ones to bleed. Against themselves their own witnesses will swear, Till viper-like their sinister plot they themselves shall be ensnared. For they **** from the nutrients of their own ****** gore Which was always their principle of the evil long before. With Belial and with Belzebub they themselves will fight, Once comrades, now foes, even their foes shall do them right. Do not doubt this event as felicitous mouths engage, They tell lies and show only of their own brutal rage. Then let them all take their own resisted course, To Guantanamo to finally find their long deserved remorse. But when they stand up all breathless late at night, Let their guilt rise up in them with redoubled might. For lawful is powerful and still is still superior all around. Even when long driven back at length it must stand its ground. They all took their oath and gave their solemn consent, So there will be no appeals under this firmament. Henceforth a series of new times shall begin, Though many painful years in long procession has woefully ran. Once more this nation will be restored, And all other nations will know the law is our lord.*
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The somber whispers of defeat haunt the wind; my skin reels at its chilling touch Harmony concedes to an epithet of solemn solitude; it creeps within my very bones
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 1:48 PM UTC
Epithet
Tujhe laga jo ** ki hai tujhe mujhse pyaar, Jaan, tujhe badi galatfehmi thi. Tujhe laga jo ** ki hai mujhe tujhse pyaar, Jaan, tujhe bada sahi laga. Tujhe laga jo ** ki hona mera kuch nahin, Jaan, tujhse badi koi buddhu nahin. If you felt that you indeed loved me, Baby, you're a girl so naïve, If you had felt that I had loved you, Baby, you felt just so true. If you felt that I am just a sore loser, Baby, none is dumber than you. You're the dumbest – yeah you read it right, For you got scared of an imaginary tempest, You deserve for yourself not me but the best, For you, the best is that fair bit less than me. Some sorry loser will be yours – I'm outta it!
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 12:50 AM UTC
Tu Mera Pyaar – Kabhi Nahin | You My Love – Never Ever
I'VE HEARD OF SHANGRILA - THEY SAY THE HOTEL IS NOT TOO FAR - JUST STROLL IN, ORDER YOUR MEAL AND THEN I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THE DEAL : FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS FOR TEN PEOPLE, SOUNDS A BIT STEEP AND I'LL ASSURE YOU IT'S NOT AN ERROR - FROM SHARKS FIN SOUP TO ABALONE, MUST BE BETTER THAN HOME-ALONE OR IS IT? GROSS OPULENCE FOR MOST OF US - ANY TRAVEL PROBLEMS - WE'LL BUY THE BUS - A MERE SNIP FOR MR. ABROMOVITCH - WE WOULDN'T WANT TO QUEER HIS PITCH, PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO PAUSE AWHILE, JUST TO SEE MY SICKLY SMILE.
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Mar 13, 2016
Mar 13, 2016 at 2:14 PM UTC
EXTRAVAGANZA
lost. in. oblivion. my mind shall not wander, as it is lost in oblivion, my heart shall not break, as it is lost in oblivion, i am determined not to be a lost girl, lost in oblivion; although, admittedly, i am already, lost; in; oblivion. the darkness consumes my soul, drowning in my own tears, as i think, why me? although i brought this upon myself, tripping over my toes for the wrong person, beating myself up for him, when in fact, i should not have been; i was simply, lost. in. oblivion. you never loved me, and you never will, your negligence has caused me to be lost. in. oblivion. i shall never find my way out of this darkness you call oblivion, i put myself here, and i will stay here, until the end of my days. unless my days have already ended, lost. in. oblivion.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 8:31 AM UTC
lost in olivion
* More Structure, Bald Nature. Intelligences without a Heart of Conscience. Lost in the battle of Negligence. *
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM UTC
Environment ~
Scarcity of phrase, Once regarded in adoration, Takes another phase, Undergoing a transformation. And hence, Negligence.
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Apr 28, 2012
Apr 28, 2012 at 3:18 AM UTC
Negligence
Why am I too innocent? My responsibilities I neglect Why am I not responsible Unlike the rest I'm younger than most of them But I can keep up But I get used... Abused by those who dislike me People you least expect Take advantage And abused my innocence They left no mercy for me Until when Will I have to keep swimming out The neck deep **** Being dumped on me When will I grow up? When will it all stop When...
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 6:08 AM UTC
When Innocent