#oats - Hello Poetry

Are you a good person? Are you good men? Are you good women? Are you a mature adult? Because only a child Believes bedtime stories & fairytales. Go to sleep! I get it, You'd rather a fantasy Outside of reality. Get to work! Things still haven't fallen in place, You feel out-of-step; You're crawling And you feel you should at least Be walking. Wake back up! It's ******** I know, I hear you. But, here among us, This is our daily regiment And the butter of our sustenance. Eat your oats! I hear you, I get it, It's a lot to swallow. Get it down or choke!

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Feb 13, 2025

Feb 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC

manx-kronos-pragna

A Contrived & Polite Nihilism

Are you a good person? Are you good men? Are you good women? Are you a mature adult? Because only a child Believes bedtime stories & fairytales. Go to sleep! I get it, You'd rather a fantasy Outside of reality. Get to work! Things still haven't fallen in place, You feel out-of-step; You're crawling And you feel you should at least Be walking. Wake back up! It's ******** I know, I hear you. But, here among us, This is our daily regiment And the butter of our sustenance. Eat your oats! I hear you, I get it, It's a lot to swallow. Get it down or choke!

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Sea oats rustling As salty gales drive ashore Forever dancing

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Aug 18, 2020

Aug 18, 2020 at 10:15 AM UTC

astrolux

Sea oats

Sea oats rustling As salty gales drive ashore Forever dancing

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The words roll out like drool sometimes I can't help that, I'm a man the possibles and improbables it's kinda what I am Don't hold me that close young lady your twenties will not last you'll look back in retrospect and be glad it's in your past So for now experience and live a life that's full test all the wine and cheese then head on back too school

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Mar 4, 2019

Mar 4, 2019 at 11:26 PM UTC

TemporalFugue

Oui Oui Mademoiselle

The words roll out like drool sometimes I can't help that, I'm a man the possibles and improbables it's kinda what I am Don't hold me that close young lady your twenties will not last you'll look back in retrospect and be glad it's in your past So for now experience and live a life that's full test all the wine and cheese then head on back too school

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I don't want to know what could have happened If I stayed and let you play my strings to the same songs I dodge in public places now because everyone knows how that turns out My friends watched me fall over once a day in agonizing wonder how you could call me a chore while I called you a lover I don't want to know what could have happened If that day in January when you told me I was nothing didn't change the way that blood flowed through my body, but I felt it change course and collapsed in the kitchen with my family, they didn't know that I was sick, you didn't look like illness to me But I don't want to know what could have happened if I didn't leave, because I can't count high enough to predict the nights I would have been unable to breathe you would have taken the air right from my lungs if it could get you high but I don't want to know what could have happened because despite it all, I turned out fine

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Dec 28, 2016

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:50 PM UTC

ckeleos

I don't want to know

I don't want to know what could have happened If I stayed and let you play my strings to the same songs I dodge in public places now because everyone knows how that turns out My friends watched me fall over once a day in agonizing wonder how you could call me a chore while I called you a lover I don't want to know what could have happened If that day in January when you told me I was nothing didn't change the way that blood flowed through my body, but I felt it change course and collapsed in the kitchen with my family, they didn't know that I was sick, you didn't look like illness to me But I don't want to know what could have happened if I didn't leave, because I can't count high enough to predict the nights I would have been unable to breathe you would have taken the air right from my lungs if it could get you high but I don't want to know what could have happened because despite it all, I turned out fine

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Maybe you’re mistaken when you think about what’s out there, You attribute ev’ry stimulus to winged things from books, Mistaking accidental circumstances for essential causes, There isn’t really anything that God conveys with looks. Perhaps it is hard to face the truth: we’re just meat bags with will, Which slowly rot away until the day when we’re forgotten Needlessly dissecting every move and every inner thought, Attempting to discover what makes us all so very rotten. Take a deep breath And hold it in Until you feel it all ...Fading away Slowly toward death All of us fall Someday we’ll feel it all ...Fading away Through my goat mouth, it’s true, you can hear me bleating, Like a little lamb who’s lambier than lamby-lambs can be, But yes in fact it’s bike tires, and tin cans that I’m eating, And I feel my goat heart beating and... I want to flee.

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Jul 15, 2015

Jul 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM UTC

Brotherjimmy

I Am Goat and Lamb

Maybe you’re mistaken when you think about what’s out there, You attribute ev’ry stimulus to winged things from books, Mistaking accidental circumstances for essential causes, There isn’t really anything that God conveys with looks. Perhaps it is hard to face the truth: we’re just meat bags with will, Which slowly rot away until the day when we’re forgotten Needlessly dissecting every move and every inner thought, Attempting to discover what makes us all so very rotten. Take a deep breath And hold it in Until you feel it all ...Fading away Slowly toward death All of us fall Someday we’ll feel it all ...Fading away Through my goat mouth, it’s true, you can hear me bleating, Like a little lamb who’s lambier than lamby-lambs can be, But yes in fact it’s bike tires, and tin cans that I’m eating, And I feel my goat heart beating and... I want to flee.

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