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#radioactive
It’s not what it looks like.  It’s never what it looks like.                                                 It’s all wrong                                                                           somewhere.   Out in the Ukrainian backwoods, Chernobyl looks like a ghost town some thirty years later.  Intact but abandoned, vacant—hemorrhaged of humanity.  Like in mass everyone left the city to buy some milk and never returned.   Life in the standstill.  Lights left on now burnt out.  Meat thawing on the counter now mold on the counter.  Laundry half folded on the bed.  The bath water ran and ran and ran until the well dried up.   You wouldn’t know that the soil and                                                                     the cats and                                                   the dogs                   were radioactive unless you held a meter against it to measure the roentgen. The hermit crab soft underneath its hard shell. The mold growing around the core of the shining red apple.   The asbestos hiding in the insulation.   The lead in the paint on the crib.   Sometimes, the things that look the most fine can **** you.
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Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 at 2:22 AM UTC
Svetlana Alexievich Touched on This—It Was Just Buried Under Layers and Layers of Trauma
Fingers dipped in purple powders Fushia gold my makeup Black skintight latex suit with neon circles How my outfit is made up Three rings around my waist Intersecting, two vertical, one on the horizon The circles glow with noble gases Radioactive, after all, I'm an alien Perfect spheres and concentric rings Are trending, so I have read I balance on stacked circles, my six inch latex heels And floating circles surround the pair of buns on my head My bones poke through my latex, Anorexia won't stop my passions I may not be the body type you want, but I'm the body type you have And I still enjoy the fashions
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Feb 29, 2020
Feb 29, 2020 at 2:38 PM UTC
Trending
My chemical imbalances Make me unstable Releasing pieces of my mind So I'll become stable Still calculating the halflife Of my sanity Alpha, beta or gammma, Would not catorize me
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Mar 16, 2019
Mar 16, 2019 at 12:58 PM UTC
Radioactive
*Sacramental Elixir & Illuminated Blues, Experimental Flauntings Of Her Midsummer Hues, Radioactive Eyes & Her Fairytale Lies, Seductive Abuses Across The New Divide, Vivid Intersections In Her Phenomenal Rage, Shatterproof Reflections Splattered Upstage, Midnight Passions Of Her Perplexed Lust, Starlight Rains Glittering Hybrid Dusts, Transitional Paradigms & Engineered Moans, Theatrical Concoctions In Her Symphonic Tones, Flirtatious Illuminations Under The Darkest Light, Stained Animations Igniting Kryptonite, Palisades Of Her Collated Reflections, Cascades Emitting Her Sedated Projections, Contraband Infatuation Resonating Magnetic Love, Raving Constellations Provocating Atomic Dove, Divine Catharsis Of Her Cupid Amour Eternity, Valentine Bliss Mystifying Her Restrained Insanity, Charismatic Futility & ****** Binge, Cinematic Tranquility Emanating From Her Bulletproof Sins, Neon Subways & Fragile Foreplays, Sensual Arrays Of Her Red-Light Decays. - 03:53AM -*
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 6:30 PM UTC
Elixir
Which one will take me first? Your radioactive deadly love My volcanic blooming hope The world will spilt me apart Contented I shall depart it I have loved none but you!
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 6:55 PM UTC
Touched
**here we are the water glows the river froths bubbles and flows here we are apocalypse here we are in ash and dust we see the world in blood and rust here we are apocalypse I feel it in the air as buildings crash and claxions blare welcome to the new age to the new age welcome to the new age to the new age woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe radioactive radioactive here we are the dragon's eggs we have to crawl we have to beg here we are the dragon's spawn our father's killed with molten fire they are gone they have expired here we are but they are gone I feel it in the air outside the dragon's lair welcome to the new age to the new age welcome to the new age to the new age I'm radioactive radioactive woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe radioactive** SoulSurvivor based on song "Radioactive" written by Alex Da Kid and Ben Linke for Imagine Dragons
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Dec 12, 2015
Dec 12, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
dragon's eggs
○ ○ ○ O O ○ o** from the waves of crimson silk comes an eye as white as milk 'tis a   monster   and his ilk     horrid in his      {{{{         slimy scales      }}}}        {{{{{          from the deep    }}}}}      {{{{{{{{{ with hook'd nails }}}}}}}}} {{{{{{{ he's ravenous }}}}}}} he never fails     capturing       his human       meal he will          eat until he's         full then he           goes into            the deep          which will      forever secrets keep     **♢♢     ♢♢     ♢♢      ♢ ♢ ♢** ●   ●
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Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 at 10:54 AM UTC
sea monster
I am radioactive, everyone close, gets hurt, or dies. I am radioactive, my confidence is decaying, and my spirit is dead. I am radioactive, my emotions are on a rampage, and my love has fled. I am radioactive, every aspect of my life, turns into a battle field. and I, I am radioactive, I explode, leaving no trace of life, or love left. I am radioactive, every breath I take, is taken from someone else. I am radioactive, the waves of my danger, reverberate through people's souls. Because I am radioactive.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 4:32 PM UTC
Radioactive
Love me for my destruction, for my mayhem -- after all, loving you isn't so much different, I could have chosen cigarettes, smokey ashtrays over your smokey eye make-up, Or maybe alcohol, sip at lukewarm beer, and become embittered by how your lips are stained elegantly wine, and then again, I might've had the opportunity to inhale car exhaust but your breath is much heavier than monoxide and much more deadly-- turns out nuclear warfare is much more easily attainable by your explosive needs for genocide -- you love those broken hearts, you little radioactive succubus. Knives, I could have made love to a knife, but I guess your nails served the same purpose, you've left your mark, okay? I have a target in the shape of little crescent marks on my back from you and people keep staring. And yes, I could've injected myself with something stronger like morphine, but you're already running through my god **** veins -- I looked up "infatuation" in the dictionary but the words kept blurring because all I could see was your blushing expression when I used my fingertips like paintbrushes on your cheekbones.
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM UTC
she's a bombshell to this city and i'm a civilian casualty
There is a door in each mind Where things will hide Beneath every corner and shadow To protect itself the room fills with toxins So to protect the human outside this mind a fictitious character is made The only thing that can be grasped is the heart no longer the mind. Only if she would allow one to understand Read her schematics, and try to make sense. That behind those shattered eyes is a view of the world falling around her. The scattered pieces tear any man apart Breathing in the toxic air one can wish to be unbreakable to hold her pains inside themselves. That door in her mind has never been entered With a trefoil hanging from the door as a warning to never enter. No one will ever return when that door shuts Know that the shadows allow no life inside.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
TreFoil