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#selfdeprecation
Where do I begin? If I were to write this, I'd have to end it somewhere. But my train of thoughts do not cease. It flexes it's fingers finding ideas, unpleasant or not disconcerting or rarely comforting, intriguing or wistful, it makes no matter as it gladly latches on and refuses to let go, while I slowly die at the hands of myself.
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Dec 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM UTC
Self- Inflicted
I juggle books like the clown I am; A chapter of this, a passage of that, The words touch my eyes but refuse to go deeper, Recoiling at my brain. I juggle hobbies like the clown I am; games new to me already old hat, A stack of projects that project failure Again and again. I juggle my life like the clown that I am: Work, sleep, eat, no time to chat My relationships and communication skills Continue to wane. My life is a circus, in that which I am A clown of no merit whose mind acrobat Has missed the trapeze entirely. It's already slain.
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Dec 6, 2025
Dec 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC
Circus
i'm hurting less than you look at your legs see how white lines lace them i'm hurting less than you look at your body see how you can feel your ribcage I'm hurting less than you look at your hair see how it's dead and tangled I'm hurting less than you look at your face see how there are tears waterfalling down I'm hurting less than you look at your reflection see that you are talking to yourself
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Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM UTC
reflection
My words don't Shake like William's, nor, do they Frost like Robert's. × My words barely lead the Way like Ernest's, nor, do they have Hughes like Langston's.  × I don't know how much my Wordsworth like William's, nor, do my words keep people ******* like Edward's. × My words are far from an Angel like Maya's,  and they are barely Lovecraft like Howard's. × Indeed I profess, my words cannot do those listed things, but, my words can be a great expression of me. × (sumairu•¶oetry)
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Nov 7, 2019
Nov 7, 2019 at 8:11 AM UTC
Self-deprecation Of A Poet
I haven't been eating much. My shaking hands beg for nourishment, And only then I feed it. I've been sleeping a lot, but it's disturbed, restless. I've been drinking more and more. The red wine at night soothes my sadness. It even makes Him feel farther away. Just to wake up groggy, unclear, sad. Alone. Here I am, punishing myself. Unable to wrestle out of this cycle. The wicked voice inside my head is back, and She's louder than ever. She likes it when I'm catatonic and vulnerable.
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Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 4:02 PM UTC
anhedonia
I wish I could make her toes curl like the end of fitted sheets But i'll probably disappoint then like Fox's casting of Mystique I wish I could command attention without saying a word But to do that I'd have to have charisma, wait... what's that a bird? No it's a trait that I don't possess. I guess you can't correct a problem you don't know how to solve The truth is i'm so easily worn out I don't know what to do at all Not physically but socially, that batteries drained I'd complain but my lack of confidence weighs enough on my brain But let's get back on track with this train I hope that I can make her squeal with a kiss and spill passion with a hug But I'd actually have to be desirable, unlike, say a Chagas bug. Hell the bug might have better luck than me I guess that's why I have to express myself lyrically Because my head goes one way and my mouth another Just forget it I'd be hopeless as a lover...
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Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 11:58 PM UTC
Hopeless Lover
I am a freak my Bike does squeak. Its rusted left-hand brake. Fix the seat, and repair the weak Rusted left-hand brake. It’s dripping; a drool of oil leak. Its greasy left-hand brake. Birds call back through a mouth they lack To my noisy left-hand brake. Their vapid squawk My Bike does mock, With that rattling left-hand brake It’s broken and screeching and my life is depleting Out that spoken left-hand brake.   My Bike calls forward each sound, more onward While the feathered ones call for love, My Bike calls for distance, And the Future, And the Purpose, And the Birds, my Bike is above.
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 10:14 AM UTC
Dysfunctional Left-Hand Brake
Heartless ***** Got no soul to love Heartless ***** Parasite feeding in our skin Heartless ***** Don’t worry they do love something That something is themselves Heartless ***** spiked their life bringer into a flaming can Heartless ***** watching the world from a cave. Heartless ***** sleeping with friends. No benefits attached. Heartless ***** doesn’t care if you like them Heartless ***** actually delighted they’re messed up How about you keep you’re mouth sewed shut and tear out your larynx. Words from that useless hole are hollow. Manipulation your mistress Depression your ***** You take   and abuse     and lie. Just chose one or the other you- Heartless ***** Stay quiet, behave. Heartless ***** do they even have a name? Heartless ***** It’s still beating in the trashcan, cold. I am that Heartless *****
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Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017 at 5:51 PM UTC
[Heartless *****
four hours of sleep three days of fluffy frills, lace, and cat ears four days of flannels and dark eyeliner five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes of good music how to create a me but you wont want to. side effects include: depression anxiety isolation manipulation is it worth it?
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Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 12:59 PM UTC
recipe
You scratched the record And now my head is back on repeat It goes over that same beat Over and over again to the point where I don't even wanna attempt to speak If silence is golden Then I'm the biggest known mine Because it feels as though I've been skating over myself when putting words into rhyme Always the same topics from me and not to interesting metaphors You scratched it like a DJ on turntables because I'm winding up to the end of this fable, I can still write and I'm more than willing and able but I gotta stretch my muscles again before I lose the sharpness on my pen, that's my sword
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Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC
You scratched the record
I hate my stupid brain Always forgetting, day dreaming and overthinking Scheming on things that I know can't happen, or won't for some time And when it's not doing that it's arranging words and punch lines together by rhythm and syllables that rhyme I hate my stupid heart, always anxious and never not being optimistic, Always creating dreams that my brain will produce Always searching for something beside hockey and poetry to invest in, when I don't even know how to do my taxes. Lastly, brain we need to have one more chat I know we've had our differences, which is weird because you occupy the space underneath my scalp. But if you could be so kind as to become more flexible to changes in a rehearsed routine That would be, dear fleshy ***** simply keen
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 4:56 PM UTC
I hate my stupid brain
The first time he kissed me, my friends assured me that I was just another body I dutifully disagreed- "I am special" The second time he kissed me, I learned pretty fast that my friends were right I need not be I am not special I am just A woman When a stranger wrapped his scarf around my chest, His foreign accent fondling me with the words explaining that he would be jealous to see other men looking at me I smiled politely and waited to be dug out by my friends nearby because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Hearing a whistle blown towards my general direction I bow my head, ignore all of the "hey baby"sand "que linda"s Shrinking into myself I hope to disappear from the street because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Walking the city alone, I make sure to act as if nobody is there hoping with futility That maybe if they can not be seen then I will not be seen either Although I do not need to try so hard to become invisible because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Waiting to hear from you and allowing myself to be passive with our fate I rehearse that I am just another kiss, another body for you to call home because I am not special I am just The body of woman These days I do not measure my worth in pounds on the scale because That number is far too large- far too significant Instead I look to the tags inside my pants because they represent how much space I do not take up Exploring the streets I am constantly checking how many shadows are following behind me What turns they're taking and how far behind they are My escape routes are already planned for the inevitable because no matter how significant I truly am, that is always compensated for through the insignificance of my body no- Our bodies, women We are miraculous, glory filled temples It is not our fault that no matter how much fabric we try to hide behind we are always ****** beings that Our accomplishments are that much more revered because we had to overcome our womanhood first that Woman is a necessary adjective to frame titles or context because Without it one will assume a man is being spoken of Each day is a cause for celebration because each sunset marks another day of survival but the morning sunrise alerts us for another day at war
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 3:46 PM UTC
A reflection on being cat called
The first time he kissed me, my friends assured me that I was just another body I dutifully disagreed- "I am special" The second time he kissed me, I learned pretty fast that my friends were right I need not be I am not special I am just A woman When a stranger wrapped his scarf around my chest, His foreign accent fondling me with the words explaining that he would be jealous to see other men looking at me I smiled politely and waited to be dug out by my friends nearby because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Hearing a whistle blown towards my general direction I bow my head, ignore all of the "hey baby"sand "que linda"s Shrinking into myself I hope to disappear from the street because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Walking the city alone, I make sure to act as if nobody is there hoping with futility That maybe if they can not be seen then I will not be seen either Although I do not need to try so hard to become invisible because I am not special I am just The body of a woman Waiting to hear from you and allowing myself to be passive with our fate I rehearse that I am just another kiss, another body for you to call home because I am not special I am just The body of woman These days I do not measure my worth in pounds on the scale because That number is far too large- far too significant Instead I look to the tags inside my pants because they represent how much space I do not take up Exploring the streets I am constantly checking how many shadows are following behind me What turns they're taking and how far behind they are My escape routes are already planned for the inevitable because no matter how significant I truly am, that is always compensated for through the insignificance of my body no- Our bodies, women We are miraculous, glory filled temples It is not our fault that no matter how much fabric we try to hide behind we are always ****** beings that Our accomplishments are that much more revered because we had to overcome our womanhood first that Woman is a necessary adjective to frame titles or context because Without it one will assume a man is being spoken of Each day is a cause for celebration because each sunset marks another day of survival but the morning sunrise alerts us for another day at war
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I'm an empty room with no paint on the walls Filled with broken hopes and empty thoughts The wood is caving in and people come through to see and touch As soon as they linger too long they realize the empty room upsets them too much They hear ventriloquists song, the wood carving words as silent nursery rhymes and shallow one verses lullabies The windows are broken and the wind waltzes in, it towers under the floorboards and swallows the bad parts in Schizophrenic slumber parties with sandman and death, fascist following of whoever is next The vines slither in, deceivingly vile, stealing all the smiles and sorrowful trials of the men in their nightgowns and high heels so tall, everything started to grow so small The table outside the door has a bottle of the last person to exits drug of choice, it makes it worth the while
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM UTC
The Room
I want to be the band around my wrist, at peace, at rest, with the sole purpose of being a band, around my wrist. With nothing but thread and elastic holding me together. Without option of thinking, but simply existing. Without the desire to love or be loved, but to be loved perhaps, and hated perhaps. I want to be the band, around my wrist, and I don't want to be me.
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 9:01 PM UTC
Slap