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FT
I don't dream of her
But I do.
I really don't want to.

She shows up sometimes,
I get excited, turned on.
But I am reminded,
Your good days are far gone.

Always and never.
Two words of weight.
With you,
I prefer hate.
 Apr 2014 Mariana Nolasco
Morgan
All of my friends
have fallen
in love
with their
boredom
But
I'm still lusting,
helplessly
over my
mortality
My room is filled with deep velvety black
So many different shades
Melting into one
I can just barely distinguish the windows
I want it to swallow me whole
I struggle to try and decipher emotions
That I don't know what they are
They shift and swirl
All out of reach
Emotional reach
I want to be uncomplicated
And free
I tell you, run.
Tomorrow I will smile
  For all the people who cannot
Tomorrow I will smile
  To say "I am okay!"
Tomorrow I will smile at a stranger
Because today I want a stranger to smile
  At me
I wrote this quite a while ago and worked on editing and formatting for a good month or so.. I'm still not sure I like it but the message is always relevant.
"History doesn't repeat itself...but it does rhyme." -Mark Twain*

Oh, America!

You didn’t stand a chance.

What, with a Mother so gluttonous
that the sun never set on her,

With a Father so shameless
that his name became synonymous with guilt,

The prodigal sheep
couldn’t stray too far.

In New World tantrums
you brewed Earl Grey bays,

You built your houses
on foundations of graves,

You pursued your happiness
through the sweat of slaves,

Behind white-picket fences
you dreamt away decades…

And then you were stirred,
by a bird through your window,
to find no one at your wake.
 Feb 2014 Mariana Nolasco
R
L
 Feb 2014 Mariana Nolasco
R
L
If I pinned you against the wall
and slipped my tongue
into places unknown
would you let me
discover your
truths?
 Feb 2014 Mariana Nolasco
K603
Are we alive?
Who's to say that we are not dead,
that there maybe life in our coming death.
What life is on going
never to end.
So in keeping track of the years of our lives
are we really just waiting to live?
 Feb 2014 Mariana Nolasco
Morgan
i'm in love
with the way
you flip a
lucky cigarette
every time
you open a
fresh pack,
cause i know
you'll always
smoke it last
and i count
each one
as you
put them out

i want to be
your twentieth
cigarette,

i want you
to shake
when you see me
standing
all alone
at the tip
of your fingers,
i want you to
rush to inhale me
but force yourself
to savor me
cause i'm the only one,
after i'm gone
you have no one

i'm in love
with the way
you rush through
nineteen, sorry
cigarettes
just to
smoke
the twentieth
twenty
separate
times,

oh you take
a drag
and let it linger
on the tip
of your tongue,
you put it out,
brush it off,
tuck it away,
keep it safe,
you know you'll
want it again

like you
can't get
enough
of number
twenty,

and i know
in the back
of my head
that it isn't
because
it's lucky,
it's just because
it's all that's
left

but i wanna
be your number twenty

even when there

aren't

nineteen

before me

i want to be
the one you
pick out
of the crowd
just to flip
my world
upside down
and call
me
special

and i want you
to hurry through
the rest
to make it
back
to me
 Feb 2014 Mariana Nolasco
Morgan
some nights,
alone in bed
the darkness
was so alive
i swore
i felt it
roaming
around
inside
my
head
and
it's
taken me
this long
to learn
the morning
will always
come,
bearing sun
anyway
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