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The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
connect the dots
with the stars
on my ceiling

wasting seconds
into minutes
into hours
into nothing

why even bother
looking for pitiful meaning
there's no force behind these words
just hollow nothings
endless seeking

limitless potential
lacking in conviction
what's the point in beginnings?
when the end comes so swiftly

such inefficient lives
so much effort
yet so fleeting
I might start to write something new soon.
The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
connect the dots on your skin
drawing an uncommon star map
cos darlin I'm losin sleep
I don't even have time for a cat-nap
this all feels like a dream
and not the good kind
I don't know what I'm saying
I think I'm losing my mind
perhaps that's hyperbole
maybe I've worked the truth out
I'm still awake and it's a miracle
but those are what I'm all about
The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
gold dust fills my eyes
and the pain stops my dreaming
but the colour stays the same
it's hue never fading
if I cry it'll all be washed away
it's a shame I can't seem to
so I'll swap my eyes with someone else's
just so I can keep on seeing you
The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
the smell of a rose I've never known
doesn't that sound romantic
but I've truly never smelt such a flower
so it's daisies I'll compare you to
a chain of happiness
(that I've failed to make)
wrapped around my head
like a halo of corpses
but I don't point that out
I don't want to upset you
that's why I'm not totally honest
I suppose it's not a lie either
none truths just make me feel guilty
upset that I can't be straight with you
so on the next special occasion
I'll hide my feelings with a bouquet
tie a bow around flowers that say:
"I think you're pretty great"
The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
tapped as one of Cupid's moons
or do I mean Jupiter?
floating like a brick
about as real as this

those farmers were disgusting
and it's all the same to me
no part of this discussion
means anything really

I might like the smell
but how's the taste of your defeat?
if I had a word for every colour
not a one of them would fit
The Thaumaturge Feb 2016
if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
in a similar vein, if someone writes "Y.O.L.O." on their tombstone, does that make it ironic?
furthermore I want a hat that says "DUNCE" on it
just for the weird looks I'd get from strangers
those are always fun to see
of course, I'd claim it was all for the ironic value, like any sane person would
but we all know that's not strictly true
this didn't go over too badly the last time I posted it online so I hope the same is true here.
in my dream, we have no eyes for blind mice
and that's nice, if you ain't got three, and a grand clock
but we lived in the pendulum of an arc in a long box
laid to rest in a deep room of rich soil, and dumb rocks.
the dream bent, where i stepped aside from my suspicions
that you had eyes in your pockets. while i had only holes...
and paper cranes.
i keep the moss on my fingertips, when i dig into the sky -
to find your face.
and that's nice, if you ain't been grounded; stuck in a fugly glut
of gravity's finest hits. pinned to the wings of a butterfly, pinned-
to an anvil... strapped to a georgia peach.
you always have the shark fin soup, as i graze the pit.
as the pit gazed into me. you sip a bit, n'swell your cheeks.
we are nothing like our waking lives
while sleeping so truthfully.

somehow we're on the beach. where it never started. but deja vu
as if remembering the beach. and forget how we have not the eyes
for blind mice save the eyes in your pocket
while i have all the holes
that you need.

and paper cranes.

II

the bleeding has stopped, where a spear kissed an artery too violently
and shook loose my red roving rivers of rebellious reveries. stopped - and now it's a knot's petty game. it extends my life just to mock complete
Happiness. but i peep the same. i know the moon is the only sister that has my back.
where i have slept
beneath her...
dreaming on earth
dreaming on earth

dreaming, alas*....
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