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Twisted Poet Feb 26
you carry your fathers hand me down rage
its two sizes to big
and everyone can see it doesn't fit you
Twisted Poet Feb 26
"what did they do?"
"nothing good his puppets were not supposed to live after the war"
Twisted Poet Feb 26
A dog that weeps after it kills
is no better than a dog that doesn't

my guilt will not purify me
Twisted Poet Feb 26
i think you deserve a soft epilogue,
my love.
you are a good person
and  you've suffered enough.
Twisted Poet Feb 26
you love each other
you really do
but here's the tragedy
its not enough
Twisted Poet Feb 26
Eve
He was bored so you created me.

It was painful for both of us,
When you clawed at his ribs
Searching.
Your fingernails tearing out the calcium in his bones.

And his bones became my muscles,
And the muscles became my skin,

And i was naked,
and he and you were pleased.

He and i were on ambivalent terms,
But we knew we were there because you
Wanted us to be.
And we knew that was why
The fruit and animals existed;
And these were good things, we
Enjoyed them.

Later I'd blame the snake.
He reeked of knowledge;
I was interested,
I didn't know they'd use my story as an excuse
To pound curiosity out of woman.

I ate the apple
Its juice dribbled down my chin,

I realised things.

He ate the apple too; you were angry at us.
And i committed the original sin.
I realised that even though you had made the world
And me as a plaything,

My body would be a vessel for a new species.
And they would take
This earth from you.
Twisted Poet Feb 25
teeth bared in defiance / a match lit, a match dropped / hands clenched into fists / words tearing down walls / jaws turning from loose to tight/ a knowledge that there has to be more / cricked fingers hanging from holes in fences/ kicking up sand / a shirt that reveals a bony collarbone / a low-hanging light jacket / long shadows cast by a long flames / strained abstract chains bound to wrists / a scattering over the night sky falling to earth / boundaryless blue over faded white / paths run into the earth / a dented green dance / a hole torn into metal / twisted rusted wires / a sandy red yard / window bars casting shadows / a broken wooden crate / footprints pressed into cement/ shattered window/ a cloud of sand
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