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 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
cami
Boogie oogie oogie man
flashing, grinning,
dancing man
bearing teeth
gnashing, gnashing, gnawing meat

*****-y man
with your grin that holds ten thousand teeth
and your chin from which
red blood drips sticky and sweet

BOO!

Boogie oogie oogie,
Mr. Boogie man
Dance with limbs that
twist and bend
and snap and crack
and thwip and thwack

Snap--
your fingers, Mr. Boogie man!
And slap your thighs
And clap your hands
Won't you join me in this dance?

And won't you stroke my face?
And kiss my cheek?
And bite my neck?
And drink my red blood so sweet?

And won't you,
with your ten thousand teeth,
devour my heart
as you feast, feast feast...

Oh, Mr. Boogie oogie oogie man
Let us dance the night away!
Your broken fingers can hold my back
as my snapping bones
go thwack, thwack, thwack

And I'll wipe the blood from my eyes
And I'll wipe the tears from my heart
And we'll boogie oogie oogie
Til death lets me part
for my dad
I run and I hide.

I lie and I cry.

I avoid all the why's.

I get knocked down every time by this god forsaken tide.
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Joel Torres
I was inspired, see.
Because of me, they have no choice but to flee.
They couldn't believe I could grow up
And be free.
Will power will always be stronger than ill power.
You know,
"I ain't afraid to ****" power.
I rise from the ground as a lil' flower
In hopes to one day, obtain the "I am fulfilled" power.
Don't be sour.
Be honored that you have seen another day, Another hour not wasted in decay.
Each day I think of ways to live,
And ways to die that leave me satisfied.
Dreaming up outcomes of a crazy life.
Tell me how come,
My fam' must work to show their worth in a system designed to make us hurt?
We've been slaves since birth and there's only one way to come out first:
The thirst for knowledge will take me there along with the help of this verse.
A burst of applause is heard loud enough to hide the cry of a woman with a black eye having the worst day of her life, after he stole her purse.
Who's life had been worse?
The thief or the woman?
It's all perspective,
She had no death wish.
Thief had one last breath,
Ended up leaving her breathless.
Meanwhile, I've immersed myself in my craft, headfirst
Getting my dark view of the world reversed.
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Lost
Oh Dear
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Lost
My brain has chemical imbalance
held inside a ceramic palace
The fabrication of lies
and blankness behind the eyes,
with bloodstains on my body,
assault is my hobby.
Not on others you see,
just on 'lil ol' me.
And hunger isn’t a concern,
I want my body to burn.
My own pulse drives me insane,
I’d rather devoured by pain.
You’d think I’d wish the reverse,
but I love it, and that’s my curse.
Whoops I'm emo
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Alex McQuate
I sit here in the darkened dining room,
A small light shining in from the kitchen,
Just enough to silhouette the curtain of cigarette smoke that hung about the room,
I've been sitting here,
Smoking all the while,
Listen to Robert Plant croon,
About a woman he loves with all his heart,
But against his wishes,
He has to bid her adieu.

I sit here, smoking, in this warm and comfortable room,
All else is quiet,
Everyone else asleep,
Plant singing my anthem so sad and true.

But eventually the song ends,
And the record must be flipped,
So too the anthem changes,
One more upbeat and slick,
A song of change and travel,
And ever pressing on.
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Susan Jacob
Serendipity arouses pity;
like when one beholds an abandoned kitty.
I ponder how people can wonder
when, they hold their own blunder.

I might well be a mistake of time;
sour as a lime.
A palpable yet not so able,
as a fact, neither exists a perfect navel.
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
Gidgette
Being the thing that I am,
borne into this world of man
A waif,
Scent of water lilly on a gypsy's cheek dancing at midnight
A song,
sung by demons under the blood moon in the month of March
A mere reflection,
In a child's tear
With the want for nothing more,
than to evaporate with the coming of the rising Sun
But the sun never rises here
and reflections don't evaporate~A
 Apr 2017 CMSGavaran
SG Holter
Sun not even threatening
To set on this
Spring
Evening, and through her
Window facing the
Backyard I only now realise
That the maple tree must
Have been
Blossoming for days.

I suppose I was too occupied
With nonsense to
Notice.
Let's go, she whispers.
Let's forget about holding
Back, being rational, being so
******* realistic. Leave with
Me and just love.

I might.

I might already
Have come.
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