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The elements have merged into solicitude, Spasms of violets rise above the mud And **** and soon the birds and ancients Will be starting to arrive, bereaving points South. But never mind. It is not painful to discuss His death. I have been primed for this -- For separation -- for so long. But still his face assaults Me; I can hear that car careen again, the crowd coagulate on asphalt In my sleep. And watching him, I feel my legs like snow That let him finally let him go As he lies draining there. And see How even he did not get to keep that lovely body.
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The Racer's Widow
When letters wait to pounce on a blank page when thoughts crowd the mind like frothing **** in a pond I keep wondering what poetry is to me what poetry is to many Is it not the language of the heart with no intervention of gray matter the unlocking of closed vaults stirring the embers of love, hurt or pain or giving a free rein to fancy and flying on magic carpets to lands forlorn Sometimes it is a glide into a sea of tranquillity an escape from the humdrum of the world a flash of liberation from assaults of pain a sedative to numb the turmoil a sanctuary for a burdened heart a window to look at the world through a companion when one is inconsolably alone a candle flame in a darkening world a cloth line to hang the ***** laundry a water lily blooming in the pool of tears a shelter in homelessness sometimes it is a ladder to climb up to Heavens an angel on wings with tidings of hope peace in a world braced for war Poetry, if you are all these let us fall at your feet bless us in our art may we splurge in fancy and conjure up worlds from words! our poems may not be light houses but could be fireflies on a starless night!
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Dec 20, 2017
Dec 20, 2017 at 11:56 AM UTC
What Poetry Is
“but if you have to move your best friend’s body… …you’re on your own.” Your best friend dies Before your eyes Somehow stays alive Then what? ***** salt-licked hair Brittle and frayed by medicine World’s unfathomable weight Trembling beneath the Wisdom Tree Her whole being crumples (arrugar) But her life-force remains intact Body bone Running on spirit reserves Why is that? She stands and cries Staring into ether I sit Wringing my hands Her tears strike the ground In tree-gecko unison ''' Pacific parasite super-strains Blood coated throat The full range of abuse’s color on all fronts for decades Attempted assaults, **** Dengue Giant Centipede venom to the skull But worst of all Rootlessness and fear the monkey on her back had a monkey on its back and was smoking a cigarette ''' Have you ever seen someone Completely broken? Corpsic shell of a woman Gaunt, wan in the tropics “Don’t put your trust in walls… …walls will only crush you when they fall” Brick-bludgeoned body The shrapnel lay like Sun scorched Novice-woven baskets At her feet But now she can see And breath Real breath ''' Genocide’s a ***** yes. Africans seem fatalistic to Americans Baby boy body, Grandpa human- shield “They’re your babies” Short-lived, yes But now they have peace Witnesses still weave the jungle What do you do with a friend who’s Seen real atrocity? Evil? ''' I’m learning. Prayer is power Will transcends the concrete (Bunkle, too.) She serves realness only Her seeking hands unweave the sacred Time is of no luxury right now Serve people through love and Grace awaits discovery ''' I’ve never carried a bleeding body. I needn’t “fear the terror by night, Nor the arrow by day” But I saw someone perish And resurrect What a gift What a gift Gubaadagem, Tinmad.
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM UTC
Crocodile Tears
“but if you have to move your best friend’s body… …you’re on your own.” Your best friend dies Before your eyes Somehow stays alive Then what? ***** salt-licked hair Brittle and frayed by medicine World’s unfathomable weight Trembling beneath the Wisdom Tree Her whole being crumples (arrugar) But her life-force remains intact Body bone Running on spirit reserves Why is that? She stands and cries Staring into ether I sit Wringing my hands Her tears strike the ground In tree-gecko unison ''' Pacific parasite super-strains Blood coated throat The full range of abuse’s color on all fronts for decades Attempted assaults, **** Dengue Giant Centipede venom to the skull But worst of all Rootlessness and fear the monkey on her back had a monkey on its back and was smoking a cigarette ''' Have you ever seen someone Completely broken? Corpsic shell of a woman Gaunt, wan in the tropics “Don’t put your trust in walls… …walls will only crush you when they fall” Brick-bludgeoned body The shrapnel lay like Sun scorched Novice-woven baskets At her feet But now she can see And breath Real breath ''' Genocide’s a ***** yes. Africans seem fatalistic to Americans Baby boy body, Grandpa human- shield “They’re your babies” Short-lived, yes But now they have peace Witnesses still weave the jungle What do you do with a friend who’s Seen real atrocity? Evil? ''' I’m learning. Prayer is power Will transcends the concrete (Bunkle, too.) She serves realness only Her seeking hands unweave the sacred Time is of no luxury right now Serve people through love and Grace awaits discovery ''' I’ve never carried a bleeding body. I needn’t “fear the terror by night, Nor the arrow by day” But I saw someone perish And resurrect What a gift What a gift Gubaadagem, Tinmad.
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My life is a virtual battlefield complete with hidden traps, layered atop cowardly assaults between highly guarded spans of peace, Inside my house chairs and walls are coarsely blown to bits by verbal bombs, and stark fists of shrapnel. Behind that simple smile, semblance of solid love so easily shaken, lies a ripened mine field I tread on tiptoes yet it erupts under calloused feet unprovoked, blasting glory to grey as sacred sanctuary falls to scarred terrain. Spears lodged inside ribs I peel myself from the ground, shake off soot, wait for dust to settle before I march forward, again. yes I lose the battles But I will win this war.
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Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 6:30 PM UTC
Bombshells and boobytraps
I laid the body wounded from war, marking the pain of bleeding scar, they drip no blood but crying word, scream of whys is all can be heard. This warrior fought without a gun, the sword was laid on the ground. Flew in the war without a shield, embracing the fires of the field. The warzone is silent and cold, daylight is starting to fold, omitted gore has no trace, but agony and pain mantled the face. Alone, the warrior stood with yielding feet, the armored belligerent took their seat. They watched this warrior drown with tears, their laughter bit the bleeding ears. The archenemies took off their casque, these are faces of the warrior's past. Hopelessly he fell on his knee, looking at the grinning enemies. Armored with the sharpest sword, strengthen by their greatest lord. They rumbled drums with deafening sound, plotting the line of the warrior's bound. The warrior faced the strongest foes, murmur of vicious wind starts to blow. No armor can block the slashing assaults, as these are words comes like a lighting bolt. Words stabs deeper than a pointed knife, blotching doubt in warrior's life. Painted the warzone with unwanted shade, every glimpse of light starts to fade. The warrior with no hope to win, carried darkness with tattered skin. You can't win against yourself, they will reveal voices left in the shelf. The warrior dwelled in the cold and dark cell, fall of the tears in every hit of the bell. Tired of the biting lullabies marching like a band. The white flag was raised with trembling hand.
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Jul 29, 2020
Jul 29, 2020 at 10:52 AM UTC
Silent war
I laid the body wounded from war, marking the pain of bleeding scar, they drip no blood but crying word, scream of whys is all can be heard. This warrior fought without a gun, the sword was laid on the ground. Flew in the war without a shield, embracing the fires of the field. The warzone is silent and cold, daylight is starting to fold, omitted gore has no trace, but agony and pain mantled the face. Alone, the warrior stood with yielding feet, the armored belligerent took their seat. They watched this warrior drown with tears, their laughter bit the bleeding ears. The archenemies took off their casque, these are faces of the warrior's past. Hopelessly he fell on his knee, looking at the grinning enemies. Armored with the sharpest sword, strengthen by their greatest lord. They rumbled drums with deafening sound, plotting the line of the warrior's bound. The warrior faced the strongest foes, murmur of vicious wind starts to blow. No armor can block the slashing assaults, as these are words comes like a lighting bolt. Words stabs deeper than a pointed knife, blotching doubt in warrior's life. Painted the warzone with unwanted shade, every glimpse of light starts to fade. The warrior with no hope to win, carried darkness with tattered skin. You can't win against yourself, they will reveal voices left in the shelf. The warrior dwelled in the cold and dark cell, fall of the tears in every hit of the bell. Tired of the biting lullabies marching like a band. The white flag was raised with trembling hand.
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We can make this edible without utensils In a strange, menuless kitchen Well, can you not make a salad? Take a cucumber of memory Slice it so thin that none of the recollections hurt anymore. Mince some olives so fine Their oil leaks onto the cucumber like OK. Add the pulsing flesh of bright red tomatoes But don’t slice them Just squeeze them with your hand Until they explode like wet epiphanies And dare to dice a garlic clove Without turning your nose away As invisible olfactory reality Assaults you with truth so pungent That ECT would pale in comparison To that very assault on your boundaries of understanding And then toss the whole thing Watching how it changes color and texture And just when you both start to get hungry And you both want to cry The 50 minutes are over.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 11:08 AM UTC
PSYCHOTHERAPY SALAD
Without legitimate occupancy, Adverse possession is the legal right Of anyone who moves in and maintains A property, so here's the deal. We must Move in to 1600 Penn, The current tenant having broke the lease. The caravan from Guatemala first, Hondurans trudging slowly from the depth. Then the Yemen children not yet murdered, Those with preexisting conditions next, And women whose assaults were ridiculed, Those roughed up by cops and politicians. Losers in the war on drugs, the big house Having far exceeded capacity. The mentally ill, discarded by the Great communicator after he tore The Solar panels off the roof.  This is Anger, not poetic license.  When a Long train of abuses and usurpations Evinces a design to reduce them Under absolute Despotism, it Is their right, it is their duty to throw Off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such Has been the patient sufferance of these And such is now the necessity which Constrains them to alter their systems of Government.  And journalists under  fire, If there's room still left in the briefing room, Let facts be submitted to a candid                           World.
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 9:49 PM UTC
Squatting 1600 Penn
To the men who have hurt me, both physically and emotionally. To the men who have sexually harassed me. To the men who have tried to coerce and guilt trip me. To the men who tried to take advantage of me when I was 15, the lowest point in my life. When I was weak. Destroyed from depression, from bullying, from the transition of middle school to high school, from anxiety, from blind parents and others ignorance. To those of you who knew I was in a ****** up state of mind, who pretended to support me when I was crying, only to run your hand up my thigh and whisper "I can make you forget about it." To the boys who abused me, insulted me, struck me, brought a suicidal teenage girl to the point of destruction. To the guy who didn't quite **** me, but who came close. Who grabbed all over me while I shoved and smacked and told him to stop. Who tried to get inside me without my permission and who tried to guilt trip me, calling me a tease and telling me to lay down and pretend nothing was happening if it really bothered me so much. Who tried to teach me to retreat inside of myself at human contact so I wouldn't resist. To every guy who approached a mentally destroyed teenage girl who was drowning in herself to try to get ****** favors, to try to get me to trade my body for drugs, to try to bring me down even further so I wouldn't say no. Because I did say no. I always said no and fought and nearly vomited every time a guy started groping, started making lewd commentary in what started out to be small talk, every guy that grabbed at me without my permission and leered and tried to grind on me without any context other than you had a hard on and I looked weak enough to force yourself on. I hope someday someone rips you all apart. I hope someone tortures you, tries to blackmail you, coerce you, makes you feel like garbage when you're at your weakest. Because as much as all of you tried, even this fragile, broken teenager rejected you. Fought her hardest to get away from attempted assaults and made it, clawing and screaming away from you. Cried silently as angry, mocking messages came in but didn't dignify them with responses. Ignored angry phone calls from multiple numbers and continued to live, even when you all tried to break me into a *** slave. **** every last one of you up the *** with a flaming ***** I hope you all go through hell. I was going through hell and you all tried to destroy me, to incinerate my spirit in the name of getting someone to touch your ***** I hope you go through worse. I hope somebody castrates you. If there is an almighty deity, I hope they curse you for eternity. I hope you all know that the girl you tried to destroy for your own sadistic pleasure is stronger than ever before.
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 7:28 PM UTC
To every man who ever harmed me.
To the men who have hurt me, both physically and emotionally. To the men who have sexually harassed me. To the men who have tried to coerce and guilt trip me. To the men who tried to take advantage of me when I was 15, the lowest point in my life. When I was weak. Destroyed from depression, from bullying, from the transition of middle school to high school, from anxiety, from blind parents and others ignorance. To those of you who knew I was in a ****** up state of mind, who pretended to support me when I was crying, only to run your hand up my thigh and whisper "I can make you forget about it." To the boys who abused me, insulted me, struck me, brought a suicidal teenage girl to the point of destruction. To the guy who didn't quite **** me, but who came close. Who grabbed all over me while I shoved and smacked and told him to stop. Who tried to get inside me without my permission and who tried to guilt trip me, calling me a tease and telling me to lay down and pretend nothing was happening if it really bothered me so much. Who tried to teach me to retreat inside of myself at human contact so I wouldn't resist. To every guy who approached a mentally destroyed teenage girl who was drowning in herself to try to get ****** favors, to try to get me to trade my body for drugs, to try to bring me down even further so I wouldn't say no. Because I did say no. I always said no and fought and nearly vomited every time a guy started groping, started making lewd commentary in what started out to be small talk, every guy that grabbed at me without my permission and leered and tried to grind on me without any context other than you had a hard on and I looked weak enough to force yourself on. I hope someday someone rips you all apart. I hope someone tortures you, tries to blackmail you, coerce you, makes you feel like garbage when you're at your weakest. Because as much as all of you tried, even this fragile, broken teenager rejected you. Fought her hardest to get away from attempted assaults and made it, clawing and screaming away from you. Cried silently as angry, mocking messages came in but didn't dignify them with responses. Ignored angry phone calls from multiple numbers and continued to live, even when you all tried to break me into a *** slave. **** every last one of you up the *** with a flaming ***** I hope you all go through hell. I was going through hell and you all tried to destroy me, to incinerate my spirit in the name of getting someone to touch your ***** I hope you go through worse. I hope somebody castrates you. If there is an almighty deity, I hope they curse you for eternity. I hope you all know that the girl you tried to destroy for your own sadistic pleasure is stronger than ever before.
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The Mother Angels of Einstein's Eve heard her shaking completely curly tresses,    waiting for the waves of the mountains' magical colors, and beginning to undress,    said, understanding his limitations, and he retreated to the desert, Marcus trafficking in ashes.                                          :- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Asked for memory devices, journalists look to the magazine ISISToo like an angelic angel, who has a solid table's tablet that John describes in the water that John describes as a hungry Christian mother in the south, Christian Christian light cuts into bed and hatred,   and in the shade of the first wedding,   John writes Bettie sold out to the enemies of the people because he planted in Greece against angels angel Einstein by a mother one who heard Eve fill in the upper part of the corner, waiting for the Hills Hills to get water into the skin when these magic-colored shades began to dress, she answered, as measured by the limitations until the reading was to spread themselves into the ground and report Jack's ashes scattered throughout the desert. It depends on the face of the world, and that it literally means shadow shadow shadow shadow. I think all the wordless words are kissing: the molecular is the girls with the dark splinters and the calves, beginning from the dark to light on the loaf of **** for Satan launches the beans placed on the socks before the Asian Secrets that are in the patent to produce data to meet with Lovers,    and iron that is important, and women who are soon weeping,     seat seats like Unfortunately, for some other reason the costly assaults over the years, the number of socks, so long in the winter he was praying for a streaming stream that closed the glass glass inside the interior of the interior, he received a 'meditation' gift, the dreams, the, the thoughts, the singers;
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Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 11:16 PM UTC
The Mother Angels
The Mother Angels of Einstein's Eve heard her shaking completely curly tresses,    waiting for the waves of the mountains' magical colors, and beginning to undress,    said, understanding his limitations, and he retreated to the desert, Marcus trafficking in ashes.                                          :- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Asked for memory devices, journalists look to the magazine ISISToo like an angelic angel, who has a solid table's tablet that John describes in the water that John describes as a hungry Christian mother in the south, Christian Christian light cuts into bed and hatred,   and in the shade of the first wedding,   John writes Bettie sold out to the enemies of the people because he planted in Greece against angels angel Einstein by a mother one who heard Eve fill in the upper part of the corner, waiting for the Hills Hills to get water into the skin when these magic-colored shades began to dress, she answered, as measured by the limitations until the reading was to spread themselves into the ground and report Jack's ashes scattered throughout the desert. It depends on the face of the world, and that it literally means shadow shadow shadow shadow. I think all the wordless words are kissing: the molecular is the girls with the dark splinters and the calves, beginning from the dark to light on the loaf of **** for Satan launches the beans placed on the socks before the Asian Secrets that are in the patent to produce data to meet with Lovers,    and iron that is important, and women who are soon weeping,     seat seats like Unfortunately, for some other reason the costly assaults over the years, the number of socks, so long in the winter he was praying for a streaming stream that closed the glass glass inside the interior of the interior, he received a 'meditation' gift, the dreams, the, the thoughts, the singers;
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at two years old, your curious hands happened upon a bottle of flea medicine that lay waiting on the counter. your mother was absent as usual, off on an errand, or walking the dog. unwatched, your enterprising fingers eased the lid from the container, and you poured the sweet-smelling liquid down your throat. the world was still so new to you, and it seemed to be made for tasting. who could blame a child with a thirst for more than mushy peas and applesauce? two days later they released you from the hospital, your stomach pumped dry. when you were six, idly exploring the woods of your mother’s sprawling estate, you paused a moment from imagining faerie queens flitting about in the greenery to take rest on a log, your undiscerning eye not betraying its secret: within it was a nest of wasps, and thinking they were faeries you dared not move as they rose in a cloud above your head and overtook you, leaving your body peppered with painful angry sores. you fell to the ground. a hired man, strong and tall as the oak trees, saw your quick descent and ventured after you, made a hammock of his arms to bear you like a fallen soldier back to your mother’s house, his tough sun-leathered skin immune to the assaults of the faerie battalion. at eight, playing in the small child-sized house in your aunt’s garden, you sought to make stained glass from the broken shards of the playhouse window. having no tool at hand, what better way to shatter the clear, flat plane than with your fist? before reason could take hold of you, you drove your hand through the glass, and the raw edges cut deep into your veins. blood flowed in rivers from your wrist. your aunt, ever watchful, rushed from the house to stop your body’s catharsis with a dishcloth. the jagged unpainted shards lay forgotten on the ground.
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Feb 16, 2011
Feb 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM UTC
The Many Near-Death Experiences of My Mother
at two years old, your curious hands happened upon a bottle of flea medicine that lay waiting on the counter. your mother was absent as usual, off on an errand, or walking the dog. unwatched, your enterprising fingers eased the lid from the container, and you poured the sweet-smelling liquid down your throat. the world was still so new to you, and it seemed to be made for tasting. who could blame a child with a thirst for more than mushy peas and applesauce? two days later they released you from the hospital, your stomach pumped dry. when you were six, idly exploring the woods of your mother’s sprawling estate, you paused a moment from imagining faerie queens flitting about in the greenery to take rest on a log, your undiscerning eye not betraying its secret: within it was a nest of wasps, and thinking they were faeries you dared not move as they rose in a cloud above your head and overtook you, leaving your body peppered with painful angry sores. you fell to the ground. a hired man, strong and tall as the oak trees, saw your quick descent and ventured after you, made a hammock of his arms to bear you like a fallen soldier back to your mother’s house, his tough sun-leathered skin immune to the assaults of the faerie battalion. at eight, playing in the small child-sized house in your aunt’s garden, you sought to make stained glass from the broken shards of the playhouse window. having no tool at hand, what better way to shatter the clear, flat plane than with your fist? before reason could take hold of you, you drove your hand through the glass, and the raw edges cut deep into your veins. blood flowed in rivers from your wrist. your aunt, ever watchful, rushed from the house to stop your body’s catharsis with a dishcloth. the jagged unpainted shards lay forgotten on the ground.
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Take a step Breathe Take a step Off the edge Fall free into the air Nothing is up Nothing is down Floating in freefall Wind meanders by Your body speeds To somewhere But the mind is behind The air has stopped now Were you in distress? Or did you imagine that? Either way, you’re finished now Falling ends at the bottom Of the endless nether The ground creeps up Then your body assaults it Laying on the concrete Waking from a dream Brush yourself off And take a step off the edge
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 7:14 PM UTC
Freefall
An anarchist atom Assaults the atmosphere With anger and aerial arson Bringing, begetting Brutal and ****** battles In my brain Initiating chaos With charges Of chemicals. A disection, distortion Diversion of dedication And direction Causing eruptions Emissions Of erratic, electric elements Of ego. Ferocious fires form In filaments, firmaments Feeding the fantastic Forces Which grow and gain In greatness in gravity Grave, gory, gorgeous Gloom. Henceforth hidden horrors Harrowed in a hollow heart Instantly interact with Intimate ideas Initiating irregular, irrational Irreversible Irrelevant Intimacy Jealousy Jumbling of jinxes And laws of the jungle For kicks Leading to lies Leaving love for loneliness Loss. A massive moral meltdown In my mind Negating, neutralising normality Orchestrates an open Onslaught of order And ordinary People's principles To pursue passion And perfection In a poetic periphery Quite queer to some And quaint to those Not acquainted with Rushes of ramblings Received and reciprocated Or radical ridicule Of rascals. Synapses send, Signal every sinew Simulating similar signs But transmitting treacherous Tingles Teasing, trapping thoughts In terror, temptations To commit treason Unforgivable, unforgettable Us Vivid and vibrant But also very Woeful Wishing we were wild And willing to walk Our wishes make wonderful Wells of Youth And creative zest.
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM UTC
Chaotic Pattern
Neither girl nor male… So what am I? Am I the so-called perv aiming to invade the wrong bathroom? Am I a heretic aiming to impose my wickedness onto the world? Am I the clocking stares they give me? How about the result of a broken home or a broken heart? Does my mere existence force you to reevaluate your identity? When all I'm trying to do is figure out mine. Neither girl nor male… So you tell me where I am to relieve my bowels. Or am I to stitch them shut for your comfort? While I'm at it, shall I stitch my eyes shut as to not burden you with running mascara; which further assaults my "feminine façade"? I'm sorry to burden you with my fake ***** of which a second of labor (turning your head) would relieve you of your distress. I'm sorry you'd rather slave away starring and clocking them. Clocking me. I am sorry that I was born male yet refuse to live up to such expectations. I am sorry that despite my best efforts I cannot pass for how I feel. Believe me—for the life of me—I am trying. As punishment for lack of natural ******* I stretch my skin to form a pleasing cleavage. As punishment for having the wrong body type, I wear a cage around my abdomen two sizes too small that cuts into my rib cage dare I seek the comforts of sitting down. As punishment for being born with a male anatomy, I crunch my disheveled sack of nerve endings between my chaffing thighs. Dare my body have the audacity to ***** itself for any reason I bend the muscle, in such a way never intended, between my legs just to have one less aesthetic reminder as to what I am not. Your clocking stares painfully remind me that I may never be seen as how I see myself. But ****** do I try. Until I do, I am condemned to be neither male nor… female.
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 4:05 AM UTC
Clocking
Neither girl nor male… So what am I? Am I the so-called perv aiming to invade the wrong bathroom? Am I a heretic aiming to impose my wickedness onto the world? Am I the clocking stares they give me? How about the result of a broken home or a broken heart? Does my mere existence force you to reevaluate your identity? When all I'm trying to do is figure out mine. Neither girl nor male… So you tell me where I am to relieve my bowels. Or am I to stitch them shut for your comfort? While I'm at it, shall I stitch my eyes shut as to not burden you with running mascara; which further assaults my "feminine façade"? I'm sorry to burden you with my fake ***** of which a second of labor (turning your head) would relieve you of your distress. I'm sorry you'd rather slave away starring and clocking them. Clocking me. I am sorry that I was born male yet refuse to live up to such expectations. I am sorry that despite my best efforts I cannot pass for how I feel. Believe me—for the life of me—I am trying. As punishment for lack of natural ******* I stretch my skin to form a pleasing cleavage. As punishment for having the wrong body type, I wear a cage around my abdomen two sizes too small that cuts into my rib cage dare I seek the comforts of sitting down. As punishment for being born with a male anatomy, I crunch my disheveled sack of nerve endings between my chaffing thighs. Dare my body have the audacity to ***** itself for any reason I bend the muscle, in such a way never intended, between my legs just to have one less aesthetic reminder as to what I am not. Your clocking stares painfully remind me that I may never be seen as how I see myself. But ****** do I try. Until I do, I am condemned to be neither male nor… female.
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times like this, the plenary moon tonight wearing many faces, the white-washed truant at bay white-hulled still, the brim of the sky to a full, on such a bright night leaving a trace of say, prongs of fire on the kiln the skin the soft breeze molests with a chill flung from pinecone – the blackened spires of the very heart of flame and the mullioned wood that understands what the heat of placeness mints underneath our skin – what silence remains a translation when the smoldering remains are bitten repeatedly, aureoled in the moment of vital meaning. we hear its threat, retained in clock-whirs like a primordial word or the fluting of light’s bendable rondure harnessing a truth we let in. I fail behind the walled-up lip of laughter because the weight of passing is heavy on my back – like a bough dragged by rainwater, or sound elected to drown: the smell of poinsettia assaults, lifting its slaughter against Kiltepan and Ambuklao, past mountains lulled to sleep: the moon sleuthing like a well-oiled machine. what do you hear? we are aware of its full absence, like that of our undulation after a fall, or the wild sibilance of breath trying to utter something, going back home with a song in between teeth, without words.
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 6:56 AM UTC
What I Saw That Night
The Mona Lisa assaults my brain, Acrid perfume polluting my lungs. Does the Mona Lisa not care if I die? I see her chuckling, Waggling her finger, Saying with bitter **** "You'll never be in the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
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Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 4:24 PM UTC
The Morbidity of Mona Lisa
Daffodils in my garden lie damaged & still Fragile spirits of these delicate dancers crushed by- the angry assaults thru the sky.
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
Daffodils
# *written in collaboration with Glass Slipper Girl* Is it ecstasy or agony How you make me feel What you do to me Bliss when I am with you When you're gone, I'm incomplete My mind you have infected Gave you my heart Which you gladly keep With just one taste, I was addicted You fulfilled my every need Yet, I fear that everything's twisted It's too late though; I'm in too deep I've been robbed; only you I suspected My mind convicts while my heart sets you free If common sense is a train then I missed it Took a chance, circumstance was defeat All my plans, with one dance You dismissed them Still, these actions I'll always repeat -----------------                 ----------------- *Is it fantasy or reality fleeting feelings defying gravity what you do to my sanity bona fide madness sensuality off the charts our own poetic sensual Rhapsody Dizzy dazed lost in your Oasis chasing your sweet enthralling embraces **** salacious temptations seductions of ***** flirtatious stunning me senseless leaving this Texas girl breathless A harden criminal for “the love” you had become detained and handcuffed you had to know I was gonna run trapping a thief of hearts just can't be done escaping your enticing assaults this prison cell sweetheart made her jailbreak, the Great Escape before you knew it I was already gone Yet, sometimes every now and again with my “Get out of Jail” free card this fugitive still takes a look back wishing I hadn't gone so far jumping that railroad car running away from those Train Tracks of Love* #
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Jul 13, 2021
Jul 13, 2021 at 6:36 PM UTC
Train Tracks of Love
# *written in collaboration with Glass Slipper Girl* Is it ecstasy or agony How you make me feel What you do to me Bliss when I am with you When you're gone, I'm incomplete My mind you have infected Gave you my heart Which you gladly keep With just one taste, I was addicted You fulfilled my every need Yet, I fear that everything's twisted It's too late though; I'm in too deep I've been robbed; only you I suspected My mind convicts while my heart sets you free If common sense is a train then I missed it Took a chance, circumstance was defeat All my plans, with one dance You dismissed them Still, these actions I'll always repeat -----------------                 ----------------- *Is it fantasy or reality fleeting feelings defying gravity what you do to my sanity bona fide madness sensuality off the charts our own poetic sensual Rhapsody Dizzy dazed lost in your Oasis chasing your sweet enthralling embraces **** salacious temptations seductions of ***** flirtatious stunning me senseless leaving this Texas girl breathless A harden criminal for “the love” you had become detained and handcuffed you had to know I was gonna run trapping a thief of hearts just can't be done escaping your enticing assaults this prison cell sweetheart made her jailbreak, the Great Escape before you knew it I was already gone Yet, sometimes every now and again with my “Get out of Jail” free card this fugitive still takes a look back wishing I hadn't gone so far jumping that railroad car running away from those Train Tracks of Love* #
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The walls cry-out as they burn. A tumult of roars wreathed in the crackle of blazing matter. Which is louder?   Perspective will tell. The one who assaults, Or the one assaulted? The roar, or the crackle? The giver, or the receiver? Pleasure in two forms, two-faced gratification. One hand for dispensation, One mouth for sublimation. And do we not all sublimate? Base impulses, rank ideas, On the surface, vindicate? The residue of consequence Brusquely scrub and expiate? Perspective will tell. We espy hedonism, unbridled delight, And may envy those who bathe in these muddied pools, Focusing our most ephemeral sense on dazzling cacophony, Ignoring the estranged husband of hedonism, Shunning the divorcée of delight. Which is truly louder?   Perspective will tell. In Oscar Wilde’s Salome the moon is thus described: “She is like a woman who is dead.  She moves very slowly.” Pandemonium in the hall, the howling of wild beasts, But she remains “a woman who is dead,” And “she moves very slowly.” The divorcée of delight, A pitiful coming-down. The remnant of misuse, The scarring of abuse. One reads on a stone: The hardly-lovéd daughter of overuse. And the one who gazes overlong is warned:   “You look at her too much.   It is dangerous to look at people in such fashion. Something terrible may happen.” The walls cry-out as they burn, And they cry in desperation. What we see is conflagration. The light:  A brilliant exultation. The crackle:  A herald of termination. But when ash is blown in silence, It is dangerous to look at what remains: Scar tissue. Slow death. Residue. The head of John. The bones of Salome. Broken glass. Wilted flowers. Cracked foundation on hollow cheeks. Red lips the stain of blood on ivory cloth. Festering flies. The beating of vultures’ wings. The snoring of satiated beasts. The stumbling home. Apologies. Sublimation. Conflation. Expiation. … One’s well-mannered pause until the other’s end, So that the one may pause… And begin again.
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Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
Even the walls cry-out as they are burning
The walls cry-out as they burn. A tumult of roars wreathed in the crackle of blazing matter. Which is louder?   Perspective will tell. The one who assaults, Or the one assaulted? The roar, or the crackle? The giver, or the receiver? Pleasure in two forms, two-faced gratification. One hand for dispensation, One mouth for sublimation. And do we not all sublimate? Base impulses, rank ideas, On the surface, vindicate? The residue of consequence Brusquely scrub and expiate? Perspective will tell. We espy hedonism, unbridled delight, And may envy those who bathe in these muddied pools, Focusing our most ephemeral sense on dazzling cacophony, Ignoring the estranged husband of hedonism, Shunning the divorcée of delight. Which is truly louder?   Perspective will tell. In Oscar Wilde’s Salome the moon is thus described: “She is like a woman who is dead.  She moves very slowly.” Pandemonium in the hall, the howling of wild beasts, But she remains “a woman who is dead,” And “she moves very slowly.” The divorcée of delight, A pitiful coming-down. The remnant of misuse, The scarring of abuse. One reads on a stone: The hardly-lovéd daughter of overuse. And the one who gazes overlong is warned:   “You look at her too much.   It is dangerous to look at people in such fashion. Something terrible may happen.” The walls cry-out as they burn, And they cry in desperation. What we see is conflagration. The light:  A brilliant exultation. The crackle:  A herald of termination. But when ash is blown in silence, It is dangerous to look at what remains: Scar tissue. Slow death. Residue. The head of John. The bones of Salome. Broken glass. Wilted flowers. Cracked foundation on hollow cheeks. Red lips the stain of blood on ivory cloth. Festering flies. The beating of vultures’ wings. The snoring of satiated beasts. The stumbling home. Apologies. Sublimation. Conflation. Expiation. … One’s well-mannered pause until the other’s end, So that the one may pause… And begin again.
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The flesh may still be fine... One must just pare bruised And bad spots away, As a razor once excised mine. A blurred mind mused At the slowness of life When it oozed, Crimson's contrast On pale skin, Like paint Escaped my palette, Or red roses on canvas, Mute shouts of color Wasted in slick puddles On the floor. Red too soon fades sepia; Wounds become scars, Their hardness protects, Forever reminds. Though grown timid Of assaults from steel, Old psyche still yields To lancet's probing, Words released fall, Now as drops to paper.
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Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM UTC
Fixing the Fruit
Our men are heroes, of course. They protect us, gun in hand, against enemies plastered on posters vandalizing once-beautiful stone storefronts. More every day. Stapled on top of one another until words blend. "But now," the overly made-up woman at the podium says, "women can do our part." They’ve gathered other pretty blondes with symmetrical features measured by a myriad of devices.           Beautiful,               demure                    women with           beautiful,               Aryan                     genes to breed with our handsome heroes. Because women, and the children we bear, are the key to Germany’s future.   I glance at the woman to my right, eyes skiing down the slope of her nose to rest on smiling lips. Is the blush on her cheeks genuine, or set by rouge? It suits her. She catches me staring. My breath hitches in my throat. I throw my attention back to the woman glorifying human broodmares. Heat assaults my cheeks. “Your rouge is lovely.” Her whisper warms me. “Can you believe this? Us, with war heroes?” She sighs. I can practically see the dream play through the air. A husband coming home in uniform, splaying a hand on her swollen belly and kissing her forehead. A fantasy. These men… they’ll come, take what they want from us for granted and claim they did us a favor when they leave us alone with child. But my fingers would dance never-ending pirouettes across that porcelain skin. Swirl intricate patterns through golden hair, all for that sigh to carry a dream with me in it.
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 2:28 PM UTC
To Carry A Dream
Our men are heroes, of course. They protect us, gun in hand, against enemies plastered on posters vandalizing once-beautiful stone storefronts. More every day. Stapled on top of one another until words blend. "But now," the overly made-up woman at the podium says, "women can do our part." They’ve gathered other pretty blondes with symmetrical features measured by a myriad of devices.           Beautiful,               demure                    women with           beautiful,               Aryan                     genes to breed with our handsome heroes. Because women, and the children we bear, are the key to Germany’s future.   I glance at the woman to my right, eyes skiing down the slope of her nose to rest on smiling lips. Is the blush on her cheeks genuine, or set by rouge? It suits her. She catches me staring. My breath hitches in my throat. I throw my attention back to the woman glorifying human broodmares. Heat assaults my cheeks. “Your rouge is lovely.” Her whisper warms me. “Can you believe this? Us, with war heroes?” She sighs. I can practically see the dream play through the air. A husband coming home in uniform, splaying a hand on her swollen belly and kissing her forehead. A fantasy. These men… they’ll come, take what they want from us for granted and claim they did us a favor when they leave us alone with child. But my fingers would dance never-ending pirouettes across that porcelain skin. Swirl intricate patterns through golden hair, all for that sigh to carry a dream with me in it.
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And he traces her inner thigh with his lips, eliciting a moan from her as he teases her entrance. He slides a finger in, pressing deep inside her. She bucks her hips up to meet his knuckle, he growls with feigned arousal. He resurfaces, attacking her mouth, owning her. She surrenders to his tongue, if only to allow nostalgia passage. She rubs herself against him, a mewling kitten in heat, crying harder. She fakes an ****** to satisfy him. He presses his **** against her and she realises how little she affects him. Determined, he forces himself past her barrier, grunting and growling. He assaults her mouth again and she reacts accordingly, trailing her nails down his back in a futile attempt to rekindle. She is unsure of how this came to be. She fights back tears as she threads her fingers through his hair. She knows she is still and always will be second best. He grows soft. A tacit agreement. Neither of them finish. She rolls over to face the television. An old british comedy is on loop, making the same stale jokes that may have been funny a decade ago. And here she is, on repeat, making the same mistakes she made a decade ago.
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 9:53 PM UTC
Nostalgia.
My first glimpse of Operatic joy occurred March 12th of years past. In their foolishness, They allowed me a go At an open vehicle of Two wheels that went as fast as I wanted, Where I wanted, For however long I wanted. I would bike away in my dreams As they mounted assaults in life, I couldn't help but feel invulnerable Upon my nimble ride. Yes O yes, I still cruise to this day. My freedom is mine Forever to behold and make.
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Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 12:14 AM UTC
Bi-cycle
I went out without wearing makeup without feeling the need to constantly check myself for perfection and I ask myself why can't woman just be allowed to be human? Why do we have to shave to look perfect the whole time to birth children and still be expected to always function perfectly why are our bodies constantly taxed objectified in **** movies music and in so many relationships why do we have to wear makeup to disguise our beautiful so called imperfections that are just so human why are we fed lies so often that we must shrink our bodies our pain and laugh off our abuse our rapes our ****** abuse our ****** assaults why do we have to always say but its not everyone its implied why can't we just be allowed to walk home without always feeling cautious why cant we go to parties alone why can't we just live alive in our beautiful bodies and not be hated. I can't wait for the men to heal and for the women to heal and that maybe one day the world can be a better and safer place for us and for all of the future woman all I know is the amount of violence that exists makes me so so angry and so hurt I wanna turn away I wanna look away but I can't because its my own face staring back at me begging me to tell our story begging me to feel my anger my anger at all the men that made so many aspects of my life very messed up for a very long time that I still cry about every single **** day of my life for a very long time and I when I didn't cry I drank I numbed for the pain that I felt   for the shudders I felt in my body when I felt the men objectify me abuse me use me violate me hurt me in the worst ways possible , it is a pain no human should ever experience. For in my religion it is taught that women are blamed for everything for every **** thing and still we must be submissive and they tell me" that this is life". No I always yelled it seems like slavery, so I yelled I fought with my voice, just to be woken up to see the non religious world , a pretty bad place as well . So I guess this is my silent but loud cry.
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Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023 at 3:35 PM UTC
The Expectations of a Woman.
I went out without wearing makeup without feeling the need to constantly check myself for perfection and I ask myself why can't woman just be allowed to be human? Why do we have to shave to look perfect the whole time to birth children and still be expected to always function perfectly why are our bodies constantly taxed objectified in **** movies music and in so many relationships why do we have to wear makeup to disguise our beautiful so called imperfections that are just so human why are we fed lies so often that we must shrink our bodies our pain and laugh off our abuse our rapes our ****** abuse our ****** assaults why do we have to always say but its not everyone its implied why can't we just be allowed to walk home without always feeling cautious why cant we go to parties alone why can't we just live alive in our beautiful bodies and not be hated. I can't wait for the men to heal and for the women to heal and that maybe one day the world can be a better and safer place for us and for all of the future woman all I know is the amount of violence that exists makes me so so angry and so hurt I wanna turn away I wanna look away but I can't because its my own face staring back at me begging me to tell our story begging me to feel my anger my anger at all the men that made so many aspects of my life very messed up for a very long time that I still cry about every single **** day of my life for a very long time and I when I didn't cry I drank I numbed for the pain that I felt   for the shudders I felt in my body when I felt the men objectify me abuse me use me violate me hurt me in the worst ways possible , it is a pain no human should ever experience. For in my religion it is taught that women are blamed for everything for every **** thing and still we must be submissive and they tell me" that this is life". No I always yelled it seems like slavery, so I yelled I fought with my voice, just to be woken up to see the non religious world , a pretty bad place as well . So I guess this is my silent but loud cry.
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Withering, withering, withering down. A spiral of emptiness and weakness in my own heart. A sickly form of hate. A frail figure of shadows and misery and memorie. O! and what is the field of golden corn compared to the bruise on your throat. Choked by the ********** of godliness, when she is called life///when she is called death. Forced to spit out your last drop of blood, through your pharynx///through your eyes. Sexually with the knife in hand. Like stone to butter, stabbing within the heart of the devil. Like the beast with three ***** who carries the devil in his sinful testicles...you stab stab stab at the flesh of your own chest. No hair after the fire, no blood after the lust. The sexuality which assaults YOUR OWN SANITY. It becomes you. Withering and withering within the HELL of your own spiral. O! and when are you to become the devil within the sac of the beast? To be born and reborn again within the light of the sun. Burning away in a pool of blood that you craved forever. Burning back together in a pool of ***** that you craved forever. O! and who are you when you are left naked and alone by your own hand in a pool of hate that you craved forever, I asked myself.
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Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 10:14 PM UTC
Sex///Hate
I frequently fall with infatuation Facing assaults of accounts and allegations Precursored by overwrought thoughts of the distraught That they, the piqued and pained, were aware of my plot Harm I intended, only fuelled by lust Being insensitive and callous is but a must For I, the brutish devil who led you astray Have left you enveloped in utter dismay I dismantled your faith and replaced it with doubt, With this symbol of mine that carries much clout, Leaving my victims mourning in tears For I have give veracity to their fears The tears of my prey fabricate a rivers flow That only I, the acccursed Aquarius may know
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Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 10:36 PM UTC
Aquarius