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"audacity" poems
kissing you was like swerving into oncoming traffic i can never tell if i am more haunted by empty picture frames or the ashes of their contents you taught me that the saying "pick your battles" meant not answering when love was at the door sometimes when i drink whiskey i swear i can hear your voice in the creases of my bedsheets & i sleep on the floor i still catch myself running my hands over things you touched the most, looking for the echoes of your fingertips i practice things i'll never say to you i remember the day you told me you didn't like poetry, how "everything's already been said" & how "nothing meaningful can be captured without being cliche" you know, i don't miss you like the sun and moon, i do not miss you like tide bent waves crashing on the shoreline, i miss you like a chernobyl  swingset misses children rumor has it that drowning is a lot like coming home, that drinking bleach can **** the butterflies in your stomach for your love of cigarettes, i would have been an ashtray this halloween i want to dress up as the you when you loved yourself and show up on your doorstep i never understood what you meant when you said i was an instrument, back when you would cup your hands around my chest and breathe through the holes in my heart, i still wonder if the sounds i made remind you of wind chimes i never paid much attention to abandoned buildings until i became one in my dreams all the flowers smell like your perfume i am the only person who has ever wished for the same snowflake to fall twice if i could go back, and rewrite the definition of audacity, it would be how when we lost the bet of love, you said "we never shook on it" i love you, if the feeling is not mutual, please pretend this was a poem the only apology i want from you, is to have you repeat the names of children we will never have in your parents living room until they ***** we are the same person if you find yourself up at 4am dry heaving promises, or if you are kept awake by the laughter of those who've abandoned you nobody ever told you that goodbyes taste like the back of stamps sometimes i'm convinced that the only reason we hug, is so you can check my back for exit wounds
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM UTC
submissions to post secret
kissing you was like swerving into oncoming traffic i can never tell if i am more haunted by empty picture frames or the ashes of their contents you taught me that the saying "pick your battles" meant not answering when love was at the door sometimes when i drink whiskey i swear i can hear your voice in the creases of my bedsheets & i sleep on the floor i still catch myself running my hands over things you touched the most, looking for the echoes of your fingertips i practice things i'll never say to you i remember the day you told me you didn't like poetry, how "everything's already been said" & how "nothing meaningful can be captured without being cliche" you know, i don't miss you like the sun and moon, i do not miss you like tide bent waves crashing on the shoreline, i miss you like a chernobyl  swingset misses children rumor has it that drowning is a lot like coming home, that drinking bleach can **** the butterflies in your stomach for your love of cigarettes, i would have been an ashtray this halloween i want to dress up as the you when you loved yourself and show up on your doorstep i never understood what you meant when you said i was an instrument, back when you would cup your hands around my chest and breathe through the holes in my heart, i still wonder if the sounds i made remind you of wind chimes i never paid much attention to abandoned buildings until i became one in my dreams all the flowers smell like your perfume i am the only person who has ever wished for the same snowflake to fall twice if i could go back, and rewrite the definition of audacity, it would be how when we lost the bet of love, you said "we never shook on it" i love you, if the feeling is not mutual, please pretend this was a poem the only apology i want from you, is to have you repeat the names of children we will never have in your parents living room until they ***** we are the same person if you find yourself up at 4am dry heaving promises, or if you are kept awake by the laughter of those who've abandoned you nobody ever told you that goodbyes taste like the back of stamps sometimes i'm convinced that the only reason we hug, is so you can check my back for exit wounds
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Ambled ambitions, an aching audacity; aged adventurer.
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 7:04 PM UTC
A is for Adventure
The river winds in from distant lands With mercyless power it turns stone to sand Through its mysterious life, the very earth it commands And Yet the fearful river still runs through our hands. In torrents of furry where the deepest currents flow The rivers wild waters surge with woe. For Onward, forever, its destined to go A permenant home it won't ever know. The river runs from each of us As a refugee of fear, It knows in a blink it will be somewhere else Its waves are really its tears. It runs from the audacity   Of the selfish human mind As Its massive life capacity, Of flora and fauna combined, Are threatened by our antics and helpless to our crime So the river runs on their behalf, from everyone, in time- even within its whitecap foam Water's yearning for a home So roam does the water- endlessly, till its long gone out of sight The essential droplets of the river- Nomads day and night.
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Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 at 11:55 AM UTC
From What the River Runs
do you ever wonder about the difference between looking at something and the hallucination created when looking past it? if you look at your hand it's all you can see but if you look past your hand there are now two of them sometimes it's hard for me to remember which is real it gets me thinking about how my father used to wake me up in the morning by rubbing his stubble across my face i spent my 11th birthday under the assumption that he might come back if i drank his aftershave like maybe if i could turn blue if i could be his favorite color on our bathroom floor he would forget why he left the paramedics were all sobing as they pumped memories out of my stomach i coughed up the day the post-it note with your new address on it burned a hole in our refrigerator coughed up the day the divorce papers came and my mother took a baseball bat to the mailbox i've been choking on the splinters for 17 years it's been 17 years since the last dinner plate exploded on our dining room wall 17 years since my mother started accidentally setting your place at the dinner table 17 years since italian night at the restaurant on the corner where the juke box spat tired music and like so many other things it stopped working when you left i guess it's no coincidence since the juke box went quiet that the cds in my car only skip on "i miss you" i've been hemorrhaging memories for so long and now that i'm looking back i can no longer tell the mirage from the truth sometimes i swear you showed up to my graduation and last time i was at your apartment i can't remember if the imprints of my hands are in clay hanging on your wall or if they were left in the mud the day god had the audacity to let it rain or maybe it's like the time i saw someone crying on a bridge now that i think about it i can't remember if it was me
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Jun 20, 2014
Jun 20, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
məˈräZH
do you ever wonder about the difference between looking at something and the hallucination created when looking past it? if you look at your hand it's all you can see but if you look past your hand there are now two of them sometimes it's hard for me to remember which is real it gets me thinking about how my father used to wake me up in the morning by rubbing his stubble across my face i spent my 11th birthday under the assumption that he might come back if i drank his aftershave like maybe if i could turn blue if i could be his favorite color on our bathroom floor he would forget why he left the paramedics were all sobing as they pumped memories out of my stomach i coughed up the day the post-it note with your new address on it burned a hole in our refrigerator coughed up the day the divorce papers came and my mother took a baseball bat to the mailbox i've been choking on the splinters for 17 years it's been 17 years since the last dinner plate exploded on our dining room wall 17 years since my mother started accidentally setting your place at the dinner table 17 years since italian night at the restaurant on the corner where the juke box spat tired music and like so many other things it stopped working when you left i guess it's no coincidence since the juke box went quiet that the cds in my car only skip on "i miss you" i've been hemorrhaging memories for so long and now that i'm looking back i can no longer tell the mirage from the truth sometimes i swear you showed up to my graduation and last time i was at your apartment i can't remember if the imprints of my hands are in clay hanging on your wall or if they were left in the mud the day god had the audacity to let it rain or maybe it's like the time i saw someone crying on a bridge now that i think about it i can't remember if it was me
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If you, could see you, through my eyes, You would never doubt yourself. No, never. You would never have the audacity to say "I can't" because you, yes you, are amazing beyond anything I have ever known. If you, could see you, through my eyes, You would never be the same. Not ever. You would be blinded by the beauty that radiates from within you, from outside of you. The very essence of beauty that makes up you. If you, could see you, through my eyes, You would never be sad again. No, never. You would know why I love you. You would see the grace, in every little thing you do, say, and think. You would see the endless depth for which my love for you grows. The never ending abyss of swirling, crashing waves of love I have for you. You would finally understand the absolute perfection of you if you could see you through my eyes.
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Feb 28, 2013
Feb 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM UTC
If You Could See You
i hate how we can’t ******* hang out without people looking at their **** phones {except i check mine too} i hate how technology has the audacity to imitate physical presence by this ******** FaceTiming {except i wish i had an iPhone} i hate how relationships take place on the ******* phone {except if i had a relation, i would do the same} i hate how we type how we feel instead of just saying it {except i find it easier to see it in text than to say it in speech} i hate how we spend time on the computer instead of taking a ******* walk {except i spend all day on the computer} i hate this new ******* technologically advanced generation {except i'm a part of it}
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 9:35 PM UTC
this new ******* technologically advanced generation
It wasn’t supposed to be like this Never had I imagined this After I first saw you Sitting in the corner of the coffee shop Sipping tea with a hint of hazel Matching the light in your eyes I used to love that coffee shop One we went back to many times At least at first You would order the same tea With the same hint of hazel And I would adore your acute audacity Ordering tea in a coffee shop I had friends who told me many things They hadn’t been afraid to see the truth Telling me we were moving too fast Not really understanding where we were But instead taking the present to define everything Perhaps I should’ve listened I had thought you were what they describe as ‘The One’ But your brilliance in my life Blinded me of many things I should’ve paid heed to Placing me on the edge of your storm Instead of reaching the eye of it As I should’ve Maybe this is why the movies are fictional They only exist in our lives until the end credits Whereas I lived past them And witnessed the reality Beyond the list of directors, producers, and actors Living in a cycle of after-credits We went to that coffee shop one last time And I looked Looked for that same spark which I had latched on to All those years back But this time I truly saw you, past the light This time you ordered coffee Black, with no hint of hazel
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 3:35 PM UTC
A Hint of Hazel
*Isn't it scary how powerful you are? Your ability to smile with a broken heart, scarred past, and a shredded soul. Yet, you have the audacity to look down and say you're not strong enough.*
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 8:14 AM UTC
Unknown power.
She seems pretty queer Yes she does Something odd Something peculiar Is it in her insouciance Is it in her audacity Is it in her pirouettes Spun with such vivacity Is it in her defiance Is it in her nonrepentance Is it in her reveling so free A form full of glee Sometimes impetuous All times ingenuous Aflame with passion An immersive intoxication Cracking down on this mystery A perplexing dichotomy Let's remove the misfitting pieces In sync with commonplace notions Alas what dismantling of a girl at peace with her pieces What uprooting of a girl at home in her body
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 1:22 AM UTC
At Peace With Her Pieces
they'll paint white walls over your thoughts because they think simplicity looks better than polka dots. they will strip you down to nothing because bare is better than bare minimum. they say your body is your canvas, then why are they scribbling on her canvas? they’ll doodle words, perhaps phrases of flatter like "You're pretty" teaching her that that's all that matters. They'll hang up a **** model picture because her body should look like this, you know? Richer. They'll say her body is a temple “she's eating all that for lunch?” they'll say her body is a temple but her body is the house she grew up in and yet you have the audacity to try and burn it down? Oh I forgot to mention the white paint that they used to paint over her? yeah ... slight misunderstanding It's permanent. what could they expect? it's their fault actually, it said everything on the label but they were too busy you see.   Too busy to see what it was really made out of, too busy to read what made it the way it was. Because one glance is enough, right? One glance is enough to ask her "what did you eat today?" And as her stomach grumbled and her blood ate her alive, she would answer "oh plenty!" And you would look happy with her answer because she is treating her body like a house she doesn't even recognize. And you would look happy with her answer because she let her body become your canvas And you would look happy with her answer because Your white paint was worth your money after all.
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 8:35 PM UTC
how to paint a masterpiece
they'll paint white walls over your thoughts because they think simplicity looks better than polka dots. they will strip you down to nothing because bare is better than bare minimum. they say your body is your canvas, then why are they scribbling on her canvas? they’ll doodle words, perhaps phrases of flatter like "You're pretty" teaching her that that's all that matters. They'll hang up a **** model picture because her body should look like this, you know? Richer. They'll say her body is a temple “she's eating all that for lunch?” they'll say her body is a temple but her body is the house she grew up in and yet you have the audacity to try and burn it down? Oh I forgot to mention the white paint that they used to paint over her? yeah ... slight misunderstanding It's permanent. what could they expect? it's their fault actually, it said everything on the label but they were too busy you see.   Too busy to see what it was really made out of, too busy to read what made it the way it was. Because one glance is enough, right? One glance is enough to ask her "what did you eat today?" And as her stomach grumbled and her blood ate her alive, she would answer "oh plenty!" And you would look happy with her answer because she is treating her body like a house she doesn't even recognize. And you would look happy with her answer because she let her body become your canvas And you would look happy with her answer because Your white paint was worth your money after all.
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It means you tried to look pretty for another man. You put on your eyeliner and mascara to attract him, look good for him. You put on a skin tight dress for him. You looked at him in the eyes and let him touch your hands or your back. You sat in the front seat with him and you let him give you flowers. You tried to want him, to love the color of his eyes or to like the shape of his body. You looked at him with lustful eyes without love. For a moment, you even tried to picture him as your husband or to have his child or what his child would look like if it were yours too. You might even have thought of his lips on yours or his body on top. You spoke to him with all the wrong intentions, not for work, not because he lives at your dorm or because you know him a bit, not even because he's just a random friend, but because of all the wrong intentions. And all this was within 10 days of your drama and now you still have the audacity to tell me all about your loyalty and about how you've been nothing but loyal but if that, you think is loyalty then you don't know half the meaning of that word because loyalty doesn't need to taste other men/women and it sure wouldn't have put him in my shoes. Loyalty wouldn't try to lust over other men like a **** or dress up in **** tight jeans for them. Loyalty wouldn't need a free trial. And lets flip roles here and say I tried to do what you did and lets say I took a pretty girl with straight hair out for a drive in my car and lets say I used my best perfume to smell nice for her and to want her to want to kiss me and lets say she's been trained to cook the best food and look the best for a husband and she's smart too and lets say that for a moment I try to want myself to want to be her husband and lets say she's more into me than I'll ever be into her and all she wants is to be sitting on my lap but she won't say it and I know her intentions but I take her out anyway and I wear my best button down and I say no to her proposal of getting me into her bed late at night but that doesn't mean I didn't try to want to say yes. Would you call me "loyal" then if it took me lesser than 2 weeks to **** up a 3 year relationship which was made of so much more than 2 bodies, which was made of two hearts and souls. 10 days isn't enough for "loyalty" to want to move on or to try to. Loyalty is a pledge witnessed by god. Loyalty holds itself up in distance or in despair or in sickness or in misunderstandings and it surely holds itself up much longer than 10 ******* days. So tell me whatever, tell me you aren't sorry or that you don't want him and you want me or don't want me or tell me about why we will never happen or why we will, tell me of his seven figure salary (and I won't give a **** tell me his pros and all my cons, tell me how I was never enough or how I was too much, tell me whatever but don't you dare act loyal to make yourself feel better about your selfish **** self by calling it self-love and don't you dare tell me about stories of your loyalty with me because it only takes one to **** it all up and don't you dare disgrace my loyalty to you by ever calling yourself loyal after going out on a date with him.
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 10:03 AM UTC
What that date means....
It means you tried to look pretty for another man. You put on your eyeliner and mascara to attract him, look good for him. You put on a skin tight dress for him. You looked at him in the eyes and let him touch your hands or your back. You sat in the front seat with him and you let him give you flowers. You tried to want him, to love the color of his eyes or to like the shape of his body. You looked at him with lustful eyes without love. For a moment, you even tried to picture him as your husband or to have his child or what his child would look like if it were yours too. You might even have thought of his lips on yours or his body on top. You spoke to him with all the wrong intentions, not for work, not because he lives at your dorm or because you know him a bit, not even because he's just a random friend, but because of all the wrong intentions. And all this was within 10 days of your drama and now you still have the audacity to tell me all about your loyalty and about how you've been nothing but loyal but if that, you think is loyalty then you don't know half the meaning of that word because loyalty doesn't need to taste other men/women and it sure wouldn't have put him in my shoes. Loyalty wouldn't try to lust over other men like a **** or dress up in **** tight jeans for them. Loyalty wouldn't need a free trial. And lets flip roles here and say I tried to do what you did and lets say I took a pretty girl with straight hair out for a drive in my car and lets say I used my best perfume to smell nice for her and to want her to want to kiss me and lets say she's been trained to cook the best food and look the best for a husband and she's smart too and lets say that for a moment I try to want myself to want to be her husband and lets say she's more into me than I'll ever be into her and all she wants is to be sitting on my lap but she won't say it and I know her intentions but I take her out anyway and I wear my best button down and I say no to her proposal of getting me into her bed late at night but that doesn't mean I didn't try to want to say yes. Would you call me "loyal" then if it took me lesser than 2 weeks to **** up a 3 year relationship which was made of so much more than 2 bodies, which was made of two hearts and souls. 10 days isn't enough for "loyalty" to want to move on or to try to. Loyalty is a pledge witnessed by god. Loyalty holds itself up in distance or in despair or in sickness or in misunderstandings and it surely holds itself up much longer than 10 ******* days. So tell me whatever, tell me you aren't sorry or that you don't want him and you want me or don't want me or tell me about why we will never happen or why we will, tell me of his seven figure salary (and I won't give a **** tell me his pros and all my cons, tell me how I was never enough or how I was too much, tell me whatever but don't you dare act loyal to make yourself feel better about your selfish **** self by calling it self-love and don't you dare tell me about stories of your loyalty with me because it only takes one to **** it all up and don't you dare disgrace my loyalty to you by ever calling yourself loyal after going out on a date with him.
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Hid my tears with makeup       Curled my hair despite the burns    Pierced through my desperation for                             earrings        Some may call me an attention                               *****         Or a girl who finally embraced                         her feminine side                       But I don't care       Your opinion is the only one that                             matters But you had the audacity not to notice                Your Porcelain Doll
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Porcelain Doll
Corpses proliferate in soaring violence; heirloom of franchise and eminence— perish in erosion. Timid denizens of derision, cynicism in roaring silence — optimism’s paling vapor—commodity of Indecision, our halcyon days forgotten. Chosen token of audacity; the onyx maladroit feigns, prevaricating beneath the Sacred canopy. Etudes of apathy; attrition unlamented; streams of guile— quixotic squall conversely merge — veiled conceit, eloquent arrow of equivocation. The policy of attenuation. Treason’s vine obscured beneath the blind surf of consent. © 2014 & 2016 W. S. Warner
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
Attenuation
Rust downing like bayed menstrual blood-- booming steel walls...a rattling sanitation truck. Housewarming...'the rough beast' in fetal orbit...nay-toothed in squalor. Whose gummy roar shall presage the audacity of all places, that call forth houses!!!
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 12:10 AM UTC
Nay-toothed
And we’ve all been there, me and my lovers, we’ve all see our fair share of troubles. cause Romance is Chance in the form of a Dance and I’m sorry to say I still move like I did fifteen years ago. Macarena with me and I’ll sweep you off your feet, maybe someday I’ll learn to waltz and blow you away. Until it all comes crashing down.   Because inevitably it all comes crashing down even the Flintstones died millennia ago. My Anna Marie, I’m sorry you left, Europe ringed and you answered, I guess we couldn’t afford long distance (is that even still a thing?) and I couldn’t wait for you, I was too young and too ready to love again. Dear Jenna, Darling, as much fun as you are we move at different speeds, and mine’s stuck in the slow lane. I liked *** on the second date, but I wasn’t ready for the **** three weeks in. God knows I’d never try and change you even he doesn’t have the ***** to try. And God bless you Tiffany, cause it ***** to die, but it ***** even more stuck here saying goodbye. Bachelor Status reaffirmed: **** sites filled to capacity with self-made men of audacity come to satisfy their proclivities “Dear phantom girlfriends, you’re here to gratify Please entertain us in our fantasies and our impossibly similar tendencies. Also, it wouldn’t hurt if it’s all free.”
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 12:40 AM UTC
Drama ****
what cheek, the audacity to sheer his name from his faceless appearance, well, I know something of names, and mysteriously common and vague, said as often as **** does not satisfy this certified member of the hoi polloi of humens grace, with a small g, not to be confused with those courtiers in human courts who so address their temporal superiors, who more often than not, chop off with their head, just god downy not longer for being insufficiently lying in their obsequiousness grace is a virtue par excellence, multi~facetedly faced, reflecting well and goodness on both the speaker and the hearing, if grace you know not the meaning of, then research it and let it reflect back upon your countenance replace god with grace, and forgive me this too obvious rhyme, it will only be better days for the human race ><>< my name? hah! sinner man
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Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM UTC
I re-named god
My body is the training ground for All of the reject demons My inner demons failed to qualify as the right sort of fight To match with any worthwhile struggles so My inner demons are over dramatic children      They do not wage wars      They throw tantrums      They stand inside my temples and pound the walls      When they do not get what they want      And shriek ringing into my ears until they turn blue      Then fall asleep when they get tired      Forgetting that they were supposed to be upset My inner demons are pretentious      They call themselves demons      When they are more like imps      They tickle at anxiety with the nerve to call it an attack      And separate velcro and seams with the audacity to say that      They broke something      Then press on my heart      Daring to call it an ache My inner demons are clumsy      They walk with their toes curling around my eyelashes      And slip and spill their handfuls of tears      At inopportune moments As I tremble due to the ones      That have tripped and tangled themselves      In my heartstrings and vocal cords      Causing me to grasp my rib cage in desperate attempts to reach them      And tear apart the inconveniences My inner demons are shy      They sway in my veins to the rhythmic pulse      With clawed hands outstretched to the blue walled sky      Cautious to never leave a scratch through my skin      They dance on nerve endings and muscle tissue      With footwork just gentle enough to not summon bruises      And hold themselves still against my capillaries      As if their presence might distract my blood from      Its daily circulation My inner demons are hoarders      They over-stuff the filing cabinets in my brain      With reports and analysis of too many situations      And pick up old emotions and hide them in the recesses      Of each ventricle and aorta      Creating pseudo-space for newer, stranger, replicas      Then pack extra breaths into my lungs      Storing "just in case" inhalations and overused sighs      They insulate their homes with extra calories and extra clothes      Hiding until they can forget themselves My inner demons are moody      They like to stitch up new wounds with the thorns of roses      And pry open old ones with feathers      They tie my tongue with pages of foreign textbooks      They tie my tongue in gauze and cotton      They tie my tongue with other tongues      And pins and needles and teeth and drawstrings      They are self depreciating and they know that they      Are not worthy of their title My inner demons are pathetic      I suppose they're right where they belong
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
Reject Demons
My body is the training ground for All of the reject demons My inner demons failed to qualify as the right sort of fight To match with any worthwhile struggles so My inner demons are over dramatic children      They do not wage wars      They throw tantrums      They stand inside my temples and pound the walls      When they do not get what they want      And shriek ringing into my ears until they turn blue      Then fall asleep when they get tired      Forgetting that they were supposed to be upset My inner demons are pretentious      They call themselves demons      When they are more like imps      They tickle at anxiety with the nerve to call it an attack      And separate velcro and seams with the audacity to say that      They broke something      Then press on my heart      Daring to call it an ache My inner demons are clumsy      They walk with their toes curling around my eyelashes      And slip and spill their handfuls of tears      At inopportune moments As I tremble due to the ones      That have tripped and tangled themselves      In my heartstrings and vocal cords      Causing me to grasp my rib cage in desperate attempts to reach them      And tear apart the inconveniences My inner demons are shy      They sway in my veins to the rhythmic pulse      With clawed hands outstretched to the blue walled sky      Cautious to never leave a scratch through my skin      They dance on nerve endings and muscle tissue      With footwork just gentle enough to not summon bruises      And hold themselves still against my capillaries      As if their presence might distract my blood from      Its daily circulation My inner demons are hoarders      They over-stuff the filing cabinets in my brain      With reports and analysis of too many situations      And pick up old emotions and hide them in the recesses      Of each ventricle and aorta      Creating pseudo-space for newer, stranger, replicas      Then pack extra breaths into my lungs      Storing "just in case" inhalations and overused sighs      They insulate their homes with extra calories and extra clothes      Hiding until they can forget themselves My inner demons are moody      They like to stitch up new wounds with the thorns of roses      And pry open old ones with feathers      They tie my tongue with pages of foreign textbooks      They tie my tongue in gauze and cotton      They tie my tongue with other tongues      And pins and needles and teeth and drawstrings      They are self depreciating and they know that they      Are not worthy of their title My inner demons are pathetic      I suppose they're right where they belong
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My New Year’s Eve was spent collecting fragmented recollections to confirm that my dignity had truly died. Soberly, I perused the bars and clubs, and walked aimlessly up and down crowded streets, feeling like my life had somehow been shifted into slow motion, while the rest of the world, engaging in joyous celebration and ffestivities, was knocked out of rhythm from my existence. How in the world could the clock strike midnight? How could people embrace, and kiss at the dropping of the ball? How could they laugh and smiile, and wish each other a “Happy New Year!”? More importantly, how could those god **** traffic lights have the audacity to continue changing from red to ggreen to yellow, then back to red again. My dignity had just died. My dignity had just died. My dignity was dead. My dignity was gone. In the days and weeks that followed the death of my dignity, I noticed that life faded from colloquial to iconic, like something mystical, or an intangible object of deep longing. And recurrent images of those ******* obnoxious traffic lights insensitively switching colors replay in my mind to remind me over and over in the greens (go), the reds (stop), and the yellows (be careful), that my dignity had died. Memories of the ddays before my dignity had died run through my mind like old home movies with centuries of black and white film stuck on repeat, and slowly fraying, around the edges, because of the harsh demands of time. It is life’s harsh and cruel irony that these images, once my greatest joy, have now become inflicters of the greatest pain that I have ever felt. Like a sound wave of pain, so powerful, that it has silenced any other pain that my heart has ever heard. So now I know, it is true life is a bitch. The fading of my dignity has made me overly aware of the earth turning on its axis. As spring approached, for the very first time, I noticed the way the flowers seem reluctant to bloom, as if uncertain of their welcome invitation. Such a cruel reality, that the flowers would choose to bloom, and nature would choose to carry on, slipping further and further away from the day that my dignity died. And still, to this day, those **** traffic lights keep switching colors
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 8:32 AM UTC
Traffic Lights
My New Year’s Eve was spent collecting fragmented recollections to confirm that my dignity had truly died. Soberly, I perused the bars and clubs, and walked aimlessly up and down crowded streets, feeling like my life had somehow been shifted into slow motion, while the rest of the world, engaging in joyous celebration and ffestivities, was knocked out of rhythm from my existence. How in the world could the clock strike midnight? How could people embrace, and kiss at the dropping of the ball? How could they laugh and smiile, and wish each other a “Happy New Year!”? More importantly, how could those god **** traffic lights have the audacity to continue changing from red to ggreen to yellow, then back to red again. My dignity had just died. My dignity had just died. My dignity was dead. My dignity was gone. In the days and weeks that followed the death of my dignity, I noticed that life faded from colloquial to iconic, like something mystical, or an intangible object of deep longing. And recurrent images of those ******* obnoxious traffic lights insensitively switching colors replay in my mind to remind me over and over in the greens (go), the reds (stop), and the yellows (be careful), that my dignity had died. Memories of the ddays before my dignity had died run through my mind like old home movies with centuries of black and white film stuck on repeat, and slowly fraying, around the edges, because of the harsh demands of time. It is life’s harsh and cruel irony that these images, once my greatest joy, have now become inflicters of the greatest pain that I have ever felt. Like a sound wave of pain, so powerful, that it has silenced any other pain that my heart has ever heard. So now I know, it is true life is a bitch. The fading of my dignity has made me overly aware of the earth turning on its axis. As spring approached, for the very first time, I noticed the way the flowers seem reluctant to bloom, as if uncertain of their welcome invitation. Such a cruel reality, that the flowers would choose to bloom, and nature would choose to carry on, slipping further and further away from the day that my dignity died. And still, to this day, those **** traffic lights keep switching colors
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.*England... no wolves... oh well... the next best "spirit animal"..? Bacardi! no wait... Whyte & Mackawy?! no... **** what could it be... and believe me, Maine **** cats share a disposition of curiosity with this feral creature... this Robin Hood... what animal is it? hmm...* it was supposed to your generic, bog-standard Saturday afternoon, i was given the pleasure of cooking dinner... Xacuti chicken curry with         star anise & nutmeg from the Goa region of India and   a curry from Sri Lanka... absolutely beauties...    evidently...     all that heating of the spices on a pan and then blending them in a coffee mill... seriously spread like a forest fire... not too long... well, by the time i finished all the prep for the second curry, and was already letting it simmer... to my honest disbelief...    and this was mid afternoon, about half six -    bright as ******* daylight... who's this?          hello?         you like the smell i see? god...     what a pristine healthy example of the feral - and the most beautiful eyes... had to take a picture...     so i asked again?   does it really smell that good that it has given you the kind of cheek and audacity to risk climbing out from your safety prior to nightfall?    **** i heard before that i am a good cook...    but you, dear fox -    have paid the biggest compliment, ever.
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 6:01 PM UTC
Fox & Curry
I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let Small answers be a bullwark to my fear. The huge abstractions I kept from the light; Small things I handled and caressed and loved. I let the stars assume the whole of night. But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity Shouted to be acknowledged and believed. Even when all small answers build up to Protection of my spirit, still I hear Big answers striving for their overthrow. And all the great conclusions coming near.
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Daddy is almost 60 years old now. His fragile arms wrap around me like a porcelain doll as he takes his last drag of his cigarette. He tells me it won’t **** him. Two weeks ago, my dad found my hand-me-down blades. I told him he did not need to worry because my addiction of the blades painting my canvas has been replaced to the deadliest addiction; loving a boy. Everyone has an addiction. Addiction is passed down from generation to generation. That’s probably why my brother has the addiction of letting acid flow through his lips. Mommy has the addiction of having a man in different cloths sleep next to her at night, And ***** has the addiction of letting her boyfriend leave black and blue “love marks” all over her body, and yet she still has the audacity to say that she loves him. I met a boy today that told me his addiction was needle, I asked him how. He told me that it comes as natural as you need to drink water and his arms were marked up with pinpoint bumps like hills but despite the green they were purple and blue leading up to his shoulders, then I saw one on his neck. But this one seemed different, it seemed like a rope was strangling him and up above was a branch of hope flowing down the drain, because his opportunities were caged in a non-existent box.
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 7:51 PM UTC
Addiction
I keep my answers small and keep them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let Small answers be a bulwark to my fear. The huge abstractions I keep from the light; Small things I handled and caressed and loved. I let the stars assume the whole of night. But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity Shouted to be acknowledged and believed. Even when all small answers build up to Protection of my spirit, I still hear Big answers striving for their overthrow And all the great conclusions coming near.
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you can tell by the way she swings her hips and pulls your hair and licks her lips and whispers in your ear that she's easy. you'll know her by the short skirt and the tight top and the high heels, by the butterfly tattoo on her lower back and the drink in her hand. if she carries condoms or takes birth control, if she can't say no, if she takes no convincing, you'll know. she's the girl at the party who drinks the most and laughs the loudest. she's the one you discarded the first night you met her, when she gave you the only part of herself that you deemed worthwhile. you'll figure her out from the tar trails of mascara, the untouched meal, the word "worthless" carved into her thigh like a brand, marking her flesh as property to which you are entitled. pay close attention to her need for validation. a **** will have the audacity to seek your approval just because she's been told all her life that she is  nothing without your love. she will measure her worth in units of attractiveness and desirability because that is the only system she's ever been taught. you'll know she's a **** when they find the defendant not guilty, and he arrives at the ten-year reunion in a limo. you'll know she's a **** when she doesn't arrive at all. it's easy to spot a **** in a society that teaches her that her lips are for kisses and not battle cries, that her hands are meant to be cradled in yours and not ****** into the sky, that her body is your wonderland and not her home. it's hard to miss a **** in a culture that paints women as ****** objects while condemning any expression of female sexuality, that glorifies the "good girl" who becomes whole when the right man comes along and stakes his claim. the women you ****** in the lifetime before you met your wife weren't marriage material; you need a girl who's saved herself for you because a girl who lets you **** her crosses the threshold from ****** to **** in a bizarre coming of age ritual in which your **** is *so ******* important* that its temporary entrance to her body renders her worthless. you can tell she's a **** because for her, there is no right answer. you can find your **** at rallies and in body-baring photographs, alive in the anxious triumph of finding something in herself that she can love, of digging through a lifetime of rubble and reclaiming small shards of forgiveness from the dirt. her self-identified status rips away your long-established privilege of dictating who she can be and defining her worth; your resent her new autonomy. you can march beside her, or you can step aside. she has stolen back her power. she was made for revolution.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 6:09 AM UTC
how to spot a ****
you can tell by the way she swings her hips and pulls your hair and licks her lips and whispers in your ear that she's easy. you'll know her by the short skirt and the tight top and the high heels, by the butterfly tattoo on her lower back and the drink in her hand. if she carries condoms or takes birth control, if she can't say no, if she takes no convincing, you'll know. she's the girl at the party who drinks the most and laughs the loudest. she's the one you discarded the first night you met her, when she gave you the only part of herself that you deemed worthwhile. you'll figure her out from the tar trails of mascara, the untouched meal, the word "worthless" carved into her thigh like a brand, marking her flesh as property to which you are entitled. pay close attention to her need for validation. a **** will have the audacity to seek your approval just because she's been told all her life that she is  nothing without your love. she will measure her worth in units of attractiveness and desirability because that is the only system she's ever been taught. you'll know she's a **** when they find the defendant not guilty, and he arrives at the ten-year reunion in a limo. you'll know she's a **** when she doesn't arrive at all. it's easy to spot a **** in a society that teaches her that her lips are for kisses and not battle cries, that her hands are meant to be cradled in yours and not ****** into the sky, that her body is your wonderland and not her home. it's hard to miss a **** in a culture that paints women as ****** objects while condemning any expression of female sexuality, that glorifies the "good girl" who becomes whole when the right man comes along and stakes his claim. the women you ****** in the lifetime before you met your wife weren't marriage material; you need a girl who's saved herself for you because a girl who lets you **** her crosses the threshold from ****** to **** in a bizarre coming of age ritual in which your **** is *so ******* important* that its temporary entrance to her body renders her worthless. you can tell she's a **** because for her, there is no right answer. you can find your **** at rallies and in body-baring photographs, alive in the anxious triumph of finding something in herself that she can love, of digging through a lifetime of rubble and reclaiming small shards of forgiveness from the dirt. her self-identified status rips away your long-established privilege of dictating who she can be and defining her worth; your resent her new autonomy. you can march beside her, or you can step aside. she has stolen back her power. she was made for revolution.
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This poem is green Would you buy this poem? This poem is do-it-yourself backyard garden green. This poem is save the world give peas a chance green; this poem is azure sky squeezing the golden sun all over the world green. Could you buy this poem? This poem is apples and oranges farmer’s artist market green. This poem has leaves as pillows and blankets as grass; this poem is a lil’ patch of green earth purchase me plot; this poem is 100% recyclable disposable, sustainable (after all it has gotten this far) You should buy this poem. This poem is green, its’ tyro-technics shooting out of asphalt cracks. This poem is a snot-nosed brat full of SASS (short attention span sentences) This poem is the hope of audacity. This poem is fumbling with bra straps and tongue-tied techniques, this poem isn’t old enough to know any better, it’s wet behind the ears green petting zoo pellets green willing to SCREAM green but not part of a gang green this poem is all alone with its words Buy this poem? This poem is green Its envious of solar panel studios with eyes on the price of a venti economy This poem is the green-eyed monster of product placement pick-o-the profit This poem WANTS to make consumer obedience the easy culprit. But really… This poem just wishes it could sing Won’t you buy this poem? This poem is green. This poem has no half-life, shelf life or night life. This poem exists solely in this moment of your imagination. This poem has milk carton desperation. This poem is begging for change. This poem was stolen from all of you. This poem is not for sale. Buy This Poem!
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Jul 31, 2016
Jul 31, 2016 at 11:09 PM UTC
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This poem is green Would you buy this poem? This poem is do-it-yourself backyard garden green. This poem is save the world give peas a chance green; this poem is azure sky squeezing the golden sun all over the world green. Could you buy this poem? This poem is apples and oranges farmer’s artist market green. This poem has leaves as pillows and blankets as grass; this poem is a lil’ patch of green earth purchase me plot; this poem is 100% recyclable disposable, sustainable (after all it has gotten this far) You should buy this poem. This poem is green, its’ tyro-technics shooting out of asphalt cracks. This poem is a snot-nosed brat full of SASS (short attention span sentences) This poem is the hope of audacity. This poem is fumbling with bra straps and tongue-tied techniques, this poem isn’t old enough to know any better, it’s wet behind the ears green petting zoo pellets green willing to SCREAM green but not part of a gang green this poem is all alone with its words Buy this poem? This poem is green Its envious of solar panel studios with eyes on the price of a venti economy This poem is the green-eyed monster of product placement pick-o-the profit This poem WANTS to make consumer obedience the easy culprit. But really… This poem just wishes it could sing Won’t you buy this poem? This poem is green. This poem has no half-life, shelf life or night life. This poem exists solely in this moment of your imagination. This poem has milk carton desperation. This poem is begging for change. This poem was stolen from all of you. This poem is not for sale. Buy This Poem!
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