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Municipal Gum was written by Oodjeroo Noonecaal. Municipal Gum is about the changes in society and the tendency of people to want to control everything. Oodjeroo uses various techniques to convey this idea. At the beginning of the poem Oodjeroo is addressing the tree. This immediately creates empathy for both the tree and her people. By the last line she has emphasised this with the pronoun “us” to show that they suffer a similar fate. This poem expresses how life in Australia has changes especially for Aboriginal people. In the first half of the poem Oodjeroo is talking about how life was for her and others. It explores the changes in society and the displacement of the Aboriginal people from their land. “Whose head hung…Its hopelessness”, the author uses this as further re-iteration of the immorality of the situation and by the use of analogy comparing the tree to her people to further emphasise the shame and lack control of that the Europeans have inflicted upon her and the environment. Oodjeroo uses extended metaphor technique in the very first line of the poem ‘Hard bitumen around your feet’. This means that the gumtree has been placed in the city scape where it is suppressed and not allowed to spread out and be unique in its own way. This is clear and immanently direct link to the pain and suffering endured by the Aborigines post European settlement. Oodjeroo uses vivid language to present these ideas. For example the use of the word castrated is very effective. The connotation of the word is very demeaning. With castration often comes a sense of a loss of pride and power. The word castration is symbolic of how Oodjeroo feels the European have treated Aboriginal people and the environment. Castration also refers to the fact that what is done is done. Nothing can undo what they did and the damaged they have caused. Other symbolism includes the title “Municipal Gum”, municipal meaning community, implies that the gumtree belongs to the community. One of the vast differences between European and Aboriginal law is that Aboriginal people did not believe in the ownership of land or of animals and plants. Municipal Gum is a reference to the Europeans assumptions that everything is theirs to own and control. The rhetorical question, “O fellow citizen, What have they done to us?” is the conclusion of the implications that have been made throughout the poem. Oodjeroo, is advocating for her people and all things wronged by the controlling behaviour of the Europeans. Rhetorical questions are used to provoke thought and to stimulate a pre-determined response. “What have they done to us?” They have “castrated, broken… strapped and buckled” and ultimately changed things to a point that they cannot be fixed. In conclusion, Municipal Gum is a poem about the constrictions and change that the European invaders forced upon the Aboriginal community and the environment she believes that the Europeans have deemed themselves ever powerful and practice their power in a manner that is immoral.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 7:47 AM UTC
trang-nguyen
Municipal Gum
Municipal Gum was written by Oodjeroo Noonecaal. Municipal Gum is about the changes in society and the tendency of people to want to control everything. Oodjeroo uses various techniques to convey this idea. At the beginning of the poem Oodjeroo is addressing the tree. This immediately creates empathy for both the tree and her people. By the last line she has emphasised this with the pronoun “us” to show that they suffer a similar fate. This poem expresses how life in Australia has changes especially for Aboriginal people. In the first half of the poem Oodjeroo is talking about how life was for her and others. It explores the changes in society and the displacement of the Aboriginal people from their land. “Whose head hung…Its hopelessness”, the author uses this as further re-iteration of the immorality of the situation and by the use of analogy comparing the tree to her people to further emphasise the shame and lack control of that the Europeans have inflicted upon her and the environment. Oodjeroo uses extended metaphor technique in the very first line of the poem ‘Hard bitumen around your feet’. This means that the gumtree has been placed in the city scape where it is suppressed and not allowed to spread out and be unique in its own way. This is clear and immanently direct link to the pain and suffering endured by the Aborigines post European settlement. Oodjeroo uses vivid language to present these ideas. For example the use of the word castrated is very effective. The connotation of the word is very demeaning. With castration often comes a sense of a loss of pride and power. The word castration is symbolic of how Oodjeroo feels the European have treated Aboriginal people and the environment. Castration also refers to the fact that what is done is done. Nothing can undo what they did and the damaged they have caused. Other symbolism includes the title “Municipal Gum”, municipal meaning community, implies that the gumtree belongs to the community. One of the vast differences between European and Aboriginal law is that Aboriginal people did not believe in the ownership of land or of animals and plants. Municipal Gum is a reference to the Europeans assumptions that everything is theirs to own and control. The rhetorical question, “O fellow citizen, What have they done to us?” is the conclusion of the implications that have been made throughout the poem. Oodjeroo, is advocating for her people and all things wronged by the controlling behaviour of the Europeans. Rhetorical questions are used to provoke thought and to stimulate a pre-determined response. “What have they done to us?” They have “castrated, broken… strapped and buckled” and ultimately changed things to a point that they cannot be fixed. In conclusion, Municipal Gum is a poem about the constrictions and change that the European invaders forced upon the Aboriginal community and the environment she believes that the Europeans have deemed themselves ever powerful and practice their power in a manner that is immoral.
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Many people write a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they die.  Now in my 80th year, I don't have the time or the energy to do things that others might aim for, but I have during my life visited many places, seen many things, and enjoyed many experiences that I would have been sorry to miss. There have also been some events that I would have preferred not to experience, but which have enriched my life in different ways, and which I remember with a kind of sad affection.   Some of these are very personal to me, and would not be interesting to most people, but read the note if you wonder why I chose them. Here then is what I might call                                                   My Reverse Bucket List Towns and cities – architecture & atmosphere    Barcelona, Spain    Venice, Italy    Oxford, England    Jerusalem, Israel    Luxor, Egypt    Varanasi, India    Hiroshima, Japan Pompeii, Italy Other locations    Galápagos islands, Ecuador    Great Barrier Reef, Australia    North Woolwich, London Churches    St Paul's Cathedral, London    Sagrada Familia, Barcelona    Coventry Cathedral    Córdoba Cathedral, Spain    Blue Mosque, Istanbul Other structures    Taj Mahal, Agra    Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland    Royal Festival Hall, London    London underground system (because it was the first, and I rode it for a long time).  Also the more splendid underground railways of Mexico City and Moscow.    Avebury Ring, Wiltshire, England (the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world, and much more primitive than Stonehenge)    Bayeux Tapestry     "Angel of the North" statue, Gateshead, England    "Christ the Redeemer" statue, Rio, Brazil Events    Messiah at Royal Festival Hall, Feb 1959, with the girl later to be my wife    St John's night, Spain, early 1990s (?)    Death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, Aug 1997    Oberammergau passion play, 2010    Destruction of World Trade Centre, Sept 2001
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 9:16 AM UTC
paul-hansford
Bucket List? -- Not Me!
Many people write a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they die.  Now in my 80th year, I don't have the time or the energy to do things that others might aim for, but I have during my life visited many places, seen many things, and enjoyed many experiences that I would have been sorry to miss. There have also been some events that I would have preferred not to experience, but which have enriched my life in different ways, and which I remember with a kind of sad affection.   Some of these are very personal to me, and would not be interesting to most people, but read the note if you wonder why I chose them. Here then is what I might call                                                   My Reverse Bucket List Towns and cities – architecture & atmosphere    Barcelona, Spain    Venice, Italy    Oxford, England    Jerusalem, Israel    Luxor, Egypt    Varanasi, India    Hiroshima, Japan Pompeii, Italy Other locations    Galápagos islands, Ecuador    Great Barrier Reef, Australia    North Woolwich, London Churches    St Paul's Cathedral, London    Sagrada Familia, Barcelona    Coventry Cathedral    Córdoba Cathedral, Spain    Blue Mosque, Istanbul Other structures    Taj Mahal, Agra    Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland    Royal Festival Hall, London    London underground system (because it was the first, and I rode it for a long time).  Also the more splendid underground railways of Mexico City and Moscow.    Avebury Ring, Wiltshire, England (the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world, and much more primitive than Stonehenge)    Bayeux Tapestry     "Angel of the North" statue, Gateshead, England    "Christ the Redeemer" statue, Rio, Brazil Events    Messiah at Royal Festival Hall, Feb 1959, with the girl later to be my wife    St John's night, Spain, early 1990s (?)    Death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, Aug 1997    Oberammergau passion play, 2010    Destruction of World Trade Centre, Sept 2001
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She’s got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck, so we fck, and after it's said and done she says, “I don’t usually do this.”, yeah well we often do things we don’t usually do, no road home and no rules, no control no lines no tolls, keep knocking and you can come in, but no one’s home, what’s going on up there, how can you be so terrifyingly beautiful, why are you armed with such a stare, I know you’re a weapon but what do you use it for, armed to the teeth no bark all bite, I say she’s a unicorn she says she’s a vampire, and I don’t fall in love but with this one I just might, because we better express ourselves before we expire, got burned from her fire, but it hurt so good, like those cuts that we inflicted onto each other, feeling erratic I guess blame it on the mood, always ready to talk about anything except the truth, she says she only lied to me once, and that was about not liking Ethiopian food, and I pretend to care but honestly don’t know if I give a fck, what the fck, I’m drunk, and I don’t usually drink, but I often do things I don’t usually do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not sure I love you, because even if I did, I’m not sure it’d matter to you so what’s the use, you want the truth, the truth is we’re born alone and we die alone, and in the middle is where I found you, and for a moment this runaway thought he'd found a home, and I wanted us to stay forever in that moment, laying there naked in each other’s arms, but you were insecure and covered yourself back up, because you didn’t want me to see your scars, you’ve got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck... ∆ LaLux ∆ Melbourne, Australia October 2018
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM UTC
aaronlalux
Battle Wounds
She’s got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck, so we fck, and after it's said and done she says, “I don’t usually do this.”, yeah well we often do things we don’t usually do, no road home and no rules, no control no lines no tolls, keep knocking and you can come in, but no one’s home, what’s going on up there, how can you be so terrifyingly beautiful, why are you armed with such a stare, I know you’re a weapon but what do you use it for, armed to the teeth no bark all bite, I say she’s a unicorn she says she’s a vampire, and I don’t fall in love but with this one I just might, because we better express ourselves before we expire, got burned from her fire, but it hurt so good, like those cuts that we inflicted onto each other, feeling erratic I guess blame it on the mood, always ready to talk about anything except the truth, she says she only lied to me once, and that was about not liking Ethiopian food, and I pretend to care but honestly don’t know if I give a fck, what the fck, I’m drunk, and I don’t usually drink, but I often do things I don’t usually do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not sure I love you, because even if I did, I’m not sure it’d matter to you so what’s the use, you want the truth, the truth is we’re born alone and we die alone, and in the middle is where I found you, and for a moment this runaway thought he'd found a home, and I wanted us to stay forever in that moment, laying there naked in each other’s arms, but you were insecure and covered yourself back up, because you didn’t want me to see your scars, you’ve got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck... ∆ LaLux ∆ Melbourne, Australia October 2018
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Dec 21, 2019 at 11:08 AM UTC
maxneumann
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Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark, as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All Fools' Day, O high-riser, my little loaf. Vague as fog and looked for like mail. Farther off than Australia. Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn. Snug as a bud and at home Like a sprat in a pickle jug. A creel of eels, all ripples. Jumpy as a Mexican bean. Right, like a well-done sum. A clean slate, with your own face on.
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Sylvia Plath
You're
Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark, as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All Fools' Day, O high-riser, my little loaf. Vague as fog and looked for like mail. Farther off than Australia. Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn. Snug as a bud and at home Like a sprat in a pickle jug. A creel of eels, all ripples. Jumpy as a Mexican bean. Right, like a well-done sum. A clean slate, with your own face on.
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Those happy Morris dancers make for a happy sight They wear bright scarlet ribbons and their shirts and trousers white, They clash their sticks whilst dancing and you hear the timbers ring Though 'twould seem that Morris dancing is not a female thing. I've never seen a female Morris dancer I stand corrected if I'm wrong It has it's roots in England and to England it belong And I hope that Morris dancing will not go the way of rhyme That in a changing World it won't lose out to time. They brought their culture with them from England far away A culture perhaps fading like many of the old cultures are today With the old dances of Europe I see a link somewhere And sad to hear that Morris dancers are now becoming rare. At the Dandenong Ranges festival east of Melbourne they perform every year And after in the ***** tent they laugh as they drink their beer, They brought a thing of beauty when they brought their dancing here And to those marvellous Morris dancers let us raise our glass of cheer. Morris dancing vary from English Village to Village or so I have been told Though the times they are a changing and fading are the ways of old But those marvellous Morris dancers may they dance forever more In the sunshine of Australia far from England's rainy shore.
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Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
francis-duggan
Those Marvellous Morris Dancers
Those happy Morris dancers make for a happy sight They wear bright scarlet ribbons and their shirts and trousers white, They clash their sticks whilst dancing and you hear the timbers ring Though 'twould seem that Morris dancing is not a female thing. I've never seen a female Morris dancer I stand corrected if I'm wrong It has it's roots in England and to England it belong And I hope that Morris dancing will not go the way of rhyme That in a changing World it won't lose out to time. They brought their culture with them from England far away A culture perhaps fading like many of the old cultures are today With the old dances of Europe I see a link somewhere And sad to hear that Morris dancers are now becoming rare. At the Dandenong Ranges festival east of Melbourne they perform every year And after in the ***** tent they laugh as they drink their beer, They brought a thing of beauty when they brought their dancing here And to those marvellous Morris dancers let us raise our glass of cheer. Morris dancing vary from English Village to Village or so I have been told Though the times they are a changing and fading are the ways of old But those marvellous Morris dancers may they dance forever more In the sunshine of Australia far from England's rainy shore.
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Are all footy fanatics Total raving lunatics? The flag's in the bag! We've got lively lads The best we've ever had! Peter Pans on *** The flags that time forgot! Footy finals fever, Talk about dream weavers! Footy finals phobia, TV claustrophobia, Why didn't we win, Any old excuse again! Footy fanatics, Raving lunatics, Footy finals fever, Melbourne's dream weavers!
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Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 4:20 PM UTC
julie-grenness
ODE TO THE AFL! (Unique whimsy of Melbourne, Australia.)
Are all footy fanatics Total raving lunatics? The flag's in the bag! We've got lively lads The best we've ever had! Peter Pans on *** The flags that time forgot! Footy finals fever, Talk about dream weavers! Footy finals phobia, TV claustrophobia, Why didn't we win, Any old excuse again! Footy fanatics, Raving lunatics, Footy finals fever, Melbourne's dream weavers!
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Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The backbone of this country yeah They need to have rain to run their farms Or it will be too dry Each farmer is battling the Aussie sun Doing what they do Trying to bring Aussie produce to the tables Yeah mate ****** yeah Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The backbone of this country yeah You see they need to help the future of this country get a good education But they do need rain And if you can you must give them money Because it is a hard ****** job My ****** oathe It is great to see the worlds famous singers Putting on a hay mate concert to help them out And get everyone to sing great songs Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The back bone of this country yeah Come on Australia Give three cheers for our farmers Help them out Buy them a beer Give them the shirt off your back And help them financially Yes they will appreciate your help And yes they will feel great And so will you because you are Helping the backbone of this country Farmers farmers The mighty farmers Give them your time Because they are doing it tough
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Dec 15, 2019
Dec 15, 2019 at 6:48 AM UTC
johnny-georgy-brown
help the farmers help create a future of AUSTRALIA
Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The backbone of this country yeah They need to have rain to run their farms Or it will be too dry Each farmer is battling the Aussie sun Doing what they do Trying to bring Aussie produce to the tables Yeah mate ****** yeah Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The backbone of this country yeah You see they need to help the future of this country get a good education But they do need rain And if you can you must give them money Because it is a hard ****** job My ****** oathe It is great to see the worlds famous singers Putting on a hay mate concert to help them out And get everyone to sing great songs Farmers farmers The mighty farmers The back bone of this country yeah Come on Australia Give three cheers for our farmers Help them out Buy them a beer Give them the shirt off your back And help them financially Yes they will appreciate your help And yes they will feel great And so will you because you are Helping the backbone of this country Farmers farmers The mighty farmers Give them your time Because they are doing it tough
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A part of me lives miles and minutes and moments away in an indefinite, dreamy place where clocks are not my enemy and I associate the word “distance" with travel, not longing My heart has sailed across the Atlantic, moved eagerly through the Indian Ocean, navigated using an atlas inked with butterflies and stars that gleam ardently (just as your rosemary eyes do, every once in a blue moon, when you’re able to sew together the disarrayed thoughts that dwell in your messy head) You are so, so far away However, if I avoid calendars and geography, it feels like you’re right here beside me In the afternoon, when the sun shines through my bedroom window and paints the world map on my wall with light, I shut my eyelids and run my thumb along the string that stretches across the parchment, connecting me to you I pretend that when I open my eyes, you will be here and that my aching fingers that are so desperately grasping the paper will be intertwined with yours
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 1:35 PM UTC
madisen
Australia
A part of me lives miles and minutes and moments away in an indefinite, dreamy place where clocks are not my enemy and I associate the word “distance" with travel, not longing My heart has sailed across the Atlantic, moved eagerly through the Indian Ocean, navigated using an atlas inked with butterflies and stars that gleam ardently (just as your rosemary eyes do, every once in a blue moon, when you’re able to sew together the disarrayed thoughts that dwell in your messy head) You are so, so far away However, if I avoid calendars and geography, it feels like you’re right here beside me In the afternoon, when the sun shines through my bedroom window and paints the world map on my wall with light, I shut my eyelids and run my thumb along the string that stretches across the parchment, connecting me to you I pretend that when I open my eyes, you will be here and that my aching fingers that are so desperately grasping the paper will be intertwined with yours
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there was a little bear as lovely as can be he was very cuddly. a koala bear was he his home it was australia he lived in tree roaming round the out back roaming wild free. chewing eucalyptus his very favourite treat his very favourite dish that he loved to eat oneday while out walking on his little stroll. he heard a wombat crying poor little soul. wombat he was stuck there inside a bush bear he got behind him and gave a little push pushing wombat free he was stuck no more wombat he was free like he was before. they began to play as happy as can be then both fell asleep beneath the eucalyptus tree
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Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 11:07 AM UTC
william-worthless-1
koala rescue
there was a little bear as lovely as can be he was very cuddly. a koala bear was he his home it was australia he lived in tree roaming round the out back roaming wild free. chewing eucalyptus his very favourite treat his very favourite dish that he loved to eat oneday while out walking on his little stroll. he heard a wombat crying poor little soul. wombat he was stuck there inside a bush bear he got behind him and gave a little push pushing wombat free he was stuck no more wombat he was free like he was before. they began to play as happy as can be then both fell asleep beneath the eucalyptus tree
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1 The other day I saw a picture of you. Shirt buttoned up to your throat, Pants cutting off the blood circulation in your pelvis, Shoes shining brighter than the north star, And a smile being pulled across your cheeks Like an archer pulling a bow string. I smiled back at my computer screen. 2 I’ve listened to this album at least 30 times. I own three versions of it. UK deluxe, US deluxe, Target Deluxe. Everything about you is deluxe. Your eyes, your voice, your breath As it passes through the microphone and into my ears. 3 I believe in fate But not so much in destiny. I don’t scream at my reflection anymore And I’m described as independent. For the most part. I’m a pretty trustworthy person And I promise I’m not that desperate. 4 The music ripples through my veins As I whip my curls at the mirror. The hairbrush pressed against my mouth And I repeat the lyrics that roll past your lips so smoothly. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I go to sleep. I had a dream You and I were together And you were happy And I was happy And everyone was happy. But I know if my dream became reality No one would be happy. Jealousy would taint the spit on other girls’ tongues And the distance between New Jersey and Australia is too much. Even for me. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I got to sleep. 5 I can almost feel you. 5 We have the same eye color. 6 We have the same hair color. 7 I am just an insecure girl. You are taking over the world. You are stepping in the soil of every state. And you won’t look at me Longer for three seconds in the New York City heat. 8 I never thought I would be one of those girls. One of those girls Who latch onto a boy’s identity, Not knowing his soul But knowing his spirit. I’ve seen you three times. You don’t even realize. I try too hard and I’m convinced you notice this. 9 You are nine months older than me. In your eyes I am just a baby. My cocoon of pictures of you is the womb I am being baked in. You won’t follow me back on twitter. 10 You are just my celebrity crush But you have such an impact on me. Go back home. Let me rest. Go back to bed. I’ll have that dream again And I won’t speak of it And no one has to know of this Pathetic excuse for love I carry in me like a dead fetus. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. It was never supposed to go this far. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. 10 You can never love me The same way I love you.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 1:59 AM UTC
samantha-leroy
Celebrity Crush
1 The other day I saw a picture of you. Shirt buttoned up to your throat, Pants cutting off the blood circulation in your pelvis, Shoes shining brighter than the north star, And a smile being pulled across your cheeks Like an archer pulling a bow string. I smiled back at my computer screen. 2 I’ve listened to this album at least 30 times. I own three versions of it. UK deluxe, US deluxe, Target Deluxe. Everything about you is deluxe. Your eyes, your voice, your breath As it passes through the microphone and into my ears. 3 I believe in fate But not so much in destiny. I don’t scream at my reflection anymore And I’m described as independent. For the most part. I’m a pretty trustworthy person And I promise I’m not that desperate. 4 The music ripples through my veins As I whip my curls at the mirror. The hairbrush pressed against my mouth And I repeat the lyrics that roll past your lips so smoothly. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I go to sleep. I had a dream You and I were together And you were happy And I was happy And everyone was happy. But I know if my dream became reality No one would be happy. Jealousy would taint the spit on other girls’ tongues And the distance between New Jersey and Australia is too much. Even for me. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I got to sleep. 5 I can almost feel you. 5 We have the same eye color. 6 We have the same hair color. 7 I am just an insecure girl. You are taking over the world. You are stepping in the soil of every state. And you won’t look at me Longer for three seconds in the New York City heat. 8 I never thought I would be one of those girls. One of those girls Who latch onto a boy’s identity, Not knowing his soul But knowing his spirit. I’ve seen you three times. You don’t even realize. I try too hard and I’m convinced you notice this. 9 You are nine months older than me. In your eyes I am just a baby. My cocoon of pictures of you is the womb I am being baked in. You won’t follow me back on twitter. 10 You are just my celebrity crush But you have such an impact on me. Go back home. Let me rest. Go back to bed. I’ll have that dream again And I won’t speak of it And no one has to know of this Pathetic excuse for love I carry in me like a dead fetus. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. It was never supposed to go this far. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. 10 You can never love me The same way I love you.
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I pull open the door And hunt for food in the dim orange light. "There's nothing inside" Well, actually, There is something: Months old cream cheeses precariously stacked atop each other, Several mysterious bottles of brown sauces, Dried out leafy vegetables, But nothing This lazy *** can eat without preparing. I push close the door, Leaving my stomach rumbling and empty, But filling my mind with Dreams Three-fourths of the dull gray door is covered With colorful ceramic magnets From my dad’s corporate adventures To Batangas, Bohol, Bacolod, Davao, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau, Nepal, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, China, Dubai, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Canada, Greece, and Australia. I examine each magnet’s contour and shine, Letting its foreign dust seep into my fingers. I dream that soon I will return all those dusts to their lands And bring home more magnets of my own.
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Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 9:50 AM UTC
marge-redelicia
Refrigerator
I pull open the door And hunt for food in the dim orange light. "There's nothing inside" Well, actually, There is something: Months old cream cheeses precariously stacked atop each other, Several mysterious bottles of brown sauces, Dried out leafy vegetables, But nothing This lazy *** can eat without preparing. I push close the door, Leaving my stomach rumbling and empty, But filling my mind with Dreams Three-fourths of the dull gray door is covered With colorful ceramic magnets From my dad’s corporate adventures To Batangas, Bohol, Bacolod, Davao, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau, Nepal, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, China, Dubai, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Canada, Greece, and Australia. I examine each magnet’s contour and shine, Letting its foreign dust seep into my fingers. I dream that soon I will return all those dusts to their lands And bring home more magnets of my own.
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Pt. Anand Ji A To Z Problem Solution 72 Hours And With 100% Guaranteed. 45 Years EXPERCANCE With In Astrology Systematic Call To Guru Ji +91-8239810997 And Get Advice From Him. Any Problem In Mobile +91-8239810997 Astrology or/and Vashikaran solutions are also very effective for resolving or averting extramarital affairs of husband or wife, in present and future years. Such solutions or measures can be maximally efficacious and safe if these are extended by a well-learned, well-experienced, righteous, and globally reputed astrologer or relationship vashikaran specialist, like our guru ji astrologer-cum-vashikaran specialist pt.Anand ji of India. This web-article is dedicated exclusively to offering detailed and very beneficial information over the solutions of our dignified and benevolent guru ji, for resolving or eliminating unwanted extramarital affairs of any partner of the married life, to make the domestic life smooth and succulent, peaceful, and truly opulent. The extramarital affairs of husband or wife could be caused by anyone or more of the following reasons: Astrological Factors Constantly increasing distance between husband and wife Differences in the lifestyle and priorities of the two married partners Absence of full confidence in the other partner Understanding and compatibility problems between husband and wife Easily available company of an alluring person of opposite gender Lack of marital harmony, intimacy, and succulence Issues related with financial, occupational, or social status of any INTERNATIONAL SERVICE WITH GUARANTEE POWERFUL LOVE ASTROLOGER Anand Ji FROMPUSKARJI RAJASTHAN 45 EXPERCANCE ALL PROBLEM SOLUTION BY SADHANA Hello can u disturb in your life problems and not get desire results? Here is the solution of all problems like as follow:- := love marriage := Business problemsolution := Problem in husband wife := Foreign traveling := Problem in study := Problem as childless := Physical problem := Problem in family relations := problem in your love := Willful marriage := Promotions our wised love back all solutions in your life within 72 hours and with 100% guaranteed. With in astrology systematic call to guru ji and get advice from him. Any problemsin Mobile :+91-8239810997WORLD NO. 1 FAMOUS GURU ASTROLOGER/INDIA /West Bengal OMAN Cape town canada america Usa in Ontario , Toronto Kuwait , Qatar , Doha , Saudi Arabia , San Francisco Singapore , Italy , Germany , Paris , Belgium, France , Berlin , Spain UK, USA, AUSTRALIA, UAE, DUABI, CANADA, Sydney,ENGLAND,united kingdom,SINGAPORE, NEWZEALAND, GERMANY, ITLY, MALASIYA,Abu dhabi London IN New York kuwait SouthAfrica,South Korea,Thailand Qatar,England,Queens California HongKong Japan Brazil More info visit my Website... http://www.thelovevashikaran.com/ Email .. [email protected]..................... Contact us. .+91-8239810997.............
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 2:54 AM UTC
ptanand22-ji
Husband wife dispute/girlfriend/boyfriend breakup Solution
Pt. Anand Ji A To Z Problem Solution 72 Hours And With 100% Guaranteed. 45 Years EXPERCANCE With In Astrology Systematic Call To Guru Ji +91-8239810997 And Get Advice From Him. Any Problem In Mobile +91-8239810997 Astrology or/and Vashikaran solutions are also very effective for resolving or averting extramarital affairs of husband or wife, in present and future years. Such solutions or measures can be maximally efficacious and safe if these are extended by a well-learned, well-experienced, righteous, and globally reputed astrologer or relationship vashikaran specialist, like our guru ji astrologer-cum-vashikaran specialist pt.Anand ji of India. This web-article is dedicated exclusively to offering detailed and very beneficial information over the solutions of our dignified and benevolent guru ji, for resolving or eliminating unwanted extramarital affairs of any partner of the married life, to make the domestic life smooth and succulent, peaceful, and truly opulent. The extramarital affairs of husband or wife could be caused by anyone or more of the following reasons: Astrological Factors Constantly increasing distance between husband and wife Differences in the lifestyle and priorities of the two married partners Absence of full confidence in the other partner Understanding and compatibility problems between husband and wife Easily available company of an alluring person of opposite gender Lack of marital harmony, intimacy, and succulence Issues related with financial, occupational, or social status of any INTERNATIONAL SERVICE WITH GUARANTEE POWERFUL LOVE ASTROLOGER Anand Ji FROMPUSKARJI RAJASTHAN 45 EXPERCANCE ALL PROBLEM SOLUTION BY SADHANA Hello can u disturb in your life problems and not get desire results? Here is the solution of all problems like as follow:- := love marriage := Business problemsolution := Problem in husband wife := Foreign traveling := Problem in study := Problem as childless := Physical problem := Problem in family relations := problem in your love := Willful marriage := Promotions our wised love back all solutions in your life within 72 hours and with 100% guaranteed. With in astrology systematic call to guru ji and get advice from him. Any problemsin Mobile :+91-8239810997WORLD NO. 1 FAMOUS GURU ASTROLOGER/INDIA /West Bengal OMAN Cape town canada america Usa in Ontario , Toronto Kuwait , Qatar , Doha , Saudi Arabia , San Francisco Singapore , Italy , Germany , Paris , Belgium, France , Berlin , Spain UK, USA, AUSTRALIA, UAE, DUABI, CANADA, Sydney,ENGLAND,united kingdom,SINGAPORE, NEWZEALAND, GERMANY, ITLY, MALASIYA,Abu dhabi London IN New York kuwait SouthAfrica,South Korea,Thailand Qatar,England,Queens California HongKong Japan Brazil More info visit my Website... http://www.thelovevashikaran.com/ Email .. [email protected]..................... Contact us. .+91-8239810997.............
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Hats off to Demosthenes! Democracy, democracy, But.. In Australia, Bit of a failure, Forced to vote for politicians, We elect politicians.... We need leaders of power and vision, Not talking heads on television! Compelled to vote in a democracy? Still our lucky country, O tempora, O mores! Democracy, democracy, Hats off to Demosthenes!
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 10:20 PM UTC
julie-grenness
DEMOCRACY
Hats off to Demosthenes! Democracy, democracy, But.. In Australia, Bit of a failure, Forced to vote for politicians, We elect politicians.... We need leaders of power and vision, Not talking heads on television! Compelled to vote in a democracy? Still our lucky country, O tempora, O mores! Democracy, democracy, Hats off to Demosthenes!
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an aging APE developed arthritis in his ankles several BATS tasted the nectar from the plum trees Jessica's CAT played with the ball of wool DINGOS were seen skulking around the camp site there are two types of ELEPHANTS the Asian and African FERRETS are sent down rabbit warrens to flush them out Helen saw a GIRAFFE at the wildlife reserve I wrote a poem titled Hilary The HIPPOPOTAMUS Who has a pet IGUANA? Some people say my uncle is a ******* KANGAROOS  have muscular tails Obama rhymes with LLAMA in parts of Canada MOOSE roam on the loose a NEWT likes being in a warm environment some OCTOPI have black dye baby PANDAS are cute and cuddly in Australia we have a native bush QUAIL RACCOONS live in rocky dens a TAPIR has a very long nose UAKARI monkeys hang out in the Amazon jungle if you're looking for a VOLE you'll find him in a hole WOMBATS move in a very slow manner an XERUS is a mighty big species of squirrel the Nepalese have domesticated YAKS Doctor Dolittle has spoken to a ZEBRA
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 10:54 PM UTC
ElizabethSquires
ABC Poem (Animals)
an aging APE developed arthritis in his ankles several BATS tasted the nectar from the plum trees Jessica's CAT played with the ball of wool DINGOS were seen skulking around the camp site there are two types of ELEPHANTS the Asian and African FERRETS are sent down rabbit warrens to flush them out Helen saw a GIRAFFE at the wildlife reserve I wrote a poem titled Hilary The HIPPOPOTAMUS Who has a pet IGUANA? Some people say my uncle is a ******* KANGAROOS  have muscular tails Obama rhymes with LLAMA in parts of Canada MOOSE roam on the loose a NEWT likes being in a warm environment some OCTOPI have black dye baby PANDAS are cute and cuddly in Australia we have a native bush QUAIL RACCOONS live in rocky dens a TAPIR has a very long nose UAKARI monkeys hang out in the Amazon jungle if you're looking for a VOLE you'll find him in a hole WOMBATS move in a very slow manner an XERUS is a mighty big species of squirrel the Nepalese have domesticated YAKS Doctor Dolittle has spoken to a ZEBRA
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UNEMPLOYMENT All we hear about is unemployment, Appears to be a global torment, Couldn't we of think creative solutions, New inventions, using less pollution? New ideas, concepts for the plebs to need, What can we invent today? Yes indeed, We could start by teaching global literacy, Imagine how many books we'd need! What about one holistic food capsule, Made in Australia, daily and healthful? Then we could grow forests and sell trees, The world does need oxygen to breathe. We could sell books and food pills, Get your own ideas, not such dills! Let's hear this motto in our schools, What can we invent today? Beautiful!
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 6:41 PM UTC
julie-grenness
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT All we hear about is unemployment, Appears to be a global torment, Couldn't we of think creative solutions, New inventions, using less pollution? New ideas, concepts for the plebs to need, What can we invent today? Yes indeed, We could start by teaching global literacy, Imagine how many books we'd need! What about one holistic food capsule, Made in Australia, daily and healthful? Then we could grow forests and sell trees, The world does need oxygen to breathe. We could sell books and food pills, Get your own ideas, not such dills! Let's hear this motto in our schools, What can we invent today? Beautiful!
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in the outback of australia lived a kangaroo helping lots of people thats what he liked to while hopping through the woods heard a little cry coming from the wood somewhere near by he searched a little more to what it could be then he saw a koala bear stuck up in a tree the kangaroo  jumped up with a mighty bound save the little bear and took him to the ground now the bear was safe and rescued from the tree the little bear was happy and once again was free he thanked the kangaroo for saving him that day kangaroo said goodbye and hopped along his way.
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM UTC
william-worthless-1
helpful kangaroo
in the outback of australia lived a kangaroo helping lots of people thats what he liked to while hopping through the woods heard a little cry coming from the wood somewhere near by he searched a little more to what it could be then he saw a koala bear stuck up in a tree the kangaroo  jumped up with a mighty bound save the little bear and took him to the ground now the bear was safe and rescued from the tree the little bear was happy and once again was free he thanked the kangaroo for saving him that day kangaroo said goodbye and hopped along his way.
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Watching Trending videos on YouTube, 2 of the top ten videos are dead, which means I’m watching ghosts, having deja vu see it seems I’ve seen this scene before, Rest In Peace Mac Miller, Resit In Pease Xxxtentacion, this spirits have be writing frantically, going for gold or at least an honorable mention, want to be anything except forgotten, skin is fresh but core is rotten, scent of cologne watching Post Malone, give an interview on Jimmy Fallon, seems we’ve fallen, and our idols are a sign of where we’re at, war never stopped it just changed forms, from Germany to Vietnam to Iraq, as the sun sets over San Francisco Bay, I watch the colors run, indifferent to the cause and the effect, nothing’s perfect but the sky always looks so beautiful, as I gaze out this bedroom window, in a house I do not own, just touched down from Australia, back in The Bay for another round, taking a moment to reflect, in my feelings as the sun sets, and it feels like we’ve seen it all, even though we know we haven’t seen anything yet, watching Trending videos on YouTube, 2 of the top ten videos are dead, which means I’m watching ghosts, having deja vu see it seems I’ve seen this scene before… ∆ LaLux ∆
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Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 at 9:16 PM UTC
aaronlalux
{ Seeing Ghost }
Watching Trending videos on YouTube, 2 of the top ten videos are dead, which means I’m watching ghosts, having deja vu see it seems I’ve seen this scene before, Rest In Peace Mac Miller, Resit In Pease Xxxtentacion, this spirits have be writing frantically, going for gold or at least an honorable mention, want to be anything except forgotten, skin is fresh but core is rotten, scent of cologne watching Post Malone, give an interview on Jimmy Fallon, seems we’ve fallen, and our idols are a sign of where we’re at, war never stopped it just changed forms, from Germany to Vietnam to Iraq, as the sun sets over San Francisco Bay, I watch the colors run, indifferent to the cause and the effect, nothing’s perfect but the sky always looks so beautiful, as I gaze out this bedroom window, in a house I do not own, just touched down from Australia, back in The Bay for another round, taking a moment to reflect, in my feelings as the sun sets, and it feels like we’ve seen it all, even though we know we haven’t seen anything yet, watching Trending videos on YouTube, 2 of the top ten videos are dead, which means I’m watching ghosts, having deja vu see it seems I’ve seen this scene before… ∆ LaLux ∆
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Are migrants proud Australians? Our nation based on immigration, One polyglot meld of humanity, To Australia show fidelity, Our nation of peaceful tolerance, People from Earth's shifting sands, Living here in our Great Southern Land, Deployment should not be our dance, Nothing wrong with loyalty, Patriotism our children's legacy, ---Great Southern Land, All welcome to be Australians!
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Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 7:21 PM UTC
julie-grenness
IMMIGRATION
Are migrants proud Australians? Our nation based on immigration, One polyglot meld of humanity, To Australia show fidelity, Our nation of peaceful tolerance, People from Earth's shifting sands, Living here in our Great Southern Land, Deployment should not be our dance, Nothing wrong with loyalty, Patriotism our children's legacy, ---Great Southern Land, All welcome to be Australians!
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HI DUDES ALL OVER THE WORLD, MY NAME IS JOHNNY BROWN AND I JUST UPLOADED MY AUSTRALIA DAY FIREWORKS DISPLAY ON LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN, THIS AIN’T MY FIRST FIREWORKS DISPLAY I DID, BUT THE FIRST I POSTED ON YOU TUBE, THIS LOOKS SPECTACULAR YOU SEE EVEN IF I HAD VOICES IN MY HEAD, I DRAINED IT OUT, AND FILMED THIS GREAT FIREWORKS SHOW, FOR ALL OF YOU, SO WATCH HOW CANBERRA CAN PUT ON A AUSSIE DAY FIREWORKS SHOW, IT GOES FOR 12 MINUTES BUT IT’S A FABULOUS FIREWORKS SHOW, PLEASE FIND AT LEAST A QUARTER OF AN HOUR TO CHECK OUT JOHNNY’S FIREWORKS SHOW, OK YOU SEE, THIS WAS COOL, AND YOU WILL SEE HOW COOL THIS SHOW IS, OK SO WATCH HOW I PUT ONE ON, OK DUDES, LET’S PARTY AS YOU WATCH MY YOUTUBE FIREWORKS SHOW FROM LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN, ON AAA YOUTUBE TV ENJOY YASELF, BOBBYE
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC
johnny-georgy-brown
WATCH MY FIREWORKS SHOW ON CANBERRA'S LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN AUSTRALIA DAY
HI DUDES ALL OVER THE WORLD, MY NAME IS JOHNNY BROWN AND I JUST UPLOADED MY AUSTRALIA DAY FIREWORKS DISPLAY ON LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN, THIS AIN’T MY FIRST FIREWORKS DISPLAY I DID, BUT THE FIRST I POSTED ON YOU TUBE, THIS LOOKS SPECTACULAR YOU SEE EVEN IF I HAD VOICES IN MY HEAD, I DRAINED IT OUT, AND FILMED THIS GREAT FIREWORKS SHOW, FOR ALL OF YOU, SO WATCH HOW CANBERRA CAN PUT ON A AUSSIE DAY FIREWORKS SHOW, IT GOES FOR 12 MINUTES BUT IT’S A FABULOUS FIREWORKS SHOW, PLEASE FIND AT LEAST A QUARTER OF AN HOUR TO CHECK OUT JOHNNY’S FIREWORKS SHOW, OK YOU SEE, THIS WAS COOL, AND YOU WILL SEE HOW COOL THIS SHOW IS, OK SO WATCH HOW I PUT ONE ON, OK DUDES, LET’S PARTY AS YOU WATCH MY YOUTUBE FIREWORKS SHOW FROM LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN, ON AAA YOUTUBE TV ENJOY YASELF, BOBBYE
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THE TORTURING VOICES you see my dad was watching the cricket with us and i watched it with him, and it was very fun, you see we saw australia being beaten by the west indies, because they were so cool, you see, we were the cricket boys and no robber wanted to rob us, because we were into australia’s favourite sport, cricket you see i heard a non realistic image of my father saying brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a man’s kid and i was trying to relax and calmly watch the match and my family were unrealistically teasing me, mind you they were having fun and the words they said were different to me as it was for them brian’s not a mans kid, don’t get kidnapped brian be like us brian’s not a man’s kid, and watched the cricket, ya know trevor chappell doing an underarm ball mum called cricket, anything and everything which has everything you hate well, i don’t believe that, i was feeling like trying to be a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid and i was getting these awful visions, i wanted these voices to stop you see people in canberra were doing it too, but they looked like fierce kidnappers and i said you can’t get me, i am a sports watcher so i went home and obsessingly watching the cricket and AFL and rugby league, rugby union you name the sport i watched it, and i fell asleep in front of the sport you see i have this vision that mens kids watch the sport, mens kids watch the sport brian’s not a mans kid, **** off ya hooligan away from us you see, i wanted at that stage a hooligan to my dad and i had someone grab me outside a club and i kicked him saying, get off me ya kidnapper, you won’t get ya hands on me mate and dad was watching the cricket and enjoyed it, but i got frustrated with all that teasing i didn’t want to be kidnap victim and i hate being my families or friends little teasie i battle voices saying how is our little tease doing hey but i hated when people wanted to bully me, saying your family are like us, your not i said i like sport and they said, no you don’t, your family does, and your not like your family mate, your like us now man i told my voices to **** off, and they said, your not like your family, your like us and this made me into a little 2 year old boy, i hated that voice i remember i loved watching agro, which was a funny puppet on channel 7, and the mens kids said don’t watch agro, watch cheezeTV, which was the cartoon show on the other channel and my voices going crazy saying, you are a crazy person, who is too old for baby agro and you are not like your family, your still like us, buddy i screamed out, LEAVE ME ALONE, i am a sports watching mans kid and dads image said brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid but it could’ve been greame thrones kidnapper or patrick dunbars kidnapper i said voices, ‘stop', i wanted to be like my family, they said you are not like your family, your still like us and i said, they look cool, and you guys look stupid, please leave me alone there is also a man who wanted me and my brother tied to a pole, but we felt we weren’t immortal, but cool i went into pubs to dance and watch the sport and i felt like a cool man brian’s not a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, stay in there koomarri man, get ****** mate went the little homebody kid as i was watching the canberra bushrangers baseball team played, yeah totally awesome dude brian’s not a mans kid, I WISH IT’LL ALL STOP
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 2:38 AM UTC
johnny-georgy-brown
VOICES BACK IN THE 90S, SPORTS WATCHER
THE TORTURING VOICES you see my dad was watching the cricket with us and i watched it with him, and it was very fun, you see we saw australia being beaten by the west indies, because they were so cool, you see, we were the cricket boys and no robber wanted to rob us, because we were into australia’s favourite sport, cricket you see i heard a non realistic image of my father saying brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a man’s kid and i was trying to relax and calmly watch the match and my family were unrealistically teasing me, mind you they were having fun and the words they said were different to me as it was for them brian’s not a mans kid, don’t get kidnapped brian be like us brian’s not a man’s kid, and watched the cricket, ya know trevor chappell doing an underarm ball mum called cricket, anything and everything which has everything you hate well, i don’t believe that, i was feeling like trying to be a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid and i was getting these awful visions, i wanted these voices to stop you see people in canberra were doing it too, but they looked like fierce kidnappers and i said you can’t get me, i am a sports watcher so i went home and obsessingly watching the cricket and AFL and rugby league, rugby union you name the sport i watched it, and i fell asleep in front of the sport you see i have this vision that mens kids watch the sport, mens kids watch the sport brian’s not a mans kid, **** off ya hooligan away from us you see, i wanted at that stage a hooligan to my dad and i had someone grab me outside a club and i kicked him saying, get off me ya kidnapper, you won’t get ya hands on me mate and dad was watching the cricket and enjoyed it, but i got frustrated with all that teasing i didn’t want to be kidnap victim and i hate being my families or friends little teasie i battle voices saying how is our little tease doing hey but i hated when people wanted to bully me, saying your family are like us, your not i said i like sport and they said, no you don’t, your family does, and your not like your family mate, your like us now man i told my voices to **** off, and they said, your not like your family, your like us and this made me into a little 2 year old boy, i hated that voice i remember i loved watching agro, which was a funny puppet on channel 7, and the mens kids said don’t watch agro, watch cheezeTV, which was the cartoon show on the other channel and my voices going crazy saying, you are a crazy person, who is too old for baby agro and you are not like your family, your still like us, buddy i screamed out, LEAVE ME ALONE, i am a sports watching mans kid and dads image said brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid but it could’ve been greame thrones kidnapper or patrick dunbars kidnapper i said voices, ‘stop', i wanted to be like my family, they said you are not like your family, your still like us and i said, they look cool, and you guys look stupid, please leave me alone there is also a man who wanted me and my brother tied to a pole, but we felt we weren’t immortal, but cool i went into pubs to dance and watch the sport and i felt like a cool man brian’s not a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, stay in there koomarri man, get ****** mate went the little homebody kid as i was watching the canberra bushrangers baseball team played, yeah totally awesome dude brian’s not a mans kid, I WISH IT’LL ALL STOP
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Before you get lost in the unfinished maps of her veins the ones like yours, but not stitched up too many times to count on the ticks of a clock, make sure that she trusts you enough to tell the truth. Make sure that she loves you enough to know how you lie. Remember that every single time you open your mouth, she's wishing you're saying I love you. Remember that on Fridays she doesn't want to cook. And she sure doesn't want you to cook anything that was slaughtered. Remember that she prefers cheap whiskey over champagne. And when you're opening your ribcage to show her how fast your heart beats when she grabs your wrists, make sure the butterflies are set free. Make sure they find the window. Make sure they find a home. Remember that every living creature is just that, living. Remember that they have a heartbeat. And when you stop breathing when you see her with her hair down, when you're thinking about starting a religion about girls with flowers for eyes, tell her she's beautiful. Tell her she's so full of the future. Get her a telescope so you can show her the moon when it's bigger than both your thumbs. Take her skiing while it's Summer in Australia even though you curse the snow as if it were born out of wedlock. Let her know she's not the first but she's definitely the only, and you're so scared of dying. You never know what you have until it's locked firmly in your grasp as if to not let it run away. You might lose a lot of blood but you'll never lose your way home. I don't want to hear the dial tone. I want to hear your voice, I want to hear you scream. Tell me to leave. Tell me that I am the only road that leads you to a purpose. That in a world of blindness I am so technicolour. Even though I can't promise you that, I can give you my words, thrusted from my lungs like wildfire. Searching for the way out. Talk to me about religion, please please convince me that there is something out there other than rotting in the ground for all of eternity. Bible scripture doesn't whisper of your lips like my pillows do. I never really thought about pillow talk until they started speaking me to sleep. I find myself found by the curvature of your spine, of the shadows that take up residence on your shoulders like they have lived there all along. I want to kiss away every bit of pain that has ever stopped you from smiling at strangers and let you know that I'm coming home and I will always find your hands. Let your ribs shake when your heart has had enough. Let them shake. Let the rain come through your window while you're sitting there in your makeshift darkroom. You are the only thing I know about consistency. And before I get lost in the unfinished maps of your veins, I will be making sure they lead to me.
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:42 PM UTC
blankpoems
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Before you get lost in the unfinished maps of her veins the ones like yours, but not stitched up too many times to count on the ticks of a clock, make sure that she trusts you enough to tell the truth. Make sure that she loves you enough to know how you lie. Remember that every single time you open your mouth, she's wishing you're saying I love you. Remember that on Fridays she doesn't want to cook. And she sure doesn't want you to cook anything that was slaughtered. Remember that she prefers cheap whiskey over champagne. And when you're opening your ribcage to show her how fast your heart beats when she grabs your wrists, make sure the butterflies are set free. Make sure they find the window. Make sure they find a home. Remember that every living creature is just that, living. Remember that they have a heartbeat. And when you stop breathing when you see her with her hair down, when you're thinking about starting a religion about girls with flowers for eyes, tell her she's beautiful. Tell her she's so full of the future. Get her a telescope so you can show her the moon when it's bigger than both your thumbs. Take her skiing while it's Summer in Australia even though you curse the snow as if it were born out of wedlock. Let her know she's not the first but she's definitely the only, and you're so scared of dying. You never know what you have until it's locked firmly in your grasp as if to not let it run away. You might lose a lot of blood but you'll never lose your way home. I don't want to hear the dial tone. I want to hear your voice, I want to hear you scream. Tell me to leave. Tell me that I am the only road that leads you to a purpose. That in a world of blindness I am so technicolour. Even though I can't promise you that, I can give you my words, thrusted from my lungs like wildfire. Searching for the way out. Talk to me about religion, please please convince me that there is something out there other than rotting in the ground for all of eternity. Bible scripture doesn't whisper of your lips like my pillows do. I never really thought about pillow talk until they started speaking me to sleep. I find myself found by the curvature of your spine, of the shadows that take up residence on your shoulders like they have lived there all along. I want to kiss away every bit of pain that has ever stopped you from smiling at strangers and let you know that I'm coming home and I will always find your hands. Let your ribs shake when your heart has had enough. Let them shake. Let the rain come through your window while you're sitting there in your makeshift darkroom. You are the only thing I know about consistency. And before I get lost in the unfinished maps of your veins, I will be making sure they lead to me.
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there was a little wombat he lived in the wild somewhere in australia a proper natures child he would make big burrows that he made his home where he would hide from dingos when they were on the roam he would jump inside so he could get away for the roaming dingo the wombat was his prey he would live on grass eat shrubs and chew on bark a happy little chap as happy as lark such a lovely creature so beautiful is he all cuddly and so furry a lovely site to see.
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Mar 13, 2010
Mar 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM UTC
william-worthless
wombat beauty
there was a little wombat he lived in the wild somewhere in australia a proper natures child he would make big burrows that he made his home where he would hide from dingos when they were on the roam he would jump inside so he could get away for the roaming dingo the wombat was his prey he would live on grass eat shrubs and chew on bark a happy little chap as happy as lark such a lovely creature so beautiful is he all cuddly and so furry a lovely site to see.
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AUSTRALIA DAY, BY THE BBQ CHEER CHEER FOR THE CROWD YS SEE THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO YOUR BBQ YOU SEE YOU COOK SAUSAGES A VERY NICE COLD COKE AND EACH MAN HAS BEER YEAH YOU SEE EVERYONE YOU SEE WILL PARTY YESEREE YEAH IT’S ANOTHER AUSTRALIA DAY BY THE BBQ I BRING OUT 6 ESKIES WITH 400 BEERS THIS WILL MAKE THE MEN HAPPY OH BLODDY ****** DEAR YOU SEE, THERE IS A FEW WELL DONE STEAKS AND A FEW EGG AND BACON ROLLS OH YEAH, ****** COOL YOU SEE WE SIT BY THE LAKE IN OUR BLUE AUSSIE GEAR AND WATCH THE LOVELY FIREWORKS, YEAH, LET’S GRAB US ANOTHER BEER DON’T FORGET, THERE IS OUR THEORY, DUDE, LAMB LAMB LAMB OH DEAR YEAH LAMB WILL PUT IN THE A IN AUSTRALIA DAY, YEAH IT WILL OH YEAH THEN A MAN CAME UP TO ME, AND TOLD ME WATCHA DOING ARE YOU ENJOYING AUSTRALIA DAY, LIKE IT’S A DAY WORTH CELEBRATING I HAVE BEEN TO CITIES, THAT HAVE A LOT OF PENANG FROM FLORIDA, CHICAGO AND THE GREAT BUDAPEST AND NO MATTER HOW FAR OR HOW WIDE YA ROME YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL AUSTRALIA A PERFECT PLACE TO HAVE BBQs, ON JANUARY 26TH AND WE CHEER COME ON AUSSIR COME ON, YEAH, COME ON AUSSIE COME ON YA KNOW EACH BOWLER IS COMING DOWN LIKE A MACHINE THE OPPOSTION IS PLAYING NUMSKULL GAMES IN THE GREEN WE ARE SCORING RUNS, THROW OUT YA CHEWING GUM AQND THIS IS THE GREATEST AUSTRALIA DAY, THAT WE’VE EVER SEEN GO AND HAVE LAMB ON AUSTRALIA DAY AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY DUDES
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 7:13 AM UTC
johnny-georgy-brown
AUSTRALIA DAY, BY THE BBQ
AUSTRALIA DAY, BY THE BBQ CHEER CHEER FOR THE CROWD YS SEE THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO YOUR BBQ YOU SEE YOU COOK SAUSAGES A VERY NICE COLD COKE AND EACH MAN HAS BEER YEAH YOU SEE EVERYONE YOU SEE WILL PARTY YESEREE YEAH IT’S ANOTHER AUSTRALIA DAY BY THE BBQ I BRING OUT 6 ESKIES WITH 400 BEERS THIS WILL MAKE THE MEN HAPPY OH BLODDY ****** DEAR YOU SEE, THERE IS A FEW WELL DONE STEAKS AND A FEW EGG AND BACON ROLLS OH YEAH, ****** COOL YOU SEE WE SIT BY THE LAKE IN OUR BLUE AUSSIE GEAR AND WATCH THE LOVELY FIREWORKS, YEAH, LET’S GRAB US ANOTHER BEER DON’T FORGET, THERE IS OUR THEORY, DUDE, LAMB LAMB LAMB OH DEAR YEAH LAMB WILL PUT IN THE A IN AUSTRALIA DAY, YEAH IT WILL OH YEAH THEN A MAN CAME UP TO ME, AND TOLD ME WATCHA DOING ARE YOU ENJOYING AUSTRALIA DAY, LIKE IT’S A DAY WORTH CELEBRATING I HAVE BEEN TO CITIES, THAT HAVE A LOT OF PENANG FROM FLORIDA, CHICAGO AND THE GREAT BUDAPEST AND NO MATTER HOW FAR OR HOW WIDE YA ROME YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL AUSTRALIA A PERFECT PLACE TO HAVE BBQs, ON JANUARY 26TH AND WE CHEER COME ON AUSSIR COME ON, YEAH, COME ON AUSSIE COME ON YA KNOW EACH BOWLER IS COMING DOWN LIKE A MACHINE THE OPPOSTION IS PLAYING NUMSKULL GAMES IN THE GREEN WE ARE SCORING RUNS, THROW OUT YA CHEWING GUM AQND THIS IS THE GREATEST AUSTRALIA DAY, THAT WE’VE EVER SEEN GO AND HAVE LAMB ON AUSTRALIA DAY AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY DUDES
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