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Making love, a sweaty pit stop between the sheets. Politicians, librarians, directors, janitors, authors, queens, kings, moms, you, me, All guilty of this bittersweet act of sticky significance. All willing to tangle our limbs every night.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 12:48 AM UTC
***
Who Am I? Well, I must be that ****** the one in the black hoodie ***** sweatpants and an uncombed eye, that's always wooly scratchy, bloodshot with searching for my stash spot, that ****** in your peripherals that you keep your eye on because he's not in a polo looking nice, talking "well-spoken" and not a threat to your beautiful lily-white daughter. Because I grew up fixing myself ramen noodles and lifting the welcome mat after school, I must also be that ****** whose father wasn't in the same house until he was age 13, and when I tell you that, you weren't expecting it because "you're not a racist." but you weren't surprised. You see, I must be that ****** a stand-in for all other ******* I must be that ****** who represents all ******* not because you are racist, but because I'm the only ****** you've met who doesn't talk like dis, y'know whatmsayin, and i talk like this, do you know what I'm saying? I must be that ****** In order for you to feel okay being around me I must be that ****** who goes to college does the right thing the white thing and gets a job a nice little house, a nice black wife with a nice new england clear dialect, (what I was trying to get at earlier is that ****** dialects, by their mere intonation, denote stupidity, right?) and doesn't say a word when his white friends make ****** jokes or talk in a ****** dialect mocking some Aunt Jemima they heard at Walmart. But, I also must be that ****** who doesn't step out of line and say "WHY IS IT THAT IN EVERY SINGLE ENGLISH CLASS WE READ ONLY TWO BLACK AUTHORS A SEMESTER, AND THAT'S ENOUGH, JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP THE ****** PARENTS HAPPY." And If I happen to be a ****** I, by all means, must not be that ****** who had a white girlfriend, and this girlfriend after dating a ****** tried to date a white guy she liked, and when she told him that she had dated, loved, and yes, ****** a ****** he had said back: "I can't believe you ****** a ****** Then again, I must be that ****** with the big swinging **** able to destroy a white girl's ****** with its pulverizing power. And, please, If I am going to be a ****** don't be the one who writes a poem about having to be that ****** because those kinds of ******* are being over-sensitive, those dashiki-wearing-motherfuckers who think "Da white man dis." and "Da white man dat." Because I am not one of those ******* descended from the first people on earth, your brother, not in the ****** way, but the familial, species way. Why am I even writing this, ****** isn't a main operative word anymore. Search and find ****** and replace with "Black Guy." That way it becomes a joke.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 7:22 AM UTC
That ******
Who Am I? Well, I must be that ****** the one in the black hoodie ***** sweatpants and an uncombed eye, that's always wooly scratchy, bloodshot with searching for my stash spot, that ****** in your peripherals that you keep your eye on because he's not in a polo looking nice, talking "well-spoken" and not a threat to your beautiful lily-white daughter. Because I grew up fixing myself ramen noodles and lifting the welcome mat after school, I must also be that ****** whose father wasn't in the same house until he was age 13, and when I tell you that, you weren't expecting it because "you're not a racist." but you weren't surprised. You see, I must be that ****** a stand-in for all other ******* I must be that ****** who represents all ******* not because you are racist, but because I'm the only ****** you've met who doesn't talk like dis, y'know whatmsayin, and i talk like this, do you know what I'm saying? I must be that ****** In order for you to feel okay being around me I must be that ****** who goes to college does the right thing the white thing and gets a job a nice little house, a nice black wife with a nice new england clear dialect, (what I was trying to get at earlier is that ****** dialects, by their mere intonation, denote stupidity, right?) and doesn't say a word when his white friends make ****** jokes or talk in a ****** dialect mocking some Aunt Jemima they heard at Walmart. But, I also must be that ****** who doesn't step out of line and say "WHY IS IT THAT IN EVERY SINGLE ENGLISH CLASS WE READ ONLY TWO BLACK AUTHORS A SEMESTER, AND THAT'S ENOUGH, JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP THE ****** PARENTS HAPPY." And If I happen to be a ****** I, by all means, must not be that ****** who had a white girlfriend, and this girlfriend after dating a ****** tried to date a white guy she liked, and when she told him that she had dated, loved, and yes, ****** a ****** he had said back: "I can't believe you ****** a ****** Then again, I must be that ****** with the big swinging **** able to destroy a white girl's ****** with its pulverizing power. And, please, If I am going to be a ****** don't be the one who writes a poem about having to be that ****** because those kinds of ******* are being over-sensitive, those dashiki-wearing-motherfuckers who think "Da white man dis." and "Da white man dat." Because I am not one of those ******* descended from the first people on earth, your brother, not in the ****** way, but the familial, species way. Why am I even writing this, ****** isn't a main operative word anymore. Search and find ****** and replace with "Black Guy." That way it becomes a joke.
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*Further my mind goes, than I believed it could fathom Fathoms below even the deceased dreams chasm Impassionately growing through and between atoms To learn There is no whole truth in solely words Blindfolded, if your mind isn't where the memory occurs So it's sure We'll never understand more than we're capable to confer And it doesn't mean, you can't relate to the way I toss n' turn In my sleep That it isn't the same color we bleed Or that we aren't perhaps equally 'deep' Just that we hold some nature of privacy in our thoughts, from any other's gaze Did I mention it was books of seperate authors, though we're on the same page? What I wish to relate today Is I have been changing to date I'm breaking, down just like anyone else Draining my health Enslaved by the chase of wealth Smiling while we're high, but we'll retreat to our personal hells The honesty is, I'm scared to delve into myself Because I know where my truth gets ugly, and has no glamour Not the 30 second commercial version of what it's like living with cancer It's habits, actions and manner Looming over my pride Leaving a weakness in my stride Making me feel tired before I've tried*
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 12:42 AM UTC
You Can't Keep Secrets From Your Dignity
it is my birthday. but the world has long disowned me. honestly--I ask--why do I bother? as there must be something there for me--out in the viscera. for I, am still here. it is my birthday. but the public has long shunned me. faces thick as bedrock and eyes as dull as mint wrappers. and they use sound to blind them. it is my birthday. and no one seems to help. for it is not always happy to know, you're one day closer into the arms of the cease-r. it is my birthday. and words rule no meaning. for no one listens to me. and no one hears what I'm hearing. it is my birthday. and my marrow weakens as I breath. but bones sleep with welded lips 'neath the coat of earth. and--with shame--I shall, too, be nothing but empty research. it is my birthday. and I force myself to nature. O sand, is it true they pick you up and throw you in the wind? O sea, is it true you get stuck in the mouths and stomachs of the young? O hair, is it true you scream when the air beats you? but I don't hear--and I know many. it is my birthday. and I breath false air. is it true the ones that speak ill are on their death bed? is it wrong I wish for them to speed up time? is it wrong I point the reaper in their direction? so I needn't worry of their illness spreading to mine. it is my birthday. and we are all gathered for tea. the masochists sit by the sadists; that's the rule, so the sadist may draw that ball-point pen deep along their slate skin--and whisper the names of forgotten authors, so they may both moan with delicious harmony together--for two presents in one. it is my birthday. and the masochists ask me to join. they write each other's eulogies and revise--revise--'til there are none. it is my birthday. for now you know not, of what I wish, but what I need, a master. for I am not one. it is my birthday. and not all wishes deem true, for it seems no one cares of my words--my work--my blood--my tears-- a hymn to whomever it may concern--have you no mercy? it is my birthday. and I have not found them. I have not found the right. for only airless voices with no mouths, eyes that wish for many more, and souls that have lost time have found me. and I am one of them. and 'neath my heart, I always will be. for it is my birthday, and wishes don't come true.
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Jun 19, 2016
Jun 19, 2016 at 6:57 PM UTC
Birthday.
it is my birthday. but the world has long disowned me. honestly--I ask--why do I bother? as there must be something there for me--out in the viscera. for I, am still here. it is my birthday. but the public has long shunned me. faces thick as bedrock and eyes as dull as mint wrappers. and they use sound to blind them. it is my birthday. and no one seems to help. for it is not always happy to know, you're one day closer into the arms of the cease-r. it is my birthday. and words rule no meaning. for no one listens to me. and no one hears what I'm hearing. it is my birthday. and my marrow weakens as I breath. but bones sleep with welded lips 'neath the coat of earth. and--with shame--I shall, too, be nothing but empty research. it is my birthday. and I force myself to nature. O sand, is it true they pick you up and throw you in the wind? O sea, is it true you get stuck in the mouths and stomachs of the young? O hair, is it true you scream when the air beats you? but I don't hear--and I know many. it is my birthday. and I breath false air. is it true the ones that speak ill are on their death bed? is it wrong I wish for them to speed up time? is it wrong I point the reaper in their direction? so I needn't worry of their illness spreading to mine. it is my birthday. and we are all gathered for tea. the masochists sit by the sadists; that's the rule, so the sadist may draw that ball-point pen deep along their slate skin--and whisper the names of forgotten authors, so they may both moan with delicious harmony together--for two presents in one. it is my birthday. and the masochists ask me to join. they write each other's eulogies and revise--revise--'til there are none. it is my birthday. for now you know not, of what I wish, but what I need, a master. for I am not one. it is my birthday. and not all wishes deem true, for it seems no one cares of my words--my work--my blood--my tears-- a hymn to whomever it may concern--have you no mercy? it is my birthday. and I have not found them. I have not found the right. for only airless voices with no mouths, eyes that wish for many more, and souls that have lost time have found me. and I am one of them. and 'neath my heart, I always will be. for it is my birthday, and wishes don't come true.
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Your colors are so heavy, how dare I, I cannot sleep. Years inundated under, through skin coils, marigold fields. Yellow crocuses, orange California poppies. Moors of cattle ranchers, yokes of oxen. Plasticine uber-confidence, silky white-skinned testubular thrice people harmonies. Blisses of contagion, contagious bliss. Wrists and incisors, tying down in a bedroom, waking up to live harps and choruses. You dance like you're so alive, but I'm so alive I can't dance. Or breathe. Or knead my fists of earthen wears, or sell my soul completely. I drove off a cliff last night, but the four foot fall ended neatly. The plateau authors my chance to sew my bright, beyond- my fortunes. But the hour before I fall asleep, seems to be the greatest torture.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 4:54 AM UTC
good night moon
Though authors are a dreadful clan To be avoided if you can, I'd like to meet the Indian, M. Anantanarayanan. I picture him as short and tan. We'd meet, perhaps, in Hindustan. I'd say, with admirable elan , "Ah, Anantanarayanan -- I've heard of you. The Times once ran A notice on your novel, an Unusual tale of God and Man." And Anantanarayanan Would seat me on a lush divan And read his name -- that sumptuous span Of 'a's and 'n's more lovely than "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" -- Aloud to me all day. I plan Henceforth to be an ardent fan of Anantanarayanan -- M. Anantanarayanan.
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I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name
When poets die It's sad and true, It matters not What their bodies do, The spirit flies To Poet's Corner, In Westminster Abbey. You'll not see Busts or inscriptions For all the poets Whose spirits linger Alongside Chaucer, Browning, Spencer, And a myriad of authors. Dead Poet you have earned your share; Dead Poet I will know you're there, Composing in the Laureate's lair.
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Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 12:33 PM UTC
Elegy for Dead Poets
Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much. Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney. Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks Start off from anywhere, end up at *** Diarists, critics, and similar roe Never say nothing, and never say no. People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!
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Bohemia
Yesterday was tough Tougher than before It broke me down inside Left me crumbled on the floor But then I remembered the semicolon Today was hard Harder than before It killed my soul a little Left me bleeding on the floor But then I remembered the semicolon A small mark Seems insignificant But when examined further Becomes magnificent An authors way Of saying *hold on don't give up just yet there is plenty more to come* Tomorrow will be painful More painful than before It will break me down Leave me broken on the floor But I will remember Forever more That small, simple mark Giving out hope for all the semicolon
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Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015 at 5:50 AM UTC
The Semicolon
[PART ONE] xeroxed, RT'd and plagiarized so many times on so many blogs tween blogs to republican blogs to blogs in Russia and blogs no one ever scrolls though... original content is prey but I have a warning for they: overrated, over-shared content aggregators beware the lines you swap can rot and ware the World Wide Web does not care. [PART TWO] original content original contests original continent original controversy original coordination between strangers original calvary riding their connection into the battlefield of internet memes; creating nothing and sharing everything [COMMENTARY] original nothing, nowhere, nobody except facebook "Funny Vidoes!" & "Cool Quotes!". 'Like' pages whose sole originality lies within their own existence but nothing they share. They steal from the rest of the web and re-post what they find for out-of-the-loop troglodytes; often done so in inferior context and with no perspective. The 'refried beans' phenomenon, I call it. I find it fitting because 'refried beans' are a double misnomer. The name comes from 'frijoles refritos' - which means 'well-fried' not 'refried'. They are also never traditionally fried more than once. Yet the name sticks, it gets repeated, it gets re-shared and now that's what they are: refried beans. This phenomenon is why I believe art and all original content eventually become so over-shared and overrated that it's no longer interesting but irritating. These three parts of the poem "Original Content" are separated in abstract authorial presentation. The author has clearly expressed his dislike for the disjunct un-imagination of the internet and presents it as such. [PART THREE] original authors losing control of their audiences who believe they are the creators and the artist's art is somewhat shareable original miscommunication between web 1.0 and web 2.0 reality original alphabet they use to type on their keyboards original grammar they learned in school original money their gov't printed original content they re-post original refried beans original content orginal contet ogrinal cotent ognal ctt oc .
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Mar 9, 2014
Mar 9, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
Original Content (Pt. 1, 2 & 3 With Commentary)
[PART ONE] xeroxed, RT'd and plagiarized so many times on so many blogs tween blogs to republican blogs to blogs in Russia and blogs no one ever scrolls though... original content is prey but I have a warning for they: overrated, over-shared content aggregators beware the lines you swap can rot and ware the World Wide Web does not care. [PART TWO] original content original contests original continent original controversy original coordination between strangers original calvary riding their connection into the battlefield of internet memes; creating nothing and sharing everything [COMMENTARY] original nothing, nowhere, nobody except facebook "Funny Vidoes!" & "Cool Quotes!". 'Like' pages whose sole originality lies within their own existence but nothing they share. They steal from the rest of the web and re-post what they find for out-of-the-loop troglodytes; often done so in inferior context and with no perspective. The 'refried beans' phenomenon, I call it. I find it fitting because 'refried beans' are a double misnomer. The name comes from 'frijoles refritos' - which means 'well-fried' not 'refried'. They are also never traditionally fried more than once. Yet the name sticks, it gets repeated, it gets re-shared and now that's what they are: refried beans. This phenomenon is why I believe art and all original content eventually become so over-shared and overrated that it's no longer interesting but irritating. These three parts of the poem "Original Content" are separated in abstract authorial presentation. The author has clearly expressed his dislike for the disjunct un-imagination of the internet and presents it as such. [PART THREE] original authors losing control of their audiences who believe they are the creators and the artist's art is somewhat shareable original miscommunication between web 1.0 and web 2.0 reality original alphabet they use to type on their keyboards original grammar they learned in school original money their gov't printed original content they re-post original refried beans original content orginal contet ogrinal cotent ognal ctt oc .
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The inadequate bookshelf that sat near the door that my sister used to call her own was mostly made up of adolescent reads, books better suited for preteen girls rather than intellectually budding young ladies— juvenile vocabularies and simple, non-complex plot lines do little to craft and create worldly, knowledgeable women. I thought I must spring clean the naiveté away and replace it with the works of great authors like Sylvia Plath                        Simone de Beauvoir                                                              Virginia Woolf                        Margaret Atwood Betty Friedan; ingenious femme fatales that cut down to the brittled bones of the misogynists and burned their marrow along with the ashes of bras and aprons and 350 degree oven heat.   Growing up, to me, seemed like a wonderful epiphany chock-full of ideas and opinions and clever, ironic remarks that chased satirical witticisms like felines to rodents and wolves to deer— being an adult would guarantee me a say, a vote            prior 1920’s America                                                   play dress up as a suffragette            women’s rights femininity personified by dolls in plastic houses. To be eighteen-years-old, the goal, the legality, the bright light at the end of the tunnel; the official womanhood it would bestow upon me seemed like something almost tangible with the way that it loomed over my head. Get good marks graduate high school travel back in time sixty years meet a nice boy become a “good wife” have dinner ready by five bear two beautiful heirs clean up the messes left in the kitchen fast-forward to the twenty-first century go to a good college find a stable career settle down if the fancy strikes you live non-docile and full of passion— the parallelism of times are severely di     lap           i             dat                   ed. 1950’s America would never be a home for me because I am much too wild to be contained.
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 12:12 AM UTC
Exemplar
The inadequate bookshelf that sat near the door that my sister used to call her own was mostly made up of adolescent reads, books better suited for preteen girls rather than intellectually budding young ladies— juvenile vocabularies and simple, non-complex plot lines do little to craft and create worldly, knowledgeable women. I thought I must spring clean the naiveté away and replace it with the works of great authors like Sylvia Plath                        Simone de Beauvoir                                                              Virginia Woolf                        Margaret Atwood Betty Friedan; ingenious femme fatales that cut down to the brittled bones of the misogynists and burned their marrow along with the ashes of bras and aprons and 350 degree oven heat.   Growing up, to me, seemed like a wonderful epiphany chock-full of ideas and opinions and clever, ironic remarks that chased satirical witticisms like felines to rodents and wolves to deer— being an adult would guarantee me a say, a vote            prior 1920’s America                                                   play dress up as a suffragette            women’s rights femininity personified by dolls in plastic houses. To be eighteen-years-old, the goal, the legality, the bright light at the end of the tunnel; the official womanhood it would bestow upon me seemed like something almost tangible with the way that it loomed over my head. Get good marks graduate high school travel back in time sixty years meet a nice boy become a “good wife” have dinner ready by five bear two beautiful heirs clean up the messes left in the kitchen fast-forward to the twenty-first century go to a good college find a stable career settle down if the fancy strikes you live non-docile and full of passion— the parallelism of times are severely di     lap           i             dat                   ed. 1950’s America would never be a home for me because I am much too wild to be contained.
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It was hard to miss Jerry in the corner holding court over the bran muffin. Flurries of judgement and wisdom flying across coffee dappled pages as he sentenced a large cup of Paruvian Dark Roast to be ****** 7 am Dan never flinched steeling his tenured chair at a spot one section of stir sticks away calculably just out of reach of the regularly scheduled tantrum. An auburn-haired newbie fanes camoflage peeking over two pages of Obituaries she never intended to read. Her raised and nearly detached eyebrows hover above the dateline like a magic trick. And on every table fall scattered leaves of press print trees unsorted and littered with intent by careless absorbers of trivia. Disconnected ear-budded footnotes of humanity see nothing hear nothing using the disarrayed World News as enormous coasters unmoved by hyper-ventilating compulsives pushing panic buttons through desperate quests to uncover one alphabetically organized set of local news. Of the papers not strewn the remnant holds anxious on a distant wall a throng of flopping rabbit-eared step children dangling precariously from unaccomodating magazine racks like smoky orphans from windows in a fiery building. Disordered. Disrespected. Discarded...words are Jews in the holocaust. Death of a voice. We are irreverent in our silence diminishing genius through apathy put off by the imposition to be challenged choosing disposable principles above responsible knowledge. Everything is disposable - cameras, cars, relationships, loyalty, babies...and wisdom - crumpling Pulitzer prize authors and discarding WW2 veterans just to get to the cartoons.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 11:15 PM UTC
Daily News and Disrespect
It was hard to miss Jerry in the corner holding court over the bran muffin. Flurries of judgement and wisdom flying across coffee dappled pages as he sentenced a large cup of Paruvian Dark Roast to be ****** 7 am Dan never flinched steeling his tenured chair at a spot one section of stir sticks away calculably just out of reach of the regularly scheduled tantrum. An auburn-haired newbie fanes camoflage peeking over two pages of Obituaries she never intended to read. Her raised and nearly detached eyebrows hover above the dateline like a magic trick. And on every table fall scattered leaves of press print trees unsorted and littered with intent by careless absorbers of trivia. Disconnected ear-budded footnotes of humanity see nothing hear nothing using the disarrayed World News as enormous coasters unmoved by hyper-ventilating compulsives pushing panic buttons through desperate quests to uncover one alphabetically organized set of local news. Of the papers not strewn the remnant holds anxious on a distant wall a throng of flopping rabbit-eared step children dangling precariously from unaccomodating magazine racks like smoky orphans from windows in a fiery building. Disordered. Disrespected. Discarded...words are Jews in the holocaust. Death of a voice. We are irreverent in our silence diminishing genius through apathy put off by the imposition to be challenged choosing disposable principles above responsible knowledge. Everything is disposable - cameras, cars, relationships, loyalty, babies...and wisdom - crumpling Pulitzer prize authors and discarding WW2 veterans just to get to the cartoons.
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Purple velvet curtains mimicked purple proses of long dead authors Auteurs and Anglophiles expressing desire, the desire for Desiree and she danced, she danced. Christie too, she danced, she danced Kick, snare, kick kick, snare, she danced rhythmic hypnosis Daddy watched from the bar, banal dance of the bandits And Katzarina, baby in the back, dances for love Fatherless child begging attention Dance no more my dear soul, for you deserve more Lecherous lounge acts, the men in ties Order another round, girls gather around Please me, dance for me, ****** and bashful The purple velvet reminds them of mother Cruel institutions that decay our psyche Patriarchal pesticides in pasta and porridge On the side of the mango, matriarchal monotony Oh stop this pretentious pillaging of poor prostitutes You are but a boy at the gates of existence, fear not, for the father and the mother shall hold your hand in the heavenly harem.
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 5:53 PM UTC
Disregard My Hypochrisy For a Moment
Nameless stranger Come and be my friend Let us explore this life together Let us enjoy it before it ends Read me your so many books And I shall read you mine To explore worlds beyond our reach Worlds made up by authors minds' Let us learn about ourselves Let us learn about the world A world so divine Yet somehow brutal and cold Nameless stranger Come and take my hand Tell me all your little secrets And I shall tell you mine Show me what are you hiding behind those fake smiles And the pains you conceal behind pretentious happy eyes Tell me how they broke your heart And laughed out loud at your pains And I will show you my broken parts All the dreams that went in vain Be careful from my sharp edges I don't want to cause you another scar Or add a new wound to your still bleeding heart A nameless stranger Yet you are no stranger at all Those who have experienced agony Can recognize souls as damaged as their own.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 3:45 PM UTC
Nameless stranger
There's an architect designing the world from the skyline downwards, as he believes himself to be a God The paraffin lamps on Victorian cobbled corners are as dry as the seraph in dust bowls over some arid sea A portrait exists, of a town covered in mist and the orange cliffs are a thousand bloodied wrists Somewhere music plays to ghosts, obtuse reverberations of some cave on a mountain... or something and what a useless skill it is to be a poet, flouting fanciful words as if a single soul cared or could possibly muster anything more than unadulterated apathy What a lonely life it is, to spend entire days watching *********** and reveling in dissociative stoicism Watching cam girls for hours on end, swept up in conversation yet never taking part, only watching They seem as lonely as anybody, holed up in crimson rooms as anonymous DJs play through laptop speakers Fielding obscene questions with a smile and renting their body in timetables to the highest tipper and some days the depression becomes so heavy that ************ seems impossible, though it's possible to blame such scarcity on the anti-anxiety meds that have ruined so many-a youthful folly Is there a more flattering notion, than a story teller being commended for honesty when every word is a lie Fictional accounts of melancholic lives told in a pulchritudinous verse or a prose of the most regal purples Using nothing more than psycho-stimulants and a smeared bedroom window for inspiration There's a writer sat at a desk, typing ridiculous lines of text, as he knows himself to be human and in that humanity he strives to create a realists interpretation of existence through scattered memories and derivative styles of his favourite authors whilst using educational texts as footnotes in imaginary diaries
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 2:10 PM UTC
This Machine Frees Oppressed Chickens
There's an architect designing the world from the skyline downwards, as he believes himself to be a God The paraffin lamps on Victorian cobbled corners are as dry as the seraph in dust bowls over some arid sea A portrait exists, of a town covered in mist and the orange cliffs are a thousand bloodied wrists Somewhere music plays to ghosts, obtuse reverberations of some cave on a mountain... or something and what a useless skill it is to be a poet, flouting fanciful words as if a single soul cared or could possibly muster anything more than unadulterated apathy What a lonely life it is, to spend entire days watching *********** and reveling in dissociative stoicism Watching cam girls for hours on end, swept up in conversation yet never taking part, only watching They seem as lonely as anybody, holed up in crimson rooms as anonymous DJs play through laptop speakers Fielding obscene questions with a smile and renting their body in timetables to the highest tipper and some days the depression becomes so heavy that ************ seems impossible, though it's possible to blame such scarcity on the anti-anxiety meds that have ruined so many-a youthful folly Is there a more flattering notion, than a story teller being commended for honesty when every word is a lie Fictional accounts of melancholic lives told in a pulchritudinous verse or a prose of the most regal purples Using nothing more than psycho-stimulants and a smeared bedroom window for inspiration There's a writer sat at a desk, typing ridiculous lines of text, as he knows himself to be human and in that humanity he strives to create a realists interpretation of existence through scattered memories and derivative styles of his favourite authors whilst using educational texts as footnotes in imaginary diaries
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A cloudless night like this Can set the spirit soaring: After a tiring day The clockwork spectacle is Impressive in a slightly boring Eighteenth-century way. It soothed adolescence a lot To meet so shameless a stare; The things I did could not Be so shocking as they said If that would still be there After the shocked were dead Now, unready to die Bur already at the stage When one starts to resent the young, I am glad those points in the sky May also be counted among The creatures of middle-age. It's cosier thinking of night As more an Old People's Home Than a shed for a faultless machine, That the red pre-Cambrian light Is gone like Imperial Rome Or myself at seventeen. Yet however much we may like The stoic manner in which The classical authors wrote, Only the young and rich Have the nerve or the figure to strike The lacrimae rerum note. For the present stalks abroad Like the past and its wronged again Whimper and are ignored, And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did. Occurring this very night By no established rule, Some event may already have hurled Its first little No at the right Of the laws we accept to school Our post-diluvian world: But the stars burn on overhead, Unconscious of final ends, As I walk home to bed, Asking what judgment waits My person, all my friends, And these United States.
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A Walk After Dark
1 My first is no proof of my second, Though my second's a proof of my first: If I were my whole I should tell you Quite freely my best and my worst. One clue more: if you fail to discover My meaning, you're blind as a mole; But if you will frankly confess it, You show yourself clearly my whole. 2 My first may be the firstborn, The second child may be; My second is a texture light And elegant to see: My whole do those too often write Who are from talent free. 3 How many authors are my first! And I shall be so too Unless I finish speedily That which I have to do. My second is a lofty tree And a delicious fruit; This in the hot-house flourishes-- That amid rocks takes root. My whole is an immortal queen Renowned in classic lore: Her a god won without her will, And her a goddess bore. 4 Me you often meet In London's crowded street, And merry children's voices my resting-place proclaim. Pictures and prose and verse Compose me--I rehearse Evil and good and folly, and call each by its name. I make men glad, and I Can bid their senses fly, And festive echoes know me of Isis and of Cam. But give me to a friend, And amity will end, Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb.
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Four Charades
Not eating chocolate covered cherries and strawberries and lychees and onions and chillies and grapes and marshmallows and turtle meat and cake and shark bones and oysters and camel and beef and beef with dog food and rabbit fur and smarties and skittles and twine and rope and yak and buses and buffalo and authors and novels and chipping containers and bicylces and emus and penguins and polar bear slippers and darned socks and stewed lobster and Darwin Deez and get well cards and ibuprofen tablets is fine with me.
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 9:53 PM UTC
List of things not to eat with chocolate by Nathan Douglas Day the elephant whisperer
Eighteen years have passed me I still marvel at picturesque clouds They pass us overhead, with grace, like the ground they face isn’t rotten. Find me that girl who smiles every day Exchanging her three am thoughts Into golden plated words that are beautiful They belong in her poems. Sadness stained cheeks covered in blush She’s so lovely, people think but she’s just glad her mascara is waterproof. My grandmother has dainty hands, unlike mine and I was jealous. until I realized that they were covered in blood years before I was born and knew what pain was, making a living and treating her blisters at the same time. Six children but it used to be eight before two passed away “Sofian, he died before your grandfather by a few years” Her heart broken in half and tears encrusted in her skin But she still has delicate and pretty hands right? People say they love one another, But I can’t even count the knives on their backs anymore, There are too many. When I find myself in solitude, I subsequently lose myself in thought. You know, I am ashamed. These angels that watch us every day I know they weep at our state And I am done pretending it’s fine. This is a world where the ground shakes in anger, The sky cries out of despair And the air thickens out of confusion I am all of nature’s catastrophies In the shape of a woman. You will see me in the corner Praying for lost souls Including my own Hoping that one day we’ll reunite in a place Where words don’t drip blood And authors find that writing is easier when happy But for now, we can’t get enough of pretending.
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Oct 5, 2014
Oct 5, 2014 at 6:36 PM UTC
Pretending
Eighteen years have passed me I still marvel at picturesque clouds They pass us overhead, with grace, like the ground they face isn’t rotten. Find me that girl who smiles every day Exchanging her three am thoughts Into golden plated words that are beautiful They belong in her poems. Sadness stained cheeks covered in blush She’s so lovely, people think but she’s just glad her mascara is waterproof. My grandmother has dainty hands, unlike mine and I was jealous. until I realized that they were covered in blood years before I was born and knew what pain was, making a living and treating her blisters at the same time. Six children but it used to be eight before two passed away “Sofian, he died before your grandfather by a few years” Her heart broken in half and tears encrusted in her skin But she still has delicate and pretty hands right? People say they love one another, But I can’t even count the knives on their backs anymore, There are too many. When I find myself in solitude, I subsequently lose myself in thought. You know, I am ashamed. These angels that watch us every day I know they weep at our state And I am done pretending it’s fine. This is a world where the ground shakes in anger, The sky cries out of despair And the air thickens out of confusion I am all of nature’s catastrophies In the shape of a woman. You will see me in the corner Praying for lost souls Including my own Hoping that one day we’ll reunite in a place Where words don’t drip blood And authors find that writing is easier when happy But for now, we can’t get enough of pretending.
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They say a semicolon is used by an author when they could’ve ended a sentence, but chose not to. In a way, we’re all authors, writing our stories out as the days go on and on, as they fade from as golden as a crown, to as dark as a melanistic fawn. You see, I’m the author of my life. I had the choice to force a period to the end of a few sentences as my short life moved forward on countless occasions, to stop the clock from ticking, the heart from beating, but no. Because my story is far from done. I will forever keep adding semicolons until my pen runs out of ink, or until I can’t find the courage to keep on writing. I have more fights to keep fighting, mountains to keep climbing, a million lies to tell, and a million sorry’s to bandage the hurt, a thousand kisses to receive from strangers and family and friends alike until the word “suicide” is nothing but a fading page in my life story. And if I ever want to add a period, such as when I’m when I’m feeling as blue as the eyes of the boy who shattered my heart into pieces, I’ll remember the semicolon, and how my short little story doesn’t need to end just yet, now does it?
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 4:48 PM UTC
Your Story's Not Over Yet;
Everyone has there own personal story in this book we call life. Some stories are happy with fairy tale endings while many are tragic and filled with despair. One thing all of our stories in this book have in common with each other is that we all make choices that can and will effect how this book turns out, for better or worse. This book is filled with love with hate with mistrust with deceit with sexism with racism with ****** with family with friends. This book of stories will never end will always have tales of heroics of thievery of superstition. This book called Life has billions of authors and billions more to come. This book shows bravery and cowardice. This book is amazing this book is full of crazy story lines. This book will never be read.
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Feb 25, 2013
Feb 25, 2013 at 5:21 AM UTC
Life's a book with never ending stories.
[PART ONE] xeroxed, RT'd and plagiarized so many times on so many blogs tween blogs to republican blogs to blogs in Russia and blogs no one ever scrolls though... original content is prey but I have a warning for they: overrated, over-shared content aggregators beware the lines you swap can rot and ware the World Wide Web does not care. [PART TWO] original content original contests original continent original controversy original coordination between strangers original calvary riding their connection into the battlefield of internet memes; creating nothing and sharing everything [COMMENTARY] original nothing, nowhere, nobody except facebook "Funny Vidoes!" & "Cool Quotes!". 'Like' pages whose sole originality lies within their own existence but nothing they share. They steal from the rest of the web and re-post what they find for out-of-the-loop troglodytes; often done so in inferior context and with no perspective. The 'refried beans' phenomenon, I call it. I find it fitting because 'refried beans' are a double misnomer. The name comes from 'frijoles refritos' - which means 'well-fried' not 'refried'. They are also never traditionally fried more than once. Yet the name sticks, it gets repeated, it gets re-shared and now that's what they are: refried beans. This phenomenon is why I believe art and all original content eventually become so over-shared and overrated that it's no longer interesting but irritating. These three parts of the poem "Original Content" are separated in abstract authorial presentation. The author has clearly expressed his dislike for the disjunct un-imagination of the internet and presents it as such. [PART THREE] original authors losing control of their audiences who believe they are the creators and the artist's art is somewhat shareable original miscommunication between web 1.0 and web 2.0 reality original alphabet they use to type on their keyboards original grammar they learned in school original money their gov't printed original content they re-post original refried beans original content orginal contet ogrinal cotent ognal ctt oc .
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 12:42 PM UTC
Original Content (Pt. 1, 2 & 3 With Commentary)
[PART ONE] xeroxed, RT'd and plagiarized so many times on so many blogs tween blogs to republican blogs to blogs in Russia and blogs no one ever scrolls though... original content is prey but I have a warning for they: overrated, over-shared content aggregators beware the lines you swap can rot and ware the World Wide Web does not care. [PART TWO] original content original contests original continent original controversy original coordination between strangers original calvary riding their connection into the battlefield of internet memes; creating nothing and sharing everything [COMMENTARY] original nothing, nowhere, nobody except facebook "Funny Vidoes!" & "Cool Quotes!". 'Like' pages whose sole originality lies within their own existence but nothing they share. They steal from the rest of the web and re-post what they find for out-of-the-loop troglodytes; often done so in inferior context and with no perspective. The 'refried beans' phenomenon, I call it. I find it fitting because 'refried beans' are a double misnomer. The name comes from 'frijoles refritos' - which means 'well-fried' not 'refried'. They are also never traditionally fried more than once. Yet the name sticks, it gets repeated, it gets re-shared and now that's what they are: refried beans. This phenomenon is why I believe art and all original content eventually become so over-shared and overrated that it's no longer interesting but irritating. These three parts of the poem "Original Content" are separated in abstract authorial presentation. The author has clearly expressed his dislike for the disjunct un-imagination of the internet and presents it as such. [PART THREE] original authors losing control of their audiences who believe they are the creators and the artist's art is somewhat shareable original miscommunication between web 1.0 and web 2.0 reality original alphabet they use to type on their keyboards original grammar they learned in school original money their gov't printed original content they re-post original refried beans original content orginal contet ogrinal cotent ognal ctt oc .
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Corruption is an earthly sin. Sin is heaven's corruption. Heaven is against corruption; Earth is against sin. Is corruption a child of sin? Is sin a brother or mother of corruption? What is going on with sin and corruption? Where is the conjunction of corruption and sin? Intro of corruption and sin is a short term successful goal. Body of sin and corruption are paragraphs of confusion. Devil writer where is the body of the novel intro? Devil authors excel in their intro with your short term goal. Beware of devil authors in this game of life with corruption. Beware of pigeons, let’s hope Noah’s dove will be back with the body of the intro. Written by: The Senior 02/10/2019
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Oct 4, 2019
Oct 4, 2019 at 2:18 AM UTC
Corruption & Sin
On the night of initiation, curves of pale luster began to gleam unwrinkled from the darkened divots along the lunar surface A perspective unseen for so long, it was viewed as a defaulted “wink” on the face of the moon And therefore, forgotten, unmentioned, until it’s means were sought   From days ‘fore, and long since now dust Scribing authors, secrete beads of frenzy  into ink filled phial Sending tremors down, into the quill tip Filling scrolls for permanence in a preemptive defense against continuous unraveling thoughts would befall this fluency into incoherent clutter   Pioneers of preprint in a provoking tome, would speak educated reasons why these areas of Moon had been locked under sealed dark punishment since Empedocles mixed cosmic elements to breed an undeniable proving truth Exhibiting the myth of danger alongside The established absolute and supervening fizzling sunset proving the existence of love... —————————————————- “Since I have given you words from my within like the ecliptic rising and burning massive, Our mutual visibility of late is either one-sided or short lived I’ll take a detour around the comforts of romance And try to talk my way into your pants By tossing at you, letters squeezed together, for your minds transcription into the heart of my subliminal write   In hopes you’ll feel a trickling gush If I get really lucky these words will find you like a volcano erupts a **** The same way water, beating against years of stone can fall And crash through a dam with pouring force so insatiable it’s territory is marked in history
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Jun 22, 2019
Jun 22, 2019 at 11:09 PM UTC
On the Night of Initiation
On the night of initiation, curves of pale luster began to gleam unwrinkled from the darkened divots along the lunar surface A perspective unseen for so long, it was viewed as a defaulted “wink” on the face of the moon And therefore, forgotten, unmentioned, until it’s means were sought   From days ‘fore, and long since now dust Scribing authors, secrete beads of frenzy  into ink filled phial Sending tremors down, into the quill tip Filling scrolls for permanence in a preemptive defense against continuous unraveling thoughts would befall this fluency into incoherent clutter   Pioneers of preprint in a provoking tome, would speak educated reasons why these areas of Moon had been locked under sealed dark punishment since Empedocles mixed cosmic elements to breed an undeniable proving truth Exhibiting the myth of danger alongside The established absolute and supervening fizzling sunset proving the existence of love... —————————————————- “Since I have given you words from my within like the ecliptic rising and burning massive, Our mutual visibility of late is either one-sided or short lived I’ll take a detour around the comforts of romance And try to talk my way into your pants By tossing at you, letters squeezed together, for your minds transcription into the heart of my subliminal write   In hopes you’ll feel a trickling gush If I get really lucky these words will find you like a volcano erupts a **** The same way water, beating against years of stone can fall And crash through a dam with pouring force so insatiable it’s territory is marked in history
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As the wet wind hums its way through our two tower six-cylinder apartment complex. Birds fall from their naked winter wept branches, braced by stiff bones, mapped out in Alexandria, carrying notes from El Salvador. The corner market is closed, never opened. A hair salon stands in its place, it wrings out the "R's" from a Philadelphia warshing. And like every night, hot air cakes on an extra layer of indecipherable red dots up the arms and around the neck, minute pustules of hypochondria that steal my finger tips from the keyboard. I scratch and tip them, looking under their fiery scarlet caps for, I-don't-know-what disease. Paul says It's that magic school bus melanoma, typhoid drip, it comes at you from a computer screen and eats at your nervous system until you've got the wambles. Tuesday's used to be the worst, until I OWNED THAT **** I make a pronoun out of aluminum foil and wear it as a hat on a first date. Tinder is not bad for conceptual art projects. I carry it within me like an anodyne complex, out into the frozenness; into my mouth the air comes around my teeth, behind my uvula until winter freezes my voice and I am breathless. I abandon my miniature house to enter the pyramidal pinetum to the North. Wild paradise shrubs gather with songless animal noises watching as I take naked photographs of my father to preserve his body from anything less than his great immortal end. He lives on black moss and water from a nearby pond, he authors the face of Anthony Hopkins, thrown about, another casualty of fervid and blurry dreaming.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
Hologram Father
As the wet wind hums its way through our two tower six-cylinder apartment complex. Birds fall from their naked winter wept branches, braced by stiff bones, mapped out in Alexandria, carrying notes from El Salvador. The corner market is closed, never opened. A hair salon stands in its place, it wrings out the "R's" from a Philadelphia warshing. And like every night, hot air cakes on an extra layer of indecipherable red dots up the arms and around the neck, minute pustules of hypochondria that steal my finger tips from the keyboard. I scratch and tip them, looking under their fiery scarlet caps for, I-don't-know-what disease. Paul says It's that magic school bus melanoma, typhoid drip, it comes at you from a computer screen and eats at your nervous system until you've got the wambles. Tuesday's used to be the worst, until I OWNED THAT **** I make a pronoun out of aluminum foil and wear it as a hat on a first date. Tinder is not bad for conceptual art projects. I carry it within me like an anodyne complex, out into the frozenness; into my mouth the air comes around my teeth, behind my uvula until winter freezes my voice and I am breathless. I abandon my miniature house to enter the pyramidal pinetum to the North. Wild paradise shrubs gather with songless animal noises watching as I take naked photographs of my father to preserve his body from anything less than his great immortal end. He lives on black moss and water from a nearby pond, he authors the face of Anthony Hopkins, thrown about, another casualty of fervid and blurry dreaming.
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