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Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth. I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion. To survive myself I forged you like a weapon, like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling. But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you. Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk. Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence! Oh the roses of the ***** Oh your voice, slow and sad! Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace. My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road! Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows and weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
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Body of a Woman
What is the hardest part                     Of being alone? It's the quietness, A stillness making What ought have been a home- a house. It's filled with beds, But those lover's nests Are             Empty. And the thought is As occupying as a dream. A dream you cannot feel Because the loneliness is keeping you awake With no one to hold down your fears          And keep you safe.
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Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 11:45 PM UTC
The Hardest Part
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.
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Alone With Everybody
Clock arms ***** upward while the sleepers lie in their beds thoroughly wet dreams soak the ***** thoughts in their heads Mothers obsessed with 7:00 am alarms rush their ***** teenagers to designated stops while a rising yolk shines bright in eyes of sleepy pupils who wait for a ******* on wheels to shuttle them to institutions addicted to #2 pencils
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM UTC
Average suburban kids
Anna, the young lions won't want you forever. Eventually you are going to get tired of keeping it tight, of batting your eyes, of applying the gloss just right. Anna, what will you do when the invitation beds come to an end? Eventually the lions will settle, while you gather cobweb and callus, while you smoke cancer and wallow in cellulite. Anna, find a boy who makes you feel like the sun. Ultimately, he's the only one who can save your soul from all the crimes you've done.
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Aug 29, 2010
Aug 29, 2010 at 10:14 PM UTC
when the gentlemen stop calling
These days have ebbed as Love's swell was checked: the waters in some places - all but dammed! But now at last I sense the rising tide and thank Temese for the current's turn; now following that great writhing snake to where its pulsing head will rake; over the mucky soiled watery beds of Woolwich Greenwich Limehouse - and under - Tower Bridge      To that great gloating sight                 A crown of a billion lights      Blazing day and night:                 And somewhere within      In the slick oily warmth                 Our flood tides mesh,      As over each other we wash. Hard thrusts wicked deep cuts given and received are recorded in that great mirror smoked! where with a tug and a shove on the banks in the streets through the loopy twists everything prospers in the glow as the decades decaying flow; each ***** bud red with new blood one after t'other flowers before their purple petals scatter. Let's on the luck o' the dice (you 'n' me!) ride out on the flotsam and jetsom that has carried us this far and as pleases merge.
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 2:32 AM UTC
River Thames
When i was 13 I thought that gay and straight were things that other people were People that weren't raised christian People that didn't have dads People that were abused People that i should pray for but not get close to when i was 14 my best friend came out as gay i didn't see it coming but i probably should have she wore ties every day and plaid shirts with the sleeves rolled up and cut her hair short as soon as she could but i didn’t see it because gay was other people when i was 14 i watched as the news spread like wildfire “did you hear? that girl is gay.” I watched as people slowly backed away from her people that knew her all her life that is, the people that didn’t cut her off instantly I watched as the youth group we had both attended asked her to leave I watched as her drama group kicked her out because they were afraid of the yearly camp we went to that somehow knowing that she was gay made her more likely to attack the other girls in their beds than the year before I watched. I didn’t do anything. what changed my mind wasn’t a change of perspective on queer people it still took me a year to decide being gay wasn’t wrong but i decided that my best friend was someone i would stick with because i loved her I quietly stayed. didn’t make a fuss, didn’t call people out when they called her names behind her back. I should have. but i didn’t. I didn’t join in, but i didn’t defend her i didn’t say to these people **** you that girl is beautiful and amazing and if you can’t see through your hatred then i don’t want to be your friend either but i didn’t . I didn’t go through what she did. I didn’t get kicked out of anything, i didn’t lose friends When i was 15, i got fed up I left that drama group. I stopped going to that church. I stepped away from those friends and even though i never said why the look on my face when i ran into them and they asked, “how’s she doing?” answered that question for them. I spent 24 hours examining my bible trying to find the verses that say being gay is wrong there were barely any and they were right next to verses that said eating pork was wrong or planting crops next to each other or wearing two different fabrics there was my answer. this isn't a story of my journey. This isn't me building myself up “hey, I wasn't as bad as those other people I’m good now” this is a story of how one person can change your life forever if i didn't have a gay best friend what a way to start a story, huh? if i didn't have a gay best friend then I would still be there quietly praying for the sins of others, but not trying to understand so don’t look at all Christians and say they’re awful they’re bigoted they’re judgmental because we are but often it’s because we don’t know any better teaching us kindly works leading by example.
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 1:27 AM UTC
If I Didn't Have a Gay Best Friend
When i was 13 I thought that gay and straight were things that other people were People that weren't raised christian People that didn't have dads People that were abused People that i should pray for but not get close to when i was 14 my best friend came out as gay i didn't see it coming but i probably should have she wore ties every day and plaid shirts with the sleeves rolled up and cut her hair short as soon as she could but i didn’t see it because gay was other people when i was 14 i watched as the news spread like wildfire “did you hear? that girl is gay.” I watched as people slowly backed away from her people that knew her all her life that is, the people that didn’t cut her off instantly I watched as the youth group we had both attended asked her to leave I watched as her drama group kicked her out because they were afraid of the yearly camp we went to that somehow knowing that she was gay made her more likely to attack the other girls in their beds than the year before I watched. I didn’t do anything. what changed my mind wasn’t a change of perspective on queer people it still took me a year to decide being gay wasn’t wrong but i decided that my best friend was someone i would stick with because i loved her I quietly stayed. didn’t make a fuss, didn’t call people out when they called her names behind her back. I should have. but i didn’t. I didn’t join in, but i didn’t defend her i didn’t say to these people **** you that girl is beautiful and amazing and if you can’t see through your hatred then i don’t want to be your friend either but i didn’t . I didn’t go through what she did. I didn’t get kicked out of anything, i didn’t lose friends When i was 15, i got fed up I left that drama group. I stopped going to that church. I stepped away from those friends and even though i never said why the look on my face when i ran into them and they asked, “how’s she doing?” answered that question for them. I spent 24 hours examining my bible trying to find the verses that say being gay is wrong there were barely any and they were right next to verses that said eating pork was wrong or planting crops next to each other or wearing two different fabrics there was my answer. this isn't a story of my journey. This isn't me building myself up “hey, I wasn't as bad as those other people I’m good now” this is a story of how one person can change your life forever if i didn't have a gay best friend what a way to start a story, huh? if i didn't have a gay best friend then I would still be there quietly praying for the sins of others, but not trying to understand so don’t look at all Christians and say they’re awful they’re bigoted they’re judgmental because we are but often it’s because we don’t know any better teaching us kindly works leading by example.
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so you're disappointed that you're disappointed and maybe that's to be expected some folks make beds out of their catharsis differently than others it's this list of things you lost in the fire or how jealous you are of people who never came back up for air you're crying so the faucets leak out of solidarity & someone asks you why the floor is wet so you tell them "we've been weeping here forever" then they want to give you a mouth full of presupposition by saying "are you going down with the ship?" & you look them in the mouth like Leo is handcuffed to a pipe five decks down you look at them like you just woke up from that dream everyone has where all their teeth fall out maybe it's an intervention a hearse vs station wagon origin story a clearance sale & everything's gotta go or maybe it's the dream where you're at the docks from your childhood and there's a little girl unmooring all the ships because she thinks they'll float away but every time she unties them they just sink                                         they just sink
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 5:20 PM UTC
whispering the wrong parts
You used to tell me that beautiful things come from pain and adversity. Like motherhood, unconditional love, and true stories. As I stood in the middle of a room painted white, Staring at the remains of rolling hills burned to black, I saw you staring back at me. Burnt fields like black panther fur Shining against your bones Velvet black You’ve changed And changed and changed Yet your love still remains Burnt fields like black panther fur Whiskers are the needles on a compass Always pointing to the azure sky You used to sing when I cried Rolling your r’s over rrolling hills A haunting melody startling black birds into the night Feathered constellations against a sliver moon And lips pressed to my salty cheeks You told me that your favorite skin tone was chocolate, As you laid out in the sun hoping to melt. “A quarter black” is what you say when you want to feel proud, Even as you tell me stories of how your mother was called negrita, The girl who stood too dark amongst the crowd. Burnt fields like black panther fur Black like the broken wings of mothers before you Who had hands with scars from cotton seeds And blue veins like uprooted trees Stretching all the way to their tired knees Burnt fields like black panther fur You criticize your aging beauty Speaking in envy of the color gold Like you are a broken bowl in need of kintsugi Yet silver snakes still slither Over the pebbled river beds of your black curls Dripping down the small of your back Until they reach the base of your ivory spine Burnt fields like black panther fur You criticize your aging beauty Because you never thought Cocoa lips and sun spots painted on sculpted clay that never cracks Could ever look as stunning as it does on you You told me that it is better to speak my truth then tell pretty lies. So I told you mine and you cried, And cried and cried. But look where we are now, Standing beside each other with the same eyes, Just different reflections. Burnt fields like black panther fur Tongue like a sword set ablaze Tempered in pools of milk and honey Blood red sun grazing the tops of your eyelids Still reminiscent of those in old photographs Where you saw the little girl you search for in me Burnt fields like black panther fur I am sorry I made you cry But even when our backs are turned We are still Black birds singing in the dead of night Free Thank you mama for my broken wings.
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 3:11 PM UTC
Burnt Fields Like Black Panther Fur
You used to tell me that beautiful things come from pain and adversity. Like motherhood, unconditional love, and true stories. As I stood in the middle of a room painted white, Staring at the remains of rolling hills burned to black, I saw you staring back at me. Burnt fields like black panther fur Shining against your bones Velvet black You’ve changed And changed and changed Yet your love still remains Burnt fields like black panther fur Whiskers are the needles on a compass Always pointing to the azure sky You used to sing when I cried Rolling your r’s over rrolling hills A haunting melody startling black birds into the night Feathered constellations against a sliver moon And lips pressed to my salty cheeks You told me that your favorite skin tone was chocolate, As you laid out in the sun hoping to melt. “A quarter black” is what you say when you want to feel proud, Even as you tell me stories of how your mother was called negrita, The girl who stood too dark amongst the crowd. Burnt fields like black panther fur Black like the broken wings of mothers before you Who had hands with scars from cotton seeds And blue veins like uprooted trees Stretching all the way to their tired knees Burnt fields like black panther fur You criticize your aging beauty Speaking in envy of the color gold Like you are a broken bowl in need of kintsugi Yet silver snakes still slither Over the pebbled river beds of your black curls Dripping down the small of your back Until they reach the base of your ivory spine Burnt fields like black panther fur You criticize your aging beauty Because you never thought Cocoa lips and sun spots painted on sculpted clay that never cracks Could ever look as stunning as it does on you You told me that it is better to speak my truth then tell pretty lies. So I told you mine and you cried, And cried and cried. But look where we are now, Standing beside each other with the same eyes, Just different reflections. Burnt fields like black panther fur Tongue like a sword set ablaze Tempered in pools of milk and honey Blood red sun grazing the tops of your eyelids Still reminiscent of those in old photographs Where you saw the little girl you search for in me Burnt fields like black panther fur I am sorry I made you cry But even when our backs are turned We are still Black birds singing in the dead of night Free Thank you mama for my broken wings.
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Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, the three of them frozen: Enrique by the world of beds; Emilio by the world of eyes and wounded hands; Lorenzo by the world of roofless universities. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them burned: Lorenzo by the world of leaves and billiard ***** Emilio by the world of blood and white pins; Enrique by the world of the dead and abandoned newspapers. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them buried: Lorenzo in one of Flora's ******* Emilio in the dead gin forgotten in the glass; Enrique in the ant, the sea, and the empty eyes of birds. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three in my hands were three Chinese mountains, three shadows of a horse, three landscapes of snow and a cabin of white lilies by the pigeon coops where the moon lies flat under the rooster. One and one and one, the three of them mummified, with the flies of winter, with the inkwells the dog ****** and the thistle despises, with the breeze that freezes theh eart of all the mothers, by the white ruins of Jupiter where drunks snack on death. Three and two and one, I saw them disappear, crying and singing into a hen's egg, into the night that showed its skeleton of tobacco, into my sorrow full of faces and piercing bone splinters of moon, into my happiness of whips and notched wheels, into my breast troubled by pigeons, into my deserted death with one mistaken wanderer. I had killed the fifth moon and the fans and the applause drank water from the fountains. Hidden away, the warm milk of newborn girls, shook the roses with a long white sorrow. Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, Diana is hard, but somtimes she has ******* of clouds. The white stone can beat in the blood of a deer and the deer can dream through the eyes of a horse. When the pure forms sank under the cri cri of daisies I understood they had murdered me. They searched the cafés and the graveyards and churches, they opened the wine casks and wardrobes, they destroyed three skeletons to pull out their gold teeth. Still they couldn't fine me. They couldn't? No. They couldn't. But they learned the sixth moon fled against the torrent, and the sea remembered, suddenly, the names of all her drowned.
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Fable and Round of the Three Friends
Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, the three of them frozen: Enrique by the world of beds; Emilio by the world of eyes and wounded hands; Lorenzo by the world of roofless universities. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them burned: Lorenzo by the world of leaves and billiard ***** Emilio by the world of blood and white pins; Enrique by the world of the dead and abandoned newspapers. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them buried: Lorenzo in one of Flora's ******* Emilio in the dead gin forgotten in the glass; Enrique in the ant, the sea, and the empty eyes of birds. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three in my hands were three Chinese mountains, three shadows of a horse, three landscapes of snow and a cabin of white lilies by the pigeon coops where the moon lies flat under the rooster. One and one and one, the three of them mummified, with the flies of winter, with the inkwells the dog ****** and the thistle despises, with the breeze that freezes theh eart of all the mothers, by the white ruins of Jupiter where drunks snack on death. Three and two and one, I saw them disappear, crying and singing into a hen's egg, into the night that showed its skeleton of tobacco, into my sorrow full of faces and piercing bone splinters of moon, into my happiness of whips and notched wheels, into my breast troubled by pigeons, into my deserted death with one mistaken wanderer. I had killed the fifth moon and the fans and the applause drank water from the fountains. Hidden away, the warm milk of newborn girls, shook the roses with a long white sorrow. Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, Diana is hard, but somtimes she has ******* of clouds. The white stone can beat in the blood of a deer and the deer can dream through the eyes of a horse. When the pure forms sank under the cri cri of daisies I understood they had murdered me. They searched the cafés and the graveyards and churches, they opened the wine casks and wardrobes, they destroyed three skeletons to pull out their gold teeth. Still they couldn't fine me. They couldn't? No. They couldn't. But they learned the sixth moon fled against the torrent, and the sea remembered, suddenly, the names of all her drowned.
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There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul. And there are corpses, feet made of cold and sticky clay, death is inside the bones, like a barking where there are no dogs, coming out from bells somewhere, from graves somewhere, growing in the damp air like tears of rain. Sometimes I see alone coffins under sail, embarking with the pale dead, with women that have dead hair, with bakers who are as white as angels, and pensive young girls married to notary publics, caskets sailing up the vertical river of the dead, the river of dark purple, moving upstream with sails filled out by the sound of death, filled by the sound of death which is silence. Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue, with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree. I'm not sure, I understand only a little, I can hardly see, but it seems to me that its singing has the color of damp violets, of violets that are at home in the earth, because the face of death is green, and the look death gives is green, with the penetrating dampness of a violet leaf and the somber color of embittered winter. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom, lapping the floor, looking for dead bodies, death is inside the broom, the broom is the tongue of death looking for corpses, it is the needle of death looking for thread. Death is inside the folding cots: it spends its life sleeping on the slow mattresses, in the black blankets, and suddenly breathes out: it blows out a mournful sound that swells the sheets, and the beds go sailing toward a port where death is waiting, dressed like an admiral.
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Nothing But Death
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul. And there are corpses, feet made of cold and sticky clay, death is inside the bones, like a barking where there are no dogs, coming out from bells somewhere, from graves somewhere, growing in the damp air like tears of rain. Sometimes I see alone coffins under sail, embarking with the pale dead, with women that have dead hair, with bakers who are as white as angels, and pensive young girls married to notary publics, caskets sailing up the vertical river of the dead, the river of dark purple, moving upstream with sails filled out by the sound of death, filled by the sound of death which is silence. Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue, with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree. I'm not sure, I understand only a little, I can hardly see, but it seems to me that its singing has the color of damp violets, of violets that are at home in the earth, because the face of death is green, and the look death gives is green, with the penetrating dampness of a violet leaf and the somber color of embittered winter. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom, lapping the floor, looking for dead bodies, death is inside the broom, the broom is the tongue of death looking for corpses, it is the needle of death looking for thread. Death is inside the folding cots: it spends its life sleeping on the slow mattresses, in the black blankets, and suddenly breathes out: it blows out a mournful sound that swells the sheets, and the beds go sailing toward a port where death is waiting, dressed like an admiral.
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Dear, though the night is gone, Its dream still haunts today, That brought us to a room Cavernous, lofty as A railway terminus, And crowded in that gloom Were beds, and we in one In a far corner lay. Our whisper woke no clocks, We kissed and I was glad At everything you did, Indifferent to those Who sat with hostile eyes In pairs on every bed, Arms round each other's neck, Inert and vaguely sad. O but what worm of guilt Or what malignant doubt Am I the victim of, That you then, unabashed, Did what I never wished, Confessed another love; And I, submissive, felt Unwanted and went out?
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Dear, Though the Night Is Gone
you didn’t like the way i answered the phone, and you thought it was gross that i liked mushrooms on my pizza, and you told me i was weird-looking when i was a kid, and once i sent you a tattoo and you said you didn’t like it, you didn’t know they were my words that were written on her body you told me what “too much damage” meant on halloween after all the trick-or-treaters had fallen asleep and when i kept silent for three days after, and winced at every kissing scene on television, because they flooded the insides of my eyelids with images that made me feel very small, you said i was being unfair because i was the one who decided we were just friends, and i told you we weren’t, you knew we weren’t we couldn’t be after what we used to be i told you i still had feelings that hadn’t gone away yet, you said they hadn’t gone away for you either i pictured you holding my hand but then you said, “that’s why it’s easier to run from them and hide in other girls beds.” you always told me every thought that popped into your head, and i used to find it endearing, i kept telling myself that you deserved my ear, but i really hope you have nothing more to say because, i promise, i’m done listening so clear off your bedside table, and cut the blue string that’s wrapped around your wrist if you’ve yet to do so, and stop asking me if i miss you, because this is me saying i don’t.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 10:12 PM UTC
butterflies, trains, and blood stains
Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds on which you lay, but also those desires which for you plainly glowed in the eyes, and trembled in the voice -- and some chance obstacle made them futile. Now that all belongs to the past, it is almost as if you had yielded to those desires too -- remember, how they glowed, in the eyes looking at you; how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body.
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Remember, Body...
Depression. One word. Pretty easy to say. But what you don’t know Is that it controls my day. The sun rises as I go to get out of bed yet depression whispers “You’d be better off dead.” But I push through those words and I make it to class when it comes to concentration, depression kicks me in the *** So I go to eat lunch, but nothing looks appetizing depression smiles at me and asks if that’s surprising Another class, let’s see how this one goes Will I pass this test? Only depression really knows Cause last night when I went home and tried to study depression was surely there, my only buddy And although I tried to do my absolute best depression said, “I think we’ll fail this test.” My teachers look at me in absolute disgust I try to tell the truth, but depression doesn’t let me trust So instead I say I’m sick, a cold or maybe the flu But I’m sick inside my head, and depression proves that true You can’t expect them to understand the pain and the sorrow This depression is unique to me, you’d only know if my mind you could borrow But back to my daily routine, I didn’t mean to digress sometimes my thoughts start racing, depression never lets me rest Which leads me to sleep, for some the best part of the night Dear depression, will you let me sleep? Maybe, I just might Then I look at the clock and it’s almost four in the morning Depression, why are you doing this? In my mind it’s nearly storming For most are in their beds, cuddled up all snug and tight But depression sowed up early this morning, so I have to be ready to fight Some have called me strong, but that is not how I feel for depression clouds my head, and I’m not sure what’s real And there it is again, the sun has stared to rise I’ve made it through another day, to depression, that’s a surprise.
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Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 10:45 PM UTC
Depression.
Depression. One word. Pretty easy to say. But what you don’t know Is that it controls my day. The sun rises as I go to get out of bed yet depression whispers “You’d be better off dead.” But I push through those words and I make it to class when it comes to concentration, depression kicks me in the *** So I go to eat lunch, but nothing looks appetizing depression smiles at me and asks if that’s surprising Another class, let’s see how this one goes Will I pass this test? Only depression really knows Cause last night when I went home and tried to study depression was surely there, my only buddy And although I tried to do my absolute best depression said, “I think we’ll fail this test.” My teachers look at me in absolute disgust I try to tell the truth, but depression doesn’t let me trust So instead I say I’m sick, a cold or maybe the flu But I’m sick inside my head, and depression proves that true You can’t expect them to understand the pain and the sorrow This depression is unique to me, you’d only know if my mind you could borrow But back to my daily routine, I didn’t mean to digress sometimes my thoughts start racing, depression never lets me rest Which leads me to sleep, for some the best part of the night Dear depression, will you let me sleep? Maybe, I just might Then I look at the clock and it’s almost four in the morning Depression, why are you doing this? In my mind it’s nearly storming For most are in their beds, cuddled up all snug and tight But depression sowed up early this morning, so I have to be ready to fight Some have called me strong, but that is not how I feel for depression clouds my head, and I’m not sure what’s real And there it is again, the sun has stared to rise I’ve made it through another day, to depression, that’s a surprise.
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I will regret this in the morning but I will do it anyway my impulsivity often overpowers my conscience yet I am almost always fully aware of the decisions I make and their consequences I am not exactly mentally stable but I am sane enough to know right from wrong yesterday from today love from lust although sometimes I mix them up I have a tendency to lunge at any pair of arms that open for me my mind and body often disagree my body saying yes to eager hands my mind saying no constantly looking towards my heart thinking how stupid one must be to fall repeatedly get hurt every single time and still manage to do the same over and over again I wonder how many times I will have to hit the ground in order to learn to stop falling face first? I often say things that should be left unsaid I often do things that should not be done sleep in beds unfamiliar make believe love to strangers get to know people who will not remember me tomorrow I am gone as quickly as the hangover I can be washed off the tongue just as quickly as the liquor I often believe I am capable of inciting change I kiss temporary lips with permanence hoping that I can train them to stay I love temporary people with permanence hoping that I can train them not to leave and when they do I claim to have seen it coming I am incapable of forgetting a scrapbook memory of skin and heartbeat of touch and moments I know not to look directly into eyes for they can be blinding and I still do it anyway I know of the risks that shouldn't be taken well aware of their consequences and I still take them anyway you could say it is my own fault for the way that things continue to turn out but I can make no promise of apology instead I will live momentarily **** up intentionally love recklessly fall unguarded break enough times to learn how to put myself back together crash into concrete enough times to learn how to shift a crooked smile into something worth seeing I have been told that a life lived in fear is hardly a life lived at all so I intend to live every second like it is the last one I will have I will write each night as it happens narrate my own stories and hope they turn out okay I will regret this in the morning but I will do it anyway.
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
I Will Regret This In The Morning
I will regret this in the morning but I will do it anyway my impulsivity often overpowers my conscience yet I am almost always fully aware of the decisions I make and their consequences I am not exactly mentally stable but I am sane enough to know right from wrong yesterday from today love from lust although sometimes I mix them up I have a tendency to lunge at any pair of arms that open for me my mind and body often disagree my body saying yes to eager hands my mind saying no constantly looking towards my heart thinking how stupid one must be to fall repeatedly get hurt every single time and still manage to do the same over and over again I wonder how many times I will have to hit the ground in order to learn to stop falling face first? I often say things that should be left unsaid I often do things that should not be done sleep in beds unfamiliar make believe love to strangers get to know people who will not remember me tomorrow I am gone as quickly as the hangover I can be washed off the tongue just as quickly as the liquor I often believe I am capable of inciting change I kiss temporary lips with permanence hoping that I can train them to stay I love temporary people with permanence hoping that I can train them not to leave and when they do I claim to have seen it coming I am incapable of forgetting a scrapbook memory of skin and heartbeat of touch and moments I know not to look directly into eyes for they can be blinding and I still do it anyway I know of the risks that shouldn't be taken well aware of their consequences and I still take them anyway you could say it is my own fault for the way that things continue to turn out but I can make no promise of apology instead I will live momentarily **** up intentionally love recklessly fall unguarded break enough times to learn how to put myself back together crash into concrete enough times to learn how to shift a crooked smile into something worth seeing I have been told that a life lived in fear is hardly a life lived at all so I intend to live every second like it is the last one I will have I will write each night as it happens narrate my own stories and hope they turn out okay I will regret this in the morning but I will do it anyway.
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65 years from now when my grandchild looks me and asks me "Grandma do your cheeks look like they are falling and why does your backbone rise higher than the rest of you?" I will answer: Baby girl what they don't teach you in school is that the older you get the more gravity pulls at you. Keeping your feet planted and your mind out of the clouds. Life moves down instead of forward. Bones grow frail and muscles shrivel up and weaken just like your ability to dream. Dream of what you’re going to be, "when you grow up" because, darling this is it. I'm all grown up. I am all I was ever meant to be. My clay has hardened, no longer able to bend and curve with the wind.   Too weak to keep walking forward. That is why baby run while you still can, discover the world. Leave footprints in every corner of existence, because when you're as old as me your feet will be sore and won't be able to venture deeper into the pockets of the universe. Roots now bind me to this little house where I will keep moving down. Gravity is too strong for me now dear. My skin has already given up. Succumbing to the mighty force. Falling away from my bones that lie hollow inside my cheeks engraved,with the memories too valuable lose after  lifetime. So that when this world had changed, beyond recognition, I will still hold inside of me the days that I spent in the sun . As for my back. Honey, the best thing you can have is a backbone , because when everything in this world in pulling you down, you're going to need something to keep holding you up. My backbone, a tribute to the years I spent tiptoeing across the coal beds of this life’s mighty fire.  But one day it will turn into a white flag of surrender. That is when you know that gravity has won. I will sink back into the earth and maybe start again…
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
Skin and Backbone
65 years from now when my grandchild looks me and asks me "Grandma do your cheeks look like they are falling and why does your backbone rise higher than the rest of you?" I will answer: Baby girl what they don't teach you in school is that the older you get the more gravity pulls at you. Keeping your feet planted and your mind out of the clouds. Life moves down instead of forward. Bones grow frail and muscles shrivel up and weaken just like your ability to dream. Dream of what you’re going to be, "when you grow up" because, darling this is it. I'm all grown up. I am all I was ever meant to be. My clay has hardened, no longer able to bend and curve with the wind.   Too weak to keep walking forward. That is why baby run while you still can, discover the world. Leave footprints in every corner of existence, because when you're as old as me your feet will be sore and won't be able to venture deeper into the pockets of the universe. Roots now bind me to this little house where I will keep moving down. Gravity is too strong for me now dear. My skin has already given up. Succumbing to the mighty force. Falling away from my bones that lie hollow inside my cheeks engraved,with the memories too valuable lose after  lifetime. So that when this world had changed, beyond recognition, I will still hold inside of me the days that I spent in the sun . As for my back. Honey, the best thing you can have is a backbone , because when everything in this world in pulling you down, you're going to need something to keep holding you up. My backbone, a tribute to the years I spent tiptoeing across the coal beds of this life’s mighty fire.  But one day it will turn into a white flag of surrender. That is when you know that gravity has won. I will sink back into the earth and maybe start again…
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The other day while driving down       a winding country road, I passed a house that took me back      to days so long ago. The shaded porch, the hanging swing,      the oak trees standing guard, The carefully tended flower beds,      the wide expanse of yard, The big ol' wooden rocking chairs      where a soul could sit and drowse, Made me recall so clearly,      time spent at Grandma's house. Grandma's house was always open      to all who happened by. Kith and kin or long-lost friend      were met with a welcome cry. "Come, sit and eat, we'll set another place,      there's always room for one more". And when you left you could look back and see her,      still waving from the open door. Many years have passed, the family is scattered,      And that house is no longer home. But whenever I should happen to pass,      the feeling still comes so strong. That I should stop and visit a while      and a secret or two we'll share. And then on its heels comes the knowledge,      that Grandma's no longer there. All that's left are fond memories      that all of us grandkids have, That we can recall so clearly,       time spent at Grandma's house.
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Apr 22, 2011
Apr 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM UTC
Grandma's House
I have fallen I won't be there to break the waves, to dust the dirt with bare skin off your face. You either wither and die or dance with the coral. Catch the sun with your eyes break the surface while your body sings. Swim with the kelp beds or tangle beneath the hooks & the strings.
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 3:57 PM UTC
[mermaid]
"While I sit at the door Sick to gaze within Mine eye weepeth sore For sorrow and sin: As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore. "How have Eden bowers grown Without Adam to bend them! How have Eden flowers blown Squandering their sweet breath Without me to tend them! The Tree of Life was ours, Tree twelvefold-fruited, Most lofty tree that flowers, Most deeply rooted: I chose the tree of death. "Hadst thou but said me nay, Adam, my brother, I might have pined away; I, but none other: God might have let thee stay Safe in our garden, By putting me away Beyond all pardon. "I, Eve, sad mother Of all who must live, I, not another, Plucked bitterest fruit to give My friend, husband, lover;-- O wanton eyes, run over; Who but I should grieve?-- Cain hath slain his brother: Of all who must die mother, Miserable Eve!" Thus she sat weeping, Thus Eve our mother, Where one lay sleeping Slain by his brother. Greatest and least Each piteous beast To hear her voice Forgot his joys And set aside his feast. The mouse paused in his walk And dropped his wheaten stalk; Grave cattle wagged their heads In rumination; The eagle gave a cry From his cloud station; Larks on thyme beds Forbore to mount or sing; Bees drooped upon the wing; The raven perched on high Forgot his ration; The conies in their rock, A feeble nation, Quaked sympathetical; The mocking-bird left off to mock; Huge camels knelt as if In deprecation; The kind hart's tears were falling; Chattered the wistful stork; Dove-voices with a dying fall Cooed desolation Answering grief by grief. Only the serpent in the dust Wriggling and crawling, Grinned an evil grin and ****** His tongue out with its fork.
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Eve
"While I sit at the door Sick to gaze within Mine eye weepeth sore For sorrow and sin: As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore. "How have Eden bowers grown Without Adam to bend them! How have Eden flowers blown Squandering their sweet breath Without me to tend them! The Tree of Life was ours, Tree twelvefold-fruited, Most lofty tree that flowers, Most deeply rooted: I chose the tree of death. "Hadst thou but said me nay, Adam, my brother, I might have pined away; I, but none other: God might have let thee stay Safe in our garden, By putting me away Beyond all pardon. "I, Eve, sad mother Of all who must live, I, not another, Plucked bitterest fruit to give My friend, husband, lover;-- O wanton eyes, run over; Who but I should grieve?-- Cain hath slain his brother: Of all who must die mother, Miserable Eve!" Thus she sat weeping, Thus Eve our mother, Where one lay sleeping Slain by his brother. Greatest and least Each piteous beast To hear her voice Forgot his joys And set aside his feast. The mouse paused in his walk And dropped his wheaten stalk; Grave cattle wagged their heads In rumination; The eagle gave a cry From his cloud station; Larks on thyme beds Forbore to mount or sing; Bees drooped upon the wing; The raven perched on high Forgot his ration; The conies in their rock, A feeble nation, Quaked sympathetical; The mocking-bird left off to mock; Huge camels knelt as if In deprecation; The kind hart's tears were falling; Chattered the wistful stork; Dove-voices with a dying fall Cooed desolation Answering grief by grief. Only the serpent in the dust Wriggling and crawling, Grinned an evil grin and ****** His tongue out with its fork.
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so this tiny beauty queen kissed me she left a stain the red was pure and ****** vain she grew up and stretched out my whole way of thinking she kissed me and all i see is enemy ships sinking blood roses grow within beds of lovers the shady curtains, the safety covers the hovering clouds of darkness creep in but my soul is bound to her luminating spirit it freely roams unkown worlds she, my north star. i, her mobile home hold her when she's afraid she'll spill her insides onto the window sill
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC
Queen
the good things in life seem to stay; like the color yellow, or a warm summer's day waking up early, running barefoot in grass feeling the morning dew brush past hearing the twinkle of an ice cream truck if you go, you'll catch it, with luck eating a popsicle as the sun beats down riding a bike through a small playground when dusk comes, once again we're swimming at night and playing with friends lighting sparklers that shine brighter than stars popping cap guns you could hear from afar running barefoot right down the street giving the neighborhood dog a treat taking polaroids like the pictures will stay but lost them then, by the next summer day watching as fog rolls slowly ahead the sun goes down, so time for bed excitement and thrill, time for a sleepover the day, for now, will never be over! karaoke on beds at the crack midnight crashes of thunder, scary stories, and fright! still, pretty soon,  we get used to it or in the summer, it all happens quick never sleeping, don't want it to end even though there's the weekdays and weekend glowing lights hang above the bed sleepy eyes remind us dumb things said summer, now, doesn't last forever even if we must change the weather we must savor it, you and me and kiss summer hello thrillfully!
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
in the summer
Oh blue eyed baby accept this ring. Make me the happiest human being 5 years have passed and our quarrels far dwindled But our fire still burns from the pile we kindled 10 years and 10 more; I will always adore My blue eyed baby, forevermore “Till death do us part”, we said long ago Now 50 years past right out the window My eyes start to twitch and twinkle with mime But my love for you only grows deeper with time As my thoughts start to dwindle and turn into chime I’ll always remember, my blue eyed baby will always be mine Your memories fading and hair color too And our hearts are still red and your baby eyes blue Grasp tight of my hand and don’t let it slip I feel my life tripping out of its tick The morning rays shine through the pains of our room In our beds we await for our call to our tombs The time is not far; it’s coming soon But the blues eyes of yours baby will continue to bloom Forever and ever. I mean it I do.
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Dec 12, 2012
Dec 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM UTC
Blue Eyed Baby
Sitting in the back of truck beds should be required Hair all over the place Wind all in my face Can barely open my eyes to see but when I do sights fill me up and open my mind to all the beauty around me that I would never find. In hawaii this is the best driving in the back of truck beds although my **** gets achy from the rough, cold truck I wouldn't change my seat for the comfy one in the front.
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 4:06 AM UTC
Truck beds in Hawaii