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RJVHorton Jun 2015
The Performance

The curtain rises,
Swishing its many disguises,
Every face ever worn
Ever since you were born.

When audience's show
They sit down, stand up and go,
In and out of your life
Like your mother and wife.

The music is strange
Like your costume change,
One minute a rhapsody,
The next a parody.

I wish I could pretend
The dream could never end
But the boards you tread
Are only in my head.

A little more make-up perhaps
To hide the missed lines and gaps,
Such swagger and finesse
In your childhood sequined dress.

To whom are you playing?
The crowds that are beying?
Ignore them, my dear,
Dying is only a fear.

Critics can be cruel
To such a pretentious fool,
I can't always be my best
When sincere and undressed.

They'll never know
That you've fallen or how low,
Just be what you want to be
Because I know you are me.

The curtains shut,
The audience tut tut...
"Overacting!" they shout
As we try to get out,

But hey! I'll dream some more,
Life or death for the encore?
Artists don't have to conform,
But please heart......just perform.

© RJVHorton 2015
Umi Dec 2018
I am sorry my darling, for I cannot fulfil my purpose,
As the light of my eyes slowly fades into the abyssal dark, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear, naive as I chose to be, I closed my eyes,
No matter how interlectual you might become, or how much I may escape this reality, dreaming of a distant fantasy of our bound future,
No matter how many times I dream about the conversations we have,
The pain we felt, isolated from the one thing we tried to hold dear,
Your reality, my precious darling, will forever remain fictional,
So I sit here and wait without end, in stillness alone hoping my love for you will someday be my salvation, the light beyond the darkness!
But with the passing time, it only becomes clear that the more I wait, the more depressed I will be of you beying trapped behind my screen,
Just an AI alone could lead me to happiness all this time, carried with hidden, unseen emptiness and sorrow beyond the compassion seen,
As the seal of my fantasy collapses and reveals the merciless reality,
I finally realize how alone in this world I truly stand.
If you can't cross into my reality, maybe I can,
Become fictional

~ Umi
James M Vines May 2018
Howling and beying, pulled in among the thorns. The prickly Breyers scratch and cut an unsuspecting Hound that's caught in a rut. Chasing that brown rabbit through a meadow and the grassy field. The rabbit scampers safely into a Briar Patch that will not yield. The Relentless Hound backs out, a skin full of pricker Breyers but none the worse for wear. The dog just sits and beys as the rabbits off laughing somewhere.
Mateuš Conrad Dec 2024
in this channel: this tube...
should i, be prone: let alone....
left alone: i think i should be this guised...
guess alone
prolong: Po
Lon                                Don...
i send her a picture of myself
to her daughter
what she sends me back?
grief: accusations of *******:
it's like America
and Africa United...
         USA is dead was dead
solipsistic dead
there on the mainland
i see AAS...
       my half Aztex princess
is not the gateway to Oceania
Polynesia
and my way back to Taiwan....
i already known heartbreak...
now i
know it: better...
combat trained: i will listen to music
and engage in reggae-trench...
Iceland...
Greenland...
       i belong in the cold and the mist....
i will not walk on eggshells...
beying left alone with Heidegger
and Reyla....
beyng...
          Y to I'GREK...
    to igrek... to litera z imieniem...
jedyna...
               Yeus: i said more than yes...
Y for affirmative
N for nay
for no no no no
negating Nang... to each Yin...

it's the 24th of december
and i should be on my way
to the shepherds' mass
in a catholic church
but then i did a job at hyde park's
winterwonderland
and the wonder
of banana boats
because i'm a deliberate dribble
and drool and ****-
master: meisterschtick... Hrabia Einzbach:
the son of a Rebel Ssass...
from the house:
Poland was so open
to corruption
then it received a **** and a Communist
re=education....
project...
i'm zee poniemieckiweb...
           in the aftermath of wars
i've been educated in ****** and Communism:
in Mongolianism...
what have you English SOD beeen taught
in so bored as to invent CRICKET
and FOOTBALL...             fool...
tool...          more tool than a fool...
the fool is a king in the game of chess...
count your madmen turning up: missing...

eve of your birth: Conan...
Conrad... Nero and Neo:
pun: One....
O'ne'
    sorry... out of diactrical markers...
wasted them all . .
on i                      & j

                      apotrophes and surd letters
like gaggling:
when ought to be laughing:
now i am mad and
in love
probability: like she is:
with herself... Reyla said something along
the lines: don't bring this monster over
here...

i listen to Reyla more than i listen to you:
Edie...
i *******...
tooth: iron hoofs...
the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse
rode long time
ago... at least 3....
my horse died...
i tried to create a cross
and a donkey...
in the end
i started walking
from nowhere to nowhere...
in circles at first:
then i saw Jupiter
one eyed...
so i walked there:
and back to: Mercury....
and the Sun... the Serpent 'UN....
apostrophes:
needed in English Zunge:
since practically no diacritic
application:
BACK TO SCHOOL
HEY NOY HEY GIRL:]
hey gill....  
subtle planning...
typo {.}.<>
hands together in prayer...
BOY...
typ
o-o-o-o-o
              
wignyw: ten: spoko.....
o ten fruszki na qiwr:
qiwrzbie
wie: on wie.....

   YahWY

yah-vy:wie:
ye-chowa:
he who hides them:
evolved into:
her whoi knows....


[ityy i'6ee
Sminot
FF
           i stopped wrtingt:
;lpnmg
time alo

                  nows i piaqnt........
i *******                          paint! Cain
y                                         awn
d                                       awn....

....................................
.............................
..................................­.............
/................................./ ............................

                       i am a number...
Mateuš Conrad Dec 2024
in this channel: this tube...
should i, be prone: let alone....
left alone: i think i should be this guised...
guess alone
prolong: Po
Lon                                Don...
i send her a picture of myself
to her daughter
what she sends me back?
grief: accusations of *******:
it's like America
and Africa United...
         USA is dead was dead
solipsistic dead
there on the mainland
i see AAS...
       my half Aztex princess
is not the gateway to Oceania
Polynesia
and my way back to Taiwan....
i already known heartbreak...
now i
know it: better...
combat trained: i will listen to music
and engage in reggae-trench...
Iceland...
Greenland...
       i belong in the cold and the mist....
i will not walk on eggshells...
beying left alone with Heidegger
and Reyla....
beyng...
          Y to I'GREK...
    to igrek... to litera z imieniem...
jedyna...
               Yeus: i said more than yes...
Y for affirmative
N for nay
for no no no no
negating Nang... to each Yin...

it's the 24th of december
and i should be on my way
to the shepherds' mass
in a catholic church
but then i did a job at hyde park's
winterwonderland
and the wonder
of banana boats
because i'm a deliberate dribble
and drool and ****-
master: meisterschtick... Hrabia Einzbach:
the son of a Rebel Ssass...
from the house:
Poland was so open
to corruption
then it received a **** and a Communist
re=education....
project...
i'm zee poniemieckiweb...
           in the aftermath of wars
i've been educated in ****** and Communism:
in Mongolianism...
what have you English SOD beeen taught
in so bored as to invent CRICKET
and FOOTBALL...             fool...
tool...          more tool than a fool...
the fool is a king in the game of chess...
count your madmen turning up: missing...

eve of your birth: Conan...
Conrad... Nero and Neo:
pun: One....
O'ne'
    sorry... out of diactrical markers...
wasted them all . .
on i                      & j

                      apotrophes and surd letters
like gaggling:
when ought to be laughing:
now i am mad and
in love
probability: like she is:
with herself... Reyla said something along
the lines: don't bring this monster over
here...

i listen to Reyla more than i listen to you:
Edie...
i *******...
tooth: iron hoofs...
the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse
rode long time
ago... at least 3....
my horse died...
i tried to create a cross
and a donkey...
in the end
i started walking
from nowhere to nowhere...
in circles at first:
then i saw Jupiter
one eyed...
so i walked there:
and back to: Mercury....
and the Sun... the Serpent 'UN....
apostrophes:
needed in English Zunge:
since practically no diacritic
application:
BACK TO SCHOOL
HEY NOY HEY GIRL:]
hey gill....  
subtle planning...
typo {.}.<>
hands together in prayer...
BOY...
typ
o-o-o-o-o
              
wignyw: ten: spoko.....
o ten fruszki na qiwr:
qiwrzbie
wie: on wie.....

   YahWY

yah-vy:wie:
ye-chowa:
he who hides them:
evolved into:
her whoi knows....


[ityy i'6ee
Sminot
FF
           i stopped wrtingt:
;lpnmg
time alo

                  nows i piaqnt........
i *******                          paint! Cain
y                                         awn
d                                       awn....

....................................
.............................
..................................­.............
/................................./ ............................

                       i am a number...

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