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"carnivorous" poems
Anxiety is an animal Anxiety is a carnivorous beast Anxiety grips onto you and doesn’t let go, digging its fangs in Anxiety has painful fangs Anxiety has claws (retractable) Anxiety sits on the edge of a table, meowing morosely Anxiety digs its claws in when it doesn’t want to do something Anxiety reminds you it needs feeding Anxiety hisses, bites and scratches Anxiety eats ferociously, draining you. Anxiety gives you disdainful looks Anxiety reminds you it needs feeding Anxiety has tiny fangs Anxiety reminds you again it needs feeding Anxiety looks down at you with its hairy body from the top shelf Anxiety will sit with you, out of spite Anxiety is only doing so to remind you he needs feeding Anxiety might fall asleep Anxiety might bite your hand while you fall asleep, he needs food Anxiety is fed Anxiety might possibly maybe if you-are-really-very-nice allow you to pet him. Anxiety falls asleep You fall asleep Anxiety reminds you he needs feeding, loudly.
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Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020 at 11:38 AM UTC
ANXIETY
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 6:10 AM UTC
Carnivorous ****
Come one come all *** inside everybody Please do Fill yourselves and spill yourselves Wet your dry spots with your wet spots Don’t sweat the petty things But please pet the sweaty things Dance like a warped record stacked on a broken record So you can gyrate over a Led Zeppelin ****** of OOOHHHHYYYEEAAAH and it makes me wonder Soak my curiosity in your nearly naked Let’s walk away from this mutually ***** You cantankerous carnivorous man-eating jellyfish Stumbling to engulf me in your morphine Lying like amazing lovers do “No I won’t leave you in the morning But it doesn’t mean I will ever love you I just want you to feel me You feel me?” And you left at 4 am just after I passed out Leaving me stuck with The wings made of chain-link handcuffs and sheets Going from my wrists to my feet Because you said you always wanted to make love to a butterfly I thought I could be an angel Or at least a stingray So my venom might stay with you longer But you left like I knew you would Took the keys and I had to pretend I was wearing a white kimono And because of the handcuff chain I just started telling people I was the ghost Of ***** lovers past But you go ahead and go on back to your main attraction I don’t mind workin’ side show Standing like a man made ******* Pulsing at the thought of you potential Waiting patiently like a secret Verbal donkey show Hollerin on the tail end of dawn With a secret song on a broken record When played backwards “Don’t go”
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 12:24 AM UTC
Porm (A Verbal Donkey Show)
Come one come all *** inside everybody Please do Fill yourselves and spill yourselves Wet your dry spots with your wet spots Don’t sweat the petty things But please pet the sweaty things Dance like a warped record stacked on a broken record So you can gyrate over a Led Zeppelin ****** of OOOHHHHYYYEEAAAH and it makes me wonder Soak my curiosity in your nearly naked Let’s walk away from this mutually ***** You cantankerous carnivorous man-eating jellyfish Stumbling to engulf me in your morphine Lying like amazing lovers do “No I won’t leave you in the morning But it doesn’t mean I will ever love you I just want you to feel me You feel me?” And you left at 4 am just after I passed out Leaving me stuck with The wings made of chain-link handcuffs and sheets Going from my wrists to my feet Because you said you always wanted to make love to a butterfly I thought I could be an angel Or at least a stingray So my venom might stay with you longer But you left like I knew you would Took the keys and I had to pretend I was wearing a white kimono And because of the handcuff chain I just started telling people I was the ghost Of ***** lovers past But you go ahead and go on back to your main attraction I don’t mind workin’ side show Standing like a man made ******* Pulsing at the thought of you potential Waiting patiently like a secret Verbal donkey show Hollerin on the tail end of dawn With a secret song on a broken record When played backwards “Don’t go”
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Out of the dark forest I stumbled onto the pebbles of a moonlit lake my languid eyes bumbled swallowing down philter mistakes a pale goddess in the flesh how my stupefied eyes stared at the beauty of her nakedness something in me flared flared and turned and burned my flesh no longer mine stag in form standing taciturn she calls out for my canines I run and try to yell nothing escapes my lungs pattering of legs hungry to quell come to rip flesh with teeth and tongues stumbling and tripping over stones, limbs, roots and mud left to a new life a stag rover I hear the ******* and the studs faster and faster I try to move from this typhoon wave of carnivorous hounds but curse these feeble hooves the claws and teeth came crashing around flesh stabbed with a thousand teeth a pack of mouths tear and pull a stag corpse I bequeath   to the hunger of my own wolves
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 2:07 PM UTC
Actaeon the Stag
OUR POVERTY HAS COLOUR Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Most illusive and elusive Like the devils of Congo forest Is the impish poverty Permeating all seals with vicious wily Into the midst of callous humanity Biting country men and country women With carnivorous dentalities so ruthless Putting man to a forlorn shame As the wife looks in desperate flaggerbastation Putting matriarchal womenfolk to humiliation As the expectant sire wallow in the askance of looks Condemning communities to status ad absurdum initio Thinning man from man, culling woman from woman Eating flesh by flesh social koprpers of man Eating the native flesh in the farms of Brazil Tearing the ***** steak into ghetto lacerations of Chicago Whizzling sombre morning tunes to the Zulus in the black tundra Cementing pale casted clusters for the Patels of India Commanding suave drills to poor (wo) menfolk; left! Left! Left! –abouuuuturn! With its accomplice Mr. Hunger son of starvation, they both command drills For black factory workers, Maids and gravediggers to dance Watchmen, thieves and prostitutes to match In the hinterland of Africa all the riff-raff in deep despair Dance in a tandem to the irritating drills of the duo; You come on! Left! Right! Left! Right!—fowaaard match! Backward match! Left! Right! Left! Right! Sharpp uuuuuuuturn! The duo communiqué; Go home and wait for your pay announcement. Surely; what colour is our poverty?
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Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM UTC
our poverty has colour
when the radio play the last seventeen seconds of your favorite song, when you wake up in the morning with no memory of your night, when you step in something wet on the kitchen floor in your socks, when send a really good tweet that has six different grammar errors, when you try to write a poem and can only remember my own carnivorous syllables, think of me.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 7:58 PM UTC
think of me.
Louder than Monsters By: Calla Fuqua I can’t unhear your ignorance, I can’t unsee your belligerence, The potential difference you swore you’d make, and the carnivorous path You chose to take. You are louder than monsters. Heaven must scare you and your desire to dissipate, Your chance to incriminate, the problems you exacerbate, I can’t articulate your need to intoxicate. Your laughter is louder than monsters. You fabricat your pity you pretend to give, as you wait for me to forgive, That night I have to relive when I dream, of our short lived view of how happiness seemed. Back then how could I have known that you were louder than monsters. Your grip on me becomes tighter, the more your desire for me expires, The more you secretly become a liar, and the more I ask myself why her? Her voicemails are louder than monsters. I end up on the floor, after you hit me and you swore, You don’t say I love you anymore, the way you used to before, And now I’m just your little ***** you pretend to love as if it’s a chore. Your silence is louder than monsters. I pray for you and the guilt you must feel, screaming out our window, frantic to appeal, for the pain you caused solely so you could heal. Your lies are louder than monsters. You laugh when I say no, giving me a messed up world you pretend to know, Now it’s my turn to outgrow you and your plateau, the one you promised To let go. While I undergo the pain you overflow. My screams are louder than monsters. I still tell myself you love me after you throw your fists, holding tight to my wrists, As I keep allowing the crimes you commit, to become imprints from the pain you inflict. This pain is louder than monsters. Now, nobody seems sincere, every scar is like a souvenir, You leave me speechless, when you sip your beer, like you didn’t just make my whole world disappear, You say you are not louder than monsters. All I can do now is reminisce, look back on moments like our first kiss, Before you led me into this abyss, before I was unable to dismiss the thought, “What kind of monster does this?” Someone who doesn’t know he is louder than monsters. I dream about the day I can throw out your ashtray, The day I can cast away you whole, no more arms to control my body’s soul, A day where I no longer have to be your wife, A day where I can play a character in my own life. A day where love is louder than monsters
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Apr 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2019 at 2:01 PM UTC
Louder than Monsters
Louder than Monsters By: Calla Fuqua I can’t unhear your ignorance, I can’t unsee your belligerence, The potential difference you swore you’d make, and the carnivorous path You chose to take. You are louder than monsters. Heaven must scare you and your desire to dissipate, Your chance to incriminate, the problems you exacerbate, I can’t articulate your need to intoxicate. Your laughter is louder than monsters. You fabricat your pity you pretend to give, as you wait for me to forgive, That night I have to relive when I dream, of our short lived view of how happiness seemed. Back then how could I have known that you were louder than monsters. Your grip on me becomes tighter, the more your desire for me expires, The more you secretly become a liar, and the more I ask myself why her? Her voicemails are louder than monsters. I end up on the floor, after you hit me and you swore, You don’t say I love you anymore, the way you used to before, And now I’m just your little ***** you pretend to love as if it’s a chore. Your silence is louder than monsters. I pray for you and the guilt you must feel, screaming out our window, frantic to appeal, for the pain you caused solely so you could heal. Your lies are louder than monsters. You laugh when I say no, giving me a messed up world you pretend to know, Now it’s my turn to outgrow you and your plateau, the one you promised To let go. While I undergo the pain you overflow. My screams are louder than monsters. I still tell myself you love me after you throw your fists, holding tight to my wrists, As I keep allowing the crimes you commit, to become imprints from the pain you inflict. This pain is louder than monsters. Now, nobody seems sincere, every scar is like a souvenir, You leave me speechless, when you sip your beer, like you didn’t just make my whole world disappear, You say you are not louder than monsters. All I can do now is reminisce, look back on moments like our first kiss, Before you led me into this abyss, before I was unable to dismiss the thought, “What kind of monster does this?” Someone who doesn’t know he is louder than monsters. I dream about the day I can throw out your ashtray, The day I can cast away you whole, no more arms to control my body’s soul, A day where I no longer have to be your wife, A day where I can play a character in my own life. A day where love is louder than monsters
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Alexander k Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) The most misused natural resource is animal emotion Animal jelousy, animal love, animal happiness, animal libido, Animal compassion, animal grief, animal ogle, animal *** Animal ego, animal fear or stampede, but animal anger utmost It is a resource of value and virtue if used in prudence Least vicious off all lest ghoulish natural disposition Whose exemplification follows below in juxtaposition; Out of anger a human animal kills Revenges in full feat of anger Causing accidents and damages In employment of anger to uphold ego A snake will not bite until ignited to anger But in its calm state it’s an agent of ecological peace Lioness is herbivorous in their truce but irascibly carnivorous Buffaloes only crash if catapulted by anger But romantically crazy in the emotional bliss Man is fountain of peaceful jealousy Man is cradle of venerative bigotry Man is a well of murderous love Humanity engendered is matchless ocean Of cantankerous infatuation crushing for doable And non-doables, deservation of pity, All these natural ornamentations That echo vicious virtues of man Are protégés of perfected anger.
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 8:38 AM UTC
animal anger
Heavy beast and heavy burden Burned into growing feet, a mile above all great sentiments of Home, clouds settle into molds Carved inside carnivorous minds. There is no quadrant on this island You could go Where I could not see who you created In me, fiery and dormant, whirlwind Of silence and fear. I see you everywhere, In every line on my face, You exist. I exist amongst a million cold dandelions in a weary field. Inescablable youth, river stones wrapped to knarled knees To ground me to three separate waterfalls, All who whisper of the dead To creatures who eat the love from out the backs of children’s heads. I own a million fragments of a life And nowhere have I found the one Who makes them whole.
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Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 at 9:41 PM UTC
Heavy Beast
Tribal maternal's terrace ***** by carnivorous shipmen Earth over ran By Marxist's and ditty wit's!!! Hold thine lingo Release thy spit Oh vertebrate of underworld grief... Tend to thine flock Cut thine beef, As in the cattle thou hath becometh... For the serum doth runneth Wherein thine swords becameth thy first choice.... Where is thy voice? God of technology Made science thy hobby Made gentlewoman thy footstool...... As thou hath runneth a muck And made thy queen thy second elect!!!! For I just bet That thineself shalt lose to all thy debts....
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 5:03 PM UTC
Tribal maternal
Rapid Eye Movements cruise down the Autobahn, driving dreams of soldiers slaying the Beast in the East: seeds hidden in the cuff links that return home for the victory parade. The victory parade of the new millennium is a mirage: desert sand creeps through the streets of Basra; spray painted slogans of “Aryan Nation” are left behind on pock-marked walls. High level terror alerts scroll across the Fear o' Dome, breeding paranoid glances from commercial-class passengers while they fly above fenced camps where centralized secret service agents watch the unloading of another train. "Son, do you forget the sacrifices? Have you lost all your respect? Okay, it’s possible that the Feds were influenced by the Purebreds— a minor repercussion of maintaining our national security. It isn’t even about racial purity— you are all mixed now, anyway. Whether female, black, jew, or gay, we must unite together as a nation; raise its flag with pride, and fight against a common enemy! This enemy is trying to disintegrate the cornerstone of our free society! Son, can you not see! Not see-notsee-notsea-notsi-notzi-natzi-nazi-natzi-notzi-notsi-notsea-notsee-not see!" _____ —cold sweat. I awaken to remnants of nightmarish images sifting through my mind: flocks of carnivorous sheep with invisible shepherds. The dream had felt real— solid, like flesh-out reality. I rush out of bed, just to make sure. From my bedroom window, I see the neighbour’s Iron Eagle weathervane goose-stepping towards the west. A lawnmower growls in the background. Everything appears normal here on the corner of 4th Reichstag Blvd. 2016 Neu Berlin Remix, July 13th, 2016 (original version was written on March 29th, 2010)
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Apr 1, 2010
Apr 1, 2010 at 6:14 PM UTC
Autobahn
Rapid Eye Movements cruise down the Autobahn, driving dreams of soldiers slaying the Beast in the East: seeds hidden in the cuff links that return home for the victory parade. The victory parade of the new millennium is a mirage: desert sand creeps through the streets of Basra; spray painted slogans of “Aryan Nation” are left behind on pock-marked walls. High level terror alerts scroll across the Fear o' Dome, breeding paranoid glances from commercial-class passengers while they fly above fenced camps where centralized secret service agents watch the unloading of another train. "Son, do you forget the sacrifices? Have you lost all your respect? Okay, it’s possible that the Feds were influenced by the Purebreds— a minor repercussion of maintaining our national security. It isn’t even about racial purity— you are all mixed now, anyway. Whether female, black, jew, or gay, we must unite together as a nation; raise its flag with pride, and fight against a common enemy! This enemy is trying to disintegrate the cornerstone of our free society! Son, can you not see! Not see-notsee-notsea-notsi-notzi-natzi-nazi-natzi-notzi-notsi-notsea-notsee-not see!" _____ —cold sweat. I awaken to remnants of nightmarish images sifting through my mind: flocks of carnivorous sheep with invisible shepherds. The dream had felt real— solid, like flesh-out reality. I rush out of bed, just to make sure. From my bedroom window, I see the neighbour’s Iron Eagle weathervane goose-stepping towards the west. A lawnmower growls in the background. Everything appears normal here on the corner of 4th Reichstag Blvd. 2016 Neu Berlin Remix, July 13th, 2016 (original version was written on March 29th, 2010)
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On a slow train out of the Savannah’s sudden exile, the sunlight swallows me, a calligraphy of days, hours, minuets, now inscribed on my limbs, syntax gives over to a dry, dry sound, and parched, the aftertaste of sloe gin inhabits my ribs, the lay of bones, a labyrinth of absence, and this velvet ache at my wrists, a pure burning, burning the memory red, words swell and crumble with a kiss, what absence, Soul of Winter, what absence is this, spreading over roadmaps, soliloquies, nights stretch into mornings, always mornings, as my fingertips pull daylight from an orange in dream alphabets that soon dwindle to vowels, the word, harbour, bends the old alder beyond what it can bear, so many ways, you say, to live like a prisoner, at home, the rooms are all windswept, reckless chairs overturned , abandoned in this, the evening’s parable, love is no more than a syllable in a bottle of shattered blue glass, a poem written on the underside of a child’s teacup, their jump ropes curl like adders at our feet, the thread from where I dangle in doorways and twilight, as I bide time, perilous over train tracks, your fingers trace tally marks along my vertebrae, the hollows darkening in a pathos of blue rheumatism, and in the carnivorous tremor of my body breaking like the spine of a book, the paper gone pink at the edges, like azaleas and bruises, erosion, after all is the altar of the body, and there are scars beneath my temple, and this ache, still, in my wrists, unbearable when it rains, ghosts inhabit my lungs, wrung from the silence of shut windows, eternal clotheslines and linen span for miles across the Savannah, and the early frost is at last, calling me home....
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Jan 10, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 at 5:11 PM UTC
Scars Beneath
On a slow train out of the Savannah’s sudden exile, the sunlight swallows me, a calligraphy of days, hours, minuets, now inscribed on my limbs, syntax gives over to a dry, dry sound, and parched, the aftertaste of sloe gin inhabits my ribs, the lay of bones, a labyrinth of absence, and this velvet ache at my wrists, a pure burning, burning the memory red, words swell and crumble with a kiss, what absence, Soul of Winter, what absence is this, spreading over roadmaps, soliloquies, nights stretch into mornings, always mornings, as my fingertips pull daylight from an orange in dream alphabets that soon dwindle to vowels, the word, harbour, bends the old alder beyond what it can bear, so many ways, you say, to live like a prisoner, at home, the rooms are all windswept, reckless chairs overturned , abandoned in this, the evening’s parable, love is no more than a syllable in a bottle of shattered blue glass, a poem written on the underside of a child’s teacup, their jump ropes curl like adders at our feet, the thread from where I dangle in doorways and twilight, as I bide time, perilous over train tracks, your fingers trace tally marks along my vertebrae, the hollows darkening in a pathos of blue rheumatism, and in the carnivorous tremor of my body breaking like the spine of a book, the paper gone pink at the edges, like azaleas and bruises, erosion, after all is the altar of the body, and there are scars beneath my temple, and this ache, still, in my wrists, unbearable when it rains, ghosts inhabit my lungs, wrung from the silence of shut windows, eternal clotheslines and linen span for miles across the Savannah, and the early frost is at last, calling me home....
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voices, mirror glance inward-outward -inward-outward-inanoutandinward in simultaneous disease-like passion-- divine like bacteria kneading and bleep -ing up to one to one against to one toward a unity, a collective evolutionary force begin -ning in a marshy wallow-- forward to a creature slithers rocks unsure if fish or finger-- beyond unto a sharp-claw carnivorous terror (the Divine Right of Kings) and slowly, in the wake of the destruction the shattered continental plate lifted like a carpet during renovation violence, the bacteria stayed away and under soiled-earth to slowly form toward the muddy saliva of a strangely-fit mouse-rat.... through the dissipating wake of molten mist, a sabertooth tiger yawns with a growled-tremor and an after-bath shake-- ends a trampled scrap under mammoth foot having indicted this panic in its desperate mammalian hunger-- this bacteria, kneading and bleeping, continues its one to one against to one as a meaty slab metabolized by opportunistic caveman feeding his cubs and his loves before courage became the theoretical pond -ering of Voltaire's and Descartes's and Camus's...
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
the mist toward the poem
Ashley,      Your blues inspire me, insipid triangles, walking cold, sweating more and wetting the bed your lips the sizes of gods that I married through hidden video cameras, I caught bias in bliss, racism in slow disasters, tornado sirens and just sirens, and justice on the horizon. My eyelids the sizes of your little ******* the party of tomorrow, the starting sounds of scarred and stripped *** sounds. Caught in a drift, my bottom lip stuffed with lift-lust and jolting up and down your porcelain rift. Messed up and round the back to the buttons, the clasp too heavy to drop your ego down, the cold too swift to catch me as I fell. The heavens too burdened to beat me with your god. I just wanted to me smacked in the face with your flaws. Hips the sizes of doorknobs, hurdles that I caught one weekend sipping slow gin with granddad and papa and Tootsie, your evils carnivorous, your mess much more than your message. Your koo-koo voodoo and big bad red frock. Tuesday's made me the man I am today. The Slayer made me the hate I stuffed into my **** jock-strap to puff out my chest and make prisms in kitten litters and furrow the night clauses to match stick the pumped-up bypass of hazmat and heroism, I was won and didn't know it, you were one and now you're all one. She,      came to me in French class holding straws. I picked swiftly and came, all staled and stiff, lock-jaw and threesomes one moonlit night the fourth of July.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
Streams of Golden Consciousness
My body rots away Before my very eyes Skin falls free from flesh I reek of decomposition Carnivorous I have become I hunger only for meat Raw and ****** I can not satisfy these cravings As I walk bones break Jutting through tattered clothing I drag them on, unaffected I am death reincarnate Hair peels away from scalp I am far beyond sick This sickness is not cancer I am not dying, I am already dead Retina dangles freely from socket Yet I still see clearly I see a future full of those like me I am the beginning of the end Teeth rest loose in gums Sinking deep into purity, humanity I am the second coming, apocalypse now I am zombie
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM UTC
Zombie
Strength is the ability to protect yourself Emotionally, physically, spiritually. You are strong when you need no one You are self-sufficient The desire is there sans the need. Acceptance of lacking in one area Will allow you and behooves you to Increase strength in another. Because without strength you are vulnerable To external forces. Like newborn turtles as they make The dangerous pilgrimage to water, Picked off one by one, By carnivorous, unforgiving animals: People out to hurt others to falsely improve Their own self-esteem. Strength is the courage to challenge your fears And make an about-face to run toward them Not away. This abrupt "180" seems incongruent to our Beliefs, desires and thoughts Because our subconscious mind proclaims That to confront our apprehensions deems us Weak. And as naive beings, we listen wholeheartedly, Believing that what we ignore does not exist And we regress to an age when object impermanence Unsettled our feelings of safety. Without strength we cannot breathe, eat or think And without fulfillment of these basic human needs The question is, Do we really exist? So we must define and develop our own strength In order to thoroughly define and develop Our sense of self.
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Jun 6, 2013
Jun 6, 2013 at 3:21 PM UTC
Strength
postulate carnivals festivities ferris wheels unicorns tooting horns laughs squeals of carnivorous joviality held breath heights scary games of chance winning all today it is our day to populate reality with fairy tales or obliviate insanity send notice from highs cry together deny no more the obvious sobriety holding in that hit wary of getting caught losing it all so say with me I believe in fairy tales
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 4:27 AM UTC
fairy tales
(AP) Chicago vicinity hit hard yesterday by fierce bracing winds approximating unmanned chainsaws violently cutting across streets sidewalks heavy lakefront blizzard icy snow resembling slivers of broken glass slashing stinging skin news alert of return of dreaded snow worms attacking women and children technically known as Kinorhynchan Oligochaetes Nemertines these deadly transparent parasitic creatures slither slightly ticklish creep inside boots preferring hairless legs of children slimy vipers dig between toes devouring traces of toe jam then gnawing toenails until they reach foot bed where they fester in bitter dark brown green milky juices crippling little boys and girls in shaven women the elongated legless carnivorous ice worms disguised as mere icicle drippings climb up calf knee thigh ****** ****** ovaries feasting on female eggs their favorite food many northern women choose not to shave during winter season so as not to fall victim to the snow worms
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Feb 2, 2011
Feb 2, 2011 at 9:16 AM UTC
snow worms
my mother was born a gardener and my father became one through patient snap peas and angry red tomatoes he seeded and watered and waited while my mother grew hibiscus in the mountains and plums in the shade i was born a painter but its tank me years to pick up a paintbrush and my brother was born a poet but i sincerely doubt that he’ll ever show it i mix my paints on my palette of flowers and my brother goes to meetings at banks My other attended the only Agricultural High School available to her within a 40 mile radius of her South Philadelphia home. This was not a coincidence. My father attended the best athletic conference in his affluent suburban community. This was. She started out watering plants in fast food joints, arranging flowers for junior proms in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. When my father met her, she only ate lettuce and seeds because that was all she could manage to put in her body. My father kneeled to the ground, saw the soil beneath her fingernails, and fell in love. I can only love men who garden. I can only be a daughter of the earth because of them. I don’t like terrariums because they frustrate me. Life trapped behind glass, that I cannot touch, or feel, or smell. I cannot water, I cannot fathom to even slightly disturb their existence, no matter how desperately I want to. I’m getting my hands ***** touching old soil. I wipe it on my skirt before I touch the sweat on the back of my neck. I’m planting forget-me-nots and basil. I don’t even know if those go together. But I am putting them deep in the ground and it occurs to me that in a few weeks, I might not even remember them. They might die and become some stupid memory, a part of my dinner party story vernacular, Or maybe waiting for them will change me, will allow me to commit as a meditation on earthen peace.
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM UTC
I Grow, or I'm a Card-Carrying Member of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society, but I Don't Live In New England or Own a Carnivorous Plant
my mother was born a gardener and my father became one through patient snap peas and angry red tomatoes he seeded and watered and waited while my mother grew hibiscus in the mountains and plums in the shade i was born a painter but its tank me years to pick up a paintbrush and my brother was born a poet but i sincerely doubt that he’ll ever show it i mix my paints on my palette of flowers and my brother goes to meetings at banks My other attended the only Agricultural High School available to her within a 40 mile radius of her South Philadelphia home. This was not a coincidence. My father attended the best athletic conference in his affluent suburban community. This was. She started out watering plants in fast food joints, arranging flowers for junior proms in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. When my father met her, she only ate lettuce and seeds because that was all she could manage to put in her body. My father kneeled to the ground, saw the soil beneath her fingernails, and fell in love. I can only love men who garden. I can only be a daughter of the earth because of them. I don’t like terrariums because they frustrate me. Life trapped behind glass, that I cannot touch, or feel, or smell. I cannot water, I cannot fathom to even slightly disturb their existence, no matter how desperately I want to. I’m getting my hands ***** touching old soil. I wipe it on my skirt before I touch the sweat on the back of my neck. I’m planting forget-me-nots and basil. I don’t even know if those go together. But I am putting them deep in the ground and it occurs to me that in a few weeks, I might not even remember them. They might die and become some stupid memory, a part of my dinner party story vernacular, Or maybe waiting for them will change me, will allow me to commit as a meditation on earthen peace.
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Our absolute strongest body part here, My body’s weapon against the wild Or the carnivorous utensil. Hear The sound of someone’s lone crying child, Our true reason. These pioneers make us **** with teeth, **** with the strength of diamonds. The sound of tearing flesh brings no disgust; Because, for our village, we need violence. We are a forgotten tribe, struggling. Yet, they come looking for us, civilize Our people, pacify our suffering And encase our lives with their ignorant lies. So, we are left with only one defense, **** them and eat them, then feast with the rest. November 25, 2013
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 1:57 AM UTC
The Outsider’s Least Favorite Festival
There's a crowd of pitch black unicorns at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert. A crowd of pitch black unicorns moving their onyx hooves and horns at the rhythm of drones dressed in electric guitars. An acoustic break follows. The vibrations of the music and dancing cause purple flowers to grow, purple flowers weaned on blood and sticky black tar. There's a crowd of unicorns dancing at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert feeding on ladybirds crisps and dragonflies sticks, that once home will play vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. The purple flowers grow into vines and try to smother the unicorns to prevent them from listening to bloodred-dyed vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. Meanwhile in the corner of a museum S. Teresa of Avila's statue animates by itself, walks to the window and throwing itself crumbles into a thousand of pieces of marble. The seventh seal has not been opened yet but the ninth the eleventh and the seventeenth exploded already, cracked their own wax and started spreading tongues of flames and water to decimate humanity. A woman dressed in a fifteenth century scarlet outfit leads the pitch black unicorns to salvation creating a safe haven for them in Manchester and another one in California. They have in the meantime gone bonkers and started feeding on each other. Equine teeth suddenly grow carnivorous jaws. Nothing is left in the two oasis apart from a puddle of blood and a pavement of corpses. It's 7 a.m. Chelsea has not yet finished her concert and her music blossoms around played by the mystic turntables of fire. That which remaineth is pitch black light and the breath of aeons lingering here and beyond and nowhere.
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Feb 10, 2016
Feb 10, 2016 at 8:33 PM UTC
Mystic Turntables of Fire
There's a crowd of pitch black unicorns at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert. A crowd of pitch black unicorns moving their onyx hooves and horns at the rhythm of drones dressed in electric guitars. An acoustic break follows. The vibrations of the music and dancing cause purple flowers to grow, purple flowers weaned on blood and sticky black tar. There's a crowd of unicorns dancing at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert feeding on ladybirds crisps and dragonflies sticks, that once home will play vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. The purple flowers grow into vines and try to smother the unicorns to prevent them from listening to bloodred-dyed vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. Meanwhile in the corner of a museum S. Teresa of Avila's statue animates by itself, walks to the window and throwing itself crumbles into a thousand of pieces of marble. The seventh seal has not been opened yet but the ninth the eleventh and the seventeenth exploded already, cracked their own wax and started spreading tongues of flames and water to decimate humanity. A woman dressed in a fifteenth century scarlet outfit leads the pitch black unicorns to salvation creating a safe haven for them in Manchester and another one in California. They have in the meantime gone bonkers and started feeding on each other. Equine teeth suddenly grow carnivorous jaws. Nothing is left in the two oasis apart from a puddle of blood and a pavement of corpses. It's 7 a.m. Chelsea has not yet finished her concert and her music blossoms around played by the mystic turntables of fire. That which remaineth is pitch black light and the breath of aeons lingering here and beyond and nowhere.
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Eat me baby raw with passion steamed and crisp tear me apart drizzle me with honey eat me baby carnivorous delight silver platter just for you bare your teeth cooked to perfection eat me baby lick your lips lick me and lick the plate clean.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 7:14 PM UTC
Am I Hungry or *****
I have been alone for many years Haunting my own dwelling place With crows, too afraid to approach And human hearts beating in the distance I wish I was dead. There is no sparkle but only darkness The moon casts a little light on my thoughts I need to feed tonight But I want solace and comfort Everyone sees me as an enemy A carnivorous beast, a form of the Devil So I wish I was dead Then the constant sting of loneliness Would finally go away
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 4:01 PM UTC
Vampire
Gauge Symmetry It was an eminent arrival: to awake in a definite location in time and space, involving the single ***** with more zeal than the rest. But where am I really? Staring at these thorny lines engraved in my palm during an hour I should be asleep. I can’t help but think that the love of a life should have spared me. A caption below the photograph in the times reads It’s an illustration of a tactic employed by Hezbollah and Hamas to use their own civilians as human shields. And somewhere else laying on rubble, once road, a blood smeared newspaper ruffles in the breeze, then violently unfolds from a burst of wind, never to be read, a stray dog licking a wound pauses and perks it’s ear. Earlier, in the library I walked the spiral staircase and traced my fingers down a dusty spine: “How we became Post-Human”. It must have been an artificial insemination. My skull throbs from an inoperable legion of fractal thoughts which I developed upon listening to the sounding tremble in Pathetique, too immature to know the power of what it heard like that time I foolishly laid my eyes on a carnivorous tulip, it spat me out alive. Moon is no comfort, only an aperture. The day is overexposed and my eyelids clasp down like a shutter, I try to fall asleep to remember where I really am and where I've always been.
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Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 7:56 AM UTC
Gauge Symmetry
He is a man in fact , a factual man in fact But in fact more than man, and more natural He is a predator, sometimes ****** endeavourer Jumping as a feather stead upon my weathered bed Lead at the head but it's heavier A best of a beast, in his chest at least A lion's heart beats, and with mine at his feet He is deadlier Mane across his back, mainly manly, manly knack And a pride to admire any crazy track Mired by those paws or clawed back Lion's share of the hair and a siren's glare Its enough to ensnare any to come back To lie in the den and unpack A purr that can stir  dwelling spell in gazelles A roar that could ensure his reign is obtained on every plain If called for His face is made heeding, and bleeding the sun His legs win a race never needed to be run Already won Prowl and it's done If he who rides the tiger finds it difficult to dismount Than he who rides the lion will feel him sure surmount No doubt, for nobility is paramount Alpha is better beyond count, couched in whim And he reigns as King of the jungle I grew for him King of all that's funnelled through to him King of all that humbles me and truly sings And so Clearly success best rests in Being a lioness, not left guessing lionless A carnivorous, blitherous, tyrant's guest In fact I am a woman, a natural woman in fact And factually I am a woman intact Yet in fact a woman distracted on a lion obsessed tract Where a leonine mess is lacked And a lion-like chests interact
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 2:43 PM UTC
The Lion In My Bedroom