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"chronic" poems
Lovesick and you've got the cure. Got all these symptoms. You know what for. Don't be afraid of this contagious disease, Just take my requisition form. I've made room for you in my atria and ventricle. You're the capillary to my arteriole and venule. You're the amniotic fluid to the child in my heart. I find you even in the interstitial parts. Treatment like uours is like a centrifugAl force. So be the **** stasis my heart is longing for. Some homeostasis is what we need. We will make compromises to succeed. Lay me supine and you in prone. Sensory neurons fire Exocrine glands make to pressure Spark endocrine glands to hear you moan. Without your heart I'd be anemic. Withiutbyour arms I'd be half a paraplegic. Your kisses give me air, without them I'm cyatonic. You're the fibrin in my veins, to my pain an anesthetic. I'm ready for some long-term care and affection. Got a chronic condition that needs your attention. I k now I'm concluded, parts of me sclerosed. Don't wait post mortem to know that you're the most.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 3:51 PM UTC
a medical love letter
I heard the world's loudest **** today It echoed round the town enough to say *"I am a **** of great renown and fame, I am a **** who's worthy of the name Of*  KING of FARTS!"  Unthinkingly I sniffed And, let me tell you, I have never whiffed Aught so potent, dank and dread and foul Blasted out from heaving human bowel As that king of farts I smelled today And which took my ******* breath away. Who was the pumper of that putrid beauty? How many curries in the line of duty Had he consumed?  It must have been a man - No pong so strong ere blew from female can. Can no one answer yet my urgent question: And say who suffereth such dire indigestion? O heavens! his torment must be something chronic. Can no one subsidise a high colonic Irrigation to prevent another Noisier and more noisome than its younger brother?
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Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014 at 7:34 PM UTC
A **** For All Mankind
Honesty the lost art/   Honesty is rare it should cost a lot/   It would be sublime if We could find it/   Honestly, honesty is the best policy/ We should treasure the thought cherished engulfed/   combined with Loyalty   till death do us part/ I yurn The lies tiring   like ones sleepy lay down Suffocating to a corpse/   Thought is boss employ by it   We're all guilty I guess/ Liar liar in court   A sentient being-ness/ Troth be told   I can't believe in this/ Question,   Am I the only one seeing this?/ Or only me blind and ain't            Seeing ****   I try and **** it out its epidemic, Chronic/ The remedy Poetry Hop    Visual Sonnets/ **** naked in   My correspondence/ Articulating articles   Waiting for responses/ Is it a defense mechanism   Of the conscious/ Honesty? Honestly/   Seems like everyone's Not doing it so its gotta BE/   Non honesty The ever lasting Prophecy/   And were full filling it The good succumbs   To the villainous/ My willingness/   To compromise my will I guess/   You could interpret as weak/ Most realize the Inside scoop   Yet everyone tells lies non interested in truth/   Me, a victim and a suspect An on going cycle yet/   I ask what's next/ as if I didn't know    Where the L lies underlying Facts can't grow/   HonestLy, we all lose an L to Honesty!
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 1:44 AM UTC
Honesty, Honestly?
my subject, mrs. ((brown?)) for this speech is going to be: obesity. ish. you see I remember the article you handed out to us, loos-leafed, fresh-pressed, a dry white piece that told, in simplest terms, the most inarguable & bland facts about !healthy eating & !weight loss! but mrs ((whatever)), I want to tell n and the entire ******* crisp class, that obesity is a load of steaming **** from someone who’s really fucki ng sick (you know how much better it stinks then) that obesity was made to be glorified, I don’t tell you this— I ****** jiggle it to you, grab my santa clause puch and shove it at you-- tick tock we wait for the clock to tell us what s to come, except it makes us guess --see this: a mid-age woman, mother, fat & previously fat, goes in for stabbing pain in the chest, or chronic diarrhea, seeing stars & no energy left. ((this happens)) the doctor says, well let’s weigh you n see if you’ve lost the weight I told you to lose before remember Sharol now Sharol..,,,, sweety….. you weigh 55.62 lbs over the state-set “healthy limit”k, so we’re just gonna give u these diet pills & I promise they work,. all nach-yer-awl u see, none of that waterweight ******** [! excuse my language] and in about 3 months you’ll lose half that overweight, and I promise the starsll go away and you’ll feel right tip top okay now that’ll be $60 & come bac k in a month to tell me how much you’ve lost okay haha but that’s alrightright? she was unhealthy & doctors make you healthy only her brain cancer maybe, or like, colon cancer or literally anything other obesity kills her in about 3 months bc the **** doctor would only pretend that she cared what was wrong with Sharol, sweety…,,, im sharol and so are you and so is your uncle & so is your mother, probably because most of us are “obese” & the only cure for obesity is the cure for the term “obesity” you see
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 3:50 PM UTC
Obesity
my subject, mrs. ((brown?)) for this speech is going to be: obesity. ish. you see I remember the article you handed out to us, loos-leafed, fresh-pressed, a dry white piece that told, in simplest terms, the most inarguable & bland facts about !healthy eating & !weight loss! but mrs ((whatever)), I want to tell n and the entire ******* crisp class, that obesity is a load of steaming **** from someone who’s really fucki ng sick (you know how much better it stinks then) that obesity was made to be glorified, I don’t tell you this— I ****** jiggle it to you, grab my santa clause puch and shove it at you-- tick tock we wait for the clock to tell us what s to come, except it makes us guess --see this: a mid-age woman, mother, fat & previously fat, goes in for stabbing pain in the chest, or chronic diarrhea, seeing stars & no energy left. ((this happens)) the doctor says, well let’s weigh you n see if you’ve lost the weight I told you to lose before remember Sharol now Sharol..,,,, sweety….. you weigh 55.62 lbs over the state-set “healthy limit”k, so we’re just gonna give u these diet pills & I promise they work,. all nach-yer-awl u see, none of that waterweight ******** [! excuse my language] and in about 3 months you’ll lose half that overweight, and I promise the starsll go away and you’ll feel right tip top okay now that’ll be $60 & come bac k in a month to tell me how much you’ve lost okay haha but that’s alrightright? she was unhealthy & doctors make you healthy only her brain cancer maybe, or like, colon cancer or literally anything other obesity kills her in about 3 months bc the **** doctor would only pretend that she cared what was wrong with Sharol, sweety…,,, im sharol and so are you and so is your uncle & so is your mother, probably because most of us are “obese” & the only cure for obesity is the cure for the term “obesity” you see
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Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
The fire this time
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Hello, I'm Very pleased to meet you, it's just you can't see it underneath my chronic "resting ***** face." I've actually been told that it's more of a chronic "sad and brooding" face, but, I'll take what I can get. Some things you need to know before dating me are I do like long walks to the bottom of the ocean, and I spent most of my childhood under bridges. I know what it's like to walk with two left feet - or no feet at all, so to speak. I smoke cigarettes when I'm sad because I like the feel and when I was a teenager, I wanted nothing more than to be Morrissey when I grew up. Plot twist: I grew up, and I'm still not Morrissey. But I can write you a mean love poem, and I'll do it on many occasions, even if I'm just meeting you. There won't be a second when I'm not falling in love with something, and, to be honest, I don't know how to live with (or without) that feeling. I guess I'll just fall in love with trees, then or something inanimate to break my fall. But in the meantime, some things you need to know before dating me are That there are often days where I can't even stand to face the wind that greets me and I flinch at every turn when I hear noise. I'm more timid than I look and yet I find comfort in dark things, a fake sense of the macabre and a firm grasp of words, see I could make anyone want to want me I just don't care to because people are ******* terrifying. And, in the end when my star burns out, all that is left in the center will be old words and photographs.
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Jun 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016 at 10:01 PM UTC
Some Things You Need To Know Before Dating Me
Hello, I'm Very pleased to meet you, it's just you can't see it underneath my chronic "resting ***** face." I've actually been told that it's more of a chronic "sad and brooding" face, but, I'll take what I can get. Some things you need to know before dating me are I do like long walks to the bottom of the ocean, and I spent most of my childhood under bridges. I know what it's like to walk with two left feet - or no feet at all, so to speak. I smoke cigarettes when I'm sad because I like the feel and when I was a teenager, I wanted nothing more than to be Morrissey when I grew up. Plot twist: I grew up, and I'm still not Morrissey. But I can write you a mean love poem, and I'll do it on many occasions, even if I'm just meeting you. There won't be a second when I'm not falling in love with something, and, to be honest, I don't know how to live with (or without) that feeling. I guess I'll just fall in love with trees, then or something inanimate to break my fall. But in the meantime, some things you need to know before dating me are That there are often days where I can't even stand to face the wind that greets me and I flinch at every turn when I hear noise. I'm more timid than I look and yet I find comfort in dark things, a fake sense of the macabre and a firm grasp of words, see I could make anyone want to want me I just don't care to because people are ******* terrifying. And, in the end when my star burns out, all that is left in the center will be old words and photographs.
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How did you end up flowing in my veins? I breathe you with every second that passes and I cry with tears that taste like you. Pathetic, right? I should make myself a tea and calm down... as if this could heal me... How can you heal with an ordinary tea, a chronic problem? Doctor, give me ten boxes of aspirin. we have to overcome the cold
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 3:08 PM UTC
we aspire
Everyday you ask why I love you You say "Why do you you love me when I put you through Hell. When I push you into your shell, And I never give you a straight answer. You say " Why do you love me when I can't love you back, And when I have all these mood swings." Well this is what I say. I love you because you are like my Asthma. I didn't chose to have you here with me all the time, but you are. You are here to make my life harder, But you also make me stronger. When the voggy winds blow And it gets hard to breathe It is you falling. Yet I pick that Inhaler of mine up And I take two deep breaths, and I lift you back up. As my breaths become clearer. I know that I will never be able to breathe as well as others. Just as I know I will never fall out of love for you. You are the chronic lung disease that forces me to try harder. The person that makes me try my hardest when I'm singing up on that stage. You motivate me. It is you that is always on my mind When I have to try hard to take breathes instead of just breathing. When I am running and my lungs start to choke me, it is the pain I feel every time I see you with him instead of me. Because Love You are my lung disease. You are the funny noise my breath makes when I dance, Because the Oxygen doesn't want to go in. And when you touch me I feel the buzzing sensation that I get when taking my albuterol. The warmth of my Nebulizer as it vaporizes the medicine for me to breathe. Every kiss you plant on my head, fills me with the dizziness that I get from my medication When I try to stand up, I end up falling just as hard as I have for you. You are the relief I feel when I take my Meds on a bad day, you make me feel normal again. That's why I love you. That is why I don't care if you're with him instead of me. Because you will always be with me. Just like my lung disease.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 9:02 PM UTC
I love you like Asthma
Everyday you ask why I love you You say "Why do you you love me when I put you through Hell. When I push you into your shell, And I never give you a straight answer. You say " Why do you love me when I can't love you back, And when I have all these mood swings." Well this is what I say. I love you because you are like my Asthma. I didn't chose to have you here with me all the time, but you are. You are here to make my life harder, But you also make me stronger. When the voggy winds blow And it gets hard to breathe It is you falling. Yet I pick that Inhaler of mine up And I take two deep breaths, and I lift you back up. As my breaths become clearer. I know that I will never be able to breathe as well as others. Just as I know I will never fall out of love for you. You are the chronic lung disease that forces me to try harder. The person that makes me try my hardest when I'm singing up on that stage. You motivate me. It is you that is always on my mind When I have to try hard to take breathes instead of just breathing. When I am running and my lungs start to choke me, it is the pain I feel every time I see you with him instead of me. Because Love You are my lung disease. You are the funny noise my breath makes when I dance, Because the Oxygen doesn't want to go in. And when you touch me I feel the buzzing sensation that I get when taking my albuterol. The warmth of my Nebulizer as it vaporizes the medicine for me to breathe. Every kiss you plant on my head, fills me with the dizziness that I get from my medication When I try to stand up, I end up falling just as hard as I have for you. You are the relief I feel when I take my Meds on a bad day, you make me feel normal again. That's why I love you. That is why I don't care if you're with him instead of me. Because you will always be with me. Just like my lung disease.
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Our lives are a Jenga masterpiece, a collage of self-interpreted debauchery that we have been told is the work of R.F. Is it necessary to destroy ourselves for the things that we desire? Why do I have to be symbolic of an Irish dome of the rock? (have you ever touched the rock?) (has anyone?) I am tarot prophetic in my loathing of our distorted level. I am chronic mime gestures on the West Banks of the Jordan. We are rouge lipstick smeared across blue collars and twisted pretzels lounging citrus grove clean and sad. I am just a man. We are just people. The buildings are just Lego's we have crushed and spent combating azure tides to stand ourselves straight against that last wall... but I love you still, despite.
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Sep 29, 2013
Sep 29, 2013 at 12:50 AM UTC
(engineer)
The hour that demands the following day be wasted. The hour that proves you are irresponsible. The hour for those under twenty-five. The hour birds wake to begin their incessant morning clamor. The hour the body begins to loathe the mind. The hour focus drifts away on the smoke of tonight's last cigarette. The hour of what-am-I-doing and how-can-I-live-like-this. The incorrigible hour. Chronic, hopeless. The most degenerate of all hours. There is little pleasure in familiarity with four in the morning. If those birds are screaming love ballads to the early morning sun three cheers for the birds. And let me now lie down to sleep if I am to go on living.
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 9:00 PM UTC
Four in the Morning (after Wislawa Szymborska)
what a strange word: toilet... as if one must toil - really work hard at it, all toil and no rest - when one is there... Ah, surely whoever coined this word must have suffered of chronic constipation...
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Oct 13, 2010
Oct 13, 2010 at 3:10 AM UTC
toilet humor
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 7:59 PM UTC
NȺƶȺɍɇŧħ FɍȺǥmɇnŧs
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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Sitting up late at night with smoke seen through the t.v light. I don't rest 'cause bed bugs bite It's like I'm my own parasite. Not symbiotic nor chronic, just nicotine and glowing screens. Bloodshot eyes even though I'm clean. A high intake of caffeine, keeps away my lucid dreams or nightmares. It's called despair. To  dwell on a concept, reliving the consequence. The past is no investment. The future is a slight nuance Its here that matters. Eat not of a tin platter This letter is self addressed When your up at night and your mind won't rest Can't figure out if your cursed or blessed It's the present that grades your test.
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 8:15 PM UTC
Bloodshot
Stupidity is a virus infecting and injecting large amounts of people at a time. He moves through minds with impeccable speed. Some people, no matter the treatments they receive will never recover. For is an Exodus with has the power to ****** masses. He is a force with the ability abolish revolutions and silence movements. Stupidity is chronic, never truly going away, always lurking in shadows waiting to attack. He is a survivor against all odds. Stupidity is perpetually kicking and screaming, fighting to remain the echo of humanity. Refusing to be ignored and never promising to stay quiet. Stupidity lives on amongst Gods and Kings, continuing to rule with an iron fist.
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Apr 22, 2012
Apr 22, 2012 at 3:14 AM UTC
Stupidity
Dear picture of mine comeback! My dear picture comeback! Comeback and leave. Let the helpless lovers rising from the tide of memoirs -with anger their shadows revealed by the light of stars- and the chronic from their forms of lust, let it fade away harmonic and undoubtedly in the wave of their union. Dear picture of mine comeback. Indefinite and freely dead by the envy of gods, untasted the essence of creation. Comeback and leave.. and as you leave, let the lovers;at the only sky -their own-forever there, in the last summer of their life.
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 8:54 AM UTC
Dear picture comeback
I’m a barbarian in a woman’s shape. I stomp into discourse with heavy steps. Driven by impulse, twisting like switchbacks. There are so many narratives... With one hand, I hold a megaphone to my mouth. With the other hand, from my heart, from my head, I pull out jagged digressions and awkward arguments. If I could weave just one logical thread to see a common perspective, to stop interpreting… I would stand tall on the pedestal of thorny incidents, inept appointments, yet proud that I would finally catch myself. I know, I can only dream of patiently knitting rushing words together. I can’t stitch these threads into a colored, beautiful patchwork, that could give some warmth to the quandary, or as a cover for chronic nostalgia. Meanwhile, within the conventions of social dreaming I tilt my head from side to side Asking myself with incredulity, How is it possible that the voice screaming inside me sounds so weak and dull?
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Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM UTC
Barbarian
Disclaimer: I did this as a creative rewrite for one of my university lit courses, and all the inspiration and quotes belong to Robert Browning the original writer of "My Last Duchess" HIS LAST DUCHESS ARRIVEDERCI _“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”_ (I’m not) Alas! Me, “a wonder.” He calls. Now wretchedly refined and pasteurized. To be consumed, now, for genteel eyes. Pity! Should you ever see me roll mine. Behind those curtains, you might have been surprised To see my countenance whimpering At you Sir; and seething, at _Him._ Must you not be fooled by that sickly decorum Upon which his manly pride resides. The Duke—what rich talent in envy he has, And of pithy idiosyncrasies! Pardon me now As I speak of his infamies: Is it not, Too preposterous of a Duke, to sulk And take offense, over a blush? (As if the blush was his to wield and shun.) Am I not allowed to flush _at all?_ And must I be ashamed of being swooned By the casual offers of life’s grandiosities? Each and every, dropping of the daylight, Ripen cherries in May and chivalrous gentlemen, my dear white mule; must I then weep at them all, only to prove my fancy for him. And when does gracious gratitude itself become in vain: a finite honour— deemed excessive elsewhere? Never had he plucked me out, for censure, Before he gave commands, I knew he did To pluck the smile out of my face. Utterly clueless—he thought I was To find myself throttled, for immodesty. A wife, an appendage to a Duke, Loosely felled, to stroke a green-eyed ego. My fault it seems, is a mere generosity Of affection: falsely opined, if not Misread, to fare a defect of temperament, A chronic malady, doth be cured by death. To cement the farce he will, soon, bring you Downstairs to meet a friend. (a fiend) A prized possession: Neptune, taming a sea-horse. His hubris incarnate, cast in bronze. But you must know the truth, for the sea-horse Did not perish for naught, she is freed from him At last.
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
HIS LAST DUCHESS
Disclaimer: I did this as a creative rewrite for one of my university lit courses, and all the inspiration and quotes belong to Robert Browning the original writer of "My Last Duchess" HIS LAST DUCHESS ARRIVEDERCI _“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”_ (I’m not) Alas! Me, “a wonder.” He calls. Now wretchedly refined and pasteurized. To be consumed, now, for genteel eyes. Pity! Should you ever see me roll mine. Behind those curtains, you might have been surprised To see my countenance whimpering At you Sir; and seething, at _Him._ Must you not be fooled by that sickly decorum Upon which his manly pride resides. The Duke—what rich talent in envy he has, And of pithy idiosyncrasies! Pardon me now As I speak of his infamies: Is it not, Too preposterous of a Duke, to sulk And take offense, over a blush? (As if the blush was his to wield and shun.) Am I not allowed to flush _at all?_ And must I be ashamed of being swooned By the casual offers of life’s grandiosities? Each and every, dropping of the daylight, Ripen cherries in May and chivalrous gentlemen, my dear white mule; must I then weep at them all, only to prove my fancy for him. And when does gracious gratitude itself become in vain: a finite honour— deemed excessive elsewhere? Never had he plucked me out, for censure, Before he gave commands, I knew he did To pluck the smile out of my face. Utterly clueless—he thought I was To find myself throttled, for immodesty. A wife, an appendage to a Duke, Loosely felled, to stroke a green-eyed ego. My fault it seems, is a mere generosity Of affection: falsely opined, if not Misread, to fare a defect of temperament, A chronic malady, doth be cured by death. To cement the farce he will, soon, bring you Downstairs to meet a friend. (a fiend) A prized possession: Neptune, taming a sea-horse. His hubris incarnate, cast in bronze. But you must know the truth, for the sea-horse Did not perish for naught, she is freed from him At last.
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He's found himself in the closet After he lost to himself in a game of tic-tac-toe And tied his lobster bib tightly Then hid his cheat sheet, for the pop quiz he knew was soon to come It's curtains for her She let the cat out of the bag And now she's up **** creek with ****** for paddles to go **** herself with Right in the birth canal Then we'll auction off the ****** We'll pass them off as European defibrillators Maybe some extremist will want them If we spew out enough mindless dribble The All Time Shit-Show is about to begin We have The Chronic Masturbater The Hypochondriac And The Pathological Liar It was either sometime yesterday Or sometime tomorrow Or was it sometime today? That you were all going to make fun of the boy with the cleft lip down at the laundromat? Out of the three of you The Pathological Lair sticks out like a sore thumb I can tell he was the runt of the litter Who always bites off more than he can chew I see the Hypochondriac has convinced himself he has eczema   He rattles off all his symptoms Inordinate filibustering   Now there's the Chronic Masturbater He looks like he's over the hill He's only twenty one But the blue circles under his eyes and the deep defined lines on his forehead denote his inelegant aging I sign all your lives away in my horrible cursive And now you belong to the ragtag trigger-happy posse of gun-jumpers My billfold his happily filled So I must go do some reconnaissance Spy on those who have quit their day jobs The fish out of water You must find that thing that really rolls off the tongue with a nice ring to it ****** ******* ******* ******* No... Go hang youself with dental flossed you home-schooled fool Indentured servants we're just an after thought
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
Smitten
He's found himself in the closet After he lost to himself in a game of tic-tac-toe And tied his lobster bib tightly Then hid his cheat sheet, for the pop quiz he knew was soon to come It's curtains for her She let the cat out of the bag And now she's up **** creek with ****** for paddles to go **** herself with Right in the birth canal Then we'll auction off the ****** We'll pass them off as European defibrillators Maybe some extremist will want them If we spew out enough mindless dribble The All Time Shit-Show is about to begin We have The Chronic Masturbater The Hypochondriac And The Pathological Liar It was either sometime yesterday Or sometime tomorrow Or was it sometime today? That you were all going to make fun of the boy with the cleft lip down at the laundromat? Out of the three of you The Pathological Lair sticks out like a sore thumb I can tell he was the runt of the litter Who always bites off more than he can chew I see the Hypochondriac has convinced himself he has eczema   He rattles off all his symptoms Inordinate filibustering   Now there's the Chronic Masturbater He looks like he's over the hill He's only twenty one But the blue circles under his eyes and the deep defined lines on his forehead denote his inelegant aging I sign all your lives away in my horrible cursive And now you belong to the ragtag trigger-happy posse of gun-jumpers My billfold his happily filled So I must go do some reconnaissance Spy on those who have quit their day jobs The fish out of water You must find that thing that really rolls off the tongue with a nice ring to it ****** ******* ******* ******* No... Go hang youself with dental flossed you home-schooled fool Indentured servants we're just an after thought
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Emotional abandonment of the Self by the Self is the greatest DECEIT of all. Becoming your own personal JUDAS, just because it's morally: SAFE? ACCEPTED? PROTECTIVE? What a **** way to kayak your way through life's never ending **** SHOW, starring YOU the **** PUPPET. Full of fear, full of **** Forcing yourself to FEEL or BE anyone but yourself is a fast train to CHRONIC SPIRITUAL CONSTIPATION. baaa baaa
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 3:21 PM UTC
Forcing Your Feelings **** River - An Ode To Mr. Lahey)
He lives in a time of plague. The tag team of cholera and dedication killed his father, for all Dr. Juvenal Urbino knows, his father was faithful to both work and love. The good doctor knew from an early age that his work would be his love, and from a slightly less tender age he discovered that his love of flesh and the body ran deeper than mere science could take him. He met Fermina Daza in the doorway between clinical curiosity and obsession over her doe’s gait, and as he walked through his heart made room for a new kind of dedication. He thought his devotion would be equally as precise as his practice. Fifteen or so years of marriage, between years in Paris they bled together like a Van Gogh after a rainshower, the intricacies of their companionship were jointly held in a contractual cradle, but neither of them felt obligated. Dr. Urbino was before my time, but my story will know the life of Carlos Mucharraz, Pre-Med major, they both dedicate themselves to their love. I’ve never seen her, but I can imagine Carlos likens her gait to that of a doe. He fawns over her from 17 hours away, for nearly a year. Like a Texas dust devil, he sends his love through the air to Minneapolis to brighten her phone screen and her day. They’ve only ever spent time together twice. I’d like to think of his devotion like a boulder, immovable, but twisters slither across prairies as wicked winds push them towards seas of lust, but I’d like to think his love flew above turbulent skies. I thought Dr. Urbino as a rock. He must have thought of his fidelity as a disease. His father died fighting cholera, and Urbino would not let his affliction of faithfulness **** him. He thought himself ill, and the mantra of his practice taught him one thing only: cure. In a slum of San Juan de la Cienaga, pants around his ankles, holding a mulatto girl’s legs around his waist, he crumbled like stale bread as he plunged himself into infidelity. This man of granite broke and fragmented, his sin etched a crooked cobweb of fractures into his back, I wonder if the beads of sweat stung his spine, or dulled the pain. But maybe I should put my faith in dust devils. Humans may be able to shatter the hardest stone, but no one commands the sky, for it straddles North and South, East and West, Fort Worth and Minneapolis.
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 7:20 PM UTC
Dr. Juvenal Urbino's Self-Diagnosis of Chronic Fidelity
He lives in a time of plague. The tag team of cholera and dedication killed his father, for all Dr. Juvenal Urbino knows, his father was faithful to both work and love. The good doctor knew from an early age that his work would be his love, and from a slightly less tender age he discovered that his love of flesh and the body ran deeper than mere science could take him. He met Fermina Daza in the doorway between clinical curiosity and obsession over her doe’s gait, and as he walked through his heart made room for a new kind of dedication. He thought his devotion would be equally as precise as his practice. Fifteen or so years of marriage, between years in Paris they bled together like a Van Gogh after a rainshower, the intricacies of their companionship were jointly held in a contractual cradle, but neither of them felt obligated. Dr. Urbino was before my time, but my story will know the life of Carlos Mucharraz, Pre-Med major, they both dedicate themselves to their love. I’ve never seen her, but I can imagine Carlos likens her gait to that of a doe. He fawns over her from 17 hours away, for nearly a year. Like a Texas dust devil, he sends his love through the air to Minneapolis to brighten her phone screen and her day. They’ve only ever spent time together twice. I’d like to think of his devotion like a boulder, immovable, but twisters slither across prairies as wicked winds push them towards seas of lust, but I’d like to think his love flew above turbulent skies. I thought Dr. Urbino as a rock. He must have thought of his fidelity as a disease. His father died fighting cholera, and Urbino would not let his affliction of faithfulness **** him. He thought himself ill, and the mantra of his practice taught him one thing only: cure. In a slum of San Juan de la Cienaga, pants around his ankles, holding a mulatto girl’s legs around his waist, he crumbled like stale bread as he plunged himself into infidelity. This man of granite broke and fragmented, his sin etched a crooked cobweb of fractures into his back, I wonder if the beads of sweat stung his spine, or dulled the pain. But maybe I should put my faith in dust devils. Humans may be able to shatter the hardest stone, but no one commands the sky, for it straddles North and South, East and West, Fort Worth and Minneapolis.
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but I am a different kind of adventurous. even if I only dance with others, or hit whistle notes with Brett, even if Joe's the only one I'd kiss without a single regret I love long car rides, I'll take your shift, I'll let you sleep an extra two hours I love the smell of sunscreen and graham crackers and how I've been sitting in these shorts for too long that there has to be a sweat stain. I don't know, have you ever had cheetos at a rest-stop before Modesto? We'd make it to Santa Cruz on time. I may not climb the Himalaya's with you, or go to Paraguay because I'm afraid of chronic diarrhea, but I am so much more than my fears. Have you ever had cheetos at a rest-stop before Modesto?
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 10:59 PM UTC
A Thousand Interestings.
her skin is jaundiced, quite like the color of the sky before a storm if you look at her long enough you can almost smell the rain on her skin. her ribs are not unlike the rungs of a ladder. once delicate fingers have been burned at the touch of acid and bones have been made brittle. her nails are jagged, each impacted with crescent moons of soil. the digging is ceaseless. she is searching for something she will never find, something that beacons like a lighthouse on the horizon a sign of safety but blinding when you try to take a closer look. she slinks along the edge of an unremitting chasm, dancing with the devil throughout the evening, but the night draws on and she comes dangerously close to stepping on his toes. her rhythm is wrong, the metronome is feeding her lies, but she is greedy and devours them all. the gnawing inside her returns. to sleep she goes, under the spell of the guilt washing over her like the sweet, sticky air of the summer, as the gnawing inside takes over.
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
chronic
Persuasive notions locked away, in many minds that go astray; When working along cryptic lines, which falter during chaotic times. While hidden in a separate space, these musings tend to be erased; Forgotten now in empty spheres, dissolve as echoes of chronic fears. Perhaps society has been foretold, of magic tales so brave and bold; Yet through the mastery of lies, they disappear before our eyes. Inside the quaintly shuttered room, the words seem subtle but still in tune; When wanton tales aroused before, a complex world of closing doors.
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Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 11:53 AM UTC
Behind Closed Doors
I tried to galvanise. I've got your smile carved in my eyes But it's all I can do Not to forget you 'Cause I'm dying from the outside in I'm dying from the outside in I onced tried to forget But found myself faced with regret And it's all I can do When your image sticks to me like clue And I'm dying from the outside in I'm dying from the outside in I've lost my balance It seems to be chronic My mind is not made up about you I'm hungry give me Gin & Tonic It's fun to play pretend But this has got to end I'm trying to replace you But I've got this mental issue I guess we'll just stay friends Until this unnamed feeling ends You'll be oblivious That I long for one more kiss    And I'm dying from the outside in I'm dying from the outside in
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 9:47 AM UTC
Incessant
High speed **** generation warped minds strong hands unreality stimulating, simulating digital lights flickering images of ******* endless variety of every kind on demand what has become of us what has become of touching, romance creepy accusations because genuine human interaction is going the way of the dodo, Oh, he didn't follow the smooth script, no chance man Maybe your testosterone was spent elsewhere and your vibes told the true true either way no *** for you the youth exploited and exploiting, insane cycles the itch, the tingle, the curiosity, the drive for more, dopamine release My generation had the first ******** access point and click no barriers can stop that drive, rooted in youthful pubescent longing we're sick on the digital drug Touch me instead bath me in your *** not this crude moving picture Let me drink you, taste your juice, feel you slide, touch the walls of your world, explode them, show the limitless illusion to boundaries, kink, ********** stop watching, live it chronic ************ robs us of the real intimacy, don't drain your desire for me with this crude digital ******* just because its there You can touch me, not your keyboard, not this plastic and metal I suppose you can touch yourself, but have the imagination to fantasize and then make it real share your life force with a human being, not some rag to be thrown away Rise to your lust, conquer the animal make its power serve make love, not digital mental war
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Jan 9, 2014
Jan 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM UTC
Growing Up with High Speed ****