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Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Every Day You Play....
Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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its been moments since I thought about you in any capacity minutes since I remembered some portion of our story hours since I felt anger days since I tried to pick up my phone weeks since I last contacted you months since we last touched. its been months since you crushed me weeks since I put on the brave face days since I longed for you hours since I spoke of you minutes of starring into a blank screen silently pleading moments before all this is behind me again. It’ll be Moments of weakness when I think about “us” Minutes of silent cursing while you run through my mind Hours of rationalizing before I let it go Days of depression I know Weeks of emotions crammed into a few minutes Months of self doubt and insanity Soon it’ll be years But I’ll always have the tears.
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Feb 25, 2010
Feb 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM UTC
timelines
here is little Effie’s head whose brains are made of gingerbread when the judgment day comes God will find six crumbs stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the other somethings did— you imagine His surprise bellowing through the general noise Where is Effie who was dead? —to God in a tiny voice, i am may the first crumb said whereupon its fellow five crumbs chuckled as if they were alive and number two took up the song, might i’m called and did no wrong cried the third crumb,i am should and this is my little sister could with our big brother who is would don’t punish us for we were good; and the last crumb with some shame whispered unto God,my name is must and with the others i’ve been Effie who isn’t alive just imagine it I say God amid a monstrous din watch your step and follow me stooping by Effie’s little, in (want a match or can you see?) which the six subjunctive crumbs twitch like mutilated thumbs: picture His peering biggest whey coloured face on which a frown puzzles, but I know the way— (nervously Whose eyes approve the blessed while His ears are crammed with the strenuous music of the innumerable capering ****** —staring wildly up and down the here we are now judgment day cross the threshold have no dread lift the sheet back in this way. here is little Effie’s head whose brains are made of gingerbread
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Here Is Little Effie’s Head
velcro wallet was navy, i think gray plastic zipper grandma gave you i had a locket it had your picture inside but you threw it away because you looked like a rabbit apparently hair fluffed, eyes puffy two teeth and two hours of squirming on a photo booth plastic coin pouch small crayola blue walmart sticker on a side but it never made me smile not like that piggy bank did yard sale treasure dinosaur-shaped no smashing to withdrawl our tooth fairy dollars and dust still, you crammed stink bugs down the long neck's back now, a denim bag on my bed rhinestoned one in the closet and your wallet is real leather, i think has superheroes on it rough and grungy as the comic books in the attic or, did you toss those too? who needs a screwdriver without a ***** that's all money was just hardware we didn't have much use for but there is more than one way to use a tool so here, i'll paint it straighter who needs a coffin without a corpse? especially when we were so full of life back then
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 9:13 PM UTC
sibling snippet 10
What does it mean to cry When feelings stay locked from the Surface Emotions I fear Crammed into small tears The tears that I make myself Forfeit What does it mean to hurt When the scars are from those Who don’t know you They’ve watched you grow up And you feel their love But they don’t know the real you When I’m asleep I run Down a path in a gold And green Meadow And someone’s out there With true love to share Then I wake in the real world Feeling alone Alone I’m home That shouldn’t be so Where’s the log to my fire? Because I’m working for me And I’ll never retire Bring on the thunder! Bring on the rain!! There’s no true life Without some small pain So I’ll be the thunder! And I’ll be the rain!! I know how to cry now So I’ll work through the pain If I’m coming alive I acknowledge I hurt inside My tribulation brought me to salvation I had to suffer to write I don’t need you to understand my plight Just know that I’m coming alive
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 1:55 AM UTC
Coming Alive
At seventeen I am almost grown. Almost old enough to own a home of my own. Yet, i remain viewed as young, naive. Told I am too young to know what i believe. At seventeen the world drowns me in a sea of questions it doesn't want the answers to. At seventeen everyone thinks they know whats best for me, "....grow up, be a part of your society." Don't worry about happiness that's a selfish priority. "...grow up." But at seventeen its hard to differentiate between hopes and reality. It's sad you can do anything you believe, but i fear it's a lie, we've all been teased. The proof? On the streets. An endless stream of people who've had their dreams seized. I dread the thought of this stream consuming me. Me? Me? At seventeen I don't know if I am me. Or just everything that's ever been crammed down my throat into a part of my brain I cant pronounce. At seventeen I've fallen down a rabbit hole. The queen of hearts pounding me with every cliche ideal every adult has told me to believe. The white rabbit screaming to me the time. 17..18..19 I just want to leave. I am only seventeen. But if not this rabbit hole where? Just a new nightmare? Filled with symbolism I should get. Things I should know. Seventeen is plenty of time to grow... grow up. But I am only seventeen. I am only seventeen. Am only seventeen. Only seventeen. Seventeen. I am seventeen. At seventeen the world says I am almost grown. At seventeen I am scared to have a home of my own. At seventeen I question everything I ever knew. But remain unchanged. Remain floating through life without a clue.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 6:12 PM UTC
Seventeen
At seventeen I am almost grown. Almost old enough to own a home of my own. Yet, i remain viewed as young, naive. Told I am too young to know what i believe. At seventeen the world drowns me in a sea of questions it doesn't want the answers to. At seventeen everyone thinks they know whats best for me, "....grow up, be a part of your society." Don't worry about happiness that's a selfish priority. "...grow up." But at seventeen its hard to differentiate between hopes and reality. It's sad you can do anything you believe, but i fear it's a lie, we've all been teased. The proof? On the streets. An endless stream of people who've had their dreams seized. I dread the thought of this stream consuming me. Me? Me? At seventeen I don't know if I am me. Or just everything that's ever been crammed down my throat into a part of my brain I cant pronounce. At seventeen I've fallen down a rabbit hole. The queen of hearts pounding me with every cliche ideal every adult has told me to believe. The white rabbit screaming to me the time. 17..18..19 I just want to leave. I am only seventeen. But if not this rabbit hole where? Just a new nightmare? Filled with symbolism I should get. Things I should know. Seventeen is plenty of time to grow... grow up. But I am only seventeen. I am only seventeen. Am only seventeen. Only seventeen. Seventeen. I am seventeen. At seventeen the world says I am almost grown. At seventeen I am scared to have a home of my own. At seventeen I question everything I ever knew. But remain unchanged. Remain floating through life without a clue.
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You can write for hours on hours, Of all the things that you wish you could be, But the truth of the matter is simple, People are not poetry. And I know you wish you weren't awkward, That sweet words easily rolled right off your tongue, But your time here's too short just to worry, How each individual sentence is strung, It's okay to be rough around the edges, To be bruised up and broken and scarred, But it's not acceptable to let people tell you, That it's a reason to change who you are, Your hair doesn't always sit neatly, The way a poem sits so neatly in lines, And sometimes you might feel like a word, That nobody has yet or learned to define, You might not be a star that lights the darkness, Or a bird that can teach us to soar, But it's alright because you are too complex, To be crammed into one simple metaphor, It's okay not to know what you're doing, Since your feelings don't all have to rhyme, Though a poem once complete is eternal, You have the freedom to change over time, You're much more than can ever be written, And there is no title to say, "This Is Me", You can't be trapped in the lines of a notebook, Because people are not poetry.
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 8:02 PM UTC
People Are Not Poetry
in the somatic nervous system, acetylcholine (ACh) stimulates skeletal muscle, causing contraction action potentials in the 8am physio lecture, the biggest on campus crammed with nursing majors, and health science hankerers, public health preachers, OT saints and angels amino acid NTs: glutamate (+) GABA (-) aspartate (+) glycine (-) the prof wrote on a distant whiteboard too many complained about being lost she made a joke about feeding ******* to mice for her neuroscience research amines: serotonin (-) dopamine (-/+) norepinephrine (+/-) epinephrine (+) STEM-dominated when i'm just looking to drop my roots and press that good earth into the spaces between my toes and under my nails but the grounds are a garden of biodiversity from clippings gathered by migrant habit-clad founders more than a century ago the soil is fertile            it is temperate there are water filters in most residences there is enough here for me
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 3:06 PM UTC
DU, san rafael, wed./thurs. [2/18] [2/19]
your face went on every milk carton in my dreams when you went missing & i listened to a song about how the churches in your hometown were built from the martyred mahogany of shipwrecks i dare you to think i can't rip the very mood from your temperate fingertips when i am cold and hell bent on seeing you oceans away, wince this is not an "i saw this coming all along" poem or a "i still wonder about the moments between breaths when your phone lights up" poem.. this is a will & a way with brass knuckles maybe a barehanded bludgeon but i swear i'm trying to sleep at night without wondering how cold it is in your bed. so mother goose tell me about the whispered prayers crammed into the earthquakes you call hands about an ennui that speaks to me.
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 11:32 PM UTC
traitor
Hurry now, it’s leaving soon Car door slams, gravel underfoot And from the boot Grandmas lil helper is lifted Oh! Where did it go? Wind twists scarf to snake Released from frames captivity I stoop and tug Under your foot, Gran She shuffles, Ties it firmly around tiny shoulders Bright colour against delicate skin Paper thin, both, One for beauty, one to hold the blood in And may it hold the blood in, Just a little longer... The train awaits, Monstrous, Steele stark against surrounding bush. Matt has a sausage, Mum bothers about tickets, Both fuss and fizzle, I press lips firmly together Deciding then and there Never to let entertainment turn to stress; It’s more than it’s worth. We’re to be in the engine room, The rest will be left behind - As something faulty. Matt lifts Gran up; She’s tiny, She’s flying, She’s in. And then we’re all in. Crammed. We stare longingly through grimy glass At empty carriages Can’t we be in there? It’s all a bit stuffy. There’s a fire along the track But we don’t go any further. The smoke streams out over forest. And jerking and bumping, Dipping along, We reverse back to whence we started. Petrol fumes and smoke fill our tiny cocoon Here, let me help you Passenger to passenger, Fellow human, Compassionate eyes. Gran has a seat; She sways while we lurch. Deep within Railroad country I make believe I know something Of the girl Of the Plannies; That sacred connection To land and sky, To Native country, To Golden Macrocarpa I stare over hills of tree ferns, Kawakawa, Wheki, Punga And, knowing no other, I feel this land Majestically My own.
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
Railroad Country, Sacred Land
Hurry now, it’s leaving soon Car door slams, gravel underfoot And from the boot Grandmas lil helper is lifted Oh! Where did it go? Wind twists scarf to snake Released from frames captivity I stoop and tug Under your foot, Gran She shuffles, Ties it firmly around tiny shoulders Bright colour against delicate skin Paper thin, both, One for beauty, one to hold the blood in And may it hold the blood in, Just a little longer... The train awaits, Monstrous, Steele stark against surrounding bush. Matt has a sausage, Mum bothers about tickets, Both fuss and fizzle, I press lips firmly together Deciding then and there Never to let entertainment turn to stress; It’s more than it’s worth. We’re to be in the engine room, The rest will be left behind - As something faulty. Matt lifts Gran up; She’s tiny, She’s flying, She’s in. And then we’re all in. Crammed. We stare longingly through grimy glass At empty carriages Can’t we be in there? It’s all a bit stuffy. There’s a fire along the track But we don’t go any further. The smoke streams out over forest. And jerking and bumping, Dipping along, We reverse back to whence we started. Petrol fumes and smoke fill our tiny cocoon Here, let me help you Passenger to passenger, Fellow human, Compassionate eyes. Gran has a seat; She sways while we lurch. Deep within Railroad country I make believe I know something Of the girl Of the Plannies; That sacred connection To land and sky, To Native country, To Golden Macrocarpa I stare over hills of tree ferns, Kawakawa, Wheki, Punga And, knowing no other, I feel this land Majestically My own.
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skyscraper man on seattle time looms in the corner of swan lake and fry untouchable denim untouchable blueblack plaid jacket he's put together with clothespins he's put together with stipends he's crammed between taxi cab book ends skyscraper man on seattle time stoic as the jet engines roar by all his friends are magazines all his friends currentbrief he's got a little future he's got a few dimes he's got no father to call out the lies skyscraper man on seattle time watches smog children kick ***** on concrete vulnerable under trees writes his novels in purpleink he's married once before he's read crucifixion lore he's returned his money to the store skyscraper man on seattle time looking through spectacles of ***** and brine the rain falls hard the breeze sweet on the leaves he's emptying the soul of modern rock n' roll he's emptying the tray of ashed thought he's emptying the bank account cold skyscraper man on seattle time sheds crinkled skinmemory like the cicada a twin-sized deathbed deathbed in apt. 203 he's nothing. he's ever. he's happened. skyscraper man on seattle time carbon copied and eternal as saltwater as rust invisible and tapping at the runrain window he's nothing. he's ever. he's happened. skyscraper man on seattle time climbs himself to the cosmos lightheaded perfection ethereal visions of fullbloom love and legacy with measure he's nothing. he's ever. he's happened.
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 11:04 AM UTC
nothingeverhappened
I've done a lot..... I've done a lot in my lifetime..... I've done a lot in the past 11 months... I've felt even more... I've made decisions.... I've made mistakes.... I've created conclusions and shoved them in the mirror's reflection. I've made a finalization... I've terminated the story... I've concluded this connection. Now I'm alone... Now I feel like excess emotions left in a puddle to be stepped in and splashed in, for fun or dismay. -a muddy disgrace of distaste. -a muddy reflection of disgust. -a distraction on the path to your destination. I feel sick... Sick to my stomach Sick in the Mind... Sickly branches that creep out from my heart, determined to entomb my entire internal system, and hold me there to deal with what level I've continued to stoop myself too. Myself... the one that's so much better than what she's encountered and how she's figured her future. I deserve what I have, and what I choose. I deserve what I get, for what I've chosen. I'm throwing up... I'm throwing up everything... everything that my heart has eaten right out of the palms of those who've given it to me. I don't wanna feel it anymore.... I don't want that pressure forced on my stomach any longer. I'm sick... I'm sick again. Its all coming up.... I'm letting it out... all the emotions that so rightfully belong on the floor in a jumbled mess rather then crammed in my stomach where they explode with temptation as my stomach thrusts itself in circles.... its looking for a way to let everything go. My body knows whats right.... I'm emotionally anorexic. I throw it all away without wanting to let it go, I would rather keep everything that reminds me of that time, that time when my stomach did not churn in agony... I am miserable.... I am mistaken.... and misjudged... I am sick... and distracted... I'm... lost? Lost in the mirrors and fine lines... fine lines between punishment and disabilities... I can see myself.... I see myself pale and done. Done with everything I'm hearing and thinking right now. I've gone too far. I'm done.
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 2:56 PM UTC
I am... From Which
I've done a lot..... I've done a lot in my lifetime..... I've done a lot in the past 11 months... I've felt even more... I've made decisions.... I've made mistakes.... I've created conclusions and shoved them in the mirror's reflection. I've made a finalization... I've terminated the story... I've concluded this connection. Now I'm alone... Now I feel like excess emotions left in a puddle to be stepped in and splashed in, for fun or dismay. -a muddy disgrace of distaste. -a muddy reflection of disgust. -a distraction on the path to your destination. I feel sick... Sick to my stomach Sick in the Mind... Sickly branches that creep out from my heart, determined to entomb my entire internal system, and hold me there to deal with what level I've continued to stoop myself too. Myself... the one that's so much better than what she's encountered and how she's figured her future. I deserve what I have, and what I choose. I deserve what I get, for what I've chosen. I'm throwing up... I'm throwing up everything... everything that my heart has eaten right out of the palms of those who've given it to me. I don't wanna feel it anymore.... I don't want that pressure forced on my stomach any longer. I'm sick... I'm sick again. Its all coming up.... I'm letting it out... all the emotions that so rightfully belong on the floor in a jumbled mess rather then crammed in my stomach where they explode with temptation as my stomach thrusts itself in circles.... its looking for a way to let everything go. My body knows whats right.... I'm emotionally anorexic. I throw it all away without wanting to let it go, I would rather keep everything that reminds me of that time, that time when my stomach did not churn in agony... I am miserable.... I am mistaken.... and misjudged... I am sick... and distracted... I'm... lost? Lost in the mirrors and fine lines... fine lines between punishment and disabilities... I can see myself.... I see myself pale and done. Done with everything I'm hearing and thinking right now. I've gone too far. I'm done.
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Walking in a circle is, in the fondest sense, going absolutely nowhere, even though it feels better than walking completely backwards. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I have never even been face to face with you and mine grows weaker and weaker with the length of time between the moments I get to touch you. The strange thing is that, prior to meeting you, I have a hard time describing what it was I was even doing - the storms you have hurled into my quiet life is all I know now, and I never realized just how flimsy my own infrastructure was. I have seeped into the walls you throw dishes in and the floors you roll around on, and I feel everything your fists do equally, if not more. Who knows my body better than you? The places I dip and divide and slope and bend; who has held me down with nothing but words and sweaty silence that lay thick enough for us to cut with butcher knives? My stomach is trained to clench is desperation when your name is mentioned and I am nervous around anyone who shares with you; a picture is worth a thousand words, but your name is worth one million, and you've never spoken mine aloud but I have murmured yours, like a mantra, repeatedly, groaning in the way wounded animals do and trembling with that same fear. I can't count on my fingers how many nights I traded sleep for a reason to talk to you, and all too well do I know how many lifetimes are crammed into the seconds before an anticipated phone call. People might wonder how I even survive when you aren't around, but how many ways can a dog entertain himself when the master is away? Oftentimes, in a state of unwarranted panic, I claw at my clothes as though you are lurking underneath, and only rarely are you there, metaphysically. I am not the only person the rain falls on; I understand that there are plenty of others who are lulled by the charm of someone who knows nature of a human being in the way that otherworldly creatures might, but in this instance I know that everyone is haunted in their own exclusive way, and you are always flickering in the periphery of my blurry vision when my bedroom lights are out.
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Jun 22, 2014
Jun 22, 2014 at 11:13 AM UTC
cops and donuts
Walking in a circle is, in the fondest sense, going absolutely nowhere, even though it feels better than walking completely backwards. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I have never even been face to face with you and mine grows weaker and weaker with the length of time between the moments I get to touch you. The strange thing is that, prior to meeting you, I have a hard time describing what it was I was even doing - the storms you have hurled into my quiet life is all I know now, and I never realized just how flimsy my own infrastructure was. I have seeped into the walls you throw dishes in and the floors you roll around on, and I feel everything your fists do equally, if not more. Who knows my body better than you? The places I dip and divide and slope and bend; who has held me down with nothing but words and sweaty silence that lay thick enough for us to cut with butcher knives? My stomach is trained to clench is desperation when your name is mentioned and I am nervous around anyone who shares with you; a picture is worth a thousand words, but your name is worth one million, and you've never spoken mine aloud but I have murmured yours, like a mantra, repeatedly, groaning in the way wounded animals do and trembling with that same fear. I can't count on my fingers how many nights I traded sleep for a reason to talk to you, and all too well do I know how many lifetimes are crammed into the seconds before an anticipated phone call. People might wonder how I even survive when you aren't around, but how many ways can a dog entertain himself when the master is away? Oftentimes, in a state of unwarranted panic, I claw at my clothes as though you are lurking underneath, and only rarely are you there, metaphysically. I am not the only person the rain falls on; I understand that there are plenty of others who are lulled by the charm of someone who knows nature of a human being in the way that otherworldly creatures might, but in this instance I know that everyone is haunted in their own exclusive way, and you are always flickering in the periphery of my blurry vision when my bedroom lights are out.
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The shoes I bought Are too big for me But I love them I love them dearly I strapped them up tight I redid the laces Put on layers of socks Crammed ***** of tissue to fill the empty spaces I submerged them in water In a pail, to the bottom they'd sink I left them in the sun In the hopes that they'd shrink I just wish that they'd peer through their eyelets And see me for all I've done I will not cease to fill the voids And fulfil the love I've begun The shoes I bought They remain too big for me But I still love them I love them dearly
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 10:55 AM UTC
Shoes
My hands shake so much that every time I touch glass, it breaks and leaves blood running through the lines in my palms. This has happened so often that my psychic tells me she's unable to tell my future because the lines in my hands are so stained that they can't be read anymore. You see, what she's really trying to tell me is that my psyche is so damaged from lack of oxygen due to drowning in this anxiety. So don't you dare call this femininity because it isn't very womanly to crave unconsciousness any time I'm alone. If femininity is synonymous with being beautiful then tell me how it's beautiful to have attempted to die twenty-one times, Or how two hospitalizations lead me out of the waters of my depression but yet still left me drowning in the ocean with anxiety. This is not feminine and this is not beautiful, this is my mother screaming that I'm crazy and my father claiming "we're only doing this because we love you," This is my anxiety and I in a water-filled box that decreases in size until my head is crammed against the top and the only way I can go is down, This is my anxiety tied like bricks to my ankles with the sole purpose of holding me under; This is NOT womanly or feminine or beautiful. So I beg of you, do not refer to me with metaphors about bodies of water because I don't need a reminder to let me know I'm drowning, My ****** hands tell me enough about that.
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 6:45 PM UTC
"Drowning is a feminine way to die," but drowning in anxiety doesn't seem to be so feminine.
If you visit google's home page today You will see a Japanese man Examining noodles with a microscope Hahaha Thank you Momofuku Ando! For inventing Top Ramen Although not the healthiest choice Here are the sodium levels for each flavor Top Ramen Oriental Flavor-- 800 mg 33% daily value Top Ramen Beef Flavor-- 760 mg 32 % daily value Top Ramen Chicken Flavor-- 910 mg 38% daily value Top Ramen Shrimp Flavor-- 860 mg 36% daily value Top Ramen Picante Beef Flavor-- 780 mg 32% daily value Top Ramen Chili Flavor-- 760 mg 32% daily value If you are watching your sodium levels Stay away from the chicken and shrimp flavors Lol! Many college students Throughout the past few decades Have relied on Top Ramen As they crammed for their exams I have even indulged And enjoyed Top Ramen Once or twice During my early college years
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Mar 5, 2015
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
A Tribute To Momofuku Ando
Off to the park a picnic yeah three women a wean and a man who don't scare well not too easily... as long as the swings don't make him queasily up the slide ok wee girl she's gonna fall my toes all curl nope she seems to have it dialled little hurricane dynamo child then the swings for about12 seconds three turns on the roundabout maybe less I reckon then back to the slide God I am puffed hasn't the wee girl had enough? Ok I grab achicken roll two bites its in a muddy hole this picnic is turning out to be endurance playing for Jeremy tried the kids swing I got jammed like wearing steel Y-fronts my privates were crammed ok so it was all my choice I say in a funny high-pitched voice "Jesus go up" I am told so I go Only she calls me that now you know where she got it who can guess got an idea won't confess (better than being a skinny Welsh Tw*t) starting to flag like I smoked a *** need an emergency sicky bag go home soon and lie down quick after picnic and playing I am quite sick
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Mar 3, 2011
Mar 3, 2011 at 7:55 AM UTC
Picnic Yeah
I've now coined the diagnosis "Portable Hoarder" -  Carrying my life in bags and duffles, pockets and sleeves. Accumulating more baggage than would fit in a **** terminal. But now, I am home. Me, and my ***** laundry. And I don't fit anymore. Crammed amidst my past. Falling out the door; Spilling across my floor. Me, myself, and Marshall. **So, TONIGHT I'm cleaning out my closet.**
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 7:20 AM UTC
I Was Raised by Marshall Mathers & JK Rowling
our bread and butter...      *the web of stars,      the scatter of moons      and orbiting planets.* the entire universe harvested and crammed into the metre, of a poetic verse. our bread and butter...      *harnessing the regal rays of the sun.      inflating the fluff of quiet clouds.      drinking up the winds of the weather.      revering the magic in the flight of birds.* we fill our cups to the brim... with fantastical dreams and let spill over parchment the cornucopia of idealised words. our bread and butter... the incessant peeling and picking on healing wounds. of which we have learnt to savour...      *let bleed      the willing blood...      feed the seeds      with impending flood.* nurture to fruition thoughts stunted in discretion. bring to light thoughts hidden in the nether. our bread and butter... we dip... the nibs, of our word worn feathers. let them sink, shallow beneath the surface to the sanctity of a familiar place.      *casting our trials,      and tribulations...      pent up emotions,      and what we think      unto paper      with the burn of      everlasting ink.*
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 9:16 AM UTC
Bread and Butter
The amount of days I've been given have been kind, but each day rather cruel Trying to lift the thumb off my back of the looming stresses that rule It could be me again and this is not the end, if fact it probably is So before I unleash my problems, swear to mind your business I would be lying if I said I wanted this day to last a forever Because I found myself one forever short once we weren't together I've said my piece so many times the puzzle is almost complete So I've decided it's time to get off my knees and back onto my feet I've fallen so much I keep Flintstones band-aids close at hand My heart sewn to my sleeve for only you, which I've yet to understand You unscrewed the machine that was me and left the parts on the floor And I'm pretty sure I won't work just right anymore Fading is the dynasty of what we labeled our so-called "love" Like sticking my foot inside my sock at night to find it's a glove The discombobulation is so overwhelming, I think the ocean is jealous Could I start swimming now or is that being too over-zealous Life is hard and the people crammed in it tend to make it worse At times I tell myself it to cry, look to the sky, and curse But there's a tune in my mind that won't seem to shut up from that one song Telling me life is a ride, kid: grieve, learn, burn, and move on
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 11:33 PM UTC
Breakup Hangover
This room reeks of apathy, but the overwhelming smell, the horrid stench creeps, seeping from the jar. I have crammed too much stuff into it. This stuff of angst disappointment damaged pride biting regret insecurities loneliness tension failure pain. Pain crammed into a jar shoved into a corner of this room. The room that used to reek of apathy.
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Nov 28, 2011
Nov 28, 2011 at 9:57 PM UTC
Ignored Jar
The wobbly love bits woke up when the morning is still fogged by cold purple-hued freshness She covers her face but reveals those baby eyes to follow you with mirthful wonder and she flails her wobbly fingers and wobbly arms with playful waves and her mother takes away her blankie And she is dressed in blue, and that sort of beauty all crammed inside that little brand new human being can be quite overwhelming Her few feather hairs and happiness-crinkling eyes and mouth in a laughing sort of circle and her invisible neck and super puff-loved cheeks And love-hearts fill the air and spread joy though your bones and nerves like warm sunshine that melts yesterday's despair and dissipates all the tiny agonies within her radius. -To Alice Jan 7, 2016
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Feb 15, 2016
Feb 15, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
To Alice
We were two introverts surrounded by an infestation of the dipsomania and delight. Ingested by white noise, flashing lights and sin, we stood sheltered behind conservatism and our cocktails. This technophonic cave was crammed with lascivious men modeling their lavish kicks and threads in pursuit of non-commitment. With our backs pressed firmly against our salutary wall, we felt inviolable. But then, you turned to me. Your chandelier earrings exploded the luminescence and trepidation into a million particles, and through the deafening roar of pandemonium and decadence, you offered a wink and said, “Let’s dance.”
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Dec 3, 2011
Dec 3, 2011 at 4:11 AM UTC
The Beginning
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? I spoke a tongue that was passed on To me in the place I happened to be, A place huddled between grey walls Of cloud for at least half the year. My word for heaven was not yours. The word for hell had a sharp edge Put on it by the hand of the wind Honing, honing with a shrill sound Day and night. Nothing that Glyn Dwr Knew was armour against the rain's Missiles. What was descent from him? Even God had a Welsh name: He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book. Yet men sought us despite this. My high cheek-bones, my length of skull Drew them as to a rare portrait By a dead master. I saw them stare From their long cars, as I passed knee-deep In ewes and wethers. I saw them stand By the thorn hedges, watching me string The far flocks on a shrill whistle. And always there was their eyes; strong Pressure on me: You are Welsh, they said; Speak to us so; keep your fields free Of the smell of petrol, the loud roar Of hot tractors; we must have peace And quietness. Is a museum Peace? I asked. Am I the keeper Of the heart's relics, blowing the dust In my own eyes? I am a man; I never wanted the drab role Life assigned me, an actor playing To the past's audience upon a stage Of earth and stone; the absurd label Of birth, of race hanging askew About my shoulders. I was in prison Until you came; your voice was a key Turning in the enormous lock Of hopelessness. Did the door open To let me out or yourselves in?
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A Welsh Testament
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? I spoke a tongue that was passed on To me in the place I happened to be, A place huddled between grey walls Of cloud for at least half the year. My word for heaven was not yours. The word for hell had a sharp edge Put on it by the hand of the wind Honing, honing with a shrill sound Day and night. Nothing that Glyn Dwr Knew was armour against the rain's Missiles. What was descent from him? Even God had a Welsh name: He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book. Yet men sought us despite this. My high cheek-bones, my length of skull Drew them as to a rare portrait By a dead master. I saw them stare From their long cars, as I passed knee-deep In ewes and wethers. I saw them stand By the thorn hedges, watching me string The far flocks on a shrill whistle. And always there was their eyes; strong Pressure on me: You are Welsh, they said; Speak to us so; keep your fields free Of the smell of petrol, the loud roar Of hot tractors; we must have peace And quietness. Is a museum Peace? I asked. Am I the keeper Of the heart's relics, blowing the dust In my own eyes? I am a man; I never wanted the drab role Life assigned me, an actor playing To the past's audience upon a stage Of earth and stone; the absurd label Of birth, of race hanging askew About my shoulders. I was in prison Until you came; your voice was a key Turning in the enormous lock Of hopelessness. Did the door open To let me out or yourselves in?
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Intimidated by political thugs Prone to insert in one's mouth The nose of a loaded gun Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water On males' reproductive ***** Devoid of freedom of expression Also denied  to his right and Deplorable condition drawing attention Shunning his God chosen land, What is more a bright and warm country Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began Fighting all odds between The deep blue sea and the angry Satan To migrate to a better place, Where for democracy Avowedly there is a better space, Inhabited by civilized people, Averse to discrimination based on race! Burning his boat, Crossing desserts, Crammed with other refugees, Packed with him in a boat Some trying  to reverse Their economic lot, Surfing uncharted waters Seeking a paradise on earth He headed to the country he sought Though some their lives At the hand of brutal traffickers lost Beaten and thrown out of the boat, Also at a port Suspected of a terrorist bent Many migrants to prisons were sent. After a humiliating acid test Why for a dreamland his country he left As migrants' bane They placed him at the foot Of an ice-clad mountain. “I will never see My country again, You are trying my patience in vain!" He vowed Despite the razor-sharp cold untold. Then they took him up higher An epitome to a cold fire! Once more He put his foot down Putting on more clothes and Changing attire. They placed him At the mountain's helm As hell dark Where the angel of death Is seen stark. Then in his head Something began to bark “*You rather choose the better evil If both your assailants and hosts Are no two different devil! *" Seeing first hand Those with cold shoulder Assylem seekers adore to attack Though there are Few not off humanity's track At last he decided to return back And under his country's sun bask Mum for his rights to ask Killing his journalistic knack!
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Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM UTC
The better evil
Intimidated by political thugs Prone to insert in one's mouth The nose of a loaded gun Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water On males' reproductive ***** Devoid of freedom of expression Also denied  to his right and Deplorable condition drawing attention Shunning his God chosen land, What is more a bright and warm country Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began Fighting all odds between The deep blue sea and the angry Satan To migrate to a better place, Where for democracy Avowedly there is a better space, Inhabited by civilized people, Averse to discrimination based on race! Burning his boat, Crossing desserts, Crammed with other refugees, Packed with him in a boat Some trying  to reverse Their economic lot, Surfing uncharted waters Seeking a paradise on earth He headed to the country he sought Though some their lives At the hand of brutal traffickers lost Beaten and thrown out of the boat, Also at a port Suspected of a terrorist bent Many migrants to prisons were sent. After a humiliating acid test Why for a dreamland his country he left As migrants' bane They placed him at the foot Of an ice-clad mountain. “I will never see My country again, You are trying my patience in vain!" He vowed Despite the razor-sharp cold untold. Then they took him up higher An epitome to a cold fire! Once more He put his foot down Putting on more clothes and Changing attire. They placed him At the mountain's helm As hell dark Where the angel of death Is seen stark. Then in his head Something began to bark “*You rather choose the better evil If both your assailants and hosts Are no two different devil! *" Seeing first hand Those with cold shoulder Assylem seekers adore to attack Though there are Few not off humanity's track At last he decided to return back And under his country's sun bask Mum for his rights to ask Killing his journalistic knack!
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