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"doppelganger" poems
I fight with my twin. You struggle with the scales. We’re both torn this time and love won’t prevail. My opposite, my doppelganger, my sister And you can balance but it won’t fix us. What you seek I can’t give away easily and what I need you won’t give to me. My what an astrological web of disaster we have woven. Think fondly of me, my Libra Lover.
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Jul 6, 2011
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:59 AM UTC
Astrological Misconceptions.
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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*Meeting up with the dragon was a page out of an intergalactic adventure; shaking hands with doppelganger, it was. He insisted that he is still a mythical animal just don't exist in real, he was so apologetic to the point of being mawkish, "Don't want to mislead any one to somewhere, let's be scientific to think, you took such pains to make this meeting happen, which is not the case in real,                                     do you see me well? He was  in panic, it seemed, took him in confidence and made him stay put. "What's real is a long debate don't think I am real, material world could easily proved an illusion matter in to energy and reverse is the story we see here quantum mechanics will end all your qualms everything is in a state of flux even the scientists are, sometimes they see black holes and suddenly they think otherwise, so the universe is not even a handful of dust, it's energy playing fancy dress..." The dragon looked crust fallen, "you should have met a dinosaur instead at least they EXISTED,and  Phew, what a variety much more than a myth, which I am" "Don't be apologetic, grand father's gift grandma must have used her fun of imagination to beget you and raise to such level of popularity dragon or meerkat, all are fun,  like human, when none exists, but happily present in mind and on these  vast spaces our eyes see, waiting to transform in to quanta of energy when time summons, and God play dice.*
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 8:20 AM UTC
Shaking hands with doppelganger
*Meeting up with the dragon was a page out of an intergalactic adventure; shaking hands with doppelganger, it was. He insisted that he is still a mythical animal just don't exist in real, he was so apologetic to the point of being mawkish, "Don't want to mislead any one to somewhere, let's be scientific to think, you took such pains to make this meeting happen, which is not the case in real,                                     do you see me well? He was  in panic, it seemed, took him in confidence and made him stay put. "What's real is a long debate don't think I am real, material world could easily proved an illusion matter in to energy and reverse is the story we see here quantum mechanics will end all your qualms everything is in a state of flux even the scientists are, sometimes they see black holes and suddenly they think otherwise, so the universe is not even a handful of dust, it's energy playing fancy dress..." The dragon looked crust fallen, "you should have met a dinosaur instead at least they EXISTED,and  Phew, what a variety much more than a myth, which I am" "Don't be apologetic, grand father's gift grandma must have used her fun of imagination to beget you and raise to such level of popularity dragon or meerkat, all are fun,  like human, when none exists, but happily present in mind and on these  vast spaces our eyes see, waiting to transform in to quanta of energy when time summons, and God play dice.*
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Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits. Under my eyes, those milk bunnies, it waits. It is waiting. It is waiting. Mr. Doppelganger. My brother. My spouse. Mr. Doppelganger. My enemy. My lover. When truth comes spilling out like peas it hangs up the phone. When the child is soothed and resting on the breast it is my other who swallows Lysol. When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress. It cries when I ***** a potato. It cries when I kiss someone hello. It cries and cries and cries until I put on a painted mask and leer at Jesus in His passion. Then it giggles. It is a thumbscrew. Its hatred makes it clairvoyant. I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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The Other
Who should desire A clear mirror Of perfect likeness Lies hideous fear Look, see what we see Sad doppelganger Ethereal clone Leaning, wall hanger All flaws magnified Every evil, too Simplify ev’ry line Ever mistake – rue A mirror well smudged Truly desired The traits that are so Nobly admired
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 1:30 PM UTC
Clear Mirror
wake up in the coffee shop morning and im the fiend sippin on anything teamed we got "mixed and fixer while i play on elixir" cross fingers to count splinters got more time then long winters doppelganger and impostors hopeless stand my imaginary children of foster no one i cant be brought here ill tell things that are fear spit acid to show tear nonchalant i taunt cant? cuz i smell C@__
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:09 AM UTC
Almost Asian
The sand hides the sun. Through a fog of particulate silica. Distorted. For the first time in my life, I may look upon that glowing bearing, for minutes straight. Innards swallow, That rock it flings, Paints on the light. Now the water vapor hangs, Amongst its spiny rays, Creating a mist of cloudy haze. My eyes must seek to, Penetrate. Alas they lose this skirmish fray. The sun cannot hide its specter. The doppelganger image always, Dapper and prim. Amongst the thoughts in rift entrails of brain, I think i am my brain. I don't think that when, head cut from body, Shall my soul reside where my heart was; Instead I may see, conscious, from where the two parted. Creating a scar from which to view this hazed sun. Ever notice, How the eyes, Are the only, Place, You can, See from... I can be an Ammonite with many chambers calcified. Ghost fossil human head. A ghost in a shell. My eyes will carve shapes from the clouds.
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Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 8:48 PM UTC
From Hydrogen, To Helium, To a Vegetable Human
i wander around your territory, keeping my imprints on your skin. a sigh of relief and a moan of satisfaction take you where nowhere you've been. flicker of my tongue, the tremble in your voice move closer, closer as skin. the smell of your innocence lingers in my senses, the taste of your fear excites me. the look in your eyes turmoil in your stare, the awe in your face humbles my existence. i a mere mortal in your sight, a sight of the past. the past is just a few seconds away. an eternity will unfold, walk my path, uncloak my victim stand in all your glory. your presence hungers my foul reason for living. my tongue on your skin, i taste you you feed me. your eyes provokes my inner peace. what do you see? is it life? or is it death? a swift movement, a tragic death awaits. my doppelganger sees how you live your life, while i cant wait how to end it. the beauty in my voice captivates you. leading you towards your befall. you yourself prepared my feast with your false judgment. i was never your reason to live but you were mine. you cling to my robe the way you cling to your life. too late mademoiselle i had your tombstone made an hour ago. i undress you, and taste your love juice one more time. ecstasy flows down your veins, you moan in gratitude i brought you wrath in return. you cried in a bite-forced. i smelled life, i tasted life but not yours alone. intriguing i say, so i sink both fangs deeper. another blood of total innocence indeed and it tasted just like mine. you saw the horror on my face. you smiled. you ***** you let out a soft dying laugh. delirium hits like a speeding car crashing. i have killed my own you deceived me. you knew my planned deception all along and countered on your own. you ***** old hag! you let yourself get killed so i could **** him. a creature of my own, floating inside your womb.
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Jul 4, 2013
Jul 4, 2013 at 6:17 AM UTC
Lestat's Deception
i wander around your territory, keeping my imprints on your skin. a sigh of relief and a moan of satisfaction take you where nowhere you've been. flicker of my tongue, the tremble in your voice move closer, closer as skin. the smell of your innocence lingers in my senses, the taste of your fear excites me. the look in your eyes turmoil in your stare, the awe in your face humbles my existence. i a mere mortal in your sight, a sight of the past. the past is just a few seconds away. an eternity will unfold, walk my path, uncloak my victim stand in all your glory. your presence hungers my foul reason for living. my tongue on your skin, i taste you you feed me. your eyes provokes my inner peace. what do you see? is it life? or is it death? a swift movement, a tragic death awaits. my doppelganger sees how you live your life, while i cant wait how to end it. the beauty in my voice captivates you. leading you towards your befall. you yourself prepared my feast with your false judgment. i was never your reason to live but you were mine. you cling to my robe the way you cling to your life. too late mademoiselle i had your tombstone made an hour ago. i undress you, and taste your love juice one more time. ecstasy flows down your veins, you moan in gratitude i brought you wrath in return. you cried in a bite-forced. i smelled life, i tasted life but not yours alone. intriguing i say, so i sink both fangs deeper. another blood of total innocence indeed and it tasted just like mine. you saw the horror on my face. you smiled. you ***** you let out a soft dying laugh. delirium hits like a speeding car crashing. i have killed my own you deceived me. you knew my planned deception all along and countered on your own. you ***** old hag! you let yourself get killed so i could **** him. a creature of my own, floating inside your womb.
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I pass her daily, she's just like me, but not me. She is dark, a ghostly shell, some alter ego deliberately mimicking me; Or is this my own dark soul, the darkened wretched me? There she goes again. but this time she notices me in the passing. Will she ponder the same questions as I?
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Mar 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011 at 8:55 PM UTC
Doppelganger
She told me to "Imagine a safe place", a quiet place, somewhere to go when the fog is at my feet. But everywhere I went was crowded with doubt and a lingering loitering presence on my shoulder, come out from the fog to hurl accusations and taunt. I can only assume it's a he on my shoulder, an enigma, my father's doppelganger come to dredge my mind of all the **** he dished out when I was a child, and feed it back to me again. I tell her I'll need more tools and stronger ideas. So she gives me a seat at the head of the table where my ****** committee meets, and a gavel to establish order or bash in their brains. She arms my dreams with weapons and courage, gives me REM when I'm wide awake. We fashion a furnace of love, hot enough to vaporize the cold darkness pouring into my gut, customized with levers and pulleys to push and to pull in the fight. We tally Alpha and Beta waves, trained and retrained, hard coded messages sanded smooth by repetition.        *Through it all I give too,        and what I give is all I can give,        it is the warmth of what enslaves me,        and the thought of letting it go….          Well.... lets not go there right now.* In the long run I'm not sure that any of it will be enough, I am weakened by the war. But occasionally there are shiny spots that simmer, You see, I may have found that place, the place she first told me to find way back at the beginning, the place to feel safe, although it isn't really a place per se. If it were true I could finally ascend to where no fog can go. Where my father's voice cannot be heard, nor the ghosts I grew up with. A place of love and honesty, where my furnace would sit idle in awe. There is a picture of us on our bedroom wall. It is the perfect depiction of all that is safe for me. I look at your smile and I see peace. Nothing can penetrate your radiance, you are everything I've never had, double layered and impenetrable by all of it. By all of the **** I am learning to go there when the fog is at my feet, and the ghosts are in my ear. When the accusations come I can escape there with you, and together we can drown them out if only for a little while.
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 1:39 PM UTC
A Safe Place
She told me to "Imagine a safe place", a quiet place, somewhere to go when the fog is at my feet. But everywhere I went was crowded with doubt and a lingering loitering presence on my shoulder, come out from the fog to hurl accusations and taunt. I can only assume it's a he on my shoulder, an enigma, my father's doppelganger come to dredge my mind of all the **** he dished out when I was a child, and feed it back to me again. I tell her I'll need more tools and stronger ideas. So she gives me a seat at the head of the table where my ****** committee meets, and a gavel to establish order or bash in their brains. She arms my dreams with weapons and courage, gives me REM when I'm wide awake. We fashion a furnace of love, hot enough to vaporize the cold darkness pouring into my gut, customized with levers and pulleys to push and to pull in the fight. We tally Alpha and Beta waves, trained and retrained, hard coded messages sanded smooth by repetition.        *Through it all I give too,        and what I give is all I can give,        it is the warmth of what enslaves me,        and the thought of letting it go….          Well.... lets not go there right now.* In the long run I'm not sure that any of it will be enough, I am weakened by the war. But occasionally there are shiny spots that simmer, You see, I may have found that place, the place she first told me to find way back at the beginning, the place to feel safe, although it isn't really a place per se. If it were true I could finally ascend to where no fog can go. Where my father's voice cannot be heard, nor the ghosts I grew up with. A place of love and honesty, where my furnace would sit idle in awe. There is a picture of us on our bedroom wall. It is the perfect depiction of all that is safe for me. I look at your smile and I see peace. Nothing can penetrate your radiance, you are everything I've never had, double layered and impenetrable by all of it. By all of the **** I am learning to go there when the fog is at my feet, and the ghosts are in my ear. When the accusations come I can escape there with you, and together we can drown them out if only for a little while.
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Going once the cruise_______* One specific lover What do we uncover More advice going twice in (2) You see an unexpected attraction Like twins with two heads exact copy Say Action your movie part "The offer you cannot refuse" You cannot duplicate her heart With another Flower rose Another heart obligation "Alaskan Huskies Twin Adoption" Two heads better than one snipper She- Wolf surf and turf Mexico taco, at the gulf Her green planet thumb Mount Fiji we climb Right force ruler the heart divider the duplicate lover "To Reproduce" over the a million light-years duplicated love tears Years we treasured It's in our duty Congregated United we stand   Imagine the world stopped to be buried The duplicate became a twin maid of honor She lost her duplicated purse "Twin Identity" Doppelganger Your heart couldn't hold on____ Any longer To reproduce the same forbidden fruit voiceover singer The rare find someone with a Giving heart Having a double scotch doing the part The pirate wearing Eye patch* Twofold twice the gold one heart match Poems true believers One is the snitch To love life singles or doubles subjects to catch up in triples The full house what a spouse Your boiling minds Twice around the coffee house The day she or he was born The comfort comes with love Fire eye lit bedding (Forever young double wedding) You're the one so gifted hearted*
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Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 3:00 PM UTC
Duplicate
Eyes, my eyes Wavering in the murky water Move and my doppelganger follows I stare and I stare back Although, I know what I can't feel out loud I stare thrashing in the cold water Rage filling me and causing unseen waves The water is still, unmoving I keep watching I become stone, dread filling my watery eyes I watch as my hands cover my face I blink I watch and I watch back Nothing I smile and I smile back On the edge of the shore I know that I am collected I am peaceful The water knows who I am and understands I am unwavering.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 9:07 PM UTC
Doppelganger
My Doppelganger holds secret negotiations with my Avatar. Slicing up the available territory by flipping a coin. Apparently, I can see a me for myself if I happen to be in Somalia next Monday. But that’s the Avator talking. Doppelganger is betting on Seattle. I am eavesdropping, sitting around in my underwear. They think I am unaware because I can’t see them, but they are impossible without me. Goethe, Shelley and John Donne are in the next apartment huddled over some broken poems each had written on the mirrors. No mistakes were made. No reflections. They get to see themselves out of the corner of one eye, for up to nine seconds which is like a lifetime to remember. Yet the acrid smell of Neitzsche emanates from dark corners. Sturm und Drang be ****** Neitzsche is convinced no one has ever looked like him, but he does suggest a parallel universe. Abe Lincoln, a latecomer and unlikely participant, picks up a few pointers. He knows full well that what he saw was not a reflection. And he rode that train all the way from Pittsburg. All those windows... And, yes, KA, the spirit double, the Egyptian Goddess, goes in **** as the Greek Princess and shows up as Helen to tease Paris of Troy. How can you not believe that? For Goddess sake, she helped end the Trojan War. I have a lot of time on my hands. I don’t get out much. Ava and Dopp came by just to let me know I’m still around.
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM UTC
My Doppleganger
Lauryn Hill is going to jail for not paying her taxes, a fate that would surely befall us all if caught. She argued to the judge that since her ancestors were slaves, our economic system was imposed on her against her will, invalidating her burden. Pay your ******* taxes, you ignorant bigot. When your ancestors started making money, they started owing taxes.  This is a feature of society called "equality."
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 2:47 PM UTC
The Phantom's Doppelganger
An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM UTC
Know What I'm Say'n?
An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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i like having you around    you always have my back i could steal    beat     pillage      **** and ****** and i know you'll always be there for me you're my muse    my confidant      my partner in crime you build me up push me with your skewed ideas of nirvana but i follow because you know what's right for me and you will protect me...always for you are my alter ego you are the warrior that has captured my mind        insanity living in your darkness gives me an escape helps me reach my true desires for i'll always have you to defend me my friend.
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 7:09 PM UTC
doppelganger
Would you scratch my scalp twirl brown speckled fingers twixt ever-lightening locks, me myself and I we fight over you give us a taste of what we've sweat over if what i want is on this decreasingly fertile rock, possibility of my painful atrophy, isolated, dissolves into shimmers that make me kawaii when i check doppelganger in silver glass because you shattered dreams sprinkled iridescent on bronze ivory glitter blush for the creature (in some other word or two, you're my breaking point)
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Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014 at 10:46 PM UTC
It's only fair
We are the lost generation One would say we strayed If there was a path to stray from To be lost, to not know one's whereabouts is tough When one doesn't know themselves. A gap year will solve that problem Or two Or eight Perhaps a gap life might be more appropriate More appropriate than 3 years of falsities we label as education Three years of losing oneself -the self one never owned- For instant gratification, excessive debauchery Live now, pay later In full, with interest They never warn you of the interest At some point undergo transformation, Don't so much follow as pursue your passion as a detective seeks his criminal Craft your philosophy and prepare for war where Freedom fighters clash with crashes of the sharpest steel Shame really, To be fighting when one does not know what they are fighting for The world burns and we feed the fire without thinking The lights are on Yet we are shrouded in darkness Cast over by the shadows of our possessions Acquired as one collects stamps or stones Stones more like, for they will be too heavy to take with us As will the paper our degrees are published on As will the words I scribble furiously, daily All because my work is by extension, me, And so with it comes purpose A bumpy, undefined path for me to trek on For me to struggle and strive for an invisible finish line Sans friends and family Without anyone to shield me from my own monstrous thoughts Is it fear or control which prevents me from action? Perhaps a more suitable question for those who do Take action Seeing evil, hearing evil, contributing to it Ignoring it Ignoring the little boys and girls plucked from their homes Or forced into silence by the ones they trust Or watching countries storm their neighbours for no reason Or even the most ordinary, Where families are ripped apart and vows are broken Where we cut and chop and mutilate our flesh to become someone's doppelganger Where heart, honour and respect mean nothing. Don't tell me money started this When evil existed before money Long before we didn't know who we were Are. We are the lost generation And though I don't know how to be found Maybe the solution Is to find each other.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
Lost and Found
We are the lost generation One would say we strayed If there was a path to stray from To be lost, to not know one's whereabouts is tough When one doesn't know themselves. A gap year will solve that problem Or two Or eight Perhaps a gap life might be more appropriate More appropriate than 3 years of falsities we label as education Three years of losing oneself -the self one never owned- For instant gratification, excessive debauchery Live now, pay later In full, with interest They never warn you of the interest At some point undergo transformation, Don't so much follow as pursue your passion as a detective seeks his criminal Craft your philosophy and prepare for war where Freedom fighters clash with crashes of the sharpest steel Shame really, To be fighting when one does not know what they are fighting for The world burns and we feed the fire without thinking The lights are on Yet we are shrouded in darkness Cast over by the shadows of our possessions Acquired as one collects stamps or stones Stones more like, for they will be too heavy to take with us As will the paper our degrees are published on As will the words I scribble furiously, daily All because my work is by extension, me, And so with it comes purpose A bumpy, undefined path for me to trek on For me to struggle and strive for an invisible finish line Sans friends and family Without anyone to shield me from my own monstrous thoughts Is it fear or control which prevents me from action? Perhaps a more suitable question for those who do Take action Seeing evil, hearing evil, contributing to it Ignoring it Ignoring the little boys and girls plucked from their homes Or forced into silence by the ones they trust Or watching countries storm their neighbours for no reason Or even the most ordinary, Where families are ripped apart and vows are broken Where we cut and chop and mutilate our flesh to become someone's doppelganger Where heart, honour and respect mean nothing. Don't tell me money started this When evil existed before money Long before we didn't know who we were Are. We are the lost generation And though I don't know how to be found Maybe the solution Is to find each other.
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The parking lot beeps know how to creep, Creating the jingle and jangle That hit her with the smooth cutting angle, The rhymes and the wishes Intruding her like the farmer farming fishes, Pound and slit until she can’t fully handle, With strength in her arms burning out like the candle Once lit as her ribs crunch from the pull of the mador, Crushing her with Frankenstein's failure far greater, Her eyes missed more misinterpretation Of her admission with intense hallucination, While the divorce of her lighter burns the constrained homicide, Although it didn’t stem from her sister’s suicide, Contradiction? She’d say it was an addiction, Death isn't what she grew up to fear, What’s that? There’s more despair? Is it the systemic collapse that she can’t bear? Trunks click open with a cluster of blunts, Puffing the herb anytime she wants, Insanity spawns a circumstantial sport, Which she crystallized quenching some support, From the bubble of her family she couldn't help but pop, While begging the janitor to mop The puddle of horrific insensual Desires that end up so sensual, Sprinting to the finish line in her own ordeal pace, Winning an irreplaceable Prize for finishing in fifth place, The doppelganger can’t even comment On the records of her CD retching as she continues to ***** There she blows before you know, ‘Tis no way they could tiptoe Around this drear deep-end **********
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Aug 7, 2017
Aug 7, 2017 at 2:08 PM UTC
Transgender Offender
he craves online hook-ups. But this isn't me nor am I that intrepid         a torrent trampoline                    on wireless ether engines                    cyber silver surfin' zone on / in  .nets & .coms                    searching fiber-optics for sight browsing rooms of M4M / in-fantasized delights an itch to fix to sit transfixed as if subliminally attached                            umbilically digitally digitized digi-man                             to a electronic felatio soundtrack yet all the while detached                             lurking duplicitly reading pretend profiles  explicitly for *** sexified mind dreaming up new fetishes with misspelled texts                         tandem testimonials as if written                         by a Compaq-machine-head                         Microsoftened lust currents electric now as we turn into dust with iBooks & faraway Dells on our laps scrolling lists for Adams status' with "anything goes"                         remonstrating our vicious cycle alive & blank with un/trust gone viral... this isn't me. where is the warmth        of feelings, emotions, malleable and infallible / love?? I am not as talented as he           to be in two places at once, but he           has the many faces and genius of multiple personalities Cybil facets    of sabotage with Mommy Dearest grace.         Beautiful strangers his acquired               taste... he says it was not him (doing **** my rage has only one trait. two eyes                              (once wide asleep in the lies) and velvet-rope-burned wrists my feet learn to fly my heart un-breaks my wings reanimate... he has too many faces doppleganger hatred none to care for or embrace When did I go blind,          and leave my many strengths? Where do I now again begin?? (The rubble or the sin?) Every night adieu Every day anew                                         once again...
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Jan 3, 2016
Jan 3, 2016 at 6:43 PM UTC
DOPPeLGANGeR (Spoken Word #6)
he craves online hook-ups. But this isn't me nor am I that intrepid         a torrent trampoline                    on wireless ether engines                    cyber silver surfin' zone on / in  .nets & .coms                    searching fiber-optics for sight browsing rooms of M4M / in-fantasized delights an itch to fix to sit transfixed as if subliminally attached                            umbilically digitally digitized digi-man                             to a electronic felatio soundtrack yet all the while detached                             lurking duplicitly reading pretend profiles  explicitly for *** sexified mind dreaming up new fetishes with misspelled texts                         tandem testimonials as if written                         by a Compaq-machine-head                         Microsoftened lust currents electric now as we turn into dust with iBooks & faraway Dells on our laps scrolling lists for Adams status' with "anything goes"                         remonstrating our vicious cycle alive & blank with un/trust gone viral... this isn't me. where is the warmth        of feelings, emotions, malleable and infallible / love?? I am not as talented as he           to be in two places at once, but he           has the many faces and genius of multiple personalities Cybil facets    of sabotage with Mommy Dearest grace.         Beautiful strangers his acquired               taste... he says it was not him (doing **** my rage has only one trait. two eyes                              (once wide asleep in the lies) and velvet-rope-burned wrists my feet learn to fly my heart un-breaks my wings reanimate... he has too many faces doppleganger hatred none to care for or embrace When did I go blind,          and leave my many strengths? Where do I now again begin?? (The rubble or the sin?) Every night adieu Every day anew                                         once again...
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I’d like to meet the mirror image of myself, someone who feels the opposite of everything I’ve felt, a girl who’s done everything right, and has never changed her mind about what she wants. I’d like to meet her just to see how much happier than me she really is. I’d like to meet someone who could have been like me, but made all the right decisions and turned out differently, a girl who’s not afraid and makes the most of everyday, so I’ll know it’s possible. I’d like to meet someone who’s happy as she is, who feels completely comfortable inside of her own skin, and doesn’t make herself feel bad for every flaw she has. Maybe she could tell me how she does it. I want to meet the person I could have become if I had not been so afraid and did all the things I wish I’d done, and I want her to say that I am still okay. That I turned out alright.
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Feb 8, 2010
Feb 8, 2010 at 3:13 AM UTC
Doppelganger
I think that I once met myself upon the roadside coming back. So sure was I that it was me I almost had a heart attack. Another time I thought I saw myself reflected in a pane of glass upon a garden skip. It almost served to drive me sane. Then there was that occasion when I found beside me in my bed a doppelganger of myself. Was I alive?  Or was I dead? How can I know what lies in store except by taking one step more. One step to face in the unknown what I had mastered heretofore. But possibly this other me is simply also hesitant and also chooses to ignore what really is self-evident. I’m waiting for the day, you see, when opening a door, I pass into a room where bygone me is stepping through a looking glass.
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM UTC
DOPPELGANGER
Father, I have sinned. Ive compelled myself a mate and painted my body gold, pure and metallic and let him hang me around his lacey neck like a chained noose. Father, i have sinned. Ive disappointed my appointments and made allies with my enemies. Ive lied to get to where i am and i stand legless because of it. Father, i have sinned. Ive cut open skin and got drunk from the blood, letting it trickle down my breast, wearing it like a jacket, using it tirelessly to keep me warm during my winter Father, i have sinned. I scripted cursively with my left hand and pointed accusingly with my right. Ive fought like a thinker and forfeit my heart. Father i have sinned, I loved without thought. I have slept in my ***** sheets and bathed in my discretions, Father, this bed is not big enough for our overexhausted lessons. Father, please forgive me for i have sinned in spite of the sun. Ive predicted light for the losing side and because of that, i've won a temporary victory. Ending with, not surprisingly, my mother clawing me senseless, her knuckles blistering my jabbing jaw. She said, "I never thought id see a side to you much darker than i ever saw." Now she looks to me much older, decrepit and disgusted, and i look to her a doppelganger of the man that left her faithless. Father, i have sinned and unwittingly beg for your conviction. But your faith is what left my mother living breathlessly without a face. A face hauntingly well known. but if i keep on keeping on this sinning, a face just like yours ill own.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 11:03 PM UTC
Father, I have sinned
Father, I have sinned. Ive compelled myself a mate and painted my body gold, pure and metallic and let him hang me around his lacey neck like a chained noose. Father, i have sinned. Ive disappointed my appointments and made allies with my enemies. Ive lied to get to where i am and i stand legless because of it. Father, i have sinned. Ive cut open skin and got drunk from the blood, letting it trickle down my breast, wearing it like a jacket, using it tirelessly to keep me warm during my winter Father, i have sinned. I scripted cursively with my left hand and pointed accusingly with my right. Ive fought like a thinker and forfeit my heart. Father i have sinned, I loved without thought. I have slept in my ***** sheets and bathed in my discretions, Father, this bed is not big enough for our overexhausted lessons. Father, please forgive me for i have sinned in spite of the sun. Ive predicted light for the losing side and because of that, i've won a temporary victory. Ending with, not surprisingly, my mother clawing me senseless, her knuckles blistering my jabbing jaw. She said, "I never thought id see a side to you much darker than i ever saw." Now she looks to me much older, decrepit and disgusted, and i look to her a doppelganger of the man that left her faithless. Father, i have sinned and unwittingly beg for your conviction. But your faith is what left my mother living breathlessly without a face. A face hauntingly well known. but if i keep on keeping on this sinning, a face just like yours ill own.
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Tribal paint flickers as illumination passes by packed platforms of private souls spilling into peripheral vision Saturday nights create fresh perspective on unconscious thoughts An unpulled can of tired, bow-tied Spaniards and white-clad partygoers Tinney earphones thrusting Brooklyn's finest 99 Problems aren't on my mind but in my (un)willing ears And I saw you on the street 42nd I'd say I was filling my lungs with the poison, beautiful, you showed me You walked past me just another stranger you in 10 years time They say everyone has a doppelganger in NYC I haven't seen mine but she's seen me and Brooke saw her too, rolled up Levis and a frown you looked as beautiful as you always did but clean of everything you'd ever touched or is yet to touch you because nicky clouds my thoughts lift me higher I wanted to tell you that I pray now But I let you walk by and disappear leaving me with myself coffee spilt from matches got twisted and wouldn't light I'm one handed, crowded city but you're not here.
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Apr 25, 2013
Apr 25, 2013 at 8:41 PM UTC
One Handed/Doppelganger/Alex's Love Song