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"eighteenth" poems
"But what if we're wrong?" It was silent But her thoughts echoed around in my head as we laid on top of her pickup truck I swatted at the eighteenth mosquito chewing on my leg I don't want this to be love We were tangled up in the acoustic music they play on the radio on Sunday mornings She was trying to dream up something clever to write about And I was pretending I could learn to play guitar through osmosis, As if blending myself in with the harmonies, finding her in every lyric, and sheer willpower would give me wings or at least magic guitar hands She set the alarm, checked it over and over She was not going to be late for her first day I told her I'd be asleep when she got home, she told me she knew I told her to wake me up I wasn't looking for perfect Perfect really only applies in first year physics courses After that, we learn to fall in love with "rough around the edges" or "unique" or "unfinished" As if their life is a puzzle that we need to complete Just so you know, it isn't She bought me breakfast and dropped me off She used to tell me she loved me, but I know she didn't She does now, so she doesn't have to say it anymore When I said, "love," before, I didn't really mean it Not like I mean loving the garden on the balcony of her apartment or thunderstorms in May Even if I was a puzzle that she completed (and I'm not saying that I am), we didn't need any glue to fit perfectly
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May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 9:17 PM UTC
Puzzle
For he's a jolly good fellow, adorned in yellow and love, it was hard to see his face through the smoke of a three blunt rotation, but I could feel his heart beating from across the trailer. Worn out eighties music was the unofficial theme of the night and I think we lived up to the expectations Eddie Murphy set for his.
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 1:43 AM UTC
Marijuana, Alcohol, Video Games and an Eighteenth Birthday.
i bought a cactus the summer of my eighteenth birthday i picked it up from the local nursery and cradled it all the way to my car so that it wouldn't fall to the concrete i had only just met the little guy and i didn't want to lose him the day i finally got him it is quite stupid to buy and name a cactus but i felt very attached to the small succulent that occupied the left corner of my bedside table it was a cute little cactus with orange on his top and a long green stalk with spikes poking out i felt pretty satisfied because even looking at this plant made me smile taking care of this cactus gave me something to do and it kept my mind off of you for a while maybe i connected with this plant maybe i felt like i was the plant i sure do feel like the plant trapped growing pokey all adjectives aside i still am very much addicted to caring for my little cactus if it lasts through the summer then maybe i can too
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Jul 17, 2013
Jul 17, 2013 at 3:11 AM UTC
cactus
We were boys, once. Our mother liked to dress us in tailored suits and leather shoes. Every Sunday morning. Ready bright and early for mass at 11. We'd sit in the classroom at the back of the old church hall. After mass. After the chatter of voices hushed down to whispers; virtuous gossip. Our teacher fed us images of hellfire and brimstone. *** and sin. Satan in a red cape and Halloween horns. He didn't always look like that. Oh, no. Mother said that he'd come out all dressed in a suit like mine. He'd be handsome! His voice would be a choir of one billion ****** souls and once you'd hear it, you'd never want it to stop. In my eight-year-old mind, I wondered what he did and what he felt when his own father cursed his name. Did he stare at his dad with his thousand-eyes? Did he protest? Did he laugh as he fell? In a cascade of feathers and blood. Maybe he was better off without him. He'd spend the rest of eternity trying to prove his father wrong. That he was worthy of his love: That he would be the only son to grieve for the mistake of humanity. The holy adversary. The one who would shout his love for The Lord until his throat cracked dry and his chest ached. He, who could see the suffering of his father's own creations. He, who tempted Eve and proved God wrong and we were flawed from the very beginning. Did he watch Eve eat the apple and savor every bite? He loved his father. Did he deserve it? I stopped going to church on my eighteenth birthday. What kind of parent would **** one son and praise the other? Who would let one son be nailed to a board and the other to rot in flames? Even as a child, I knew. Through every slap, scold and bruise. I would never bow.
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Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM UTC
Adversary
We were boys, once. Our mother liked to dress us in tailored suits and leather shoes. Every Sunday morning. Ready bright and early for mass at 11. We'd sit in the classroom at the back of the old church hall. After mass. After the chatter of voices hushed down to whispers; virtuous gossip. Our teacher fed us images of hellfire and brimstone. *** and sin. Satan in a red cape and Halloween horns. He didn't always look like that. Oh, no. Mother said that he'd come out all dressed in a suit like mine. He'd be handsome! His voice would be a choir of one billion ****** souls and once you'd hear it, you'd never want it to stop. In my eight-year-old mind, I wondered what he did and what he felt when his own father cursed his name. Did he stare at his dad with his thousand-eyes? Did he protest? Did he laugh as he fell? In a cascade of feathers and blood. Maybe he was better off without him. He'd spend the rest of eternity trying to prove his father wrong. That he was worthy of his love: That he would be the only son to grieve for the mistake of humanity. The holy adversary. The one who would shout his love for The Lord until his throat cracked dry and his chest ached. He, who could see the suffering of his father's own creations. He, who tempted Eve and proved God wrong and we were flawed from the very beginning. Did he watch Eve eat the apple and savor every bite? He loved his father. Did he deserve it? I stopped going to church on my eighteenth birthday. What kind of parent would **** one son and praise the other? Who would let one son be nailed to a board and the other to rot in flames? Even as a child, I knew. Through every slap, scold and bruise. I would never bow.
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I feel every emotion too deeply; they're a dagger to my heart, and I'm too sensitive - it only takes one tiny trigger for me to fall apart. Sometimes it feels as though I'm not a real being; convinced reality is a figment of my imagination that I'm seeing. I started to litter my body with scars from the innocent age of ten, I haven't stopped although I am nineteen now - things just haven't changed since then. I made my first attempt at the tender age of just twelve years old, and to this day another fourteen have occurred; by this inner demon I'm controlled. A patient in a psychiatric hospital 6 days after my eighteenth birthday, after swallowing a cocktail of pills and alcohol wanting to die away. But... I am someone with raw passion that flows through my veins and my curiosity and adoration for the world around me remains. I have mastered the art of living in the moment and doing the things that matter to me; and I'm full of devotion and determination to be the person I'm destined to be. I use poetry as an expression of all that I feel and I am made of linguistic creativity, and I love deeply without reservation everything and everyone around me. So although I may have borderline personality disorder as a part of me, I am still a kind-hearted and passionate person who wants to be the best she can be.
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Feb 6, 2016
Feb 6, 2016 at 8:29 PM UTC
B.P.D
An elephant and a dog became pregnant at the same time. Three months down the line the dog gave birth to six puppies. Six months later the dog was pregnant again- and nine months on the  dog gave birth to another dozen puppies. The pattern continued. On the eighteenth month the dog approached the elephant questioning- “Are you sure you’re pregnant? We became pregnant on the same date ; I have given birth three times to a dozen puppies, and they have grown to become big dogs, yet you are still pregnant. What’s going on?” The  elephant replied- “ There is something I want you to understand. What I am carrying is  not a puppy, but an elephant. I only  give birth to one in two years. When my baby hits the ground- the earth feels it. When my baby crosses the road- human beings stop and watch in admiration. What I carry draws attention, so what I’m carrying is mighty and great!” *Don’t  lose faith when you see others receive answers to their prayers. Don’t be envious of others testimonies. If you haven’t received your own blessings- don’t despair. Say to yourself, *“My time is coming, and when it hits the surface of the earth- people  shall yield in admiration.”*
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 4:58 PM UTC
An Elephant and A Dog By: Charles Kobina GyanQuarme Junior
Heart skips like a warped record, trembles over scarred vinyl until "I love you" tastes incomplete: (I)                love                 you I                  (love)               you I                   love                (you). My Swan Song mewls off key, cascades across the marred terrain of my soul in a thick lacquer of tears. Notes flatline in unison with my waning pulse (waning, like the face of the moon on the night of my eighteenth birthday). My breath resigns to static, dances in slow decrescendos-- sputters its way towards nothingness, slipping rapidly from my consciousness until I no longer hold any recollection of the music (or the poetry).
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Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC
Swan Song (Warped)
A cloudless night like this Can set the spirit soaring: After a tiring day The clockwork spectacle is Impressive in a slightly boring Eighteenth-century way. It soothed adolescence a lot To meet so shameless a stare; The things I did could not Be so shocking as they said If that would still be there After the shocked were dead Now, unready to die Bur already at the stage When one starts to resent the young, I am glad those points in the sky May also be counted among The creatures of middle-age. It's cosier thinking of night As more an Old People's Home Than a shed for a faultless machine, That the red pre-Cambrian light Is gone like Imperial Rome Or myself at seventeen. Yet however much we may like The stoic manner in which The classical authors wrote, Only the young and rich Have the nerve or the figure to strike The lacrimae rerum note. For the present stalks abroad Like the past and its wronged again Whimper and are ignored, And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did. Occurring this very night By no established rule, Some event may already have hurled Its first little No at the right Of the laws we accept to school Our post-diluvian world: But the stars burn on overhead, Unconscious of final ends, As I walk home to bed, Asking what judgment waits My person, all my friends, And these United States.
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A Walk After Dark
june tenth the pale lamp in my room is flickering again, you told me fifty three times to fix it, i never did. september twenty-first every morning i drink apple juice, you liked orange juice and always asked me to buy some, i never did. september twenty-fifth wednesday: the day you were born, once you were gone i was supposed to forget, i never did. october third halloween is coming up, you told me to dress up as captain america, i never did. may second it's spring time and the flowers are hopping up from their beds, (another thing i never did) i can't believe the world still goes on but, i never did. may eighteenth i read the fifth harry potter book, i skipped two and four; you once told me to write my own story, i never did. may twenty-seventh you always laid out my meds for me on our lillypad green paper napkins, but whenever i'd take them you'd vanish, so, i never did. june first i played a mel tormé record, you said i had a better voice than him whenever i sang along but, i never did. june sixth i cried for the first time in three days, the world felt heavier today, i tried to let it crush me but, it never did. june tenth now its been, well, time seems a bit funny to me now a days. but i guess its probably been two months or so, but the calendar says four years, but the calendar wouldn't be the first thing to lie to me in here. but i want to let you know: i don't have lamps now, i only am allowed water, they never tell me what day it is, i haven't even seen a halloween since your absence, the only thing close to flowers in here is the pattern on my gown, the "library" here ***** there is a total of nine books. they are all gross romance novels, my meds now come in a tiny paper cup four times a day, they only play country here and thats only on music therapy days, the world floated up                                     up                                           up                                                 and away, i assume it took you with it, i guess it is just and fair that this happened to me, i mean look at all the things you asked that i did not do for you, but i asked you one thing, and you said you'd always be with me, but, you never did no one ever did
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Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 2:24 PM UTC
paper cups & sad pills
june tenth the pale lamp in my room is flickering again, you told me fifty three times to fix it, i never did. september twenty-first every morning i drink apple juice, you liked orange juice and always asked me to buy some, i never did. september twenty-fifth wednesday: the day you were born, once you were gone i was supposed to forget, i never did. october third halloween is coming up, you told me to dress up as captain america, i never did. may second it's spring time and the flowers are hopping up from their beds, (another thing i never did) i can't believe the world still goes on but, i never did. may eighteenth i read the fifth harry potter book, i skipped two and four; you once told me to write my own story, i never did. may twenty-seventh you always laid out my meds for me on our lillypad green paper napkins, but whenever i'd take them you'd vanish, so, i never did. june first i played a mel tormé record, you said i had a better voice than him whenever i sang along but, i never did. june sixth i cried for the first time in three days, the world felt heavier today, i tried to let it crush me but, it never did. june tenth now its been, well, time seems a bit funny to me now a days. but i guess its probably been two months or so, but the calendar says four years, but the calendar wouldn't be the first thing to lie to me in here. but i want to let you know: i don't have lamps now, i only am allowed water, they never tell me what day it is, i haven't even seen a halloween since your absence, the only thing close to flowers in here is the pattern on my gown, the "library" here ***** there is a total of nine books. they are all gross romance novels, my meds now come in a tiny paper cup four times a day, they only play country here and thats only on music therapy days, the world floated up                                     up                                           up                                                 and away, i assume it took you with it, i guess it is just and fair that this happened to me, i mean look at all the things you asked that i did not do for you, but i asked you one thing, and you said you'd always be with me, but, you never did no one ever did
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You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-flooded silks Of an eighteenth-century boudoir. In your eyes Smoulder the fallen roses of out-lived minutes, And the perfume of your soul Is vague and suffusing, With the pungence of sealed spice-jars. Your half-tones delight me, And I grow mad with gazing At your blent colours. My vigour is a new-minted penny, Which I cast at your feet. Gather it up from the dust, That its sparkle may amuse you.
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A Lady
Love Always the tunnel the end of it all bursting through like shrapnel the city lights singing the perfect song as the wind snaps along Love Always the Glory Days and the songs that capture them and the stages that make them and the plays on the field that will be played and replayed for a lifetime Love Always the island of misfit toys where bubbles cause as much awe as the eighth that inspired them from the Big Boy to the eighteenth green you will all make my typewriter Love Always the holidays the people around the table and the t.v. too stubborn to speak their cares both the M * A * S * H  episodes and the long rides home Love Always the books the books and the characters and the morals and the books and the teachers that shared  them we accept the love we think we deserve Love Always Charlie
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
Love Always (Perks of Being a Wallflower Tribute)
There's that word for girls like me: the ones who didn't see the point of princesses. The active ones who run and jump and slide and can't be bothered to stand around the playground sidelines, whispering and trading in spots of character assassination or information. "Tomboys" they call those girls and maybe later "butch" or "masculine of center." I notice how there's never "feminine of center." But really, I've always felt impatient with that word "Tomboys." Why should a girl who wore dangling earrings but liked the things they label "boys things" want a word that suggests she's something other than what she's not? An aspirational boy? A girl who grew up into a closeted girl with short hair, no make-up and a love of jewelry. Whose first girlfriend post-coming out, took one look and said "But you're a femme!" Please, please, understand. In my heart I am a pirate king, of the eighteenth-century variety: big sword, big earrings, big weapons. On the threshold of middle age, somewhere on the spectrum of gender, What word describes me?
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Jul 2, 2017
Jul 2, 2017 at 9:00 PM UTC
Tomboys Grow Up to Be Pirate Kings
It all started with mixing Tequila and Sambuca last Friday night. Then I noticed him, busting some classic moves on the dance floor. Soon we are dancing, grinding, kissing, laughing, dancing, kissing, he's even drinking out of my half finished cup of water, he's smiling. "I'm a Royal Marine, not an Army boy!" he corrects. "A Commando." We both even have the same phone! Coincidence? I don't think so. Beads of sweat dripping from his hair onto his flawless face and neck, yet, he smells oh so divine, "it's Gucci Guilty Intense", he explains. I blurt out, "Hope this won't be a waste of your time, 'cause I'm not going to sleep with you tonight!" He says, "All right", and smiles. Mixed signals, cold bed phobia, pure drunkenness combined, I offer him, "It's late. You can spend the night at mine, I don't mind." "Just Scott, you won't remember the rest, it's long and complicated", later he adds, "Good luck trying to find me without my name!" "I'm Twenty One." "That's so young", I exclaim and he frowns. He's cocky yet witty, and also very pretty, so I let my dignity drown. Taking him in my mouth until he explodes like a loaded gun, my duty to the nation's hunkiest hero was well and truly done. "I joined two days after my eighteenth birthday", said he with pride. "My vacation's over. I'm leaving on Sunday to Poole". I sighed. I spent the entire night insomniac, with my head throbbing to the beat of his obliviously, peacefuly sleeping exhaling and inhaling speed. Close enough to feel the heat of his body, yet a million miles away, him dreaming and I reminiscing, both awaiting the dawn of a new day. Skipping the "thank you", "goodbye", hug or phone number, he says, "See you around maybe", holding a rather deceitfully seductive gaze. "Scott, we're never going to see each other again", I answer bluntly. Mirroring my sad smile in reply, minus the sadness, he left promptly.
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Nov 24, 2012
Nov 24, 2012 at 3:05 PM UTC
Soldier Boy
It all started with mixing Tequila and Sambuca last Friday night. Then I noticed him, busting some classic moves on the dance floor. Soon we are dancing, grinding, kissing, laughing, dancing, kissing, he's even drinking out of my half finished cup of water, he's smiling. "I'm a Royal Marine, not an Army boy!" he corrects. "A Commando." We both even have the same phone! Coincidence? I don't think so. Beads of sweat dripping from his hair onto his flawless face and neck, yet, he smells oh so divine, "it's Gucci Guilty Intense", he explains. I blurt out, "Hope this won't be a waste of your time, 'cause I'm not going to sleep with you tonight!" He says, "All right", and smiles. Mixed signals, cold bed phobia, pure drunkenness combined, I offer him, "It's late. You can spend the night at mine, I don't mind." "Just Scott, you won't remember the rest, it's long and complicated", later he adds, "Good luck trying to find me without my name!" "I'm Twenty One." "That's so young", I exclaim and he frowns. He's cocky yet witty, and also very pretty, so I let my dignity drown. Taking him in my mouth until he explodes like a loaded gun, my duty to the nation's hunkiest hero was well and truly done. "I joined two days after my eighteenth birthday", said he with pride. "My vacation's over. I'm leaving on Sunday to Poole". I sighed. I spent the entire night insomniac, with my head throbbing to the beat of his obliviously, peacefuly sleeping exhaling and inhaling speed. Close enough to feel the heat of his body, yet a million miles away, him dreaming and I reminiscing, both awaiting the dawn of a new day. Skipping the "thank you", "goodbye", hug or phone number, he says, "See you around maybe", holding a rather deceitfully seductive gaze. "Scott, we're never going to see each other again", I answer bluntly. Mirroring my sad smile in reply, minus the sadness, he left promptly.
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I was six or seven I realized the dragonball Z comics I was drawing needed a story line to make any **** sense that was the first time Then I was twelve writing gangsta rap with my friends a group of English farm kids who couldn't be any whiter That's when I realized who she was By fourteen I was writing things which resembled stories only not really fifteen sixteen seventeen they were growing stronger February of my eighteenth year I wrote that first poem I thought it ****** and it did but still people liked it poem after story after novel attempt after poem after story after... almost twenty years old the words are thicker shorter harder but still, we're not there but I can't wait until the days of matrimony bells ringing in empty churches the day were you give in to my I do We'll write our own vows burn our sacred cows we'll write a love story which won't ever be forgotten
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 9:11 PM UTC
A Love Story
Long walks, long talks under the south sky, we knew it was love December, snowflakes, cold night but you made it warm White gown, black suits, sweet vows, but that’s not how it ends Black lies, midnight fights, angry cries, we know it’s not love (not anymore)    This is the morning when the French man curses Paris This is the morning when the sun loses its light This is the morning when promises become lies This is the morning when are love kisses the lips of goodbye    Chorus: Because on the eighteenth, summer turns to winter All that we have withers Everything warm and bright fades on the arm of September I can taste my tears, I can feel my fears You walk away with no words of love to remember    Whiskey, dancing under the night sky, I have heard you died November, tears fall, sorrow cripples like a thief Ugly box, pale cheeks, another goodbye, I pray to see you breathe Regrets, lost love, indecent goodbyes, you left me twice    This is the morning when the French man turns to dust This is the morning when he takes his life This is the morning when memories fake the aches This is the morning when even fears and tears can’t bring you back    Chorus: Because on the eighteenth, summer turns to winter All that we have withers Everything warm and bright fades on the arm of September I can taste my tears, I can feel my fears You walk away with no words of love to remember    Coda: Your awkward smile, your deep blue eyes Old  photos will remind they’re once alive Your broken dreams with an unfinished song No more Tuesday nights for you to sing along    Because on the eighteenth of September there’s no morning, only mourning
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 12:32 PM UTC
The Mo(u)rning
Long walks, long talks under the south sky, we knew it was love December, snowflakes, cold night but you made it warm White gown, black suits, sweet vows, but that’s not how it ends Black lies, midnight fights, angry cries, we know it’s not love (not anymore)    This is the morning when the French man curses Paris This is the morning when the sun loses its light This is the morning when promises become lies This is the morning when are love kisses the lips of goodbye    Chorus: Because on the eighteenth, summer turns to winter All that we have withers Everything warm and bright fades on the arm of September I can taste my tears, I can feel my fears You walk away with no words of love to remember    Whiskey, dancing under the night sky, I have heard you died November, tears fall, sorrow cripples like a thief Ugly box, pale cheeks, another goodbye, I pray to see you breathe Regrets, lost love, indecent goodbyes, you left me twice    This is the morning when the French man turns to dust This is the morning when he takes his life This is the morning when memories fake the aches This is the morning when even fears and tears can’t bring you back    Chorus: Because on the eighteenth, summer turns to winter All that we have withers Everything warm and bright fades on the arm of September I can taste my tears, I can feel my fears You walk away with no words of love to remember    Coda: Your awkward smile, your deep blue eyes Old  photos will remind they’re once alive Your broken dreams with an unfinished song No more Tuesday nights for you to sing along    Because on the eighteenth of September there’s no morning, only mourning
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I once read an essay that made perfect sense It gave an alternative to cure expense It was a proposal that was quite modest I wish I'd have thought of it, to be honest It was from the early eighteenth century It would empty the full penitentiary Babies are free until they are at least one Then they are fat, tender, and ripe in the sun Parents can sell them to the politicians They will use them as part of their nutrition It is a win for everyone, you can tell After all, we're already going to Hell Sell the babies for politicians to eat Use the money for a superfluous treat We should kindly thank Mr. Jonathan Swift For solving all our problems with this great gift
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 8:19 PM UTC
Baby Food
He punched me last week And told me that he was joking and that's between me and him My friends saw and helped me break it off yesterday Today is my eighteenth birthday And I am nothing like my mother
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Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021 at 10:54 AM UTC
It's over
Here lies my eighteenth birthday, The days we've kissed, and said goodbye And all the laughs and heart to hearts, Our extinguished tears and fiery eyes, And all our childish fantasies, Dog breeds, houses, children's names, And the blackened fragments of our lungs -- From which we laughed and gayly sung -- Now rest peacefully in the ashtray.
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 7:41 PM UTC
Ashtray Obituary.
they came together to celebrate his life how he made it this long, he wondered; he saw them poking endless candles into the white cake in front of him behind him, his daughter hand on his shoulder, insisting he have all ninety instead of two fat wax digits "90" wedded, a lone wick on top ninety on June 6, 2016 he gave little thought to past birthdays he forgot most, except one burned clear in memory--his eighteenth, when he landed on that beach the sands and surf of his dreams for three score and a dozen years since, eyes open, or shut tight in deep sleep, he recalled that shore: someplace between light and dark, between breath and air; he saw the blood, he heard the cries, he remembered his heart thumping more than that he recalled jumping over bodies on the beach, now beyond his reach he could see only vague shapes of them--men with whom he spent months sharing meals, smokes and secrets in all these long years, he never understood why he received not a scratch, while those only feet, even inches from him were eviscerated now, as ninety lightning years flashed then flickered before him, he closed his eyes, to ensure this waking dream was real and those around him, singing, were not the angels of death he eluded so long ago
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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 5:22 PM UTC
ninety
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club, Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent In ignorant good will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers When young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school And rode our winged horse. This other his helper and friend Was coming into his force; He might have won fame in the end, So sensitive his nature seemed, So daring and sweet his thought. This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him in the song; He, too, has resigned his part In the casual comedy; He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream. The horse that comes from the road. The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it Where long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call. Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead. And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse -- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
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Easter, 1916
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club, Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent In ignorant good will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers When young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school And rode our winged horse. This other his helper and friend Was coming into his force; He might have won fame in the end, So sensitive his nature seemed, So daring and sweet his thought. This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him in the song; He, too, has resigned his part In the casual comedy; He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream. The horse that comes from the road. The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it Where long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call. Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead. And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse -- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
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Maybe those afternoons, were meant for, that simple meeting, amidst the quiet, breviloquent chatter, raw, uncompromising, blissful uninhibited emotion. Resounding cups, mismatched china, jasmine, rose, lavender tea, celestial gardens, plants; leaf-bearing chinking lipped tea cups, saucers pooling. Immaculately intricate, of Hadrian Denaruis silver, an eighteenth century delight, for ladies; un salon de thé, sound waves wander as tea diffusers, ritual & routine, friendship & freedom. © Sia Jane
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 7:02 PM UTC
Broken China
I've been a million things in my life, And worn a million faces like masks in an eighteenth century opera house where they tell you to scream like you mean it and whispers are never heard because the crowd is already on their feet and the roses smell too sweet. But today I wear nothing but my ego, My ego, So Jungian, Freudian, the sought-after prize of a million men who won't ever compete with my constellation scars or the sharp sound of my teeth clicking together in a cruel grin. You hate girls that strut like they're concrete because you broke them all before, Because they're lies and false gods and you swear that youth today are all spat words and flying ***** not given. I'm not youth today, I'm an age-old god of war and pride and I'll cut you down like a whisper in the wind if you try my patience... Because what is death if not being forgotten? I'll forget you, if you try my patience. I've forgotten a million fragile egos and I'll crumble your concrete into pixelated dust like a million tiny claps in an eighteenth century opera house that can't tell if the blood on my hands is real. I've been a million things in my life, But I'm finally the one that matters: unforgettable.
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Nov 7, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM UTC
Forgettable
The last drops have been swallowed, And the last vestiges Of post-wage labor Libationary sorrow Swagger slowly off Into the night Across cracked pavement Like slugs after rain. I pick up the chemtrail Left by my father And follow it to A makeshift master suite Wedged between a Rundown groundskeeper Shed and the unkempt Wilderness beside the Desolate bike path In rural Seekonk. The rest of this comatose Town in this overdosed Commonwealth Are separated By enough trees And undergrowth And small Night creatures Calling to each other In the dark That they can't hear The nightly Rattle of .38 Rounds my father Sends flying into the trees. The pistol was my Grandfather's, Brought over from France In 1947. My father cries As he pulls the trigger Over and over Sporatically, Like a Sung Tong, His eyes wild, Darting side to side In milky blue trails Back and forth And up and down Across the dark Chasms of his Eye sockets. When the chambers Of his firearm Run dry he fills them From the box He took from my basement, In his old house, Where he stockpiled Ammunition for Twenty two years. I've learned to stand east Of my father when I make the visits Expected of children When their parents Are old and trapped In the recesses of Their insanity Or nursing home Or empty nest, Because he always Aims west. I wait for tonight's Box to be empty, Then slowly walk To where my father Is huddled, Clutching the pistol Like a teddy bear. He is breathing heavy, And has **** himself. He hears me coming, Turns, and smiles Upon recognition. "I got em good mikey, Got good, not taking My land from ME Mickey, never going Blow south, See it?" I pull the pistol I've Brought from my waistband, The one my father, Gregory Bishop, Gave me on my Eighteenth birthday. The weight in my hand Is deafening, The illegal ivory Is seamless And cold against My palm. I raise my arm, Aim, And pull the trigger.
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Oct 5, 2012
Oct 5, 2012 at 5:28 PM UTC
--Mercy, For Lack Of Actions Past--
The last drops have been swallowed, And the last vestiges Of post-wage labor Libationary sorrow Swagger slowly off Into the night Across cracked pavement Like slugs after rain. I pick up the chemtrail Left by my father And follow it to A makeshift master suite Wedged between a Rundown groundskeeper Shed and the unkempt Wilderness beside the Desolate bike path In rural Seekonk. The rest of this comatose Town in this overdosed Commonwealth Are separated By enough trees And undergrowth And small Night creatures Calling to each other In the dark That they can't hear The nightly Rattle of .38 Rounds my father Sends flying into the trees. The pistol was my Grandfather's, Brought over from France In 1947. My father cries As he pulls the trigger Over and over Sporatically, Like a Sung Tong, His eyes wild, Darting side to side In milky blue trails Back and forth And up and down Across the dark Chasms of his Eye sockets. When the chambers Of his firearm Run dry he fills them From the box He took from my basement, In his old house, Where he stockpiled Ammunition for Twenty two years. I've learned to stand east Of my father when I make the visits Expected of children When their parents Are old and trapped In the recesses of Their insanity Or nursing home Or empty nest, Because he always Aims west. I wait for tonight's Box to be empty, Then slowly walk To where my father Is huddled, Clutching the pistol Like a teddy bear. He is breathing heavy, And has **** himself. He hears me coming, Turns, and smiles Upon recognition. "I got em good mikey, Got good, not taking My land from ME Mickey, never going Blow south, See it?" I pull the pistol I've Brought from my waistband, The one my father, Gregory Bishop, Gave me on my Eighteenth birthday. The weight in my hand Is deafening, The illegal ivory Is seamless And cold against My palm. I raise my arm, Aim, And pull the trigger.
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thoughts of us swarm my mind like a cloud of locusts, their strong power of flight damaging every circuit, all interconnected, causing every part of my body to slow down and reminisce of the time we spent being together.
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
december eighteenth, two thousand fourteen
I am standing on a staircase, on the seventeenth step, but the eighteenth onwards has no bannister, up until now, I've had a safety net, something to lean on when the steps aren't lit properly. 'Now', I tell myself, 'I've seen people who have fallen and manage to grip to the edge and pull up...towards the next'. 'But I've seen people fall and never get up'. I say; 'Am I another statistic? Am I another failure? Am I another mangled corpse for the cleaners? Or... Am I going to lift my leg and take that step? Am I to ignore the thoughts? Am I stronger than I let myself think?' I lift my leg. Upwards and onwards, I guess.
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Apr 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 at 7:25 PM UTC
Ugh, eighteen.