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I'M MAKING nachos in your toaster oven. The chips fall in the pan without a problem. Beans, evenly distributed (if I do say so myself.) Salsa- good to go. Then the cheese. Generic brand shredded cheese blend. I dangle my (washed) fingers into the zip-lock bag, grab a generous pinch and rain mild cheddar down on my gourmet meal. And I feel the tears building. "No," my conscious scolds, "you will not cry over shredded cheese." I add another pinch for flavor, then another to assert dominance. I slide the pan into the tiny oven- triumphant! But the next task breaks me. I freeze when I try to adjust the heat setting. I hear your voice so clearly, like you're still calling from the next room: "you have to press the TOAST button, it cooks much faster."  The tears start to roll. I think about how excited you were when cheese bubbled perfectly- "just a little brown, ever so slightly crispy." We would joke about your persnickety preferences, likely a product of your superior taste. Of course, you would have appreciated anything I made for you, but it was always better when the dish matched the idea in your head...when I made it like you would have made it (if you were only well enough to cook for yourself again.) In the present, I poke the TOAST button and flee the kitchen as to not cry in front of the smothered chips. I sit on the sofa and break down, gasping in childish sobs. "I miss her," I wail to an empty house. Warm tears coat my cheeks in the air-conditioned room. I feel so small. I feel so foolish for crying over stupid, little things. I feel so... so... A bell dings in the kitchen. I wipe my sleeve across my face and traipse back to the toaster. Hand into oven mitt, mitt onto pan, pan onto table. I grab the plastic tubs of sour cream and guacamole from the fridge and a spoon from the drawer that sticks a little when you try to open it. I pick the non-wilted bits off the head of lettuce and rinse them under the faucet. I finish the recipe. I pull out a chair. I sit down to nachos for one.
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 9:57 PM UTC
Stupidest Things
I'M MAKING nachos in your toaster oven. The chips fall in the pan without a problem. Beans, evenly distributed (if I do say so myself.) Salsa- good to go. Then the cheese. Generic brand shredded cheese blend. I dangle my (washed) fingers into the zip-lock bag, grab a generous pinch and rain mild cheddar down on my gourmet meal. And I feel the tears building. "No," my conscious scolds, "you will not cry over shredded cheese." I add another pinch for flavor, then another to assert dominance. I slide the pan into the tiny oven- triumphant! But the next task breaks me. I freeze when I try to adjust the heat setting. I hear your voice so clearly, like you're still calling from the next room: "you have to press the TOAST button, it cooks much faster."  The tears start to roll. I think about how excited you were when cheese bubbled perfectly- "just a little brown, ever so slightly crispy." We would joke about your persnickety preferences, likely a product of your superior taste. Of course, you would have appreciated anything I made for you, but it was always better when the dish matched the idea in your head...when I made it like you would have made it (if you were only well enough to cook for yourself again.) In the present, I poke the TOAST button and flee the kitchen as to not cry in front of the smothered chips. I sit on the sofa and break down, gasping in childish sobs. "I miss her," I wail to an empty house. Warm tears coat my cheeks in the air-conditioned room. I feel so small. I feel so foolish for crying over stupid, little things. I feel so... so... A bell dings in the kitchen. I wipe my sleeve across my face and traipse back to the toaster. Hand into oven mitt, mitt onto pan, pan onto table. I grab the plastic tubs of sour cream and guacamole from the fridge and a spoon from the drawer that sticks a little when you try to open it. I pick the non-wilted bits off the head of lettuce and rinse them under the faucet. I finish the recipe. I pull out a chair. I sit down to nachos for one.
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Ah.. shes here...I shuffle around the stalls... watching..out of the corners of my eyes.... she knows ....Intimacy...a hand on flank..careful.. .you'll break me....with your gentle hands.. ..My hard mouth....your soft lips.. ..unruly, unruled....old horse...a kiss. .. Confused, ...stallion in name only. ... You whisper... My ears ***** ... forward..the hunt! ....your scent on.. ..My bridle...I smell u still... .. Calm...Comfort...Welcome... .Gentled, not too gently....a strong hand. . It grows trust …..truth...a Stallion! Once more. Panting...pawing...'Be easy'..nervous eyes roll. .a hand on the neck...a caress..'Gently '...you whisper, .... hot breath against ear … I snuffle and toss my head …. still a bit frightened…..her power! ..Will you ride.? ! ..firm thighs and buttocks.. ..Toes point... Heels dig...all Give and Take…. . Instruction to...from...the muscled beast. ..straddled. Awkward… too long without…. ..A Rider … the matching... Gait with hip... Walk-on.. Trot, pounding...Heels clip. ..faster, just a bit..Then smoothly they fit her to him. ...a canter.....this long stretch....rocking like one creature ….each a part of the other...breathing evenly… ...caught ….. Breath comes quick...bodies warm. . Exertion...strength..trust.. Leaning forward.. knees grip..pulling...toes curl..in.. ..hot breath..whisper in an ear… Now! ...hands grip mane... As they clench … bit between the teeth...She.. ...gives him his head... Finding his rhythm …. home in sight...a last burst…… Rider/Stallion sweat soaked … blood pounding..There... againthe scent of her...Sweet Hay rising. ..she whispers… yes oh yes… I knew… you had it in you.. In me...oh gods….YES! ! . . No! not the pasture yet for you.. She chuckles.. .bodies tangled in sheets ….. Her mane of dark hair.. Scent of her fills him … glad to be..Alive? Yes..head…. Heat… heart...bursting…Not now… But soon. . A gift.. This youth.. Who see's value in an old war horse. ..ridden.. but no more to war and blood.. .gentled, both he and she… sleep…bridled passion. ..her...a scent of sweet hay… .him...an old spice..and gunpowder? ..mmm. by Alexander K Hamilton
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM UTC
Oh, Sweet Hay And Whispers
Ah.. shes here...I shuffle around the stalls... watching..out of the corners of my eyes.... she knows ....Intimacy...a hand on flank..careful.. .you'll break me....with your gentle hands.. ..My hard mouth....your soft lips.. ..unruly, unruled....old horse...a kiss. .. Confused, ...stallion in name only. ... You whisper... My ears ***** ... forward..the hunt! ....your scent on.. ..My bridle...I smell u still... .. Calm...Comfort...Welcome... .Gentled, not too gently....a strong hand. . It grows trust …..truth...a Stallion! Once more. Panting...pawing...'Be easy'..nervous eyes roll. .a hand on the neck...a caress..'Gently '...you whisper, .... hot breath against ear … I snuffle and toss my head …. still a bit frightened…..her power! ..Will you ride.? ! ..firm thighs and buttocks.. ..Toes point... Heels dig...all Give and Take…. . Instruction to...from...the muscled beast. ..straddled. Awkward… too long without…. ..A Rider … the matching... Gait with hip... Walk-on.. Trot, pounding...Heels clip. ..faster, just a bit..Then smoothly they fit her to him. ...a canter.....this long stretch....rocking like one creature ….each a part of the other...breathing evenly… ...caught ….. Breath comes quick...bodies warm. . Exertion...strength..trust.. Leaning forward.. knees grip..pulling...toes curl..in.. ..hot breath..whisper in an ear… Now! ...hands grip mane... As they clench … bit between the teeth...She.. ...gives him his head... Finding his rhythm …. home in sight...a last burst…… Rider/Stallion sweat soaked … blood pounding..There... againthe scent of her...Sweet Hay rising. ..she whispers… yes oh yes… I knew… you had it in you.. In me...oh gods….YES! ! . . No! not the pasture yet for you.. She chuckles.. .bodies tangled in sheets ….. Her mane of dark hair.. Scent of her fills him … glad to be..Alive? Yes..head…. Heat… heart...bursting…Not now… But soon. . A gift.. This youth.. Who see's value in an old war horse. ..ridden.. but no more to war and blood.. .gentled, both he and she… sleep…bridled passion. ..her...a scent of sweet hay… .him...an old spice..and gunpowder? ..mmm. by Alexander K Hamilton
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-October 17, 2230 White marble and the vitalizing smell of chemicals. Our light and evenly coloured avenue, straight and decisive, reaches the distant horizon. And all without trying. The clear autumn sky, sterile and wonderful is well fitting our day of celebration, is it not! In front, rows upon rows of men glowing with pride and dressed as myself, (why do I waste paper on the axiomatic….) move swiftly and evenly along to the beat, oh so evenly... And arms move out and up on every beat. For our jubilee has come, and a hundred years have passed since the necessary (and by them voluntary!) extermination of citizengroup 3. Oh, whoever might read this joyous note of mine, what a day to be! -O402
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
Note 6
We are evenly matched Or so I thought So I let down my guard Thinking I'm alright. But I placed my bishop Diagonal three spaces Perfect position to put you in check Realizing that I've made a mistake You move your knight Two spaces forward, one to the right Halting my advances Leaving only my queen To defend the pride of her king I defend from your every move Until you capture her. Leaving my king exposed And defenseless You marvel at it but Are quick to place her with the others you have Captured and controlled My king scurries Space by space Anxious to avoid The inevitable capture I am exhausted Avoidance of you is utterly impossible So I give in I tip over my king in total surrender How quick you are to ****** it into your hands You revel in your victory Clinging to my king My last piece My last hope But how quick you are to discard it How quickly you let it tumble down onto the pile But I forgot.. To you This is just a game of chess
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 9:15 AM UTC
Chess
There is no smell in all the world, None in the North or South, None in the East or West, None in the lowest places, None on the highest peaks, Like that smell filling the air, Filling the house, Filling my senses, That smell of spaghetti frying, Frying in the morning light, The smell so different from when it was first cooked, Moving the senses, Moving the mind, Anticipation in scent, The sauce sizzling, Changing, Changing in the frying pan, As the noodles turn crisper, Crisper, Crisp, With that crispness like no other, The noodles, No longer white, Made yellow, Yellow from the sauce, Fried onto them, One with them, Flavours seeping in, And the sauce, Orange now, Red orange but clearly orange, No longer the bright red it was when it entered the pan, And as the sauce and noodles change, Reach that perfect point, The smell just right, The colour just right, The texture just right, The sizzling reaching the perfect crescendo, Then, and only then, The spaghetti no longer stirring, Evened out, Temperature lowered, And carefully, Slowly, To keep them on the top, The eggs break, White running among the noodles, Filling the gaps, Turning from clear to white as they hit the hot pan, Yolks floating on top where they should be, The perfect drop, And the odours as the white changes, Filling the air with new scents, Mingling with the ones already present, And then the salt, disappearing on the surface, The black pepper, Black flects, Scattered evenly, Perfectly, The smell of pepper joining the egg and spaghetti, And a splash of Tobacco Sauce across the whole, That hot smell, That bright red colour, And the silver lid slips on, Over the top, Hiding, Protecting, Cooking the whole, Until it is done, And the lid set aside, The whole onto a plate, Perfect to the senses, The smell, The colours, The texture, Perfect, And the first bight, Heavenly, Like nothing else on earth, Almost sweet, But still savoury, Strange to those knowing bowled pasta, Strange to those knowing simmered sauce, Strange to those knowing fried eggs, But the tastes, Perfect, Blended, Strange but familiar, Many memories, Images, Experiences, All coming together like the different parts of the fried spaghetti, And the fork through the yoke, As it runs down, Bright yellow into orange and red and black and white, Perfect, Amazing, Done. ~The Smell of Fried Spaghetti by Bethany Davis, June 19, 2015
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Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015 at 12:40 PM UTC
The Smell of Fried Spaghetti
There is no smell in all the world, None in the North or South, None in the East or West, None in the lowest places, None on the highest peaks, Like that smell filling the air, Filling the house, Filling my senses, That smell of spaghetti frying, Frying in the morning light, The smell so different from when it was first cooked, Moving the senses, Moving the mind, Anticipation in scent, The sauce sizzling, Changing, Changing in the frying pan, As the noodles turn crisper, Crisper, Crisp, With that crispness like no other, The noodles, No longer white, Made yellow, Yellow from the sauce, Fried onto them, One with them, Flavours seeping in, And the sauce, Orange now, Red orange but clearly orange, No longer the bright red it was when it entered the pan, And as the sauce and noodles change, Reach that perfect point, The smell just right, The colour just right, The texture just right, The sizzling reaching the perfect crescendo, Then, and only then, The spaghetti no longer stirring, Evened out, Temperature lowered, And carefully, Slowly, To keep them on the top, The eggs break, White running among the noodles, Filling the gaps, Turning from clear to white as they hit the hot pan, Yolks floating on top where they should be, The perfect drop, And the odours as the white changes, Filling the air with new scents, Mingling with the ones already present, And then the salt, disappearing on the surface, The black pepper, Black flects, Scattered evenly, Perfectly, The smell of pepper joining the egg and spaghetti, And a splash of Tobacco Sauce across the whole, That hot smell, That bright red colour, And the silver lid slips on, Over the top, Hiding, Protecting, Cooking the whole, Until it is done, And the lid set aside, The whole onto a plate, Perfect to the senses, The smell, The colours, The texture, Perfect, And the first bight, Heavenly, Like nothing else on earth, Almost sweet, But still savoury, Strange to those knowing bowled pasta, Strange to those knowing simmered sauce, Strange to those knowing fried eggs, But the tastes, Perfect, Blended, Strange but familiar, Many memories, Images, Experiences, All coming together like the different parts of the fried spaghetti, And the fork through the yoke, As it runs down, Bright yellow into orange and red and black and white, Perfect, Amazing, Done. ~The Smell of Fried Spaghetti by Bethany Davis, June 19, 2015
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This poem is a toast to our love, to pure love. Let peace, purity & contentment prevail everywhere evenly dispelling hatred. There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! Whether it's writing poems, Whether it's riding horses, Whether it's reading books, Or it's roaming nooks... There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! Whether it's blooming flowers, Whether it's raining droplets, Whether it's crooning lullabies, Or it's draining tensions... There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...!
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 9:29 AM UTC
There's A Hint Of You
*She got star dust sprinkled evenly Within the shorelines of her ravishing eyes And stardust, pristine naïve look benignly Creasing her soft supple aristocratic face no need to accessorize Her posture upright and poised Elegance, charm and grace effortlessly effused By her, emotional hazards posed By a presence so spell-binding, one will be amused At the hypnotic effect experienced by All and sundry Though she turns a blind eye A scathingly sultry look suddenly evident on her sweet face turned sour She undoubtedly is a toxic flower.*
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
Toxic Flower
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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Mar 18, 2013
Mar 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
the barbecue
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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I sink, my feet slowly becoming part of the earth softened under the heat of my body and a shy sun rolling evenly on horizon. Lazy sun slowly extends his arms stiff from winter reluctance and expanding them into a hug. I see green meadows, still poor with colors, pale spring messengers and Harlequin's face in the glass reflection. Eyes full of ice slowly melting, just as piles of snow hidden in the spring  shadows. I sink deeper into the trap of needs. My hands have become bare spring branches and wait for your smile to bloom touches. Delicate greenish flowers and young leaves will slowly wake up your eyes from the winter gloom, gentle kisses will tickle your throat and nostrils. My hands are empowered, illusive fingers gliding over your breast. I feel the beauty of the Snowdrop and already lured with memories of Violets. You open slowly like a red Tulip. Tulips are too simple for you. I see beauty of Cyclamen bathed in dew of hidden alley and I think only of sweet kisses you give. As I dive in you the Earth is not just a lump of mud in the universe and the water  is not just a matter which makes it blue. While tears running down your cheeks you say they have decided themselves to come and not knowing why. Then, I stand little before you. The boy filled with dreams. Then I stand bigger than the Earth before you as you are more than water.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 6:55 PM UTC
Harlequin's Spring
*"Once upon a time there was" "no"       "No"             "NO" "Many moons ago" "There was a dreamer" Who wished with all her heart, To find the gold at the rainbows end, She would look for clouds Bursting Up High, Her mother smiled. "Are you still searching for that rainbows end" "Pamela  your dreams are the clouds" *"Mummy a *** of gold I will find"* "For if you latch on to one" "You will find yourself upon the other side"" Then one morning awoke to find a rainbow Moving over her lawn, Blouse, Trousers, Shoes On too, she had packed a case Encase this time did come true, She slid down the banister "Whoooooosh" Through the front door, Just as it was fading Hands did grab hold, She was surrounded by colours Red,                 Orange Yellow                  Green Blue                Indigo Violet All were pure and bright, then with a "Thump" On her bottom she did land, surrounded By beauty, plants the colours of the rainbow "Blue leaves" "Grass was orange" Sky was all shades of the rainbow too, A *** seen, gold did gleam, Mouth wide open, A violent fly flew in then out, "Gross" And she then quickly shut her mouth, She was over the moon, the rainbow too, She picked it up, Lighter than she thought?? She picked one up Put it too her mouth, And bit, It was squiggly in her mouth "Gross" Twice in two minutes, She was Sullen, Grumpy, Tears Did cascade from little eyes, They came out Colours of the rainbow Which lightened her mood, She wiped her tears looked once, twice Then hands upon the rainbow, And whoosh, she landed with a "Thump" On next doors cow, "MMmmmoooooo" Went the cow, "AAaahhhhhhh" Went Pamela, She ran with  a Scare And Fright, As in the distance still hearing the angry "MMMmmoooooooooooo" She ran to her house, opened the door, "MUM" "MUM" "MUM" With a fright her mum ran out, "Pamela" "My baby are you all right" "I found the rainbow" **"I found the *** "I found a land of colour," "But the treasure wasn't right" All said with in one breathe, Now breath my angel, As mother did take a coin Opened it carefully and with the tip Of here finger tasted it, "MMmmmm" So creamy, so light, As she took her in the kitchen, And the toaster minutes later POPPED out, Spreading it evenly, and eaten was The toast crust and all, "Mummy may I try one" Pamela said "Magic words my honey bear" "Please may I try one" And with that the toast again POPPED out, "MMmmmmmmm" "My gosh mummy this tastes divine" "You found a golden treasure that's for sure" As they had toast each morning, Opening a coin spreading it evenly, "It was a taste to behold" The treasure at the end of the rainbow, Wasn't money, but I was something better A taste that put a smile on faces Every morning at breakfast time.
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM UTC
Dreams Upon A Raindow
*"Once upon a time there was" "no"       "No"             "NO" "Many moons ago" "There was a dreamer" Who wished with all her heart, To find the gold at the rainbows end, She would look for clouds Bursting Up High, Her mother smiled. "Are you still searching for that rainbows end" "Pamela  your dreams are the clouds" *"Mummy a *** of gold I will find"* "For if you latch on to one" "You will find yourself upon the other side"" Then one morning awoke to find a rainbow Moving over her lawn, Blouse, Trousers, Shoes On too, she had packed a case Encase this time did come true, She slid down the banister "Whoooooosh" Through the front door, Just as it was fading Hands did grab hold, She was surrounded by colours Red,                 Orange Yellow                  Green Blue                Indigo Violet All were pure and bright, then with a "Thump" On her bottom she did land, surrounded By beauty, plants the colours of the rainbow "Blue leaves" "Grass was orange" Sky was all shades of the rainbow too, A *** seen, gold did gleam, Mouth wide open, A violent fly flew in then out, "Gross" And she then quickly shut her mouth, She was over the moon, the rainbow too, She picked it up, Lighter than she thought?? She picked one up Put it too her mouth, And bit, It was squiggly in her mouth "Gross" Twice in two minutes, She was Sullen, Grumpy, Tears Did cascade from little eyes, They came out Colours of the rainbow Which lightened her mood, She wiped her tears looked once, twice Then hands upon the rainbow, And whoosh, she landed with a "Thump" On next doors cow, "MMmmmoooooo" Went the cow, "AAaahhhhhhh" Went Pamela, She ran with  a Scare And Fright, As in the distance still hearing the angry "MMMmmoooooooooooo" She ran to her house, opened the door, "MUM" "MUM" "MUM" With a fright her mum ran out, "Pamela" "My baby are you all right" "I found the rainbow" **"I found the *** "I found a land of colour," "But the treasure wasn't right" All said with in one breathe, Now breath my angel, As mother did take a coin Opened it carefully and with the tip Of here finger tasted it, "MMmmmm" So creamy, so light, As she took her in the kitchen, And the toaster minutes later POPPED out, Spreading it evenly, and eaten was The toast crust and all, "Mummy may I try one" Pamela said "Magic words my honey bear" "Please may I try one" And with that the toast again POPPED out, "MMmmmmmmm" "My gosh mummy this tastes divine" "You found a golden treasure that's for sure" As they had toast each morning, Opening a coin spreading it evenly, "It was a taste to behold" The treasure at the end of the rainbow, Wasn't money, but I was something better A taste that put a smile on faces Every morning at breakfast time.
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You talk about eggshells I hear the crunch as I get closer to you Thought it was glass breaking but it was too soft beneath my shoe I can't stay out of your perimeter forever When the diameter grows bigger and bigger Pushing me farther away I can still see soft silhouette Your skin is so frail Pale white made of the eggshells at your feet You reach down time and again When you're pierced by words Cutting off oxygen Penetrated by the carbon dioxide truth You're not young anymore Age is ageless numerals You're not old How many birds flew away from this pile of youth? Each one once packaged like a gift Leaving behind stacks of birth to sift through You gathered them Scattered them evenly around you Put your appearance and self worth into them and Waited for the crushing blow Marching toward you from all sides Your insecurities will swallow you and The stomping will leave you angry and hollow We are all hippy chickens Making wishbones out of peace signs Hoping for unity Not realizing it's meant to be broken A lopsided libra unbalanced The powers that be Expect you to follow obediently Stand in line You can't take just give 'Short people ain't got no reason to live' Newman must have know How difficult it is to create new men One by one we attempt To tip the scale in our favor But the bigger Man Can push it down with a finger Like a toppling Pisa tower A slow motion fall to the ground A single direction agenda The momentum gained With each inch leaning So stop clowning around Sweep up your eggshells and Go buy a dozen more grade A's and Break them all at once We don't have much time
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Jul 17, 2013
Jul 17, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
-Eggshells (the chicken or the egg?)-
You talk about eggshells I hear the crunch as I get closer to you Thought it was glass breaking but it was too soft beneath my shoe I can't stay out of your perimeter forever When the diameter grows bigger and bigger Pushing me farther away I can still see soft silhouette Your skin is so frail Pale white made of the eggshells at your feet You reach down time and again When you're pierced by words Cutting off oxygen Penetrated by the carbon dioxide truth You're not young anymore Age is ageless numerals You're not old How many birds flew away from this pile of youth? Each one once packaged like a gift Leaving behind stacks of birth to sift through You gathered them Scattered them evenly around you Put your appearance and self worth into them and Waited for the crushing blow Marching toward you from all sides Your insecurities will swallow you and The stomping will leave you angry and hollow We are all hippy chickens Making wishbones out of peace signs Hoping for unity Not realizing it's meant to be broken A lopsided libra unbalanced The powers that be Expect you to follow obediently Stand in line You can't take just give 'Short people ain't got no reason to live' Newman must have know How difficult it is to create new men One by one we attempt To tip the scale in our favor But the bigger Man Can push it down with a finger Like a toppling Pisa tower A slow motion fall to the ground A single direction agenda The momentum gained With each inch leaning So stop clowning around Sweep up your eggshells and Go buy a dozen more grade A's and Break them all at once We don't have much time
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Palaces of ****** souls have green neon text frames standing sideways like arches; divine arrows, they guide the paternal flunks, the tar-soaked offspring, the lonely and the business bunch. Here in these palaces, all sin is a freeze, all lust is a spin. Fairy lights are often flagged in a net, to catch mischievous mares flinging themselves against the glass displays of overpriced clothing shops. One finds when wondering the perpetual lines of restaurants and cafes, the vastness of them having a motherly touch, for these palaces, they stretch like the sky and they spread like the shepherded fire ants of Gaia herself And when ones welcome is overbid they need only to follow  the evenly laid out,  sorrow yellow street lamps and bite their cheeks and bare the frost for soon the polluted lux will lead them to an overnight joint, a limbo of sorts, where they can breathe anew. On those red leather sofas- fast food or the district kind- when the night seems to crawl on its final limbs, they'll lay and slip into sleep. Some say they never do wake, that they wither with the moon and then haunt the attics of the dance halls where they swirled and laughed and lived in a previous life.
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 2:34 PM UTC
Palaces of ****** souls
556 The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly—and true— But let a Splinter swerve— ’Twere easier for You— To put a Current back— When Floods have slit the Hills— And scooped a Turnpike for Themselves— And trodden out the Mills—
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The Brain, within its Groove
Love At First Sight It was love at first sight, darkness has become light. Eyes glanced across the room, my heart started to go boom. Walked over and bought her a drink, neither one of us could even blink. We talked til the bar closed, our feeling were evenly exposed. We dated a week or two, the we made love, the whole night through. The friction between us caused sparks, we did it in cars, we did it in parks. One magical night on the beach, we were stuck together like a leech. She moved in shortly after, so much love, so much laughter. Got on my knee and proposed, she said yes, as I supposed. After a year we got hitched, her touch always makes me twitch. We decided to start a family, always exploring each others anatomy. Finally our first child was born, handed out cigars and tooted my horn. We live a wonderful life, I have the greatest wife
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Feb 7, 2014
Feb 7, 2014 at 7:51 PM UTC
Love At First Sight
Ole to the beautiful flower hidden underneath a shadow- a beautiful flower in bloom, alongside a naked truth. Sensual images, picturing gentle moves to drive love so pure and never felt; its eyes a flower garden of unspoiled- felt so heavenly. Permit me to kiss you evenly by heaven’s sweet entry; flowing in sync; we’ll rest in a lily field of complete serenity. _And she replied to him:_ Our first meeting of first feelings- never felt before, as I waited in the shadows; longing for the needs within us, for one another. Aroused in my inner core to touch and explore love in treasured completeness and wholeness. Share your life with me and within me; darling fall into my arms, and allow me to feel my inner spirit for you within- burning endlessly from my soul’s aflame.                                       __Shall we burn together.__
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Jul 1, 2024
Jul 1, 2024 at 3:27 PM UTC
The Burning
Entropy will **** you, Brutally, and without consent. You think you're special? You're the universe's ***** Not only that, You're one of the universe's billions of ******* And on the day of judgement, The universe will gather all its little ******* And **** them, in one spectacular **** Of light and energy, Order and disorder. A grand bukakke, Flooding space and time in a tidal wave of cosmic **** But as you're floating around, Your energy distributing evenly, You get the last laugh. You have tempted and tickled the universe, Toward an unachievable goal. The ****** that can never be reached: The state of perfect entropy.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 8:25 AM UTC
Entropy will **** you.
There is a **** With the most gorgeous of toes Of this fact I am not sure if she knows Evenly balanced with different hues . But to me this is not news For they are the best of toes
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM UTC
MILFs Toes
I was sexually abused when I was a child, the only light at the end of that tunnel, is that it wasn’t done, by a family member, but it was done, and I don’t even remember, as much as Christine Blasey Ford does, nor have I ever had to testify, all I remember was the taste of that **** and how it taste like buried secrets, the way they ferment and rot, when lodged in the gut and not allowed to surface, see we’ve all been abused, and not a single one of us deserved it, so now we serve this life sentence of guilty regret-ness, which in turn as positioned me in service, oh America The Beautiful, when did we become so broken, everyone’s got a story, of either being abused or abusing, watched the Judge Kavanaugh hearing, watched Dr. Christine struggle to retell her tale, under the glaring lights of the TV cameras, under the glaring stare of a bunch of older white males, I mean let’s put it into perspective, here is a lady who’s held this secret for years, and then in an instant she was broadcast worldwide, for the whole world to hear, her life will never be the same, she’s admitted her most private moments to the public, and all because to the highest court in the country, this demon from her past is about to be appointed, and I don’t know what my point is, maybe I don’t have one, like a lonely kid, who’s only role model is a fictional superhero, because he doesn’t have an honorable father, a lonely kid, who’s only friend is his pet dog, that he takes faithfully with him, we he goes on walks just to get lost, doesn’t have a destination, still he feels like he’s in a rush, can’t focus his attention and is always impatient, and don’t know where to go and only wants to find the love, and when he tries to speak up to tell someone what’s up, he’s just dismissed as ignorant and told to hush, and what does it mean when a ****** predator, has the title of Judge, how can someone that acts so immorally, be put in a position to weigh the scales of justice evenly, maybe there’s no right and wrong anyways, maybe nothing is for certain and there are no guarantees, maybe, maybe not, but I do know one thing for certain, wherever I go the trauma from my past is brought, because I was sexually abused when I was a child, and the only light at the end of that tunnel, is that it wasn’t done, by a family member… ∆ LaLux ∆
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 9:22 PM UTC
Christine Blasey Ford
I was sexually abused when I was a child, the only light at the end of that tunnel, is that it wasn’t done, by a family member, but it was done, and I don’t even remember, as much as Christine Blasey Ford does, nor have I ever had to testify, all I remember was the taste of that **** and how it taste like buried secrets, the way they ferment and rot, when lodged in the gut and not allowed to surface, see we’ve all been abused, and not a single one of us deserved it, so now we serve this life sentence of guilty regret-ness, which in turn as positioned me in service, oh America The Beautiful, when did we become so broken, everyone’s got a story, of either being abused or abusing, watched the Judge Kavanaugh hearing, watched Dr. Christine struggle to retell her tale, under the glaring lights of the TV cameras, under the glaring stare of a bunch of older white males, I mean let’s put it into perspective, here is a lady who’s held this secret for years, and then in an instant she was broadcast worldwide, for the whole world to hear, her life will never be the same, she’s admitted her most private moments to the public, and all because to the highest court in the country, this demon from her past is about to be appointed, and I don’t know what my point is, maybe I don’t have one, like a lonely kid, who’s only role model is a fictional superhero, because he doesn’t have an honorable father, a lonely kid, who’s only friend is his pet dog, that he takes faithfully with him, we he goes on walks just to get lost, doesn’t have a destination, still he feels like he’s in a rush, can’t focus his attention and is always impatient, and don’t know where to go and only wants to find the love, and when he tries to speak up to tell someone what’s up, he’s just dismissed as ignorant and told to hush, and what does it mean when a ****** predator, has the title of Judge, how can someone that acts so immorally, be put in a position to weigh the scales of justice evenly, maybe there’s no right and wrong anyways, maybe nothing is for certain and there are no guarantees, maybe, maybe not, but I do know one thing for certain, wherever I go the trauma from my past is brought, because I was sexually abused when I was a child, and the only light at the end of that tunnel, is that it wasn’t done, by a family member… ∆ LaLux ∆
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Fruit pizza I’m eight years old Running around the house with a cape tied around my neck Ingredients: Sugar cookie dough Strawberry cream cheese frosting Sliced fruit of choice My teddy bear’s name is Kate, after baby Kate from Arthur We had to stop watching that show because my sister started acting like D.W I told Kate everything because she was the best at keeping secrets I didn’t realise she couldn’t talk back to me Preheat oven to 350 Eat cookie dough because no matter what mom says, it’s not really going to **** you Spread cookie dough evenly on a pizza pan As the youngest of seven loud siblings of various ages, I had to learn at a young age how to be heard I can yell with the best of them, but you would never know given my quiet tendencies today I still haven’t completely grown up yet In my mind, I’m still that little girl who read picture books and made up games like hurricane and the tripping machine Let cookie cool Wash fruit and slice it neatly In my mind, I am still the little girl who did things because she wanted to and therefore got put in time out a lot Spread strawberry cream cheese frosting on cookie In my mind, I am still protected by the shelter of my parents In my mind, Kate can still talk Place fruit in a circular pattern on the frosted cookie Cut into even pieces I’m eight years old Fruit pizza.
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 9:48 PM UTC
fruit pizza
Oh such lonesome lives in the west When the sunshine stings bleary eyes and telephones receive no calls How does one survive in the city When the angular buildings suppress creativity and free-thought is despicable See the man, laying in bed for days at a time With ASMR videos playing on a smartphone propped against a pillow and his arm draped over that pillow, imagining a body Bob Ross love affair, the television drones Each night spent alone, praying for passion, or acceptance, or anything and joyous noise when paintbrushes glide evenly A collective of poets, posing as one man Fraudulent minds, each with distinctive style and all with crooked broken teeth Trumpets in the jukebox, cat-calls in the world Outside the window children are playing and he cries, for the years are growing weary She peels skin from her fingernails, mindless on morning commutes He stares from bus stops, train stations and runways and never blinking, never blinking, never blinking The intrinsic value of repetition falling short of artistry Given that metal machines are perpetual and when the crow lands on fences in the morning dew, there is no more life in Ironville, not for me, not for you
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 1:16 PM UTC
There’s A Dark Side To Everything If Someone Is Motivated Enough To Find It
A 14 year old tender, Came with a situation He can’t decide his gender Social keys challenging perception. A prof. got suspended from his job Coz he can’t love a woman in the **** His feelings for affection were just like us But for men, that he can’t discuss. A girl of 25 don’t want to marry Coz she love her girlfriend back in bury She know it’s impossible to do this As the law prevent love between two fairies Now the question arises If love has no boundaries Why our brains are in cages? As metals are casted in a foundry God has made us in different pages. We all pray equally As do lesbians and gays We all love equally As do Bisexuals and Transgender We all make friends evenly As any girl or a boy So why we can’t love legally? Think and make others think We all are humans, catch the link.
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 12:45 AM UTC
The Another Gender
Sabungan                                              Cockfight Sa pula!                                                  For the red! Sa puti!                                                   For the white! Anopaman dumating                          However they come piliin ang magiting                              choose the valiant tumaya sa tindig                                   gamble on their carriage pagpaboran                                           and consider bawat katunggali.                                 each competitor. Sumiping sa dilim                                Make love with the dark at sumigaw                                            and cry Kristo! Kristo!                                        Christ! Christ! Panoorin ang laban                              Watch closely the battle sarsuelang mapanganib                      this dangerous sarsuela kawatang sumasanib                           a thief takes over sa aking piling                                      inside. Sa bawat kong hiyaw,                          Every shriek ang kada tuka, laslas                            each peck, a slash nagmula sa dahas                                of ruthlessness and lumilipana ang daing                           cries all around dumadaginding ang bagsik                echo ferociousness bawat laban pilit.                                  of this stilted struggle Kristo! Kristo!                                       Christ! Christ! sigaw ng sabungero                             screamed the sabungero at ako'y tumigil.                                   I stop. Sa pagpanaw                                        When all is gone manalo                                                   win matalo                                                    lose walang pareho tumingin                    no one sees evenly sa aking balahibong                            my feathers pula at puti                                           of red and white sa alabok                                               on the surface dust kumalat                                                 they lay lumipad                                                 they fly lumahong taimtim.                             and vanish without a thought.
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Jun 5, 2016
Jun 5, 2016 at 11:36 PM UTC
sabungan (cockfight)
Sabungan                                              Cockfight Sa pula!                                                  For the red! Sa puti!                                                   For the white! Anopaman dumating                          However they come piliin ang magiting                              choose the valiant tumaya sa tindig                                   gamble on their carriage pagpaboran                                           and consider bawat katunggali.                                 each competitor. Sumiping sa dilim                                Make love with the dark at sumigaw                                            and cry Kristo! Kristo!                                        Christ! Christ! Panoorin ang laban                              Watch closely the battle sarsuelang mapanganib                      this dangerous sarsuela kawatang sumasanib                           a thief takes over sa aking piling                                      inside. Sa bawat kong hiyaw,                          Every shriek ang kada tuka, laslas                            each peck, a slash nagmula sa dahas                                of ruthlessness and lumilipana ang daing                           cries all around dumadaginding ang bagsik                echo ferociousness bawat laban pilit.                                  of this stilted struggle Kristo! Kristo!                                       Christ! Christ! sigaw ng sabungero                             screamed the sabungero at ako'y tumigil.                                   I stop. Sa pagpanaw                                        When all is gone manalo                                                   win matalo                                                    lose walang pareho tumingin                    no one sees evenly sa aking balahibong                            my feathers pula at puti                                           of red and white sa alabok                                               on the surface dust kumalat                                                 they lay lumipad                                                 they fly lumahong taimtim.                             and vanish without a thought.
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the lion pack traveling side by side, though not evenly; colliding shoulder to shoulder territorial and instinctual. trying to tame the manes beneath logo-baring headgear, hoping to hide soulful eyes behind dark shades of plastic. clothing loose to make up for skin too tight, laughter bouncing off cement and rubber sneaker soles. that musky scent of male mingling with each individual mixture of hopes and dreams hits me in full force, leaving me at a standstill long after the last of you has passed me by.
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Aug 13, 2010
Aug 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM UTC
university sidewalk
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue When troubles rise. Behold them mounting every stump, By speech our liberty to guard. Observe their courage--see them jump, And come down hard! "Walk up, walk up!" each cries aloud, "And learn from me what you must do To turn aside the thunder cloud, The earthquake too. "Beware the wiles of yonder quack Who stuffs the ears of all that pass. I--I alone can show that black Is white as grass." They shout through all the day and break The silence of the night as well. They'd make--I wish they'd go and make-- Of Heaven a Hell. A advocates free silver, B Free trade and C free banking laws. Free board, clothes, lodging would from me Win wamr applause. Lo, D lifts up his voice: "You see The single tax on land would fall On all alike." More evenly No tax at all. "With paper money," bellows E, "We'll all be rich as lords." No doubt-- And richest of the lot will be The chap without. As many "cures" as addle-wits Who know not what the ailment is! Meanwhile the patient foams and spits Like a gin fizz. Alas, poor Body Politic, Your fate is all too clearly read: To be not altogether quick, Nor very dead. You take your exercise in squirms, Your rest in fainting fits between. 'Tis plain that your disorder's worms-- Worms fat and lean. Worm Capital, Worm Labor dwell Within your maw and muscle's scope. Their quarrels make your life a Hell, Your death a hope. God send you find not such an end To ills however sharp and huge! God send you convalesce! God send You vermifuge.
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The Statesmen
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue When troubles rise. Behold them mounting every stump, By speech our liberty to guard. Observe their courage--see them jump, And come down hard! "Walk up, walk up!" each cries aloud, "And learn from me what you must do To turn aside the thunder cloud, The earthquake too. "Beware the wiles of yonder quack Who stuffs the ears of all that pass. I--I alone can show that black Is white as grass." They shout through all the day and break The silence of the night as well. They'd make--I wish they'd go and make-- Of Heaven a Hell. A advocates free silver, B Free trade and C free banking laws. Free board, clothes, lodging would from me Win wamr applause. Lo, D lifts up his voice: "You see The single tax on land would fall On all alike." More evenly No tax at all. "With paper money," bellows E, "We'll all be rich as lords." No doubt-- And richest of the lot will be The chap without. As many "cures" as addle-wits Who know not what the ailment is! Meanwhile the patient foams and spits Like a gin fizz. Alas, poor Body Politic, Your fate is all too clearly read: To be not altogether quick, Nor very dead. You take your exercise in squirms, Your rest in fainting fits between. 'Tis plain that your disorder's worms-- Worms fat and lean. Worm Capital, Worm Labor dwell Within your maw and muscle's scope. Their quarrels make your life a Hell, Your death a hope. God send you find not such an end To ills however sharp and huge! God send you convalesce! God send You vermifuge.
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Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
A Funebre In Plaridel, Bulacan
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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