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I wish I could have kissed you the moment I saw you in real life for the first time; something like running into your arms and letting the world turn into static, only focusing on you. Only you. But that would have been too dramatic. Maybe you'd get shy all of a sudden or think I am too forward. So I just held your hand— warm like a heavy blanket and evidently bigger than mine. Enveloping my hand in the most comfortable of ways, like some missing puzzle piece that was bound to be together no matter what. That would have appeased me don't you think? No. Not really. I have nothing to say. I still want to kiss you.
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Dec 16, 2021
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:33 AM UTC
basorexia.
I was 11 but you touched me like I was 22 Now I'm 22 and I finally realize how wrong that was of you You were my best friend's dad And you had been drinking I tried using that as an excuse but what was I thinking I keep telling myself it was nothing But trailing your fingers along my waist and down to my **** is evidently something I repressed it for years but it finally came to the surface Our brains hide these things from us on purpose I'll take my experience and let it go Because nothing would hurt more than being belittled by the people that I know.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 12:40 AM UTC
silence
As I sit here, at the dining room table and stare over decaf coffee at the screen on my Mac my eyes are drawn, once and awhile, to the picture sitting on the buffet in the butler's pantry. Before we continue you should know that "butler's pantry" in this case means the "third bedroom" that we saw in the listing on Realtor dot com before we bought the house and that, in the usual real estate-ese, is an optimistic label at best. But I was talking about the picture. The picture sits, slightly askew, in a carved wooden bowl given to us by my wife's boss as a housewarming present. It, the bowl I mean, came with salad tongs or forks, depending on what it is that you call them, made of water buffalo horn. They sit in the bowl too and, although she'd never admit it, I know that the thought of serving salad with water buffalo horn salad forks... lets just say..... doesn't appeal to my wife. Right, the picture.... It sits in on the buffet, in the carved wooden bowl, next to another wood bowl. This one full of carved wood fruits and vegetables, which evidently, includes sugar cane. When my wife's dad moved from his house to an assisted living facility the kids, my wife, her brother and sister, took turns going down to help him move. My wife was the last and dad insisted that someone "had" to take the fruit. But, the picture.... It, and the wooden bowls full of fruit and unused salad forks, are surrounded by both faux and real glassware and placemats which all sit perched on the top of the buffet as precariously as refugees and all of their belongings on the deck and roof of an overloaded fishing boat chugging from their homeland to some place that is hopefully better. The picture... It was painted by my father-in-law and, of all the others we have in the house, is one of my favorites. It sits on the buffet, askew in the carved wooden bowl with the horn salad forks, amid polycarbonate and glass drink ware, and placemats, unframed for some reason. All of his other works came framed but this is one he did not... and did I mention that it is one of my favorites? I like his choices of frames on all of the other pictures we have, but this is just canvas, stretched over a frame, sitting in that carved African wooden bowl with those salad forks made from water buffalo horn on the buffet next to the other wood bowl full of wooden fruits and vegetables, and wooden sugar cane, in the butler's pantry.
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM UTC
The Picture
As I sit here, at the dining room table and stare over decaf coffee at the screen on my Mac my eyes are drawn, once and awhile, to the picture sitting on the buffet in the butler's pantry. Before we continue you should know that "butler's pantry" in this case means the "third bedroom" that we saw in the listing on Realtor dot com before we bought the house and that, in the usual real estate-ese, is an optimistic label at best. But I was talking about the picture. The picture sits, slightly askew, in a carved wooden bowl given to us by my wife's boss as a housewarming present. It, the bowl I mean, came with salad tongs or forks, depending on what it is that you call them, made of water buffalo horn. They sit in the bowl too and, although she'd never admit it, I know that the thought of serving salad with water buffalo horn salad forks... lets just say..... doesn't appeal to my wife. Right, the picture.... It sits in on the buffet, in the carved wooden bowl, next to another wood bowl. This one full of carved wood fruits and vegetables, which evidently, includes sugar cane. When my wife's dad moved from his house to an assisted living facility the kids, my wife, her brother and sister, took turns going down to help him move. My wife was the last and dad insisted that someone "had" to take the fruit. But, the picture.... It, and the wooden bowls full of fruit and unused salad forks, are surrounded by both faux and real glassware and placemats which all sit perched on the top of the buffet as precariously as refugees and all of their belongings on the deck and roof of an overloaded fishing boat chugging from their homeland to some place that is hopefully better. The picture... It was painted by my father-in-law and, of all the others we have in the house, is one of my favorites. It sits on the buffet, askew in the carved wooden bowl with the horn salad forks, amid polycarbonate and glass drink ware, and placemats, unframed for some reason. All of his other works came framed but this is one he did not... and did I mention that it is one of my favorites? I like his choices of frames on all of the other pictures we have, but this is just canvas, stretched over a frame, sitting in that carved African wooden bowl with those salad forks made from water buffalo horn on the buffet next to the other wood bowl full of wooden fruits and vegetables, and wooden sugar cane, in the butler's pantry.
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It was not a heart, beating. That muted boom, that clangor Far off, not blood in the ears Drumming up and fever To impose on the evening. The noise came from outside: A metal detonating Native, evidently, to These stilled suburbs nobody Startled at it, though the sound Shook the ground with its pounding. It took a root at my coming Till the thudding shource, exposed, Counfounded in wept guesswork: Framed in windows of Main Street's Silver factory, immense Hammers hoisted, wheels turning, Stalled, let fall their vertical Tonnage of metal and wood; Stunned in marrow. Men in white Undershirts circled, tending Without stop those greased machines, Tending, without stop, the blunt Indefatigable fact.
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Night Shift
Who owns those scrawny little feet? Death. Who owns this bristly scorched-looking face? Death. Who owns these still-working lungs? Death. Who owns this utility coat of muscles? Death. Who owns these unspeakable guts? Death. Who owns these questionable brains? Death. All this messy blood? Death. These minimum-efficiency eyes? Death. This wicked little tongue? Death. This occasional wakefulness? Death. Given, stolen, or held pending trial? Held. Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death. Who owns all of space? Death. Who is stronger than hope? Death. Who is stronger than the will? Death. Stronger than love? Death. Stronger than life? Death. But who is stronger than Death? Me, evidently. Pass, Crow.
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Examination at the Womb-Door
.*England... no wolves... oh well... the next best "spirit animal"..? Bacardi! no wait... Whyte & Mackawy?! no... **** what could it be... and believe me, Maine **** cats share a disposition of curiosity with this feral creature... this Robin Hood... what animal is it? hmm...* it was supposed to your generic, bog-standard Saturday afternoon, i was given the pleasure of cooking dinner... Xacuti chicken curry with         star anise & nutmeg from the Goa region of India and   a curry from Sri Lanka... absolutely beauties...    evidently...     all that heating of the spices on a pan and then blending them in a coffee mill... seriously spread like a forest fire... not too long... well, by the time i finished all the prep for the second curry, and was already letting it simmer... to my honest disbelief...    and this was mid afternoon, about half six -    bright as ******* daylight... who's this?          hello?         you like the smell i see? god...     what a pristine healthy example of the feral - and the most beautiful eyes... had to take a picture...     so i asked again?   does it really smell that good that it has given you the kind of cheek and audacity to risk climbing out from your safety prior to nightfall?    **** i heard before that i am a good cook...    but you, dear fox -    have paid the biggest compliment, ever.
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 6:01 PM UTC
Fox & Curry
Yeah, we have a great relationship. But imagine how much better this would be if I actually loved you back? But oops, that's right. I forgot to tell you that I'm kind of incapable of loving another human being. But it's okay, it's not like love is real anyways. And even though a good percentage of the general population have the same opinion as me, I'm labeled by those around me as a cynical, lonely, pessimistic girl, simply because others can't seem to comprehend that everything I say is derived from my own personal perspective and observations that I've made. What was it that the naively optimistic, overly positive young man from the book store called me? Oh yes, an "unjustifiably, unnecessarily negative teen who is disappointed with her life because she has yet to 'experience love.'" Despite his ignorance and obscenely immature mindset, which evidently accounted for his matching personality, I don't think he realized that my lack of belief in the existence of "true love" was the exactly the reason that I was in the book store. Because, as I came to realize, it appears that the only form of "love" that I seem to recognize as being adequate enough to somewhat believe in are those spoken of and created in novels. It's formulated by the birth of a ridiculously intense, love fueled storyline, supported by a mindful choice of cohesive, dramatic, and emotional words. Hence, fictional love is born, except to most it doesn't seem fictional because it's so breathtaking to read about. They believe in it, they worship it. As if it actually exists in an alternate universe. The unrealistic perfection of it gives them a disgusting, false hope which just drives them to cling to it more. It's a drug to them, they can't live without the hope that such a "love" exists somewhere in the world; they need it. And the sad part is, they're completely oblivious to the fact that they have just become addicts, that they just sold their soul and relinquished part of their freedom to a fictitious concept. It's so fake, it's almost real.
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 4:10 AM UTC
True Love Isn't Real (Don't read books about love stories)
Yeah, we have a great relationship. But imagine how much better this would be if I actually loved you back? But oops, that's right. I forgot to tell you that I'm kind of incapable of loving another human being. But it's okay, it's not like love is real anyways. And even though a good percentage of the general population have the same opinion as me, I'm labeled by those around me as a cynical, lonely, pessimistic girl, simply because others can't seem to comprehend that everything I say is derived from my own personal perspective and observations that I've made. What was it that the naively optimistic, overly positive young man from the book store called me? Oh yes, an "unjustifiably, unnecessarily negative teen who is disappointed with her life because she has yet to 'experience love.'" Despite his ignorance and obscenely immature mindset, which evidently accounted for his matching personality, I don't think he realized that my lack of belief in the existence of "true love" was the exactly the reason that I was in the book store. Because, as I came to realize, it appears that the only form of "love" that I seem to recognize as being adequate enough to somewhat believe in are those spoken of and created in novels. It's formulated by the birth of a ridiculously intense, love fueled storyline, supported by a mindful choice of cohesive, dramatic, and emotional words. Hence, fictional love is born, except to most it doesn't seem fictional because it's so breathtaking to read about. They believe in it, they worship it. As if it actually exists in an alternate universe. The unrealistic perfection of it gives them a disgusting, false hope which just drives them to cling to it more. It's a drug to them, they can't live without the hope that such a "love" exists somewhere in the world; they need it. And the sad part is, they're completely oblivious to the fact that they have just become addicts, that they just sold their soul and relinquished part of their freedom to a fictitious concept. It's so fake, it's almost real.
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The voice I hear is ruminating in my head, that treacherous depart was wounded instead of behead. How I long for this pain to leave akin the December sky, this imminent glory was only dreamed about in disguise. How persuasive the universe was to the story, it did not project the upcoming fury. Of a devious bequeath that upheld the tantrum, the sky soared with anger until its utter collapse. When a drop of water fell from the engorging sky; it dropped thousands of miles beneath, until it splattered like a human who couldn’t breathe. This anger spread like a wildfire, infecting all those longed desires. The heart of which pumped no more blood, Became equivalent to a plant breathing through a frozen sun. Nature believed there were no further storms, until the quarrel beneath was profoundly explored. Through the bodies sensation one could not ignore, made the heartache of this man’s soul. Oh why are humans so weak. Must the sun anger the kindness soul, For I had only hoped for evermore. Was I a victim who loved no more? Or an open heart waiting to explore? This journey could not be real, however, it became nurturing to one’s appeal. The ignorance disguised as love evidently appeared, as the devil danced around as one had feared. Ambiguous to the commonality of faith, that created an ambivalence that aroused distaste. The traitor became her experience and ego her age, I was in love with a spiritual woman of a certain year of age. By: Michael M. De La Fuente
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
Melancholic Heart
The voice I hear is ruminating in my head, that treacherous depart was wounded instead of behead. How I long for this pain to leave akin the December sky, this imminent glory was only dreamed about in disguise. How persuasive the universe was to the story, it did not project the upcoming fury. Of a devious bequeath that upheld the tantrum, the sky soared with anger until its utter collapse. When a drop of water fell from the engorging sky; it dropped thousands of miles beneath, until it splattered like a human who couldn’t breathe. This anger spread like a wildfire, infecting all those longed desires. The heart of which pumped no more blood, Became equivalent to a plant breathing through a frozen sun. Nature believed there were no further storms, until the quarrel beneath was profoundly explored. Through the bodies sensation one could not ignore, made the heartache of this man’s soul. Oh why are humans so weak. Must the sun anger the kindness soul, For I had only hoped for evermore. Was I a victim who loved no more? Or an open heart waiting to explore? This journey could not be real, however, it became nurturing to one’s appeal. The ignorance disguised as love evidently appeared, as the devil danced around as one had feared. Ambiguous to the commonality of faith, that created an ambivalence that aroused distaste. The traitor became her experience and ego her age, I was in love with a spiritual woman of a certain year of age. By: Michael M. De La Fuente
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"After mysteries am I, mysterious men too" together when we slipped away from others she told me with a grin, evidently hysterical, it gripped me, for some unknown reason. "More in to mysteries than anything else" I gently notified to her  my intentions "I've never been able to **** a male ****** ever" She indicated the area of her present  curiosity but isn't it strange,that she sounded wistful? If I heard her right,she mentioned repeatedly about,"The Third Brest,"as if she has a mystery for me in store.When buried deep around my ******* her teeth transmitted a hunger, and I felt it: what exactly a mother feels suckling her baby her heart beat went out of control,I could see the pangs of child that has never been fed from her mother's breast, or fondled by her And the mysterious part of the game she saved for me was finally unveiled,                                               my expectant eyes saw a chest devoid of any kind of swell, except the memories of the two full ones taken away mercilessly by decease.I saw blood in her tears.
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Dec 17, 2016
Dec 17, 2016 at 6:49 AM UTC
The mysteries we shared
With beady, lurking eyes they pass judgement looking for just one "fatal flaw" to mock Regurgitating false statements giving them absolutely no hope for a future ah, they say they have but a single care in the world to provoke to harass those with substance which they so evidently lack what a world to live in It's rather childish, don't you think?
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Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 10:43 AM UTC
The Birds of Society
Evidently it was meant to be. Long before I was born my DNA sat on a shelf in God's laboratory, a sticky note attached, name, date of birth, perhaps a tiny alarm to notify the lab of inception. God doesn't lose things and God doesn’t forget. It must be for a reason and it must be meant to be. A critical piece of who I am. I should show a little pride because as they say God don't make no ****** But I’m a little late to the party.. *The party that celebrates those who choose to be identified by a gender other than the one they were born with, but shames anyone who struggles with substance abuse.* I'm having trouble understanding the difference. If I were to gather my drug addled friends and march down the street with banners and signs demanding the right to openly inject mind altering substances into my veins I would be seen as a criminal and a derelict even though my constant struggle came right off the shelf of God’s laboratory where my sticky noted DNA sat right next to yours. I guess I shouldn't care what people think.. I know my rights, and I demand to be accepted, NO, praised for coming out so bravely, carrying a new flag, flaunting in the streets, paving the way for future generations of addicts. I will take my God given DNA out of the dark and go out into light, light so bright you'll be forced to accept it. accept my sickness! embrace it! this is in my DNA, God made me this way so it must be ok. I feel better now. I no longer feel guilty, or depressed, or weak, or wrong, or immoral, No longer do I need to contain it. no longer do I need to be shamed. I am an addict and I am beautiful. Just like you.
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 12:34 PM UTC
Comparing DNA
Evidently it was meant to be. Long before I was born my DNA sat on a shelf in God's laboratory, a sticky note attached, name, date of birth, perhaps a tiny alarm to notify the lab of inception. God doesn't lose things and God doesn’t forget. It must be for a reason and it must be meant to be. A critical piece of who I am. I should show a little pride because as they say God don't make no ****** But I’m a little late to the party.. *The party that celebrates those who choose to be identified by a gender other than the one they were born with, but shames anyone who struggles with substance abuse.* I'm having trouble understanding the difference. If I were to gather my drug addled friends and march down the street with banners and signs demanding the right to openly inject mind altering substances into my veins I would be seen as a criminal and a derelict even though my constant struggle came right off the shelf of God’s laboratory where my sticky noted DNA sat right next to yours. I guess I shouldn't care what people think.. I know my rights, and I demand to be accepted, NO, praised for coming out so bravely, carrying a new flag, flaunting in the streets, paving the way for future generations of addicts. I will take my God given DNA out of the dark and go out into light, light so bright you'll be forced to accept it. accept my sickness! embrace it! this is in my DNA, God made me this way so it must be ok. I feel better now. I no longer feel guilty, or depressed, or weak, or wrong, or immoral, No longer do I need to contain it. no longer do I need to be shamed. I am an addict and I am beautiful. Just like you.
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This world, that we live in, Is not at all less. It is full of lies And a lot of mess. The innocent being abducted, The honest being convicted, There’s no ray of hope, In this world, Of untruthful, slimy slope. It is so not possible, To climb back up, Because the world, Is constantly trying, To pull you back down, In this ditch, So that alone they do not drown. This is what You have to watch out for. Everybody is selfish; Nobody is yours, Except your family. Who is always there; Even in wars. People are bad, And will always be, You have to survive, With dear ones to your support, You have to thrive. Go on, who stops you? But watch out for these traitors: That will always be near you. Looking for a potential prey, Every single day. They will treat you nicely at first, On cloud nine, They will make you fly, But what comes later, Is something impalpable. Falling through a canopy, Into a trench that is Unfathomable. Come on! You have to get up: Be strong, You have to catch up! This not the end, But the beginning, Of your story. A story, That will one day be exemplary, For all, In this howsoever bad world. Success will follow you, If you follow struggle; This struggle will become obsession; Obsession, your passion. And passion is unstoppable. That very day, When you know your goal very evidently, And the journey is your pal, Nobody can stop you, From being on top of the world. And this time, Nobody’s going to push you Because on top, You will be All alone.
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Dec 27, 2015
Dec 27, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
The World Today
Partial laundry lazy thought the whites and the colors it begins with the spots and we sort it all out combing crumbs from our hair and as we slide into our own we start to feel the pinch of our stares Never-weather will always be and evidently you're still unhappy. Something close inside of me begs the question of eternity but something closer still to see shines too bright for such a speech. No one wants your God and bread No one needs your hand in hand. The sorted and clean will find a way out; a scapegoat and a martyr, an election that doesn't count. A breathless wonder standing taller than time and in a few short seconds & a rev of the engine Such a sight is simply lost with no way to rewind. It begins with the spots and we sort it all out. We fix things, we say but we really tear them all down.
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Feb 27, 2012
Feb 27, 2012 at 1:20 AM UTC
Spartan 1:17 AM
caramel macchiato flavored coffee with mint cigarette flavored kisses with your dreamboat lover is the quintessence of what i call "perfection". if there was a way to describe the way your lips feel against mine, i could only describe it as "cigarettes and coffee". cigarettes and coffee isn't simply consuming caffeine or inhaling tobacco in your lungs, it's sitting on the roof at 1 am looking at the stars with a blanket around the both of you. it's laying in the grass with a slight breeze blowing making smoke rings between the arduous kisses. it's simply sipping a vanilla latte on the corner of a new york city street with a cigarette in your hand, making swirls of smoke as more ash forms above the filter, looking like some sort of bohemian gods. it's walking along a deserted sidewalk in your black jeans and doc martens with a big t-shirt and coke bottle sunglasses on with your lover on your hip and your menthol in one hand and philter in another. "cigarettes and coffee" is whatever you can interpret as pure bliss; it's simply whatever makes you happy and whatever makes you want to sit in the grass all night and talk about anything and everything. there's a lot of people that would argue there's no beauty to the feel of tobacco in your lungs and arabica in your mouth, but evidently, they've never tried cigarettes and coffee.
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
cigarettes and coffee
Countless series of melancholic oceans Hitting through waves of adversity Only to be repulsed by provocations Disjointed affections falls effortlessly With no such contemporary feelings Choked amongst the walls of solitary Praying silently for a better ending A hopeless romantic it seems evidently Voyaging away from the sufferings Patching holes of memories Rekindling fire from breathing Dreams torn away in fantasies Sober desires creates a lustful reality Shone away ignoring a truthful beginning Nothing can hold us against this treachery Forsaken our love has left me begging ©2014 Maman Screams
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
Indefinite Feelings
How did it start you might ask?   The story began when I was 16.   She knew just how to manipulate me & so did Tim. This was also the age I lost my virginity to him. Lured toward the lust I felt inside. Which was why I had so much PRIDE. She dated me & some other guy. All along I was just her backup plan. Keep in mind, I was a 10th grader in High School. Going out to parties, smoking a bunch of cigarettes & **** Nothing mattered. Which left me feeling more alone than I ever did. Didn't get the privilege to walk down the aisle with the rest of my classmates. Expelled. How can God forgive a misfit such as me? How undeserving I was. Rebellion. Plenty of drugs & clubs - my personal favorite was Pulse Night Club. Who was I when I wasn't with women? This was my life for 10 years. Later on, I watched a spoken word video called Jesus > Religion. For a moment it clicked, or so I thought. Evidently realizing I was a religious fraud. Once upon a time, I was among the dead. Now I am fully alive in Yeshua. I may never forget, even if He already has. As far as the East is from the West.   Relentlessly pursuing me in my brokenness. He has made me whole & new again. I urge you to pick-up your cross. The battle has already been won.
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Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM UTC
Heaven for the Sinner
i arrived early enough to be comfortable in my seat as the patient and impatient alike shuffled the aisle negotiating the overflow of flaring elbows protruding feet and cumbersome torsos a waltz of dismissive apology their only hope to find their place without inconvenience yet with little interest in whether they might inconvenience other passengers along the way watching as a man recently evicted from the seat he had evidently not booked surveys the nearby empty spaces his mind churning an internal gamble of which one might promise the longer period    of peace before the rightful owner arrives he knows he will need to relocate once more before his journey's end at some point unknown to him but predetermined nonetheless despite this he settles down in a seat marked "reserved" and closes his eyes
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Nov 30, 2022
Nov 30, 2022 at 6:34 AM UTC
with and without reservations
That smile of his Held the beauty of the world It was ever so charming and undeniably sweet Entrancing all those who lay eyes upon it There was a time where I once imaged I could even sell my soul if need be Whenever I saw his precious smile Then I came to see The true colours behind that smile Twas like a poisonous flower Blooming and vibrant Luring in its fragile prey Bewitching it within its spell Intoxicated by the nectar Unable to ever leave Upon revealing the truth That lay so evidently to preying eyes He had already long abandoned me leaving nothing but a memory of what was And a forever lingering taste of honey A sweetness upon my tongue Though it is best to end this longing This yearning for that man Who's smile warmed my heart halting my breath but for a moment As if encased within a time When my entire world was composed of Only him and that devious smile Yet my mind refuses to forget.... .
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 8:52 AM UTC
That Smile Drenched in Honey
Which is better, a clock that is right only once a year, or a clock that is right twice every day? "The latter," you reply, "unquestionably." Very good, now attend. I have two clocks: one doesn't go at all, and the other loses a minute a day: which would you prefer? "The losing one," you answer, "without a doubt." Now observe: the one which loses a minute a day has to lose twelve hours, or seven hundred and twenty minutes before it is right again, consequently it is only right once in two years, whereas the other is evidently right as often as the time it points to comes round, which happens twice a day. So you've contradicted yourself once. "Ah, but," you say, "what's the use of its being right twice a day, if I ca'n't tell when the time comes?" Why, suppose the clock points to eight o'clock, don't you see that the clock is right at eight o'clock? Consequently, when eight o'clock comes round your clock is right. "Yes, I see that," you reply. Very good, then you've contradicted yourself twice: now get out of the difficulty as best you can, and don't contradict yourself again if you can help it. You might go on to ask, "How am I to know when eight o'clock does come? My clock will not tell me." Be patient: you know that when eight o'clock comes your clock is right, very good; then your rule is this: keep your eye fixed on your clock, and the very moment it is right it will be eight o'clock. "But--," you say. There, that'll do; the more you argue the further you get from the point, so it will be as well to stop.
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Oct 24, 2017
Oct 24, 2017 at 5:47 AM UTC
Lewis Carroll's "THE TWO CLOCKS"
Which is better, a clock that is right only once a year, or a clock that is right twice every day? "The latter," you reply, "unquestionably." Very good, now attend. I have two clocks: one doesn't go at all, and the other loses a minute a day: which would you prefer? "The losing one," you answer, "without a doubt." Now observe: the one which loses a minute a day has to lose twelve hours, or seven hundred and twenty minutes before it is right again, consequently it is only right once in two years, whereas the other is evidently right as often as the time it points to comes round, which happens twice a day. So you've contradicted yourself once. "Ah, but," you say, "what's the use of its being right twice a day, if I ca'n't tell when the time comes?" Why, suppose the clock points to eight o'clock, don't you see that the clock is right at eight o'clock? Consequently, when eight o'clock comes round your clock is right. "Yes, I see that," you reply. Very good, then you've contradicted yourself twice: now get out of the difficulty as best you can, and don't contradict yourself again if you can help it. You might go on to ask, "How am I to know when eight o'clock does come? My clock will not tell me." Be patient: you know that when eight o'clock comes your clock is right, very good; then your rule is this: keep your eye fixed on your clock, and the very moment it is right it will be eight o'clock. "But--," you say. There, that'll do; the more you argue the further you get from the point, so it will be as well to stop.
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You are incipient brilliance, I eagerly covet, unendingly ebullient, seems to be in boiling point, evidently prurient, an unfailing euphoriant, for me a constant element of wonder day and night, But yes I must not forget this; you aren't an organic compound sans side effects. More of a a kick *** designer drug, that adds an extra sense yet, without a legitimate name to call it. Aren't you a hallucinant, though yet to be invented, I am hopelessly addicted to.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 1:23 PM UTC
That kick *** cutie pie
It's been raining for months and I can't turn the faucet off – which reminds me: the sea is yours if you want it, and you don't have to be afraid of a little rainwater anymore. When you walk to your car with your shoes off and most of your sanity folded in your jeans, when your feet slap against puddles and you are remembering that you left your jacket on the doorknob, don't ever wonder if I will awaken suddenly, crying because you never stayed long enough for me to write that song to the beat of your hesitant pulse. Your car, evidently can take you farther than my hands can, but no road leading to your house and no street lamp mocking you silently knows that I hang pearls on the threads of your sanity and my stairs groan loudest when you are trying to leave quietly. If you turn around now – if you run back and tell me that you want to be sky to me and nothing else, then I will let you, as long as you promise to bleed the next eighty thousand sunrises; I will stop mentioning you to forests and looking for you in satellites and in smoldering coals, if you promise to murmur my name when the horizon is stretching and prostrating itself across the late evening. I will tell you where the sun goes when the Atlantic swallows her whole, if you tell me about the streams of cirrus clouds backing up your bloodstream. And I never ask you to search for the wildfires under my shirt again, if you give me all of the starlight under yours.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC
In Passing
A dream is a wish your heart makes Or so they say If I dream of a nightmare, am I wishing for one? I dreamt of you last night After years of having no thoughts about you In your white polo under your blue cotton sweater and Your glasses that sit perfectly across your nose bridge You are exactly how I remembered you You were taking photos, that was your hobby And I had a camera in my hand We didn't immediately talk but Stolen glances were evidently exchanged Until you went behind me and grabbed my camera and said "Can I take a few pictures?" *God, you were so cute How could I say no?* "Sure," I said, following you to the tree you were about to shoot You took a few photos and I watched you I watched your familiar grip on the camera And how you squint one eye as you look into the lens How you smile as you look at every shot you take, satisfied with your work I could not believe how familiar you seemed As if we just stopped talking yesterday The next thing I knew You were leaning in to me with the lens pointing at us "Selfie!", you said Ugh that smile! And so we took a selfie And another one and another one and another one You ran across the field with my camera Which I obviously needed, So I ran after you And there we were like two lost sheep who found each other again, Chasing after each other with these huge smiles on our faces And when I finally caught up to you, I hugged you in an attempt to grab my camera back And I felt the familiar shape of your shoulders And how they harden as you tighten your grip around my camera You were laughing *And, ugh, that laugh was like... Hearing your favorite song which you've gotten over and being reminded of why you loved it in the first place* I laughed along with you And we were lying on the field laughing with cameras in our hands Then I woke up
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 3:15 AM UTC
Dreams
A dream is a wish your heart makes Or so they say If I dream of a nightmare, am I wishing for one? I dreamt of you last night After years of having no thoughts about you In your white polo under your blue cotton sweater and Your glasses that sit perfectly across your nose bridge You are exactly how I remembered you You were taking photos, that was your hobby And I had a camera in my hand We didn't immediately talk but Stolen glances were evidently exchanged Until you went behind me and grabbed my camera and said "Can I take a few pictures?" *God, you were so cute How could I say no?* "Sure," I said, following you to the tree you were about to shoot You took a few photos and I watched you I watched your familiar grip on the camera And how you squint one eye as you look into the lens How you smile as you look at every shot you take, satisfied with your work I could not believe how familiar you seemed As if we just stopped talking yesterday The next thing I knew You were leaning in to me with the lens pointing at us "Selfie!", you said Ugh that smile! And so we took a selfie And another one and another one and another one You ran across the field with my camera Which I obviously needed, So I ran after you And there we were like two lost sheep who found each other again, Chasing after each other with these huge smiles on our faces And when I finally caught up to you, I hugged you in an attempt to grab my camera back And I felt the familiar shape of your shoulders And how they harden as you tighten your grip around my camera You were laughing *And, ugh, that laugh was like... Hearing your favorite song which you've gotten over and being reminded of why you loved it in the first place* I laughed along with you And we were lying on the field laughing with cameras in our hands Then I woke up
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*I once had my mental faculties in check And my heart’s pacemaker functioning relatively normally Didn’t know you’d be a pain in the neck Causing my heart to oscillate solemnly From acute insanity to imagined bliss Gravity’s power rendered dysfunctional And I plunged heedlessly into love’s abyss Evidently an amateur radical My ego prostrated My emotions infatuated* Am indeed yet another statistic Of cupid’s uncanny antics.
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM UTC
Free fall
-Undiagnosed- Pray, don’t pity me, For I do take blame That I pity myself And thus suffer this pain, And please don’t mock For there are greater ills And more the deaths, My suffering is nil. Then perhaps You’d maim my diet, The lack of sun and Poor exercise. I need not even ask How I’d improve my life, When the bones sap my vigor and seem to swell overnight. And how could I ever try to say That I see darkness when I go my way, Pins and needles as I stand, When the fault is mine anyway? I shouldn’t even start to think How my head throbs and pounds all night, It’s surely because I don’t wake up with the sun. But how do I wake when I don’t close my eyes? Now, could it possibly be You decided that I don’t rest, That all this pain causes fatigue, That sleep, you think, is for the best? Consider when after hours and hours My body finally dreams in defeat, Would anyone care to do my work If I shirk it off to get more sleep? If the animals end up ill fed, And the duties are not supervised, With what peace do I lie in bed, When it could be done better otherwise? And so here I do write at six, With my jaw stiff and eyes bright, The wires of pain gently shift Every time I move my hand to write. What could I wake anyone for, When painkillers don’t **** enough? Just to say I cannot sleep? I’d hear ‘wake up then, be tough’. So do not again Bid me to be strong, Unless you tell the blind to see. Well dear sir, There’s no argument for that, Except, please let me be. What indeed could you try to cure When I’m just deficiencies, Of wit and courage, also strength, Calcium may be imaginary. But truly, I do agree, With the opinion you selflessly endure. For evidently Nothing’s wrong with me, And the pain one must learn to ignore.
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Feb 17, 2018
Feb 17, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC
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-Undiagnosed- Pray, don’t pity me, For I do take blame That I pity myself And thus suffer this pain, And please don’t mock For there are greater ills And more the deaths, My suffering is nil. Then perhaps You’d maim my diet, The lack of sun and Poor exercise. I need not even ask How I’d improve my life, When the bones sap my vigor and seem to swell overnight. And how could I ever try to say That I see darkness when I go my way, Pins and needles as I stand, When the fault is mine anyway? I shouldn’t even start to think How my head throbs and pounds all night, It’s surely because I don’t wake up with the sun. But how do I wake when I don’t close my eyes? Now, could it possibly be You decided that I don’t rest, That all this pain causes fatigue, That sleep, you think, is for the best? Consider when after hours and hours My body finally dreams in defeat, Would anyone care to do my work If I shirk it off to get more sleep? If the animals end up ill fed, And the duties are not supervised, With what peace do I lie in bed, When it could be done better otherwise? And so here I do write at six, With my jaw stiff and eyes bright, The wires of pain gently shift Every time I move my hand to write. What could I wake anyone for, When painkillers don’t **** enough? Just to say I cannot sleep? I’d hear ‘wake up then, be tough’. So do not again Bid me to be strong, Unless you tell the blind to see. Well dear sir, There’s no argument for that, Except, please let me be. What indeed could you try to cure When I’m just deficiencies, Of wit and courage, also strength, Calcium may be imaginary. But truly, I do agree, With the opinion you selflessly endure. For evidently Nothing’s wrong with me, And the pain one must learn to ignore.
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This Cleverly Clawed Society, These Painted Persuasive People, With Their Apparently Sweet Talks, They're All Eating Us Alive! This Hyper Humane Society, These Perpetually Punishing People, With Their Evidently Sugary Eyes, They're All Feasting Us Alive!! This Sweetly Sociable Society, These Poorly Pigmented People, With Their Heavily Sharpened Teeth, They're All Gorging Us Alive!!!
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Dec 3, 2012
Dec 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM UTC
Eating Us Alive!