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"grimaced" poems
I saw you one day and never thought a thing As we grew 3 years, I noticed My heart decided to thump faster I smiled shyly at you and you smiled back So I asked you a question, over a note You broke my heart...You won't ever know I cried when you left, clutching your answer in my arms Sobbing for days, broken inside Last day of school, you gave me a hug High school began and I saw you again My heart betrayed me, no matter how much I trained it not to You smiled at me, and I grimaced back I wanted to hate you, and I let you know You talked to me, asking why? I can't tell you, I might cry I keep a straight face, a bravado to cover my feelings Yet somehow, I wish you could see a ***** through my armor I have a class with you I stare at you, hoping you stare back When you do, I sneer at you and glare I confuse myself I have feelings
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 2:41 PM UTC
Feelings
Cold is the heart, of the king of the sea, and none as cold as he. even when, Cold is the heart, that bleeds ice cold water, Cold is the heart, that will not see his daughter. Cold is the heart, that still can beat, when all that’s left, is grimaced meat. Cold is the heart, that chills another, leaving sorrow in it’s wake, like foam from the rudder. Cold is the heart, that see’s no light, Cold is the heart, that ebs in the night, Cold is the heart, that seeks to claim me, Cold is the heart, of the king of the sea.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 12:15 PM UTC
Poseidon
when i told my friend that my new boyfriend loved sports and going out; partying, being loud and obnoxious, she grimaced and said she didn't know why i even liked him. i got angry with her - why did she not trust my gut? i once told her that opposites attract, so we should be fine. we should have been. but then came the fighting over little things, then came the mutual devaluation of each other's interests, then came the nights spent on the couch instead of in bed,  his drinking. he would always take the books from my hands and throw them across the wall - ******** he called them. he'd always say i lived in my head, that i never gave him the attention he deserved, that he would take a ********** instead of me any time. and at some point, he had me loathing him more than i did myself. yet, at the same time, i still loved him. it was like an addiction - i knew he was bad for me, but i clung onto him like he was air and i couldn't breathe. there were nights when i really couldn't. sometimes it felt like he still loved me, too. when he came to the locked bathroom door and cried with me; apologizing over and over again. at those moments my love for him would crawl out of its cave - my heart - covered in blood, battered, bruised, but still standing. and it would hold him, whispering false truths in his ear. i would always forgive him, because opposites attract. it was just the way he was, he couldn't do anything about it. even if he could, i frequently thought i didn't want him to. not because i was content with his violent outbrusts and alcoholism, or what he put me through on a daily basis - no. because i loved him, regardless of all the pain he caused me. and love means to accept someone for who they are. but i came to realize that love is quite finite when all negative things seem infinite. i hated the way we were so different. where i would sit in one place for hours on end, he'd walk around clumsily, breaking things, screaming, slamming doors. he drove me mad. and, don't get me wrong, i am not a saint. i'm sure i did the same to him. maybe it's my fault that he turned out the way he did - perhaps if he had chosen to live with someone else, his smiles would still be kind rather than cruel. perhaps if i had changed for him - if i was more like him, we would have been okay. but my silence was deafening. i was convinced he didn't deserve to hear my voice. and he didn't, for days. sometimes he asked if i was pretending to be a ghost of what we used to be. i started questioning my previous way of thinking. do opposites really attract? and i came to a conclusion. they really do. opposites attract, but they are not always good for each other. i had to learn that the hard way. and just like a ghost, i faded. i left.
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 6:23 AM UTC
do opposites attract?
when i told my friend that my new boyfriend loved sports and going out; partying, being loud and obnoxious, she grimaced and said she didn't know why i even liked him. i got angry with her - why did she not trust my gut? i once told her that opposites attract, so we should be fine. we should have been. but then came the fighting over little things, then came the mutual devaluation of each other's interests, then came the nights spent on the couch instead of in bed,  his drinking. he would always take the books from my hands and throw them across the wall - ******** he called them. he'd always say i lived in my head, that i never gave him the attention he deserved, that he would take a ********** instead of me any time. and at some point, he had me loathing him more than i did myself. yet, at the same time, i still loved him. it was like an addiction - i knew he was bad for me, but i clung onto him like he was air and i couldn't breathe. there were nights when i really couldn't. sometimes it felt like he still loved me, too. when he came to the locked bathroom door and cried with me; apologizing over and over again. at those moments my love for him would crawl out of its cave - my heart - covered in blood, battered, bruised, but still standing. and it would hold him, whispering false truths in his ear. i would always forgive him, because opposites attract. it was just the way he was, he couldn't do anything about it. even if he could, i frequently thought i didn't want him to. not because i was content with his violent outbrusts and alcoholism, or what he put me through on a daily basis - no. because i loved him, regardless of all the pain he caused me. and love means to accept someone for who they are. but i came to realize that love is quite finite when all negative things seem infinite. i hated the way we were so different. where i would sit in one place for hours on end, he'd walk around clumsily, breaking things, screaming, slamming doors. he drove me mad. and, don't get me wrong, i am not a saint. i'm sure i did the same to him. maybe it's my fault that he turned out the way he did - perhaps if he had chosen to live with someone else, his smiles would still be kind rather than cruel. perhaps if i had changed for him - if i was more like him, we would have been okay. but my silence was deafening. i was convinced he didn't deserve to hear my voice. and he didn't, for days. sometimes he asked if i was pretending to be a ghost of what we used to be. i started questioning my previous way of thinking. do opposites really attract? and i came to a conclusion. they really do. opposites attract, but they are not always good for each other. i had to learn that the hard way. and just like a ghost, i faded. i left.
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I never could quite imagine the day When a creature quite as wry and presumptuous Would break so serendipitously. She lay ruptured in the desultory plantation The Stygian colour of her fur rebelled against the sage of the contiguous earth And her eyes mimicked nothing but the pain that consumed her current thoughts. Her body was transfixed in an inert trance The fur on her hunched spine quavered in a subdued zephyr Quiet insecurities were hid well in her tranquil pained state. The moon intently watched me Waiting for me to alleviate the agonized entity But solicitousness was blank in my frozen psyche. The moonlight pierced the fox with intimacy I grimaced in the realization I had failed the universe With my perennial void mind broken in vain. The fox gathered some stoicism The blessing of the moon granted requital As the fox proceeded to maul my perception. I accepted my retribution with ratification As I was the soul who violated the creature A skirmish that clung to grandeur.
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 4:47 AM UTC
Wounded Black Fox
I pledge allegiance to all the stones in the road that have given me succor, to every poet-of-anywhere who greets me with wetted, parted lips and open heart, who greets the sun-rays shared, inching, opening o'er my yet living, praying body, reminding me that I am alive, that I am warm that I feel poetry in, on, cells, all over, deep in my extremities Most  importantly, in my busted heart, where warmth is stored in a soul restored, and Life affirmed, For who knows how many more times I will know this, How many more times I will able compose this, Play "measure the future'' in seconds or years and grimaced smiles over tears, or just one or the other, that be willed to supersede; Will keep you posted in every realized and many some stillborn poem, rising with the grand entrance of morn skies, or perhaps, lies buried neath in each horizon's cemetarial, and even those, that straddle a confusing and confused moon, of a twenty fours hours existence, be shoulder-borne, bathed in combinatorial equatorial moon & sun light, so we can bathe, like Bathsheba (1) by both, and delight at the exact same moment's portent, no matter, the disregarded, discarded, why we are who we are when pledge and plead allegiance to those eyes that read our scrivenings nml
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Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM UTC
I pledge Allegiance
I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 3:17 PM UTC
"On Privilege"
I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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Rush around in circles like a headless chicken running Diminishing to spirals in a blue encircled churn Giddying to balance in unsteady equilibrium, Whilst canting to the left on a gyroscopic turn. Vaulting to the heavens in gymnastical maneuvering, Launching into ether in fanatical escape, ****** features grimacing through muscular contortion With abdominal contractions in a pantomime of **** Yowling to the darkness in a feline form of vocalness Hissing through the teeth in a serpentine display, Bellowing the bellicose of bovine innuendo And bleeding feet in gumboots on a ****** raining day. Rush around in circles like a headless chicken running With ****** features grimaced on a ****** raining day, Yowling to the darkness with abdominal contraction In a bovine innuendo of a serpentine display. Bellowing the bellicose of bleeding feet in gumboots, Vaulting to the heavens in fanatical escape, Giddying to spirals in contracting equilibrium Just a ****** innuendo of a gyroscopic shake. Marshalg Victoria Park Tunnel On a ****** raining day. 7 August 2010
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Aug 6, 2010
Aug 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
On Gyroscopic Turn
in my spotless mind, i had a blue dream. deep in limbo. somewhere in the ocean.. wading. with my lover. do you remember? no? well, it's cool. with promises of eternal sunshine, we wade a little deeper. he holds me close & whispers in my ear, **"you're so brave."** we wade further until we are completely submerged. floating deeper & deeper, i felt the pressure and grimaced. he mouths to me, *"why aren't you smiling?"* i grasped his hand firmly and pulled him toward me. in his arms, we kicked until we resurfaced. he smiled at me and I smiled back. we kissed; he tasted salty. we swam to shore. we sat on the beach in a tight embrace. he kisses my hair and says, **"I live for your love, die for your love."** I whispered, "and I do you." I look up at him. "pretty bird", he breathes. **and in that moment, I knew that I was souled out for him.** {r.r.r.w}
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 8:17 PM UTC
souled out (ode to Jhené Aiko)
"I'm a serial killer" Sarah remarked walking away from Jade. "I'm dazed and confused, for how are you something so horrid?" Jade exclaimed, Sarah turned back. "I ****** person after person" Sarah laughed, emotionless. "HOW COULD YOU!?" Her sister Jade cried out. "I shed blood" Sarah's eyes grew darker. Jade paused and drew in a deep breath. "You're a murderer?" Jade said hesitantly. "My soul is darker than hell" Sarah grimaced. "First degree ****** is horrible!" Jade cried and fell to her knee's in disbelief that her sister was a cold-blooded murderer. "I'm a demon walking" Sarah said interrupting Jade's thoughts. "No!" Jade said in denial. Sarah pulled out a knife and stabbed Jade 17 times. She stood up and laughed. Sarah licked the blood of the blade and walked away. Sarah left Jade laying in the grass lifeless and mutilated. That is a serial killers destiny.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 11:40 AM UTC
Serial Killers
I found a caterpillar in the road when I took a walk today. I picked it up, took a picture of it on my finger, and sent it to a friend. They responded Aw, it's so small! I told him I put it on a leaf and walked away. But won't you miss it? He joked, to which I replied, **He has a home. Everyone deserves a chance to go home.** Why do you make sense? He asked with a chuckle. I apologized. Well, now it's gone forever. I stared at some leaves and sat on the sidewalk. No. It's just going home. My friend grimaced, noting that I was no longer joking. Might it be home forever? If it is, it's lucky. Is it? Well, at least it has a home to go to. I said this quietly, forgetting to filter my thoughts. But you found it on the streets. I sighed through my nose. **It may have been on the streets, but as long as it's looking, it'll find a home.** I miss its cute little face. I laughed. Why don't you go find it again? With a bite of my lip, I responded, **Because I need to find my home. And it's been taking me a lot longer than it's taking the caterpillar.**
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May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 8:41 PM UTC
Caterpillar
She walks on duty, through the night Of coughing calls and sleepless sighs And in the dim and pallid light She stalks the ward with drooping eyes; Thus patients rest within her sight Which keeps them safe from their demise One patient more, one break the less, As frantic hands prepare the space Which someone left in such a mess So now she works at twice the pace Whilst hiding signs of inner stress With grimaced smile upon her face And on that bed, and in the throe, A deathly pale old patient went; She held his hand and mopped his brow His weary angel, heaven sent; His vital signs began to grow As she collapsed, her goodness spent.
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Dec 24, 2014
Dec 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM UTC
Christmas Night Shift
The day that we met, I watched you press a cigarette to your lips and laugh. I cringed. How could a paper stick filled with nicotine leaves and other little ingredients bring a satisfying, calm five minutes? We talked about how you were trying to stop, and how I’d never, ever smoke myself, and how that was a good thing. We laughed. Six months later and I haven’t seen your face in over a week. A month ago, we were lying in your bed talking about how we’d always love one another and always have each other, and you pulled out a cigarette. You reiterated that it calmed you down but I just grimaced. How could a paper stick filled with nicotine leaves and other little ingredients bring a satisfying, calm five minutes? I wanted to ask again, though I know how addiction works. You can’t really explain it. All I’m sure of is you always know you could quit one day. What I don’t know is if you ever really wanted to. I took a walk to clear my head of the memories of you last night, to get some fresh air for the first time in over a week. It was overall ironic because as I tried to forget you, as I breathed in the fresh Wisconsin air, I pulled out a cigarette. I stared at the rolled paper between my fingers, and I saw your face. I could smell you through the air, taste your lips, and wondered if I could really replace that connection in my head, if you really should be represented by impending death and overwhelming scents that never really fade. I wonder because I know at heart, you were never made of tar, you’re just sticking to my mind longer than you ever really intended, it was just what you were made to do. I know you were never made to remind others of death, though I know you wanted to be a few times. I know you’ve encountered it and I know you think about it at least twice a week. You’ve always reminded me more of a sun, because you’ve always been bright in my mind, you’ve always been something I looked forward to seeing, something that warmed my heart just by stepping into my presence, you remind me of a fresh gasp of breath, and that’s why I put the cigarette to my lips. That’s why I lit it. That’s why I started smoking, Not to think of you, Not to try to remember your taste, Your scent, But because if a cigarette became my ten minute escape, it’d be my go-to, and you wouldn’t be. I could get the calm you experienced and not experience you, I could feel something other than missing you. When I snuffed out the **** I was actually smiling. I felt free of you, free of the holds your love brought to me. For twenty minutes, I felt complete happiness without thinking about you for the first time since we met. So that’s why next time we see one another, when we do become friends again like we promised each other that we would, Next time we meet, I’ll press a cigarette to my lips, and I’ll laugh. We’ll talk about how you were trying to stop, and how I’d never, ever smoke myself, and how that promise was temporary, just like us. Just like the cigarette.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 4:47 PM UTC
Cigarettes / Temporary
The day that we met, I watched you press a cigarette to your lips and laugh. I cringed. How could a paper stick filled with nicotine leaves and other little ingredients bring a satisfying, calm five minutes? We talked about how you were trying to stop, and how I’d never, ever smoke myself, and how that was a good thing. We laughed. Six months later and I haven’t seen your face in over a week. A month ago, we were lying in your bed talking about how we’d always love one another and always have each other, and you pulled out a cigarette. You reiterated that it calmed you down but I just grimaced. How could a paper stick filled with nicotine leaves and other little ingredients bring a satisfying, calm five minutes? I wanted to ask again, though I know how addiction works. You can’t really explain it. All I’m sure of is you always know you could quit one day. What I don’t know is if you ever really wanted to. I took a walk to clear my head of the memories of you last night, to get some fresh air for the first time in over a week. It was overall ironic because as I tried to forget you, as I breathed in the fresh Wisconsin air, I pulled out a cigarette. I stared at the rolled paper between my fingers, and I saw your face. I could smell you through the air, taste your lips, and wondered if I could really replace that connection in my head, if you really should be represented by impending death and overwhelming scents that never really fade. I wonder because I know at heart, you were never made of tar, you’re just sticking to my mind longer than you ever really intended, it was just what you were made to do. I know you were never made to remind others of death, though I know you wanted to be a few times. I know you’ve encountered it and I know you think about it at least twice a week. You’ve always reminded me more of a sun, because you’ve always been bright in my mind, you’ve always been something I looked forward to seeing, something that warmed my heart just by stepping into my presence, you remind me of a fresh gasp of breath, and that’s why I put the cigarette to my lips. That’s why I lit it. That’s why I started smoking, Not to think of you, Not to try to remember your taste, Your scent, But because if a cigarette became my ten minute escape, it’d be my go-to, and you wouldn’t be. I could get the calm you experienced and not experience you, I could feel something other than missing you. When I snuffed out the **** I was actually smiling. I felt free of you, free of the holds your love brought to me. For twenty minutes, I felt complete happiness without thinking about you for the first time since we met. So that’s why next time we see one another, when we do become friends again like we promised each other that we would, Next time we meet, I’ll press a cigarette to my lips, and I’ll laugh. We’ll talk about how you were trying to stop, and how I’d never, ever smoke myself, and how that promise was temporary, just like us. Just like the cigarette.
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I signed the DNR form And steeled myself As if this cancer were a battle I could fight with my fists I felt like a man Standing before the open mouth of a cave marked midnight Like grimaced teeth and the desire for life were enough To withstand the fire the chemo caused my skin It made my skin crawl some nights I was sure I would wake just bone Until I looked just bone Like an ill fitting skin sheet Draped over a science project And enough voice to remind whoever heard me That I was somehow still human I felt like a man Who could do this alone or die trying That if I were given a scalpel I could cut this out of me Pull out whatever caused this It would look like a gnarled black ball Humming contently Like lip shushed fingertips Begging for silence I chewed on my pillow Until my jaw taught me to sleep I felt like a man At the end of a road Who finally realized The difference between battles you fight with your fists And battles you fight with caves marked midnight And battles you fight in a sweat drenched hospital bed That smells like bleach And makes you miss home Battles that remind you No matter what sort of man you feel like There is always something That can make you feel like a child
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Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 7:44 AM UTC
The Battle With a Cave Marked Midnight
I placed my bread to heat for just five seconds-- behold: when I came for it, it wasn't alone. A mayfly had set up camp (so to speak) with my wheat bread, my most favored Amish-baked, sliced-before-my-own eyes bread; and when I say it "set up camp," I do not mean anything pleasant.  I do mean six thin legs sprawled long and broken when discovered and perhaps some melted insides; who's to say? Something turned inside of me and I'm certain I grimaced at least a little, and took my plate back, thinking, disturbed just slightly.  How had I not seen the fly?  It couldn't have touched the bread--poor thing-- just rested there, unknowing, to be slaughtered. *"Mom...Mom...Ahh, uhh, Mom!  Mom?" (mother assesses circumstances, unceremoniously takes a napkin to my victim, and introduces his corpse to the garbage) "He probably wasn't in there when I...right?" --"It probably was." "But five seconds couldn't have killed him." I know I am wrong as I feel the warm grains of my prize. (mother gives a long look and says...) --"If it heated the bread, I'm sure it heated the bug."* I took my bounty anyway--the bread, that is, mind you-- and went to eat it absentmindedly, but found that now impossible.  Sigh.  I also found myself staring, long and hard, then, at half of a piece of glorious, Heaven-breathed wheat bread, and suddenly realized that I could not discern whether or not I was enjoying it.  ****** And then I tried to reassure myself by chiding inwardly, "You're just afraid of insects irrationally," but maybe I actually felt that the blood of an innocent life was on my hands. *Why are they so stupid? I ask no one really, fighting revulsion, grasping for blame.* Alas, I finished eating but felt rightly robbed of some essential part of the experience. Yet, such is life.
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Mar 16, 2012
Mar 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM UTC
When I Cooked a Mayfly
I placed my bread to heat for just five seconds-- behold: when I came for it, it wasn't alone. A mayfly had set up camp (so to speak) with my wheat bread, my most favored Amish-baked, sliced-before-my-own eyes bread; and when I say it "set up camp," I do not mean anything pleasant.  I do mean six thin legs sprawled long and broken when discovered and perhaps some melted insides; who's to say? Something turned inside of me and I'm certain I grimaced at least a little, and took my plate back, thinking, disturbed just slightly.  How had I not seen the fly?  It couldn't have touched the bread--poor thing-- just rested there, unknowing, to be slaughtered. *"Mom...Mom...Ahh, uhh, Mom!  Mom?" (mother assesses circumstances, unceremoniously takes a napkin to my victim, and introduces his corpse to the garbage) "He probably wasn't in there when I...right?" --"It probably was." "But five seconds couldn't have killed him." I know I am wrong as I feel the warm grains of my prize. (mother gives a long look and says...) --"If it heated the bread, I'm sure it heated the bug."* I took my bounty anyway--the bread, that is, mind you-- and went to eat it absentmindedly, but found that now impossible.  Sigh.  I also found myself staring, long and hard, then, at half of a piece of glorious, Heaven-breathed wheat bread, and suddenly realized that I could not discern whether or not I was enjoying it.  ****** And then I tried to reassure myself by chiding inwardly, "You're just afraid of insects irrationally," but maybe I actually felt that the blood of an innocent life was on my hands. *Why are they so stupid? I ask no one really, fighting revulsion, grasping for blame.* Alas, I finished eating but felt rightly robbed of some essential part of the experience. Yet, such is life.
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I walked in a sea of zombies, circled a million roundabouts, wandered the streets in the reverse. Nobody noticed me with my two-week stubble, my body odor emanated as I cruised through the rubble, waiting for twilight. Dried baby llamas grimaced while children played jacks & men sold coca, green bag mountains of it stacked high like the cordillera with chicken bones lying around, configured in all directions, it smelt magical. And when the sun finally fell, I witnessed the poverty stricken elite, totally lost on their own two feet. I wanted to relate, to feel human, so I joined the winos on a dark unknown corner, sniffed the cool air & could finally relate to a time in space.
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Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014 at 11:58 AM UTC
Relating to Winos (A Time In Space)
I miss her more and more as the sun rises and the moon fades Slowly she creeps in my mind like a plague infecting my brain Eating away all thoughts I have created Only to be consumed by her image A black storm as it rains down my sorrow As my smile only hides the pain within For I will not lay my problems to yours Therefore you will be blind to my suffering And fall victim to illusions I portray in front of you Not knowing if it is wizardry performed by a warlock With a keen knowledge of the dark arts Of who must not be named Or is it all just smoke and mirrors A fake grin as I trick your mind of my felicity state Or lack thereof Invisible as the oxygen we breathe from the trees of nature As I stare out my window to see a palm tree That does not belong in the lonesome desert Only to share its sympathy as I feel I do not belong To a place where love is cynical and mediocre Where love means to be physically bounded I search for a mental connection As I have with a Being greater than me Yet when I look for it I am alone left in my own cataclysm Drowning in the abyss of a decrepit heart Flooded by the gates of grimaced faces As I slowly close my door to my own emotions And embrace a meaningless melancholy to fulfill others' happiness When I connect to one mate who shines as bright as the moon She fades just as such when the physical bond is no more When the dark energy of negativity subsumes the thoughts of serenity Then there I lose her And for me I am left to think about her As the sun sets and the moon shines from the darkness And once again I begin to miss her More and more
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM UTC
Like a Palm Tree in The Desert
I miss her more and more as the sun rises and the moon fades Slowly she creeps in my mind like a plague infecting my brain Eating away all thoughts I have created Only to be consumed by her image A black storm as it rains down my sorrow As my smile only hides the pain within For I will not lay my problems to yours Therefore you will be blind to my suffering And fall victim to illusions I portray in front of you Not knowing if it is wizardry performed by a warlock With a keen knowledge of the dark arts Of who must not be named Or is it all just smoke and mirrors A fake grin as I trick your mind of my felicity state Or lack thereof Invisible as the oxygen we breathe from the trees of nature As I stare out my window to see a palm tree That does not belong in the lonesome desert Only to share its sympathy as I feel I do not belong To a place where love is cynical and mediocre Where love means to be physically bounded I search for a mental connection As I have with a Being greater than me Yet when I look for it I am alone left in my own cataclysm Drowning in the abyss of a decrepit heart Flooded by the gates of grimaced faces As I slowly close my door to my own emotions And embrace a meaningless melancholy to fulfill others' happiness When I connect to one mate who shines as bright as the moon She fades just as such when the physical bond is no more When the dark energy of negativity subsumes the thoughts of serenity Then there I lose her And for me I am left to think about her As the sun sets and the moon shines from the darkness And once again I begin to miss her More and more
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Once upon a time, on a site far far away, I would post and not a soul would comment, let alone read... Minor poet, I am not even, but odd. A truth that slaps me unto tears. I seek your admiration, admonish your failure to admonish me, fail me unto tears. Your academic hyper-pretensions gods of overlording silence, sentence condemnations of the meagerness of mine deaf, weary-worn entreaties. Your ignorance and the vanity of my weaknesses, pencil point punctuate my brain, holes filling up with the approbation of silence. Tender unto me the Onomatopoeia of a concerto of boos, barrels of bitter alliteratives regretful rainwater, send me curses of future inspiration. immoderate me re my mediocrity! Try try again, to charm thine eyes, populate your face with grimaced tears, penetrate our mutuality with uncommon verse, pricking the winter frosted windows of a enmity and a common enemy. Another day of self-persauding, un-succeeding to accept that successive minor failures, are undeniably, a success of sorts, in a minor way. A play on words, as y'all play me. Mr. Adminstrator, answer me! Are we not all prisoners of Poetry?
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 AM UTC
Minor Poet
Cannibalistic are the teeth jagged in curl and grin. They grip fastened between gums of grime and sin. They prey leeched to toys strung under webs so few. My fingers creeped between their eyes so suffice and blind. Like storms choked in stark sky and drying rain, my views christen and bloom. Eyes bleached gold, lavish the corners donning streets and side shop. I myself lark on apartment edges and strewn roof tops, balancing death and door bells along my crooked spine. Wide faces swirl in faded lights along morbid streets blazed in night. They the oh so happy and innocent leech the drinks and sway the narcotics. Hand on breath, tongue on tip. It’s so heart full to stare from the roofs so grimaced. All words muddled in dread, lick their rosy lips, as stare catches the late night shift. All the blossomed couples curl and constrict in arms so selfish I must keep edges sharp and dull in bliss. Balance sways in dim, darkest are the days flattering night and cursing day. I wait amongst the walls above wavering innocence to demand. I shift on roofs so frail and wary that life seeks no bounds as the heights do not scare me. I will slip feudal in their creviced minds, but merely of pity to all their credible crimes. Here the world cries and here the cannibal lies. I break to be broken, but never to die, only to fall within the world’s eye.
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Aug 28, 2011
Aug 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM UTC
Cannibal of the Night
If you are lacking capital, You won't show on the map at all, You wont show on radar as little green blips, If your bank account can't furnish means for a tip, In a Washington  lobby, to fund a campaign, so Now the youth have a future, in sutures and maimed, By a financial beast, that just cannot be tamed, and It's fed by the folks who are riggin' the game, A small, opulent group of the fiscal insane, The ones who observe them have given them names, They're the "oligarchs," they're the "robber barons" They're the "plutocrats," and they don't like sharin' You can speak of reform, but they'll tell you to spare 'em, as You watch, in bewilderment, grimaced and glarin,' as They profit off health care, off oil stocks, and banks, and Control public discourse, with PR  think tanks, cause They own all the media, feedin ya lies, that Are dressed up as facts,  in a clever  disguise, so At propaganda, "take a proper gander," then Stand and unite, as change demanders!
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May 10, 2015
May 10, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC
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The corpse lied untouched,
 In the crepuscular light, 
 her shadow enkindled. 
 Her kins stood panic-stricken. 
 Her fidelity was being questioned. 
 It was time now for the sun to set. 
 The birds were finding there way.
 Migrating 
Also,suffering. 
 And the darkness was about descend like everyday 
 The shadows seemed to be taking over the grimaced faces 
 But she however, 
 Was trying to resurrect her soul. 
This was the epitome of her infatuation. 
 But she had always been an Ailurophile, Always.
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 7:24 AM UTC
Malady.
your lips were stained red the first time you ever drank from a big girl’s cup you know the one without a lid and your mother was so proud when you still bathed with your little sister because you were young and it was okay she decided to taste the grape shampoo because it smelled so sweet and so it should taste the same and she was curious and so were you but she grimaced and choked and even cried so you thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea so you didn't taste it and remember the time you scraped your knees because you were trying to be like all of the boys and so you climbed up the tree at the park just to prove that you weren't fragile and you didn't even cry not even a tear so they decided you must not have cooties you weren't like the other girls you were one of them and you were the exception you wore those scars with pride your lips were stained red the first time you tasted wine you were at communion with your best friend who called herself a bad catholic at the age of just thirteen when your sister was twelve and just learning about how smoking was bad for you she decided to steal a cigarette from your mother because all of the grownups did it and you were sixteen and curious because all of the cool kids did it and when she coughed and hacked and ****** in another drag you thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea but you both did it anyways and remember that same year you wanted to impress all of the boys so you went to your first party and it was nothing like in the movies but you wanted to prove that you were like the other girls so you drank yourself into a haze and you slipped into one of the bedrooms with a faceless stranger and you didn't even cry but you wanted to
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 1:56 AM UTC
your lips were stained red
your lips were stained red the first time you ever drank from a big girl’s cup you know the one without a lid and your mother was so proud when you still bathed with your little sister because you were young and it was okay she decided to taste the grape shampoo because it smelled so sweet and so it should taste the same and she was curious and so were you but she grimaced and choked and even cried so you thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea so you didn't taste it and remember the time you scraped your knees because you were trying to be like all of the boys and so you climbed up the tree at the park just to prove that you weren't fragile and you didn't even cry not even a tear so they decided you must not have cooties you weren't like the other girls you were one of them and you were the exception you wore those scars with pride your lips were stained red the first time you tasted wine you were at communion with your best friend who called herself a bad catholic at the age of just thirteen when your sister was twelve and just learning about how smoking was bad for you she decided to steal a cigarette from your mother because all of the grownups did it and you were sixteen and curious because all of the cool kids did it and when she coughed and hacked and ****** in another drag you thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea but you both did it anyways and remember that same year you wanted to impress all of the boys so you went to your first party and it was nothing like in the movies but you wanted to prove that you were like the other girls so you drank yourself into a haze and you slipped into one of the bedrooms with a faceless stranger and you didn't even cry but you wanted to
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I'll walk down the halls Hand in Hand Ready to take a stand Music of macabre origin then plays "This dance if I may?" I wear my best noose. So obviously Obtuse This ball Is the ultimate call For the crazy's To have a death day party Our lives never were so hearty. Shoes made of razor blades Bloodied nursemaids Punch is spiked with cyanide To evoke a lethal tide Pop a pill maybe 4 That way there is less gore Less to clean Please don't be mean Knives glitter darkly Our faces grimaced tartly Cut and slice Stab and dice Blood will fall And run down the halls For you see my dear Do not fear For in these halls Lurks the suicidal ball.
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 10:26 PM UTC
Suicidal Ball
Safe in my harbor, docked with you... assured my heart, was safe with you. My turn came to take the crew, time to part from the dock and you... looked at you sideways, but was forced to steer away. Thought you would lift your hands, and stop me from sailing by... thought you would rush to me, riding past the rough waves... Felt your pain as you tried to break away, your agonised look when the ropes didn't give away... you grimaced and I felt the tremor in you, as I took every step away from you. Not so sure when we would meet again, We would if the storms are kind... I will brave the winds and the storms, to rush to your side as soon as i can... Wishing for another crew, sail you en route... What more can I do, except wishing you would join. The wait is inevitable, The wait is frustrating... The wait is intolerable, The wait chokes me... Wish we're merged on our sides, that way we can move side by side... Be it morning, be it night, life would be fun with you be my side... sunbathing on a sunny day, fighting the waves on a stormy day, not caring if the sun dries us, or when the rain soaks us, or when the wind tosses us... Together we will stand proud, like a flag at full mast... fluttering with joy, Gulls bellowing by.... Wish we're merged on our sides, that way we can move side by side... Be it morning, be it night, life would be fun with you be my side.
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May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016 at 2:47 PM UTC
Safe in a Harbour, docked with you
*If the lines in my forehead, be the multiplier of your laughter;* bid grimaced be my days. *If the tears that I shed, be the sugar in your tea;* let it rain. *If my yelps of pain, be the lyrics to your song;* take away my voice. *If the cuts on my flesh, be the curve on your smiles;* dice me. *If the blood I bleed, be your elixir of happiness;* deplete me completely. *If the punctures on my heart, bequeath rays on your sun;* stab me some more. *If the failures I commit, be the perfection of your day;* wrong me. *If my downfall, be your supreme ecstasy;* I've long prepared my gravestone. *//So in the end I may say: I have accomplished my role. To be the liberation of your morbid soul...//* My existence . .  . is at your disposal.
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 8:44 AM UTC
Sweet Demise.