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"gutted" poems
Pariah
 Nihilism at its finest 
Bleed black the finest shattered diamonds 
Of all the lost hopes and dreams
 Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome 
Cynical skeptics, sarcasm dripping venom 
Acid burns through flesh blood and bones 
No one gives a **** scream for a savior
 Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome
 Shards of glass smile razorblades 
Plague of loneliness grips your throat
 Heart beats darkness through your veins
 **** society, anarchy reigns 
 Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome
 Shadow world of gray and stones and broken homes 
Bleeding hearts and gutted homes 
A black void in collapsing homes
 Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome 
Cesspool of sick and stinking ****
 Hungry ravish burning Rome 
Parasitic beasts feeding on lost souls 
**** you in and never let you go
 False promises of help, burning, burning, burning, blackens the sky 
Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome
 Nevermore the sun shines down on the wretched land 
Outcast Society burning in the ruins of fallen Rome
 This 
Is
 The  
Future
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM UTC
Outcast Society
Coagulated blood dried out from the sun, footprints pressed into the mud from a night on the run, chased and ravaged, pressed against a tree with emotions gutted. Mutilated and dying, I'm laying under falling stars, saturated skies and underlying scars, every conversation with you feels like being run over by a highway full of cars. Blood screaming from a cautourised wound travels farther than your ability to listen to reason, wide eyed, your pasteurized white eyes seem cold but searing like the flesh of a steaming heathen. Necrosis sets in on the heaping pile of me drudged upon the roots of my personification, watch the black blood slipping through the dirt like molasses as it climbs over your teeth and grips the lips before it passes, blood loss is creating a hallucination. Watch as I become hollow from your cannibalistic lifestyle. Your desperation, human flesh you defiled, mindless separation, our family's bodies stuffed in a corner and piled, you became a Wendigo, a wicked transmorgification.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 9:01 PM UTC
Wendigo Psychosis
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 7:59 PM UTC
NȺƶȺɍɇŧħ FɍȺǥmɇnŧs
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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Have the trees all fallen? / In my absence, Did the lights turn out in Santa Fe? I’m walking in a shadow, Cast by who knows what because The skyline’s bare / Now the leaves are gone, And in their wake the branches Lie gutted on the pavement Stripped to shiny bones That smile and smile, The call to arms blares out So sickly sweet / A mind rang out across the room That blazed so hot we’ll never know And in one blazing human breath They breathed their last / to think they were children they were just children / I feel a great and quiet darkness Has snuffed out those sparks That could have ignited the world And so I wonder How many million seconds, meant to be, Now never will? / Do good men die so other men Might learn, or worse still, win? Will those sparks Snuffed out in Santa Fe Ignite this world of apathy To shame? / I ask again, Have the trees all fallen Down in Santa Fe?
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 5:41 PM UTC
21.5.18 - "The Lights in Santa Fe"
Your soul was always isolated from the world around you—from the very beginning. Time alone was something you valued (as should we all) but your isolation took on many forms—many hungry shadows looming over you at all times. A collision of iron and steel left you immobile, and by the standards expected of women, useless: your womb would never swell, and you would never experience the pain of bringing a child into this cruel world. The fractures and the wounds healed, but you never recovered. In the face of impossibility, you still tried in desperation; leaving you in cold unfamiliar hospital rooms, where all you can see is an alien landscape; where all you can think about is the reasons you are here, and the reasons your baby will never be. It is a pain in your heart that leaves you gutted like the iron handrail that embedded itself through your ****** The bed is soaked with your tears and your blood; it is the pain of knowing that you will never hold a baby who sees you as God; you will never experience the love of a child, glowing with innocence.
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
Frida in The Henry Ford Hospital
A large red elephant jumped on the trampoline. Somewhere in the distance a blue eyed babe cried. Rednecks clad in Paul Bunyan shirts inhaled the fumes of their barbecues. Moving gracefully, a trapeze dancer tip-toed across the river. My wife slumbered on our couch, And wind blew a kite out of my hands. I fed a goat nectar from my hands. A crowd encircled the trampoline. My family purchased a new couch, And later that day we helplessly cried. Our wailing could not be heard across the river, Where rednecks continued to inhale the fumes of their barbecues. Neighbors massed to celebrate barbecues. I looked down at my blood stained hands, Then joined the beautiful trapeze dancer across the river. My red elephant broke the trampoline And we were surrounded by infinite crying. Nobody sat on the new couch. Many problems arrived with the new couch; There weren’t any more barbecues, And my teeth crunched on granola as we cried. Silky fabric embraced my hands. Ingrid, my wife, dies on the trampoline. She was buried across the river. Some guy drank all the water from the river, And started living on our couch. Who would have thought I met lily on the trampoline, And who would have thought I took up barbecues. Now I felt warmth on the back of my hand And I no longer cried. Only the winter wind cried, Howling over Ingrid’s grave across the river. I slapped an elephant carcass with my hand, Proceeding to cook it with salt and pepper on the couch. I bored my wife with barbecues So she went to jump on they trampoline. Lily died on the trampoline; I always cried. No longer did I host barbecues, the wind continued to howl across the river. I gutted the couch, and killed myself with the back of my hand.
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Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 7:43 AM UTC
Trampoline
A large red elephant jumped on the trampoline. Somewhere in the distance a blue eyed babe cried. Rednecks clad in Paul Bunyan shirts inhaled the fumes of their barbecues. Moving gracefully, a trapeze dancer tip-toed across the river. My wife slumbered on our couch, And wind blew a kite out of my hands. I fed a goat nectar from my hands. A crowd encircled the trampoline. My family purchased a new couch, And later that day we helplessly cried. Our wailing could not be heard across the river, Where rednecks continued to inhale the fumes of their barbecues. Neighbors massed to celebrate barbecues. I looked down at my blood stained hands, Then joined the beautiful trapeze dancer across the river. My red elephant broke the trampoline And we were surrounded by infinite crying. Nobody sat on the new couch. Many problems arrived with the new couch; There weren’t any more barbecues, And my teeth crunched on granola as we cried. Silky fabric embraced my hands. Ingrid, my wife, dies on the trampoline. She was buried across the river. Some guy drank all the water from the river, And started living on our couch. Who would have thought I met lily on the trampoline, And who would have thought I took up barbecues. Now I felt warmth on the back of my hand And I no longer cried. Only the winter wind cried, Howling over Ingrid’s grave across the river. I slapped an elephant carcass with my hand, Proceeding to cook it with salt and pepper on the couch. I bored my wife with barbecues So she went to jump on they trampoline. Lily died on the trampoline; I always cried. No longer did I host barbecues, the wind continued to howl across the river. I gutted the couch, and killed myself with the back of my hand.
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I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hated twin, but now, I don't know you as myself. I release you with all the pain I would know at the death of my children. You are not my blood anymore. I give you back to the soldiers who burned down my home, beheaded my children, ***** and sodomized my brothers and sisters. I give you back to those who stole the food from our plates when we were starving. I release you, fear, because you hold these scenes in front of me and I was born with eyes that can never close. I release you I release you I release you I release you I am not afraid to be angry. I am not afraid to rejoice. I am not afraid to be black. I am not afraid to be white. I am not afraid to be hungry. I am not afraid to be full. I am not afraid to be hated. I am not afraid to be loved. to be loved, to be loved, fear. Oh, you have choked me, but I gave you the leash. You have gutted me but I gave you the knife. You have devoured me, but I laid myself across the fire. I take myself back, fear. You are not my shadow any longer. I won't hold you in my hands. You can't live in my eyes, my ears, my voice my belly, or in my heart my heart my heart my heart But come here, fear I am alive and you are so afraid of dying.
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 5:22 PM UTC
Fear Poem, or I Give You Back (by Joy Harjo)
Sitting in labyrinths of cobblestone intestines I’m learning to eat the entrails of sacrifice only domestic, never hunted. pick up spoon. put down put down. put-down. pick up. um . spoon. um… putdown. there are motions for eating and I do them. soothsayer, look down pay attention to positions, shapes knife. butter. um… bread. no. breadth. better. no. butter-better. focus. knife. better. bread. knife, knife of haruspex. knife breadth. okay… deep breath. I have divided the livers and the watchers of victims. I have written on the anomalies in my bronze living, what I should look for, what they should allow for. my protruding viscera, my ancient autopsy of starving. Starving made me easier to tie. easier to lift. made me feel gutted out like finished ice-cream containers but, starving made me full of household gods. made me divine. made sheeps fly. made days disappear and made cold cold cold seem like simmering. made staying out of sight a piece of cake. cake. starving made me rich when I found little boys betting quarters for eating bowels of goats. made me small enough to fit through playground gates so I could swing swing in earthquakes, and portents. now, I listen to Memor, a man who knows nothing of starving talk about how starving I am. tomorrow I have to advise tomorrow I have to weigh tomorrow I have to swallow tomorrow I have to tomorrow I have tomorrow I am half and starving made me whole.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
Starving
you know? i'll stop being so empty sometimes. i'll fill myself with words, so they will be dripping down the carefully creased seams of my lips and dents in my cheeks. i am tired of margins and paragraphs to box in what i have to say. i'm ready to let things out like a destroyed dam barricading a swift, roaring feline river; distorted reflections of the day racing past. i am a goddess with dripping hair and naked skin, you can't stop me from feeling. i feel with my soul i feel i feel I FEEL and i am alive. i am the start of morning, i am red tinged and purple, i am the end of the afternoon, dark skinned and starry. i am everything that this universe is made up of, and i intend to be that way till the very earth splits my bones and drills my skull, and my skin droops tiredly to the ground. i am whole, and i am divine. i am eternal, like the dust scattered across the milkyway, and you can't stifle me.
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 9:56 AM UTC
gutted insides
Near a town of history untold Where everyone knows each name Wooden behemoths - obliviously old Each unique but each the same It was meant to be a perfect day Of tranquility through the trees Instead, the sky is brood with grey And the leafs flow as they please Alone, in nature's splendor spilled In a rainy wilderness, seldom seen The birds and insects grow suddenly still In a spread silence of the green Like eyes embedded in your back You sense the stare of something sour The mood hurries to horrid black As you quiver into a cower In bending branches blended Creeping in creases - camouflaged Nature's imbalance to be amended In the forest's full mirage Witness a terror appearing Frantically floating from afar Emerged in echoes and vaguely veering Black, bleak and bizarre A malevolent, monstrous maw Snarls of hunger, habit, and hate A malodor of meat, reeking raw A violently increasing heart rate From frozen still to fearfully shaking You are manically mesmerised Your pupils promptly dilating As you and the beast lock eyes Your meaningless attempt to run From a stride to a collapse The beams above crown the sun As the twigs around you snap A soar of pain as you hit the ground Chest cavity cracked open As you faint, you hear the sound Of a language never spoken. Gutted and gargling gore Eaten by nature's nightmare Convulsing on a forest floor Indifference chokes the air It's just another perfect day Of tranquility in the trees The rain has stopped, the leafs still sway With the cooling, comfortable breeze
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Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018 at 3:46 PM UTC
A Perfect Day
Near a town of history untold Where everyone knows each name Wooden behemoths - obliviously old Each unique but each the same It was meant to be a perfect day Of tranquility through the trees Instead, the sky is brood with grey And the leafs flow as they please Alone, in nature's splendor spilled In a rainy wilderness, seldom seen The birds and insects grow suddenly still In a spread silence of the green Like eyes embedded in your back You sense the stare of something sour The mood hurries to horrid black As you quiver into a cower In bending branches blended Creeping in creases - camouflaged Nature's imbalance to be amended In the forest's full mirage Witness a terror appearing Frantically floating from afar Emerged in echoes and vaguely veering Black, bleak and bizarre A malevolent, monstrous maw Snarls of hunger, habit, and hate A malodor of meat, reeking raw A violently increasing heart rate From frozen still to fearfully shaking You are manically mesmerised Your pupils promptly dilating As you and the beast lock eyes Your meaningless attempt to run From a stride to a collapse The beams above crown the sun As the twigs around you snap A soar of pain as you hit the ground Chest cavity cracked open As you faint, you hear the sound Of a language never spoken. Gutted and gargling gore Eaten by nature's nightmare Convulsing on a forest floor Indifference chokes the air It's just another perfect day Of tranquility in the trees The rain has stopped, the leafs still sway With the cooling, comfortable breeze
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Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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Pursuit
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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Transliteration: Kabul kab luti ye to na maaloom chal saka, Magar kamobesh halchal to kabhi se thi. Translation: When Kabul was gutted it couldn't be known, But the drift was more or less the same since long.
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 5:04 AM UTC
Urdu Whimmings
These streets are postcards. Moments of my youth, My loves. Each park bench enveloped within, Licked and pressed to My forehead. Return me to those times. I want my streets back. My memories Present and my friends Still readied for me. Pour moi. Pour me another drink Whilst I forget the ones I had. Red wine has long since replaced My blood, My skin; gone stale. The streets press in on My chest. I can’t breath for the dizzy memoirs, Yowling at the moon in My brain. The simple sway of a tyre swing, You and I, The chains. The simple fog of your ice machine, You and I, The cider. The simplicity of you and me, You and me, The years. These streets are ghost ships now. Bounty once abound, now gutted. Do not tease me with your platitudes Oh town, And just let me be on my way.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
Small Town
It's dark and the light leaks out like the change in my pockets; like the blood from her nose; like knowledge from my head. And I can feel myself being   swallowed by this systematic long dark. I cannot remove myself,   a gut-worm in the lower-mantle belly. Watching video-cassettes of   my birthday. I don't know what happened to my birthday video.   I don't know what happened to my parents or what I did to happen   to them. The light leaks, again, and I choke on my celebri-thoughts; mentally-masturbating to the waves I'd give on a book tour or studio lot. Talking about some movie that made some money, somewhere in Santa Fe or L.A. The news is channeling my president: a swollen man that is the physical representation that a lot of American people are parasitic; lovers in racism, xenophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, homophobia; scared of everything except the 'straight-talking' magnate they put in office. Not playing president; playing God. I'd hate to get political, though. I'd hate to ramble on and on about something I don't know enough about to **** myself over. I can feel myself picking up steam. I can feel myself getting redundant but embracing the bruised ego and poor technique. Loving the entrails spilling out of the splits of my fingertips; more beautiful than the brains I bashed on the sidewalks of old Morgantown. Morgantown, a town so kind you are gently destroyed by its over-crowded masses, dying to be different or drunk -- I suppose that's not very different than most places. But let's get back to these trees that I haven't even talked about. Let's get back to the kitchen table with the hollowed hard-drive, with wires and cords flopping to the sides, like a gutted spaghetti eater with poor stomach acid. How terrible. I'll never forgive myself for that last line. I feel so rudderless. So cynical with a touch of cliche. I keep pushing back that age for success, thinking that I have the luxury of choosing. My vocabulary is limited. My intelligence is assumed; probably a void, where delusions manifest and asian **** rewinds and plays,   rewinds and plays.
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Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 8:38 PM UTC
8. Stream of Pretentiousness; Degenerates
It's dark and the light leaks out like the change in my pockets; like the blood from her nose; like knowledge from my head. And I can feel myself being   swallowed by this systematic long dark. I cannot remove myself,   a gut-worm in the lower-mantle belly. Watching video-cassettes of   my birthday. I don't know what happened to my birthday video.   I don't know what happened to my parents or what I did to happen   to them. The light leaks, again, and I choke on my celebri-thoughts; mentally-masturbating to the waves I'd give on a book tour or studio lot. Talking about some movie that made some money, somewhere in Santa Fe or L.A. The news is channeling my president: a swollen man that is the physical representation that a lot of American people are parasitic; lovers in racism, xenophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, homophobia; scared of everything except the 'straight-talking' magnate they put in office. Not playing president; playing God. I'd hate to get political, though. I'd hate to ramble on and on about something I don't know enough about to **** myself over. I can feel myself picking up steam. I can feel myself getting redundant but embracing the bruised ego and poor technique. Loving the entrails spilling out of the splits of my fingertips; more beautiful than the brains I bashed on the sidewalks of old Morgantown. Morgantown, a town so kind you are gently destroyed by its over-crowded masses, dying to be different or drunk -- I suppose that's not very different than most places. But let's get back to these trees that I haven't even talked about. Let's get back to the kitchen table with the hollowed hard-drive, with wires and cords flopping to the sides, like a gutted spaghetti eater with poor stomach acid. How terrible. I'll never forgive myself for that last line. I feel so rudderless. So cynical with a touch of cliche. I keep pushing back that age for success, thinking that I have the luxury of choosing. My vocabulary is limited. My intelligence is assumed; probably a void, where delusions manifest and asian **** rewinds and plays,   rewinds and plays.
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Rolling Up Swisher split; gutted out, stuffed back in with some indo trees. Tucked right in, pull it over lick the edge close it up & roast that ****
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Jun 29, 2014
Jun 29, 2014 at 12:15 AM UTC
Drug Use
Do you remember when I laid in bed with you and cried because telling you about me hurt to do?             But I wanted to tell you - because you deserved to know, because maybe I thought you would share yourself too, because maybe I thought packing you into my old wounds             would finally heal them right. And all that truth made me shake and the dark bedroom made me wild-eyed but                your heart beating through my palm pushed me forward a step,         a step of a step, and pretty soon I was falling for you.         And I remember when you stood over me, revealing your truth about me. And all that truth made me cry and the morning light hurt my eyes         and you split my ribs and my lungs poured out at my knees which were bruising from begging.         But I couldn’t find you in your darkened eyes or your bellowing voice as it gutted me and braided my veins in a knot…           Some things I try to forget. I dream of you and I imagine your face, your touch, the way you walk and           hold my hand and we smile and you laugh and I have you. But sometimes the black comes down from the nightsky           and seeps into my sleep to darken your eyes and harden your grasp,            just like that you flay me open to spill my tears and I’m losing you.           When I wake you are there, reaching toward me in the dark. The bruises on my knees will fade.
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 10:40 AM UTC
Forgetting
Do you remember when I laid in bed with you and cried because telling you about me hurt to do?             But I wanted to tell you - because you deserved to know, because maybe I thought you would share yourself too, because maybe I thought packing you into my old wounds             would finally heal them right. And all that truth made me shake and the dark bedroom made me wild-eyed but                your heart beating through my palm pushed me forward a step,         a step of a step, and pretty soon I was falling for you.         And I remember when you stood over me, revealing your truth about me. And all that truth made me cry and the morning light hurt my eyes         and you split my ribs and my lungs poured out at my knees which were bruising from begging.         But I couldn’t find you in your darkened eyes or your bellowing voice as it gutted me and braided my veins in a knot…           Some things I try to forget. I dream of you and I imagine your face, your touch, the way you walk and           hold my hand and we smile and you laugh and I have you. But sometimes the black comes down from the nightsky           and seeps into my sleep to darken your eyes and harden your grasp,            just like that you flay me open to spill my tears and I’m losing you.           When I wake you are there, reaching toward me in the dark. The bruises on my knees will fade.
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On the mud flats of Padma Delta where the mighty Ganges slides into the Bay of Bengal ships come to die. Rusting oil tankers, container ships from Panama passenger liners, and cargo ships from Zanzibar North Sea fishing boats research vessels and mother ships anything that floats each one has made its final trip. Steel Leviathans low tide beached oil-slick stuck. Metal monoliths ****** deep into black sand. The people of Sitakunda come marching, ants across the slippery surface of diesel sand to pick the carcasses apart. Barefoot, with only blow torches hammers and brute strength wrenching rivets, nuts and bolts breaching beams and deck splitting welded seams until the hulls are gutted ribbed struts broken down and torn from the edges of shape Bit by bit they scour and empty right down to the core. Bit by bit they carry ***** to the waiting shore. Where melting pots are kept boiling giant stock pots stewing goodness in a broth but metallic flavours and oily spiced stench hang in the misty bleakness of the bay Skeleton hulks shift and ride lurching, lifting with the tide rolling, dangerous still collapsing, with groaning creak to maim, to crush and **** the daring, the slow and the weak. © M.L.Emmett
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
Where Ships Come to Die
The blushing barn barks With bleeded hues Gutted girders The once held the strict structure Now hold hollow hidey holes For all the remaining vermin While the festering flesh Of the butchered beasts Burn the sinuses of strangers Who walk through the burnt broken building
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 1:18 PM UTC
The Old Barn
The world is a giant trashcan And I'm a dumpster diver trying to discover anything beautiful and white And it wouldn't surprise me if I've already found it, Covered in gum and hair and crumbs in the backseat of a gutted minivan But I'm so busy judging the books with no cover That I lost track of my little paper hearts that I used to give with a chocolate taped to the back And sometimes I stare into this rotted wilderness and ask myself if I've stopped existing Because the rearview mirrors are so grimy that I can't see my own reflection And when I can't see if there's lettuce stuck in my teeth, I refrain from smiling just in case So people stamp me into the category of grumpy, grownup girl But for all I know, We are all lost pearls from the necklace of the gods (but I can't go back looking like this)
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 4:03 AM UTC
Soul-Searching
Poetry is just scratches on paper forming dramatic words by an overemotional character Poetry is certainly not a pen that digs trenches for the blue blood to follow draining a soul to a sterile existence Who Needs Poetry Anyway? Poetry is all roses are red violets are blue blah, blah, blah I'm so in love with you Nobody cares about books Notice how the poetry section in the bookstores continue to diminish with every look? Poetry is certainly not as profound as the inert words lay gutted by the rapper which boasts his materialistic empire that his target audience consumes yet cannot honestly digest And you'll find the album in an abundant display set in the center of the bookstore Who Needs Poetry Anyway? Poetry is just something studied from history books to obtain credit A time before the internet and a true social status Before days rapt in vanity Poetry is certainly not a self sacrifice to explore the wilderness of the heart and the shutters to the mind An outlet to tread another day Who Needs Poetry Anyway?
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May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 at 6:00 AM UTC
Who Needs Poetry Anway?
I mouth mother’s lullaby to a skateboard. my brother moans into what he believes was kept from my sister. we underdose in a gutted place. we take our foreheads to women like fevers to god’s washcloth.
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Mar 2, 2014
Mar 2, 2014 at 1:13 AM UTC
rains
...and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? ________________________ My poetry performed— before a crowd of johnny-jump-ups Their faces toward me in unison— they listen Intense, motionless energy Velvet applause of purple and Yellow yelling! Encore of performing in the perfume with a troop of lilacs They will remember me While I— await their return to May through billowing miles of drowsing sachet breathing euphorias between the lingerie of clouds What happens after ecstasy? Grieving in life’s presence? Loss of mind to self-possession? _________________ ...and when my sense of smell gives out I will hold on for a while to the walker of hearing trying not to stumble past the song of thrush beyond me in the blurring leaves once so clearly— crinkled, shiny, and infant green…. _____________ As a child I held on to nothing for dear life I could cup a storm in my hands! Could run with the rhythm of a horse! I could fly in my mind’s eye if the ferns I used were only wings! If I pretended hard enough I could eat my own home-baked mud pies! If only I could be— more than a fledgling of eight so earthbound, clumsy   _____________ But while the lilacs were out of town thunder met the flash and gutted summer! I ran for dear life! from the amazing distance of its echoes pelted by its gentle gift Snagged by growing things— the clinging prattle of their momentous tendrils....   ______________ Lovers run off the path past water lilies along the swollen veins to the river toward a grave and pounding heart The Ancient Flood was jealous.... Now when the wind softens and rain is tossed last, and only from the leaves may their encore be cupped in the hands of some passer-by Remembering— that either because of a trifling wind or the weight of time... a tree fell here clubbing the river’s bank senseless
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 PM UTC
If a Tree Falls
...and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? ________________________ My poetry performed— before a crowd of johnny-jump-ups Their faces toward me in unison— they listen Intense, motionless energy Velvet applause of purple and Yellow yelling! Encore of performing in the perfume with a troop of lilacs They will remember me While I— await their return to May through billowing miles of drowsing sachet breathing euphorias between the lingerie of clouds What happens after ecstasy? Grieving in life’s presence? Loss of mind to self-possession? _________________ ...and when my sense of smell gives out I will hold on for a while to the walker of hearing trying not to stumble past the song of thrush beyond me in the blurring leaves once so clearly— crinkled, shiny, and infant green…. _____________ As a child I held on to nothing for dear life I could cup a storm in my hands! Could run with the rhythm of a horse! I could fly in my mind’s eye if the ferns I used were only wings! If I pretended hard enough I could eat my own home-baked mud pies! If only I could be— more than a fledgling of eight so earthbound, clumsy   _____________ But while the lilacs were out of town thunder met the flash and gutted summer! I ran for dear life! from the amazing distance of its echoes pelted by its gentle gift Snagged by growing things— the clinging prattle of their momentous tendrils....   ______________ Lovers run off the path past water lilies along the swollen veins to the river toward a grave and pounding heart The Ancient Flood was jealous.... Now when the wind softens and rain is tossed last, and only from the leaves may their encore be cupped in the hands of some passer-by Remembering— that either because of a trifling wind or the weight of time... a tree fell here clubbing the river’s bank senseless
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He slumps, grumbling at the air a grunt, no more admittance of awareness minimising risk of developing interest grunt the glow across his face pale a reflective pallor shows us his day has spent him inside grunt nourishment calls a gutted feeling deeper than his alienation as food is not forthcoming he tries to sing grunt in letting go his newfound voice an interrupted squawk so disgusted he uhgs hiding himself again grunt daily untouched but for lonely nights when in consolation he hands himself to the bounty of the sickened screen grunt and gurgles in unity, at one with images which champion his waking hours, forcing him unconsenting and confused grunt
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 9:14 PM UTC
The Grunt
i swore to myself that a flick of the tongue would never shelter self-hatred so deeply embedded into the patchwork of my being. contagion is a sad **** thing and cycles seem to be an endlessly contributing factor those who hurt cannot become hurt and so we place our self-pity at the top of our priorities disregarding emotion so carefully hidden in the fragile mind of others. however there are few who's torment is only self-projected i am one an anathema that exists in silence my past has been placed in a box full of secrets along with the evidence of my self-mutilation is there a way to keep my eyes shut and my dignity revealed? this world is numb, and the apathy must be getting to me because i would rather not feel a **** thing than to be plagued by misery from myself and the ones i love however, emotions are not choices and humans cannot be reprogrammed it seems the pleas and slurs i leave in place of words are what my familiars take to heart bodies speak such complex languages and not everyone has the patience or the attentiveness to listen to anything other than a cry and although i warn and beg for warmth i receive only glaciers and memories of faces overwritten with impassivity what i would give to reach into the darkest parts of my soul and rip out this sorrow that has clung itself to the shadows of my psyche in the depths of my worst memories there is a wish a want a need to take this heart of mine and throw it to wolves to be destroyed but desensitized in my heart is all my pity my lust my anger my sadness and sunshine darkened and gutted so very long ago
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
regards
i swore to myself that a flick of the tongue would never shelter self-hatred so deeply embedded into the patchwork of my being. contagion is a sad **** thing and cycles seem to be an endlessly contributing factor those who hurt cannot become hurt and so we place our self-pity at the top of our priorities disregarding emotion so carefully hidden in the fragile mind of others. however there are few who's torment is only self-projected i am one an anathema that exists in silence my past has been placed in a box full of secrets along with the evidence of my self-mutilation is there a way to keep my eyes shut and my dignity revealed? this world is numb, and the apathy must be getting to me because i would rather not feel a **** thing than to be plagued by misery from myself and the ones i love however, emotions are not choices and humans cannot be reprogrammed it seems the pleas and slurs i leave in place of words are what my familiars take to heart bodies speak such complex languages and not everyone has the patience or the attentiveness to listen to anything other than a cry and although i warn and beg for warmth i receive only glaciers and memories of faces overwritten with impassivity what i would give to reach into the darkest parts of my soul and rip out this sorrow that has clung itself to the shadows of my psyche in the depths of my worst memories there is a wish a want a need to take this heart of mine and throw it to wolves to be destroyed but desensitized in my heart is all my pity my lust my anger my sadness and sunshine darkened and gutted so very long ago
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