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1 The other day I saw a picture of you. Shirt buttoned up to your throat, Pants cutting off the blood circulation in your pelvis, Shoes shining brighter than the north star, And a smile being pulled across your cheeks Like an archer pulling a bow string. I smiled back at my computer screen. 2 I’ve listened to this album at least 30 times. I own three versions of it. UK deluxe, US deluxe, Target Deluxe. Everything about you is deluxe. Your eyes, your voice, your breath As it passes through the microphone and into my ears. 3 I believe in fate But not so much in destiny. I don’t scream at my reflection anymore And I’m described as independent. For the most part. I’m a pretty trustworthy person And I promise I’m not that desperate. 4 The music ripples through my veins As I whip my curls at the mirror. The hairbrush pressed against my mouth And I repeat the lyrics that roll past your lips so smoothly. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I go to sleep. I had a dream You and I were together And you were happy And I was happy And everyone was happy. But I know if my dream became reality No one would be happy. Jealousy would taint the spit on other girls’ tongues And the distance between New Jersey and Australia is too much. Even for me. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I got to sleep. 5 I can almost feel you. 5 We have the same eye color. 6 We have the same hair color. 7 I am just an insecure girl. You are taking over the world. You are stepping in the soil of every state. And you won’t look at me Longer for three seconds in the New York City heat. 8 I never thought I would be one of those girls. One of those girls Who latch onto a boy’s identity, Not knowing his soul But knowing his spirit. I’ve seen you three times. You don’t even realize. I try too hard and I’m convinced you notice this. 9 You are nine months older than me. In your eyes I am just a baby. My cocoon of pictures of you is the womb I am being baked in. You won’t follow me back on twitter. 10 You are just my celebrity crush But you have such an impact on me. Go back home. Let me rest. Go back to bed. I’ll have that dream again And I won’t speak of it And no one has to know of this Pathetic excuse for love I carry in me like a dead fetus. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. It was never supposed to go this far. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. 10 You can never love me The same way I love you.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 1:59 AM UTC
Celebrity Crush
1 The other day I saw a picture of you. Shirt buttoned up to your throat, Pants cutting off the blood circulation in your pelvis, Shoes shining brighter than the north star, And a smile being pulled across your cheeks Like an archer pulling a bow string. I smiled back at my computer screen. 2 I’ve listened to this album at least 30 times. I own three versions of it. UK deluxe, US deluxe, Target Deluxe. Everything about you is deluxe. Your eyes, your voice, your breath As it passes through the microphone and into my ears. 3 I believe in fate But not so much in destiny. I don’t scream at my reflection anymore And I’m described as independent. For the most part. I’m a pretty trustworthy person And I promise I’m not that desperate. 4 The music ripples through my veins As I whip my curls at the mirror. The hairbrush pressed against my mouth And I repeat the lyrics that roll past your lips so smoothly. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I go to sleep. I had a dream You and I were together And you were happy And I was happy And everyone was happy. But I know if my dream became reality No one would be happy. Jealousy would taint the spit on other girls’ tongues And the distance between New Jersey and Australia is too much. Even for me. 5 I can almost feel your arms Wrap around my waist before I got to sleep. 5 I can almost feel you. 5 We have the same eye color. 6 We have the same hair color. 7 I am just an insecure girl. You are taking over the world. You are stepping in the soil of every state. And you won’t look at me Longer for three seconds in the New York City heat. 8 I never thought I would be one of those girls. One of those girls Who latch onto a boy’s identity, Not knowing his soul But knowing his spirit. I’ve seen you three times. You don’t even realize. I try too hard and I’m convinced you notice this. 9 You are nine months older than me. In your eyes I am just a baby. My cocoon of pictures of you is the womb I am being baked in. You won’t follow me back on twitter. 10 You are just my celebrity crush But you have such an impact on me. Go back home. Let me rest. Go back to bed. I’ll have that dream again And I won’t speak of it And no one has to know of this Pathetic excuse for love I carry in me like a dead fetus. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. It was never supposed to go this far. 10 You are just my celebrity crush. 10 You can never love me The same way I love you.
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Beat out a rhythm With my finger tips All of the lyrics Flowing from my lips. A private dance party When I'm all alone I'm a Rockstar in my mirror With my hairbrush microphone. And maybe I'll be Rockstar Someday, someday Or just here in my bedroom I have stage fright anyway. Pump up the volume No shirt, no pants Jamming in my socks My own private dance. I do it just for fun When I'm all alone Rockstar in my mirror With my hairbrush microphone.
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Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011 at 5:22 PM UTC
"Rockstar"
daily provisioning wallet  watch  testicles  spectacles cash (single bills) cell phone bottle of water   hairbrush with vanity attached, personal technology baggie (earbuds, variety of charging cords etc.) loose change in order to fall from pockets & annoy yourself sunglasses (idiot! summers half over) and something else... pocket tissues! skin and bone, muscle, all flavors and multilayers, a language of music only you hear, the pumping station internal, the gaga motion product of the palette of body following souled emotions, the antacid pills after that burrito; and that strangely named thang called libido? your teeth  your smile, your shyest guile, to catch that lady’s hopefully.         reciprocated pearly whites delight, pen and pad to record being a sad and mad good lad, a Swiss Army knife if the tube or bus should (will) breakdown, your tiny little bottles of inspiration  perspiration and perspective, that you forgot to label the list to do and the list to add to the to do list and good heavens, a serious writing utensil to fool yourself when thinking serious thoughts like these the last but should be first, the house keys!! keys just an enabler to do it all again tomorrow   July 11, 2018  10:22pm
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 9:15 AM UTC
daily provisioning (a to do list)
Hello everybody. My name is Neal and I'm your tour guide. The first creature that we will see is a koala, to your right. Do you know that koala's have fingerprints very similar to those of humans? So much so that their prints have been mistaken for a human's at crime scenes? Anyways, this leads us to ask some very important questions: are methods of finding criminals therefore unreliable? Is it truly possible to avoid imprisoning those that are innocent? Is reality merely an allusion? Or, more importantly, was it my boyfriend John with the good fashion sense that took my hairbrush? Or was it that little ***** Bernard that is hiding in the top left corner? Anyways, to your left you'll see our world renowned snail tank. Snails can sleep for up to three years at a time....
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Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018 at 10:02 PM UTC
Tour Guide
From the age of seven, I decided it was easier to throw myself against a wall than to cause any harm to the stuffed animal under my arm. I attribute feelings to everything that can be touched or confirmed by science – on May 23rd, the wind wanted a companion, by July, it lived with a birdhouse, in a happy yellow – and so I fear hurting a chair, suffocating my hairbrush through tangles, angering some blankets left unused at the end of our bed. I do not fear hurt, I fear causing it. I smack my head with a fist when mother says that sometimes punching pillows can help ease pain because I need to stay on their good side.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 6:40 PM UTC
nothing is inanimate, everything can leave
When I was three And my mother brushed my hair She parted it carefully And braided it equally. Two fat plaits Hung as even as my stare. When I was nine And the hairbrush was my foe Wild curls entwined Personality defined. Hair tangling Faster than it could grow. When I was fifteen And hair hit the salon floor I just wanted to be seen So dyed it pink, blue and green. Hair chopped short Little girl no more. Now I'm twenty-three No longer in the nest My parting is messy And my braids escapee. A hairy reminder That mother knows best.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM UTC
A Hairy Reminder.
music. there is no description for it i could spend endless amounts of time 
thinking of every word that fits it
 but the only one that fits,for me is 
alive.

 music makes me feel alive. 

bass pounding, words screaming
 i wish i could dance all day and all night 
the music urges me, it tells me
to sing as loud as i can and 
dance as hard as i can
soft guitar, voices whispering 
the voices penetrate my mind 
the rhythm and melody raise goosebumps 
tears in my eyes. from pain? happiness?
 i don't even care.

 I lose myself.
 when music is on, I am gone. 
I have left this world and entered
another one. a better one. 
a world full of endless love and beauty 
in this world, anything is possible 
and I have a voice that angels would be jealous of
 in this world, my dance enchants every person for miles 
in this world, I dance on top of clouds

 without music, there is no world 
it is empty, dark and
 i am lost
 instead of color, it is merely 
black and white
 there are few memories made 
no singing with windows down 
no dancing with hairbrush in hand
 no songs to sing every word to 
without music, there is no feeling
 of being alive
 no feeling of anger, sadness, and complete
 bliss.


 music is my soulmate.
 my one true love 
and we are going to live a long
 and happy life together.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM UTC
My SoulMate
When oh when will I meet my mistress? I hope she has a lovely apartment or small home She will wear her lovely black boots and designer jeans And perhaps a **** blouse too In the winter evening We will have a nice fire I will lie across her lap in only my ******* It will be so comforting to receive a firm spanking from her It will be a loving spanking Just firm enough to show she is in charge But not too firm to make me cry She pulls down my pink satin ******* Whap! Whap! First 10 spanks with her hand And then the next 10 with her wooden hairbrush She used the hairbrush because She thought I could have done a better job Cleaning our kitchen floor I have never been so happy to serve my mistress I have prepared a lovely dinner prepared for her After we eat I will give her oral pleasure for as long as she desires What a beautiful evening indeed
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
I Hope To Meet My Mistress
My brand new ionic hairbrush is the best invention ever! Who could ever imagine this incredible tool could perform such amazing feats of magic! My hair is so smooth, sleek and shiny I truly feel like a superstar! Honestly, If the inventor were here, I would kiss him and drive him around in my car!
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 3:01 PM UTC
My Ionic Hairbrush Review
Take my saxophone Take my piano Take my guitar Take my mandolin Take my washboard Take my harmonica Take my sunglasses Take my hairbrush Take my Bible Take my clothes Take my trophies Take my baton Take my ballet shoes Take my cane Take my sword Take my monkey Take my collections Take my cat Take my house Take my memories Take my plans My, that was a heavy load. I feel so light.
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Nov 25, 2010
Nov 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM UTC
Like A Feather
It goes back forty summers to a hot August night. This cold case I’m working with no end in sight. The girl, Leslie Zaret, was last seen alive At the Pioneer tavern, she was standing outside. Main Street runs North- South on Queensboro Hill. She was ten blocks from home on that night she was killed. She accepted a ride- was it someone she knew? A Janitor found her- cold naked and dead In a schoolyard in Bayside, the old reports said. She was ***** with a hairbrush, no ***** was found. The girl had been strangled, but hadn’t been bound.. If the killer was male- was he impotent too? The victim was pretty, with long Brunette hair. She never came home and her parents despaired. My cops cleared the boyfriend, her ex- boyfriend too. Still we always believed it was someone she knew. She attended John Bowne, a high school nearby. Was the killer a classmate? She was too young to die. Her class graduated, now grown old and gray. Most stayed in town although some moved away. Some have passed on and are taking their rest But none died liked Leslie with her neck tightly pressed. People will talk, surely some must suspect I think someone knows something about poor Leslie’s death. Please come forth from the shadows, help me solve this crime. Leslie’s waited for justice for a very long time.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 8:56 AM UTC
Somebody Knows
Leave your hairbrush as The insignificance still reminds me of you.
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Jun 29, 2017
Jun 29, 2017 at 8:12 AM UTC
Hairbrush - Haiku
his infamouse words still echo dangerously in my head 'quack quack' his rubbery skin chaffing my mind as he trundles through my waking dreams his beady little painted eyes dont fool me behind thouse innocent baby blues this rabble rouser plots world ********** through mans dependance on bathrooms a rubber duckie in every household a rubber duckie to rule them all the all seeing duckie 'quack quack' i see him there in the bottom of the tub next to my girlfriends hairbrush grin painted on his ugly little duckie face
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
rubber duck treason and plot
you have a bathtub for a bed     hairbrush as a mic no roof over your head     go everywhere on your bike wall for a friend      stone for a sole running water is merely Godsend       being materialistic was never your goal i offered you money                           love                              companionship but those offers fell to the floor "i ain't no charity," and you were already out the door.
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Jan 20, 2013
Jan 20, 2013 at 8:45 PM UTC
alienated
You are, almost Tell me your first memory of happiness. Maybe a swing set above wood chips or collecting ladybugs in your pockets or a perfectly cut sandwich you didn't make or the smell of grass mixed with chlorine and sunscreen coating your skin under a sky brighter than any future imaginable. Pink frosting from cake dyes palms into a canvas of sugary pigment A popsicle melting down between the webbing of eager fingers Teeth are covered in chocolate and face a mess and all smiles, it is funny how joy always seems to be synonymous with sweetness and giggles and the memory of being too young to remember anything fully. 19 is poison for a clock it is reminder to wake up after pretending to be something you were not for too long time is eating away the comfort from your bones, I wonder does candy still taste like candy when it has grown stale? when the shell has cracked and all that remains is what's inside, is it still desirable then? will people still want to know what you feel like against their tongue after you've already touched the ground? The same texture but time has made its evidence on you tangible The juice once spilling from your hands has become wine The summer sparklers have become remnants of cigarettes on your nail buds, ashes of trying to forget, you are no longer afraid of fireworks the hairbrush holds another version of yourself, a near stranger with similar freckles who once insisted on only wearing dresses, now you struggle just to get shoes on, it was easier when someone did it all for you, everything is, that way. I don't know when laughing became a side effect instead of a soundtrack but it still rings familiar, sometimes. 19 is more sour than lost it is possible to know whereabouts with a bitterness between your lips but not all of your past is disintegrating there is a love for saccharine that still remains, more honey than cloying and 19 may be taunting down a candle to its wick asking to be noticed but it is ready to be uncovered 19 is golden You are, almost.
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 4:07 PM UTC
19
You are, almost Tell me your first memory of happiness. Maybe a swing set above wood chips or collecting ladybugs in your pockets or a perfectly cut sandwich you didn't make or the smell of grass mixed with chlorine and sunscreen coating your skin under a sky brighter than any future imaginable. Pink frosting from cake dyes palms into a canvas of sugary pigment A popsicle melting down between the webbing of eager fingers Teeth are covered in chocolate and face a mess and all smiles, it is funny how joy always seems to be synonymous with sweetness and giggles and the memory of being too young to remember anything fully. 19 is poison for a clock it is reminder to wake up after pretending to be something you were not for too long time is eating away the comfort from your bones, I wonder does candy still taste like candy when it has grown stale? when the shell has cracked and all that remains is what's inside, is it still desirable then? will people still want to know what you feel like against their tongue after you've already touched the ground? The same texture but time has made its evidence on you tangible The juice once spilling from your hands has become wine The summer sparklers have become remnants of cigarettes on your nail buds, ashes of trying to forget, you are no longer afraid of fireworks the hairbrush holds another version of yourself, a near stranger with similar freckles who once insisted on only wearing dresses, now you struggle just to get shoes on, it was easier when someone did it all for you, everything is, that way. I don't know when laughing became a side effect instead of a soundtrack but it still rings familiar, sometimes. 19 is more sour than lost it is possible to know whereabouts with a bitterness between your lips but not all of your past is disintegrating there is a love for saccharine that still remains, more honey than cloying and 19 may be taunting down a candle to its wick asking to be noticed but it is ready to be uncovered 19 is golden You are, almost.
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If morning was too brief to trim those pine tree prickles off of your lower limbs, it's okay. Step 1: ***** hose. After a mirror's glance, you will be tempted to panic. Step 2: Stay calm. Peel the dead animal off the side of your cheek. Let the hairbrush paste the fly-aways into a hot, greased bun. How easy it is to experience a wardrobe malfunction. Remember to keep it simple. Step 3: Slip on that black pencil skirt, the polyester one--not the leather. No one needs to know that you were up late watching sitcom reruns. Remove the screaming purple rings. Step 4: make-up. Base is your friend. You are now prepared. Smear on your finest ruby red lips, and tuck in your leopard-print bra strap. Step 5: Strut your stuff. Retail has never seen such class.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM UTC
How to Appear Professional
She likes fashion and interviews. I like getting lost. Sometimes she grabs my bulge, as she drinks from an aluminum flask. She told me to rhyme something with 'flask'. I said, "Fine. In your life, you've been wearing a mask. But I can see. And you can see. They can't see. That you are a detached, blond doll and your back is against the wall, as I kiss your neck until you're dead." She said to rhyme something with 'dead'. I said, "Fine. You ********** in my head. And it's quarrelsome that they don't see that you're numb. I'd pull on your lip, with my teeth. Dig my hand between your legs. Just to make you feel. Just to make you feel. And I study your hairbrush to see that there are too much strands of memories from melodies that lay dormant in ballrooms and scented kisses that drip of the misses in your life and mine." She said **** me with your words. I refused because I'd rather watch her bloom in my dreams than the seams of a fiber noose that rings loose the bell in your neck that sounds until birds fly and we die- You look at me, "Home."
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 12:57 AM UTC
Patricia Arquette
A hairbrush lies on the middle of a bare dresser As dust cascades beside a sunlit window pane A telephone rings out in an empty apartment As the rain glows underneath a streetlight outside A balloon is caught and disappears in the wind Below the field of corn that murmurs as it bends And that door doesn't close. I don't want it to close.
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Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 2:57 AM UTC
Through A Half Open Door
I have one grandmother And one grandfather. Cousin Kate has two of each. When I was young she tried to teach My to call them Nana B And Dadda B respectively, But I guess that was too hard for me So I just call them Nana and B. Nana looks a lot like mom Except she's got more wrinkles on. And lipstick that's a perfect pink And dog treats underneath her sink And a silver hairbrush, Creams for foots, And on occasion she calls me ***** My B, he's from Pier-Dip-Pah-Too. His real name's John (My brother's too!) And B works on the radio And tells me things I didn't know About boats. And on the holidays He always serves glasses Of Seven-Sideways. In my family we have this tradition Called "the annual lake freeze competition". My aunts and uncles, they all guess Then me, of course, then all the rest Which day Lake Ontario Will freeze right over So we know Who. Gets. The Trophy. Nana, she records the dates And then with B she sits and waits Day in, day out They watch the lake For one fine day When no wave breaks the ice ...and someone wins The Trophy. (One year the lake never froze and there was NO WINNER. My dad is obsessed with Global Warming and no he always votes anti-freeze.) Now today's my day: January 21st And I'm so excited I could almost burst Cause I just know that phone That's ringing Is the call to inform me Of my winning. Gasp It's for me! Hand me the phone, Mother , Give it here. Why hello, Nana! (She says "hello, dear") Oh. I didn't win. Well that's okay. B says its a gamble this game we play. Turns out it froze yesterday And the trophy goes to Cousin Kate??!! Next year I think I'll vote anti-freeze And I'll throw big rocks right through the ice. Or maybe my brother, he'd suffice. It's just not fair! Kate's won it twice! But I did get to talk to Nana and B ...and that was nice.
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 4:37 PM UTC
The Annual Lake Freeze Competition
I have one grandmother And one grandfather. Cousin Kate has two of each. When I was young she tried to teach My to call them Nana B And Dadda B respectively, But I guess that was too hard for me So I just call them Nana and B. Nana looks a lot like mom Except she's got more wrinkles on. And lipstick that's a perfect pink And dog treats underneath her sink And a silver hairbrush, Creams for foots, And on occasion she calls me ***** My B, he's from Pier-Dip-Pah-Too. His real name's John (My brother's too!) And B works on the radio And tells me things I didn't know About boats. And on the holidays He always serves glasses Of Seven-Sideways. In my family we have this tradition Called "the annual lake freeze competition". My aunts and uncles, they all guess Then me, of course, then all the rest Which day Lake Ontario Will freeze right over So we know Who. Gets. The Trophy. Nana, she records the dates And then with B she sits and waits Day in, day out They watch the lake For one fine day When no wave breaks the ice ...and someone wins The Trophy. (One year the lake never froze and there was NO WINNER. My dad is obsessed with Global Warming and no he always votes anti-freeze.) Now today's my day: January 21st And I'm so excited I could almost burst Cause I just know that phone That's ringing Is the call to inform me Of my winning. Gasp It's for me! Hand me the phone, Mother , Give it here. Why hello, Nana! (She says "hello, dear") Oh. I didn't win. Well that's okay. B says its a gamble this game we play. Turns out it froze yesterday And the trophy goes to Cousin Kate??!! Next year I think I'll vote anti-freeze And I'll throw big rocks right through the ice. Or maybe my brother, he'd suffice. It's just not fair! Kate's won it twice! But I did get to talk to Nana and B ...and that was nice.
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It’s the fallen strap of her blue shift fallen from her shoulder. There, just a glimpse of a gold ring on her left hand as the hand gathers, between forefinger and thumb, the drop to her waist of lustrous hair,  chestnut brown, still. So with the left arm and shoulder unclothed, the fold in her forearm hides her breast's slight swell. She has long eyebrows, a broad forehead. See, the hint of a hairbrush in her right hand. The nose is thin and perhaps a little long for beauty. Lips set, almost pursed, she is looking into nowhere: a dream, some enchantment? No, she sees the harbour this morning before the sun rose when, sleepless, she walked out, not far, but barefoot. Hardly a slip of wind to stir the hem of her slight dress, only the sound of sea’s breathing, Later in her studio (before Leonard wakes) Nancy sits in front of her latest canvas. Having bunched up her dress well above her sun-stained knees, she grasps a palette knife: to scour here, scrape, scrape into paint there. Pausing, momentarily she looks into and beyond the image . . . Today, later, she will stand in that pose she knows he loves, where she (before bed), brushing her long lustrous chestnut hair, lets the blue strap of that calico shift fall - and rest – held loosely against golden flesh of her upper arm.
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Dec 10, 2012
Dec 10, 2012 at 4:03 AM UTC
Nancy
If we’re not careful we’ll destroy, and all too soon, the privateness of the local: what we come to own when we walk out of the box of home into the anywhereness of outside. Let’s not say too much, but keep what we find to ourselves. Maybe share it with the one whose heart lies close before sleep. Draw it, certainly: her hanging dress, the kicked off shoes, even that hairbrush you bring to your lips to taste her, your tongue touching her hair’s fine curl and tangle lying adrift amongst the noduled prongs. Let these things speak of what is not there. Or, rather, of what is not there in front of us.
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 2:39 AM UTC
Writing and Drawing
say cowboy. say hot dog. say ice cream. say baseball. see, the step into the sound booth is an awkward height, about 6 inches off the ground, and i find myself raised on a pedestal, sealed in for you to inspect, watching you and an audiologist through a glass window, watching you decide my future as you face away from me so i cannot read your lips and you cannot see me shouting stop. say airplane, say sidewalk, say you might hear static in your right ear but i know i will only hear a tone, an electronic beep going on and on and on say conducive hearing loss say sensoneurial damage say surgery say it might be permanent this time, like it hasn't been permanent for the last ten years, say there's a new technique say we can fix this, say negative impact on social life, say poor classroom performance, say we just want what's best for you, say try hearing aids try CIs try cued speech, say you need to be fixed. it's been a decade since i first entered that sound booth, noises not echoing off these walls that take a little more from me with every test. it's been a decade since my hearing slipped away and i am done mourning it but i don't think you are. persistence is a valuable trait but stop trying, stop putting me under with an x on my right cheek so the surgeons know how to lay me out on the operating table, stop refusing to turn on the captions because i need the practice, stop talking to me without tapping me first, stop screaming at me when i mishear. i am done mourning my hearing and i don't know if i ever grieved in the first place but you are still stuck in the stage of denial, hoping against hope for some ******* miracle. i don't want a miracle, i don't want anything god can give me because i am not lacking, i am whole, i already am the miracle you were looking for and i don't need to be fixed. but you don’t believe that, do you? so the audiologist can open the heavy soundproof door but i am still trapped inside this box, the walls swallowing my words as you decide my future for me because no one wants to listen to those who cannot hear. say stop sign, say hairbrush, say push the button when you hear the beep and i hold it down with my thumb, gripping the clicker like the handle of a gun until you tell me to let go. but i hear deserts stretching away from me, flat sci-fi dreamscapes where there is only one sound and i can hear it too. say tinnitus, say psychosomatic because you don't believe that i might hear infinity where you tell me i shouldn't. say hole in the eardrum say the surgery might have accelerated the deterioration, say we can try again but i gave up ten years ago and i think you should too, and i'm here in this sound booth screaming for you to stop but you will not look at me, will not even attempt communication. no one wants to listen to those who cannot hear.
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Jul 9, 2017
Jul 9, 2017 at 1:05 PM UTC
the audiologist's waiting room
say cowboy. say hot dog. say ice cream. say baseball. see, the step into the sound booth is an awkward height, about 6 inches off the ground, and i find myself raised on a pedestal, sealed in for you to inspect, watching you and an audiologist through a glass window, watching you decide my future as you face away from me so i cannot read your lips and you cannot see me shouting stop. say airplane, say sidewalk, say you might hear static in your right ear but i know i will only hear a tone, an electronic beep going on and on and on say conducive hearing loss say sensoneurial damage say surgery say it might be permanent this time, like it hasn't been permanent for the last ten years, say there's a new technique say we can fix this, say negative impact on social life, say poor classroom performance, say we just want what's best for you, say try hearing aids try CIs try cued speech, say you need to be fixed. it's been a decade since i first entered that sound booth, noises not echoing off these walls that take a little more from me with every test. it's been a decade since my hearing slipped away and i am done mourning it but i don't think you are. persistence is a valuable trait but stop trying, stop putting me under with an x on my right cheek so the surgeons know how to lay me out on the operating table, stop refusing to turn on the captions because i need the practice, stop talking to me without tapping me first, stop screaming at me when i mishear. i am done mourning my hearing and i don't know if i ever grieved in the first place but you are still stuck in the stage of denial, hoping against hope for some ******* miracle. i don't want a miracle, i don't want anything god can give me because i am not lacking, i am whole, i already am the miracle you were looking for and i don't need to be fixed. but you don’t believe that, do you? so the audiologist can open the heavy soundproof door but i am still trapped inside this box, the walls swallowing my words as you decide my future for me because no one wants to listen to those who cannot hear. say stop sign, say hairbrush, say push the button when you hear the beep and i hold it down with my thumb, gripping the clicker like the handle of a gun until you tell me to let go. but i hear deserts stretching away from me, flat sci-fi dreamscapes where there is only one sound and i can hear it too. say tinnitus, say psychosomatic because you don't believe that i might hear infinity where you tell me i shouldn't. say hole in the eardrum say the surgery might have accelerated the deterioration, say we can try again but i gave up ten years ago and i think you should too, and i'm here in this sound booth screaming for you to stop but you will not look at me, will not even attempt communication. no one wants to listen to those who cannot hear.
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music. there is no description for it i could spend endless amounts of time thinking of every word that fits it but the only one that fits, for me is alive. music makes me feel alive. bass pounding, words screaming i wish i could dance all day and all night the music urges me, it tells me to sing as loud as i can and dance as hard as i can soft guitar, voices whispering my soul responds with hunger more. more. more. the voices penetrate my mind the rhythm and melody raise goosebumps tears in my eyes. from pain? happiness? i don't even care. lose yourself. when music is on, i am gone. i have left this world and entered another one. a better one. a world full of endless love and beauty in this world, anything is possible in this world, i am sara bareilles and i have a voice that angels would be jealous of in this world, my dance enchants every person for miles in this world, i dance on top of clouds and when i sing, music notes float from my voice in perfect pitch without music, there is no world it is empty, dark and i am lost instead of color, it is merely black and white without music, i am a drug addict trying to recover i sweat, i shake and have the urge without music there are little memories made no singing with windows down no dancing with hairbrush in hand no songs to sing every word to without music, there is no feeling of being alive no feeling of anger, sadness, and complete bliss. music is my soulmate. my one true love and we are to live a long and happy life
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May 14, 2011
May 14, 2011 at 5:20 PM UTC
music
music. there is no description for it i could spend endless amounts of time thinking of every word that fits it but the only one that fits, for me is alive. music makes me feel alive. bass pounding, words screaming i wish i could dance all day and all night the music urges me, it tells me to sing as loud as i can and dance as hard as i can soft guitar, voices whispering my soul responds with hunger more. more. more. the voices penetrate my mind the rhythm and melody raise goosebumps tears in my eyes. from pain? happiness? i don't even care. lose yourself. when music is on, i am gone. i have left this world and entered another one. a better one. a world full of endless love and beauty in this world, anything is possible in this world, i am sara bareilles and i have a voice that angels would be jealous of in this world, my dance enchants every person for miles in this world, i dance on top of clouds and when i sing, music notes float from my voice in perfect pitch without music, there is no world it is empty, dark and i am lost instead of color, it is merely black and white without music, i am a drug addict trying to recover i sweat, i shake and have the urge without music there are little memories made no singing with windows down no dancing with hairbrush in hand no songs to sing every word to without music, there is no feeling of being alive no feeling of anger, sadness, and complete bliss. music is my soulmate. my one true love and we are to live a long and happy life
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I. she scratches her back, marking territory on translucent skin they are of the same opacity - as if upon meeting they scanned each other’s bones to ensure strength one has a way of smiling where her lips pull against her gums and the other has the tendency to flip the pillow to the cold side before sleeping they are never not entwined they never had to get used to two sets of bras in the dryer, a hairbrush constantly covered with each other’s blonde hair, never using the condoms in their jewelry boxes it was easy is easy when one asked the other for a matching tattoo, she put her partner’s initials on the soles of her feet II. the birthday party was in full swing by mid-afternoon no one in the party had hair any lighter than charcoal and the birthday girl was four, wearing only one shoe all the women were clad in floral bikinis; the ripples of their stretched skin on full display in this circle, they honed their cultural energy with coconut water and bongo drums the guest of honour was passed out within an hour, but they had come all this way and wanted to make the most of it III. the night before she had found herself entwined with a bodybuilder ten years her senior she turned her hands over and over, checking for signs that she had changed but as the dog licked the inside of her legs she was at peace with the fact that she always belonged in a stranger’s bed he said she felt good and pressed welts passionately onto her *** he wanted to take her sailing on the lake the following day but she preferred to sit on a man-made sugared beach alone
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Jun 25, 2017
Jun 25, 2017 at 7:15 PM UTC
sights on sugar beach
I. she scratches her back, marking territory on translucent skin they are of the same opacity - as if upon meeting they scanned each other’s bones to ensure strength one has a way of smiling where her lips pull against her gums and the other has the tendency to flip the pillow to the cold side before sleeping they are never not entwined they never had to get used to two sets of bras in the dryer, a hairbrush constantly covered with each other’s blonde hair, never using the condoms in their jewelry boxes it was easy is easy when one asked the other for a matching tattoo, she put her partner’s initials on the soles of her feet II. the birthday party was in full swing by mid-afternoon no one in the party had hair any lighter than charcoal and the birthday girl was four, wearing only one shoe all the women were clad in floral bikinis; the ripples of their stretched skin on full display in this circle, they honed their cultural energy with coconut water and bongo drums the guest of honour was passed out within an hour, but they had come all this way and wanted to make the most of it III. the night before she had found herself entwined with a bodybuilder ten years her senior she turned her hands over and over, checking for signs that she had changed but as the dog licked the inside of her legs she was at peace with the fact that she always belonged in a stranger’s bed he said she felt good and pressed welts passionately onto her *** he wanted to take her sailing on the lake the following day but she preferred to sit on a man-made sugared beach alone
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How do I look in this dress? Walt’s wife asked him as she Did a twirl in the bedroom. Yeah, fine, Walt slowly replied. But you’re not even looking at Me, she said. Walt turned his Head from the small TV screen And gazed at her. Yeah, you look Fine. It’s not too short is it? She Asked. No, not too short, Walt Said, his eyes looking at the TV Screen once more as the ballgame Hotted up. How about my *** Does it look ok? Sure, said Walt. Sure, what? She asked, my *** Is too big in this? Is that what You’re saying? Yeah, Walt replied, His eyes focusing on the pass of Ball. How can you be so insensitive. Why you’re not even looking at me. DOES MY *** LOOK BIG IN THIS? She bellowed. Walt turned around And at stared at his wife sticking out Her *** No, no, he said, just right Honey, the best *** I’ve seen today. What other *** have you seen today, Then? She said. Walt sighed, he’d Missed a good hit. What do you Want to know now? Walt asked. Whose *** you seen today? She said. I haven’t seen any *** Walt replied. He studied his wife as she twirled Again. That’s a bit short isn’t it, Walt Said, and a bit tight. Makes your *** Look like two piglets under canvas Fighting to get out. A hairbrush flew Across the room missing Walt’s head As his wife stormed into the bathroom And slammed the door. That’s ok Honey, That’s what we ******* husband’s are for.
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Jan 20, 2014
Jan 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM UTC
WALT'S WIFE.