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Love, the real kind, is never simple. It is the one thing that makes life worth it in the end, and something that wonderful and sought-after is never going to be easy to get. You have to work for it. Blood, sweat, and tears. So if it’s easy, yeah maybe you won’t get broken. But you won’t be truly happy, either. You’ll be settling. Don’t get me wrong, There are lots of things in life that are totally acceptable to settle on. Sure, Harvard was your dream school. But you know what? Going to your state school because its more affordable Will still get you where you want to be in life. And I know the hairdresser couldn't match the color you showed her, But you are beautiful and can rock it anyway, so don’t worry. But love? Settling in love is like buying a pair of shoes that are a size too small, Just because you thought they were pretty. They may look nice, But you are dying on the inside. I f you had just held out a bit longer, You would have found a pair just as beautiful that fit well, too. Maybe that nice guy looks good on paper, But if he doesn’t give you butterflies whenever he looks at you, Don’t be with him. You want someone who makes you fall for them every day, Not just once.
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Sep 23, 2013
Sep 23, 2013 at 5:22 PM UTC
Don't Settle
Young people can you feel the suffering? roca wear, gucci, apple, facebook, mcdonalds, apple bee's, honda, lamborghini, harvard, Community College american express, pnc bank, walmart Wage Slaves, ceos, owners, lenders, renters, indebtedness Structural dehumanization, systematic mechanization Exploited labor feeding blood to your hungering consumerism Young people you are embracing MISANTHROPY! Embracing the hate of your own humanity! Why the hypocrisy? Wealthy children, poor children Trying for enlightenment through education Parents garnering wealth through the oppression of their victims Parents garnering debt through the oppression from economic inequality Still you invest and promote the only legitimization of your being: CAPITALIST UTILITY Capitalism engineering unrelenting misanthropy Vicious economic system discarding humanity Perfecting the concentration and accumulation of wealth With the expansion of human alienation and murderous competition Prostituting your body to labor exploitation and consumerism Where does your wealth end up? multinational companies? financial corporations? military arms contractors? Loyalty lies in their pockets, backstabbing everyday tactics Killing you through the exploitation of your body Because they know the birth of another proletariat or bourgeoisie can replace you   Entities, not human, how much have they bought you for so that you cannot see!!! Beware of these misanthropic missionaries granting your body power and agency When your body can no longer be plundered for profit you will taste tears and blood Young people will you deliver your forefathers and fathers From worshiping capitalist misanthropy?
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 12:56 PM UTC
Your Faith in Capitalist Misanthropy
Young people can you feel the suffering? roca wear, gucci, apple, facebook, mcdonalds, apple bee's, honda, lamborghini, harvard, Community College american express, pnc bank, walmart Wage Slaves, ceos, owners, lenders, renters, indebtedness Structural dehumanization, systematic mechanization Exploited labor feeding blood to your hungering consumerism Young people you are embracing MISANTHROPY! Embracing the hate of your own humanity! Why the hypocrisy? Wealthy children, poor children Trying for enlightenment through education Parents garnering wealth through the oppression of their victims Parents garnering debt through the oppression from economic inequality Still you invest and promote the only legitimization of your being: CAPITALIST UTILITY Capitalism engineering unrelenting misanthropy Vicious economic system discarding humanity Perfecting the concentration and accumulation of wealth With the expansion of human alienation and murderous competition Prostituting your body to labor exploitation and consumerism Where does your wealth end up? multinational companies? financial corporations? military arms contractors? Loyalty lies in their pockets, backstabbing everyday tactics Killing you through the exploitation of your body Because they know the birth of another proletariat or bourgeoisie can replace you   Entities, not human, how much have they bought you for so that you cannot see!!! Beware of these misanthropic missionaries granting your body power and agency When your body can no longer be plundered for profit you will taste tears and blood Young people will you deliver your forefathers and fathers From worshiping capitalist misanthropy?
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Once not long ago In the vile state of Utah, An evil wizard Impregnated a feral cat with Mormon seed. In no time at all, A litter was born And all of them died But one– Mittens the Kitten. Mittens grew up with a sense of entitlement Because the evil wizard filled his head With the Mormon scriptures. When Mittens would catch and **** a mouse, The evil wizard would pet Mittens With a vigor that was borderline Inappropriate. Mittens was bred to **** In the evenings, Mittens would enjoy a bowl of warm blood. Sometimes it would coagulate, But Mittens loved his blood. He lapped it up With a a vigor that was borderline Inappropriate. Mittens was bred to **** The evil wizard was a Harvard Business Grad, And since feline-humanoids were not accepted At Harvard Business School, The evil wizard taught Mittens All that he knew. Mittens soaked up the knowledge With a vigor that was borderline Inappropriate. Mittens was bred to **** Some years went by and Mittens Became a successful business owner. He would lap up bowls of Other people's business With a vigor that was borderline Inappropriate. Mittens was bred to **** Fast forward to the present tense (My personal favorite tense) And Mittens is running for president. He uses his magical smirk to cloak his lies So that naive voters might believe that They should vote for this cat. He smirks and he lies With a vigor that is borderline Inappropriate. Mittens was bred to ****
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 9:07 PM UTC
Mittens the Kitten
A ball player and a thief Will likely be pregnant by age 16. Lives in the ghetto and is poor, Often identified as a ***** Runs fast and does drugs, Hangs around with gangsters and thugs. Has a gun or a friend with one. Speaks in slang, must be part of a gang. Mess with her, she'll pull a Sharkeisha on you. If you were to picture a person of any race, That fits the description that just took place. A baller and **** hmm... what race matches that? Yeah you're right, that person is probably black. Is fast, does drugs, and speaks with slang? Lemme guess, is he also in a gang? A young mother who is also poor? Bet she doesn't know who the dad is, what a ***** All these negative stereotypes associated with being black. Its disheartening, sicking and its really sad. And whats sadder is that if you are the opposite of all of that, You are often told that you're not really black. Does your skin colour change for going to Harvard? Will it change for speaking like an English scholar? Because I play hockey and not ball, does that make me white? So what if I'm the type of person to run away from a fight? You don't have to be irresponsible and rude to be considered black. It's your ethnic background that determines that. And to some people, all we are is the complexion of our face. Light, dark, somewhere in the middle, to some, the bad of a few defines our whole race. Does running away from a cop, and being black give someone grounds to shoot? Why is it that my skin color is what is most important to you? Is asking a question when getting arrested for no visible reason really resisting arrest? Does struggling to break free from restraints to catch my breath, give someone a reason to grab on tighter to strangle me to death? The actions of a few don't define the actions of a whole group. And this assumption that all black are thugs, thieves and liars has done clear damage to, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and so many more. They didn't know it, but just by being black, they put their lives at risk when they stepped out their door. Don't you think it's gotten too far when we have to prove Black Lives Matter, or when we the saying of a movement is Hands Up, Don't Shoot. Should people have to be reminded that blacks are real people and that our lives matter  too? We are athletes and musicians. Lawyers and physicians. The leader of a nation. An anchorman of a news station. We don't all fit into that mold that is preset for us. You can and should expect great things of us. Because we don't have to be a **** or a baller to be considered black. We define what type of black person we are, we determine that.
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Feb 11, 2014
Feb 11, 2014 at 2:04 PM UTC
Abolishing Stereotypes
A ball player and a thief Will likely be pregnant by age 16. Lives in the ghetto and is poor, Often identified as a ***** Runs fast and does drugs, Hangs around with gangsters and thugs. Has a gun or a friend with one. Speaks in slang, must be part of a gang. Mess with her, she'll pull a Sharkeisha on you. If you were to picture a person of any race, That fits the description that just took place. A baller and **** hmm... what race matches that? Yeah you're right, that person is probably black. Is fast, does drugs, and speaks with slang? Lemme guess, is he also in a gang? A young mother who is also poor? Bet she doesn't know who the dad is, what a ***** All these negative stereotypes associated with being black. Its disheartening, sicking and its really sad. And whats sadder is that if you are the opposite of all of that, You are often told that you're not really black. Does your skin colour change for going to Harvard? Will it change for speaking like an English scholar? Because I play hockey and not ball, does that make me white? So what if I'm the type of person to run away from a fight? You don't have to be irresponsible and rude to be considered black. It's your ethnic background that determines that. And to some people, all we are is the complexion of our face. Light, dark, somewhere in the middle, to some, the bad of a few defines our whole race. Does running away from a cop, and being black give someone grounds to shoot? Why is it that my skin color is what is most important to you? Is asking a question when getting arrested for no visible reason really resisting arrest? Does struggling to break free from restraints to catch my breath, give someone a reason to grab on tighter to strangle me to death? The actions of a few don't define the actions of a whole group. And this assumption that all black are thugs, thieves and liars has done clear damage to, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and so many more. They didn't know it, but just by being black, they put their lives at risk when they stepped out their door. Don't you think it's gotten too far when we have to prove Black Lives Matter, or when we the saying of a movement is Hands Up, Don't Shoot. Should people have to be reminded that blacks are real people and that our lives matter  too? We are athletes and musicians. Lawyers and physicians. The leader of a nation. An anchorman of a news station. We don't all fit into that mold that is preset for us. You can and should expect great things of us. Because we don't have to be a **** or a baller to be considered black. We define what type of black person we are, we determine that.
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Lily Kesha Gump Sittin' on the curb of Bronx and Main Street How I wish I could wrap my arms around you Sweet little lady, lookin’ grown with a picture of her mama’s stare frozen on her face Wrists slung through the spaces of her thighs, waiting for a daydream And she sees me as I’m twirling by in my ruby reds and thigh high leather grace There you go darlin, She says to me   Scoring on my indigo smile She bites men to sleep With the crevices of her curves As her voice weakens wicked she pulls me out of my gloom There you go darlin, She says to me With a time bomb ticking On my pain pain pain And the pen is in my hand Before she even leaves my sight I love this city I love these women I love their shoes I love their smiles Cheeky little laughs   Someone once recommended When I was dancing under the shades of a neon lamp   From Homeless to Harvard by a woman named Liz or Marie Or maybe I read the title off of a screen when I walking with Maryanne on north Peachtree street And I remember Lily Kesha Gump How I wish I could wrap my arms around you And give you the life some white woman who doesn’t even know you Thinks you desire.
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Dec 17, 2020
Dec 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM UTC
Sympathy
This morning we jogged early I was back in my flat by six-thirty From my tenth floor view of the Charles River basin, The morning was incandescently flushed by the peach-colored sun. The transparent clouds seemed stylistically stained, artfully workshopped, which offered a softened, Tiffany glass effect wholly worthy of worship. I can’t stop to admire it. I’m jamming things into suitcases. Cramming things into boxes, giving things away. I had a second interview Monday afternoon, for Johns Hopkins med school. They put the question to me: “The semester starts in 18 days - can you do that?” “Yes,” I replied, and just like that, I'm a Blue Jay. Of course, I had to withdraw from the masters program but Harvard gave me a full (95K) refund - I think they’re more excited about my med school admission than I am. I’m not afraid of discordant notes. They change the landscape. Take us to new emotional places. Any major work is going to have them. . . A song for this: Hang on Little Tomato by Pink Martini It's Amazing by Jem
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Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM UTC
discordant notes
A month ago I sat in class in a New England School for boys Now, I'm in a bomber group Adjusting to the noise I made plans for Harvard A doctor, I would be Then my life would turn In a way I didn't see The war was on in Europe We saw in the press But, 18 days before Christmas we were pulled into the mess Future plans were put aside Our country we'd support We'd forget all of our future thoughts We'd join, though not for sport We signed up down in Boston Young men flyers, soldiers all Preparing for a battle Many would not live till fall We thought not of our future Our present, all we had Many dead by Christmas next The thought is truly sad You do not what you want to But, what needs to be done You go from boy to man so fast You've barely walked...now run Think back on those who made it Remember who did not Young men they are forever They deserve a longer thought The air is pure and holy It is scattered with young souls Boys, now men who went to war And put aside their goals
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 11:59 AM UTC
Boys....now men (recollection of war)
You at least went. so that meant the party could finally be awkward. that's homeroom at your personal Harvard your low self esteem was the head dean [ claimed you had promise ] then promptly vomits but you promised to maim your lollipops with hot topic's most goth night-shade of hemlock iron-on, henna tattoos for your thin lips. like two gates to a birdcage where you keep ravens... pecking the tip of your tongue where your brave words die for lack of oxygen... pecking the flesh off the skeleton key to the heart of your insightful comment,... stymied - a black raven savors the succulent eyes of your hurricanes, so braille maps for blind rage fly off the shelves... fly like led zeppelins to fresh hell. you lose your window seat on the wing of a prayer to Charles Bukowski. now you're scowling a gilded smile at all the Ed Hardlys'... good thing you brought Jello Biafra Shots to the shindig... cubes of gelatinous absinthe each with a sugar box lodged in supermax insecurity prisms... fey emeralds. monochrome rubicons you pop when cross. like wainscoting the panic room that came with a deejay who thinks you're a boy who got lost.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 7:10 AM UTC
When Shrinking Violets Shrink To Misfit In Doc Martins
I was two years behind Art Garfunkel at Columbia College, but I never met him. Nonetheless, like millions of other people, I consider him to have the most beautiful singing voice of the 20th century. Art's singing of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER is celestial. I was two years ahead of George W. Bush at Andover, but I never met him. Nonetheless, too many people voted to make him President of the United States twice. W. was not very smart. He did not do well academically at Andover and Yale and Harvard Business School. But his father, George H. W. Bush, had gone to both Andover and Yale, and later became head of the CIA, then Vice President, then President. Legacy was powerful in the 1960s, and still is. I wish I could meet Art Garfunkel and thank him for the enormous pleasure he has given to millions of people. I would never wish to meet W. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM UTC
ARTIE AND W.
Back in my rebel days (yester) I sported a spelunking bumper sticker On my 1972  VW pop-up camper van That read Free Floyd Collins Totally apolitical well intentioned humor Concerning one of my pasttimes that surprisingly Never maimed or killed me Whilst reporting for an official call for jury duty The uptight and obviously a **** (did I just say that?) Prosecutor enquired during jury selection As to whether any of us prospectives Had bumper stickers and if so What they might say The NRA sticker guy next to me And the I'd Rather Be Fishin'  and NASCAR Sticker guy next to him Passed with smugly flying colors (red needless to say) While the 72 year old nun With the Amnesty International sticker Didn't fair so well And was promptly burned at the stake (I kid you) Needless to say The long-haired Harvard educated Native American With the Doctors Without Borders And the Remember Wounded Knee With a not so discreet AIM sticker thrown in to boot Also got the boot Pondering the merits of the court stenographer's Shapely fingers while judiciously confidently awaiting my turn It never ocurred to me that Mr. Collins might be So wrongly accused as to have me Rejected and summarily ejected From jury duty A travesty of justice I say If for no other reason than I was so looking forward to Sticking it to the Man You can imagine my surprise and disappointment As I wandered down to the Shamrock To catch Terry O'Leary do a slam And raise a glass to Bobby Sands r~ 22Feb14
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 11:41 PM UTC
The Fine Art of Choosing the Perfect Bumper Sticker
*it's not exactly Walt Whitman's o captain my captain in reference to Abraham Lincoln.* to społeczeństwo jest gnój... to społeczeństwo jest... szambo, daj mi kandydata na prezydenta z koła Navajo! dawaj kurwa! bo tego nigra nie zdołam przetrawić w ramach jego Nobla! pierdolona kukła białasów! o tak panie prezydencie, no tak panie prezydencie... dziecko chcem wysłać na Harvard... może pan pomoże z wojęnką na bliskim wschodzie? pięknie panie prezydencie, dziękujemy za zbieranie włókna larw ciem. ah panie prezydencie, jaka piękna sciema! jaka piękna mgła! ah tak panie prezydencie... kultura nie była asz tak zgodnie zparowana z siłą! hip hop hooray nad top z pana wagarami władzy chodem po cmentarzu!
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Apr 8, 2016
Apr 8, 2016 at 9:08 PM UTC
Navajo presidential Candidate
Uncle Sam sometimes whispers a little bit too close. I’ve felt so many scraps scraping against my cheek- those numerous numberless things he carries in his beard by ‘accident’. So many things get stuck there and I feel them all, whenever he dares, and he dares often, to whisper alittlebittooclose. One time the grey beard leaned in and touched me in my sleep and planted in me strange dreams of faraway gothic towers passing off as libraries: Harvard dreams, Princeton dreams, Yale dreams: I haven’t quite slept since. The shaggy scraps stuck to the forest of strands on his face would never let me. They scratch away at me often even in the brightness of day, and claw jaggedly in the darkness of night. Little heart of mine has lost its own beat. It beats to the beat of a beat on a beat from a beat with a beat by a beat which beats those beats and beats beats that beat not of my beat. Little heart of mine, when did you lose your own pulse? Why won’t you tell your family that Uncle Sam’s whispers are more than whispers? Why won’t you tell your family what Uncle Sam does to you in the brightness of day when everyone is smiling as Uncle Sam pats your shoulder? Little heart of mine, why doesn’t your family know what Uncle Sam does in the darkness of night as he whispers whispers under your whispers and what he does beneath your skin? Didn’t you know, little heart? They have laws that say that greybeards shouldn’t be digging into little boys’ insides, don’t they. (Uncle Sam has travelled far and wide, far and wide to tell me lies. Recall that this is not the first time…) But little heart you know why. This is not the first time. It is the natural progression for a Coconut like you: darkness of night on outside and brightness of day on inside. Your skin doesn’t matter; you all taste the same. Cut you off the homeland-tree and cart you all away. Then, in this way we can say and say the homeland is “Rising”- Uncle Sam tells the world of his diversity in selection of little boys to touch with strange dreams. And I like the feel of the scraps in his beard. Maybe I can become one of them. One with them.
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
'Murica.
Uncle Sam sometimes whispers a little bit too close. I’ve felt so many scraps scraping against my cheek- those numerous numberless things he carries in his beard by ‘accident’. So many things get stuck there and I feel them all, whenever he dares, and he dares often, to whisper alittlebittooclose. One time the grey beard leaned in and touched me in my sleep and planted in me strange dreams of faraway gothic towers passing off as libraries: Harvard dreams, Princeton dreams, Yale dreams: I haven’t quite slept since. The shaggy scraps stuck to the forest of strands on his face would never let me. They scratch away at me often even in the brightness of day, and claw jaggedly in the darkness of night. Little heart of mine has lost its own beat. It beats to the beat of a beat on a beat from a beat with a beat by a beat which beats those beats and beats beats that beat not of my beat. Little heart of mine, when did you lose your own pulse? Why won’t you tell your family that Uncle Sam’s whispers are more than whispers? Why won’t you tell your family what Uncle Sam does to you in the brightness of day when everyone is smiling as Uncle Sam pats your shoulder? Little heart of mine, why doesn’t your family know what Uncle Sam does in the darkness of night as he whispers whispers under your whispers and what he does beneath your skin? Didn’t you know, little heart? They have laws that say that greybeards shouldn’t be digging into little boys’ insides, don’t they. (Uncle Sam has travelled far and wide, far and wide to tell me lies. Recall that this is not the first time…) But little heart you know why. This is not the first time. It is the natural progression for a Coconut like you: darkness of night on outside and brightness of day on inside. Your skin doesn’t matter; you all taste the same. Cut you off the homeland-tree and cart you all away. Then, in this way we can say and say the homeland is “Rising”- Uncle Sam tells the world of his diversity in selection of little boys to touch with strange dreams. And I like the feel of the scraps in his beard. Maybe I can become one of them. One with them.
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I wonder if they're happy. They sure do seem so. They're always talking about stealing their daddy's Jaguars and having beer blasts and getting in to fights and being bros and getting tan and buying new swimsuits and getting a call from different modeling agencies and crashing cars and smoking cigarillos and drinking fancy wine and going to their beach house and deciding between Harvard and Yale or Porsche and Mustang and did we win the football game and making new friends and oh my God Stacy actually said that and dude, I totally ****** her and my math teacher is such a ***** and my parents are putting me into boarding school and check out my new Jordans and did you watch the sunset last night? I don't know if they're having fun, but it sure seems like it. *I wonder if they're having fun. It sure seems like it. They're always talking about hitch hiking to the next city over and going to shows and drinking PBR and sneaking out at night and yeah dude, that party was sick and my tumblr is so famous right now and check out my new denim jacket and smoking **** and getting in to fights and lifting cigarettes from stores and Austin and Katie slept together and Kyle broke edge and I'm still working at McDonalds and yeah I'm still driving my '93 Ford Ranger and smoking hookah and watching Mean Girls and yeah I love the ocean and check out my new Kicks and did you watch the sunset last night? I don't know if they're having fun, but it sure seems like it.*
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 10:22 PM UTC
Complaints of A Lower/Mid Class American.
#1. What in the world          possessed you to do that!?@#$%^ My god . . . that was so stupid and careless! #2. Why? . . . I trusted my intuition. My heart believed, emotional logic compelled me. Fluid, spontaneous from the gut. #1. You’re crazy. I would never put myself at risk like that. #2. What risk? Getting harrassed by the mind police? They don't own me. #1. But they punished you. #2. No, just a little         desperate flaggelation. #2. But look at yourself all boxed up, stigmatized and branded. #1. You mean the labels? Those words they use to define me? #2. Yes, you’re a bad person. #1. No, I’m not. #2. Yes, you are. ... and they argued til dawn neither knowing nature does not declare winners but admires innovation.... like when Magellan sailed off no edges when Einstein confounded everyone by sailing in his head when the Wright Brothers lifted off when Tesla moved electrons when Christ embraced the centurions when Gautama just sat down when the librarian refused to take Catcher in the Rye off the shelf when Lenny Bruce swore on stage when Leary and Alpert left Harvard when Joan of Arc refused to recant when Gandhi and friends burned their English wool when Jung declared a spiritual psyche when the UFC earned a huge Neilsen so be your own guru take kava kava instead of Prozac barter with your hair stylist and when someone says you are wrong ask them why there are no dinosaurs in the Bible.
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Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012 at 9:18 AM UTC
THE FIGHT
Look at him and go out on a limb, Or am I suppose to use a three by five? Slop on the mascara, Know the difference between "por" and "para". Go to this school, so they can feel secure; Be clean, be pure. Starve- you can't be fat. Fail because you didn't follow format. "I don't care how well you draw, Just go to Harvard and study law." They'll lay out your life step-by-step, And yes, you will be every teachers' pet. I don't care what you do; Be cut-throat, be cruel, Anything to be: This cookie cutter you made for me.
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 2:53 PM UTC
Conformity
I already have certain years that constitute my life CT, MA to NY All the tiny things I did Shape me into this version of me Writing on a laptop at night Yes, I feel like I have seen enough things Done a lot, good at being broken- hearted Maybe could've broken more hearts. Truth is, probably not. I learn to accept fate as they come Yes, sometimes I try to veer it towards the way I want But life is never about Achieving what you want Rather, use the things you got And turn it into everlasting , mesmerizing Splendid sparks. Am I cheesy being only 26? Or you're sneering at me, Ha you're not that young? I look up for a sign and an inspirational quote To only see myself in the mirror smiling back and the past ghosts at the end of the tunnel He said he does not want a relationship I said I don't want my future baby to have ugly teeth He said he will marry me for a million But I said I don't want our baby to go to Harvard He said, ***** Harvard!What about Princeton?
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 12:14 AM UTC
New England Summer
ah, didn't you know.. powerful imagery better weaves itself through a simplistic tale of truth rather than in some poem boasting                   grandiosity you know, full of Harvard-taught words       and, quite honestly, empty                                                                  meanings
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 12:57 AM UTC
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Ok, there’s no jailbreak. Make room for my innocent alter ego, because there’s nothing to rebel against. There are zero classes in my nascent, year-long, Harvard master’s degree. They call it ‘self directed study’ and like rockets have stages, I’ll have ‘self paced modules.’ Am I suddenly at Oxford University? They’re quite famous for that (no formal classes). Or am I suddenly grown up and trusted? I obviously don’t have it all figured out yet, so I’ll just trust the process. When I started that other school (that shall not be named), my advisor handed me a computer printout - a list with something like 40 courses on it. I thought, “Oh, my God,” but one by one, year over year, I checked-off those courses and voila! They handed me a diploma. It was a process. I understand, if you’re disappointed about the jailbreak, but there’ll be coffee breaks, lunch breaks, study breaks, bathroom breaks and more than a few self-directed dance breaks. So stick around. “You know,” my therapist said, so very seriously, a few years ago, “you keep laughing.” . . I've Got the World on a String by Robin McKelle ****** Soul Picnic by Ledisi & Billy Childs
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May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM UTC
Notes on jailbreak
never a need to say yes or no just say not now instead to avoid any decision apply infinite revision then crawl on back to bed the words stick to and fro following where they’re led when a Harvard debater says “I’ll catch ya’ later” they really mean go drop dead declarations come and go everyday is condition red I have not a clue if what you say is true your rhetoric is overfed intellect is friend or foe trapped deep in your head words are often mis-used context cannot be refused if you believe you believe what was said
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Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM UTC
negotiation my ***
I got to where I am today Without the aide of Book-smarts And being a nerd. I beat up nerds, Steal their girlfriends And drive them to My parent's summer house In the Hamptons! No, I don't need Book-smarts To graduate from Harvard. My tuition was prepaid And business comes as natural to me As does stealing your girlfriend!
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 4:58 PM UTC
The Bain of Ignorance
I'm a free thinker I make my own observations That one friend of yours Is not a free thinker In fact I don't know if she thinks Some of the smart people They're the most closed minded They read a lot and take in a lot, they become *** Laude+ But they believe things like the WBC Believes what they believe See, some of the dumber people Like the Steve Wozniaks Like the Bill Gates of this world Those free thinkers that were really the smartest But didn't like society's games They are the real success stories. But we're taught that the only success you can get Is going to Harvard with a 4.0 In a field where the pay is good and jobs are hot But a field in which where you went to college doesn't mean crap, Because they're not looking for bookworms but looking for free thinkers That friend of yours She's been through pain So she knows the pain So she can relate But that might be where it stops That friend of yours She'll have your back and she cares But she's a little bitter I mean, pretty bitter sometimes I think you know this already She told her cousin once She found that talking helps When there's a misunderstanding That she wished people would talk And work it all out But she doesn't do that at all She shuts people off She shuts people out Just like when she got annoyed When you got less into her You see People who hold grudges Who shut people out They live a world of suffering They live the saying "Nice guys finish last" But they make it that way Those people are the reason that saying exists They say that those who don't learn From history are doomed to repeat it Let me just say she's one of those people You're turning into one too, Losing the free thinker inside of you When you think you're making her For the first time I wish you'd listen And not let your emotions overwhelm you but use the logic in your brain Because your emotions are clouding your thinking They're clouding your thoughts They're clouding what you think you know about me, I think Because you're doing that thing your friend does where you stop listening
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 1:33 PM UTC
Free Thinker
I'm a free thinker I make my own observations That one friend of yours Is not a free thinker In fact I don't know if she thinks Some of the smart people They're the most closed minded They read a lot and take in a lot, they become *** Laude+ But they believe things like the WBC Believes what they believe See, some of the dumber people Like the Steve Wozniaks Like the Bill Gates of this world Those free thinkers that were really the smartest But didn't like society's games They are the real success stories. But we're taught that the only success you can get Is going to Harvard with a 4.0 In a field where the pay is good and jobs are hot But a field in which where you went to college doesn't mean crap, Because they're not looking for bookworms but looking for free thinkers That friend of yours She's been through pain So she knows the pain So she can relate But that might be where it stops That friend of yours She'll have your back and she cares But she's a little bitter I mean, pretty bitter sometimes I think you know this already She told her cousin once She found that talking helps When there's a misunderstanding That she wished people would talk And work it all out But she doesn't do that at all She shuts people off She shuts people out Just like when she got annoyed When you got less into her You see People who hold grudges Who shut people out They live a world of suffering They live the saying "Nice guys finish last" But they make it that way Those people are the reason that saying exists They say that those who don't learn From history are doomed to repeat it Let me just say she's one of those people You're turning into one too, Losing the free thinker inside of you When you think you're making her For the first time I wish you'd listen And not let your emotions overwhelm you but use the logic in your brain Because your emotions are clouding your thinking They're clouding your thoughts They're clouding what you think you know about me, I think Because you're doing that thing your friend does where you stop listening
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This is a story of a peculiar fellow Known to get rowdy but often mellow He graduated, top of his class! Harvard law, was the school he passed Didn’t work hard, kind of a slacker But, he had the look, whiter than a ******* Quickly started his own practice, as the story goes With plenty of clients, that nobody knows He began, quit good-hearted Champion of the poor! As he started But, that all changed so quick The poor can’t pay; it finally clicked So he went for clients, whose pockets were much louder And often times, noses filled with white powder He now worked less, and golfed a lot more Representing the banks that originally off he swore But, this is just as much of a story, of dear old poor Louie Who never had fortune, misunderstood and gloomy When one day, he caught a big break The bank had made a terrible mistake Their negligence, was due to pay millions Especially to Louie, along with other civilians So Louie hired the best attorney in town A peculiar fellow, he made no sound So the trial went on, and the judge presided At the end of the day, the jury still was divided Because the lawyer, got an offer he couldn’t resist The banks gave him more money, so the trial he dismissed Dear old poor Louie, again was left with nothing No turkey for thanksgiving, not even the stuffing He turned to the lawyer and let out a great yell “You haven’t helped me the slightest” he tells But, the world’s not always fair people often get cheated Defeated and mistreated, depleted than deleted The lawyers might help, but not much Blinded by money, they often loose touch So the lawyer turned and responded to dear old poor Louie “What are you going to do? Sue me?”
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 3:24 PM UTC
The Lawyer
This is a story of a peculiar fellow Known to get rowdy but often mellow He graduated, top of his class! Harvard law, was the school he passed Didn’t work hard, kind of a slacker But, he had the look, whiter than a ******* Quickly started his own practice, as the story goes With plenty of clients, that nobody knows He began, quit good-hearted Champion of the poor! As he started But, that all changed so quick The poor can’t pay; it finally clicked So he went for clients, whose pockets were much louder And often times, noses filled with white powder He now worked less, and golfed a lot more Representing the banks that originally off he swore But, this is just as much of a story, of dear old poor Louie Who never had fortune, misunderstood and gloomy When one day, he caught a big break The bank had made a terrible mistake Their negligence, was due to pay millions Especially to Louie, along with other civilians So Louie hired the best attorney in town A peculiar fellow, he made no sound So the trial went on, and the judge presided At the end of the day, the jury still was divided Because the lawyer, got an offer he couldn’t resist The banks gave him more money, so the trial he dismissed Dear old poor Louie, again was left with nothing No turkey for thanksgiving, not even the stuffing He turned to the lawyer and let out a great yell “You haven’t helped me the slightest” he tells But, the world’s not always fair people often get cheated Defeated and mistreated, depleted than deleted The lawyers might help, but not much Blinded by money, they often loose touch So the lawyer turned and responded to dear old poor Louie “What are you going to do? Sue me?”
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The man decked in blue      sits quite content           on a sofa                and observes wealthy offspring                waltz in flashing their brilliant teeth           glossed with potent peppermint.      These teens don't know love, lust is all it is.      While the Jazz bops away,           more whisky is poured                and they zip out to get jammy.                The man, mid-twenties,           kind of blue, dapper apparel,      has one on the rocks. Sees them walk in most evenings,      cute blondes with flawless skin,           guys in suits, bow ties, the works,                gaze into each other's pupils.                There are regulars,           Robert, the chap from Yale,      Quentin, sly guy at Harvard and Carly, still at school the man believes, who's coquettish, fresh,      these two want to have her           but she's astute,                knows just what she wants.                They're all after her in fact.           Every male in the room      turns their head, can't blame them, she's like Candyfloss,      all the men want a taste           but there's not enough for everyone                and they don't look like the sharing kind.                The man in blue           just grins to himself      thinking how grand it is that he's single, sensible, secure.
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Jun 4, 2012
Jun 4, 2012 at 10:27 AM UTC
Blue Candyfloss
The man decked in blue      sits quite content           on a sofa                and observes wealthy offspring                waltz in flashing their brilliant teeth           glossed with potent peppermint.      These teens don't know love, lust is all it is.      While the Jazz bops away,           more whisky is poured                and they zip out to get jammy.                The man, mid-twenties,           kind of blue, dapper apparel,      has one on the rocks. Sees them walk in most evenings,      cute blondes with flawless skin,           guys in suits, bow ties, the works,                gaze into each other's pupils.                There are regulars,           Robert, the chap from Yale,      Quentin, sly guy at Harvard and Carly, still at school the man believes, who's coquettish, fresh,      these two want to have her           but she's astute,                knows just what she wants.                They're all after her in fact.           Every male in the room      turns their head, can't blame them, she's like Candyfloss,      all the men want a taste           but there's not enough for everyone                and they don't look like the sharing kind.                The man in blue           just grins to himself      thinking how grand it is that he's single, sensible, secure.
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