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"heiress" poems
Oh Heiress! My heiress You date many men At the least you've dated eighteen That's in the last few years But you're royalist of blood Makes you special For you're the heiress To become The Condescension! So date who you wish Be deflowered if you want But know this I'll remember this always Violet's always remember Especially those who were close Stay away from Jason!
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 1:23 AM UTC
Fushia *****
The moth with newspaper wings sat under the arrow lungs of the eyeless blood dripped falcon, more whole than the super-glued roman sculpture. Next door a 50’s con held up church with a roulette table in the kitchen, and boarded up the massage parlor downstairs. The eye of the man was a centrifuge of ducks, mallard and hen, spiraling outward into evaporated roach-ground asphalt. Next door, slits in the picket fence displayed perfectly formed **** & broach, empty shoes made of feet below, blending fields. The marble foundation formed from twine lollipops and fuzzy candy tabs, ice-etched to the frequency of splintered seashell angels. Next door through the forest of knives a spaceship bearing gargoyles peaked bodies through collages of faces in technicolor sepia mitosis. The heiress molted into tiled pieces, her own dog and sunhat caught in blizzard cuneiform, kaliedescoping again to fractalled inchworms cemented in motion.
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 9:55 AM UTC
Dither Collective
She was kindness and light he was the darkness of night lucky black was her favourite colour there were no lies he could tell her she stole the truth from sealed lips a most unusual friendship but even friends dip in and out of courtship oh such fanciful names for those wicked games they would play ☽ ―⊰ Night and Day ⊱― ☀ Chasing each other's shadow but the night was left a widow where is the light in mourning who's lost sight of morning it's become eternal darkness since night lost his heiress no child of light was ever seen for the Knight had lost his Queen in the dark nothing grows as life is set upon by crows he tried his best to stay awake but everything had turned opaque black was his heart without the light of day black as the sky without her rays.
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 12:28 PM UTC
☽ ―⊰ Night and Day ⊱― ☀
Strange times. When I speak of caressing your mantic lungs I don’t know what I mean, but I know I would hurl you under proper circumstances. Darling, one whisper falls from a tree silently so as not to wake the ghosts from their siestas. Your robe has holes I can’t write of. I can fathom getting there, what that might entail, wrapping, as I am prone to, my fingers around your furry pincers while I wait for you to read my rights to the ceiling fan who whirls above our renovated combustions like the glowering eye of our Lord upon the teary-eyed wicked. I am not looking to escape through the window, darling. I am diving for your diamond-in-the-rough, peeling off barnacles, making moustaches of seaweed. You threw it into that ocean- sized trough in which you drown lizards as way of stress-release. I don’t know what I’ll do next. The poor man. You give me your hand, darling, and your robe, your robe is shiny like a pubescent star, and it shimmies like a wagon piecing itself apart, as you piece yourself apart, starting with your smile, which was always more like a photograph of a dune in a textbook. You give me your hand. It is a blue egg dusted with microorganisms. I sprinkle it with our fragrance, what’s left of it. I wish happiness upon your sleep-life, doldrums upon your late-night haunting. I am tired and these machines are so convenient, bringing me on all-expenses- paid visits to the site of your burial. Or is it your sister’s? I quote, my heart is like a walled onion. The poor man is tired. It is not 1904 anymore. You are not smiling anymore, darling, but you give me your hand. You give it in a basket with parsley and cheese and cut-outs from The Waterlogged God. You give it almost grudgingly but I will keep it. You tell me you’ve been dreaming again of train stations. I wonder what that means. I wonder about your eyes. There are many spiders inside the wall, and along it, and on the chandelier’s fingers, and inside the spiders. I quote, a dream is worth a thousand dustpans, but you, darling, are worth so much more than dustpans. But I grow weepy, as stated. What do those dark blue lines mean? Your fingers, darling, smell of a dark cloud in an electrical storm. Your palm is a circus. Your nails ticket stubs. That one’s from the alligator show. You dislocated your throat. I had a plan. If you stare into someone’s eyes for more than six seconds, you’ll want to lick them.
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May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010 at 8:20 PM UTC
My Life as Heiress to Your Throne, Darling
Strange times. When I speak of caressing your mantic lungs I don’t know what I mean, but I know I would hurl you under proper circumstances. Darling, one whisper falls from a tree silently so as not to wake the ghosts from their siestas. Your robe has holes I can’t write of. I can fathom getting there, what that might entail, wrapping, as I am prone to, my fingers around your furry pincers while I wait for you to read my rights to the ceiling fan who whirls above our renovated combustions like the glowering eye of our Lord upon the teary-eyed wicked. I am not looking to escape through the window, darling. I am diving for your diamond-in-the-rough, peeling off barnacles, making moustaches of seaweed. You threw it into that ocean- sized trough in which you drown lizards as way of stress-release. I don’t know what I’ll do next. The poor man. You give me your hand, darling, and your robe, your robe is shiny like a pubescent star, and it shimmies like a wagon piecing itself apart, as you piece yourself apart, starting with your smile, which was always more like a photograph of a dune in a textbook. You give me your hand. It is a blue egg dusted with microorganisms. I sprinkle it with our fragrance, what’s left of it. I wish happiness upon your sleep-life, doldrums upon your late-night haunting. I am tired and these machines are so convenient, bringing me on all-expenses- paid visits to the site of your burial. Or is it your sister’s? I quote, my heart is like a walled onion. The poor man is tired. It is not 1904 anymore. You are not smiling anymore, darling, but you give me your hand. You give it in a basket with parsley and cheese and cut-outs from The Waterlogged God. You give it almost grudgingly but I will keep it. You tell me you’ve been dreaming again of train stations. I wonder what that means. I wonder about your eyes. There are many spiders inside the wall, and along it, and on the chandelier’s fingers, and inside the spiders. I quote, a dream is worth a thousand dustpans, but you, darling, are worth so much more than dustpans. But I grow weepy, as stated. What do those dark blue lines mean? Your fingers, darling, smell of a dark cloud in an electrical storm. Your palm is a circus. Your nails ticket stubs. That one’s from the alligator show. You dislocated your throat. I had a plan. If you stare into someone’s eyes for more than six seconds, you’ll want to lick them.
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Oh Darling, don't sanctify me as a higher being, your salvation out of your rut. the world is a green moist sponge, and I am just another dihydrogen oxide molecule trapped in it's fibers crying for salvation screaming for baptization waiting for nothing and although you think in binary terms. I think in decimal and yet we are the stigma of the guy and the gal in this dream of dreams. a heiress of confession I am here surreal and every single inch made out of stardust to remind you... Remember Montague and the frosted lake? where we built the blanketfort among the trees for the child and lit her world with dazzling LEDs, as she stared in the tent higher than fools talking nonsense words about the world and her feelings because she's so sad and because she's so mad because no one cares except her and her watering eyes. she says. I have no one. And you can't do anything about it, starwhale because that's the way I like it.
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Apr 24, 2012
Apr 24, 2012 at 1:00 AM UTC
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
It could be the duchess Or maybe the CEO Or the media mogul Who almost stole the show Consider the brash ******* (He does look kind of shifty) Then again there is the gambler (Everyone calls him "Swifty") Check out the carefree diplomat With that fake smile but no charm And then there's the airhead heiress With tattoos adorning her arms My money's on the senator Always running, always winning His wife seems kind of suspect too With her endless mindless grinning And then there is the debutante Who flirted with the football star And don't forget the pro golfer Who spent so much time at the bar But after all that guessing Throughout the suspenseful show Turns out the butler did it ...As if I didn't know!
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Jul 1, 2015
Jul 1, 2015 at 10:33 AM UTC
Mystery Dinner Theater Presents "Whodunit?"
My sweetheart is a man's man heiress Her man must be a carbon copy of Jupiter, her father, An alpha, a beta, a kappa, an omega male altogether A carpenter by trade, The epitome of masculinity Who could solve any math problem in a second And knew how to fix everything A car, electric, plumbing A family hero, a handy man Who built houses from the ground up He could swaddle a baby's nightmare properly Open doors to the winds of sadness And pull chairs to the lights of happiness And he could dress every day to the nines Infusing in her heiress forever wine 's bouquet And the love of animals. So consequently My sweetheart is an animal 's animal heiress She eats meat only  if it has a label on it Saying that animals are not  caged Or mistreated in anyway.
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Sep 25, 2019
Sep 25, 2019 at 4:12 AM UTC
A man's man heiress
Thought he would rise to the occasion And slay all of her dragons. Take her away to some fairytale land In a stone-made castle Built with his own hands. And there they would stay To the end of their days.... But there's one thing Shell never understand.... There's no prince charming In her helpless little world. No one's coming To rescue this poor girl. She's all on her own Heiress to her own throne A princess could be a queen That's not afraid to stand on her own. One day she'll realize There's more to life than this. He can't wake her up With his magic kiss. Life's not limited To some storybook bliss. So stop waiting around For a (k)nights empty promise.
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 12:07 PM UTC
prince charming
I don't know who she is, but I can make believe the truth. She’s a princess Of an island Somewhere right outside Peru. She’s the daughter Of a grand king And a lovely queen too. I imagine A long line Of men who’d want to pursue The fair maiden the heiress Of a throne she’ll soon assume. She’ll rule with power and grace, A smile on her face, Kindness in her heart, She’ll give the kingdom a new start. Though some may doubt, I know that's who she'll be. Even if she's not, She'll always be a princess to me.
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Mar 5, 2018
Mar 5, 2018 at 11:26 PM UTC
A Princess to Me
Petals scatter with sweet honey from the hexagonal sun And drip their nectar unto the heiress’s staff’s bun Her lips shine with the yellow blood of her little wasp enemies Disguised with a soft and young smile that’s hidden breathlessly The young ruler’s snow hair dissolves into sweet sprinkles of canary And her golden eyes shall unleash a sting into whoever she shall marry
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Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC
Bee Queen
You were an heiress, inheriting a life time trust fund from a fortune made manufacturing waxy kid's coloring thingamajigs. Your mother drove you each school day, in a classic powder blue Mercedes coup. She was beautifully coiffed, high bred serene, great skin, And you were blond, blue eyed, smart and smiled. When I saw you I always felt - I felt not worthy of living on your planet. A few years after graduation we met, I had had a few beers so I told you everything. I am sorry for causing you those tears.
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Jan 18, 2011
Jan 18, 2011 at 6:33 AM UTC
You were an heiress
heiress to the strange castle, Francis ascended the high stone stair; her ancestors had lived here from the beginning of the country's history; her family was older, its history vivid in the dark of time to those descendents who were Francis' immediate family all fallen to old age & death except she youngest of the brood; inheriting Frankenstein's Castle the first place she went was to her ancestor's laboratory, long disused, old fashioned & out of date, but flipping the high-voltage switch bringing the whole place to light & life as the thing moved on the table & rose; the doctor's last project before being driven mad in the arctic sea,   the woman, who upon seeing young Francis falls madly in love; Francis seeing the gleam in the monster's eye takes the time to get to know her body & the monster likewise got to know hers; two beauties came out of the gray castle looking like a pair of princesses in the sun broken through the permanent clouds
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 11:26 PM UTC
Francis Stein (a new fairy tale)
A woman of sophistication and beauty Princess Charlotte carried herself with eyes on community with unity She worked hard all her life Heiress to the throne and not needing advice Intellectual being her vibe I am not telling you a lie nor jive Princess Charlotte enjoys being her outgoing stride The beauty in how she maintains the Castle garden Princess is her own Eden But what makes Princess Charlotte’s characteristics distinguished is her personality She gets along well with everyone in the colony Princess Charlotte never acts like she stands for royalty As she has respect for herself and others In fact, you would never know Princess charlotte was of high anarchy It is only because she lives in Honey Suckle Castle It is also the royalty attire Doing the right thing being her desire Nonetheless, Princess Charlotte is always at her best, as evidence, everyone that comes in contact with her can contest.
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May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM UTC
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE
I've set my life and you're light years away from my plan, To my eye,you're real beast. All you've mastered is to snarl me on most revolting way, Who cares if you're academic anyway? I've got last card,once I dance I looked heiress. Not to mention you romanticize me like stripper huh? I knew it,boy! I risk my life just to chuckled out on you, But you're aching on million saints for me to run back toyou. I must declare now,you're my comfort zone. Babe,I don't wanna make plans with you Just out of the blue you became my plan all along and I just forget life itself.
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Jul 6, 2010
Jul 6, 2010 at 2:14 AM UTC
Plan B
I am just like Robin Hood Shooting an impossible shot When everything is lost To sling that arrow straight through the arrow of opponent in my own bullseye. Kick inside the hornets nest. Wave to the pretty heiress on the stool next by, Knowing i'll never get her, Still the greatest in her life.
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Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 2:56 PM UTC
Invincible
favoring the limelight but all bets are off tonight build me a new empire based on your words be my mistake again or prove me wrong realize i am your loss i am an improvement over your usual catch unimpressive, bland they'll design a lie, just to entice your eye but i'm real when will this end? washing your placebos down with a conviction that they work is this the last cancelled reservation? don't dial in till you know your line play the boy for his voice he'll decode in his sleep preparing for the masses to carry your message to all till they become obsessed, too our love for the heiress to my heart grows complicated feelings that carry no reason jealous eyes manipulate corrupted and articulate demeanors that don't lack in style exactly what she wants she will have
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May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM UTC
jesuit number-field
amidst cavorting delightfully, enjoying thorough frolicking gingerly, foreign hick hating slo hip-hopping insouciantly sustaining row biological status quo kvetching lamely moreso mother became pro naturally physically rumbling,    heard all the way in Oslo    supposedly twerking, undulating vivaciously wantonly x2c wisely yielded – nada no    zona pellucida anchored byte size ******    potent embryonic fetal moe newlweds nocturnal merriment    moma's ****** marked march 1959    lovingly joyusly, insemination happened ha low bullseye clenched diploid fertilization    guaranteed germinating heiress    while squaqking lichen Apache at Diablo    ma late mother did should know upon awakening upon tautly stretched exertion    during dilating ****** which jiggled like jello three score orbitz round el sol, warmed cockles    and muscled away brutally cold degrees    tab billed an igloo,    or circa six decades    drafted exuberant ho...ho...ho... cuz, i.e. thencee at 362nd day    baby in belly did fully grow December first nineteen fifty seven    sanctioned newly minted papa      to sing a capella for he's a jolly good fellow    quintessential nascent    kickstarter heady everflow though wintry dark,    a “hi” beam illuminated    newborn girl with dayglow sans, mechanical engine ear    papa (an honorably discharged army vet)    all spit and shine groom,    who wed a bride somewhat callow first time parents with giddiness did saul fully bellow Boyce and Harriet Harriet countenance    twas (like an elf on Christmas eve) all aglow. -------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sis – I knew not what else to do thus, this poem crafted fur ewe a doe ting maternal gal – whose time on Earth flew
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Nov 10, 2017
Nov 10, 2017 at 1:09 AM UTC
Patterson, New Jersey circa December 1st, 1959
amidst cavorting delightfully, enjoying thorough frolicking gingerly, foreign hick hating slo hip-hopping insouciantly sustaining row biological status quo kvetching lamely moreso mother became pro naturally physically rumbling,    heard all the way in Oslo    supposedly twerking, undulating vivaciously wantonly x2c wisely yielded – nada no    zona pellucida anchored byte size ******    potent embryonic fetal moe newlweds nocturnal merriment    moma's ****** marked march 1959    lovingly joyusly, insemination happened ha low bullseye clenched diploid fertilization    guaranteed germinating heiress    while squaqking lichen Apache at Diablo    ma late mother did should know upon awakening upon tautly stretched exertion    during dilating ****** which jiggled like jello three score orbitz round el sol, warmed cockles    and muscled away brutally cold degrees    tab billed an igloo,    or circa six decades    drafted exuberant ho...ho...ho... cuz, i.e. thencee at 362nd day    baby in belly did fully grow December first nineteen fifty seven    sanctioned newly minted papa      to sing a capella for he's a jolly good fellow    quintessential nascent    kickstarter heady everflow though wintry dark,    a “hi” beam illuminated    newborn girl with dayglow sans, mechanical engine ear    papa (an honorably discharged army vet)    all spit and shine groom,    who wed a bride somewhat callow first time parents with giddiness did saul fully bellow Boyce and Harriet Harriet countenance    twas (like an elf on Christmas eve) all aglow. -------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sis – I knew not what else to do thus, this poem crafted fur ewe a doe ting maternal gal – whose time on Earth flew
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I was once a queen in this dress. Peasant and nobleman, child and commoner I had been, yes, But never queen. In this dress, autumn was my station, my birthright, my blood— I was an heiress of field and stream, Of tall grass, tree and sky, Of August leaves bronzed under an Indian Summer sun. Let me take you to that day; See as I see, Look to the field all where the trees Clap their hands, and shake from their branches golden leaves To crown this small soul, their Majesty. Standing steadfast as sentinels as they Watch a life in reverse: I am shrinking, I am becoming Nothing more than these blades of grass I run on, This patch of sky I fall from, This body, this blood, this tiny wisp of memory In a mind so vast with humanity, It has to spill over and splash into something like Time. Silent, they watch as I unfold into this moment: This moment newly-made, ancient, eternal, To become queen, to become everything, to become Nothing more than an end-of-summer’s day—
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May 24, 2012
May 24, 2012 at 11:23 PM UTC
A Memory
maybe it's just me but the thought of you lately makes me sad. your skin five shades darker than a double-double; you remind me of almonds, hazelnuts, snow and full lips. you've got this little mole about two diagonal inches up from your **** it's the inward sigh i stifle when i tell you i love you that tells me i don't. when we're in bed, the way you look at me makes me feel like an heiress, a goddess. when you pull on your boxers i see you: a spoiled brat. the way you speak to me makes me feel like i should apologize. i guess i'm looking for someone a little less shallow; when i started sinking i realized you didn't have the depth to understand a shipwreck.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 9:50 PM UTC
the scent of yesterday
27 Today I turn 27, Finding myself not feeling anything, Recovery is a bittersweet ending, Sobriety but a lingering telling, It took 27 lines of ******** drugs, Not the kind you may think off, The kind we are so addicted to, 27 lines of the purest lies, 27 lines of the finest mistreatment, 27 lines of the most mindfucking self harming, 27 lines of the most relaxing coping, 27 lines of the most euphoric settling, It took 27 contracts, To realize that in this tale as old as time ending, Is never too late, To rule over a queendom, Abandoned by the heiress, A queen of a lonely poetry, Fading in the vision, Chasing fantasies, Never seeing the clock behind her, 27 years to wake up from a slumber, A self given kiss, The curse is broken, 27 years of harcore lines, The ones that only make you realize, Delusion is but a poisoned apple, The side effects but a reflection of the hidden mirror, For in the end, my world is but an illusion, The same you wake up to, An actress of everyone's delusions, Never given a chance to envision, The illustrations of a scripture, A tale written by a lonely heiress, One that welcomes, Foes that see the vision, Wolves wearing sheep linen, Their masquerade no longer hidden, 27 years of ******** lines, Rose pink sunglasses the sweetest red wine, 27 years of the finest lines, Why was it so hard, To see what was left behind, A world that is only mine, Looking, looking, and looking, For a savior wearing armor and diamond, Today I realize, The heaviness in my heart, Heaviness of armor I looked past, I had been fighting a war, To protect what is so precious and not far, The vision of a lonely child, Made to closer her eyes, So she would never realize, She was the one she was looking for, Shameless for is never too late, To open the gates of heaven inside.
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Apr 20, 2025
Apr 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM UTC
27
27 Today I turn 27, Finding myself not feeling anything, Recovery is a bittersweet ending, Sobriety but a lingering telling, It took 27 lines of ******** drugs, Not the kind you may think off, The kind we are so addicted to, 27 lines of the purest lies, 27 lines of the finest mistreatment, 27 lines of the most mindfucking self harming, 27 lines of the most relaxing coping, 27 lines of the most euphoric settling, It took 27 contracts, To realize that in this tale as old as time ending, Is never too late, To rule over a queendom, Abandoned by the heiress, A queen of a lonely poetry, Fading in the vision, Chasing fantasies, Never seeing the clock behind her, 27 years to wake up from a slumber, A self given kiss, The curse is broken, 27 years of harcore lines, The ones that only make you realize, Delusion is but a poisoned apple, The side effects but a reflection of the hidden mirror, For in the end, my world is but an illusion, The same you wake up to, An actress of everyone's delusions, Never given a chance to envision, The illustrations of a scripture, A tale written by a lonely heiress, One that welcomes, Foes that see the vision, Wolves wearing sheep linen, Their masquerade no longer hidden, 27 years of ******** lines, Rose pink sunglasses the sweetest red wine, 27 years of the finest lines, Why was it so hard, To see what was left behind, A world that is only mine, Looking, looking, and looking, For a savior wearing armor and diamond, Today I realize, The heaviness in my heart, Heaviness of armor I looked past, I had been fighting a war, To protect what is so precious and not far, The vision of a lonely child, Made to closer her eyes, So she would never realize, She was the one she was looking for, Shameless for is never too late, To open the gates of heaven inside.
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This night as I lay upon a smoky stone Seven lines I say, my mantras own. Adrift in the sky as my prayers atone, Im alive here, now in the astral zone. As fear becomes strength my nemesis fell Tempting my faith, *** heiress, my grail. Her face became snake like, her skin turning pale, A wraith to be slaughtered, lust could not prevail. With powers of godlike capacity, I take flight over towers immensity. Propelling me forward, towards destiny, My unlimmited source of ecstasy. Beyond what is light, I could never know Blinded by fright, moralities throne. Duality is as simple a god can be shown, For man is both astral, still birthed from stone.
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 2:10 PM UTC
Lucid Dreaming
To: Career politicians and insiders From: The great unwashed rabble beneath your feet Over the next few years, and into the foreseeable future, Your past and present performance Will be scrupulously reviewed With an eye toward Eliminating hangers-on and dead weight. No cow is sacred When so many are starving. The heiress apparent to the retiring CEO has been shown the door; the head of sales now the head of state. There will be regular meetings With the new HR director. Those of you who've been with us For a while will know him well. His name is Howard Beale.
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 10:23 AM UTC
Just getting the memo
Sealtest was substantial when hormones agreed that faith did declare profane minion if heiress of ice cream would certify a revival in social justice that buries hatchet to enhance a ticket of wayward soul.
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Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 at 2:54 PM UTC
Dairy Heiress
It’s the wee things that get to you, the things that they – the invisible “they” – don’t think of or deem – what an egghead word – import. Like the many languages Pope Francis speaks to the poorest of the poor – just books away from Revelation and the end – apocalypse, they call it? Like the simple task, simpletons do it in political campaigns for the simplest of the simple – cost deferred until a position be taken if it isn’t ****** Like the contours of the manhood of the waiter leaning tightly against your table – as he asks again if you want your salad with French or Italian. Like the death of Romano III, a cat of nineteen, lying alone on a warm rug – or it was a cold shoulder, the mother lode of forgiveness. Like the birth of an heir or heiress of a circus regnant – a cut above the silliest of the silly, dancing in the streets to a playwright’s tunes. Like the circumcision of a newborn boy – a social decision on an ***** that doesn’t know itself until puberty, an unfair decision by a man. Like the baptism of a child – protection against purgatory or is it the shoreline of the Jordan where wading isn’t kosher when the teenaged lifeguard is absent? Like the final couplet of the last sonnet of a poet – her celebration and self-worth still unrhymed, its meter and iambs unborn until next week. Similes slant to the similar, metastasizing and growing outside the box – oh, **** the poet says, her wings clipped by a little thing like a pep rally. © Lewis Bosworth, 2013
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 7:15 PM UTC
Little Things
It’s the wee things that get to you, the things that they – the invisible “they” – don’t think of or deem – what an egghead word – import. Like the many languages Pope Francis speaks to the poorest of the poor – just books away from Revelation and the end – apocalypse, they call it? Like the simple task, simpletons do it in political campaigns for the simplest of the simple – cost deferred until a position be taken if it isn’t ****** Like the contours of the manhood of the waiter leaning tightly against your table – as he asks again if you want your salad with French or Italian. Like the death of Romano III, a cat of nineteen, lying alone on a warm rug – or it was a cold shoulder, the mother lode of forgiveness. Like the birth of an heir or heiress of a circus regnant – a cut above the silliest of the silly, dancing in the streets to a playwright’s tunes. Like the circumcision of a newborn boy – a social decision on an ***** that doesn’t know itself until puberty, an unfair decision by a man. Like the baptism of a child – protection against purgatory or is it the shoreline of the Jordan where wading isn’t kosher when the teenaged lifeguard is absent? Like the final couplet of the last sonnet of a poet – her celebration and self-worth still unrhymed, its meter and iambs unborn until next week. Similes slant to the similar, metastasizing and growing outside the box – oh, **** the poet says, her wings clipped by a little thing like a pep rally. © Lewis Bosworth, 2013
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