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Kenna Nov 2012
During a walk through the hallway
of the primary school
I find hallways
filled with turkeys and leafs and stiff scrawled characters.
What is Mr. Smith's class thankful for?
Flowers and toys and cars and dresses and pink and purple and soccer and skirts and barbies and family.

How could you sum up all of the things you are thankful for in one word?
At the end of the hallway I am faced with a choice:
What are you thankful for?
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What­ am I thankful for?
Happiness, and family and security and nature and
friends.
I am thankful for friends.
I am thankful for laughs and chatts and cries and sobs and games and smiles.

I am thanful for ****** contortions and 80s dance sessions,
for inabilty to speak.
I am thankful for hobos, eating on the side of the road,
and for devious scheymes of intoxicatation.

Hep beni anlayan bir arkadaşım var müteşekkirim
and who listens to my sob stories.
I am thankful for singing in the rain.
And styling hair in the sink
for screeching and howling
and hissing.

I am thankful for obkirchergasses,
for Ströcks and for ice cream plarlours.
I am thankful for mentos,
and walnuts.

I am thankful for bad lip readings and hilarious youtube vidoes.
I am thankful for unknown languages and nymphs
and for eloquence.
I am thankful for good taste in music
and for strong opinions.

I am thankful for dancing indian pirates with demon chicks and fireballs.
I am thankful for two-headed teenagers and barbeques.
I am thankful for God and healthy choice prayers,
and Hawaii get aways.

I am thankful for huge, hanging sweaters and crazy, funky leggings.
I am thankful for deep talks about the world's lack of beauty
and for poetry buddies.

I am thankful for dodgeball playing mice,
and poor old wenches.
I am thankful for pirate and mermaid adventures.

I am thankful for the looks we get:
looks of loud disapproval,
and whispers of quiet exasperation.

I am thankful for golden men and loud singing,
for crazy dances with crazy cousins and cute brothers.
I am thankful for Aunt Jemima.

I am thankful for banging on metal bars with rocks and shouting at the top of our lungs.
I am thankful for climbing over gates in order to not step on cracks.
I am thankful for amazing humanities teachers.
I am thankful for a laugh when the day is over.
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How those kids manage to fit all of their thankfulness into one word  is beyond me.
Even the one-word things we are thankful for, must be described with a million words.
For my dearest, lovely Isabelle <3
Jacqe Booth Feb 2010
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Who is I?
In the Now. I am of true boi essence.
A writer, a recluse, abandoned only of fate: Destiny ever alluring in the palm of my hand.
Limited only by my own inabilty to be present in only one consciousness.
I am split between reality strings.
A permeant spectre, caught betwixt parallel dimensions.
At times incoherrant, lost in esoteric translation.
I am physic(al) - I of breath + flesh, perception being my holster, corruption my armoury.
Intuitively, i am harmonious, sanctonious, welcoming of illuminations and the darker side of each unfettered moon.
Awareness sleeps by my side. Each waking minute guarded. of commonality.
I am enlightened.
I am bouyant.
mobile, fluid-like in kinesis.
Conventional existense being the foundation over which i fly.
Arms outstretched, willing risk to be my pull.
Enticing Love to be my drag.
balance, mediums, equilibrium.
Lifted high amidst winds roaring with possibility.
I am stark in naked complication, although often prone to cover up in cynical, self critical analysis.
I am given of self; being the taker a refreshing discourse to which i stray accordingly.

Of culture i am a liar.
By nature i tend towards honesty only straying when survivalistic path need tread.
I am of blood,
private yet optimistically open to scarring.
By custom i am trained, civil, content.
Of instinct; native raw tongue, i am rampant, rapid in force, compelled to grow then emerge.
Only.
To submerge
is to take full scope.
i am telescopic
in view of A/all else to which i drown my vision.
I am unsure if i am young,
Although certain that my passage is still being lit by the glow of its entrance, dark passageways luring with their shadows and cavernous corners.
I am liberal, random in speculatory silence. I am idle, often motivated by industrial desire.
Mechanical in process, structured of cerebreal architecture, yet somewhat discombobulated in particularity.
Sporadic be my strain, its think tank choking always on the weeds of sorrow.
Essentially i am nothing: yet overwhelmingly everything.
I was
I am
I will
therefore i
Exist
to i as
A/all and nothing.
As yesterday is to tommorrow, and visa versa, i am a window, a door, a channel:
as closed as i am open.
Dependant only on my own deliverence of influence and potential.
Driven by the promise of future and the demands of my past.
I am a vehicle in time, my presence, my motion, my journey
is I.
Autumn Apr 2017
Why do I feel like just a machine?
With the inabilty to think, to hope.... to dream.

Mindless work that covers all of the hours..
I get home, plop on my bed
through a grumpy mind, I feel sour

To use my mind in healthy ways
not stocking shelves or pulling weeds.

Go for a bike ride
read and write some more
to be intentional..
But nope only time to snore.
SerenaDuru Nov 2018
For though night has fallen
The sun still exists
Despite the inabilty to see it
It lays awake and alive
Mateuš Conrad Jun 2018
two moths on my bedroom
celining...
and a bogus:
         grab them by the *****
using boxing gloves
   mosquito
                                scenario?
plenty of
entertainment...
                see...
    can't get past gang ****
   and going to a *******
not treating her like both
a psychiatrist and a priest...
somehow
      taking a loss of exposed
lips... juggling peaches...
      in her...
   eating you up giving
                                       a kiss;
i can demand
stomaching horror....
        but this little artefact
equivalent to a scarab beetle?
   prostitution is akin to
******, isn't it?
                 sure...
and i'm the "sly"-****-wit
   within the confines of the whole
affair...
       kissing is like:
de-objectifying the "pupose"
of body...
     gave one, no one more
"necessary" tarantula arithmetic
to counting fiddly bits
         in the format of limbs...
almost mantis *******...
leaves me
    stung and
                   sort of "bored"
in the fathomability of an inabilty
to write a little,
   or write a lot...
                 limp **** 'ad it sorted...
        says the odd: jive mcsmith...
no...
            just liked the odd kissing
sensation that genital plucking
         stole to make an industry...
frenzy-**** and a bucket
of maggots: to designate
        imagining the whole affair...
not violent and certainly
not pretty...
   just the bachelor /
     plumbing standard:
                                botched affair...
but gang ****
and cuddling my affair
with kissing one?
               shy one brick richard...
i truly can't cement
that **** into
                a toppling of
a chess idea...
                   limit:
   the king is precious...
         but the queen is the most
powerful piece...
              so why do both
require to don a crown?
   sure: whoop-see logic...
      hot-air-balloon okays
                   many years later...
the ******* question
equivalent to:
  why are birthrates
equivalent to a tsunami...
categorising humanity
with disco: earth wind and fire,
and water...
                 and:
       the identifier of the four
made: pristine
insect-like
           with a subjectivity?
unfathomable:
  to take to making
a hammer a subject...
to allow an:
                               objective cool;
   with an: under-which,
     there isn't exactly a: that;
bumb-note,
  fizzles out after enough
digressions and
          indigestions...
         like a yawning
tiger: centre-clue to
           not subjecting oneself
to a fireplace...
      rather,
objectifying "with-concern"
for... the "prometheus"
     who stole the lightning-bolt
without Zeus minding...
        no one ******* minded...
     a t.v. -
    hand saviour the lost
concern for the mythology
and temporal "grievance"
   of ushering in a lightbulb...
father must have been
asleep, allowed
for the crucifixion to happen...
happily forgotten
  michael faraday...
          and whatever news...
   as in that: rhombus of
attention-deficit-square of:

                              n


    w                     ­                             e


                                ­ s

****** graphic:
   lucky there's a vowel in the whole
anti-slavic: "too many" consonants
                          dip into spresch...
oh don't worry,
akin to fiddly-bits,
akin to chop-sticks
     and pretending "adult" humour...
something a billion peeps
might digest...
     if there, were... a billion
                  bored mouths to, invest in..

given there's only one...
    pray and pillage
                         "vulnerability"...
     blah blah
               and:
           i'll be tired of revelling
in making a point
about identifying with a tomorrow,
to suit
        a soon to be
     nostalgia goon of:
                  "authority" with
                 a status quo impetus.

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