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"insulted" poems
A waif on this earth, Sick, ugly and small, Contemned from my birth And rejected by all, From my lips broke a cry, Such as anguish may wring, Sing, — said God in reply, Chant poor little thing. By Wealth's coach besmeared With dirt in a shower, Insulted and jeered By the minions of power, Where — oh where shall I fly? Who comfort will bring? Sing, — said God in reply, Chant poor little thing. Life struck me with fright — Full of chances and pain, So I hugged with delight The drudge's hard chain; One must eat, — yet I die, Like a bird with clipped wing, Sing — said God in reply, Chant poor little thing. Love cheered for a while My morn with his ray, But like a ripple or smile My youth passed away. Now near Beauty I sigh, But fled is the spring! Sing — said God in reply, Chant poor little thing. All men have a task, And to sing is my lot — No meed from men I ask But one kindly thought. My vocation is high — 'Mid the glasses that ring, Still — still comes that reply, Chant poor little thing.
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My Vocation
So the clever artist manages to push all her friends away, And the clever artist decides to distract herself from her plight. The clever artist goes outside to paint In the rain. In the middle of the night. The clever artist crafts damaged brushstrokes. And the very clever artist watches them wash away. The clever artist sends herself mostly blind As she watches her foggy breath over a flashlight. The clever artist thinks about the silence that blares, Despite the music coming from everywhere. And oh the clever artist!-- Dropped her brush in the dirt. But she still managed to disguise her hurt.. The artist cleverly insulted the paintbrush in hand; Clever words, metaphorically meant. It was then the clever artist ran inside Her hair dripping from the rain, tangled and wild. The stupid artist sits down before a page, Taking her favourite seat. And writes the worst excuse of a poem ever made. Becoming the least worthy poet you'll ever meet The stupid artist can't write, Nor paint for **** And of her friendship skills? Well, **** it.
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 6:05 AM UTC
The Clever Artist
I let go too soon, of these three fingers pinning a white dress to my knees, such a strut they possess, and psychic for the waggle I do on my tulip-days: mama said that the lace came from an elves’ head, I could not wear it. I put it in a dresser drawer, as I lost my appetite for marriage and friends. She said that father wanted to see it, I should parade my red, pulsing veins. A torpedo, it became, cowering until liftoff  and glory hallelujah first kisses. Was it not funny when I, poor chap, kept garbage in my teeth and laughed when you slithered your tongue inside, like Friday penetrating the weekend? You are a Leo; I am far from such, but I understand why you may be insulted, as mama garbs turquoise as the sky and all our daffodils burn like rubber. Each says it is because they love me, railing cat-scratches with a stitch – but I do not want that, see earthquakes that hammer on  our tulip-days, dear.
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Nov 1, 2012
Nov 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM UTC
tulip-days
Bravery I thought I was brave with the scars to prove it. My legacy - broken bones, split knuckles, black eyes and loose teeth. Adulation and respect. I fought both man and isms Never backed down. But a black man, driving an Uber taught me the truth of true bravery. Harassed, insulted, threatened by a low-life passenger, white racism covered in a cheap suit and tie, he refused to take the bait. He denied himself the pleasure of justified violence. He told me his story - and anger for him, righteous indignation, crashed over me in furious waves. I admonished him for not confronting that mans ignorance with a closed and determined fist. Never back down, right? Gently, he spoke the truth of black men in America. His eyes caught mine in the rearview mirror. You, he said, are innocent until proven guilty. Protected by a system that oppresses me. I am guilty - period - and would be lucky to be arrested, not killed, in a confrontation with that bigot. So he did nothing, let the swine in a tie off at his destination, and drove on - leaving that pig to wallow in his hate. His bravery earned him nothing. No adulation. No respect. No recognition. Nothing except another day of life. Another day with his family. In contrast - my lifetime of bravery. A pale reflection, when set beside his truth. He was brave, not I. My self-styled bravery, forever tainted by my privilege.
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Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 11:53 AM UTC
Bravery
have you ever sat and wondered about the putrid smell of corpses and what happens after this-- all types of magical forces? have you ever stood in line for hours waiting only to be insulted by cowards? I've often wondered in the morning over my donuts glazed how you can not talk to me for several days; but when you do it fits like a shoe, and now just what are we going to do? have you heard sad words whispered from a lover's lips, and if so, did it bring a tearful kiss or was it more like a lustful hiss?
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Oct 16, 2011
Oct 16, 2011 at 6:52 AM UTC
Glazed Donuts
I have little to say in new environments. I tend to act shy and forget how to form words. So when I had to go to marching practice and was surrounded by people I didn't know I suffered. Was it not obvious that I was flustered when I fell five times in thirty minutes? Maybe it wasn't obvious how I kept repeating the same thing over and over again, hoping people would stop staring. But instead of caring you walked straight up to me and made me look like a fool in front of everyone. **** in, you're stomach is showing!"* You exclaimed before poking me with a drumstick and catching me off guard. It hurt and my torso bent and all the upper classmen laughed at me. So thank you for embarrassing me, it will not be forgotten. It won't be forgotten like the time you insulted me in the seventh grade and I 'accepted' your apology. But what do I know? I'm just a kid and you're a band director
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 5:08 PM UTC
Band Director
Remembering those that are keeping it all together whilst being screamed at, humiliated, insulted, offended and hurt. Those who feel like screaming but holding the meltdown in check. Those who are frustrated and trapped and killing somebody seemed the best option but just do not have the right state of mind. Those whom in the ugly face of violence, are still fighting for their right to freedom of choice. Freedom for a right to live equally because, life has dealt them a hard hand. A right to be who they dream to be. Those that are being mistaken for their tears as mere weakness. Those that have lost their spirit to fight but are hoping-still. Those who are in their lowest now but still faithful and pressing on despite everything. Those that feel the need to cry but had to smile instead. Those who live within their means but wish there could have been more or be more because of another brother, sister, relative in need. Those who put every one elses need ahead of their own. Lest we forget, you are remembered today.
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May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020 at 6:29 PM UTC
Lest we forget
To some it’s all conjectural, Philosophically conceptual. You think you’re intellectual But your reasoning is ineffectual. Reviled both by heterosexuals Insulted as well by homosexuals And some ugly issues contractual We are the besmirched bisexuals. While it is the opposite of equality It is the essence of our reality, A warped straight-centric morality Based on a Christianist plurality. The straights tell us we must decide Then put the other gender aside. The complaints range far and wide Even gay people opt to deride. We don’t feel welcomed anywhere inside. Why doesn’t tolerance coincide When nobody seems to take our side? It’s freedom, get on the bus and ride. While it is the opposite of equality It is the essence of our reality, A warped straight-centric morality Based on a Christianist plurality. We know, after years of research Gender choice is not learned in church. It can be shaped with rods of birch But those are better for birds to perch. Denying us freedom is an ugly lurch Past including truth in a morality search. Back to when we were ruled by a church And any variance was besmirched. While it is the opposite of equality It is the essence of our reality, A warped straight-centric morality Based on a Christianist plurality.
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:01 PM UTC
NATURAL CONCLUSIONS
Do not eat of Faerie food And do not drink of Faerie wine Or when you leave Faerie at last The home you seek's no longer thine. Do not step in Faerie rings Do not enter the Faerie Mound Or when rescue comes for thee Your sanity will ne'er be found. Do not lie to Faerie folk And don't insult the Faerie Queen Or for all of eternity You and yours will not be seen. Do not enter Faerie woods And do not walk the Faerie trod Or, though you come back to hearth, Your heart will ne'er again be thawed. Don't listen when Faeries sing And ignore the Banshee wail Or you will have the dubious fame Of becoming a Faerie tale. Do not look through Faerie stones That you find on the Faerie ground Or they will put out your eye So you can't see when they're around. Do not enter Faerieland But if you do, don't leave the path Or you'll be lost for ever more In darkness where the monsters laugh. Do not ask for Faerie help If it comes take care how you pay Some want clothes or milk for it Some are insulted and betray. Do not accept Faerie gold From captured elf or leprechaun For it will turn to moss and leaves And when you look up they'll be gone. Don't swim in the Faerie stream Where nixies and kelpie play Banshee wash dead men's ****** clothes In that water, so stay away. Do not believe what Faeries say Though it's true that they cannot lie They never say quite what they mean Honestly they will truth deny. Don't even taste Faerie repast No goblin fruits from elven trees They're addictive beyond belief A wise man offered such food flees. 'Ware giving thanks for Faerie gifts Though they save you from all pain Or else you may be in their debt And lose more than you stood to gain. Beware lights off Faerie shores And lanterns seen in wild bogs For wisps will lead folks off of cliffs And laugh as corpses float like logs. And buy naught from Faerie markets They sell goblin fruits, curses, lies The price your dreams, your past, your soul Your voice, the color of your eyes.
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 5:00 PM UTC
Rules of Faerie
Do not eat of Faerie food And do not drink of Faerie wine Or when you leave Faerie at last The home you seek's no longer thine. Do not step in Faerie rings Do not enter the Faerie Mound Or when rescue comes for thee Your sanity will ne'er be found. Do not lie to Faerie folk And don't insult the Faerie Queen Or for all of eternity You and yours will not be seen. Do not enter Faerie woods And do not walk the Faerie trod Or, though you come back to hearth, Your heart will ne'er again be thawed. Don't listen when Faeries sing And ignore the Banshee wail Or you will have the dubious fame Of becoming a Faerie tale. Do not look through Faerie stones That you find on the Faerie ground Or they will put out your eye So you can't see when they're around. Do not enter Faerieland But if you do, don't leave the path Or you'll be lost for ever more In darkness where the monsters laugh. Do not ask for Faerie help If it comes take care how you pay Some want clothes or milk for it Some are insulted and betray. Do not accept Faerie gold From captured elf or leprechaun For it will turn to moss and leaves And when you look up they'll be gone. Don't swim in the Faerie stream Where nixies and kelpie play Banshee wash dead men's ****** clothes In that water, so stay away. Do not believe what Faeries say Though it's true that they cannot lie They never say quite what they mean Honestly they will truth deny. Don't even taste Faerie repast No goblin fruits from elven trees They're addictive beyond belief A wise man offered such food flees. 'Ware giving thanks for Faerie gifts Though they save you from all pain Or else you may be in their debt And lose more than you stood to gain. Beware lights off Faerie shores And lanterns seen in wild bogs For wisps will lead folks off of cliffs And laugh as corpses float like logs. And buy naught from Faerie markets They sell goblin fruits, curses, lies The price your dreams, your past, your soul Your voice, the color of your eyes.
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Flamingos aren't naturally pink But not for the reason most think They preen and they dye And they leave it to dry Before rinsing it off in the sink The magpies send me into fits The ducks have me losing my wits The crows are a blight And they crow all night But I do enjoy watching the **** Vanessa McRafferty-Fryer Set alight to the **** of her squire She took a few shots Of his privatest spots And then laughed as he ****** out the fire A penguin called Panama Pete Had no love of the snow on his feet So he stayed for a spell At the polar hotel With a pool and Jacuzzi en suite I met a quite curious swan By a lake I was boating upon It tickled my *** And insulted my mum With a flurry of wings, it was gone I know of a Gerald McFitz Who arouses himself when he sits For his favorite chair Is the shape of a pair Of voluptuous wobbly **** and one for that special someone... Your pancreas really is grand Tis a thoroughly marvelous gland You've a cute little spleen Though it's seldom seen And a nose growing out of your hand **
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM UTC
Limericks Naughty & Nice
"Be careful son, but be free" You were warned, and yet higher and higher you flew closer and closer to Apollo and your wax wings were melted with his embrace. But tell me, Icarus, was it worth it in the end? How did it feel to graze the heavens? Tell me, dear one, how did it feel to live violently? to live carelessly? "Be careful, son, be free." You chose to live, if only in that moment. Higher and higher you sailed until your very being insulted Apollo and with one kiss, your wings were destroyed.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 6:03 PM UTC
Tell me, Icarus, was it all worth it?
* ~for Bill T. Jones~ two poets, laureates both, on the nature of hunger, they discourse, in temple, where sacrificing is to living arts I was there, hungry in every aspect, seeking wisdom of the hungering nature of human. examine the word, hunger, hardly a rolling off the tongue mellifluous. you growl it from the gut, in gowned resplendent ugliness, go ahead, try it, it’s coarse and powerful insistent. awoken empty but for the hunger, hungover from dancing words and imagery not mine, now mine, maddeningly demanding my dutiful attentions, as if hunger was the master, me, obedient pupil. the clean white slate the IPad re-presents repeatedly, insulted that I have yet to crayon color it with the coherence of hunger-exhaled words, dismissive that I am but an also-ran, my village of lexical too unsophisticated, the page addressed yet unplanned, Apple white is the color of the starving artist.
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May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 1:44 PM UTC
the hunger for hunger/white the color of starvation
Surely you, Jester. Unduly-expressed. Lambasted, insulted. Abrasive ... au naturel? I think... Surely not. Unless, Had the aforementioned not just the will to rip through my throat,  but too the audacity to penetrate the inclement root you call heart. Well, I had made my decision. and lo! I would have stood by it too; had my own form of insecurity been given the chance to wilt. Not further admonished on how to think. how to act How 'one' should primarily be. Instead I lie bludgeoned, berated; and by the very thing that antecedently spurred   a cascade of unsophisticated giddiness. That too was far from the cry of a Devil-may-care persona. I would almost weep the lost opportunity,   Whereas I should simply, and most ardently Just be.
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 1:56 AM UTC
An ode to this one impression, savagely snuffed before its prime.
We see ourselves as an individual, The person people see as an equal. Your opinion about self might differ, Sometimes causing the heart quiver. This courage we build up within, Can be demolished by one true sin. You need not have eyes to see, The thing you were blessed with; beauty. We are often called ugly, And sometimes we are addressed as pretty. One can really affect your self esteem, Your pride and appearance slowly dying. We are always told to listen to others, But rules are to be broken, so are orders. Just staying there and being insulted, Is something hurting and really complicated. Don't downgrade the looks of an individual, You're not any prettier doing so at all, What's inside is what truly matters, Remember, don't judge books by their covers. We see things wide and clear now, Why saints to their masters bow. There is one thing you must be told, Find the reflection of the soul.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 8:44 AM UTC
Reflection of the soal
1561 No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay— A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity Pursuing Winds that censure us A February Day, The Brother of the Universe Was never blown away— The Snow and he are intimate— I’ve often seem them play When Heaven looked upon us all With such severity I felt apology were due To an insulted sky Whose pompous frown was Nutriment To their Temerity— The Pillow of this daring Head Is pungent Evergreens— His Larder—terse and Militant— Unknown—refreshing things— His Character—a Tonic— His future—a Dispute— Unfair an Immortality That leaves this Neighbor out—
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No Brigadier throughout the Year
To the men who have hurt me, both physically and emotionally. To the men who have sexually harassed me. To the men who have tried to coerce and guilt trip me. To the men who tried to take advantage of me when I was 15, the lowest point in my life. When I was weak. Destroyed from depression, from bullying, from the transition of middle school to high school, from anxiety, from blind parents and others ignorance. To those of you who knew I was in a ****** up state of mind, who pretended to support me when I was crying, only to run your hand up my thigh and whisper "I can make you forget about it." To the boys who abused me, insulted me, struck me, brought a suicidal teenage girl to the point of destruction. To the guy who didn't quite **** me, but who came close. Who grabbed all over me while I shoved and smacked and told him to stop. Who tried to get inside me without my permission and who tried to guilt trip me, calling me a tease and telling me to lay down and pretend nothing was happening if it really bothered me so much. Who tried to teach me to retreat inside of myself at human contact so I wouldn't resist. To every guy who approached a mentally destroyed teenage girl who was drowning in herself to try to get ****** favors, to try to get me to trade my body for drugs, to try to bring me down even further so I wouldn't say no. Because I did say no. I always said no and fought and nearly vomited every time a guy started groping, started making lewd commentary in what started out to be small talk, every guy that grabbed at me without my permission and leered and tried to grind on me without any context other than you had a hard on and I looked weak enough to force yourself on. I hope someday someone rips you all apart. I hope someone tortures you, tries to blackmail you, coerce you, makes you feel like garbage when you're at your weakest. Because as much as all of you tried, even this fragile, broken teenager rejected you. Fought her hardest to get away from attempted assaults and made it, clawing and screaming away from you. Cried silently as angry, mocking messages came in but didn't dignify them with responses. Ignored angry phone calls from multiple numbers and continued to live, even when you all tried to break me into a *** slave. **** every last one of you up the *** with a flaming ***** I hope you all go through hell. I was going through hell and you all tried to destroy me, to incinerate my spirit in the name of getting someone to touch your ***** I hope you go through worse. I hope somebody castrates you. If there is an almighty deity, I hope they curse you for eternity. I hope you all know that the girl you tried to destroy for your own sadistic pleasure is stronger than ever before.
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 7:28 PM UTC
To every man who ever harmed me.
To the men who have hurt me, both physically and emotionally. To the men who have sexually harassed me. To the men who have tried to coerce and guilt trip me. To the men who tried to take advantage of me when I was 15, the lowest point in my life. When I was weak. Destroyed from depression, from bullying, from the transition of middle school to high school, from anxiety, from blind parents and others ignorance. To those of you who knew I was in a ****** up state of mind, who pretended to support me when I was crying, only to run your hand up my thigh and whisper "I can make you forget about it." To the boys who abused me, insulted me, struck me, brought a suicidal teenage girl to the point of destruction. To the guy who didn't quite **** me, but who came close. Who grabbed all over me while I shoved and smacked and told him to stop. Who tried to get inside me without my permission and who tried to guilt trip me, calling me a tease and telling me to lay down and pretend nothing was happening if it really bothered me so much. Who tried to teach me to retreat inside of myself at human contact so I wouldn't resist. To every guy who approached a mentally destroyed teenage girl who was drowning in herself to try to get ****** favors, to try to get me to trade my body for drugs, to try to bring me down even further so I wouldn't say no. Because I did say no. I always said no and fought and nearly vomited every time a guy started groping, started making lewd commentary in what started out to be small talk, every guy that grabbed at me without my permission and leered and tried to grind on me without any context other than you had a hard on and I looked weak enough to force yourself on. I hope someday someone rips you all apart. I hope someone tortures you, tries to blackmail you, coerce you, makes you feel like garbage when you're at your weakest. Because as much as all of you tried, even this fragile, broken teenager rejected you. Fought her hardest to get away from attempted assaults and made it, clawing and screaming away from you. Cried silently as angry, mocking messages came in but didn't dignify them with responses. Ignored angry phone calls from multiple numbers and continued to live, even when you all tried to break me into a *** slave. **** every last one of you up the *** with a flaming ***** I hope you all go through hell. I was going through hell and you all tried to destroy me, to incinerate my spirit in the name of getting someone to touch your ***** I hope you go through worse. I hope somebody castrates you. If there is an almighty deity, I hope they curse you for eternity. I hope you all know that the girl you tried to destroy for your own sadistic pleasure is stronger than ever before.
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Then dark with dripping blood it gave a howl and cried again: 'Our damaged branches ache! Your pillage maims me! Can't you feel at all? We who were men are now this barren brake. You'd grant us your respect and stay your hand were we a thicket not of souls but snakes.' As wood still green starts burning at one end and from its unlit end the burning stick drips sap, and hisses with escaping wind, so from the broken stump there oozed a mix of words and blood: a frothy babbling gore. I dropped the branch. My fear had made me sick. 'Poor wounded soul, could he have grasped before,' my sage replied, 'what now he sees is true, and blindly trusted in poetic lore, then he need not have so insulted you. But as there was no other way to learn I urged him to a test that grieved me too. Tell us who you were, that he, in turn, can set your honor freshly back in style among those he will teach when he returns.' The trunk: 'Your speech, by raising hope that I'll regain repute, makes words arise in me. I mean to talk, if you will stay a while: I was the one entrusted with the keys to Federigo's mind, and it was sweet to share his thought and guard his strategy for noble ventures secret in my keep — so faithfully I filled this glorious post, I gladly sacrificed my health and sleep...'
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The Thorn Forest
Suppose I was more agreeable Instead of arguing over coffee about politics, religion *All those subjects deemed taboo that neither of us truly give a **** about* Pressing my point like daggers against your ribcage Knowing the sweet spots that make you moan I would give in, applaud your cleverness, then leave for work You would be left wondering if you should feel insulted. of course you should As usual,my filterless memoirs have become vocalized ******* them back in tight and quick is useless Once freed, the damage is done But. they. are . just. words. the previous statement is ridiculous and the author should be shot Never could I slice you deeper, **** your private mind or lay your soul bare Then with the bitter, caustic, truthful edge of my observations You are just as vulnerable as the rest of them Barbed wire telegrams Frozen emails Ash and arsenic letters Cut you to the quick Delightful. But I like it better when I can witness the damage Basking in the upper handed afterglow of my superior ability to mortally wound For no bit of silver that I've ever found Was ever sharper than the razor edge of my tongue
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Jun 10, 2012
Jun 10, 2012 at 11:01 PM UTC
Insightful Malice
I thought I knew you I thought we were on the same page About life and love and all of the above But it turns out, we weren’t even in the same library And you didn’t have the heart to tell me You have no courage Your mind swims in the deep end While your mouth dips a toe in the shallow You lack integrity You took what I told you and let it simmer In a *** of old stock that was never intended for consumption Your led me on Like the SAT when you left the difficult questions for the end Except this time you knew the answers but you couldn’t bare to tell me Should I be flattered? That you were trying to protect me from your feelings? I’m insulted that you didn’t think I could handle the truth And now, 5 years later I’ve learned how to fear love And how important it is to question intentions But that’s not what I was looking for So thank you For wasting my time
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 1:39 AM UTC
[You wasted my time]
Rancor, Swashbuckling with a sawtooth grin and sacrilegious shouts, selcouth with an unsound mind, the commonness of uniqueness, the commonness of opinionated onions cutting their teeth on life and crying, again, and ready to saw off the limbs of the opposition out of revenge! Rancor, relax, you're not a Twitter matador, I wish you were because I’d love to watch the show. We cuddle with exotic nylon fibers and squeal about our weight and status and how someone insulted us and how terrible it is to be alive while sipping on easily accessibly high fructose corn syrup! Life has never been this sweet, but I guess we’re getting sick of honey. I complain about the complaints, I am the anti-complaining complaint club president. I am a writer, an iPhone thumb tapper. Hear me These mental gymnastics will somersault and summerset you right, child, Don’t listen to Rancor, That man’ll grab your gaze and stir your attention into a cocktail while winking at you from behind the bar he’ll leave your brain a little woozy from a life that used to be sweet until you left it out in the sun a few years too long, I wonder if some of the dead watch us from the corners of our bedroom or the trees along the freeway, waiting for greatness to unfurl. I’ll bet they do and I’ll bet you’re a glitch, I’ll bet a little piece of another galaxy hit you in the head and made your finger twitch. How many hot car hours have been spent in a parking lot, the skin dries, the phone dies, the spirit once lifted towards the outlines of the mountain peak now seeks memes, transcendent in their own right.
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May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 at 1:54 AM UTC
Rancor!
Rancor, Swashbuckling with a sawtooth grin and sacrilegious shouts, selcouth with an unsound mind, the commonness of uniqueness, the commonness of opinionated onions cutting their teeth on life and crying, again, and ready to saw off the limbs of the opposition out of revenge! Rancor, relax, you're not a Twitter matador, I wish you were because I’d love to watch the show. We cuddle with exotic nylon fibers and squeal about our weight and status and how someone insulted us and how terrible it is to be alive while sipping on easily accessibly high fructose corn syrup! Life has never been this sweet, but I guess we’re getting sick of honey. I complain about the complaints, I am the anti-complaining complaint club president. I am a writer, an iPhone thumb tapper. Hear me These mental gymnastics will somersault and summerset you right, child, Don’t listen to Rancor, That man’ll grab your gaze and stir your attention into a cocktail while winking at you from behind the bar he’ll leave your brain a little woozy from a life that used to be sweet until you left it out in the sun a few years too long, I wonder if some of the dead watch us from the corners of our bedroom or the trees along the freeway, waiting for greatness to unfurl. I’ll bet they do and I’ll bet you’re a glitch, I’ll bet a little piece of another galaxy hit you in the head and made your finger twitch. How many hot car hours have been spent in a parking lot, the skin dries, the phone dies, the spirit once lifted towards the outlines of the mountain peak now seeks memes, transcendent in their own right.
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You say that I’ve changed, I’m simply not the same. A stranger that stole Your little sisters face. What a disgrace, To be so misplaced. But tell me dear siblings, How would you know? You never see me. I have bent over backwards All for you. My “loving” family, I have broken my heart Again and again On the cold steel of your eyes. I have choked on the storm Of your torrent of lies. I have cut myself open And poured my blood all over the razor whip of your cruel words. I have cried for you I have died  inside for you And when you were jealous, because I could fly I let you tear off my wings And chain me to the ground. Because I was told your love Had to be earned I did everything you asked of me. I gave you my everything And then a little more Only to hear you demand for more. Your eyes stayed cold And words cut deeper still I froze from your gaze And collapsed from the blood loss And you were insulted And as you broke me You laughed when you snapped me in two Then left me behind, As you always do. You expect me to take the pain And rise once more On trembling limbs To trail on after you So you can break me some more. You demand I be there should you have the need To always be willing to let you watch me bleed. And yet you claim that It is I, Who has changed, That I am simply not the same. A stranger that stole Your little sisters face. And as I lay bleeding I realized you were leeching The life from my soul And I felt the betrayal swallow me whole I gasp for air, Running out of breath From the noose of expectations You’ve tied round my neck.
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Apr 23, 2019
Apr 23, 2019 at 3:42 AM UTC
Broken love
You say that I’ve changed, I’m simply not the same. A stranger that stole Your little sisters face. What a disgrace, To be so misplaced. But tell me dear siblings, How would you know? You never see me. I have bent over backwards All for you. My “loving” family, I have broken my heart Again and again On the cold steel of your eyes. I have choked on the storm Of your torrent of lies. I have cut myself open And poured my blood all over the razor whip of your cruel words. I have cried for you I have died  inside for you And when you were jealous, because I could fly I let you tear off my wings And chain me to the ground. Because I was told your love Had to be earned I did everything you asked of me. I gave you my everything And then a little more Only to hear you demand for more. Your eyes stayed cold And words cut deeper still I froze from your gaze And collapsed from the blood loss And you were insulted And as you broke me You laughed when you snapped me in two Then left me behind, As you always do. You expect me to take the pain And rise once more On trembling limbs To trail on after you So you can break me some more. You demand I be there should you have the need To always be willing to let you watch me bleed. And yet you claim that It is I, Who has changed, That I am simply not the same. A stranger that stole Your little sisters face. And as I lay bleeding I realized you were leeching The life from my soul And I felt the betrayal swallow me whole I gasp for air, Running out of breath From the noose of expectations You’ve tied round my neck.
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I decided I'm goin in. Yall dun' slipped up and left me with a pen. It seems lately I been under-drinkin' Over-sober over-contemplating what's been really happening. I'm usually a lot more subtle. I give the benefit of the doubt like I'm a Catholic priest absolving niggas' sins. Confusing my honesty for reckless abandon-in To your chagrin, just hecause you're unable to comprehend. You don't move through this world in the shoes I'm in. I bet no ones ever called you a sub-human. Did that election make YOU question all your caucasian friends? Their motives, their thoughts, biases, Lookin for Microaggressions? Now those relationships are withered at the ends and it depends on larger hearts and open minds to try and mend and re-begin? Because someone you love insulted ALL your kin. Supporting someone who blatantly hates them. Tunnel vision.Could only see what they wanted Sanctity of life only applies to babies aborted Christians were thwarted! How someone with a thumbs up from the Ku Klux have anything to do with what the Lord did?! Granted, the deed is done and hey the truth is out! They were wolves in sheep's clothes till the Pres. Came out in broad daylight He basically made it awright to grossly generalize a race AND do so in plain sight Now ALL the racist crazy folk are poppin  at the mouth. On social media like the 50's in the segregated south, Spewing hate behind a screename sittin' on they mama's couch 'cept we millenials are rowdy and we'll roll up at yo house. How's it 2017 and we still schoolin' folk? Gotta tell you Black  lives matter cause you actin like we dont. In retrospect, it was for the best cause now we ALL woke!
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Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 1:57 AM UTC
State of Affairs
I decided I'm goin in. Yall dun' slipped up and left me with a pen. It seems lately I been under-drinkin' Over-sober over-contemplating what's been really happening. I'm usually a lot more subtle. I give the benefit of the doubt like I'm a Catholic priest absolving niggas' sins. Confusing my honesty for reckless abandon-in To your chagrin, just hecause you're unable to comprehend. You don't move through this world in the shoes I'm in. I bet no ones ever called you a sub-human. Did that election make YOU question all your caucasian friends? Their motives, their thoughts, biases, Lookin for Microaggressions? Now those relationships are withered at the ends and it depends on larger hearts and open minds to try and mend and re-begin? Because someone you love insulted ALL your kin. Supporting someone who blatantly hates them. Tunnel vision.Could only see what they wanted Sanctity of life only applies to babies aborted Christians were thwarted! How someone with a thumbs up from the Ku Klux have anything to do with what the Lord did?! Granted, the deed is done and hey the truth is out! They were wolves in sheep's clothes till the Pres. Came out in broad daylight He basically made it awright to grossly generalize a race AND do so in plain sight Now ALL the racist crazy folk are poppin  at the mouth. On social media like the 50's in the segregated south, Spewing hate behind a screename sittin' on they mama's couch 'cept we millenials are rowdy and we'll roll up at yo house. How's it 2017 and we still schoolin' folk? Gotta tell you Black  lives matter cause you actin like we dont. In retrospect, it was for the best cause now we ALL woke!
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I finally did it today. Tired, Out of breath, Ready to collapse, But I finished. I've always trailed behind everyone. But at points in which I wanted to give up, You told me to keep going. Stay strong. Build endurance. Fight and win. I trusted you and kept you in a special place in my heart, Whenever I struggled, I looked for those words of inspiration, Of Hope. Then a fight happened, You insulted me, Told me I could never do it, You destroyed my pride, Made me humble. Did I cry? No. Did I give up? No. Was I furious? Yes. How ironic. At the finish line my friends congratulated me, the coach gave me a pat on the back, but you weren't there. How weird, In the end the one thing that kept me running. Was the pride you helped me build and destroy. How ironic After everything, I only have one thing to say to you. You built everything and destroyed it, You assaulted not only my pride, but myself. Then you left... But when you left, you left me something. You left me a blueprint and a message. The message: You are on your own now. The blueprint, a blueprint to self training and self reliance. You showed my humility, You showed the true state I was in, You showed me who I truly was, but you also showed me my potential. I built on that knowledge, and with the blueprint, I rebuilt myself and who I am. It is ironic. Because at the end, The logical thing for me to remain mad. The logical thing for me is to hate you. The logical thing for me is to despise you. But it is ironic. Because at the end, On this hill, Staring into the sunset, As sweat dripped down my face, As my heart began to calm, As my lungs began to quieten, As the cool winds blew past me, On the Hill of my Victory. At the end I only have one thing to say. Thank You. Thank You, with all my honesty and integrity, I thank you for doing what you did to me. If you hadn't I would've never been where I am now. So at the end, although it is logical for me to be angry, to hate, to despise. I nevertheless thank you.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 7:15 PM UTC
To My Long Lost Friend (How Ironic)
I finally did it today. Tired, Out of breath, Ready to collapse, But I finished. I've always trailed behind everyone. But at points in which I wanted to give up, You told me to keep going. Stay strong. Build endurance. Fight and win. I trusted you and kept you in a special place in my heart, Whenever I struggled, I looked for those words of inspiration, Of Hope. Then a fight happened, You insulted me, Told me I could never do it, You destroyed my pride, Made me humble. Did I cry? No. Did I give up? No. Was I furious? Yes. How ironic. At the finish line my friends congratulated me, the coach gave me a pat on the back, but you weren't there. How weird, In the end the one thing that kept me running. Was the pride you helped me build and destroy. How ironic After everything, I only have one thing to say to you. You built everything and destroyed it, You assaulted not only my pride, but myself. Then you left... But when you left, you left me something. You left me a blueprint and a message. The message: You are on your own now. The blueprint, a blueprint to self training and self reliance. You showed my humility, You showed the true state I was in, You showed me who I truly was, but you also showed me my potential. I built on that knowledge, and with the blueprint, I rebuilt myself and who I am. It is ironic. Because at the end, The logical thing for me to remain mad. The logical thing for me is to hate you. The logical thing for me is to despise you. But it is ironic. Because at the end, On this hill, Staring into the sunset, As sweat dripped down my face, As my heart began to calm, As my lungs began to quieten, As the cool winds blew past me, On the Hill of my Victory. At the end I only have one thing to say. Thank You. Thank You, with all my honesty and integrity, I thank you for doing what you did to me. If you hadn't I would've never been where I am now. So at the end, although it is logical for me to be angry, to hate, to despise. I nevertheless thank you.
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I have been insulted for sharing out my peasant songs, pataphorical poems, on the table of the cultural patriarchy the insults have come in a serial flow into my dark soul a basin of condemn, it began as my duty to take my poetry to the bottom of African latrine, followed by volley of insults like ; cerebral panicking insensitive idiot, a gifted ******** of arsolian poetry One other contumely went aboveboard to announce me a better dead ****** i wondered how much one can **** without erstwhile duty of creation, now i have been condemned in starkness, to be a beautiful walking ghost of William Seward Burroughs, Uhm! folly of eugenics, No! i am wrong, this accolade, i seriously decline to take, my innateness is not wounded at all, by anything near to genetic disorder, i am only conscious of my luckless past, of Slavery,colonialism,wars,re-colonialism Then poverty spiced by open ridicule , And partly trenchant and half-honkey tease firmly fuelled by racial intolerance, i have now been mistaken in awry, to be a looming ghost of William Burroughs, and i am not i am purely my self, without imperious wide blood any where in my by black veins, i may easily have chimpanzee blood, Flowing turbulently through my vessels, but no tincture of white blood in my zoo, Burroughs broke his virginity with a ***** i have remained a ****** for three decades, As African virgins marry only virgins, Burroughs was the king of underworlds; chasing lessbian prostitutes and gays, to quench his mad erotic appetite the turf in which i am a better sham, Billy was a serial criminal, ever on the run, my soul is clean as new pin, in fact gorgeously dressed in the unique royal attires of as a Bristol pin merchant, Billy worshiped crime and drugs my piety is anchored on freedom of all, Billy went to Latin America for ***** i have been there to mourn Gabriel Garcia, the Nobelite who was alone in deathly solicitude Billy never lifted a finger against tyranny, my arsolian poetry is center-pieced on nothing, other than African chantings for liberty, freedom for the white and black peasants perhaps to unyoke themselves, from the yoke of vicious human avarice.
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 9:03 AM UTC
MY SOUL IS ANTITHESIS TO THE GHOST OF BILLY BURROUGHS
I have been insulted for sharing out my peasant songs, pataphorical poems, on the table of the cultural patriarchy the insults have come in a serial flow into my dark soul a basin of condemn, it began as my duty to take my poetry to the bottom of African latrine, followed by volley of insults like ; cerebral panicking insensitive idiot, a gifted ******** of arsolian poetry One other contumely went aboveboard to announce me a better dead ****** i wondered how much one can **** without erstwhile duty of creation, now i have been condemned in starkness, to be a beautiful walking ghost of William Seward Burroughs, Uhm! folly of eugenics, No! i am wrong, this accolade, i seriously decline to take, my innateness is not wounded at all, by anything near to genetic disorder, i am only conscious of my luckless past, of Slavery,colonialism,wars,re-colonialism Then poverty spiced by open ridicule , And partly trenchant and half-honkey tease firmly fuelled by racial intolerance, i have now been mistaken in awry, to be a looming ghost of William Burroughs, and i am not i am purely my self, without imperious wide blood any where in my by black veins, i may easily have chimpanzee blood, Flowing turbulently through my vessels, but no tincture of white blood in my zoo, Burroughs broke his virginity with a ***** i have remained a ****** for three decades, As African virgins marry only virgins, Burroughs was the king of underworlds; chasing lessbian prostitutes and gays, to quench his mad erotic appetite the turf in which i am a better sham, Billy was a serial criminal, ever on the run, my soul is clean as new pin, in fact gorgeously dressed in the unique royal attires of as a Bristol pin merchant, Billy worshiped crime and drugs my piety is anchored on freedom of all, Billy went to Latin America for ***** i have been there to mourn Gabriel Garcia, the Nobelite who was alone in deathly solicitude Billy never lifted a finger against tyranny, my arsolian poetry is center-pieced on nothing, other than African chantings for liberty, freedom for the white and black peasants perhaps to unyoke themselves, from the yoke of vicious human avarice.
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