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I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World. Life's fantastic: I feel like plastic, aiming for an eighteen-inch waist because I can afford to throw my internal organs away. I feel like plastic, having to choose between eating and breathing with not enough space for two tubes. I feel like plastic, a thirty-nine inch bust and three times the forehead. I feel like plastic, a size nine squeezed to a three, spending three to nine avoiding mealtime because my weight loss book says 'Don't eat.' I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World. Life's fantastic, but... I'm not plastic. I've sat here listening while you complain about society but I don't think you realize that society is made by you. You complain about masks but you're masked by your poetry and trust me, it's trendy: Psychiatry. A bottle of capsules captures your soul and your dreams, fading reality. I cannot be defined because a definition leaves no room for change and I am a flame, ready to burn the cardboard box of priority you put over me. All the cool kids are lesbians and thespians on about repressions and I care, I do, I mean... I'm standing here among you. But words are just air. You can stand on this stage and tell me I'm beautiful, but I am more than my face so disregard my mild distaste for your inspirational speech. Now, this... This isn't a call for help. This is a call to arms. This is a battle cry because I am sick of waiting for a future that should've happened yesterday. So use this air to live the words you say and rally. Do not soothe, because we've already been cocooned by soothed reality in Shawnee, Johnson County. I'm a real girl, in a real world. Life's fantastic, and I refuse to be plastic, aiming for generic weight range based on content, not scale number. I refuse to be plastic, a neck moulded perfectly for both eating and breathing so I don't have to choose. I refuse to be plastic, a bust that you don't need to be sizing when I've got eyes a green not of romanticized meadows but of drunken puke. I refuse to be plastic, a size nine foot in a size nine shoe, spending three to nine enjoying my meal times, because my weight loss book is chucked down the chute. I'm a living girl in a beautiful world. Life's fantastic, because I'm not plastic.
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 4:24 PM UTC
Barbie Girl
I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World. Life's fantastic: I feel like plastic, aiming for an eighteen-inch waist because I can afford to throw my internal organs away. I feel like plastic, having to choose between eating and breathing with not enough space for two tubes. I feel like plastic, a thirty-nine inch bust and three times the forehead. I feel like plastic, a size nine squeezed to a three, spending three to nine avoiding mealtime because my weight loss book says 'Don't eat.' I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World. Life's fantastic, but... I'm not plastic. I've sat here listening while you complain about society but I don't think you realize that society is made by you. You complain about masks but you're masked by your poetry and trust me, it's trendy: Psychiatry. A bottle of capsules captures your soul and your dreams, fading reality. I cannot be defined because a definition leaves no room for change and I am a flame, ready to burn the cardboard box of priority you put over me. All the cool kids are lesbians and thespians on about repressions and I care, I do, I mean... I'm standing here among you. But words are just air. You can stand on this stage and tell me I'm beautiful, but I am more than my face so disregard my mild distaste for your inspirational speech. Now, this... This isn't a call for help. This is a call to arms. This is a battle cry because I am sick of waiting for a future that should've happened yesterday. So use this air to live the words you say and rally. Do not soothe, because we've already been cocooned by soothed reality in Shawnee, Johnson County. I'm a real girl, in a real world. Life's fantastic, and I refuse to be plastic, aiming for generic weight range based on content, not scale number. I refuse to be plastic, a neck moulded perfectly for both eating and breathing so I don't have to choose. I refuse to be plastic, a bust that you don't need to be sizing when I've got eyes a green not of romanticized meadows but of drunken puke. I refuse to be plastic, a size nine foot in a size nine shoe, spending three to nine enjoying my meal times, because my weight loss book is chucked down the chute. I'm a living girl in a beautiful world. Life's fantastic, because I'm not plastic.
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I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
"You're Too Young to Be A Feminist" // Slam Poetry Transcript
I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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Blind Willie Johnson strums six strings a day He drinks with the woman who taught him to play He spells out his secrets in the songs that he sings And breathes his life onto six rusty strings Blind Willie Johnson brings home the blues Blind Willie Johnson will wail the blues to you The brothel he grew up in is tearing down the walls He's got so many memories of those smokey halls His mama could be there or she could be dead He's got no pictures, just anecdotes instead Blind Willie Johnson said he don't know a thing Except for the truth in the blues that he sings Blind Willie Johnson ain't really blind at all He's just got those gray eyes from years of alcohol He stares into the smoke of a Friday night crowd Who stare back at him as his stories ring out Blind Willie Johnson doesn't cover up a thing Listen to his pain in the blues that he sings "Blind Willie Johnson" reads the graveyard stone Under the blanket of the sky, Willie rests alone Though his voice is lost underneath the ground The world will never forget Blind Willie's sound Blind Willie Johnson sang the way he felt He never complained about the hand he was dealt
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 12:59 AM UTC
Blind Willie Johnson
(10/13/12) At the beginning of “64” - I packed up my uniform And walked out the door- it was the beginning of The Vietnam war. By August of that same year President Johnson started the draft Under protests and jeers. Then he made it a full scale war And sent our soldiers to Vietnam shores. The Beatniks in Greenwich village With their long hair, beards, and Flip flop sandals - wrote their poetry About this undeclared war, and why Our men were going to those shores. This created a new generation called ‘HIPPIES” The hippie generation was groups of protesters Against everything that they found wrong The draft , the war , pollution And loved to stay high with *** hashish Coke and acid (lsd) which kept them blasted. This also created the “ flower children” Who like the hippies loved to be high And on certain flowers they would fly. But they spoke of loving one another And gave out flowers as a sign of peace Which to the president was a relief. They all started painting this “53 Chevy impala” With the words “ flower power”. Now the “ flower children and hippie movement Was in full swing, and everyone was doing their own thing. They had Greenwich village under their control And not one coffee shop would ever be sold. Every coffee shop had a poetry night And going there was such a delight. Then in AUGUST of “69” The WOODSTOCK festival was on the rise Over half a million people drove to that farmland And set up tents , hammocks, sleeping bags and such And the police found it was much to much So they had no choice but to see it through Because there was nothing else that they could do. The WOODSTOCK festival had become world wide And to this day it still thrives. © L . RAMS
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Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM UTC
beatnik to vietnam to hippie stand
(10/13/12) At the beginning of “64” - I packed up my uniform And walked out the door- it was the beginning of The Vietnam war. By August of that same year President Johnson started the draft Under protests and jeers. Then he made it a full scale war And sent our soldiers to Vietnam shores. The Beatniks in Greenwich village With their long hair, beards, and Flip flop sandals - wrote their poetry About this undeclared war, and why Our men were going to those shores. This created a new generation called ‘HIPPIES” The hippie generation was groups of protesters Against everything that they found wrong The draft , the war , pollution And loved to stay high with *** hashish Coke and acid (lsd) which kept them blasted. This also created the “ flower children” Who like the hippies loved to be high And on certain flowers they would fly. But they spoke of loving one another And gave out flowers as a sign of peace Which to the president was a relief. They all started painting this “53 Chevy impala” With the words “ flower power”. Now the “ flower children and hippie movement Was in full swing, and everyone was doing their own thing. They had Greenwich village under their control And not one coffee shop would ever be sold. Every coffee shop had a poetry night And going there was such a delight. Then in AUGUST of “69” The WOODSTOCK festival was on the rise Over half a million people drove to that farmland And set up tents , hammocks, sleeping bags and such And the police found it was much to much So they had no choice but to see it through Because there was nothing else that they could do. The WOODSTOCK festival had become world wide And to this day it still thrives. © L . RAMS
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From 3 p.m. Monday to 3 p.m. Tuesday <h2>Police calls <h3>LA CROSSE 3:39 p.m., Hit-and-run, 4400 block of Hwy. 16 4:11 p.m., Theft, 3700 block of Hwy. 16 4:41 p.m., Hit-and-run, 1100 block of State St. 5:37 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1000 block of Charles St. 5:42 p.m., Theft, 2100 block of Liberty St. 5:59 p.m., Fight, Fourth and King sts. 8:08 p.m., Theft, 2400 block of Rose St. 8:08 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 400 block of Sixth St. 8:37 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1000 block of Fifth Ave. S. 10:14 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1600 block of Adams St. 11:32 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1400 block of Avon St. 2:38 a.m., Domestic disturbance, 900 block of 16th St. 8:25 a.m., Theft, 3300 block of Rosehill Place 8:25 a.m., Theft, 1000 block of Ninth St. 8:26 a.m., Theft, 500 block of Main St. 8:26 a.m., Theft, 1400 block of Johnson St. 8:34 a.m., Theft, 400 block of Seventh St. 9:24 a.m., Entry to dwelling, 1600 block of Caledonia St. 9:51 a.m., Theft, 400 block of Liberty St. 11:01 a.m., Fraud, first block of Copeland Ave. 12:16 p.m., Entry to dwelling, 1000 block of State St.           <h3>ONALASKA 6:06 p.m., Animal bite, 2600 block of Midwest Drive <h3>WEST SALEM 7:40 a.m., Vandalism, 3400 block of Hwy. 16 12:13 p.m., Theft, 900 block of Hwy. 16 <h3>BANGOR 9:24 a.m., Theft, 1800 block of Commercial St. <h2>Fire Calls <h3>LA CROSSE 3:01 p.m., Accident with injury, Fourth and Mississippi sts. 4:11 p.m., Accident with injury, 4500 block of Hwy. 33 4:26 p.m., Accident with injury, Hwy. 16 and 157 5:45 p.m., First responders, 700 block of Oakland St. 6:18 p.m., First responders, 1800 block of Pine St. 6:40 p.m., Accident with injury, Main and Fourth sts. 9:27 p.m., Natural gas odor, 700 block of Ninth St. N. 10:16 p.m., First responders, 1600 block of Adams St. 10:20 p.m., First responders, 900 block of Vine St. 1:54 a.m., First responders, 4100 block of Velmar Court 8:34 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Seventh St. 9:01 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Seventh St. 10:41 a.m., Accident with injury, Ninth and Vine sts. 10:45 a.m., Carbon monoxide report, 1500 block of Main St. 10:46 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Gillette St. 11:04 a.m., Accident with injury, 1300 block of Rose St. 11:10 a.m., First responders, 1500 block of Rose St. 11:14 a.m., First responders, Fourth and King sts. 11:31 a.m., Accident with injury, 16th and Main sts. 12:05 p.m., Accident with injury, 200 block of Pearl St. 1:12 p.m., Accident with injury, Hood and Miller sts. 2:26 p.m., Accident with injury, 21st St. and Park Ave. <h3>ONALASKA 3:30 p.m., First responders, 1000 block of Westview Circle 5:09 p.m., Accident with injury, 1200 block of Hwy PH 8:02 p.m., First responders, 300 block of 12th Ave. 8:43 p.m., First responders, 300 block of 12th Ave. 8:50 p.m., First responders, 200 block of Oak Forest Drive 9:47 p.m., First responders, 200 block of Carol Lane 6:12 a.m., First responders, 1000 block of Frances Court 10:41 a.m., First responders, 7200 Northshore Lane 11:27 a.m., Accident with injury, Grant St. and Hwy. SN 11:35 a.m., Accident with injury, Commerce and Abbey roads 11:53 a.m., Accident with injury, 300 block of 11th Ave. 12:14 p.m., First responders, 5500 block of Commerce Road 1:08 p.m., First responders, 400 block of Kimberly St. 1:42 p.m., Accident with injury, 600 block of Second Ave. <h3>HOLMEN 9:59 p.m., First responders, 1500 block of Viking Ave. 10:50 a.m., Accident with injury, Sand Lake Road and Laurel Place 1:32 p.m., Accident with injury, 1400 block of Main St. <h3>WEST SALEM 8:53 a.m., First responders, 500 block of Elm St. 11:09 a.m., First responders, 300 block of Franklin St. <h3>MELROSE 1:21 p.m., First responders, 9700 block of Hwy. 108
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 11:07 PM UTC
Police and fire calls for Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016
From 3 p.m. Monday to 3 p.m. Tuesday <h2>Police calls <h3>LA CROSSE 3:39 p.m., Hit-and-run, 4400 block of Hwy. 16 4:11 p.m., Theft, 3700 block of Hwy. 16 4:41 p.m., Hit-and-run, 1100 block of State St. 5:37 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1000 block of Charles St. 5:42 p.m., Theft, 2100 block of Liberty St. 5:59 p.m., Fight, Fourth and King sts. 8:08 p.m., Theft, 2400 block of Rose St. 8:08 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 400 block of Sixth St. 8:37 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1000 block of Fifth Ave. S. 10:14 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1600 block of Adams St. 11:32 p.m., Domestic disturbance, 1400 block of Avon St. 2:38 a.m., Domestic disturbance, 900 block of 16th St. 8:25 a.m., Theft, 3300 block of Rosehill Place 8:25 a.m., Theft, 1000 block of Ninth St. 8:26 a.m., Theft, 500 block of Main St. 8:26 a.m., Theft, 1400 block of Johnson St. 8:34 a.m., Theft, 400 block of Seventh St. 9:24 a.m., Entry to dwelling, 1600 block of Caledonia St. 9:51 a.m., Theft, 400 block of Liberty St. 11:01 a.m., Fraud, first block of Copeland Ave. 12:16 p.m., Entry to dwelling, 1000 block of State St.           <h3>ONALASKA 6:06 p.m., Animal bite, 2600 block of Midwest Drive <h3>WEST SALEM 7:40 a.m., Vandalism, 3400 block of Hwy. 16 12:13 p.m., Theft, 900 block of Hwy. 16 <h3>BANGOR 9:24 a.m., Theft, 1800 block of Commercial St. <h2>Fire Calls <h3>LA CROSSE 3:01 p.m., Accident with injury, Fourth and Mississippi sts. 4:11 p.m., Accident with injury, 4500 block of Hwy. 33 4:26 p.m., Accident with injury, Hwy. 16 and 157 5:45 p.m., First responders, 700 block of Oakland St. 6:18 p.m., First responders, 1800 block of Pine St. 6:40 p.m., Accident with injury, Main and Fourth sts. 9:27 p.m., Natural gas odor, 700 block of Ninth St. N. 10:16 p.m., First responders, 1600 block of Adams St. 10:20 p.m., First responders, 900 block of Vine St. 1:54 a.m., First responders, 4100 block of Velmar Court 8:34 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Seventh St. 9:01 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Seventh St. 10:41 a.m., Accident with injury, Ninth and Vine sts. 10:45 a.m., Carbon monoxide report, 1500 block of Main St. 10:46 a.m., First responders, 400 block of Gillette St. 11:04 a.m., Accident with injury, 1300 block of Rose St. 11:10 a.m., First responders, 1500 block of Rose St. 11:14 a.m., First responders, Fourth and King sts. 11:31 a.m., Accident with injury, 16th and Main sts. 12:05 p.m., Accident with injury, 200 block of Pearl St. 1:12 p.m., Accident with injury, Hood and Miller sts. 2:26 p.m., Accident with injury, 21st St. and Park Ave. <h3>ONALASKA 3:30 p.m., First responders, 1000 block of Westview Circle 5:09 p.m., Accident with injury, 1200 block of Hwy PH 8:02 p.m., First responders, 300 block of 12th Ave. 8:43 p.m., First responders, 300 block of 12th Ave. 8:50 p.m., First responders, 200 block of Oak Forest Drive 9:47 p.m., First responders, 200 block of Carol Lane 6:12 a.m., First responders, 1000 block of Frances Court 10:41 a.m., First responders, 7200 Northshore Lane 11:27 a.m., Accident with injury, Grant St. and Hwy. SN 11:35 a.m., Accident with injury, Commerce and Abbey roads 11:53 a.m., Accident with injury, 300 block of 11th Ave. 12:14 p.m., First responders, 5500 block of Commerce Road 1:08 p.m., First responders, 400 block of Kimberly St. 1:42 p.m., Accident with injury, 600 block of Second Ave. <h3>HOLMEN 9:59 p.m., First responders, 1500 block of Viking Ave. 10:50 a.m., Accident with injury, Sand Lake Road and Laurel Place 1:32 p.m., Accident with injury, 1400 block of Main St. <h3>WEST SALEM 8:53 a.m., First responders, 500 block of Elm St. 11:09 a.m., First responders, 300 block of Franklin St. <h3>MELROSE 1:21 p.m., First responders, 9700 block of Hwy. 108
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The farthest man made object in space, Voyager 1, is over 20 billion km away from Earth. On board is a phonograph record, brilliant gold, containing sounds and images of what life is like on earth, A message to whoever is able to listen, a literal shot in the dark. On it is an inscription that is perhaps the most beautiful sentence I have ever read TO THE MAKERS OF MUSIC ALL TIMES ALL WORLDS a time capsule, a gift, from us To anywhere and everywhere A hundred years from now or a thousand Our belief that no matter what time Or world you belong to, melody and harmony and rhythm, can bring us together, can communicate. On the cover Are figures, explaining how to operate this record Hieroglyphics from what by then Would be ancient history Messages in binary, the 1s and 0s Our position in the universe marked by our distances from gigantic pulsars, the star map to our home, the creators of this message There's beauty in this marriage of math and art Code and music As a way to communicate with the universe. Some of the images on the record are the most beautifully simple ones, Of us, humans, drinking and eating, laughing, of animals, nature, food and architecture. Then there are images of our scientific observations, mathematical calculations, our discoveries, Like a child showing off Look, look what I can do! Black and white and in colour, Pictures, proof that we, indeed have lived and achieved. The music, classical, our very best from Bach and Mozart to Blind Willie Johnson's Dark was the Night. But all of this can only matter, can come to fruition if someone exists to receive it, and is evolved enough to comprehend what it means. But that's the thing, everybody knows, That's there's a slim chance of this record ever being heard, and it's much more possible that the Voyager will simply end up as floating debris in the cosmos, but it doesn't matter! We just want someone to know that there was a species of bipedal, intelligent animals on this blue planet, no different than finding graffiti in alleys that read I WAS HERE. WE WERE HERE, WE EXISTED. And it's all about that hope, the hope that someone will see us, our pictures, listen to our languages, our greetings, our music, and remember us, even after we're long gone. Or perhaps we will one day be interstellar space faring people as well, following the path of the Voyager, doing what we do best, Explore.
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 9:32 AM UTC
Space graffiti
The farthest man made object in space, Voyager 1, is over 20 billion km away from Earth. On board is a phonograph record, brilliant gold, containing sounds and images of what life is like on earth, A message to whoever is able to listen, a literal shot in the dark. On it is an inscription that is perhaps the most beautiful sentence I have ever read TO THE MAKERS OF MUSIC ALL TIMES ALL WORLDS a time capsule, a gift, from us To anywhere and everywhere A hundred years from now or a thousand Our belief that no matter what time Or world you belong to, melody and harmony and rhythm, can bring us together, can communicate. On the cover Are figures, explaining how to operate this record Hieroglyphics from what by then Would be ancient history Messages in binary, the 1s and 0s Our position in the universe marked by our distances from gigantic pulsars, the star map to our home, the creators of this message There's beauty in this marriage of math and art Code and music As a way to communicate with the universe. Some of the images on the record are the most beautifully simple ones, Of us, humans, drinking and eating, laughing, of animals, nature, food and architecture. Then there are images of our scientific observations, mathematical calculations, our discoveries, Like a child showing off Look, look what I can do! Black and white and in colour, Pictures, proof that we, indeed have lived and achieved. The music, classical, our very best from Bach and Mozart to Blind Willie Johnson's Dark was the Night. But all of this can only matter, can come to fruition if someone exists to receive it, and is evolved enough to comprehend what it means. But that's the thing, everybody knows, That's there's a slim chance of this record ever being heard, and it's much more possible that the Voyager will simply end up as floating debris in the cosmos, but it doesn't matter! We just want someone to know that there was a species of bipedal, intelligent animals on this blue planet, no different than finding graffiti in alleys that read I WAS HERE. WE WERE HERE, WE EXISTED. And it's all about that hope, the hope that someone will see us, our pictures, listen to our languages, our greetings, our music, and remember us, even after we're long gone. Or perhaps we will one day be interstellar space faring people as well, following the path of the Voyager, doing what we do best, Explore.
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Paul Johnson was a mad psychopath. He had killed hundreds of women in his life all by himself. He never used any tools to **** He barehandedly killed those women. His ex-girlfriend was the reason why he killed. She had ran away with his brother leaving him hurt so bad like crazy. His ex-girlfriend was a beautiful blonde. He chased them for years. When he found them he brutally killed them. He mutilated the poor girl into little slices. He beheaded and castrated his brother. Then he cast their remains into fire. Ever since then he had never stopped killing. His victims were always women aged between 25 and 30. They're always blonde and blue-eyed. He strangled them all with his hands before he buried them in his basement. One day he mistakenly killed a brunette who was wearing a blonde wig and . He was so startled that he stopped killing and soon after hanged himself His mother was a beautiful brunette.
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Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 2010 at 8:09 AM UTC
The Psychopath's Atonement
At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads Robert Johnson met the devil Sold his soul so people say Robert Johnson at the crossroads Just to trade so he could play I've prayed in bars, been drunk in church Now I'm here to end my search I'm standing at the crossroads, Devil come to me I'm standing at the crossroads, Devil come to me At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads My bottle's empty, gun is not My guitar across my back I've made my choice, now hear my  voice I ain't never going back I've prayed to all god's angels Said that I'm an empty shell Today, I'm on my way to heaven Or, I'm on my way to hell I see someone in the distance Has the devil come to me Is he here to make a purchase Or refuse and set me free At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads At a crossroads at the crossroads I'm at a crossroads at the crossroads Devil Come to me I'm at a crossroads at the crossroads Someone set me free I'm at a crossroads at the crossroads Devil Come to Me I'm at a crossroads at the crossroads Someone set me free Someone set me free Devil come to me Someone set me free
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 10:51 AM UTC
At a Crossroads at the Crossroads
There is a wildness still in England that will not feed In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer's hand, Easy to **** not easy to tame. It will never breed In a zoo for the public pleasure. It will not be planned. Do not blame us too much if we that are hedgerow folk Cannot swell the rejoicings at this new world you make - We, hedge-hogged as Johnson or Borrow, strange to the yoke As Landor, surly as Cobbett (that badger), birdlike as Blake. A new scent troubles the air -- to you, friendly perhaps But we with animal wisdom have understood that smell. To all our kind its message is Guns, Ferrets, and Traps, And a Ministry gassing the little holes in which we dwell.
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The Condemned
This is just so all of you know, I appreciate all of the support you’ve shown, Helped me regain a positivity, helped me to grow, Relit the fire inside me, allowing me to once again glow. The caring nature you all completely have, I know you’re all genuine; it’s not just a job to get cash, You really want to help, give us the skills so we know what to do if we crash, Help us see the good inside ourselves, the true facts. So thank you again for everything you’ve done, Because now I can hold my head up, I can see the sun, You helped me unlock a lot of my skeletons, Once again I can start to enjoy life and have fun. Keep up the good work, especially when it’s tough, Even if you only manage a little, it will be enough, To help us deal or unravel some of our stuff, Just a smile can help when we’re feeling rough. So I want you all to give yourself a hug and pat on the back, Maybe one day we will meet again, (minus the hat) When my life is going somewhere, back on track, Thank you all, from the hard nut to crack, insomniac. © Emma Johnson
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Feb 6, 2010
Feb 6, 2010 at 2:40 AM UTC
Thankyou
Pussycat Dolls, Pussycat Dolls, Where have you been? We've been up to London To see Queen The Musical Then went to see the mayor Hid his computer mouse On his electric chair. Switched it on! Not so much PC - More AC/DC And then we were gone On a sightseeing trip With an aunt and a niece. Poor Boris Johnson RIP.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM UTC
Pussycat Dolls Meet Boris
An Open Letter to Really Important People                      The Old Dime Box, Texas Statement            A Manifesto Made Manifest in Manifesting Manifestingness We post this serious looking document Bloated with long vocabulary words Sodden with weak dependent clauses Marshaled in numbered ranks, down, down they go To the GossipNet all serious like And everyone has to pay attention to us Because it’s AN OPEN LETTER, y’know - You may sign it if you’ve got letters behind your name Signatories: Apostle-Disciple Magic Dawn, DD., Non-Binary, Author of Green Polar Bears I Am, Co-Equal-Director of the Anti-Oppressionist Theatre Against the Occupation, Agent of the Revolution, Auteur, Guest on The Wheel of Fortune and Parent of Two AMAZING children of indeterminate Gender with Their AWESOME and AMAZING Life-Partner Sven-Marie. Massive Ferguson, M.Ed., Poet, Rector of Admissions, The University of Where the Old Circuit City Use to Be Poncy Tworbst, M.A., PUBLISHED Author, Seeker, Inspirational Singer-Songwriter, PUBLISHED Heather-Mistee La’ Thwitte-Tworbst, Ph.D., Director of Library Resources at Saint Margaret ****** Homeschool Resource Authority Collective, Inc., Certified Ordained Consecrated Priest in The Worldwide Church of Me-ness and Pastor of the World-Famous Weddings ‘R’ Us Chapel of Rainbow Dreams in Magdalena, New Mexico Lawrence Hall, HSG, Thinker of Thinky-Ness and, Like, Stuff, Endowed Chair he found at Goodwill, His Mark: X (Sean Ian Johann Johnson, MBA, J.D., Chief Photocopier Operator at Donald Trump University and Fashion Editor at Gun, God, and Guts Magazine, was not able to sign today; he is sharing a cell with other White House staff and patiently awaiting The Day of Greatness.)
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 3:48 PM UTC
An Open Letter to Really Important People / The Old Dime Box, Texas Statement
An Open Letter to Really Important People                      The Old Dime Box, Texas Statement            A Manifesto Made Manifest in Manifesting Manifestingness We post this serious looking document Bloated with long vocabulary words Sodden with weak dependent clauses Marshaled in numbered ranks, down, down they go To the GossipNet all serious like And everyone has to pay attention to us Because it’s AN OPEN LETTER, y’know - You may sign it if you’ve got letters behind your name Signatories: Apostle-Disciple Magic Dawn, DD., Non-Binary, Author of Green Polar Bears I Am, Co-Equal-Director of the Anti-Oppressionist Theatre Against the Occupation, Agent of the Revolution, Auteur, Guest on The Wheel of Fortune and Parent of Two AMAZING children of indeterminate Gender with Their AWESOME and AMAZING Life-Partner Sven-Marie. Massive Ferguson, M.Ed., Poet, Rector of Admissions, The University of Where the Old Circuit City Use to Be Poncy Tworbst, M.A., PUBLISHED Author, Seeker, Inspirational Singer-Songwriter, PUBLISHED Heather-Mistee La’ Thwitte-Tworbst, Ph.D., Director of Library Resources at Saint Margaret ****** Homeschool Resource Authority Collective, Inc., Certified Ordained Consecrated Priest in The Worldwide Church of Me-ness and Pastor of the World-Famous Weddings ‘R’ Us Chapel of Rainbow Dreams in Magdalena, New Mexico Lawrence Hall, HSG, Thinker of Thinky-Ness and, Like, Stuff, Endowed Chair he found at Goodwill, His Mark: X (Sean Ian Johann Johnson, MBA, J.D., Chief Photocopier Operator at Donald Trump University and Fashion Editor at Gun, God, and Guts Magazine, was not able to sign today; he is sharing a cell with other White House staff and patiently awaiting The Day of Greatness.)
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Granite plaque in a tulip bed, end to the Oregon Trail. Teminus for ordeal by ox and prairie schooner, where slight survivors began rejuvenation, the wretched fortunate refusing a backward glance, children with ancient faces set atop skeletal frames tried desperately to remember what it meant to play. Manifest Destiny's broken terra incognitae rested. Swamp Mama Johnson's concert in the park, a blues-to-the-wall celebration of life and love, was a saxaphoned shibboleth for offbeat orphans. Homeless youth played hacky-sack in time; a baglady danced with the little girl with Downs; a camera rocked on the shoulders of the PBS man --- Olympia gave hommage to ghosts in the gazebo.
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Feb 25, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 at 4:59 PM UTC
Sesquicentennial in Sylvester Park -- 1/28/97
jeweltoned and silent figeating fidgeting mayqueens of vienna: morituri te salutant. cupidfresh bruises on your thighs brought to you by johnson & johnson a family company amen they will do right by you. honeyed dew sticks to morning eyelids (sugarwater my eyelashes hummingbird tongues)— vague rifle form at constant alert attn. california capricorns: your winterspeak eludes me yet. lighteyed candle-holders and coffeeringed eyes tell me all I have ever needed to know about yelling fire in an ice skating rink
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 5:21 AM UTC
ave caesar
I got handles that can handle any problem If they the problem I can solve em I bench boys like I do at the gym Sorry boys All I do is win Call it 1988 Cause I'm bringing the heat Like #33 You wont forget me But unlike triple threat Call me self reliant I'm a one man team Call me Kobe Bryant Like 2 Three-peat Just like the Lakers I'm taking over your town 33 winning streak 16 championships The press always giving me Full court press I wouldn't call this chemistry Its magic like Johnson I feel like Jrue Holiday, Underrated But I feel like this our year, Toronto Raptors I got handles that can handle any problem If they the problem I'm they the problem
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 6:12 PM UTC
Underrated
The formulae for well being is found in those memories, a preparedness to unearth yesterday's yearbooks; which releases those far flung controls of analogue,  resurrecting belt driven record players to play Starbuck and Brothers Johnson reviving  '76, mentally speeding on pristine motorways, buzzing by on a chevy  corvette humming to the suggestive "Afternoon Delight" vying with your Radio's antenna.
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 7:05 AM UTC
Gateway 1976
President Elizabeth Warren Vice-President Dwayne Johnson Treasury Secretary Bernie Sanders Chief of Staff Hillary Clinton Michelle Obama Secretary of State White House Spokesman Joe Biden Supreme Ct Nomine Barack Obama Why not run a champion ticket by joining together to win?
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Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 6:12 PM UTC
2020 star ticket
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in the dentist's waiting room. It was winter. It got dark early. The waiting room was full of grown-up people, arctics and overcoats, lamps and magazines. My aunt was inside what seemed like a long time and while I waited and read the National Geographic (I could read) and carefully studied the photographs: the inside of a volcano, black, and full of ashes; then it was spilling over in rivulets of fire. Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets. A dead man slung on a pole "Long Pig," the caption said. Babies with pointed heads wound round and round with string; black, naked women with necks wound round and round with wire like the necks of light bulbs. Their ******* were horrifying. I read it right straight through. I was too shy to stop. And then I looked at the cover: the yellow margins, the date. Suddenly, from inside, came an oh! of pain --Aunt Consuelo's voice-- not very loud or long. I wasn't at all surprised; even then I knew she was a foolish, timid woman. I might have been embarrassed, but wasn't. What took me completely by surprise was that it was me: my voice, in my mouth. Without thinking at all I was my foolish aunt, I--we--were falling, falling, our eyes glued to the cover of the National Geographic, February, 1918. I said to myself: three days and you'll be seven years old. I was saying it to stop the sensation of falling off the round, turning world. into cold, blue-black space. But I felt: you are an I, you are an Elizabeth, you are one of them. Why should you be one, too? I scarcely dared to look to see what it was I was. I gave a sidelong glance --I couldn't look any higher-- at shadowy gray knees, trousers and skirts and boots and different pairs of hands lying under the lamps. I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging ******* held us all together or made us all just one? How I didn't know any word for it how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here, like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn't? The waiting room was bright and too hot. It was sliding beneath a big black wave, another, and another. Then I was back in it. The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, 1918.
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In The Waiting Room
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in the dentist's waiting room. It was winter. It got dark early. The waiting room was full of grown-up people, arctics and overcoats, lamps and magazines. My aunt was inside what seemed like a long time and while I waited and read the National Geographic (I could read) and carefully studied the photographs: the inside of a volcano, black, and full of ashes; then it was spilling over in rivulets of fire. Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets. A dead man slung on a pole "Long Pig," the caption said. Babies with pointed heads wound round and round with string; black, naked women with necks wound round and round with wire like the necks of light bulbs. Their ******* were horrifying. I read it right straight through. I was too shy to stop. And then I looked at the cover: the yellow margins, the date. Suddenly, from inside, came an oh! of pain --Aunt Consuelo's voice-- not very loud or long. I wasn't at all surprised; even then I knew she was a foolish, timid woman. I might have been embarrassed, but wasn't. What took me completely by surprise was that it was me: my voice, in my mouth. Without thinking at all I was my foolish aunt, I--we--were falling, falling, our eyes glued to the cover of the National Geographic, February, 1918. I said to myself: three days and you'll be seven years old. I was saying it to stop the sensation of falling off the round, turning world. into cold, blue-black space. But I felt: you are an I, you are an Elizabeth, you are one of them. Why should you be one, too? I scarcely dared to look to see what it was I was. I gave a sidelong glance --I couldn't look any higher-- at shadowy gray knees, trousers and skirts and boots and different pairs of hands lying under the lamps. I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging ******* held us all together or made us all just one? How I didn't know any word for it how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here, like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn't? The waiting room was bright and too hot. It was sliding beneath a big black wave, another, and another. Then I was back in it. The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, 1918.
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To the child I can't mother; don't be too smart. At this age, you don't need 1,000 to count the stars. You don't need pronouns to define what you are. Happiness defines who you are. A happy person, I wish you become. I don't mind you causing a headache, remember when I read you about nations, and you asked why states exist to rule? Little pumpkin, I can't believe I'm raising an anarchist, how funny is that? I want to take you to walk the beach at sunrise. You are probably sleeping, so I'll carry you in my arms. We can study the peebles and find a perfect spot to lie down, I can smell Johnson's on your hair and the dream you had last night.
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Feb 12, 2024
Feb 12, 2024 at 10:42 AM UTC
To the child I can't mother
Yeah it's one shot one **** Plottin' against my enemies will soon to be killed Bullets feedin' ya last meal Dope rhymes sedatin' like pharmacy pills Since hataz got no chill heads I'll drill  now you leakin' out like oil spills Or a radiator angelic caters none could create a Flows nasty as mine poppin' a multiplicity of shells I'm one of a kind Thoughts intertwined   ****** into a demons intervention contenders in suspension from the soul lynching Caught in the realms of heaven and hell & you can smell The ashes burning fermentin' time runnin' slower than molasses My murders be classic enemies dramatic causin' static Shoot more than Bird combined with Magic Workin' my Johnson on the tracks tonsils sittin' as a hip hop consul underground magul   **** longer than Repunzels hair follicles Cookin' up sigils into a *** of gold no rainbow snortin' sir nose D'void of Funk rattlin' the earth from the bass in my trunk blazin' skunks Abraxas I'm embracin' one of my goetias when facin' ain't no replacin' Fools givin' chase and to tastes of demonic faces My flows replenish like **** laces Blunts turn into ashes dump it out on the masses Epidemic mase deaden your pace hazardous like toxic waste Adversaries don't wanna face Off like Nicolas to Travolta livin' in an ultra violent culture Cleatin' into ya flesh I be the stalkin' Vulture mulchin' ya 'til ya   A dissembled particle blank photo in the article from curvin' emcees with my surgical lyrical sickle stare into ya eyes as the blood trickles Down ya body you easily brickled rhymes artificial My soul sour as a pickle no tickles Could move me or influence thee my legacy Lay cinematography like A. Hitchcock in the 50s huh Ya soon to be a death reel for thrills Rememeber All I need is one shot one **** forreal!!!!
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Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 4:57 PM UTC
One Shot One ****
Yeah it's one shot one **** Plottin' against my enemies will soon to be killed Bullets feedin' ya last meal Dope rhymes sedatin' like pharmacy pills Since hataz got no chill heads I'll drill  now you leakin' out like oil spills Or a radiator angelic caters none could create a Flows nasty as mine poppin' a multiplicity of shells I'm one of a kind Thoughts intertwined   ****** into a demons intervention contenders in suspension from the soul lynching Caught in the realms of heaven and hell & you can smell The ashes burning fermentin' time runnin' slower than molasses My murders be classic enemies dramatic causin' static Shoot more than Bird combined with Magic Workin' my Johnson on the tracks tonsils sittin' as a hip hop consul underground magul   **** longer than Repunzels hair follicles Cookin' up sigils into a *** of gold no rainbow snortin' sir nose D'void of Funk rattlin' the earth from the bass in my trunk blazin' skunks Abraxas I'm embracin' one of my goetias when facin' ain't no replacin' Fools givin' chase and to tastes of demonic faces My flows replenish like **** laces Blunts turn into ashes dump it out on the masses Epidemic mase deaden your pace hazardous like toxic waste Adversaries don't wanna face Off like Nicolas to Travolta livin' in an ultra violent culture Cleatin' into ya flesh I be the stalkin' Vulture mulchin' ya 'til ya   A dissembled particle blank photo in the article from curvin' emcees with my surgical lyrical sickle stare into ya eyes as the blood trickles Down ya body you easily brickled rhymes artificial My soul sour as a pickle no tickles Could move me or influence thee my legacy Lay cinematography like A. Hitchcock in the 50s huh Ya soon to be a death reel for thrills Rememeber All I need is one shot one **** forreal!!!!
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Names are funny. Have you ever wondered what your name would be if your parents didn't name you? I'm one of the lucky few that know. If my parents didn't name me, my name would be Timothy. You see, apparently, when two people love each other, Mommy cheats on Donny with daddy and all three demonize the baby. Unfortunately, abortion isn't an option. Poor Donny believes his little Johnson made a tiny Willie but really it's Mike's Rick. The trick wasn't revealed until Donny signed the birth certificate. Obviously, Karen's husband abandoned their family. Mike ripped his love from her and gave it to Dominique. Karen, twice-scorned, mid-divorce, postpartum, decides a shelter isn't suitable for a nameless infant. At this point, it's a little too late for abortion. Nowhere to go, knowing she can't stay, Adoption became the practical option. The noxious auction caused a nauseous reaction to her conscious. Karen picked the option, least pompus, with the most promise. An intuitively honest Christian was brought to her room so she could sign the synopsis. As she's reviewing the terms of this blood oath, she glances at both of the parents cradling her second baby boy. They turn and ask "What is his name?" "I don't know. I thought he was going to be a she so I had the name Sade." "That's ok, we have a perfect name in mind. Timothy."
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM UTC
Blood is Thicker
Another Graceful Mentor guides my Side To ensure my Skills fly in Good Respect Those Rivered Words; Service and Satisfy, Two Stone Codes to keep Clients out of Debt And fortunate I was to keep this New Thanks to your Report of Knots I un-weave Press well on Speed; But keep Quality true To hear Smiling Faces before they leave I'll keep my Silence; And Pray all goes well As the Bond between in Profession last A Basket I learned from your Talents sell With hope that Demotion will come to pass. All which I gathered, I'll keep in my Bank, The worthy Deposit your Aid I thank.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: LIAM JOHNSON
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then! I'm mad and disgusted With that ***** now. I don't pay no REVERSED CHARGES nohow. You say, I will pay it-- Else you'll take out my phone? You better let My phone alone. I didn't ask him To telephone me. Roscoe knows **** well LONG DISTANCE Ain't free. If I ever catch him, Lawd, have pity! Calling me up From Kansas City. Just to say he loves me! I knowed that was so. Why didn't he tell me some'n I don't know? For instance, what can Them other girls do That Alberta K. Johnson Can't do--and more, too? What's that, Central? You say you don't care Nothing about my Private affair? Well, even less about your PHONE BILL, does I care! Un-humm-m! . . . Yes! You say I gave my O.K.? Well, that O.K. you may keep-- But I sure ain't gonna pay!
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Madam And The Phone Bill