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society society society we were so happy why did you drive us insane my labeling humanity we are growing younger because of your dense behavior you should have been silent instead of calling us a failure what you gain is satisfaction But, in us what is lost is compassion you are blind, you don't see you don't know, what is reality you don't speak because you are afraid afraid, that you may not be happy like you are today -Kaya
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 12:38 PM UTC
Society
Let's hold out hope for the crippled. Hope for the crippled? No thanks, this crip doesn't need your hope. This crip needs you to stop. Stop labeling me. Stop feeling sorry for me. Stop pitying me and my 'poor life' Just ******* stop! No, really, I'm okay. I don't need you. I don't need you or your miracles. Don't tell me God works miracles And to hold out hope Because maybe one day I'll walk Or maybe I'll get to see from both eyes Because God works miracles But you're too busy fixing what isn't broken that you forget If I was truly made in his image this crip doesn't need healed. This crip doesn't need your prayers or miracles. This crip doesn't need your God or your salvation. This crip doesn't need your hope. Poor soul, she's diminished by her disability. Diminished by my disability? The only thing I'm diminished by Is your inability to understand That before anything else I am human. I make mistakes and have flaws. I feel, probably more than most, And sometimes those feelings get in the way. I empathize but I am done sympathizing. You say my wheelchair is a blessing in disguise. Why can't it just be a blessing? A blessing that comes with lots of lessons. Some that I learn the hard way and some that come easy. But this wheelchair doesn't need a reason To teach me (or you) a lesson. Sure, it frustrates me when a wheel breaks or I fall on a broken sidewalk But it teaches me humility and patience. And there's no reason to disguise that this wheelchair is a blessing. So, please take your hope and pity Your guilt and salvation elsewhere Because they're defeating the purpose. They're detracting from the point. I am not diminished by my disability. I am not to be quieted or pitied I am not your reason to feel guilty I am not a burden I am human.
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 1:37 AM UTC
Human
Let's hold out hope for the crippled. Hope for the crippled? No thanks, this crip doesn't need your hope. This crip needs you to stop. Stop labeling me. Stop feeling sorry for me. Stop pitying me and my 'poor life' Just ******* stop! No, really, I'm okay. I don't need you. I don't need you or your miracles. Don't tell me God works miracles And to hold out hope Because maybe one day I'll walk Or maybe I'll get to see from both eyes Because God works miracles But you're too busy fixing what isn't broken that you forget If I was truly made in his image this crip doesn't need healed. This crip doesn't need your prayers or miracles. This crip doesn't need your God or your salvation. This crip doesn't need your hope. Poor soul, she's diminished by her disability. Diminished by my disability? The only thing I'm diminished by Is your inability to understand That before anything else I am human. I make mistakes and have flaws. I feel, probably more than most, And sometimes those feelings get in the way. I empathize but I am done sympathizing. You say my wheelchair is a blessing in disguise. Why can't it just be a blessing? A blessing that comes with lots of lessons. Some that I learn the hard way and some that come easy. But this wheelchair doesn't need a reason To teach me (or you) a lesson. Sure, it frustrates me when a wheel breaks or I fall on a broken sidewalk But it teaches me humility and patience. And there's no reason to disguise that this wheelchair is a blessing. So, please take your hope and pity Your guilt and salvation elsewhere Because they're defeating the purpose. They're detracting from the point. I am not diminished by my disability. I am not to be quieted or pitied I am not your reason to feel guilty I am not a burden I am human.
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Being present means I'm not mentally labeling Creating inner space and stillness, a being's haven Being present means I'm not feeling emotionally drained Creating inner space and stillness, more and more gained Being present means I'm not waiting to react Creating inner space and stillness, a being's habitat Being present means I'm not clinging to the past Creating inner space and stillness, it is so vast Being present means I'm not worrying about the future Creating inner space and stillness, and this I will nurture Being present means I'm not compulsive thinking Creating inner space and stillness, to God I am linking Being present means I'm not judging what others think, say or do Creating inner space and stillness, a being's point of view Being present means I'm not resisting what is Creating inner space and stillness, a native of this Being present means I'm not attached to any kind of form Creating inner space and stillness, a being's norm Being present means I'm alert and alive Creating inner space and stillness, a being's high five Being present means I have the time for you Creating inner space and stillness, and wholeness too Being present means I enjoy what I do Creating inner space and stillness, consciously too Being present means I am consciously speaking, doing and acting Creating inner space and stillness, of which there is no lacking Being present means I am aligned to my purpose Creating inner space and stillness, alive and alertness Being present means I am at peace Creating inner space and stillness, and flowing with ease Being present means I accept its isness Creating inner space and stillness, that is growing within us Being present means I know there is no more important moment Creating inner space and stillness, and feeling atonement Being present means I'm connecting to a depth within Creating inner space and stillness, for all to live in Being present means there's nowhere else I'd rather be Creating inner space and stillness, and the power To Be Plant your flower ........ Being present means I know there's no more Important moment Than NOW © Delores Wiltse 2008 Excerpt from: A Door Is Opening/AuthorHouse.com Fresh Spiritual Poetry via: http://peacefromwithin.shawwebspace.ca/
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM UTC
Being Present
Being present means I'm not mentally labeling Creating inner space and stillness, a being's haven Being present means I'm not feeling emotionally drained Creating inner space and stillness, more and more gained Being present means I'm not waiting to react Creating inner space and stillness, a being's habitat Being present means I'm not clinging to the past Creating inner space and stillness, it is so vast Being present means I'm not worrying about the future Creating inner space and stillness, and this I will nurture Being present means I'm not compulsive thinking Creating inner space and stillness, to God I am linking Being present means I'm not judging what others think, say or do Creating inner space and stillness, a being's point of view Being present means I'm not resisting what is Creating inner space and stillness, a native of this Being present means I'm not attached to any kind of form Creating inner space and stillness, a being's norm Being present means I'm alert and alive Creating inner space and stillness, a being's high five Being present means I have the time for you Creating inner space and stillness, and wholeness too Being present means I enjoy what I do Creating inner space and stillness, consciously too Being present means I am consciously speaking, doing and acting Creating inner space and stillness, of which there is no lacking Being present means I am aligned to my purpose Creating inner space and stillness, alive and alertness Being present means I am at peace Creating inner space and stillness, and flowing with ease Being present means I accept its isness Creating inner space and stillness, that is growing within us Being present means I know there is no more important moment Creating inner space and stillness, and feeling atonement Being present means I'm connecting to a depth within Creating inner space and stillness, for all to live in Being present means there's nowhere else I'd rather be Creating inner space and stillness, and the power To Be Plant your flower ........ Being present means I know there's no more Important moment Than NOW © Delores Wiltse 2008 Excerpt from: A Door Is Opening/AuthorHouse.com Fresh Spiritual Poetry via: http://peacefromwithin.shawwebspace.ca/
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I don’t think you understand, because I don’t, this wasn’t what I planned. So I’m wondering how you can understand, when I don’t. I won’t lose myself loving you, I won’t. You’ve got me feeling too many different things, got me contemplating cutting our tethered strings. Falling in love has me tripping over my own two feet? Maybe. All I know is I’m slipping face first into this tangled mess and now guilt eats at me as I slip from your arms half dressed in the mornings when all I want is to escape, wishing I was Wonder Woman with that red cape. I slip away, but it hurts- but I’ve seen it; my family, we’re cursed. Concerning love, we’ve had no luck I can’t lose you, so I’m labeling us a causal **** I hear you yelling now that you know my reasons, promising our love could survive even the coldest season. But how can he be so sure? Doubts plague me as I slip toward his front door, because love didn’t come with a brochure. I hear you figuring aloud that I don’t love you enough. You come to the conclusion, “if this is how you feel, then I’ll set you free” I got in my car, driving around till the clouds were dark and the clock said three. Your words had been like knives, but then I started thinking about my dad’s four wives. My brain’s all jumbled, it’s like there was one second left, I was on the one yard line, and I fumbled. Is the risk worth it? Could my heart even take the hit? When I got home, in the dark I saw you standing my heart was demanding that I make my way over to you but my brain said these feelings needed to be subdued. I heard you say “I love you too much to set you free” It was then when I looked in your eyes, love was all I could truly see. My scalp tingled in realization, as I floated toward you with some type of natural gravitation. My heart had already taken the risk, without permission and that’s when I mumbled my belated admission; “I love you too and I’ll take my chances,” My brain finally conceded to your romantic advances. But really, truth was, I’d been under an illusion because our love had always been a foregone conclusion.
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 4:31 PM UTC
Catching Feelings
I don’t think you understand, because I don’t, this wasn’t what I planned. So I’m wondering how you can understand, when I don’t. I won’t lose myself loving you, I won’t. You’ve got me feeling too many different things, got me contemplating cutting our tethered strings. Falling in love has me tripping over my own two feet? Maybe. All I know is I’m slipping face first into this tangled mess and now guilt eats at me as I slip from your arms half dressed in the mornings when all I want is to escape, wishing I was Wonder Woman with that red cape. I slip away, but it hurts- but I’ve seen it; my family, we’re cursed. Concerning love, we’ve had no luck I can’t lose you, so I’m labeling us a causal **** I hear you yelling now that you know my reasons, promising our love could survive even the coldest season. But how can he be so sure? Doubts plague me as I slip toward his front door, because love didn’t come with a brochure. I hear you figuring aloud that I don’t love you enough. You come to the conclusion, “if this is how you feel, then I’ll set you free” I got in my car, driving around till the clouds were dark and the clock said three. Your words had been like knives, but then I started thinking about my dad’s four wives. My brain’s all jumbled, it’s like there was one second left, I was on the one yard line, and I fumbled. Is the risk worth it? Could my heart even take the hit? When I got home, in the dark I saw you standing my heart was demanding that I make my way over to you but my brain said these feelings needed to be subdued. I heard you say “I love you too much to set you free” It was then when I looked in your eyes, love was all I could truly see. My scalp tingled in realization, as I floated toward you with some type of natural gravitation. My heart had already taken the risk, without permission and that’s when I mumbled my belated admission; “I love you too and I’ll take my chances,” My brain finally conceded to your romantic advances. But really, truth was, I’d been under an illusion because our love had always been a foregone conclusion.
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Last week, among friends black and white, among some discussion of protests in Ferguson and the related looting of stores, I invoked the word. It was an admission, in a round of confessions, of something about myself that I didn't like: that I had perceived Michael Brown in that way based on his possible participation in a strong-armed robbery. When Travon Martin was in the news, I was inflamed like many others who wanted George Zimmerman in jail for ****** The outcome of that trial was an injustice, I was utterly certain. Why does this case in Missouri feel different? More importantly, Who is inside me that still wants to rise in defiance of 48 years of learning how to be a better person, a person without prejudices, stereotyping, labeling of others, hurtful language? Where is the hippie girl now? How does she live with this other person? Am I Sterling, Gibson, a hater and spewer of viciousness, a lover of separation and separateness, that I should invite damage to my own relationships with those I love and cherish and respect? What is a **** but a bully, and what is a bully but someone who pushes words around like weapons, spits them out indiscriminately, so that they land on the already bruised heart and set it on fire. Whose heart, besides mine, now sits in smoke and ash, with that word like a brand still sore and permanent, having been spoken aloud?
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 11:44 AM UTC
****
Socialist agendas destroying pride labeling me based upon appearance a racist with a bald head just another ******* just guilty of being white political correctness negating free speech when all i do is speak the truth free of racist intent yet i am just another redneck just guilty of being white white pride tattooed upon my chest iron crosses upon my arms but you look for a hidden meaning when all it means it white pride and respect for my German heritage its funny, the double standard that exists when minorities do the same and its nothing more than pride but i am guilty without reason beyond a doubt in your mind yet you call me a racist what does that say about you?
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 4:13 AM UTC
guilty of being white
And love is really important, even if just for one night. It can chase away your biggest fears, it can get your through your toughest fight. Don't let society make you feel cheap for only needing love in small, temporary amounts. Your value as a person isn't derived from your *** partner count. Don't let them make you feel ***** or small, because some of us need this to survive. The night of love we get from strangers, we use just to stay alive. Because relationships can be messy, and hearts are so easily broken. But through nights of whisky and hotel rooms, we find words of peace that were never spoken. And some of us don't have hearts, as they were stolen long ago. From men called "Dad" and men in suits, and men who we've never known. And maybe the word **** makes the people feel okay. This type of labeling has been going on since the Biblical days. Maybe it makes them feel better about their own sinful ways. Maybe when the Earth crumbles, they'll have a price to pay. Because they don't know what it's like to be empty for so long, That the thought of being full terrifies you. They don't know that you'd rather be wrong, than risk the pain that being right can put you through. But I do, my dear. For I am one of you. I've felt closer to heaven in the arms of strangers than I ever have kneeling on a pew. I know what you dream of, darling. I know that you dream of lasting and healing love. I know that you feel prisoner by your demons, I know you hope for a sign from above. Don't let the world bother you much. I understand you; I know you're doing your best. For now, it's okay to find comfort in a stranger's touch, to let love fall from your mouth. To let pain flow from of your chest.
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Mar 10, 2014
Mar 10, 2014 at 12:37 AM UTC
Slut-shaming
And love is really important, even if just for one night. It can chase away your biggest fears, it can get your through your toughest fight. Don't let society make you feel cheap for only needing love in small, temporary amounts. Your value as a person isn't derived from your *** partner count. Don't let them make you feel ***** or small, because some of us need this to survive. The night of love we get from strangers, we use just to stay alive. Because relationships can be messy, and hearts are so easily broken. But through nights of whisky and hotel rooms, we find words of peace that were never spoken. And some of us don't have hearts, as they were stolen long ago. From men called "Dad" and men in suits, and men who we've never known. And maybe the word **** makes the people feel okay. This type of labeling has been going on since the Biblical days. Maybe it makes them feel better about their own sinful ways. Maybe when the Earth crumbles, they'll have a price to pay. Because they don't know what it's like to be empty for so long, That the thought of being full terrifies you. They don't know that you'd rather be wrong, than risk the pain that being right can put you through. But I do, my dear. For I am one of you. I've felt closer to heaven in the arms of strangers than I ever have kneeling on a pew. I know what you dream of, darling. I know that you dream of lasting and healing love. I know that you feel prisoner by your demons, I know you hope for a sign from above. Don't let the world bother you much. I understand you; I know you're doing your best. For now, it's okay to find comfort in a stranger's touch, to let love fall from your mouth. To let pain flow from of your chest.
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Only a moment ago stood a father Keys in his hands to a truck that lost its driver To a bad decision and a bottle of beer Sitting in a dark room is a bed That will no longer hold a body Down the hall a mother breaks Feeling the loss of a last breath As if it were her own punctured lungs Hitting the steering wheel As water floods the engine Two men stand at her doorstep One refusing to look her in the eyes The other apologizing for his words That should never be said For the labeling of childless parents Before this moment a boy sat Posed as a man on the edge of a bar stool Consuming his death wish through his lips An apology engraved in the fold of his throat Giving an approximation to his silence
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 1:15 PM UTC
Childless Parents
There are too many hairs I keep blowing off my keyboard To pretend they aren’t there And that they can be ignored. I can't pretend I have gone blind, I am admitting they are all there And that they come from me; They truly are my own hair. It must be true, I hazard Because I can see my scalp. It’s a situation from aging For which there is no help. I have long expected it. It will do no good to whine. The disappearing tonsure I needs must claim as mine. And so I placate myself With selfish comparisons I may look older than others But much better than some. Not many decades ago I once thought sixty was old. I am thankful for my friends Who decided not to scold. They knew I was being Just the least bit callow. But they avoided labeling me With words like vain and shallow. So, perhaps the vain part I have with me even now, And I would abandon that If I could figure out how.
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Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM UTC
TECHNOLOGICAL ALOPECIA
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM UTC
Rescuing Our True Transformative Desires
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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It's funny how open we can be. When the real person inside you, Starts to run and leap. The only problem is the others, Who have not yet decided to be free. Constantly judging those around them, And labeling you a freak. But I love the real me, The one who can be everything, Show courage and be sweet. Why can't you do the same? Are you broken? Incomplete? Have you not solved your puzzle? The one your life stands to beat? I don't see why you can't just be real with me. Tell me how you feel, let me know when your glad, That little grimace you made, Did someone hurt you bad? Let me see who you are, Let us giggle and laugh, I just want what's real, Not some conservative drag. I love when your silly, It makes the day worthy not bad. Don't be afraid to admit that, that is your favorite snack. I'll share it with you, no one will bag, The real you is worth while, It's all I'll ever ask, I can't wait for the real you, To step out and feel glad.
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Sep 16, 2016
Sep 16, 2016 at 9:35 AM UTC
Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies ~2Pac
I’ve been squeezing moose all over my body in an attempt To give it more volume Which is to say I was trying to give my life more depth When you’re finished reading astronomy you’ll end up Throwing oranges at pedestrians because **** it, Earth is Meaningless and everyone needs to cheer up **** it because being content is the hardest Thing you can possibly do Which is to say throwing oranges at people is the hardest Thing to do without getting your *** kicked **** it because when an orange concentrates hard enough it becomes juice And if I concentrate hard enough I **** myself Which is to say I need to have a seat and calm down— Enjoy this cigarette while it lasts I am no longer able to print Handle-With-Care labeling And tape it to my body like someone who actually believes that works While the sun laughs and harasses me with oranges all day **** it, there’s too much moose and I’m wearing a white shirt.
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 11:56 PM UTC
**** It
It isn't sadness; that is the biggest misconception. People treat it like an emotion infecting a blue day, labeling slightly soaked cheeks as this ailment of the mind. The term is cracked like a whip in stinging insult: weak, powerless, loser, outcast. It is feeling a lack of feeling, where one exists in a mental state of wanting to be anything but lethargic yet finding nothing worthwhile inside with which to take action: no talent, no skill, no interest. It is not only not believing one has any energy but seeing nothing to which to give it, in yourself, in others, in the world. It is severe despondency and dejection, consuming worlds like oozing, viscose magma dribbling uncontrollably as burning ***** from the mountain's fiery mouth burping filthily as is sludges onward. It isn't sorrow, or misery, or despair. It is inadequacy, an ebb of interest in life, with a sliver of interest to take it.
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 12:05 AM UTC
Pain without Torture
One phonecall? Alert the public Who would you call in a stance of conundrum in case the sky's falling down? Desperate measures in desperate times I carry an emergency kit with extra ink for my rhymes And a band aid for my lips to cover up the disease they diagnosed me with; Of Spitting up filthy **** Labeling ill kids, With conditions made up like myths Deluded? Please. Excuses are sad pleas to ensure the public's attention skips the obvious. So I'd rather lock myself away, And use my notebook to convey my love; For the person I'd dedicate one last phone call to. Lock myself away like Anne frank in the attic and write so much fire it produces sparks the static is electric; the rush through my veins has me lost, In the cosmic abyss of my thoughts While I'm lit... I concoct schemes to conquer mics If you dissect my insides with jabs, I'll retaliate with clever forensics; Cut myself open for the world to see, That all I'd bleed is metaphors in overdose... Infinite similes are the catalyst to my rhythmic metamorphosis
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Jan 20, 2014
Jan 20, 2014 at 12:02 PM UTC
One Phone Call
young people, they think nobody has the same thoughts as them they take great pride in some made up originality as if really nobody ever thought up scenarios of themselves descending some rope from some helicopter and dropping in the middle of enemy forces and starting to shoot around, all movie like ‘an **** and killing all the bad guys while not taking one bullet One man army or there’s those other thoughts of being simply the greatest at some sport and being admired and envied for it also, the thoughts of *** in all its forms the thoughts of mindless violence of saving the day of being somewhere else and doing something else all kinds of thoughts and all the minds who think them label them as original but they’re not original they’re every young person’s thoughts and me, I also have thoughts I consider original I think of how it is to be old pretty much every **** day I think of me being old and dried up and weak and waiting for death it’s not a very pleasant thought especially for someone in their twenties but it’s my way of labeling my thoughts original maybe in some wheel chair with a nurse pushing me from behind No kids no family no fortune no achievements a life wasted death watching from above mockingly and myself looking up at it smiling ************ you think you got me but little do you know that while I was able, while I was more lively than a rotting carrot I defied you by ripping apart pieces of me that will stick with the world long after I’m gone Oh, they might not be great pieces or even good ones but behind they remain as you take me away and all of them branded with my name It’s through them that I am immortal and there’s nothing you can do about it great, good or bad, you cannot **** a poet
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Dec 2, 2019
Dec 2, 2019 at 7:11 AM UTC
you cannot **** a poet
young people, they think nobody has the same thoughts as them they take great pride in some made up originality as if really nobody ever thought up scenarios of themselves descending some rope from some helicopter and dropping in the middle of enemy forces and starting to shoot around, all movie like ‘an **** and killing all the bad guys while not taking one bullet One man army or there’s those other thoughts of being simply the greatest at some sport and being admired and envied for it also, the thoughts of *** in all its forms the thoughts of mindless violence of saving the day of being somewhere else and doing something else all kinds of thoughts and all the minds who think them label them as original but they’re not original they’re every young person’s thoughts and me, I also have thoughts I consider original I think of how it is to be old pretty much every **** day I think of me being old and dried up and weak and waiting for death it’s not a very pleasant thought especially for someone in their twenties but it’s my way of labeling my thoughts original maybe in some wheel chair with a nurse pushing me from behind No kids no family no fortune no achievements a life wasted death watching from above mockingly and myself looking up at it smiling ************ you think you got me but little do you know that while I was able, while I was more lively than a rotting carrot I defied you by ripping apart pieces of me that will stick with the world long after I’m gone Oh, they might not be great pieces or even good ones but behind they remain as you take me away and all of them branded with my name It’s through them that I am immortal and there’s nothing you can do about it great, good or bad, you cannot **** a poet
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You are the early 2000s playlist in my memories A poster big black and faded, advertising a white face Pictures of the past I struggled to survive The words which I spewed on a dime I still dream of the things I want to say I want to be your good time But also your whole life You see, this is the dilemma in my own weird way But I don't want to fall back and die Or live beside the ocean Because that would be the same as all my other days Lonely
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 12:44 AM UTC
Black Tape Cassette of Inopportune Labeling
sound and noise- two chapters of the same book. Sound: the quiet ripening of music notes over wind, or the fluttering of bird and butterfly wings. Noise: the static between radio stations, gun fire, weeping. There would be no such thing as the overlooked if there wasn't anything highlighted, and so I would not be writing about our neglect of sadness unless there were such a thing as happiness. young love and youth and destruction and dreams are all noise, all left in the shadows of their more bright, elder predecessors. And we mistaken noise for sound more often than not, which makes the ability to hear a blessing and a curse. For we mistaken a teen's cries as a sign of teen angst, or a mother's book of rules as a restriction of our lives, and the noise we think is being produced is the music of our lives. Sound isn't beautiful, sound is real. Noise is heard, sound, you feel. So before you go labeling something as noise, remember what is missing: noise implies that everyone can hear, but no one is listening.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 5:01 PM UTC
Noise
The Summer Alphabet of Woman Every summer, I learn a new language. Every winter, it departs for warmer climes, And its charms and naked arms, its own alphabet, clean forgot. Multi-lingual in the summer's peculiar One language, one aleph bet, But mega-millions of dialects, Know them all cold, know them all, hot. I speak Woman. Summer is soft, shapely, sweet, Clean, bare, lush in a sparse way, And Woman is spoken thusly. There are no harsh sounds, Guttural exclamations, nein! I speak Woman. There is no ugly in the summer. Ugly being an ugly word.   It cannot exist in an atmosphere of Sun, greenery, sand, carefree days, vacations, no school. There are no ugly women in the summer. I could take this writ many places, But if you are sputtering sexist or other labeling words, Could not give a good god **** because in the summer, There is no ugly, there is no prejudice. And I still speak Woman with an almost perfect fluency, au naturel. Gym clothes, short shorts, A-line skirts swishing in the breeze, High, god, so high the heels, flats clip clopping, flip flopping all over my heart, But, it is the bare arms and the hints of summer Cleavage, the short skirts, body hugging one piece fabrics stretching from here to down there that does not Hint, the shoulder strap of the underthings that asks, that commands me, to wonder where it leads too... Even the light wrap at night mocks me, Like gift wrapping with a smile demure...a teasing blindfold... All these say: Write us poetry in our very own tongue, Woman. Will oblige. I curve with curve of the ***** and invert with  S arc of the waist, Mystifying, how it is the designed place For my hands to grasp, and never fails. The crayola colors of flesh variations, Boggle the senses... How can tan  and pale, Dark and Light Have so many Symphonic variations? Adagio, slow and leisurely, a pas de deux For two eyes, then a Timpani crash and thunder, as Byron wrote, "music arose with its voluptuous swell," Yes, swell...swell...swell Enough. My eloquence, no match for my Fluency. Late August, and my vocabulary is already Diminishing. I forget how to say in Woman *Without you I am nothing, With you, I am more than everything,* Tho I can no longer say it, It is is still true and Beyond belief.
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM UTC
The Summer Alphabet of Woman (I Speak Woman)
The Summer Alphabet of Woman Every summer, I learn a new language. Every winter, it departs for warmer climes, And its charms and naked arms, its own alphabet, clean forgot. Multi-lingual in the summer's peculiar One language, one aleph bet, But mega-millions of dialects, Know them all cold, know them all, hot. I speak Woman. Summer is soft, shapely, sweet, Clean, bare, lush in a sparse way, And Woman is spoken thusly. There are no harsh sounds, Guttural exclamations, nein! I speak Woman. There is no ugly in the summer. Ugly being an ugly word.   It cannot exist in an atmosphere of Sun, greenery, sand, carefree days, vacations, no school. There are no ugly women in the summer. I could take this writ many places, But if you are sputtering sexist or other labeling words, Could not give a good god **** because in the summer, There is no ugly, there is no prejudice. And I still speak Woman with an almost perfect fluency, au naturel. Gym clothes, short shorts, A-line skirts swishing in the breeze, High, god, so high the heels, flats clip clopping, flip flopping all over my heart, But, it is the bare arms and the hints of summer Cleavage, the short skirts, body hugging one piece fabrics stretching from here to down there that does not Hint, the shoulder strap of the underthings that asks, that commands me, to wonder where it leads too... Even the light wrap at night mocks me, Like gift wrapping with a smile demure...a teasing blindfold... All these say: Write us poetry in our very own tongue, Woman. Will oblige. I curve with curve of the ***** and invert with  S arc of the waist, Mystifying, how it is the designed place For my hands to grasp, and never fails. The crayola colors of flesh variations, Boggle the senses... How can tan  and pale, Dark and Light Have so many Symphonic variations? Adagio, slow and leisurely, a pas de deux For two eyes, then a Timpani crash and thunder, as Byron wrote, "music arose with its voluptuous swell," Yes, swell...swell...swell Enough. My eloquence, no match for my Fluency. Late August, and my vocabulary is already Diminishing. I forget how to say in Woman *Without you I am nothing, With you, I am more than everything,* Tho I can no longer say it, It is is still true and Beyond belief.
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Thatcher vacuum seals nicotine Slurps cigarette like mosquito Ravenous lungs gnaw and grind for the slow pander, Thatcher’s just another name for the labeling We plaster and pine for an out, Stitch that finite lie beneath squeamish child skin, Thatcher’s the black lung paradise, ******* infancy coddling cigarette stifle, The caloric crack of his canines fletching out lust and sickly groove As he’s scopes out fiend and vexed vandals, Clutches the sick theistic ********** Cuddle those bruise licked hips Give God the gross percent, Cause heaven’s in those greenbacks and God’s in the ******* kick, Suckling bout the American tip The Christian capitol, Seething on shadow puppet ****** and American dream, Gods got nothing to do with the slickened crinkle of gain and glamour, Thatcher’s just the candy man give and cult, Cough the crutch of contagion greed And clutch the cuff of your porcelain sleeve, Thatcher gleans your blackest suite tight, Struts raven blade shoulders perched on American made spine, Thatcher does as Thatcher please, Thatcher thinks as Thatcher bleeds, And Thatcher bleeds venereal blend, Gout with the American veneer of broken girl and scabbed moral traumatic, Trauma tastes as the hollow pixies give out the get out, Bandaged baby girls, The teenage horror show, Just another blazoned hit of one two take the hand me down generic give away, Desensitize the humanize, Girls got to get the days glossy puff and sniff, Thatcher’s content to satisfy, Callous coroner a spectator suckling Marlboro lick, Lodging thick smoke and toxin between spittle slick lips, Albino plumes clotting and unfolding, Thatcher clicks back the cartridge Filter and cigarette, Thatcher gulps back the need because brain’s got a favoring kink for the buzz, Thatcher sings with the screaming in his straggling lungs, Hums the western creed Laughs fickle with God at his need, Thatcher’s the true American dream
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 5:17 PM UTC
Cancer, the American Made
Thatcher vacuum seals nicotine Slurps cigarette like mosquito Ravenous lungs gnaw and grind for the slow pander, Thatcher’s just another name for the labeling We plaster and pine for an out, Stitch that finite lie beneath squeamish child skin, Thatcher’s the black lung paradise, ******* infancy coddling cigarette stifle, The caloric crack of his canines fletching out lust and sickly groove As he’s scopes out fiend and vexed vandals, Clutches the sick theistic ********** Cuddle those bruise licked hips Give God the gross percent, Cause heaven’s in those greenbacks and God’s in the ******* kick, Suckling bout the American tip The Christian capitol, Seething on shadow puppet ****** and American dream, Gods got nothing to do with the slickened crinkle of gain and glamour, Thatcher’s just the candy man give and cult, Cough the crutch of contagion greed And clutch the cuff of your porcelain sleeve, Thatcher gleans your blackest suite tight, Struts raven blade shoulders perched on American made spine, Thatcher does as Thatcher please, Thatcher thinks as Thatcher bleeds, And Thatcher bleeds venereal blend, Gout with the American veneer of broken girl and scabbed moral traumatic, Trauma tastes as the hollow pixies give out the get out, Bandaged baby girls, The teenage horror show, Just another blazoned hit of one two take the hand me down generic give away, Desensitize the humanize, Girls got to get the days glossy puff and sniff, Thatcher’s content to satisfy, Callous coroner a spectator suckling Marlboro lick, Lodging thick smoke and toxin between spittle slick lips, Albino plumes clotting and unfolding, Thatcher clicks back the cartridge Filter and cigarette, Thatcher gulps back the need because brain’s got a favoring kink for the buzz, Thatcher sings with the screaming in his straggling lungs, Hums the western creed Laughs fickle with God at his need, Thatcher’s the true American dream
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Let it be known~ Beyond the mere musings of tool bearing monkeys Lies an ineffable essence which deflects archaic labeling. This is the direct experience of non-discriminatory equalization Of conceived notions. All which may be considered good and true Vaporizes in the blinding eye of this clarity. Language is the battleground of ignorance and illiteracy Of what begs not be named~
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Sep 3, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
Small Mouth Noises
The worest pain of all pains The unreasonable hatred of persons The blined conclusion of a grudge That eats you in and outside The ailment that weakness the strong And weights a person by the color of the skin The insolent behavioral catagory of human The foreboding labeling that robes person's greatness Which I call this 'RACISM.'
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Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 4:16 PM UTC
SAY NO TO RACISM
orange juice and a rabid flight of love for you but not the kind of love requiring either bent over the counter. the kind of love where what is one is alls'. is everyones', is everything and there is never one - either side - going wanting for our emotions shared are those mutually lost in the greater mass of what humanity has culled into their concept of social awareness and some chick ranting about the collective consciousness. they're evil, or so told. and onward, always forward but never straight to remember a perpetual motion of the hands controlled by the soul - that's what's called the mind these days. forgone, for a single word, far gone and lost in the wind with sails ripping from the flushed canvas swollen by the trade winds - not those trade winds, but ours. our conversation and appreciation, and this allegory - metaphor more likely - is of the soul being the true vessel when the vessel is the last vessel, and to please the dying vessel, repeat in infinity this ******* cycle of Samsara. en eternal vessel of meat ground fine to be filtered through silicone. this is our ship, this spurned burger of muscles that succumbs to parasites finding us pork. eat the **** gain the trich unlike caring Canadians who destroyed the pig in them. destroyed the mentality of what is wrong but quit? why ever try for greater, and learning is not an end to a means. and again the souls vessel - allegorized Ulysses proper - is in metaphor a ship, breath the trade winds and wisdom precious cargo. the null are bandits, the haired beast of both the North and South . . barbarous action through organization and labeling of existence as A to B, as A to Z, and realize that means twenty-six is the end.
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Mar 22, 2013
Mar 22, 2013 at 8:00 AM UTC
AGWANTI
orange juice and a rabid flight of love for you but not the kind of love requiring either bent over the counter. the kind of love where what is one is alls'. is everyones', is everything and there is never one - either side - going wanting for our emotions shared are those mutually lost in the greater mass of what humanity has culled into their concept of social awareness and some chick ranting about the collective consciousness. they're evil, or so told. and onward, always forward but never straight to remember a perpetual motion of the hands controlled by the soul - that's what's called the mind these days. forgone, for a single word, far gone and lost in the wind with sails ripping from the flushed canvas swollen by the trade winds - not those trade winds, but ours. our conversation and appreciation, and this allegory - metaphor more likely - is of the soul being the true vessel when the vessel is the last vessel, and to please the dying vessel, repeat in infinity this ******* cycle of Samsara. en eternal vessel of meat ground fine to be filtered through silicone. this is our ship, this spurned burger of muscles that succumbs to parasites finding us pork. eat the **** gain the trich unlike caring Canadians who destroyed the pig in them. destroyed the mentality of what is wrong but quit? why ever try for greater, and learning is not an end to a means. and again the souls vessel - allegorized Ulysses proper - is in metaphor a ship, breath the trade winds and wisdom precious cargo. the null are bandits, the haired beast of both the North and South . . barbarous action through organization and labeling of existence as A to B, as A to Z, and realize that means twenty-six is the end.
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Used to be convincing, now I'm word mincing Funny guy telling lies, stop that face from wincing Shut the word forge down, absurd surge start to pour out Brain matter splatter in colored conviction, how I rattle off with four dimensional diction Once this **** was scripted, now these lips don't do cryptic, legendary fiction, not yet mythic Contemporary Christians sit listless, labeling those they hardly know That's we, people like me, as infamous and wicked, can you even conceive Not that I need the acquittal, never say please for a spoon full of ****** Hate this human disease; doubtful economic, muted mumbles of Ebonics, questionable hearts freeze Turned cold-blooded because violence it seems is our cure all reprieve Instead of honest admittance, no room for forgiveness, when we elect politics that lie Ignite the engines that chain drive, infernal furnaces of the reapers design Calling out to the sky; "forgive us were blind!" Upon final inception, the birth of nightmarish conception Awoken to world of hard line lesson, seasons of trick testing So tell me then, can you live with A or B? dip those toes into sea and you'll know what I mean Dare you to please.
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 12:43 PM UTC
Untitled
Boys, Boys, Boys, Likable, lovable,or lonely, Some are completely despicable, You got those hard ***** who are too strong for love, or who will just lead ya on, making you think thoughts you shouldn't about them and Making you want them more then you should, Or you got those babies, the ones who refuse to actually grow some ***** The ones who ask you to forgive them of their weaknesses, Their shortcomings and their downfalls, Like seriously? I'm a girl, not a leaning post who you can depend upon, Ok, maybe if I knew you more, But still like, really? The ones who refuse to make a move, like even afraid to touch you, What? Do I have cooties or something, Hold my hand, or hold me, Come on! Then you got those ones who don't even know how to communicate, Or say something worth hearing,   Please I've heard it all, How cute and adorable I am, The Goddess, a queen, labeling me to be one who I'm not, I'm a human being, one of you! Last time I checked I was a mortal, not some model of perfection, But to be put on such a pedestal is simply too much. So come on guys, get a grip and learn how to stand up for yourselves, Don't pretend I'm something more then I'm not, It aint going to work, I want you as a friend, then a lover, but the crushes are constantly crushing my hopes and dreams of finding that one prince charming
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM UTC
Boys...
Rebellion smells like apples, cinnamon and ***** On a gravel road swallowed whole by a surrounding forest of lush greens we stood in opposition, revolution firearms nestled in our hands. We rebelled against alcoholism. Drunk, amber soldiers stumbled across the uneven surface of the log they vacated. Our bullets shattered them one by one. The rifle’s kick back slammed against me. The cracking echo of each gunshot filled the hollow chiseled in my chest and tenderized my brain.     Shards of hard cider and hard liquor spattered the dirt; the bright red of the Angry Orchards’ labeling bleeding war into the earth and grit. We searched for survivors.   The air was perfumed with Cinnamon Apple and ***** The soft spice of autumn and harvest wafted gently up my nose followed by the sharp scent of disinfectant, hospitals, stainless steel. It was the smell of ***** my default. Nudging a dusty bottle neck with my toe I couldn’t help but think back to   the angry, open-mouthed kisses I once shared with my bottles early in the morning until late at night. A furious thirst surged through me. I still wanted a drink.
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM UTC
Rebellion Smells like Apples, Cinnamon, and *****