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"lather" poems
He wants to lather his tongue in her saltiness his lips caressing her silky smooth crevice tip of his tongue piercing her surface parting her lips of tenderness the haze turns to a mist her fate sealed with a kiss picture the moment picture perfect destination pleasure reaching a ****** given like a gift and served with a twist of satisfaction your imagination you must enlist
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 12:33 AM UTC
Enlist
everyone keeps saying "we made it" and it's actually a little confusing because it's almost like they thought we couldn't five teenagers on lockdown have never caused so much panic but I guess we're just the deadbeat generation (knock once for failure, twice for rebirth, three times to see your life in twenty years- who knows, maybe you'll have a life in twenty years) we pick locks on bad days turn back the clocks on good days if we try hard enough maybe we'll go back to the glory days I wanna blast music from the busted up speakers in the back of my car I wanna live like I used to we're anthems and parades and kids crying out in the middle of the night when the hole in their stomach opens up or closes we're caught up in a whirlwind of scientific facts and figures and sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs as if that'll help me escape the noise in my head punk isn't about living through the fall of something it's about living through the rise of me I am real I am here I will scream it from the ******* rooftops if I have to I will tap my fingertips on tables even when I'm told not to I will tattoo myself a thousand times over, an endless mantra of existence i exist i exist i exist this isn't a happy ending, or at least it isn't the one I was promised but it's something it's okay and that's good enough because okay is ******* wonderful lace my fingers with yours call me a queen tell me you'll never let me go because I will never let you go we are the kids who will never stop living even when they tell us that we are impossible we are heartbeats pounding on cracked pavement, leather and cheap beer, lather me in love lay me down to sleep with the promise of tomorrow promise me that tomorrow will still be there when I wake up you can have a house but not a home I was a house but not a home until I met you deadbeat degenerates make a better family than most.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 8:37 AM UTC
deadbeat generation
everyone keeps saying "we made it" and it's actually a little confusing because it's almost like they thought we couldn't five teenagers on lockdown have never caused so much panic but I guess we're just the deadbeat generation (knock once for failure, twice for rebirth, three times to see your life in twenty years- who knows, maybe you'll have a life in twenty years) we pick locks on bad days turn back the clocks on good days if we try hard enough maybe we'll go back to the glory days I wanna blast music from the busted up speakers in the back of my car I wanna live like I used to we're anthems and parades and kids crying out in the middle of the night when the hole in their stomach opens up or closes we're caught up in a whirlwind of scientific facts and figures and sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs as if that'll help me escape the noise in my head punk isn't about living through the fall of something it's about living through the rise of me I am real I am here I will scream it from the ******* rooftops if I have to I will tap my fingertips on tables even when I'm told not to I will tattoo myself a thousand times over, an endless mantra of existence i exist i exist i exist this isn't a happy ending, or at least it isn't the one I was promised but it's something it's okay and that's good enough because okay is ******* wonderful lace my fingers with yours call me a queen tell me you'll never let me go because I will never let you go we are the kids who will never stop living even when they tell us that we are impossible we are heartbeats pounding on cracked pavement, leather and cheap beer, lather me in love lay me down to sleep with the promise of tomorrow promise me that tomorrow will still be there when I wake up you can have a house but not a home I was a house but not a home until I met you deadbeat degenerates make a better family than most.
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breathing the turquoise like lavender, and sipping the blue summer. bitter cold clouds glide and morph lava lather, floating whispers cut by sweet pineapple sunshine. soon, a moment, now rhythms ripple the sky like skipping stones we jump the music like puddles splashing in the frequencies. cobalt bass rumbles the earth hungry, pumps the air with springing spirals pushing and pulling the senses, reverberating through cells. heavy mud humming, stomping echoes through our atoms dizzy; balancing tuned body to innate electricity the fizz of circulating lemonade energy. we jump the music like puddles splashing in the frequencies. strawberry melodies spilling ribbons, dolphin leaps of the spaces inbetween beats, lines of colours overlapping, colliding, mixing, merging, blending in with the forest. washing over souls the life fire sparkles like a clear water cleansing harmonies, sound waves crashing against inertia. phosphorescent glow of re-charged love for the world, for being, animation flowing through burnt smoky ashes of sapphire charcoal skies; dimmed radiation of chlorophyll emerald days. the smell of salt, dry bark, fluffy carbon mists, trembling lights softening the eyes' grip on outlines, loosening lies. watching the cycles of patterns tumbling colours through a mill rotating, and the silence of listening when the music comes to an end.
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May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 at 8:19 PM UTC
Synesthesia
The sharp line separating where the sun met your skin And where it was protected by your shirt is more prominent than ever Because you forgot to lather on your sunscreen. The dirt settles into a thin film Covering every inch of your body Caking into your hair making it feel Like you haven't washed your hair for days. The bugs are constantly buzzing around your face Leaving bites up and down your arms Making them itchy and irritated. But, the sunburns, dirt filled clothes, and bugs Only strengthens my love for the game.
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM UTC
Softball (free verse)
Lather my tongue In the long lasting taste Of your lavender lace Quicken your breathing Pulse Hastened pace From Licks lightly placed In a place that invades your space The feeling will never be forgotten And can never be replaced Like a long lasting taste
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Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 2019 at 9:53 PM UTC
Bathe
*A parade of fluorescent silhouettes, Aim against a tranquil lit afternoon sky, In a collage of interwoven blossoms, Casually stretching, Side by side. Releasing a pleasant aroma, Interlacing within the calming sea, As the water creases, upon a bed of shimmery grains, Below a shade of fluffy clouds, A place you would never want to leave. When the tides slowly washes in, In a rich and mild lather .... lacking impel, Underneath a ribbon of distinctive seashells, Leaving a mesmerizing imprint, And a magical spell.*
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
A Tranquil Lit Afternoon Sky
An absence reversed Beheld Belonging Fuming lush greenery seemingly Between the frothing Soup and lather twinkling Speaking "Tradition may act dishonestly" All and sundry Trails along merrily For traditionally All is how it should be Belonging to one and only. Binding A trade between the thin lines A baking sheet made sprayed messy Artists in threes Shakers of mountains for invisible ease The truth is simply Things done traditionally All-in consuming historically. Flesh Released Is fresh Relief Hidden in the fabric's sleeve A gaping passage of air and breeze Racing electricity Breathtaking silk from worms And worms eaten by birds Tradition Sewing the dresses of Empress the third. Halt Her plea worth salt and sugar Still Like the skater's Minted odour Hope Distances the valleys low dipped to the everlasted rivers Where a time arrives for eternal celebration. The embellishments of Unwavered tradition.
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC
Tradition's all
Slightly, brightly Amarillo heavens, whispered Lather, Lavender clouds, and your Butterfly belly button Soapy on the car hood. I Cast my brain's map wide And narrow. I can't make time--one thousand Years feels like one day; one heart-- A desert of sand while wind Pushes in violet patterns. those Spots on your eyes Never so warm--cinnamon. And you know how I'd stir Your coffee.
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 8:36 PM UTC
Love poem written on a plane
I love the way you eat me, treat yourself to my tasty ***** The feel of your tongue, as they lather my lips, your ***** rubbing, my gums against your lips My head; dips. your eyes; solar eclipse. my fingers; tingling as I tighten my grip. with each slippery lick. you lips start to stick -- tingle my nips -- both hard as bricks. Using our thump, ********* my slit, while ******* my **** your warm lips, making me flip -- the suction, your rhythm, thick- long tongue, beating it like a drum. The finish - a perfect fit.
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Jul 1, 2019
Jul 1, 2019 at 7:02 PM UTC
****
It was a Friday night, I was on the phone with my grandmother when I looked at the clock suddenly remembered, it was time for the ritual. I immediately hung up on my grandmother, and stripped of my clothing. The ritual required I be naked. I then took some goat cheese out of my refrigerator, and put it in the microwave. I waited. The goat cheese seemed like it took forever to melt, but it only took a few minutes. In those few minutes, I just sat there, and played with my left ****** Finally, the timer went off, and it was done. I took the melted goat cheese, and poured it onto my body. It burned, but I suffered through it. I would do anything for the Goat Gods. Anything. Once the melted goat cheese was poured onto my body, I began to lather myself in it. Soon, I was covered in melted goat cheese. The smell, was horrendous, but in a way, I enjoyed it. Then, I removed the goat blood from my refrigerator, and poured it into a *** which had been on the oven all day, waiting. I began to boil the goat blood. I took a sip of it. "No" I said as a shook my head in disappointment. I had been ripped off again by my goat blood dealer. There was no flavoring in it. It tasted like goat blood. So I threw in some carrots, and a dollop of horse radish. While it was boiling, I went to my bedroom, to my closet, where I found my goat mask. A real goats head I had carved out and made into a mask. I put it on. When I had it on, I felt like one with the Goat Gods. When I returned, the goat blood was done. I poured it into a Tupperware container, sealed it, and put on my shoes. By now, the once hot and slimy goat cheese, was dried, and stuck to my body. It was crusty, like the crusties you get in your eyes, just all over your body. I walked out the front door, across the street, to my neighbors house. I tried to open the front door. Locked. They knew I was coming this time. Last week, they forgot. So I left the goat blood on their front steps, and left. When I got home, I immediately went to the TV, sat down, and turned on "Antique Roadshow". I looked out my window, and saw my nervous neighbor grab the goat blood, and bring it inside. "Soon they will join the Goat Side" I said as I repeated it to myself, "Soon they will join the Goat Side".
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Apr 4, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 at 7:55 PM UTC
Goat Blood
It was a Friday night, I was on the phone with my grandmother when I looked at the clock suddenly remembered, it was time for the ritual. I immediately hung up on my grandmother, and stripped of my clothing. The ritual required I be naked. I then took some goat cheese out of my refrigerator, and put it in the microwave. I waited. The goat cheese seemed like it took forever to melt, but it only took a few minutes. In those few minutes, I just sat there, and played with my left ****** Finally, the timer went off, and it was done. I took the melted goat cheese, and poured it onto my body. It burned, but I suffered through it. I would do anything for the Goat Gods. Anything. Once the melted goat cheese was poured onto my body, I began to lather myself in it. Soon, I was covered in melted goat cheese. The smell, was horrendous, but in a way, I enjoyed it. Then, I removed the goat blood from my refrigerator, and poured it into a *** which had been on the oven all day, waiting. I began to boil the goat blood. I took a sip of it. "No" I said as a shook my head in disappointment. I had been ripped off again by my goat blood dealer. There was no flavoring in it. It tasted like goat blood. So I threw in some carrots, and a dollop of horse radish. While it was boiling, I went to my bedroom, to my closet, where I found my goat mask. A real goats head I had carved out and made into a mask. I put it on. When I had it on, I felt like one with the Goat Gods. When I returned, the goat blood was done. I poured it into a Tupperware container, sealed it, and put on my shoes. By now, the once hot and slimy goat cheese, was dried, and stuck to my body. It was crusty, like the crusties you get in your eyes, just all over your body. I walked out the front door, across the street, to my neighbors house. I tried to open the front door. Locked. They knew I was coming this time. Last week, they forgot. So I left the goat blood on their front steps, and left. When I got home, I immediately went to the TV, sat down, and turned on "Antique Roadshow". I looked out my window, and saw my nervous neighbor grab the goat blood, and bring it inside. "Soon they will join the Goat Side" I said as I repeated it to myself, "Soon they will join the Goat Side".
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Dribble your words all over my body, sprinkle me with your writing. Smother me with your thoughts. Lather me up with scented syllables. Massage your lazy vowels into my skin. Wash me down with your beautiful language. Wrap your sentences around my wrists, hold me down with your paragraphs. Tickle me with with interpunktion. Scrub me with silent speech. When I'm all wet and rosy clean, dry me with the pages of your warm typing
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 8:28 AM UTC
I love how you touched me without using your hands...
Lather, rinse, repeat. Lather, rinse, repeat. Soak, wash, repeat. Sweep, sweep, repeat. Wipe, wipe, repeat. Scrub, scrub, repeat. Dice, dice, repeat. Wipe, dry, repeat. The tears that are good. Pour, stir, repeat. Open the door. Serve the food. Greet, greet the guests. Smile, talk, repeat. Say bye-bye, repeat. Massage, press, repeat. Yelp in pain. Grab your abdomen. Rub, press, repeat. Let the sari unwrap. Shake your head no. Oh oh. Run, hide, cry, plead. Rub your stinging cheek. Sob, sob, repeat. Dab, dab, repeat. The tears that are deserved. Press your straining scalp. Grab tight the bed sheet. Groan, hiss , repeat. Fake, fake, repeat. Pain, pain. Again! Sore, sore, all over. Go make a drink and then, Massage, press, repeat. Pick up the nephew. Ignore the daughter’s lies. Pat, pat repeat. Put him down to sleep. Sing the lullabies. See your daughter writhe. Writhe, writhe, repeat. Kiss your daughter’s hand. Feel her skin burning. Watch your daughter weep, Cry herself to sleep. One drop down then two. The tears that are meaningless. Lie down as if asleep. Twist, turn, repeat. Wake up before dawn. Now, you put on. Red, green, black and gold. Vermillion, bangles, beads. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 9:20 AM UTC
Housewife
Have we all become mere automata guided by the ring of pings and notifs? The spray of lather from a sea of data carrying with it wrung celebrity whiffs have stung us with a certain aphasia... The written thought was a lifetime ago long abandoned by the times and all-- where once there was soundness to follow nonsense amassed like a rising cymbal whose crash sent reason to the gallows. The news of the day presents a delectable entree of a hodgepodge of this, that, and nothing much. Wherefore we find our tongues compelled to say something about the aftertaste or to prejudge as if we were connoisseurs--it must've hid faraway. Are we perhaps amusing ourselves to death? I am by no means a Luddite to such a degree, but I believe we have bombarded and blessed ourselves a little too much to see... only time will tell us reason's final breath.
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Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 10:38 PM UTC
Automata
The first pair of shoes you wore were black, velcro straps sat atop your pair of dollies to make it easier to put them on for the park. They were meant to be smart, but you laughed as you wore them against the ground so free as dad slung the swings, smiling at his child. Our mum told me I was a creative child: I didn't like to wear anything black. Red suited me in how I stood in puddles, free in indifference to how brown my wellies became. If I was asked why, I'd shout, “I'm pretending we're all at the seaside.” From there we made our way to beaches, where the wind was crisp and the children we could see around us acclaimed screams of emphatic joy at how the sea was so blue and big. We had to wear pairs of sandals when we went, but being barefoot felt free. All that time we had at being young and free soon went with the summer ending in school, the arrival of my freshly polished black boots was identical to almost every other child's- a lather of paint dripping over in mud yellows proved who I was with a mother's groan, and this wasn't the only time she wailed. As we grew older and wanted to be free, my sister started to experiment with pink highlights in her hair as I visited clubs with fake ID. We were adults with childish personalities in how I wore my Docs like a religion for feet, my sibling in high heels that you could hear in Sunday morning claps. The arguments broke out: she wanted a child, mother saying was too young, needed to free herself from lazy culture and find a workplace. I'd never seen both their faces so gushed red, just like the red richness of those wellies I had worn in the park. I pipe up and say, “The best freedom is our time as children.”
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Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
Childhood Sestina
The first pair of shoes you wore were black, velcro straps sat atop your pair of dollies to make it easier to put them on for the park. They were meant to be smart, but you laughed as you wore them against the ground so free as dad slung the swings, smiling at his child. Our mum told me I was a creative child: I didn't like to wear anything black. Red suited me in how I stood in puddles, free in indifference to how brown my wellies became. If I was asked why, I'd shout, “I'm pretending we're all at the seaside.” From there we made our way to beaches, where the wind was crisp and the children we could see around us acclaimed screams of emphatic joy at how the sea was so blue and big. We had to wear pairs of sandals when we went, but being barefoot felt free. All that time we had at being young and free soon went with the summer ending in school, the arrival of my freshly polished black boots was identical to almost every other child's- a lather of paint dripping over in mud yellows proved who I was with a mother's groan, and this wasn't the only time she wailed. As we grew older and wanted to be free, my sister started to experiment with pink highlights in her hair as I visited clubs with fake ID. We were adults with childish personalities in how I wore my Docs like a religion for feet, my sibling in high heels that you could hear in Sunday morning claps. The arguments broke out: she wanted a child, mother saying was too young, needed to free herself from lazy culture and find a workplace. I'd never seen both their faces so gushed red, just like the red richness of those wellies I had worn in the park. I pipe up and say, “The best freedom is our time as children.”
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*Made me climb on her hands Holding me not to fall Made a swing on her hands Swinging me not to cry Made a basket of ripe mangoes Filling my paunch not to crave Made the shade of branches Protecting me not to lather Made a rapport of harmony Loving me motherly not to yearn Never let me down My sweet Mango tree!*
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 12:46 AM UTC
My Mango Tree
She doesn’t let herself think about it anymore. She has a schedule now, a timetable, something that might look like a life if you don’t scratch the surface too hard. Wake up, call the hospital. Tend her garden, call the hospital. Get driven to the hospital and sit with Dean for hours, hours, hours, go home, cry. Lather, rinse, repeat. The only thing that changes in her life is the sky and the inversion it brings. She walks on the sky when it clouds, because it’s more solid and sure under her feet than the traitorous ground that swallowed her children whole. She bargains when it rains, to God or Big Brother or Allah or the deity of the day, because if the Jehovah’s Witnesses are right and their god is a merciful god, He will give her family back. Once there was an earthquake and she smiled so wide she thought her face would hurt, stood between two rickety, heavy bookcases, prayed that she would die. The most tragic part of her life is that she doesn’t. She knows this, knows it runs through the marrow of every bone in her body, which has to be why they all ache when they see the sunrise, as if to say another day, another tragedy . Today she wakes before the sun and hugs her knees to her chest, sits there for a good three hours after he’s called the hospital and heard the same thing as always - the only thing that changes in her life is the sky - “We’re sorry, Mrs. N----, he’s the same.” Every day it’s the same, the same, the same- -but that doesn’t make it any easier. Same dingy cab, same crotchety driver, same stale cigarette smell. She lets herself smoke in here because if she’s lucky that’ll **** her first, but she doesn’t fool herself into believing that. Her luck ran out the moment she heard that shot from the door, heard her husband scream and saw all the blood staining the foyer- But she’s not thinking about that. She’s smoking and she’s listening to the sound of the tires pummeling the ground mercilessly and she’s thinking maybe I should be that ground and she’s not making much sense at all, because she doesn’t sleep anymore and she thinks she might be halfway to insane by now. They pull up outside the hospital. She’s always surprised her feet haven’t worn a track in the ground yet that leads straight to Dean’s room. She supposes she doesn’t need one. She pushes the door open and the spark of hope he can never suppress dies with a silent scream, because Dean is the same, her life is the same, she’s the same and the same and the same and she hates it.
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Sep 22, 2012
Sep 22, 2012 at 9:02 PM UTC
converse, inverse, it can't get worse.
She doesn’t let herself think about it anymore. She has a schedule now, a timetable, something that might look like a life if you don’t scratch the surface too hard. Wake up, call the hospital. Tend her garden, call the hospital. Get driven to the hospital and sit with Dean for hours, hours, hours, go home, cry. Lather, rinse, repeat. The only thing that changes in her life is the sky and the inversion it brings. She walks on the sky when it clouds, because it’s more solid and sure under her feet than the traitorous ground that swallowed her children whole. She bargains when it rains, to God or Big Brother or Allah or the deity of the day, because if the Jehovah’s Witnesses are right and their god is a merciful god, He will give her family back. Once there was an earthquake and she smiled so wide she thought her face would hurt, stood between two rickety, heavy bookcases, prayed that she would die. The most tragic part of her life is that she doesn’t. She knows this, knows it runs through the marrow of every bone in her body, which has to be why they all ache when they see the sunrise, as if to say another day, another tragedy . Today she wakes before the sun and hugs her knees to her chest, sits there for a good three hours after he’s called the hospital and heard the same thing as always - the only thing that changes in her life is the sky - “We’re sorry, Mrs. N----, he’s the same.” Every day it’s the same, the same, the same- -but that doesn’t make it any easier. Same dingy cab, same crotchety driver, same stale cigarette smell. She lets herself smoke in here because if she’s lucky that’ll **** her first, but she doesn’t fool herself into believing that. Her luck ran out the moment she heard that shot from the door, heard her husband scream and saw all the blood staining the foyer- But she’s not thinking about that. She’s smoking and she’s listening to the sound of the tires pummeling the ground mercilessly and she’s thinking maybe I should be that ground and she’s not making much sense at all, because she doesn’t sleep anymore and she thinks she might be halfway to insane by now. They pull up outside the hospital. She’s always surprised her feet haven’t worn a track in the ground yet that leads straight to Dean’s room. She supposes she doesn’t need one. She pushes the door open and the spark of hope he can never suppress dies with a silent scream, because Dean is the same, her life is the same, she’s the same and the same and the same and she hates it.
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crimson and magic to splash without panic in waves of compliance for drugs made from science and sorceress who summon the simple solutions illusions! illusions! of grander worth loosing confusing the process will aid not for coptic nor catholic or elsewhere semantics act frantic in panic to sob without reason treason! say treason! the exit of reason to wander in wander a fate beyond yonder set ponder a path set by mind on the map of solutions and systems domestic conditions yet wild apparitions appear as conditioned - concerns to a mindset as stern and subtracted by fractions of actions repulsed by distraction disgruntled reactions supposing contractions created the action conceived from distractions The reasons let change be for seasons while i stay the rock in the pond either frozen  not gone as the watcher still watching content upon watching exhaling the notion that motions for movement atonement! atonement! with further consolement atlas like the breeze of the gavel let both parties ravel and tug whether free or debugged only mind over matter unscrambles the lather too see that is free is like blind sight at sea with the waves of conforming to drown is informing if not then be peace ! for all parties deceased by a water so deep you could drown in your sleep
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 11:16 PM UTC
Compliance to the procedure will be necessary upon your arrival at the facility
sat in your lap jealousy builds like pressure once a fissure it now inches its way across my soiled soul lather it on my body like blood - thick and treacly dark, sticky ever so sickly tell me your lies tell me your truths trace them into my flesh mark me cast the runes now they have spoken clatter on the rocks like my pride has broken my rage glowing all I can see forever growing I embody entropy A rule of disorder hatred rises through the flames let it burn me to ashes like your touch sizzles my skins frame it's a crime scene of blood swirling like ink pills scattered around me like a ritual I wonder what my mother would think you're a dream thief knife in my heavy heart you've stripped me bare and I stand as you depart with nothing but at your mercy I'm you're experiment V the looking glass shows me what's left a withered mess existing for you to thrive tired pile of crumbly bones and shrivelling rotting insides tossed aside burn me to oblivion I want the skin to stop sticking to my bones melt it off let the blood pool onto stone let the fat droop and distend mocking me, me mocking never ever stopping wretch and stretch till I break rip my organs out serenade my limp body with the liquid lava that drips as you extract my black heart take a sip of my sublimity I am all you will never be because I don't think I ever was do what you will to my material never to extinguish my fire that does never cease limitlessly increase the entropy KG
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Apr 9, 2017
Apr 9, 2017 at 4:13 PM UTC
entropy
Out on the marsh on a lonely night The wind soughs through his rags, The hat that’s pinned to his painted face, Flutters and soars, then sags, His eyes are wide and his mouth is grim As an owl is put to flight, And nothing but shadows will venture there For the Scarecrow rules the night. And back in the manse in a window seat The Parson’s daughter sits, She stares at the fluttering coat-tails, but In truth, is scared to bits, She watches the sails of the windmill turn And creak and groan in the gloom, As clouds come stuttering over the marsh In the rays of a Harvest Moon. The father is out in the donkey cart To tend to his aging flock, He’s left Elizabeth waiting there By the tick of the hallway clock, But out on the moors and beyond the marsh There rides one Highway Jack, A frock coat topped with a bunch of lace And a gold trimmed tricorne hat. He’s whipped the horse to a lather In a retreat from a new affray, For the magistrates have gathered Vowing to ride him down that day, The redcoats wait in the village Inn For the sound that they know too well, When the curate sees the approaching horse He’s to toll the old church bell. But the curate lies in a drunken fit On the floor of the old church nave, And soon, by matins his soul will flit From life to an early grave, Elizabeth sits in the window seat And thinks of the coin and plate, As the highwayman dismounts, and ties His horse to the manse’s gate. He beats on the door, ‘Please let me in, I’m weary and faint, that’s all. I wouldn’t abuse your person, but I fear my back’s to the wall.’ She leaves the seat and she slides the bar For bracing the oaken door, ‘I dare not, sir, I fear for my life, You’re safer out on the moor!’ Their voices echo across the marsh Like fear, distilled in the night, And something shudders out in the gloom And lurches to left and right, It seems forever, but now a sound Tolls out, like a final knell, For something, out in the church tonight, Is tolling the steeple bell. He barely makes it back to his horse When the redcoats stand in line, Their muskets fire a volley of shot And his coat turns red, like wine. They go to the church when the deed is done To say, ‘You have done well!’ But the curate lies on the cold stone floor, The Scarecrow tolled the bell! David Lewis Paget
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 10:30 PM UTC
The Scarecrow
Out on the marsh on a lonely night The wind soughs through his rags, The hat that’s pinned to his painted face, Flutters and soars, then sags, His eyes are wide and his mouth is grim As an owl is put to flight, And nothing but shadows will venture there For the Scarecrow rules the night. And back in the manse in a window seat The Parson’s daughter sits, She stares at the fluttering coat-tails, but In truth, is scared to bits, She watches the sails of the windmill turn And creak and groan in the gloom, As clouds come stuttering over the marsh In the rays of a Harvest Moon. The father is out in the donkey cart To tend to his aging flock, He’s left Elizabeth waiting there By the tick of the hallway clock, But out on the moors and beyond the marsh There rides one Highway Jack, A frock coat topped with a bunch of lace And a gold trimmed tricorne hat. He’s whipped the horse to a lather In a retreat from a new affray, For the magistrates have gathered Vowing to ride him down that day, The redcoats wait in the village Inn For the sound that they know too well, When the curate sees the approaching horse He’s to toll the old church bell. But the curate lies in a drunken fit On the floor of the old church nave, And soon, by matins his soul will flit From life to an early grave, Elizabeth sits in the window seat And thinks of the coin and plate, As the highwayman dismounts, and ties His horse to the manse’s gate. He beats on the door, ‘Please let me in, I’m weary and faint, that’s all. I wouldn’t abuse your person, but I fear my back’s to the wall.’ She leaves the seat and she slides the bar For bracing the oaken door, ‘I dare not, sir, I fear for my life, You’re safer out on the moor!’ Their voices echo across the marsh Like fear, distilled in the night, And something shudders out in the gloom And lurches to left and right, It seems forever, but now a sound Tolls out, like a final knell, For something, out in the church tonight, Is tolling the steeple bell. He barely makes it back to his horse When the redcoats stand in line, Their muskets fire a volley of shot And his coat turns red, like wine. They go to the church when the deed is done To say, ‘You have done well!’ But the curate lies on the cold stone floor, The Scarecrow tolled the bell! David Lewis Paget
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I am in cold. I watch that garish ward brimming with false light. Bleached air from his lips touching hers. He hides in her mane, sterile and alone. Why is it so hard, such an insurmountable task for you to see how I lather my face with paint each day just to smile at you? My face, my heart, my mind not a blank canvas that I hide with these diluted pastels but a deep, rich chorus of colors and oils that were never meant to be hidden. But the ward will never know. There are thoughts and opinions rolling like a torrent behind this mask I call a face. This world was against me from day one, don’t you dare say I’ve given way to cynicism. Nor optimism, pessimism, or God-forsaken realism. Can't I think the earth is beautiful, God is good, I am right, and people are wrong without someone putting an -ism behind me? Of course not. That's narcissism. Egoism. Egalitarianism. It is what I unknowingly wrote across my mask. But I never chose to attend this outdated ball, masquerades are cliched. Pure romanticism...surrealism, the kin of commercialism whose visage is a polychromatic wheel of logotypes that you just have to know en masse. What if I stop believing that compassion Himself can hate me? No, no that's atheism. Agnosticism. And if I'm better than someone because He said so then that is monotheism in all it's delicate flavors. Can't I breathe alone in a quiet corner? Isolationism. Can't I want to simply be a follower, and think about life, literature, and art? Incomprehensible, that would be totalitarianism, absolutism, authoritarianism. What if I want to give God all the power He gave us, and watch the world change? Fascism. Revolutionism. Extremism, because releasing the wheel is extremism. Existentialism. And what if I choose to remove the mask, break the levees, release the floodgates, my thoughts and opinions, never watch my tongue, and speak the world as it is: A capital M-madman's schism of logic and faith. As it has always been, and always will be. I will always be in love with the counterfeit ward. And yes, there's a label for that: Catastrophism. So I watch Beauty and his Beast touching in fluorescence. Bleached breath, save for the smoke of his lungs in hers. Sterile and alone; I am in cold, and cold hurts me.
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Mar 4, 2012
Mar 4, 2012 at 3:15 AM UTC
Isms
I am in cold. I watch that garish ward brimming with false light. Bleached air from his lips touching hers. He hides in her mane, sterile and alone. Why is it so hard, such an insurmountable task for you to see how I lather my face with paint each day just to smile at you? My face, my heart, my mind not a blank canvas that I hide with these diluted pastels but a deep, rich chorus of colors and oils that were never meant to be hidden. But the ward will never know. There are thoughts and opinions rolling like a torrent behind this mask I call a face. This world was against me from day one, don’t you dare say I’ve given way to cynicism. Nor optimism, pessimism, or God-forsaken realism. Can't I think the earth is beautiful, God is good, I am right, and people are wrong without someone putting an -ism behind me? Of course not. That's narcissism. Egoism. Egalitarianism. It is what I unknowingly wrote across my mask. But I never chose to attend this outdated ball, masquerades are cliched. Pure romanticism...surrealism, the kin of commercialism whose visage is a polychromatic wheel of logotypes that you just have to know en masse. What if I stop believing that compassion Himself can hate me? No, no that's atheism. Agnosticism. And if I'm better than someone because He said so then that is monotheism in all it's delicate flavors. Can't I breathe alone in a quiet corner? Isolationism. Can't I want to simply be a follower, and think about life, literature, and art? Incomprehensible, that would be totalitarianism, absolutism, authoritarianism. What if I want to give God all the power He gave us, and watch the world change? Fascism. Revolutionism. Extremism, because releasing the wheel is extremism. Existentialism. And what if I choose to remove the mask, break the levees, release the floodgates, my thoughts and opinions, never watch my tongue, and speak the world as it is: A capital M-madman's schism of logic and faith. As it has always been, and always will be. I will always be in love with the counterfeit ward. And yes, there's a label for that: Catastrophism. So I watch Beauty and his Beast touching in fluorescence. Bleached breath, save for the smoke of his lungs in hers. Sterile and alone; I am in cold, and cold hurts me.
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The word slithers from your mouth Arsenic tone reverberating Jumping on my eardrums and misting the fleshy insides of my skull Dearest one, though unbeknownst to such a good intentioned heart You are killing me You lather onto her shame like oil In your eyes she shines; epitome of all that you are not Elusive seductress, skin tasting of intrigue Entombment of that which lives in the blackest parts of you Your brown eyes flashing ivy, becoming venomous, Teeth sinking slowly with each syllable **** Dearest deer eyes, open up She dwells in your recesses but in my repressions as well She is the 6 year old child emanating innocence Closing her eyes to the fact that some parts may only be visible in the presence of Mama and Dr. Mallon Mistaking foul play for dreams She is the 13 year old not yet skinned of her baby fat Caressed like the infant she most certainly is not Lips glued with guilt and naivety My dear, dear friend, please You are killing me The 16 year old girl whimpering no Pomegranate lips  pressed to the underside of Narcissus' hand The other digging in between quivering thighs ***** you sigh They're pathetic really
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 9:38 PM UTC
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Freedom is being able to use my razor. Freedom is being able to use my razor. To glide it without caution against my skin; with no interruptions from noisy roommates. To glide it without caution against my skin; with no interruptions from noisy roommates. In the warmth of these curtains I am safe. In the warmth of these curtains I am safe. I let the warmth soak me in the droplets caressing my skin, washing away the dirt. I let the warmth soak me in the droplets caressing my skin, washing away the dirt. I lather myself in the memories of the day as I unwind, the tension fades. I lather myself in the memories of the day as I unwind, the tension fades. A smile comes to my lips as I step out of my night time ritual; Showering. I smile comes to my lips as I step out of my night time ritual; Cutting. Freedom is being able to use my razor.
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May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
Freedom
*Tra..la...la....la... Time for sha-sha-shampoo ...in the bath* 1. When you wash your hair in the bath And you lather up suds froth that foam BIG bubbles such big big big. Ooh, slinky stuff I'm the shampoo in your hair. I'll slide across your tresses And slip between fingers Caress your scalp And press in deep. 2. While I'm there, I'll take a peep inside And dip into that well-indexed well Page through tomes of unseen stuff See how gray pals duel along Friendly fights. Can you feel how I run down The side of your face Onto your shoulders now... 3. Later, when you're all warm and dressed You can relax and read poems in bed revel in more But now, there's more in store... elsewhere to visit.... 4. Ooh! Just lovin' that shampoo. Gotta love that shampoo Just gotta love that sha-sha-shampoo! S T, 16 May 2013
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 2:48 PM UTC
Gotta love that shampoo!
and if you are still the way you have always been, you're the lucky ones because most of us have taken ourselves apart down to the very molecules we are made up of and rearranged them to someone else's liking and if you are still happy then you're the lucky ones, because most of us are so depressed we are willing to lather our stomachs in alcohol and burn our throats with smoke for fun, or to forget that person who made us feel like we were sitting in a haystack of needles, stabbing and wounding every inch of our skin and if you still strive for your highest hopes and dreams, then you're the luckiest ones, because most of us settle for less, and only climb the ladder until we think we have reached the top and if you're in love, you really are the luckiest of all, because we are all mostly bitter over those we have lost, thinking we are unable to find someone that will bring us the same happiness that the other person used to bring
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 8:30 PM UTC
lucky