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"maniacally" poems
It follows my movements behind a seashell, every few steps it drops the cup over it's shoulder prolifically it shifts positions, so do I, as slight of hand. If the secret of love is buried in his armpit, and it is, maniacally. Tho' not the kind you buy at the movies, of optimist derringers, smoking guns. Still, flight begins when the sun goes down it shifts euphemistic trees like shadow puppets into walls of passion, makes bulimia dreams of doughnut holes, something sweet craving bakery counters and bagels take up the lonesome place still ringing in our ears, my ears, placards hanging lobes of the emotionally distressed, handicapped dangle I can't move my tongue ...again. But, they still hear love whisper their name just before the dawn becomes. Sunny rising sonic boom that scatters the birds all into synchronized sign language. We strain, to hear them sing anthems over the roof tops, it makes us happy to hear every time, just one more time.
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
The Bakery
I asked if there was anyone there remotely my age, and she said yes. I had just dumped all the money in my wallet into trying to make my savings not negative. It didn't work. I walked over, stepped inside, and saw teenagers. She told me, there's a guy outside and he's twenty. I got ******* duped by a kid. Her parent's left, unwisely. I met another half-black person, a 15 year old girl who had dark skin and hated everything that resembled "blackness" or "black culture". She even called herself white. Here I was, outside drinking grape soda out of a hello kitty mug, discussing radical feminism to teenage girls- **and ******* five shots were fired**. Not even 15 feet away, behind the garage. [A fake 100 was exchanged, to which distaste was shown, also this sentence is in parentheses, and technically doesn't even exist]. So now there are teenage girls crying over gunfire, hyperventilating, the high school boys jogging- people in a swarm heading indoors, and me. The stupid-fucking-tragic-yet-benal artist, running in his stupid ******* circle, trying to decide if he should go inside with the crazy juvenile people, or see if he can get shot, because he already lives life awaiting some stupid ******* narcissistic tragedy to wipe him off the map. My opportunities had rushed away already however. I walked inside and sat on the couch hugging one of those puffy round pillows and laughing maniacally. It was intense after all. Kid Duper tried to relate to me. I know she didn't get it. No one ever really ******* gets it. Understood, maybe? No one understands. I left shortly after with a copy of Fahrenheit 451. I was told I could borrow it.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 4:02 AM UTC
"I Went to A Party Where's There's No Way Someone Wasn't ***** Statutorily."
I asked if there was anyone there remotely my age, and she said yes. I had just dumped all the money in my wallet into trying to make my savings not negative. It didn't work. I walked over, stepped inside, and saw teenagers. She told me, there's a guy outside and he's twenty. I got ******* duped by a kid. Her parent's left, unwisely. I met another half-black person, a 15 year old girl who had dark skin and hated everything that resembled "blackness" or "black culture". She even called herself white. Here I was, outside drinking grape soda out of a hello kitty mug, discussing radical feminism to teenage girls- **and ******* five shots were fired**. Not even 15 feet away, behind the garage. [A fake 100 was exchanged, to which distaste was shown, also this sentence is in parentheses, and technically doesn't even exist]. So now there are teenage girls crying over gunfire, hyperventilating, the high school boys jogging- people in a swarm heading indoors, and me. The stupid-fucking-tragic-yet-benal artist, running in his stupid ******* circle, trying to decide if he should go inside with the crazy juvenile people, or see if he can get shot, because he already lives life awaiting some stupid ******* narcissistic tragedy to wipe him off the map. My opportunities had rushed away already however. I walked inside and sat on the couch hugging one of those puffy round pillows and laughing maniacally. It was intense after all. Kid Duper tried to relate to me. I know she didn't get it. No one ever really ******* gets it. Understood, maybe? No one understands. I left shortly after with a copy of Fahrenheit 451. I was told I could borrow it.
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_Marge_ retrogrades lazily towards the hills; Her name, printed the width of her cab-over dinette In crinkled cobalt cursive, Totters eccentrically as her handbrake fails. SNAP-AP Oblivious to errant camper vans (and centripetal forces in general), Barney speeds maniacally along a deserted city street; Golden coated and joyously poochie, His tongue flabbers as fast as his bicycle courier dad can pedal. SNAP-AP-AP Mr Blue buys buckets at Bunnings To match his cerulean suit and shinier-than-shiney satin shirt; Periwinkle rhinestone shoes carry him unabashedly passed the second glances and sideways looks; There goes the best dressed DIY-er in town…don’t ya know. SNAP-AP-AP-AP
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Apr 5, 2022
Apr 5, 2022 at 7:01 PM UTC
Antigua Street Photography
Grievous grace, has due yesterday’s blue Autonomous avarice enigma entity’s hue Identity crisis guidon guile’s due Mystic symbiosis’ existential true Apostrophe sabbat transcendental kitsch Consortium liaison’s libido’s glitch Translucent opulence’s lambent’s a ***** Metaphysical mystique is black as pitch Terrestrial equestrian tellurian's terrene Adamant tenacity’s obtusely obscene Obstinate loquacity spiritually serene Maniacally meticulous  dexterity’s preen Lucid cogent fecund’s maieutic Incarnate’s manumissional eidetic Spatiotemporal telemetry’s fanatic Logistical tactician’s primal ecstatic Chicanery dynamism’s  opulent fealty Intrinsic innate retrospective cruelty Indigenous endemic inherent frailty Corrupt costume counselor subtlety Gambit alluvium aloof impunity Immunity is epicurian absurdity Who are we to us credulity Nimbus nimiety nihilism’s congruity
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 8:39 AM UTC
Cogent
Music of the street Reverberates loudly Out the dumpster, From the tiny mouth Of a screaming Baby Wrought in the wombs Of filth, injustice, Foggy rage. Tongues ripped out, On the floor, tastebuds that Know the pang of blue blood. Rusty nails and overused syringes ***** the fingers, Softly. The people yell, maniacally, Yet remain unheard. Pain becomes evident, Written on the faces Of the unwholesome. A wafting scent of Their rotten morals, Forgotten dreams, Floats, as hot steam, from the pavement. Unable now To decompose. Across the road, A pregnant woman holds Her cigarette, which Smells of cookies And cream soda. Jesus was enlightened, Not too pious For the poor. Yet more than pain Was written On their faces, Missing tongues, missing eyes. Laid together On the piss-stained mattress, Feet to head and head To feet. Nonsense was confused As words, that danced into Non-platonic humps. She kissed him, because She wanted to feel The texture of his brain. Pick her up with Golden hand, though She may see you. And the sad image of Dollar bills Inspires the mind, Making it immobile. Here, where the ********** Stands, more holy Than the monastery. Crawling, as they do, Through unpainted, Rented walls, like Hungry little cockroaches, Creeping for a bite. The small infant still Lays on metal, each Moment crying softer For warmth. Though you will not Hear her tomorrow, As she’s carted off by Garbage men Who, each week, remove The undesired Remnants of yesterday. Hope for sweet Needles to sooner bring her A different relief. Life is so simple When struggles Are never-ending. Mi amor pequeña, no llores más. El fin está cerca, aunque no entiende mis palabras. Though the buildings Surrender with Decay and the sun decides He doesn’t want To keep on caring The music still plays mournfully, And only the baby can hear.
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 7:24 AM UTC
Neighborhood
Music of the street Reverberates loudly Out the dumpster, From the tiny mouth Of a screaming Baby Wrought in the wombs Of filth, injustice, Foggy rage. Tongues ripped out, On the floor, tastebuds that Know the pang of blue blood. Rusty nails and overused syringes ***** the fingers, Softly. The people yell, maniacally, Yet remain unheard. Pain becomes evident, Written on the faces Of the unwholesome. A wafting scent of Their rotten morals, Forgotten dreams, Floats, as hot steam, from the pavement. Unable now To decompose. Across the road, A pregnant woman holds Her cigarette, which Smells of cookies And cream soda. Jesus was enlightened, Not too pious For the poor. Yet more than pain Was written On their faces, Missing tongues, missing eyes. Laid together On the piss-stained mattress, Feet to head and head To feet. Nonsense was confused As words, that danced into Non-platonic humps. She kissed him, because She wanted to feel The texture of his brain. Pick her up with Golden hand, though She may see you. And the sad image of Dollar bills Inspires the mind, Making it immobile. Here, where the ********** Stands, more holy Than the monastery. Crawling, as they do, Through unpainted, Rented walls, like Hungry little cockroaches, Creeping for a bite. The small infant still Lays on metal, each Moment crying softer For warmth. Though you will not Hear her tomorrow, As she’s carted off by Garbage men Who, each week, remove The undesired Remnants of yesterday. Hope for sweet Needles to sooner bring her A different relief. Life is so simple When struggles Are never-ending. Mi amor pequeña, no llores más. El fin está cerca, aunque no entiende mis palabras. Though the buildings Surrender with Decay and the sun decides He doesn’t want To keep on caring The music still plays mournfully, And only the baby can hear.
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I have cravings for you that shatter and drown me. Sometimes I want you so bad that I hear echoes enhancing. Then, other times my heart drowns after maniacally nesting tsunamis that lift then fall upon me. I've been hit so hard lately that the shore has become my lifeline. On the borderline of consumption I've been ordered to lay in lieu of moving at my heart's suggestion. My lips chap near purged wounds as my shoulder and hip indent the remains of our starvation. Pearls form from my erosion. A nearby sand castle is falling with each passer's sinking step. Merging into me, we become sedentary lovers creating sound effects of restoration that rest like my distal desires as sediment on the walls of my longing.
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Nov 24, 2012
Nov 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM UTC
Forced Fasting
There's a raccoon inside me, I've never liked raccoons. He nuzzles my heartstrings when I feel worthless, and cackles maniacally when I believe that I'm worth it. Whenever I'm bold enough to speak he claws my vocal chords closed, leaving me dumbfounded with an obvious lump in my throat. I feel his grimacing face and beady bandit eyes in constant stare. He hisses angrily when he catches me unaware, of just how afraid I am. His grubby paws pander to my love of cancelled plans. I guess you could say we're selfish, because I relish the nights spent alone with him. And I'm positive that he does too, because he knows I'm often too weak to leave my room, and disdain is a dish that makes a feast for two. I really like raccoons.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 8:00 PM UTC
Vermin
They wrap their arms tightly around the other's veined neck clawing maniacally with exposed teeth and wild eyes. a certificate; their names as one, ripped to shreds but apparently still valid. and somehow, when it's my turn, I fantasise my arms would lay limp and his will, too. But maybe it's a glimmer of hope of a candle in interminable night-- wishful thinking. Silly girl-- there is no romance without menace.
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May 10, 2015
May 10, 2015 at 3:46 AM UTC
hopeless romantic
-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:41 AM UTC
Smoke & Mirrors
-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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Enjoy what’s possible in this impossible world. Eat any food the  health Nazi’s despise. Grin maniacally at every toddler you meet. Chant politically incorrect words on public transportation. Kiss random puppies. Face down glowering cats. Chuckle in the face of death. Forget the odds, you didn’t calculate them. Make a joyful noise with everything you’ve got. If you can’t imagine a future, you’re already dead. Celebrate with enthusiasm, time is very, very short.    ~mce
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 8:41 AM UTC
How To Have A "Nice" Day
On some nights all things feel like they have been done before. Tonight, if you listen closely you can hear the night sky breaking apart as all young and beautiful things do. The apples on the tree taste sweeter this year. I know you have waited patiently but that does not speed my coming. I hear in my head on the nights that I am quiet. I cannot keep on like this. The world is upside down. I think he’s building a sandcastle He says to me slyly of our cat jumping maniacally at the wall. I smile, but do not feel it too quick to anger, out of control and ever changing. I comfort myself with minutia, lists and a false sense of control. You can curse the weather man but you cannot change his predicting.
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 10:26 PM UTC
Sweeter
Blood is poured across my body as I lie here These priests are priests of sacrifice Sacrifice of blood, body and humans They pleasure in ****** and grotesque displays of death They will laugh maniacally while they stab women to death And have a smile of sated pleasure standing over a child's corpse Their god is nonexistent As most gods are But lying on this altar with blood over me I feel a presencelo Of power and vicious tyranny Is this maybe their god I feel Or my own fear attacking me and making mr feel it But somehow I still feel it Then a voices like black blood Like lifeless horror Like grotesque sadism Like everything I have ever feared It says "MINE" And across my vision I see a smile That saps all my strenght and resilience And qttacks my soul And with that I loose will and let the knife slid into my heart without caring
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 3:20 PM UTC
Sacrifice
Though the date may be late… and Those type things don’t happen anymore…MUCH…dare I say Those type things don’t happen MUCH anymore… (yes I dared) It is nevertheless ingrained… No matter the age or the date However young or old… It is in our DNA… and Our DNA does not forget Will not allow us As other cultures will To easily enjoy The remote loveliness… and Maniacally flowering greenery… and Beauteous quiet of this Southern forest… this Confederate lake…   Without our spirits Sadly counting The cumulative number of Hundreds of years of Fertilization by Black Men’s bones… But like my father and his father before him We show up anyway… Albeit somewhat uneasily… While the native good-ole-boys Stand stock still and stare Actin’ like they never seen one’a us before… and Though we arrived obviously prepared for what we came to do They still stare… as if wondering what we could possibly be doing here… or maybe… how dare we enjoy God’s green earth with our brown selfs… And my beautiful Black Man with ease of motion Audaciously pays the Black Tax (the quoted price over what the sign says the price is) As I bait my line in defiance Albeit somewhat uneasily… and Cast it out into this confederate lake And my beautiful Black Man Also stands… broad shoulders back… and Pointedly does not acknowledge the presence of the natives As they stand stock still and stare But it is there (We will NOT be afraid… and we will NOT go away) Unspoken between us... But Always in the back of the mind… The recesses of the consciousness… Preparation for this day… and the worst that it can bring… Is ingrained…
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 3:15 PM UTC
This Beauteous Confederate Lake
Though the date may be late… and Those type things don’t happen anymore…MUCH…dare I say Those type things don’t happen MUCH anymore… (yes I dared) It is nevertheless ingrained… No matter the age or the date However young or old… It is in our DNA… and Our DNA does not forget Will not allow us As other cultures will To easily enjoy The remote loveliness… and Maniacally flowering greenery… and Beauteous quiet of this Southern forest… this Confederate lake…   Without our spirits Sadly counting The cumulative number of Hundreds of years of Fertilization by Black Men’s bones… But like my father and his father before him We show up anyway… Albeit somewhat uneasily… While the native good-ole-boys Stand stock still and stare Actin’ like they never seen one’a us before… and Though we arrived obviously prepared for what we came to do They still stare… as if wondering what we could possibly be doing here… or maybe… how dare we enjoy God’s green earth with our brown selfs… And my beautiful Black Man with ease of motion Audaciously pays the Black Tax (the quoted price over what the sign says the price is) As I bait my line in defiance Albeit somewhat uneasily… and Cast it out into this confederate lake And my beautiful Black Man Also stands… broad shoulders back… and Pointedly does not acknowledge the presence of the natives As they stand stock still and stare But it is there (We will NOT be afraid… and we will NOT go away) Unspoken between us... But Always in the back of the mind… The recesses of the consciousness… Preparation for this day… and the worst that it can bring… Is ingrained…
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Maniacally, The days and nights Bleed together Into a time frame The insane Tap into That's a lot like infinity. Vampiracally, The years of Infinity Bleed together Into an abysmal Spiral Of insanity. Supernaturally, Are our states of being. How well We blend in With a dismal Arrangement Of plain people In trains, Checking their wrists For the time As they travel Physically. Naturally, The three of us Are bound to meet At some point. Tapping into Hidden goldmines Of psychological Nuggets That gleam With prosperity, As everything Melts together Again. Everything is sacred. Everything is connected. Mining For hidden connections Ought to excavate Feelings of wonder. The caverns filled With complex crystals Of energetic Freethought Have long been Paved over By trains and Linear brains Improving on their Transistors. Maniacally and Vampiracally, The days and nights Bleed together, While the world below Bustles about; We appear to be Just like one of them. We may even check Our watch. Our conditions Are congruent In that they are Nothing less than Supernatural.
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Dec 16, 2016
Dec 16, 2016 at 5:16 AM UTC
The Maniac, The Vampiric, etc.
Standing, soaked, out in a storm, gusts of wind whipping my hair around wildly Unruly strands sway with the song of chaos, pulling at my scalp, snapping, lashing at my face My existence is all reality as this whirlwind tempest frantically thrashes about my flesh In the complex puzzles and foolish games, a simple madness lives, and therein lies my freedom My tongue and lips sometimes flap boisterously from their spot on my face And the noises risen up from my throat, and passed through my mouth are meaningless blubberings Involuntarily, I grin, tasting the nonsense's unique sweetness, and I swallow My laughter rings out, a vociferous and untameable sound; humor, the voice of a crazy woman And I spin! Oh, I spin and spin and spin, savagely, in ellipses, ovals, and circle shapes I've no shame, and this dance is all mine, so I maniacally fling my arms through the air And as my body makes its revolutions, a fierce smile curves the shape of my lips, wrinkles the corners of my eyes Inside my mind, wandering - wondering if there's any real difference between elated insanity and that which I crave... Some people might use words such as eccentric, strange, whimsical, and peculiar for what they cannot understand So very often I hear these such words being used from those who speak of me But it is them whom I perceive as being rather off, so habitual and boring, living like routine enslaved, joyless zombies So unfathomable to me, why most everyone seems to desire nothing beyond a passionless, hollow schedule to, every day, just repeat Me... I'll race barefoot down a gravel path, through lightning, thunder, and rain, only to feel my hair being twisted and tangled up in the wind I'll jabber absurdities, laugh like a loon, all while I spin contentedly around and around, until, stupidly dizzy, I crash and fall Madness pays little mind, stands without worries or concerns, because it believes - it knows, most nothing matters This is my freedom, freedom that cannot be shared, for what it is, is something that's only freeing for me...                ~A. D. Smithson   MARCH 2013
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Jun 14, 2013
Jun 14, 2013 at 4:58 AM UTC
Ellipses, Ovals, & Circle Shapes
Standing, soaked, out in a storm, gusts of wind whipping my hair around wildly Unruly strands sway with the song of chaos, pulling at my scalp, snapping, lashing at my face My existence is all reality as this whirlwind tempest frantically thrashes about my flesh In the complex puzzles and foolish games, a simple madness lives, and therein lies my freedom My tongue and lips sometimes flap boisterously from their spot on my face And the noises risen up from my throat, and passed through my mouth are meaningless blubberings Involuntarily, I grin, tasting the nonsense's unique sweetness, and I swallow My laughter rings out, a vociferous and untameable sound; humor, the voice of a crazy woman And I spin! Oh, I spin and spin and spin, savagely, in ellipses, ovals, and circle shapes I've no shame, and this dance is all mine, so I maniacally fling my arms through the air And as my body makes its revolutions, a fierce smile curves the shape of my lips, wrinkles the corners of my eyes Inside my mind, wandering - wondering if there's any real difference between elated insanity and that which I crave... Some people might use words such as eccentric, strange, whimsical, and peculiar for what they cannot understand So very often I hear these such words being used from those who speak of me But it is them whom I perceive as being rather off, so habitual and boring, living like routine enslaved, joyless zombies So unfathomable to me, why most everyone seems to desire nothing beyond a passionless, hollow schedule to, every day, just repeat Me... I'll race barefoot down a gravel path, through lightning, thunder, and rain, only to feel my hair being twisted and tangled up in the wind I'll jabber absurdities, laugh like a loon, all while I spin contentedly around and around, until, stupidly dizzy, I crash and fall Madness pays little mind, stands without worries or concerns, because it believes - it knows, most nothing matters This is my freedom, freedom that cannot be shared, for what it is, is something that's only freeing for me...                ~A. D. Smithson   MARCH 2013
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I just wanna howl. I'm itching twitching rather like sudden shivers flexing my muscles like gun shots. anxious alone half liking it half wanting to tell someone I'm alone but not in empty air these suite mates and roommates and mates in this building I wanna howl. let it roar my heart my ears my eyes my mind all stretching and staining Oh! it grinds my gears to be alone but not with myself Maniacally feeling up the walls and floors and other surfaces I'm twitching urging to howl I want to cut lose from myself. I gotta do something.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 11:36 PM UTC
Twitching Over Here
He dusted off the old rocking chair & asked me to have a seat He'd tell me what he was doing there If I'd simply take a load off my feet I found this gesture laughable I would rather stand! Then listen to another word Uttered by this despicable Man! But His confidence eluded Him He knew I would protest & yet I saw Him conceal a grin At the denial of His request! At this point, I couldn't even move I could barely breathe He acknowledged my discomfort, said, "Very well" & took the seat! As He sat there callously, Scoping out the room He said He just could not believe The daffodils won't bloom! This absurdity helped catch my breath I quickly snapped to interject, **** the flowers! **** this place!" & turned to flee with great hast! This made Him chortle with much glee He barked, "Silly, girl, you cannot leave! I know you've known this all along, The Cottage is where your Soul belongs!" I felt so angry I could cry I hit my knees & pleaded: "WHY?! I kicked You out so long ago! Don't speak to me as if You know!" & this is where the story twists: He dropped His grin & stood up quick Now, controlled by His brown eyes Forced to hear His every lie: "I know that we have been apart, But that's no excuse to neglect your heart, & that is why I'm here again, to protect you from yourself, My friend..." & that's the moment I lost my mind To hear Him call me "friend" As if His love, I could deny! (So, instead, I was forced to pretend) But He already knew my tricks We played this game before All this time Our stubbornness Is the very quality We adored! So, while He tried to lecture me I quickly stoked a match I had laced The Cottage previously & dropped it on a kerosine-soaked mat! & as I laughed maniacally at the seconds we had left To my surprise He grinned idly As We slowly burned to death...
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
The Visitor (Part II)
He dusted off the old rocking chair & asked me to have a seat He'd tell me what he was doing there If I'd simply take a load off my feet I found this gesture laughable I would rather stand! Then listen to another word Uttered by this despicable Man! But His confidence eluded Him He knew I would protest & yet I saw Him conceal a grin At the denial of His request! At this point, I couldn't even move I could barely breathe He acknowledged my discomfort, said, "Very well" & took the seat! As He sat there callously, Scoping out the room He said He just could not believe The daffodils won't bloom! This absurdity helped catch my breath I quickly snapped to interject, **** the flowers! **** this place!" & turned to flee with great hast! This made Him chortle with much glee He barked, "Silly, girl, you cannot leave! I know you've known this all along, The Cottage is where your Soul belongs!" I felt so angry I could cry I hit my knees & pleaded: "WHY?! I kicked You out so long ago! Don't speak to me as if You know!" & this is where the story twists: He dropped His grin & stood up quick Now, controlled by His brown eyes Forced to hear His every lie: "I know that we have been apart, But that's no excuse to neglect your heart, & that is why I'm here again, to protect you from yourself, My friend..." & that's the moment I lost my mind To hear Him call me "friend" As if His love, I could deny! (So, instead, I was forced to pretend) But He already knew my tricks We played this game before All this time Our stubbornness Is the very quality We adored! So, while He tried to lecture me I quickly stoked a match I had laced The Cottage previously & dropped it on a kerosine-soaked mat! & as I laughed maniacally at the seconds we had left To my surprise He grinned idly As We slowly burned to death...
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I have given fair warning Fires and floods and earthquakeing rage under the impending tsunami my battle cry The stampeding hooves of my heartbeat render you unfit to stand the ground you say you own Hyenas laugh maniacally behind my teeth and the monsters of the deep, the deep, the deep Surface to become my living island I have given fair warning Your walls cannot hold Your blades cannot pierce Your lies will hang abandoned spiderweb in the corners and I will use the fire of my truths to burn them from existence I am the web spinner now I build the world Catch you in my weaves Succubus Leave you dry I have given fair warning
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 4:47 PM UTC
Untitled
I forgot to take my medicine. Don't freak out, but I forgot to take my pills. My veins are not swirling and dancing and wait actually the pills probably slow them to stop swirling and dancing so I guess now is the time for said swirling and dancing, is it not? I can feel a bit of mania in my head, so excited and so alive and so real. I can tell because there goes periods, out the window, never to be remembered or recollected or what was I talking about? Its twitching and hopping and like Wonderland and here we go, no ashes, just painting the roses red, painting the roses red, here comes the queen of hearts and off there goes my head, we're painting the roses red, until we end up dead. Am I somberly manic, or maniacally somber or am i even sad? I don't know its just the twitch, I can feel it, so Chesire under my skin, the smile is coming through and my head is racing and my focus is wasting away under the hot spotlight of my own personal theater. Bravo, Grace, take a bow! Letters and figures and math and language, so different but so funny because people speak both, why do mathematicians not count as fluent in another language, because its certainly foreign to me. Ooh, I probably should alert the one I never expected, tell him how my head's a twitching and my fingers a fluttering and all of it a maddening. I missed this, I'd hate to admit, with the progress and the productivity and the beauty and the wonder and the land and the magic carpet ride. What land am I in again? How funny it would be to see an intoxicated me. Am I intoxicated now? I don't know, I act like it but nothing's in my veins to even the pills am I born intoxicated, am I intoxication incarnate, am I addictive, am I a problem? I like my sweater today, its got words that I love and words that I feel, to be or not to be, that is the question, **** it feels like I'm on fire, my limbs are burning and I am flame reborn. Maybe I should take off my hat and let out some heat, but its a pretty hat and it might feel bad if I ignore it. Time to go back to busy life, where the life is dull and i am the fire but I love the dullness and the normativity because it involves my wonderland friends and the one I never expected. They make me happy, which lets me fly like this. The flying fire is me.
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Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 2:23 PM UTC
My Wonderland Pt. 12
I forgot to take my medicine. Don't freak out, but I forgot to take my pills. My veins are not swirling and dancing and wait actually the pills probably slow them to stop swirling and dancing so I guess now is the time for said swirling and dancing, is it not? I can feel a bit of mania in my head, so excited and so alive and so real. I can tell because there goes periods, out the window, never to be remembered or recollected or what was I talking about? Its twitching and hopping and like Wonderland and here we go, no ashes, just painting the roses red, painting the roses red, here comes the queen of hearts and off there goes my head, we're painting the roses red, until we end up dead. Am I somberly manic, or maniacally somber or am i even sad? I don't know its just the twitch, I can feel it, so Chesire under my skin, the smile is coming through and my head is racing and my focus is wasting away under the hot spotlight of my own personal theater. Bravo, Grace, take a bow! Letters and figures and math and language, so different but so funny because people speak both, why do mathematicians not count as fluent in another language, because its certainly foreign to me. Ooh, I probably should alert the one I never expected, tell him how my head's a twitching and my fingers a fluttering and all of it a maddening. I missed this, I'd hate to admit, with the progress and the productivity and the beauty and the wonder and the land and the magic carpet ride. What land am I in again? How funny it would be to see an intoxicated me. Am I intoxicated now? I don't know, I act like it but nothing's in my veins to even the pills am I born intoxicated, am I intoxication incarnate, am I addictive, am I a problem? I like my sweater today, its got words that I love and words that I feel, to be or not to be, that is the question, **** it feels like I'm on fire, my limbs are burning and I am flame reborn. Maybe I should take off my hat and let out some heat, but its a pretty hat and it might feel bad if I ignore it. Time to go back to busy life, where the life is dull and i am the fire but I love the dullness and the normativity because it involves my wonderland friends and the one I never expected. They make me happy, which lets me fly like this. The flying fire is me.
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when I reached the age of reason I hit the ground, running. the thought flits across compact mirror smudged from years of overuse & abandon, left behind in purse bottoms and backpacks every time I switch up my style & move on to something: new/ fresh / else.   a glance into glass & I'm transported: a babe on white lambskin, a second-hand nostalgia never wholly mine. a missing, another memory removed, a down-to-the-wire tally added to the roster, unexpectedly the emotional prodigy, ostracized alongside destined veracity: as in my absolute devotion to                                                                           TRUTH! the time skip, a box-out, a blackout, a kindness. a comfort over the desk chair where homework            completes itself after countless 'mixtape playlists' limewired maniacally alphabetized, rearranged & revised until dawn/ another decade / chapter: a bookworm, a blockout, a maneuver 'round roadblock, a machination, a manipulation, a deadening, a defeat, an assistant Mother only a child self, the intrigue... yet here I am, a spectacle,   a miracle, a smashing, a light on an island out at sea, an accident, a ripening survived. can I trust myself. to dive in. for / by myself? when I lift the stretch of lambskin from an atticked brown box, a painted porcelain plate hits the ground, shattered.
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Jul 28, 2022
Jul 28, 2022 at 9:07 PM UTC
self-portrait in lieu of a mistake
The first deceivers were weavers mechanically believed, maniacally manufactured trying me to finally find the answer as to why we hurt. Let's see who stands my test of time, threads spin, intertwined as styles synthesize minds ripe for picking, shrines leap off limbs lending me a branch to climb up and end it, a cloud to puff a cig with, a chance to shine just like the sun cant tell a canyon from a figment of one mind the bend of the cliffs edge sailing through time at last, alas my ship's wrecked.
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Oct 10, 2015
Oct 10, 2015 at 3:56 AM UTC
As Doom Loomed
I can't laugh maniacally And I can't hurt someone Without feeling lots of guilt, I can barely keep a secret If it's mine and I think it'll hurt someone. So stamp "Chaotic Good" In red on my forehead, And I'll only do good If it so suits my moral compass. But my good involves Vengeance, It involves fighting for honor. It involves putting the care For the people I love First and foremost. ***** the idea That those who attempt Volatile blackening Of names Deserve to be validated Or made to feel supported, I'd rather rip them to shreds, In that righteous way I have about me. And maybe it's wrong, But I can't make a plan for world ********** Because honestly I don't care enough. And I'd make a terrible villain For the same reasons I'd make a terrible lawyer, Because I shake when I'm anxious And cry when I'm mad. But at least I know I wouldn't be able to sit back And watch the world burn.
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Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 2:23 PM UTC
I'd be a villain if only I could just do the laugh right.
;\ / , By Ken Sanes It is about        a world gone mad,                which is spread out evenly but clumps together in the place where there were blood curdling screams. And it is about right now                      in the old house with the creaking door that opens                 \ slowly and the thin plane of light that cuts into the dark entry, landing on eyes that seem to follow you from behind a painting. But certainly you are being paranoid because there are no apparitions                   ; and nothing is moving through the hall. Then again, now that you’re in, you understand it is about love and hate, and love of death pallor, and the first time, when the screams are louder the second time, and he is mad   utterly mad imbued with a perfect evil   purified of petty motive reveling in the ideal of suffering and finely tuned     not even needing flesh but     cold       sinister      and incorporeal laughing maniacally     unseen in the darkness              with a sharp blade that                                             goes                                            /                                          in & horrific screaming                                  ,
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Apr 21, 2012
Apr 21, 2012 at 11:49 PM UTC
This poem is not mine it is by (Ken Sanes) I love his writing.
I guess, The world that burst forth From my tender red womb Is maniacally clawing To get back inside, Now, Or am I pulling it by It's tangled hairs? Afterall, I am flustered With it wrenching The brush from my hand, Each time I reach out To unravel the mess It's made, (Or, I made?) Either way, I'll let bygones be bygones, Even if it means Being carried away - Lost in sterilized hair strands, Sleeping wordlessly, Amid Insanely white teeth.
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Aug 2, 2011
Aug 2, 2011 at 8:50 PM UTC
Nails Hairier than Hair