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"metastasizing" poems
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM UTC
Supply & Demand, Demand & Supply
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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LET THERE BE LIGHT a fierce sun ****** vapors into a thunderous sky which wept sixty sextillion tears creating a riddled calibration: the river   time we came cells devouring cells metastasizing into life first cruel crawlers then stealthy stalkers wicked walkers   and finally THE terrible talkers blasphemers bending time asking WHY it flows ? we are they who have no shore to which to moor on the river, time
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Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 8:46 PM UTC
the river all
The white cells, seemingly not fearful of   oozing, festering, metastasizing, fear black cells, wearing hijabs or dreads. The white cells are fearful of the brown cells that **** and process their chickens and mow their lawns for them. The white cells fear the red cells though they like moccasins, canoes, and wild rice soup, fear yellow cells may be smarter than them so they label them ***** and Chinks. The white cells   don’t seem to mind asphalt-coating, starlight-stealing, convenience store sprawl devouring healthy green cells-- alfalfa cells, forest cells, swampy, boggy cells, black-eyed susan cells. The Chamber of Commerce calls it growth, progress; but this town needs a tourniquet, maybe chemotherapy.
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Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 3:17 PM UTC
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Bright buds hang precarious on their limbs. Their hundreds of digits green and supple sway as the winds try gently at first to shake them from their perches. They snap back, their ties elastic, always bending. The wind struck harder the third time. It caught them off guard, swinging back to face the sun. It barreled over them like a train, limbs snapped like bones under tons of industrial revolutionary steel, the cracking brings tears to the eyes of passersby. They were so green, so verdant was their exuberant friendship, covered in rosy flesh and sturdy bark, ring after ring of tribulation and triumph, but it fractured like a wish bone. She, Persephone, prosecutor of Her, Demeter, was judge of them both, prisoner of herself. Solitary confinement. She tugged at her half, she needed the wish, She need for Demeter to see that She needed wishes just like the rest of us. Demeter, jury. 12. Her crime: attempted impartiality, balancing a utilitarian ideal that we can divide our attention based on who needs it most. She cannot be tried on account of her inability to read Braille ciphers in gestures, ****** expressions, and Tumblr posts. Demeter tugged at her half, but only enough to show the other that she was there, but consistently there. It wasn’t enough. Snap. No marrow could be found. Where flesh was meant to be dripped rot, an odor of resentment filled their nostrils, it choked Demeter, as Persephone had been choking for years. This resentment, this cancer, this jealousy, it grew inside of Persephone like a tumor, days from metastasizing, the spread could have killed them. Amputate. You two are a tree. Bright buds dangling from every limb, they are still soft and green and supple at their ends. You two are still growing. Persephone will cut out this cancer, and She will heal herself, scar tissues covered by broadleafs. You will soothe them for her. And you will see past the rosy flesh what pain it may hide. And you two will grow. Roots firm, faces braced against the wind, and limbs always turned towards the sun.
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May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013 at 5:36 PM UTC
When the Wind Strikes, They Snap Back, Always Elastic
Bright buds hang precarious on their limbs. Their hundreds of digits green and supple sway as the winds try gently at first to shake them from their perches. They snap back, their ties elastic, always bending. The wind struck harder the third time. It caught them off guard, swinging back to face the sun. It barreled over them like a train, limbs snapped like bones under tons of industrial revolutionary steel, the cracking brings tears to the eyes of passersby. They were so green, so verdant was their exuberant friendship, covered in rosy flesh and sturdy bark, ring after ring of tribulation and triumph, but it fractured like a wish bone. She, Persephone, prosecutor of Her, Demeter, was judge of them both, prisoner of herself. Solitary confinement. She tugged at her half, she needed the wish, She need for Demeter to see that She needed wishes just like the rest of us. Demeter, jury. 12. Her crime: attempted impartiality, balancing a utilitarian ideal that we can divide our attention based on who needs it most. She cannot be tried on account of her inability to read Braille ciphers in gestures, ****** expressions, and Tumblr posts. Demeter tugged at her half, but only enough to show the other that she was there, but consistently there. It wasn’t enough. Snap. No marrow could be found. Where flesh was meant to be dripped rot, an odor of resentment filled their nostrils, it choked Demeter, as Persephone had been choking for years. This resentment, this cancer, this jealousy, it grew inside of Persephone like a tumor, days from metastasizing, the spread could have killed them. Amputate. You two are a tree. Bright buds dangling from every limb, they are still soft and green and supple at their ends. You two are still growing. Persephone will cut out this cancer, and She will heal herself, scar tissues covered by broadleafs. You will soothe them for her. And you will see past the rosy flesh what pain it may hide. And you two will grow. Roots firm, faces braced against the wind, and limbs always turned towards the sun.
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Read the Printed Word! It is liberating and overwhelming (to the point of hot tears) to know how long I have been letting people drag my body through hot coals while denying their abuse only because letting them mistreat me was only a way to mistreat my self But as I have stopped hurting myself, I have become aware that while I dare anyone to try to hurt me— I say this with a fire glint in my eye-- that I have been opening myself to the worst of people. I am seeing myself in a better light— I am powerful I am beautiful I am sacred I am deserving I am independent And I don’t need people who I never really needed in the first place. I’ve gone nineteen years sacrificing myself and it cannot go on. I will not let it go on. My consciousness is shifting, my inner self is awakening and stretching its muscles. Vomiting up this cancerous, petulant, bone-blackening self loathing, cutting out this metastasizing inability to love myself, is painful. It is the worst sort of agony {and my body can take a lot of hell} but when have I ever shied from pain?
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM UTC
the worst sort of agony
Marines call to say hello, impress. I'm over 35 but my boys 19. They could go: Hide! One moment spent tying a shoe, another dying, gunshot wound or poisoned food. Events in their mere chronology                                                        make no sense. And the details of yr dad's life don't either.                                                                         Late night quiet cigarette smoker. But next day, the butts cleaned into the can. Who does that? Lady in a skirt or overalls rolled up - cigarette smoke. Now it's yr dad.                             Yr dad who                                                  watches for war. Even if Uncle Sam disbands, dissolves we the people will still be here and stay involved with North America. The purple mountains majesty                            and shining seas little people, big people, brown, red, and white. Addicted                            to action movies. Perhaps there is no choice. One must sit, sitting still                            as a buddha, sitting bull. I can imagine myself and all others - drivers, voters, runners -                            little fetal muscles at first. Metastasizing. What's it called when the cell                            at the tip of the ***** or organism, divides, and the ***** grows? It's called                            girl on a bicycle. I find I make no sense. Her **** a practicality to her, is                            delicious to me a miraculous sea lettuce or snapdragon. You've heard it before.                            A moral dilemma wrapped in robes and silks and odors. Yet, come close,                            and business beckons work gets done, life goes on, hair grows in, we go on                            vacation the Marine Corps calls, desperate for new fetuses to teach                            purposeful workmanlike killing I'll do my own killing, thanks, when violence comes to the       neighborhood                            if I've got your back your back's gotten and if I'm on point, the point's taken. One world under God invisible with liberty and justice for all who                            Art in heaven what the hell's his name.                                           Nemesis.                                                           Hysterical. The small war of an especially inept empire. The world's too big to swallow as the Krauts and Nips found out. Empire is self-correcting. Them dark-skinned mustachioed ********* who can't fix their own electricity seem to be kicking our ***** pert good. As did the ***** before them. All to the good. A good lesson to know and then we all become friends following the brawl. We apparently cannot skip the fight. It must be fought, and **** the girls.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 8:24 PM UTC
Marines Call to Say Hello
Marines call to say hello, impress. I'm over 35 but my boys 19. They could go: Hide! One moment spent tying a shoe, another dying, gunshot wound or poisoned food. Events in their mere chronology                                                        make no sense. And the details of yr dad's life don't either.                                                                         Late night quiet cigarette smoker. But next day, the butts cleaned into the can. Who does that? Lady in a skirt or overalls rolled up - cigarette smoke. Now it's yr dad.                             Yr dad who                                                  watches for war. Even if Uncle Sam disbands, dissolves we the people will still be here and stay involved with North America. The purple mountains majesty                            and shining seas little people, big people, brown, red, and white. Addicted                            to action movies. Perhaps there is no choice. One must sit, sitting still                            as a buddha, sitting bull. I can imagine myself and all others - drivers, voters, runners -                            little fetal muscles at first. Metastasizing. What's it called when the cell                            at the tip of the ***** or organism, divides, and the ***** grows? It's called                            girl on a bicycle. I find I make no sense. Her **** a practicality to her, is                            delicious to me a miraculous sea lettuce or snapdragon. You've heard it before.                            A moral dilemma wrapped in robes and silks and odors. Yet, come close,                            and business beckons work gets done, life goes on, hair grows in, we go on                            vacation the Marine Corps calls, desperate for new fetuses to teach                            purposeful workmanlike killing I'll do my own killing, thanks, when violence comes to the       neighborhood                            if I've got your back your back's gotten and if I'm on point, the point's taken. One world under God invisible with liberty and justice for all who                            Art in heaven what the hell's his name.                                           Nemesis.                                                           Hysterical. The small war of an especially inept empire. The world's too big to swallow as the Krauts and Nips found out. Empire is self-correcting. Them dark-skinned mustachioed ********* who can't fix their own electricity seem to be kicking our ***** pert good. As did the ***** before them. All to the good. A good lesson to know and then we all become friends following the brawl. We apparently cannot skip the fight. It must be fought, and **** the girls.
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second match lit and gone cinders burn and hearts forlorn the curse it summons haunts the head with terrors of happiness that could have been yet light seeps in through half-open eyes though distorted with tearful disguise as pain brings no warning, leaves none secure as jealousy hidden in palms, submerged the blush leaks in, roses bloom in the fall the demise of your companions the source of it all as you dream of the kiss you exercised on your lips with the faint gossamer trails of a butterfly's bliss the chill of winters creaks in your bones the scratch of a pencil strengthening your woes no amount of perfume will cover the cologne no amount of tears shed with forget what you've known four times the curse has struck the heart and bled loves juice through every part through wrecked veins and bruised bones metastasizing, leaving you all on your own through love's gentle heart brings peace to the world a violent disguise for the pain it truly burns candlelight vigils carry sorrow no longer for love's vicious hand strikes down younger and younger given sunshine rays to be brought to the soil trotted on by millions worrying of their sorrows problems; as if they have so much insulting those who dare not live, dare not touch the shreds of life they hold so dear and those in tow they hold so near tears. wet drivers run dry is it always truly better to try? sk
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Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013 at 6:19 PM UTC
curses hung by empty hangers
trip flare   and they are in a singing, soprano sea of light my heart thumping, baritone,   my eyes digesting this metastasizing meal   choking on it, until   the guy beside me opens fire,   emptying a magazine before I flip from safety to rock ’n roll auto   both of us now filling the killing fields with tracers, whizzing shouting shadows in this sorrowful symphony…   the light fades in the newly darkened pit   the crawling ebony clad shapes stop, the conductor, long gone   to another stinking stage,   while here, the blood dries black and I have new mournful memoirs of  the music of madness
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 6:49 PM UTC
1971
the world is adorned with a million windows the bleakest night has a thousand eyes daylight shines into the globes darkest corners truth will ultimately expose all lies NASA’s satellites circle Tropic of Cancer latitudes cameras pinpoint the disease metastasizing in the body of Homs from stratospheric limits sensitive lenses read the names magic markers have scrawled onto white sheets covering the dead YouTube gets Oscar consideration for grisly cinematography a real-time visceral docudrama of panting fascists gleefully tramping through the desecrated streets coolly administering a coup de gras to a city on its knees, pleading release from an **** of incessant bloodletting twitter records desperate tweets the batting wings of endangered flocks furiously thumbing into the blogosphere calls for UN intervention that falls on blind eyes BBC reportage, the global gold standard for journalistic excellence scoops the stories of London based FSA partisans awaiting repatriation to scatter Bashar’s Kodachrome killers Has the All Seeing Eye who has graced us with sight laughingly curse us with vision? Does the One Caring Eye of the Universe bless us with perception to haunt us with images? Has The One Thats Sees Everything blinked closed the eye of compassion? Has the horror of Homs become too much even for The Universal Eye of Love? the opened eyes of a dead child reflects our cold winter of indifference demoralizing dehumanizing a watching world Music Selection Grateful Dead Eyes of the World Oakland 3/2/12 jbm
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Mar 2, 2012
Mar 2, 2012 at 12:04 PM UTC
Watching Homs
the world is adorned with a million windows the bleakest night has a thousand eyes daylight shines into the globes darkest corners truth will ultimately expose all lies NASA’s satellites circle Tropic of Cancer latitudes cameras pinpoint the disease metastasizing in the body of Homs from stratospheric limits sensitive lenses read the names magic markers have scrawled onto white sheets covering the dead YouTube gets Oscar consideration for grisly cinematography a real-time visceral docudrama of panting fascists gleefully tramping through the desecrated streets coolly administering a coup de gras to a city on its knees, pleading release from an **** of incessant bloodletting twitter records desperate tweets the batting wings of endangered flocks furiously thumbing into the blogosphere calls for UN intervention that falls on blind eyes BBC reportage, the global gold standard for journalistic excellence scoops the stories of London based FSA partisans awaiting repatriation to scatter Bashar’s Kodachrome killers Has the All Seeing Eye who has graced us with sight laughingly curse us with vision? Does the One Caring Eye of the Universe bless us with perception to haunt us with images? Has The One Thats Sees Everything blinked closed the eye of compassion? Has the horror of Homs become too much even for The Universal Eye of Love? the opened eyes of a dead child reflects our cold winter of indifference demoralizing dehumanizing a watching world Music Selection Grateful Dead Eyes of the World Oakland 3/2/12 jbm
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It’s been a week - things have been happening - I’m going through it. I’ve become nostalgic for two weeks ago. I got screamed at, I lost my AirPods case and I cracked my iPhone screen, so I’m several levels worse - I’m a sad human. I’m writing this at the Apple Store while a friendly Apple person renders me whole. The Ukraine situation has everyone unnerved. Draw a card - Pandemic or WWIII? Please, protect my peace. So there’s a level of “screw-it” now. Friday night, I’m in a bad mood and when someone says “Come-on let's go clubbing!” I’m - “Let’s GET THIS.” Later, we’re at a club, and it’s INSANELY crowded, like a moshpit. It was ABBA night. It did not escape me that this is exactly the type of milieu I’ve been avoiding for years. Did I mention the WWIII level of “screw-it”? Ok, moshpit, you could hardly move, you definitely couldn’t hear, and Anna dropped her phone - we were sure that it was gone forever but 30 minutes later a hole opens up and there it is - like it’s just been sitting there waiting - so, there ARE miracles.   The list of life’s demands grow by the moment - reading, homework, laundry, dinner, upcoming midterms. I had a rock solid plan for a Saturday night of fun but assignments and necessities destroyed its integrity. After a heroic effort and completing everything, I felt a fast-metastasizing boredom, so I wandered outside my room, hoping for company and distraction - it was 00:30 AM  - and for for once - no one else was there! Where was everyone? Hello zombie apocalypse. So I did what anyone would do in that beat - I cued-up ”Miraculous,” because Ladybug’s always there for me.
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Mar 6, 2022
Mar 6, 2022 at 6:53 AM UTC
Currents
It’s been a week - things have been happening - I’m going through it. I’ve become nostalgic for two weeks ago. I got screamed at, I lost my AirPods case and I cracked my iPhone screen, so I’m several levels worse - I’m a sad human. I’m writing this at the Apple Store while a friendly Apple person renders me whole. The Ukraine situation has everyone unnerved. Draw a card - Pandemic or WWIII? Please, protect my peace. So there’s a level of “screw-it” now. Friday night, I’m in a bad mood and when someone says “Come-on let's go clubbing!” I’m - “Let’s GET THIS.” Later, we’re at a club, and it’s INSANELY crowded, like a moshpit. It was ABBA night. It did not escape me that this is exactly the type of milieu I’ve been avoiding for years. Did I mention the WWIII level of “screw-it”? Ok, moshpit, you could hardly move, you definitely couldn’t hear, and Anna dropped her phone - we were sure that it was gone forever but 30 minutes later a hole opens up and there it is - like it’s just been sitting there waiting - so, there ARE miracles.   The list of life’s demands grow by the moment - reading, homework, laundry, dinner, upcoming midterms. I had a rock solid plan for a Saturday night of fun but assignments and necessities destroyed its integrity. After a heroic effort and completing everything, I felt a fast-metastasizing boredom, so I wandered outside my room, hoping for company and distraction - it was 00:30 AM  - and for for once - no one else was there! Where was everyone? Hello zombie apocalypse. So I did what anyone would do in that beat - I cued-up ”Miraculous,” because Ladybug’s always there for me.
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Yes. I wielded the knife. Coated with my word poison, I plunged it into your soul and the dagger spread like cancer through you, I could see it metastasizing every time you tilted your head to let your hair cover your face. If I could take that blade and plunge it into my own heart now, I would before my next beat. I would take back the cancer and smile as the tumors fought for residency inside of me, if I knew that you would be in remission from my cruelty. Sometimes it takes three months for the recoil of punches thrown to take its effect. When it does, laying on your basement couch, trawling through an online poetry forum, your knuckles will fracture and your finger bones will cleave in two like firewood. I doused you with the lighter fluid I spit and set you ablaze with the words I wrote. I watched your tears turn to ash. And then I lit another match. I turned my back as you smoldered, now your anger fed the flames I sparked. Now my bones are brittle and dry, my marrow now tinder for you to set aflame. Burn me with the hellfire I put you through, I need this self-assigned penance, and you deserve to watch me burn. Take the charcoal that remains and draw yourself in perfect mirrors, sketch out the picture of yourself that I should have showed for you. I once promised you that I would, remember? I am so sorry. I stood there, the whole time, with a water bucket in my hand. I had your reflection, and I spilled it on the floor. Set me on fire, let the crackling of my bones beneath the weight of the flame be the lullaby as you sleep. Ten thousand apologies are nowhere near enough.
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM UTC
Charcoal Apology (In Progress)
Yes. I wielded the knife. Coated with my word poison, I plunged it into your soul and the dagger spread like cancer through you, I could see it metastasizing every time you tilted your head to let your hair cover your face. If I could take that blade and plunge it into my own heart now, I would before my next beat. I would take back the cancer and smile as the tumors fought for residency inside of me, if I knew that you would be in remission from my cruelty. Sometimes it takes three months for the recoil of punches thrown to take its effect. When it does, laying on your basement couch, trawling through an online poetry forum, your knuckles will fracture and your finger bones will cleave in two like firewood. I doused you with the lighter fluid I spit and set you ablaze with the words I wrote. I watched your tears turn to ash. And then I lit another match. I turned my back as you smoldered, now your anger fed the flames I sparked. Now my bones are brittle and dry, my marrow now tinder for you to set aflame. Burn me with the hellfire I put you through, I need this self-assigned penance, and you deserve to watch me burn. Take the charcoal that remains and draw yourself in perfect mirrors, sketch out the picture of yourself that I should have showed for you. I once promised you that I would, remember? I am so sorry. I stood there, the whole time, with a water bucket in my hand. I had your reflection, and I spilled it on the floor. Set me on fire, let the crackling of my bones beneath the weight of the flame be the lullaby as you sleep. Ten thousand apologies are nowhere near enough.
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I breathed you in like the smoke from my last cigarette; it was bitter-sweet to taste you on my lips. And although I never had anything all-that-useful to say, I'd like for it to be known that I still            love you. even if your cancer is metastasizing in my heart.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 1:28 PM UTC
Cancer.
Malignant cancer That you are Metastasizing within my body and soul Displacing the tissues of me With your dark and threatening disease From my blood you feed Shiny, sharpened scalpel To remove you from within Pressing the blade against my tender skin Trying to gain the strength But I continue to let you take
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Jul 8, 2011
Jul 8, 2011 at 4:43 PM UTC
Shiny, Sharpened Scalpel
I've been living in sadness, Deep inside my heart, My blood aches in my veins, And it tears me apart. The mention of your name, Sends me hurdling down, And leaves me with nothing To rely on, except the ground. My eyes fill with tears, My heart and brain fill with fears, Yet it's been so long; Almost three and a half years. The worst day of my life, Was the day you broke my heart, You ripped it out and Tore me apart. I'll never forgive you, For the pain you've caused me, I've suffered for over three years, While you never shed a single tear. You weren't hurt, Of course you were alright, While I spend most of my time, Crying myself to sleep at night. All the tears I've shed, Along with blood from my veins, And the bottles I've drank, Are all linked with your name. So remember, Chris, The next time you get inside A girl's metastasizing heart, Don't cut your way out; Because, it will tear her apart. Just let her heart grow, Swelling in your illness, Pretty soon the love will **** her, And you'll be held as a witness. Or maybe they'll convict you, Of your torturous crime, Getting girls to trust you, Before you rip out their heart and spine. Now remember, Chris, I fell deeply in love with you, You said to me, those three words, But it was meaningless to you. You throw your words around, Like you did with my heart, I loved you then, I love you now, I haven't stopped loving you, since the start. So farewell, my true love, The past four years have been great, Just kidding, they've ****** Because it's also you, that I hate. Yes, I hate you and love you, It still confuses me, I want you to suffer, But I still want the two of us to be we. I hate you and I love you, I don't know what to feel, It'd be nice if I just woke up, And none of this was real. Too bad I can't do that, Just erase a large part of my life, My world since you left me, Has been a continuous strife. A strife is too small, Without you, it's been a war, But were you the enemy, Or what I was fighting for? You're last words broke my heart, Like an atom bomb inside me, You ran off to avoid the shock, While I just laid there, dying.
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 7:13 PM UTC
Metastasizing Heart
I've been living in sadness, Deep inside my heart, My blood aches in my veins, And it tears me apart. The mention of your name, Sends me hurdling down, And leaves me with nothing To rely on, except the ground. My eyes fill with tears, My heart and brain fill with fears, Yet it's been so long; Almost three and a half years. The worst day of my life, Was the day you broke my heart, You ripped it out and Tore me apart. I'll never forgive you, For the pain you've caused me, I've suffered for over three years, While you never shed a single tear. You weren't hurt, Of course you were alright, While I spend most of my time, Crying myself to sleep at night. All the tears I've shed, Along with blood from my veins, And the bottles I've drank, Are all linked with your name. So remember, Chris, The next time you get inside A girl's metastasizing heart, Don't cut your way out; Because, it will tear her apart. Just let her heart grow, Swelling in your illness, Pretty soon the love will **** her, And you'll be held as a witness. Or maybe they'll convict you, Of your torturous crime, Getting girls to trust you, Before you rip out their heart and spine. Now remember, Chris, I fell deeply in love with you, You said to me, those three words, But it was meaningless to you. You throw your words around, Like you did with my heart, I loved you then, I love you now, I haven't stopped loving you, since the start. So farewell, my true love, The past four years have been great, Just kidding, they've ****** Because it's also you, that I hate. Yes, I hate you and love you, It still confuses me, I want you to suffer, But I still want the two of us to be we. I hate you and I love you, I don't know what to feel, It'd be nice if I just woke up, And none of this was real. Too bad I can't do that, Just erase a large part of my life, My world since you left me, Has been a continuous strife. A strife is too small, Without you, it's been a war, But were you the enemy, Or what I was fighting for? You're last words broke my heart, Like an atom bomb inside me, You ran off to avoid the shock, While I just laid there, dying.
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a different sort of cells i'm metastasizing a cluttered profusion of blundering paint richly glowing veneer ( the stars were saying just yesterday pricks gnireviuq fo ! arrows tneluproc they gangled hard onto the dense particular knowledge of the crisp earth ) this was also never but always or should so i say: dreamy steam puff of unquenchable haste time goes wiggling riggling some ecstatic worms in our soil bedded flesh we soon marry in prim and loveless clambering
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Jan 14, 2011
Jan 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM UTC
a different sort of cells
everyday his melancholy metastasizes as he grow exponentially emotional and their words continue to tantalize until his feelings are unproportional they are split up and segregated happy to the right, sad to the left and though they were once integrated all that he feels now is depressed
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:04 PM UTC
Metastasizing Melancholy
when the perennial essential question I proposed, a temperature taking surely, a simple request re loving me, yes it was a dueling pistol shot, a returning, pressing, single firing interrogatory of a burr of a bullet   "how" she stood in weak opposition she demurred, evaded, jooked, pre-tensing with a faint, a feint, a desperately disguised, claiming of the fifth, a refusal to self-incriminate, with a childlike repetition  "unsure..." but was she ever, ever sure, ever knowledgeable for the poem was "of the people, by the people, for the people," we, me, she, of course, being "the people" - that our love "shall not perish from the earth..." this particular poem, this particular address, was about the struggle to maintain our union - "our unfinished task" it was the first shot and the parting shot it was the warning shot, mesmerizing, metastasizing into a death shot simultaneously the poem was, this poem the acknowledgment, of the beginning of the perhaps epilogue, maybe even the commencement   of a eulogy a  breathewell, a fare-thee-well of this, as well, one of his happiest guises writer of only love poetry
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Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 4:48 PM UTC
"not sure how" she said
insatiable entropy cracks metastasizing where do I belong? sternum bends, crushed a black hole, in the center of my eye takes light to a different universe one that already came to the end of eternity was too weary to keep expanding, and stopped now rips at the center of my being teeth of a wild dog on a rotting carcass, ever starved by its own blackness. my agape dusted lungs can’t fill my panicked heart chained to all these stones where can I go? to drown out this demon how long with this weight frantic dragging to soft-mud bottom darkness struggling ****** in crocodile jaws will I go still?
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Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
god forsaken
The Addict: It was just like opening up a window Just a peek outside was all I needed- -at first. Just barely taking in what was in front of me Grazing my chin against the windowsill I was afraid at first Afraid of what was out there But that didn't stop me from looking Each time I would look out that window I would poke my head further and further out. Out of consciousness of my humanity Until, finally, I fall out the window out of my life and into oblivion. The Drug Dealer: Like a cancer, I started out small an outlier to the whole a single cell. Growing Consuming your hard work, your resources. Giving nothing in return but toxins and sorrow. Metastasizing Increasing my grip on your life until I consume you. It will take more than just wishing to get me to vacate.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 8:49 AM UTC
The Addict and the Drug Dealer
And I heard you say that it’s hard enough to love me as it is. As if the holes in my ears Are holes in my character. As if the music vibrating my ear drums Could strain the heart strings Of your love for me. As if the clutter in my floor Is a sharp pain in your side. The fact that I’m growing up Is a tumor, pressing into your skull, Metastasizing throughout your body. As if I’m killing you. Just the thought of me could send you into cardiac arrest, that no doctor could revive you from. You are sleeping in a coma. Psychiatrists have cut you open and picked through your brain, and you have yet to awaken. Some days your eyes will flutter, and for a brief second I can breathe. Filling my lungs with the stale oxygen, only to realize it will never be the same.
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 5:22 PM UTC
You can't be a mother and a psych patient.
you will only look for which road i have passed, with girth of oceans startled to hip-curve, bow-legged darling hiding behind pretense of rose frailty. when words ripen, they fall. from vaudeville of fools to silence in all its exactness, i take my place amongst people in stations, machines adorning rotundas, courtyards to a flourish of twilight-bells, the men with retinas spry behind cloaks of smoke— plain, **** drunkenness assaults the billion-blooded sea, each line fraught with inebriation: a god is borrowed with what light fruits from a slow nature, quick to burst and torturously maimed in stride. fated to arrive at one morning — being in total placeness and making merry once again, the dreary face waiting at the portico of days collected. when these words start to wind-hover, a string of birds will appear clearer, mounting umbilicus of lines. as in hounds shear the metastasizing dark, going back to chagrined kens, i make truth out of the tragedy: trace the source of this stream and find my trampled body, floating with the sandalwood. when the still, clenched hand clock-punches, make real the insignia of my arrival: words start with limbs to cross this scalped Earth which moves suddenly naked, leaning in, gropes you in stillness, resuscitating the moon from the working of insolvencies we rear in derelicts of days. drags it closely to ends — left trundling in woe's wearisome vessel. and if in this newly thatched home it screams, let this voice deftly shred so i may once more lie straight to your half-illuminated faces, a call i only hear.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 10:02 PM UTC
Clock-Punch
you will only look for which road i have passed, with girth of oceans startled to hip-curve, bow-legged darling hiding behind pretense of rose frailty. when words ripen, they fall. from vaudeville of fools to silence in all its exactness, i take my place amongst people in stations, machines adorning rotundas, courtyards to a flourish of twilight-bells, the men with retinas spry behind cloaks of smoke— plain, **** drunkenness assaults the billion-blooded sea, each line fraught with inebriation: a god is borrowed with what light fruits from a slow nature, quick to burst and torturously maimed in stride. fated to arrive at one morning — being in total placeness and making merry once again, the dreary face waiting at the portico of days collected. when these words start to wind-hover, a string of birds will appear clearer, mounting umbilicus of lines. as in hounds shear the metastasizing dark, going back to chagrined kens, i make truth out of the tragedy: trace the source of this stream and find my trampled body, floating with the sandalwood. when the still, clenched hand clock-punches, make real the insignia of my arrival: words start with limbs to cross this scalped Earth which moves suddenly naked, leaning in, gropes you in stillness, resuscitating the moon from the working of insolvencies we rear in derelicts of days. drags it closely to ends — left trundling in woe's wearisome vessel. and if in this newly thatched home it screams, let this voice deftly shred so i may once more lie straight to your half-illuminated faces, a call i only hear.
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Metastasizing guilt, you bring along the past unable for you to move on. Leaving the present in an awful state.
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM UTC
Shadow of guilt
It’s the wee things that get to you, the things that they – the invisible “they” – don’t think of or deem – what an egghead word – import. Like the many languages Pope Francis speaks to the poorest of the poor – just books away from Revelation and the end – apocalypse, they call it? Like the simple task, simpletons do it in political campaigns for the simplest of the simple – cost deferred until a position be taken if it isn’t ****** Like the contours of the manhood of the waiter leaning tightly against your table – as he asks again if you want your salad with French or Italian. Like the death of Romano III, a cat of nineteen, lying alone on a warm rug – or it was a cold shoulder, the mother lode of forgiveness. Like the birth of an heir or heiress of a circus regnant – a cut above the silliest of the silly, dancing in the streets to a playwright’s tunes. Like the circumcision of a newborn boy – a social decision on an ***** that doesn’t know itself until puberty, an unfair decision by a man. Like the baptism of a child – protection against purgatory or is it the shoreline of the Jordan where wading isn’t kosher when the teenaged lifeguard is absent? Like the final couplet of the last sonnet of a poet – her celebration and self-worth still unrhymed, its meter and iambs unborn until next week. Similes slant to the similar, metastasizing and growing outside the box – oh, **** the poet says, her wings clipped by a little thing like a pep rally. © Lewis Bosworth, 2013
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 7:15 PM UTC
Little Things
It’s the wee things that get to you, the things that they – the invisible “they” – don’t think of or deem – what an egghead word – import. Like the many languages Pope Francis speaks to the poorest of the poor – just books away from Revelation and the end – apocalypse, they call it? Like the simple task, simpletons do it in political campaigns for the simplest of the simple – cost deferred until a position be taken if it isn’t ****** Like the contours of the manhood of the waiter leaning tightly against your table – as he asks again if you want your salad with French or Italian. Like the death of Romano III, a cat of nineteen, lying alone on a warm rug – or it was a cold shoulder, the mother lode of forgiveness. Like the birth of an heir or heiress of a circus regnant – a cut above the silliest of the silly, dancing in the streets to a playwright’s tunes. Like the circumcision of a newborn boy – a social decision on an ***** that doesn’t know itself until puberty, an unfair decision by a man. Like the baptism of a child – protection against purgatory or is it the shoreline of the Jordan where wading isn’t kosher when the teenaged lifeguard is absent? Like the final couplet of the last sonnet of a poet – her celebration and self-worth still unrhymed, its meter and iambs unborn until next week. Similes slant to the similar, metastasizing and growing outside the box – oh, **** the poet says, her wings clipped by a little thing like a pep rally. © Lewis Bosworth, 2013
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I thought I could do one thing that matterd mincing flesh and chewing animal fat ripping the spine out of the catch of the day only to find that the creature you thought you dominated has stolen your fragile spine of thorns, metastasizing itself as you and spitting venom in all of your *****
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Aug 31, 2015
Aug 31, 2015 at 9:22 PM UTC
a lot
knotted to be blind to feel twisted memories metastasizing catalyzing you go as quickly as you came each fleeting meeting swifter than the last that pressure permeating postulating it's alright i'm still upright
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Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021 at 9:46 PM UTC
to hurt