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Amadou awakened with a start, it was Omar one of the guardians(security guards) of Yaldagou (the largest Hospital in the capital of Burkina Faso) knocking on the window of his taxi, Amadou had just settled down for the night after a long day in the heat and fumes that was Ouagadougou it was just after midnight on Sunday, he struggled to wake up rubbing the sleep from his eyes as Omar explained in Mori(local language), that there were two white people in need of his special service. After a quick explanation that someone had died in a private clinic nearby and the body needed to be transported to the morgue at Yaldagou,  he snapped out of his sleepiness and thought for a moment how much he could charge the rich white people, it was two days after Eid and as a strict Muslim he had been celebrating the holidays and now he had been offered an opportunity to supplement his taxi income, someone had to do it and it was an unsavory job and anyway on the few occasions he had done it, it had been lucrative, it might as well be him! Amadou thought to himself, if you had the misfortune to die in the day time there was a private service but in the night dignity went out the window and it was up to people like Amadou and a select bunch of taxi drivers with seats that could be configured to accommodate the corpses of the recently deceased to perform this service, so taxi 87 driven by Amadou would take this lady who had died from kidney and other ***** failures, after struggling for some days she eventually lost her battle and slipped into unconsciousness and finally died. Amadou finally settled on 10000 CFA(local currency) a fair price, after all the so-called professionals would charge 30000 CFA three times more and it was around Eid "Allah Akbar".   A quick "Thank you" to Omar for helping them and the two white people left with him for the short journey to the clinic, after the usual discussions the body was released and  transported to the morgue to join the other recently deceased waiting for burial in the morning, Amadou, rearranged the seating in his taxi after parking up in his favourite place under the trees of Yaldago it was just after one thirty, a good ninety mins work he thought to himself, yawned, and settled down to sleep a few more hours before dawn prayers. This was Africa and "someone had to do it" was his last thought.
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Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM UTC
An unsavoury job - "someone had to do it"
Amadou awakened with a start, it was Omar one of the guardians(security guards) of Yaldagou (the largest Hospital in the capital of Burkina Faso) knocking on the window of his taxi, Amadou had just settled down for the night after a long day in the heat and fumes that was Ouagadougou it was just after midnight on Sunday, he struggled to wake up rubbing the sleep from his eyes as Omar explained in Mori(local language), that there were two white people in need of his special service. After a quick explanation that someone had died in a private clinic nearby and the body needed to be transported to the morgue at Yaldagou,  he snapped out of his sleepiness and thought for a moment how much he could charge the rich white people, it was two days after Eid and as a strict Muslim he had been celebrating the holidays and now he had been offered an opportunity to supplement his taxi income, someone had to do it and it was an unsavory job and anyway on the few occasions he had done it, it had been lucrative, it might as well be him! Amadou thought to himself, if you had the misfortune to die in the day time there was a private service but in the night dignity went out the window and it was up to people like Amadou and a select bunch of taxi drivers with seats that could be configured to accommodate the corpses of the recently deceased to perform this service, so taxi 87 driven by Amadou would take this lady who had died from kidney and other ***** failures, after struggling for some days she eventually lost her battle and slipped into unconsciousness and finally died. Amadou finally settled on 10000 CFA(local currency) a fair price, after all the so-called professionals would charge 30000 CFA three times more and it was around Eid "Allah Akbar".   A quick "Thank you" to Omar for helping them and the two white people left with him for the short journey to the clinic, after the usual discussions the body was released and  transported to the morgue to join the other recently deceased waiting for burial in the morning, Amadou, rearranged the seating in his taxi after parking up in his favourite place under the trees of Yaldago it was just after one thirty, a good ninety mins work he thought to himself, yawned, and settled down to sleep a few more hours before dawn prayers. This was Africa and "someone had to do it" was his last thought.
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
There are fewer things beautiful than ugly, I know that stars are most bright when they fall from impassioned skies, That when your skin meets mine, I am like an amnesiac being returned a lifetime of memories. I hate few things, except, perhaps, the murky lakes of your eyes, The misty beaches we explored until sunrise. How you pressed your lips to mine like a death wish, that it was deplorable, but we wanted more, more. My body was a map you tore apart when you got tired of exploring it. The ancient psalms of our tongues cannot silence. Ruins of ancient Rome survive on your lips, yet you still live, breathe. You call yourself mortal.
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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 2:33 PM UTC
Memento Mori
we are nothing but corporeal beings tangible, earthly, and most of all, perishable we are passengers riding in our own trains in a seemingly perpetual motion but we are doomed by our expiry which could already be looming in the distance it might already be standing by the door ready to bury us beneath our tombstones we get reminded by our impermanence only when death himself shows at our doors when we are already beneath our tombstones emblazoned with our own epitaphs we fade into dust, and become one with oblivion but all is not lost, you can still see me looming there in the blooming flower fields, in the open skies out in the ocean, the wilderness i fly with the birds, flow with the breeze and swim with the fishes beneath the sea in all your searching, you won't find me but i am here, now one with the earth
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Jan 4, 2018
Jan 4, 2018 at 10:22 AM UTC
memento mori
3 “Sic transit gloria mundi,” “How doth the busy bee,” “Dum vivimus vivamus,” I stay mine enemy! Oh “veni, vidi, vici!” Oh caput cap-a-pie! And oh “memento mori” When I am far from thee! Hurrah for Peter Parley! Hurrah for Daniel Boone! Three cheers, sir, for the gentleman Who first observed the moon! Peter, put up the sunshine; Patti, arrange the stars; Tell Luna, tea is waiting, And call your brother Mars! Put down the apple, Adam, And come away with me, So shalt thou have a pippin From off my father’s tree! I climb the “Hill of Science,” I “view the landscape o’er;” Such transcendental prospect, I ne’er beheld before! Unto the Legislature My country bids me go; I’ll take my india rubbers, In case the wind should blow! During my education, It was announced to me That gravitation, stumbling, Fell from an apple tree! The earth upon an axis Was once supposed to turn, By way of a gymnastic In honor of the sun! It was the brave Columbus, A sailing o’er the tide, Who notified the nations Of where I would reside! Mortality is fatal— Gentility is fine, Rascality, heroic, Insolvency, sublime! Our Fathers being weary, Laid down on Bunker Hill; And tho’ full many a morning, Yet they are sleeping still,— The trumpet, sir, shall wake them, In dreams I see them rise, Each with a solemn musket A marching to the skies! A coward will remain, Sir, Until the fight is done; But an immortal hero Will take his hat, and run! Good bye, Sir, I am going; My country calleth me; Allow me, Sir, at parting, To wipe my weeping e’e. In token of our friendship Accept this “Bonnie Doon,” And when the hand that plucked it Hath passed beyond the moon, The memory of my ashes Will consolation be; Then, farewell, Tuscarora, And farewell, Sir, to thee!
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Sic transit gloria mundi
3 “Sic transit gloria mundi,” “How doth the busy bee,” “Dum vivimus vivamus,” I stay mine enemy! Oh “veni, vidi, vici!” Oh caput cap-a-pie! And oh “memento mori” When I am far from thee! Hurrah for Peter Parley! Hurrah for Daniel Boone! Three cheers, sir, for the gentleman Who first observed the moon! Peter, put up the sunshine; Patti, arrange the stars; Tell Luna, tea is waiting, And call your brother Mars! Put down the apple, Adam, And come away with me, So shalt thou have a pippin From off my father’s tree! I climb the “Hill of Science,” I “view the landscape o’er;” Such transcendental prospect, I ne’er beheld before! Unto the Legislature My country bids me go; I’ll take my india rubbers, In case the wind should blow! During my education, It was announced to me That gravitation, stumbling, Fell from an apple tree! The earth upon an axis Was once supposed to turn, By way of a gymnastic In honor of the sun! It was the brave Columbus, A sailing o’er the tide, Who notified the nations Of where I would reside! Mortality is fatal— Gentility is fine, Rascality, heroic, Insolvency, sublime! Our Fathers being weary, Laid down on Bunker Hill; And tho’ full many a morning, Yet they are sleeping still,— The trumpet, sir, shall wake them, In dreams I see them rise, Each with a solemn musket A marching to the skies! A coward will remain, Sir, Until the fight is done; But an immortal hero Will take his hat, and run! Good bye, Sir, I am going; My country calleth me; Allow me, Sir, at parting, To wipe my weeping e’e. In token of our friendship Accept this “Bonnie Doon,” And when the hand that plucked it Hath passed beyond the moon, The memory of my ashes Will consolation be; Then, farewell, Tuscarora, And farewell, Sir, to thee!
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I hear the world is full of pain, Flooding, terror, acid rain; Music, theatre, laughs and art, Whiskey, coffee, beer and darts, Rainbows, glaciers, hiking trails; Rare Pepes and EPIC FAILs, Overwatch and Pokemon Go; Donald Trump and Bernie Bros; Dreams, and Drugs, and Rock n' Roll, Dharma, Love, and the eternal soul, The Holy Quran and the Higgs boson Tajwid in Geneva, QFT in Tehran. Yet day by day I sit and type Edit, grep, compile, pipe All that a system smoothly might run Ashes to Ashes, Zero to One ''' npm install; grunt &; restart nginx docker run -d me/interests; pkill sleep; pkill *** nice 14 nutrition; rm /etc/cron.daily/exercise pkill -STOP judgment; scp foodler:'**/{burger,fries}' ~ ''' It's rather ironic that this metal you see, Seems quite a better multitasker than me Whereas It stops its world to switch one task for others My open descriptors always overflow my buffers Whereas it take new patches with a simple 'apt-get' My resolve for upgrades I quite often forget And when its health checks fail, we regrow the ASG But my self won't reboot. et memento mori.
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM UTC
a sysadmin's lament
This scent, semi-sour Of the daffodils four Holds time in its power. This scent, semi-sour: There must come an hour I'll sense it no more: This scent, semi-sour Of the daffodils four.
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 9:30 AM UTC
Daffodils: memento mori
IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW* In Flanders fields the poppies blow Here my comrades and I are laden We fought for King and Country Here we are---the fallen. ‘Be proud’, was the national proclamation ‘ You are the chosen’ We left home and our loved ones Here we are—the ill-begotten. Some of us once upon glorious corridors Of Cambridge and Oxford had trodden The best and most fertile of young minds Here we are—the forgotten. How strong we then were, riding on the back of youth Its dreams so sweet and resplendent Rained by bullets in the battlefield Here we are---death has spoken. Pro patria gloria, dulcis pro patria mori (Never mind if our hearts were cruel and rotten We must **** all enemies over the fence) Here we are---the terrible who were chosen. Were we born to destroy and mutilate? But in the battle-front ---all we loved and espoused had been stolen Buried in dark pits of hate and revenge There we were----inhuman and despondent. Those whom we slaughtered and maimed Didn’t they like us once did hold dreams just as golden? Weren’t they who happiness sought as we did? Here we are—to bemoan all the precious from such that had been stolen. In Flanders fields the poppies weep For us who are far from home and have nowhere to return With the wind’s nightly melancholic sighs whispering in our ears Here we are----empty, with dark sins upon us—for absolution is all we yearn. • inspired by the opening line of John McCrae’s poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS published in December 1915 (Flanders is in Belgium where a million died or were maimed). John McCrae (1872—1918) was a Canadian doctor who joined the army as a gunner but later transferred to the medical service. IN 1918 he was made consultant to all the British armies in France but died of pneumonia before taking up the appointment.
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Aug 30, 2015
Aug 30, 2015 at 6:56 AM UTC
IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW
IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW* In Flanders fields the poppies blow Here my comrades and I are laden We fought for King and Country Here we are---the fallen. ‘Be proud’, was the national proclamation ‘ You are the chosen’ We left home and our loved ones Here we are—the ill-begotten. Some of us once upon glorious corridors Of Cambridge and Oxford had trodden The best and most fertile of young minds Here we are—the forgotten. How strong we then were, riding on the back of youth Its dreams so sweet and resplendent Rained by bullets in the battlefield Here we are---death has spoken. Pro patria gloria, dulcis pro patria mori (Never mind if our hearts were cruel and rotten We must **** all enemies over the fence) Here we are---the terrible who were chosen. Were we born to destroy and mutilate? But in the battle-front ---all we loved and espoused had been stolen Buried in dark pits of hate and revenge There we were----inhuman and despondent. Those whom we slaughtered and maimed Didn’t they like us once did hold dreams just as golden? Weren’t they who happiness sought as we did? Here we are—to bemoan all the precious from such that had been stolen. In Flanders fields the poppies weep For us who are far from home and have nowhere to return With the wind’s nightly melancholic sighs whispering in our ears Here we are----empty, with dark sins upon us—for absolution is all we yearn. • inspired by the opening line of John McCrae’s poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS published in December 1915 (Flanders is in Belgium where a million died or were maimed). John McCrae (1872—1918) was a Canadian doctor who joined the army as a gunner but later transferred to the medical service. IN 1918 he was made consultant to all the British armies in France but died of pneumonia before taking up the appointment.
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Sunglasses stolen from Wingz in Duck, NC a $15 thrift shop suit - just in case the car is used and the cashiers at the GoodWill down the street all know his face bagged eyes morning after hair in need of a shower and a smile He just bought a $200 laptop now he masturbates in style shoving Lenovo 2in1's and iPad's up their *** please sir - may I have some more status symbols symbolic of castes and he hides among the untouchables but this **** is loud and I don't drink ***** unless P Diddy made it Memento Mori when we die - we'll leave behind remnants of our false idol
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 12:28 AM UTC
Memento Mori
We are all but transient passengers within this life. Like butterfly tourists we flit through existence... when my journey here is complete my soul and spirit will be replete. You'll find me within fields of wheat That's how they keep the pastures sweet, Growing in fields of corn and loam Amidst the place where I call home. between the barley, wheat and rye love and friendship never die. If you ever wish to contact me Forever in perpetuity Speak, whisper, quietly to the bees you'll hear my answer in the breeze.
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May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 8:54 AM UTC
Memento Mori
Fluorescent flickers illuminate the stained cement floors of the hallway. Your slippered feet music an uneven pad and scuff. This ***** city is home, whatever that means. This ***** city holds you like you're someone else's child. A burst of joy and music reaches for you through the window; someone bangs a door and you turn on the tap. As water sputters onto your toothbrush you catch a whiff of Dakota Jim's racist southern drawl, a puff of his ketamine breath. You walk to the window, toothbrush dangling. [Oh London, I know you love no one, but nights like this I feel your heartbeat in your embrace.] History swells beneath your feet. Your eyes land on a seated figure, his grand headdress of feathers overpowering the tableau, his gaze calmer than the other mad happy swirls that make up the crowd. It makes you wonder what he sees. Probably nothing. You will learn that when he seems profound it is usually an accident. You are penned in by jagged skyline hieroglyphics. History swells. Your heavy hearted story is a speck consumed in all this history. All the history you were taught in school was death, you remember your mother bemoaning this war generals and battle dates history. You wonder at how much death this place has seen, how many lives the city has birthed and eaten, hungry mother staving off starvation. We all write our stories on other people's bones. Of course the greatest cities would leave the greatest scars. And what did you come here looking for anyway? [Hello Momento Mori city. I see you. I see your rooftops straining to **** stars. Do you mourn for your dead? Are they heavy in your belly? Are you going to eat me, too?] But now, if you drag your little mind back from the immensities, everything around you is alive. Everyone is dancing, happy to be caught in her belly. Or her womb. Not one of you knows which, but there you are. In the courtyard, the small, steady figure of Freddie Stitz brings a lit cigarette to his lips and smiles up at you in the window. Wipe that toothpaste off your face, you look ridiculous. Go back to bed.
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 4:57 PM UTC
This is a love letter.
Fluorescent flickers illuminate the stained cement floors of the hallway. Your slippered feet music an uneven pad and scuff. This ***** city is home, whatever that means. This ***** city holds you like you're someone else's child. A burst of joy and music reaches for you through the window; someone bangs a door and you turn on the tap. As water sputters onto your toothbrush you catch a whiff of Dakota Jim's racist southern drawl, a puff of his ketamine breath. You walk to the window, toothbrush dangling. [Oh London, I know you love no one, but nights like this I feel your heartbeat in your embrace.] History swells beneath your feet. Your eyes land on a seated figure, his grand headdress of feathers overpowering the tableau, his gaze calmer than the other mad happy swirls that make up the crowd. It makes you wonder what he sees. Probably nothing. You will learn that when he seems profound it is usually an accident. You are penned in by jagged skyline hieroglyphics. History swells. Your heavy hearted story is a speck consumed in all this history. All the history you were taught in school was death, you remember your mother bemoaning this war generals and battle dates history. You wonder at how much death this place has seen, how many lives the city has birthed and eaten, hungry mother staving off starvation. We all write our stories on other people's bones. Of course the greatest cities would leave the greatest scars. And what did you come here looking for anyway? [Hello Momento Mori city. I see you. I see your rooftops straining to **** stars. Do you mourn for your dead? Are they heavy in your belly? Are you going to eat me, too?] But now, if you drag your little mind back from the immensities, everything around you is alive. Everyone is dancing, happy to be caught in her belly. Or her womb. Not one of you knows which, but there you are. In the courtyard, the small, steady figure of Freddie Stitz brings a lit cigarette to his lips and smiles up at you in the window. Wipe that toothpaste off your face, you look ridiculous. Go back to bed.
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October 22nd 2012, Isaac Reihl was removed from life support, he was 14. I never knew him but I was good friends with his brother, Jacob. Isaac was hit head-on while longboarding when the oncoming car swirved into the other lane, he suffered numerous fractures to the skull, broken ribs, and more. Today, October 23rd, the announcment came over the air at school, saying that he had passed the previous day, people automatically broke down into tears, it was terrible, such a young person will never be able to experience the things in life such as love... after roughly ten minutes of silence, my teacher decided to share a poem one of her students wrote to her when she lost her mom, it brought tears to my eyes. the rest of the day, there was just an emptiness in the entire school. I would look across the cafeteria and see people hugging others, his friends crying. I didn't even know him, but the sadness just overwhealmed me, I cant even imagine what his friends, the girl who had a crush on him, his parents, his brother, people who looked to him, I just cant imagine how they feel. Its ****** he's gone, and I know this isnt a poem..but I didnt know where else to put it, Memento Mori, dont forget to live, you honestly never know when you'll die, this event has truely shown that to me. Rest In Peace Isaac, where ever you are, wheither your in Heaven or not, your pressence is still here.
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Oct 23, 2012
Oct 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM UTC
Isaac
Girls have beautiful legs and men have beautiful hearts, both I love to squeeze, both I love to open hide my gold locket inside like a ticking bomb: I use the chain to lasso arteries and muscles for me to chew on but the necklace unbolts for a souvenir collected inside. It could be the curly hair of his shin, one wisp from her neck I previously tugged on with my teeth. I performed open-heart surgery on a man and open-leg surgery on a woman both called me back to say a second goodbye and I wonder, I wonder which farewell will be the final. When will the mementos be massacred glued to a comatose form, deceased into an emotionless resin? I could amputate their limbs and turn off the pacemaker.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 3:44 PM UTC
memento mori
Pro patria mori Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. For generations we've sold these goods to young boys who burn for glory. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Indeed, how sweet , Pray tell Poppy covered warrior. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. How sweet was the Somme? Such little ground was gained with half a generation gone. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. When weapons far outpace the men what an empty word is glory.
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 4:27 PM UTC
Pro patria mori
4:11 am - The nighthawks are starting to resemble pigeons. Train station is deserted. An employee checks the bins as the tunnel fills  with the ringing of a distant bell, heralding the arrival of the morning train. 42  minutes till my train. I can smell the acrid fumes of the Ferny Grove train. The behemoth pulls away- empty. At least I'm not existential anymore. There is an installation of a coffin made from old bits of railroad, "Not everyone makes it across the tracks" This reminder of mortality is strangely fitting in a place of transit. The true face of memento mori is  shown. Remember that you too will die, and everything will come to pass. It's times like this that make me wish 'The Sound of Silence" was never written. For its perfection in this moment comes as a burst of pure divine bliss. The kind you wish would never fade away. But inevitably does. And all we are left with is a memory of that bliss, everytime we hear the song (after the first time). As if we are recalling the curves of an old lover from the shadow of yesterdays gone. Dancing beneath our fingertips, always out of reach. Memory is never as divine as the moment that burnt it in. ---- 4:29 am - It was ephemeral. The trainyard announcer has a cultured voice. ---- 4:41 am - I fear the muse has left me, beauty fled. DEAR GOD - PLEASE LET THERE BE A CAB AT THE STATION FOR ME. Selection 11 gave me the water i desired. 11 minutes till the train. D.O.B. 11/2 Aquarius,  11th  sign of the Zodiac. Will I see the dawn rise from the train? There is no light at the end of the tunnel from where I sit. Inexplicably: I recall the cool river air that bathed us as we lay naked in your apartment, the smell of cigarettes on our skin, the evening peppered with scurrying, fighting possums that danced upon your balcony. I recall being inside you. (Then I imagined you being eaten out by a woman her lips inside yours, her curled tongue inside your hot, bald golden **** And I came. Warm and glorious my children of pleasure caught in a latex coffin. Your heaves of pleasure pushing against my chest with the rhythm of waves. ---- 4:46 am - On the train. Fluorescent lighting is the devil. Everything is garish yellow. We  pull up to the station near where you lived. Your blue  rose lives in a Chinese vase and no longer smells of Marlene Dietrich.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 1:59 AM UTC
Brisbane Street Sketch 4
4:11 am - The nighthawks are starting to resemble pigeons. Train station is deserted. An employee checks the bins as the tunnel fills  with the ringing of a distant bell, heralding the arrival of the morning train. 42  minutes till my train. I can smell the acrid fumes of the Ferny Grove train. The behemoth pulls away- empty. At least I'm not existential anymore. There is an installation of a coffin made from old bits of railroad, "Not everyone makes it across the tracks" This reminder of mortality is strangely fitting in a place of transit. The true face of memento mori is  shown. Remember that you too will die, and everything will come to pass. It's times like this that make me wish 'The Sound of Silence" was never written. For its perfection in this moment comes as a burst of pure divine bliss. The kind you wish would never fade away. But inevitably does. And all we are left with is a memory of that bliss, everytime we hear the song (after the first time). As if we are recalling the curves of an old lover from the shadow of yesterdays gone. Dancing beneath our fingertips, always out of reach. Memory is never as divine as the moment that burnt it in. ---- 4:29 am - It was ephemeral. The trainyard announcer has a cultured voice. ---- 4:41 am - I fear the muse has left me, beauty fled. DEAR GOD - PLEASE LET THERE BE A CAB AT THE STATION FOR ME. Selection 11 gave me the water i desired. 11 minutes till the train. D.O.B. 11/2 Aquarius,  11th  sign of the Zodiac. Will I see the dawn rise from the train? There is no light at the end of the tunnel from where I sit. Inexplicably: I recall the cool river air that bathed us as we lay naked in your apartment, the smell of cigarettes on our skin, the evening peppered with scurrying, fighting possums that danced upon your balcony. I recall being inside you. (Then I imagined you being eaten out by a woman her lips inside yours, her curled tongue inside your hot, bald golden **** And I came. Warm and glorious my children of pleasure caught in a latex coffin. Your heaves of pleasure pushing against my chest with the rhythm of waves. ---- 4:46 am - On the train. Fluorescent lighting is the devil. Everything is garish yellow. We  pull up to the station near where you lived. Your blue  rose lives in a Chinese vase and no longer smells of Marlene Dietrich.
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"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag" And don't forget to ******* smile, March to death with a jolly tune in your head Don't question if it's all worthwhile. Your misery is designed by people out of reach so blame your pathetic self instead Be reassured, the undertaker shall paint a smile on your face when you're dead. A 'Memento mori' of a Facebook page will remain like a lingering **** in an elevator An uncomfortable reminder to the still living That smiles are the mask of a traitor
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 8:41 AM UTC
A song to weary, wretched & unloved
October 22nd 2012, Isaac Reihl was removed from life support, he was 14. I never knew him but I was good friends with his brother, Jacob. Isaac was hit head-on while longboarding when the oncoming car swirved into the other lane, he suffered numerous fractures to the skull, broken ribs, and more. Today, October 23rd, the announcment came over the air at school, saying that he had passed the previous day, people automatically broke down into tears, it was terrible, such a young person will never be able to experience the things in life such as love... after roughly ten minutes of silence, my teacher decided to share a poem one of her students wrote to her when she lost her mom, it brought tears to my eyes. the rest of the day, there was just an emptiness in the entire school. I would look across the cafeteria and see people hugging others, his friends crying. I didn't even know him, but the sadness just overwhealmed me, I cant even imagine what his friends, the girl who had a crush on him, his parents, his brother, people who looked to him, I just cant imagine how they feel. Its ****** he's gone, and I know this isnt a poem..but I didnt know where else to put it, Memento Mori, dont forget to live, you honestly never know when you'll die, this event has truely shown that to me. Rest In Peace Isaac, where ever you are, wheither your in Heaven or not, your pressence is still here.
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Oct 23, 2012
Oct 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM UTC
Isaac
I'm everywhere but here Counting back each year Madness from memory And you will find me In moments of joy and pain Between the past and insane Heart beating, day dreaming The world gone, I am seeing A life lived without you there My dream, a living nightmare A picture perfect portrait set in place A time long gone that I cannot face This love that's passed, that didn't last Dreams, memories of a failed past Yet you're everywhere but here Travelling a future fueled by fear This post apocalyptic love story A bleeding heart's memento mori Breathe in your newfound deity Our air, laced with anxiety Leaves you with no way to scream Rose-coloured glasses in the ashes of a dream Taking chase to the world's end In search of that one perfect friend No more pain, no more lies Not when you find his soft eyes So beautiful your soul boasts Illusions of kaleidoscoped ghosts A future failing to ever form Like how lightning predicts the storm Perfection passed your pretty glance Trapped in time's terrifying trance Maybe we were meant to be But we will never get to see Life lost loving a little lie So we just passed each other by I loved where I have come from While you lived in days to come Never had we considered the present To find peace from of our life's lament
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 8:38 AM UTC
Everywhere but Here
Sipping Red Wine With Disciplined disciples Dining With minds alike Best friends, Next of kin I repent For my sins Then Hug my worst enemy As she Kisses me On the cheek... "Here's my toast, A final cheer" I raise Out my chair Hold my glass In the air Final words spoken In red "Momento Mori Remember the Alive Soon becomes Dead!" Lips stained And wiped With bread My Body And Blood Portrays The art Of Me Spilling my heart As I talk Of My Final walk Remembered For ages to come The pages will turn As nuns Thumb Through my revelations Revealed To show my appeal For Keeping it rea lEveryone stands Clap hands I give the Cue to sit Then Follow in suit Before The crucifix Suited in an outfit That helps My family Come to grips With The Final dip Into oblivion Rest assure The rest's assured With a promised That God keeps Strenght Will be Bestowed Upon the weak Faith Is best owed To the one Who speaks "Let There Be Light" And brightens The darkness Of life I Will take the pain Of a thousand deaths Take a thousand steps With the wieght Of the world on my shoulders As I pass away For my best freinds sins As he watches me Silently Violently whipped As blood drips On a red shirt Tye dyed From the wine I sipped The night before I died
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Oct 3, 2010
Oct 3, 2010 at 10:10 PM UTC
Red Wine
⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm and suicide ⚠ ______________________________________________________________ The envelope (delivered just this morning) splits in his attempt to tear away its wax seal where her very breath still wanders. Inside, he finds a razor blade-- upon being removed from its paper hostel, it glints prismatically in the Autumn sun-- and a neatly-pressed letter accompanied by an overwhelming medley of scents-- parchment; mint lip balm; ***** it still smelled like her. With butterflies rising like bile up his throat, he unfolds the letter, reading over her spidery handwriting several times before her words fully percolate: "Do not return to sender-- she's already dead."
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 4:36 PM UTC
Momento Mori
Sy vra: "Hoekom is jy nou so n non"? Ek sê: **** is mos eintlik net vir die lewendes". Ek is my eie memento mori. Jy is die oorsaak van dood. Laat dit so op my graf geskrywe staan: -Hier lê die skerwe van iets amper heel- ,want nou sit ek weer aan jou tafel en my laaste maaltyd is n herkouing van spoegsels vergete tye saam met jou En ek kou en ek kou en ek onthou: *** warm jou hande was teenoor jou hartskou , *** gretig jy was om my vas te hou en na die tyd toe te snou. "Ek sit nou waar jy gesit het" , grinnik jou wellus oor die porselein rand en ek wil vir jou sê staan op en gee vet want almal wat daardie stoel beset wals met die noodlot en wink vir seer. "Kom ons probeer , nog n keer" Sê jou hand langs jou ritsluiter , maar ek voel n veer , want kadawers ken nie lustigheid nie en ek is oorgebalsem met n gelofte. Los die dooies dat ons rus, Los daardie "ons" begrawe in die kis.
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Feb 18, 2017
Feb 18, 2017 at 12:51 PM UTC
Necrophilia
A dire il vero .il mio unico rammarico matrimonio non riesce a prenotare i ritratti nuziali .E 'tempo che oh-così- speciale per volteggiare intorno nel vostro abito e la cattura che addirittura gorgeous " glow" prima del grande giorno .ma per fortuna ora arriva a vivere indirettamente attraverso i germogli come questa bellezza da Feather \u0026Spago .E ' tutto una sessione da sposa dovrebbe essere.e si può cliccare qui per mooooolto molto di più. Condividi questa splendida galleria Da Sposa .Non sono mai stata la ragazza che sognava il suo matrimonio crescita .Iè èterribile a decisioni e riviste di nozze me sottolineare fuori.ma quando mi sono fidanzato e ' come qualcosa alterato il mio DNA e sono diventato la abiti da sposa on line sposa più decisivo l'uomo conosca ** visto un vestito su Pinterest .inseguito i collegamenti fino a quando ** trovato il progettista .chiamato un negozio e pochi giorni dopo l'ho comprato . Quando ** messo su dopo la mia ultima prova .mi sentivo meraviglioso.Era così confortevole e civettuolo .Io amo la vita all'aria aperta .così ** capito che volevo fare i miei bridals qualche unico e nella natura .Abbiamo optato per vestiti da sposa una riserva naturale a Plano e aveva il giorno più bello .Il mio desiderio per il giorno può essere riassunta in tre parole: naturali .preziosi e divertenti.Kelsey e Talon reso questo e molto di più.Sì.era ventoso e mi è stato mangiato vivo da pulci penetranti .ma era il primo giorno mi sono sentito davvero come una sposa . Camminando lungo la navata è un ricordo così chiaro e perfetto per me .Ero incredibilmente tranquillo e confortevole.che mi sorprende a questo giorno .Il vestito mi ha fatto sentire così elegante e mi ha permesso di concentrarmi vestiti da sposa su ciò che realmente importava quel giorno.Sono grato che ** trovato un vestito che era confortevole e mi ha fatto sentire come me .Sarà sempre la mia scelta vestito preferito :) Fotografia : Feather \u0026 Twine | Dress : Mori Lee by Madeline Gardner | Florals : Gambi di Dallas | Parco : Arbor Hills Nature PreserveFeather \u0026 Fotografia Spago è un membro del nostro Little Black Book .Scopri come i membri sono scelti visitando la nostra pagina delle FAQ .Feather \u0026 Twine Fotografia VIEW http://www.belloabito.com/goods.php?id=131 http://188.138.88.219/images_ld/td//t35/product_thumb/1/2153335353535_392695.jpg http://www.belloabito.com/abiti-da-sposa-c-1
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 9:37 PM UTC
Sessione nuziale a Arbor Hills Nature Preserve_abiti da sposa corti
A dire il vero .il mio unico rammarico matrimonio non riesce a prenotare i ritratti nuziali .E 'tempo che oh-così- speciale per volteggiare intorno nel vostro abito e la cattura che addirittura gorgeous " glow" prima del grande giorno .ma per fortuna ora arriva a vivere indirettamente attraverso i germogli come questa bellezza da Feather \u0026Spago .E ' tutto una sessione da sposa dovrebbe essere.e si può cliccare qui per mooooolto molto di più. Condividi questa splendida galleria Da Sposa .Non sono mai stata la ragazza che sognava il suo matrimonio crescita .Iè èterribile a decisioni e riviste di nozze me sottolineare fuori.ma quando mi sono fidanzato e ' come qualcosa alterato il mio DNA e sono diventato la abiti da sposa on line sposa più decisivo l'uomo conosca ** visto un vestito su Pinterest .inseguito i collegamenti fino a quando ** trovato il progettista .chiamato un negozio e pochi giorni dopo l'ho comprato . Quando ** messo su dopo la mia ultima prova .mi sentivo meraviglioso.Era così confortevole e civettuolo .Io amo la vita all'aria aperta .così ** capito che volevo fare i miei bridals qualche unico e nella natura .Abbiamo optato per vestiti da sposa una riserva naturale a Plano e aveva il giorno più bello .Il mio desiderio per il giorno può essere riassunta in tre parole: naturali .preziosi e divertenti.Kelsey e Talon reso questo e molto di più.Sì.era ventoso e mi è stato mangiato vivo da pulci penetranti .ma era il primo giorno mi sono sentito davvero come una sposa . Camminando lungo la navata è un ricordo così chiaro e perfetto per me .Ero incredibilmente tranquillo e confortevole.che mi sorprende a questo giorno .Il vestito mi ha fatto sentire così elegante e mi ha permesso di concentrarmi vestiti da sposa su ciò che realmente importava quel giorno.Sono grato che ** trovato un vestito che era confortevole e mi ha fatto sentire come me .Sarà sempre la mia scelta vestito preferito :) Fotografia : Feather \u0026 Twine | Dress : Mori Lee by Madeline Gardner | Florals : Gambi di Dallas | Parco : Arbor Hills Nature PreserveFeather \u0026 Fotografia Spago è un membro del nostro Little Black Book .Scopri come i membri sono scelti visitando la nostra pagina delle FAQ .Feather \u0026 Twine Fotografia VIEW http://www.belloabito.com/goods.php?id=131 http://188.138.88.219/images_ld/td//t35/product_thumb/1/2153335353535_392695.jpg http://www.belloabito.com/abiti-da-sposa-c-1
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I tell you, you gloomy ones, that life is beautiful. Life is beautiful in all its depths of suffering and misery and pain in all its depths of striving and joy and pleasure. I tell you, you nihilists, one draws breath only once, passes into and fades out of life only once. Yet you are to tell us it is worthless, this gift given to us all by chance? I tell you, you Christians, and all your compatriots who hate the flesh and the earth, who promise more life through sons of virgins and husbands of children, that nothing awaits after death. "Memento mori!” Why must you always chime this in our ears? Why must you fill men with such anxious fears? Many a man rules his life to this, dreads and gasps and despairs to this, prays that he may never come to this, but you delude him on, promising life after life. I tell you, that when we die, we cease ourselves to be. Our senses stop their feeling, our hearts stop their beating, our brains stop their thinking, and without those functions, there ends a man. So there are no souls to greet gods in heavens, nor any demons to meet in hells, only the ground we stand on, and the caskets underneath. Is this frightening? Maddening, to think we must one day cease to be and become nothing? But death is not nothing; Death is only a new dance of atoms. When one thing tumbles, it returns to the earth, through one step or another, to waltz and dissemble and collide to make new things and again asunder. With death, one only plays one's part on the grand stage of things. Do not be afraid then, of death; do not let it frighten you, that you will be pointless, forgotten, or condemned. Do not let it terrify you into leaving your life unlived. And so I tell you, you gloomy ones, you Christians, you nihilists, you sufferers, remember that you must live. Embrace life, this shortness of time, love every moment of your being, in all its depths of suffering and misery and pain, in all its depths of striving and joy and pleasure.
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Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 6:25 PM UTC
Remember That You Must Live
I tell you, you gloomy ones, that life is beautiful. Life is beautiful in all its depths of suffering and misery and pain in all its depths of striving and joy and pleasure. I tell you, you nihilists, one draws breath only once, passes into and fades out of life only once. Yet you are to tell us it is worthless, this gift given to us all by chance? I tell you, you Christians, and all your compatriots who hate the flesh and the earth, who promise more life through sons of virgins and husbands of children, that nothing awaits after death. "Memento mori!” Why must you always chime this in our ears? Why must you fill men with such anxious fears? Many a man rules his life to this, dreads and gasps and despairs to this, prays that he may never come to this, but you delude him on, promising life after life. I tell you, that when we die, we cease ourselves to be. Our senses stop their feeling, our hearts stop their beating, our brains stop their thinking, and without those functions, there ends a man. So there are no souls to greet gods in heavens, nor any demons to meet in hells, only the ground we stand on, and the caskets underneath. Is this frightening? Maddening, to think we must one day cease to be and become nothing? But death is not nothing; Death is only a new dance of atoms. When one thing tumbles, it returns to the earth, through one step or another, to waltz and dissemble and collide to make new things and again asunder. With death, one only plays one's part on the grand stage of things. Do not be afraid then, of death; do not let it frighten you, that you will be pointless, forgotten, or condemned. Do not let it terrify you into leaving your life unlived. And so I tell you, you gloomy ones, you Christians, you nihilists, you sufferers, remember that you must live. Embrace life, this shortness of time, love every moment of your being, in all its depths of suffering and misery and pain, in all its depths of striving and joy and pleasure.
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As I see you Laying next to me As the ghost That never seemed to fade Away from the Destroyed shine of you In my ajar mind I was spooked Like a child I ran away From what you spoke of, Words I thought You would never produce Out of your vocabulary I remeber words Tripping out of your mouth And into the treadmill Of my mind. Still running Cutting deep, Packing my bags Was the hardest part Of living with you. Not the scratch marks Left on my cage It was the idea That no matter how many bags I packed I couldnt slow down those words. You see, You are my past. Standing as the brick wall In my future. No matter how black and white I am, You, my past Will find the murky gray spots On the crack of my skull And keep running on this treadmill
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Jul 23, 2015
Jul 23, 2015 at 2:11 PM UTC
Mori me iam pridem