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"multiples" poems
complexity bias how you love to criticize my poems as too long and overly complex poor me, I’m no genius, don’t prosper by exploiting unrecognized simplicities, rather deconstruct the intricate complexities that I flatter myself are the me-sinews Writing is a **** temptation - we focus on the 10% that is complex and ignore the easy 90% perhaps this once I will surrender my bare bones put aside the rich, satisfying of cave diving, urban spelunking word caressing tongue verbiage rich tapestry exploring - give you the plane of plain where nestles my destiny: nesting near motionless where the couch is my kingdom and cold cereal is easily digested and there are no consequences I am a member of a discriminated-against minority we have no charismatic leader, no marchers anywhere, and government programs say hey you’re free white and twenty one plus, get the crap out of our faces,  you useless piece of rhymes with **** and includes dirt, though I shower twice a day to keep myself occupied 25 years old, a high school dropout, of course I’m white, my occupation is playing video games and making sure my supply of opioids is adequate in these great United States where I was born there are fewer jobs than none that my application survives a first glance discardation, and now my disability preempts any demand to pretend there is gainful employment in store in my future this reductio ad absurdum is a technique to expose the fallacy, ah what’s that you say no interest in hanging about, on your way out, of course, of course, we are the wrong flavor of downtrodden my life is simple - simplistic in its a chaotic entropic way, order slowly declines into disorder my rituals are a fight against slip sliding down, falling off the the Herzog continuums and the poems are desperate hand holds to prevent my going, gone under so forgive me if I tax you without possessing not the requisite taxing authority you hone in on the obvious disparities and my contradictions resenting my sending you this bill of extravagant length compose with me and a mean will be located and to sleep I go, perhaps to undress my dreams and explicate the wealthy multiples of complexity in the simplicity of a junkies life
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Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 3:56 PM UTC
complexity bias of a ******
complexity bias how you love to criticize my poems as too long and overly complex poor me, I’m no genius, don’t prosper by exploiting unrecognized simplicities, rather deconstruct the intricate complexities that I flatter myself are the me-sinews Writing is a **** temptation - we focus on the 10% that is complex and ignore the easy 90% perhaps this once I will surrender my bare bones put aside the rich, satisfying of cave diving, urban spelunking word caressing tongue verbiage rich tapestry exploring - give you the plane of plain where nestles my destiny: nesting near motionless where the couch is my kingdom and cold cereal is easily digested and there are no consequences I am a member of a discriminated-against minority we have no charismatic leader, no marchers anywhere, and government programs say hey you’re free white and twenty one plus, get the crap out of our faces,  you useless piece of rhymes with **** and includes dirt, though I shower twice a day to keep myself occupied 25 years old, a high school dropout, of course I’m white, my occupation is playing video games and making sure my supply of opioids is adequate in these great United States where I was born there are fewer jobs than none that my application survives a first glance discardation, and now my disability preempts any demand to pretend there is gainful employment in store in my future this reductio ad absurdum is a technique to expose the fallacy, ah what’s that you say no interest in hanging about, on your way out, of course, of course, we are the wrong flavor of downtrodden my life is simple - simplistic in its a chaotic entropic way, order slowly declines into disorder my rituals are a fight against slip sliding down, falling off the the Herzog continuums and the poems are desperate hand holds to prevent my going, gone under so forgive me if I tax you without possessing not the requisite taxing authority you hone in on the obvious disparities and my contradictions resenting my sending you this bill of extravagant length compose with me and a mean will be located and to sleep I go, perhaps to undress my dreams and explicate the wealthy multiples of complexity in the simplicity of a junkies life
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The left of center are in north bound throes of a dupe and can't begin to forecast this wonder of polluted marvel, in the morrow my optics discharged in a catastrophic traversal While whimsy and accidental feels like I've taken pills a power rain this sobbing has spilled No longer to be contained based on sheer will Attacked by neurotic transcending While sifting through files and photo stacks Came across multiples of your smiling face From when I shot you, a couple hundred miles back No one would dare debase the abundance of your emitted grace Bloodshot mist eyed and blind from tears control lost during transport steer Drips off my cheek pouring down my chest Could make great sense to don a life vest Filling up floorboards like a spraying firehose Shattering cascades diamondize the windows A single glance at an image turns farmland into rural seaquake If they interview my lifeless corpse what a headline this will make, turning tragedy into a foolish mistake people will curse and laugh Paved over roads now films unseen when dusk fuse night from the weep my eyes dispensed Elements effected by incidents Rising waves climb over to decimate interstate 65 All over a tiny tear drop and her sweet smiling photograph
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
Farmland to seaquake in a single teardrop
The root suggests multiples, a pair of shoes, yours and mine. The prefix is a verb in motion, a positive direction; a triumph of gravity in defiance of its equal and opposite reaction. He stands by the car in the grey light with drizzle beading up on his shoulders. Our life upset, torn at the seam into his and mine. Turn around, the coward whispers from my mouth. I see my face reflected in the glass window staring back at myself, the coward, half of a set now rendered unusable, sold as scrap. Turn around. Multiples reduced to singular nouns. My shoes are kicked and left by the door. Everywhere his shapes are cut out of the dust. The coward in me grins wide as a sickle In the bathroom mirror. Our set of ghosts are making too much noise, all night they keep me up.
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM UTC
Upset.
Churches and cathedrals filled with paralegal misfits, its just sick how beautiful nations can come to this. Bowing down on knees just to see a better view, quoting a bunch of words or two, you lie sins still comes in multiples. I know because I've seen many clips being load, and triggers pulled to explode flesh just to expose the soul. You wash your faces with holy water, then when service is over your back on corners bringing wars such as black on black slaughter. Selling dopamine to fends hellacious scenes seems to be clear to see hell-raiser dreams I seem to intervene, contradictions to competitions, imperfect visions, natural destruction I can't believe, a deep pit I can't perceive. Arab stores selling crack, Coors and ****** ****** Nobody scores in this world of imperfections. A twisted method and deal we keep our lips sealed, and peace is killed all because of the choices of freewill.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 8:34 AM UTC
Freewill
too many lies have made me blind i'm just trying to make myself feel and be better, but i wasn't a great partner.. always two sides to the story she pointed out things i already knew about myself, i'm not perfect but i try to be patient with myself... if I could I would've rushed the process i'm worth it, yes... i think... but sometimes it doesn't feel like i'm worth my next breath of air i've always had an issue with that until it backfired, one bullet turns into 100 right at me, if they were real i wouldn't try to dodge questioning the "logic" behind these emotions imaginary weight? but it's dragging me down before the sun rises again i don't have anything to believe in, i'm not the one for her... is what she's decided nothing is right for me... after endless mental agony facts don't make me feel better, but it's good to be honest always better to be honest... things are **** at the moment there's nothing to do but live through it again i was... dumb to think otherwise they say to step away at first sign, but you always want to try to fight it for the sake of making things work, even if they don't i've given up plenty of times, this time it feels like i shouldn't again when i should, again here it comes i get it, i get it ahhhhhhhhhhh yes i'm flawed... i know... i'm still... growing eww sooner or later "just let her go" it's so simple... she's vanished and it wasn't meant to be, but i thought she was the one to settle down with afterall she's hung up on an image, multiples if it makes me feel better, believe it she just wasn't into me just focus.. on living, not just exisiting imagine loving someone that doesn't love you back thinking about a certain future that's been taken away my mind is lost right now.... i'll let it run for a bit until i can catch upppp dreams unlived i dreamt about our kids last night and I forgot to tell you an ending with too many photos to feel alive to
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Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022 at 5:23 PM UTC
for now (again)
too many lies have made me blind i'm just trying to make myself feel and be better, but i wasn't a great partner.. always two sides to the story she pointed out things i already knew about myself, i'm not perfect but i try to be patient with myself... if I could I would've rushed the process i'm worth it, yes... i think... but sometimes it doesn't feel like i'm worth my next breath of air i've always had an issue with that until it backfired, one bullet turns into 100 right at me, if they were real i wouldn't try to dodge questioning the "logic" behind these emotions imaginary weight? but it's dragging me down before the sun rises again i don't have anything to believe in, i'm not the one for her... is what she's decided nothing is right for me... after endless mental agony facts don't make me feel better, but it's good to be honest always better to be honest... things are **** at the moment there's nothing to do but live through it again i was... dumb to think otherwise they say to step away at first sign, but you always want to try to fight it for the sake of making things work, even if they don't i've given up plenty of times, this time it feels like i shouldn't again when i should, again here it comes i get it, i get it ahhhhhhhhhhh yes i'm flawed... i know... i'm still... growing eww sooner or later "just let her go" it's so simple... she's vanished and it wasn't meant to be, but i thought she was the one to settle down with afterall she's hung up on an image, multiples if it makes me feel better, believe it she just wasn't into me just focus.. on living, not just exisiting imagine loving someone that doesn't love you back thinking about a certain future that's been taken away my mind is lost right now.... i'll let it run for a bit until i can catch upppp dreams unlived i dreamt about our kids last night and I forgot to tell you an ending with too many photos to feel alive to
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At What Cost? This Purchase of Our Future *a thousand answers + variegated shadings, a summation: ∑ of millions layers of our owned chosen complexities, so many possible outcomes, it makes infinite randomness seemingly simpler than our googolplex crazy preposterous notational choosings, our owned decisions which though false, cause nothing is tandomn random except for love at first sight it’s all  just ******** we conditioned from pre-birth, the expectations subtly subsumed into the woman’s womb, overlaid by the ***** donors whisperings that you will be a great third baseman, or a great bass player, or both, but “your” fate, ha! is anything but yours… to purchase! if you were born to live in a home with no heat, and water was obtainable by walking 100 yards away, you would still be a pianist, writing notes of plaintive need, grand desires, musical words of agonizing delight just as when you first blushed when the brain connected yellow rays with a word, sunrise, and an experience was synapticaly imprinted, that real things could be defined by an ordering of letters and sounds and you were tongue burnt by a need so great to collect these pleasurable things and put them in a right order of your peculiar particular personal inherited inputted design = and you yet debate what is my instrument, knowing that the multiples of your fingers are the engine of your existence, and on any particular day they, your well connected perma-crew, will pick which is the chosen one, and no matter which, for you had nothing or little purchase, it was coded in your pre-history just as you prepare a transmission list of your own, when you daily first touch your face, closing the sensory sensual connection tween the ephemeral and the physical and the new combinations that you will imprint upon someone’s flesh, that is your right, that is you write, that is what you were predestined, to create but, (what the heck) you get to-pick the instrument of the day…* ( that, is your purchase, your only cost, everything else has been pre-paid )
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Nov 9, 2023
Nov 9, 2023 at 8:54 AM UTC
At What Cost? This Purchase of Our Future...
At What Cost? This Purchase of Our Future *a thousand answers + variegated shadings, a summation: ∑ of millions layers of our owned chosen complexities, so many possible outcomes, it makes infinite randomness seemingly simpler than our googolplex crazy preposterous notational choosings, our owned decisions which though false, cause nothing is tandomn random except for love at first sight it’s all  just ******** we conditioned from pre-birth, the expectations subtly subsumed into the woman’s womb, overlaid by the ***** donors whisperings that you will be a great third baseman, or a great bass player, or both, but “your” fate, ha! is anything but yours… to purchase! if you were born to live in a home with no heat, and water was obtainable by walking 100 yards away, you would still be a pianist, writing notes of plaintive need, grand desires, musical words of agonizing delight just as when you first blushed when the brain connected yellow rays with a word, sunrise, and an experience was synapticaly imprinted, that real things could be defined by an ordering of letters and sounds and you were tongue burnt by a need so great to collect these pleasurable things and put them in a right order of your peculiar particular personal inherited inputted design = and you yet debate what is my instrument, knowing that the multiples of your fingers are the engine of your existence, and on any particular day they, your well connected perma-crew, will pick which is the chosen one, and no matter which, for you had nothing or little purchase, it was coded in your pre-history just as you prepare a transmission list of your own, when you daily first touch your face, closing the sensory sensual connection tween the ephemeral and the physical and the new combinations that you will imprint upon someone’s flesh, that is your right, that is you write, that is what you were predestined, to create but, (what the heck) you get to-pick the instrument of the day…* ( that, is your purchase, your only cost, everything else has been pre-paid )
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Numerous number systems beyond the real: complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat whole black       holes. It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences, how you feel account for nothing at all. $30 buys a flock of chickens for a needy family (International Rescue       Committee) $29 gets a girl a school uniform (CARE), for $300 you can stock a fish       pond (Heifer International) $69 can start a female entrepreneur in the sewing business (Mercy       Corps) $5 will buy a bed net that protects a family from mosquitoes (Against       Malaria) 20th century experiments demonstrated that electrical charge is       quantized; that is, it comes in multiples of individual small units called the elementary charge, e,       approximately equal to 1.602 x 10-19 coulombs (except for particles called quarks which have       charges that are multiples of 1/3e). Why has the experimentalism of the avant-garde, which has failed in       the novel, succeeded in poetry? Because poetry is always experimental; while the novel, on       the contrary, by its nature, cannot be . . . which is to say that experimentalism is synonymous       with poetry, and that applied to the novel, it leads simply to the substitution of the novel with       poetry. --Alberto Moravia Man made the town, Fibonacci inflated zero to be the wheel around which the universe turns and language is the soul walking and talking quietly or going angrily to war. "Counting is in its very essence magical, if any human practice is at all.       For numbers are things no one has ever seen or heard or touched."       As are words. Joan Didion thought the scariest stanza in all of poetry begins Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. The elements, the material penumbra, irresolvable for the mortal, readily dissolve in words and numbers.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 4:08 PM UTC
The Scariest Stanza in All of Poetry
Numerous number systems beyond the real: complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat whole black       holes. It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences, how you feel account for nothing at all. $30 buys a flock of chickens for a needy family (International Rescue       Committee) $29 gets a girl a school uniform (CARE), for $300 you can stock a fish       pond (Heifer International) $69 can start a female entrepreneur in the sewing business (Mercy       Corps) $5 will buy a bed net that protects a family from mosquitoes (Against       Malaria) 20th century experiments demonstrated that electrical charge is       quantized; that is, it comes in multiples of individual small units called the elementary charge, e,       approximately equal to 1.602 x 10-19 coulombs (except for particles called quarks which have       charges that are multiples of 1/3e). Why has the experimentalism of the avant-garde, which has failed in       the novel, succeeded in poetry? Because poetry is always experimental; while the novel, on       the contrary, by its nature, cannot be . . . which is to say that experimentalism is synonymous       with poetry, and that applied to the novel, it leads simply to the substitution of the novel with       poetry. --Alberto Moravia Man made the town, Fibonacci inflated zero to be the wheel around which the universe turns and language is the soul walking and talking quietly or going angrily to war. "Counting is in its very essence magical, if any human practice is at all.       For numbers are things no one has ever seen or heard or touched."       As are words. Joan Didion thought the scariest stanza in all of poetry begins Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. The elements, the material penumbra, irresolvable for the mortal, readily dissolve in words and numbers.
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I was born on a Sunday. My eyes change colors depending on the weather. I am 5' 2'' but feel like I am 5' 6". I don't know how to do Calculus. I am okay with that. My first name means "one who listens". I wish my middle name meant "one who speaks" because my God, I am a wishing well and people have the tendency to toss their secrets into me. And their loss, their pain, their anger, their sadness, their regret it fills up a part of me that I thought was infinite. I am on the constant verge of spilling over and when I walk I feel like a garbage bag, dragged against cement, one sidewalk scrape away from coming undone. I am expected to keep everyone's mess inside. My friends tend give me **** for the amount of time I can spend staring in the mirror. The secret here isn't that I'm vain, it's that approaching my reflection is like ripping off a band-aid because looking myself in the eye still makes my stomach flip. 60 pounds of weight lost does not silence the echoes of words that convinced me that life as a size zero was the only life worth living and I had been alive nine sizes too long. I can't always remember that I am beautiful. And I have this collection of words that I should have said. When I am alone, I bring them out from my closet and introduce them to the ghosts of people I have lost, of the people I could not fix, of the people I should forget but can't forget because I don't want to forget because there's something about keeping wounds open that feels better than letting them heal— I have always been one to pick at scabs. This is my declaration of honesty— My name is Sam. I can't ride a bike but I can write you a poem. I am afraid of perpetually falling in love with people who won't love me back. There is a man in a cell I live to forget. I am convinced Heaven looks like Ireland and that soul mates come in multiples. My voice shakes when I say what I think. and for once, this poem isn't for you. This is a poem for me.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 9:17 AM UTC
honest. (inspired by rudy francisco.)
I was born on a Sunday. My eyes change colors depending on the weather. I am 5' 2'' but feel like I am 5' 6". I don't know how to do Calculus. I am okay with that. My first name means "one who listens". I wish my middle name meant "one who speaks" because my God, I am a wishing well and people have the tendency to toss their secrets into me. And their loss, their pain, their anger, their sadness, their regret it fills up a part of me that I thought was infinite. I am on the constant verge of spilling over and when I walk I feel like a garbage bag, dragged against cement, one sidewalk scrape away from coming undone. I am expected to keep everyone's mess inside. My friends tend give me **** for the amount of time I can spend staring in the mirror. The secret here isn't that I'm vain, it's that approaching my reflection is like ripping off a band-aid because looking myself in the eye still makes my stomach flip. 60 pounds of weight lost does not silence the echoes of words that convinced me that life as a size zero was the only life worth living and I had been alive nine sizes too long. I can't always remember that I am beautiful. And I have this collection of words that I should have said. When I am alone, I bring them out from my closet and introduce them to the ghosts of people I have lost, of the people I could not fix, of the people I should forget but can't forget because I don't want to forget because there's something about keeping wounds open that feels better than letting them heal— I have always been one to pick at scabs. This is my declaration of honesty— My name is Sam. I can't ride a bike but I can write you a poem. I am afraid of perpetually falling in love with people who won't love me back. There is a man in a cell I live to forget. I am convinced Heaven looks like Ireland and that soul mates come in multiples. My voice shakes when I say what I think. and for once, this poem isn't for you. This is a poem for me.
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on the margin the paraphernalia employed to obtain the sweated inspirations to tell these lies randomized stories, factuelle (feminine) pestle and mortar martyrs, crushed together, drink in her form, the S curves of her shape, my fav place, on a long list of favs, and she says; hey poetry man! which renders my 100 or so senses, that radiate, congregate, infantuate rendering moi delightfully attentive, and I think: Solitude: Be All well and good, wells and veins awaiting for spelunking & mining for the nexus of the next line, but when she summons me, with a cherished honorific I am sundered by words deep felt, and the next line forgotten, disappeared and for multiples,of poems, that die heart busted broke when she call poet, come, it is like living in a gearbox Stuck in Fifth, that message of multiplex pixels, so engaging and so many container conceptual structures, those poetic burst and bust out,, gnawing to be released free, ***** solitude, it’s her attitude that gives more than I can handle… and the poems are about the conjoining of the mutuality of our: soliciting solitude attitude
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Aug 4, 2024
Aug 4, 2024 at 11:03 AM UTC
soliciting solitude attitude
As I sit staring at the "fasten seatbelt" light overhead I can feel the endless possibilities of places I could go, people I could meet. Today you asked me "you feel miserable here a lot don't you?" You've never been more right. And as I sit here on this **** plane in your **** sweatshirt I wonder if you know. I wonder if you know how scared I am of all the opportunities the fasten seatbelt light brings me. Of all the opportunities you bring me. I swear the way you look at me while I'm in the passenger seat of your beat up car on the way to the dinner that you'll buy me and I'll pretend not to care about is the same way I look at Columbia and blank notebooks. The possibilities and beautiful what-ifs are spelled out in the whites, blacks, and multiples shades of brown in your eyes. And I am thinking to myself how beautiful this fasten your seat belt light is but I am also thinking of how beautiful you are and how you've never been given the chances or opportunities you deserve. So as I sit here stirring in my just barely big enough seat I am feeling things that not even the damien rice in my ears can suppress. I am seeing every beautiful night I spent wishing I never had to go home. I'm seeing all the miles you put on just wanting to talk to me a little longer. I'm seeing the way you nod your head back and forth and tap on your steering wheel to the beat of your latest favorite pop punk song. And I am seeing the tremble in my knee that you don't notice when you say that my laugh instantly makes you smile because in all reality every waking moment I spent frowning at you was because I was hoping that if I convinced myself that we were no good then you would believe it too. I realize all these things as I sit in seat 20E on a delayed flight to Orlando and all I want to do is parachute down to whatever tiny secluded unknown cafe you're spending your evening jamming to a local set of bands drinking something fruity you've never tried before. And just like that drink I want to run down your throat to the deepest parts of your gut and permeate through your blood stream. I want to run like oxygen infused flames through your system. I'm still sitting in this cramped seat on damien song number five staring at this fasten seatbelt light and all the possibilities and I just have one thing to say: fasten your seatbelt with me. Fasten your seatbelt and see all the possibilities that I see. Fasten your seat belt and move three states closer to that dream you've been dreaming since we were neighbors on that worn down block where we learned to hate our parents. Fasten your seatbelt and run away with me.
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Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014 at 10:49 PM UTC
Thoughts from a plane
As I sit staring at the "fasten seatbelt" light overhead I can feel the endless possibilities of places I could go, people I could meet. Today you asked me "you feel miserable here a lot don't you?" You've never been more right. And as I sit here on this **** plane in your **** sweatshirt I wonder if you know. I wonder if you know how scared I am of all the opportunities the fasten seatbelt light brings me. Of all the opportunities you bring me. I swear the way you look at me while I'm in the passenger seat of your beat up car on the way to the dinner that you'll buy me and I'll pretend not to care about is the same way I look at Columbia and blank notebooks. The possibilities and beautiful what-ifs are spelled out in the whites, blacks, and multiples shades of brown in your eyes. And I am thinking to myself how beautiful this fasten your seat belt light is but I am also thinking of how beautiful you are and how you've never been given the chances or opportunities you deserve. So as I sit here stirring in my just barely big enough seat I am feeling things that not even the damien rice in my ears can suppress. I am seeing every beautiful night I spent wishing I never had to go home. I'm seeing all the miles you put on just wanting to talk to me a little longer. I'm seeing the way you nod your head back and forth and tap on your steering wheel to the beat of your latest favorite pop punk song. And I am seeing the tremble in my knee that you don't notice when you say that my laugh instantly makes you smile because in all reality every waking moment I spent frowning at you was because I was hoping that if I convinced myself that we were no good then you would believe it too. I realize all these things as I sit in seat 20E on a delayed flight to Orlando and all I want to do is parachute down to whatever tiny secluded unknown cafe you're spending your evening jamming to a local set of bands drinking something fruity you've never tried before. And just like that drink I want to run down your throat to the deepest parts of your gut and permeate through your blood stream. I want to run like oxygen infused flames through your system. I'm still sitting in this cramped seat on damien song number five staring at this fasten seatbelt light and all the possibilities and I just have one thing to say: fasten your seatbelt with me. Fasten your seatbelt and see all the possibilities that I see. Fasten your seat belt and move three states closer to that dream you've been dreaming since we were neighbors on that worn down block where we learned to hate our parents. Fasten your seatbelt and run away with me.
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meeting you was drowning without water, i didn’t know i was already dead my body was stronger before my tongue tasted your name and kissing you was like cliff diving to meet cement your fingerprints left bruises without a warranty, i can no longer find my skin somewhere between lost and found, your hands are ghosts around my throat i choke on my own steps you stain the bathroom tile like i’ve had too much to drink loving you was like eating a cereal box of sea glass, and still searching for the prize at the bottom my fingertips bleed broken promises sometimes i sleep on the couch to avoid the absence of your shadow in my sheets my sheets still ask about you so do my parents i rehearse words you’ll never hear my insecurities crawl out of your one-word responses and tell me i’m not worth more for your love of multiples, i could have been anyone your hands carry the baggage of “ew she’s my best friend” i’ve lost count of all the ‘shes’ you were not searching for my heartbeat when your hands groped my chest i’ve had trouble finding my pulse lately i need a receipt for our memories but they’re stuck to me like a shirt i can’t get over my shoulders i can’t get over your smile – the way the corners curled like bare willow branches dancing in the wind to our song it was running your parseltongue through my veins, and i’d run out the high for days i think i’m still running, but my feet are stuck in the same **** city we met your face is plastered post-it notes on all the places we had our firsts as if i need reminders you used to look in my eyes and mean it i visit museums to remind myself beautiful things have history too no one ever tells you that goodbye tastes like empty air, tastes like looking in the mirror and not being able to swallow yourself i bear the scars of your touch, poetry scratched into my skin like tattoos i remember the first time you hit me your palm crashed my cheek like a chance seismic stamp and i liked it you told me, “run while you can i’m dangerous,” but i stuck around to be buried in the dirt of the grave you dug me with “hello” sometimes i’m convinced we only hug so you can check my hands for a shovel
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Dec 5, 2015
Dec 5, 2015 at 1:09 PM UTC
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meeting you was drowning without water, i didn’t know i was already dead my body was stronger before my tongue tasted your name and kissing you was like cliff diving to meet cement your fingerprints left bruises without a warranty, i can no longer find my skin somewhere between lost and found, your hands are ghosts around my throat i choke on my own steps you stain the bathroom tile like i’ve had too much to drink loving you was like eating a cereal box of sea glass, and still searching for the prize at the bottom my fingertips bleed broken promises sometimes i sleep on the couch to avoid the absence of your shadow in my sheets my sheets still ask about you so do my parents i rehearse words you’ll never hear my insecurities crawl out of your one-word responses and tell me i’m not worth more for your love of multiples, i could have been anyone your hands carry the baggage of “ew she’s my best friend” i’ve lost count of all the ‘shes’ you were not searching for my heartbeat when your hands groped my chest i’ve had trouble finding my pulse lately i need a receipt for our memories but they’re stuck to me like a shirt i can’t get over my shoulders i can’t get over your smile – the way the corners curled like bare willow branches dancing in the wind to our song it was running your parseltongue through my veins, and i’d run out the high for days i think i’m still running, but my feet are stuck in the same **** city we met your face is plastered post-it notes on all the places we had our firsts as if i need reminders you used to look in my eyes and mean it i visit museums to remind myself beautiful things have history too no one ever tells you that goodbye tastes like empty air, tastes like looking in the mirror and not being able to swallow yourself i bear the scars of your touch, poetry scratched into my skin like tattoos i remember the first time you hit me your palm crashed my cheek like a chance seismic stamp and i liked it you told me, “run while you can i’m dangerous,” but i stuck around to be buried in the dirt of the grave you dug me with “hello” sometimes i’m convinced we only hug so you can check my hands for a shovel
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Multiples Personalities I’ll defeat you, I said I have study your every moves You clustered my inside, like the garbage bin Gasping for air, I struggle It snow. I wore a tee shirt No boots though. I took the train Trouble follows me Outrageous! I screamed Split personalities; Alters assembled At court street, Nevins and Applebee Each taking turns maneuvering in the cold breeze I fought with all my might. I headed to the voodoo priest Gibberish sounds he offered. However, not for too long With some great effort Conquering we fought the beasts Depression you lose; we won.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM UTC
Multiples Personalities
I want to come up with amendments, But my brains cannot function Because I have spent the last 8 hours Trying to memorize the 2 “I’s” of Lebanese history Irony and Ignorance. I want to fix the world But I was never the handy man; I once broke my mother’s phone Trying to wipe the screen; And frankly, I don’t really know what’s wrong with it. I want to patch my mother’s heart. The bullet in her son’s temple Burnt a hole in her arteries, So every time she inhales She could taste the lead Between her husband’s eyes; Because before the stars collapsed They were just scanning the shelves for skimmed milk; His daughter suffered from diabetes, And before the sun exploded At the bend of a thumb She was hanging from his arms, Jane trying to swing her way But in this movie She never meets Tarzan. His daughter was only 3. A car bomb Can conflagrate From 9,000 up to 27,000 feet per second Both are multiples of 3. A wired van Can carry up to 12,000 pounds Of explosives Also a multiple of 3. On her 3rd birthday She blew 3 candles, And 3 candles were lit- Every night, In between the white roses- Over her grave. I want to breathe Burning tires, I want to bask In blood, I want to think In exchange rates, I want to feel numb; If this is the only way… Is this the only way To survive?
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 6:49 AM UTC
Blaze:
I think the best way to learn something is to put yourself in a situation where you can't escape until you learn it. Learning things out of fear, I find, is the best way to learn things. Now don't get me wrong. It's different. You don't tell a 3 year old that they have to know the multiples of 2 in an hour or you're putting them up for adoption, that's just cruel. I mean you have to put yourself in that situation. And I know a lot of you are going to think 'why is she telling us that in order to learn something you have to bput yourself in a situation where you're gonna be scared, how much narcotics is she on?". My answer to that ? None. I'm telling you this out of first hand experience. I learnt all the languages I know today from only bringing myself and a change of clothes to that country and I worked there for however long was needed until I learnt that language. I had no form of communication, no Internet, no phone, no friends or family with me. Just me and a small suitcase and determination. I think this is also the same for things you're scared of. Now this won't apply to everyone cause I know a friend of mine refuses to get in a car after something that happened to him when he was younger, I can completely respect that and I know how that feels so I'm not going to tell him to get in a car as he would never tell me that. Some things that you're scared of just never to away. But my fear of spiders is probably something I could deal with and fix. I mean a spider never did anything to me, I honestly have no reason to be scared of them , but I am for some reason. I think if you have no reason to be scared of something then it can easily be fixed. Like the spider , I could probably pick it up and let it crawl on my hand and get used to it. I mean of course that is easier said than done because obviously I'm going to be scared even looking at it, not to mention picking it up. But I think I'd gain some courage in the knowledge that I overcame something I've been afraid of for years. And this just isn't physically either, it can be emotionally, morally, and spiritually. I learnt that if you want something you have to be willing to fight for it and be prepared for some heartbreak along the way. How? Some people know of this, and when I tell people about it some people think that what my nan did was the wrong thing to do and others think it was the right thing to do. I've really only told 2 people what happened, and if you'd like to know then feel free to inbox me, I have no problem telling you, I would say it here but I think this post is long enough as it is, ~ Stay Beautiful ~
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 9:23 AM UTC
Learnt Out Of Fear
I think the best way to learn something is to put yourself in a situation where you can't escape until you learn it. Learning things out of fear, I find, is the best way to learn things. Now don't get me wrong. It's different. You don't tell a 3 year old that they have to know the multiples of 2 in an hour or you're putting them up for adoption, that's just cruel. I mean you have to put yourself in that situation. And I know a lot of you are going to think 'why is she telling us that in order to learn something you have to bput yourself in a situation where you're gonna be scared, how much narcotics is she on?". My answer to that ? None. I'm telling you this out of first hand experience. I learnt all the languages I know today from only bringing myself and a change of clothes to that country and I worked there for however long was needed until I learnt that language. I had no form of communication, no Internet, no phone, no friends or family with me. Just me and a small suitcase and determination. I think this is also the same for things you're scared of. Now this won't apply to everyone cause I know a friend of mine refuses to get in a car after something that happened to him when he was younger, I can completely respect that and I know how that feels so I'm not going to tell him to get in a car as he would never tell me that. Some things that you're scared of just never to away. But my fear of spiders is probably something I could deal with and fix. I mean a spider never did anything to me, I honestly have no reason to be scared of them , but I am for some reason. I think if you have no reason to be scared of something then it can easily be fixed. Like the spider , I could probably pick it up and let it crawl on my hand and get used to it. I mean of course that is easier said than done because obviously I'm going to be scared even looking at it, not to mention picking it up. But I think I'd gain some courage in the knowledge that I overcame something I've been afraid of for years. And this just isn't physically either, it can be emotionally, morally, and spiritually. I learnt that if you want something you have to be willing to fight for it and be prepared for some heartbreak along the way. How? Some people know of this, and when I tell people about it some people think that what my nan did was the wrong thing to do and others think it was the right thing to do. I've really only told 2 people what happened, and if you'd like to know then feel free to inbox me, I have no problem telling you, I would say it here but I think this post is long enough as it is, ~ Stay Beautiful ~
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John's morning are failed evasions Life busted him again, shortened vacation Nights are for him the perfect occasions To hide from life for a certain duration John plays hide and seek with people So their happiness does not find his pain Because negatives are not good multiples His sufferance is permanent, any help is in vain John likes to eat when he remembers That a full stomach enjoys cigarettes better He is one of lung cancer's  club members The mailman recently handed him the letter John brings cigarette butts in contact with his skin And presses them to feel, a verb he is usually lacking He has no fear but the fear of happiness It is a ghost of very persuasive nastiness John counts days, sees them running and wishes they flew Death is imminent, death is around the corner, death is at his pursue Death, for john is the clue Does John need rescue?
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Feb 8, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 at 12:52 AM UTC
John
Here I am thinking What have I become? Is this me, Was it me before? I'm exhausted by the constant adding up -multiplying the times I have had to reassess Where am I in this maze.. I feel the certainty chip away as the people I love wilt and disappear The knowledge I once held close I lay down next to their once comforting words Nothing is definite Fact is a state of Illusion Am I alright with this? I once declared.. "I thrive on chaos" I now search for comfort within it, and hold on tight to my own prospects Is this really who I have become? What do I fear? .. Measurement(?) Those who are adding up their own multiples(?) Me As I look myself over in the mirror judging.. assessing the weight of each insult Who cares? Do I? How can I find contentment in all of these flaws My lack of effort My lack of effort to conform to ideals .. is this part of me, a rebellion of sort Will it pay off in the long run or will I fall flat on my face in the abyss of conformity I am lucky I am loved. I think oh so lucky .. luck is temporary, it's all temporary that's the good part(!) We don't have to dwell but(!) might we have to Answer To Pay.. for all decisions and outcomes. Is this why(?) ..I know I am not the only one thinking..
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 8:21 PM UTC
The Math of Reflection
It is a general saying that What You Seek is Seeking You. If it is so , then why the sought for (i.e. God ) is not meeting the seeker or seeker is discovering the sought for (i.e. God). It is very easy to say that God is looking and searching for us. If it is so, then why we deviate from our path. Why we are attracted to the lust, money or other worldly material. If God is searching us, then certainly he has to guide us in tracing him. But the reality is just opposite. If tread the path of God, people will laugh at you. If you are working in any office, it is very easy to talk about politics, movies, girls, foods, clothes etc. It is very difficult to find a companion with whom you can speak about God. It looks as if God has created all these hindrances so that it is not convenient to seek him. You seek about movie and you find movie theater. You look for clothes, you find the multiples mall easily. But what about God. Go and ask questions to so called Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Guru and ask for their experience regarding proof of god, and you do not find definite answered. I have met various so called spiritual leaders, spiritual Gurus and asked about their spiritual experience about the God. But I receive only hesitating answer, that too also in Negative. I do not want to name such leaders. I have also read many books like GOD SPEAKS by MEHER BABA, LAW OF SPIRIT WORLD by KHORSHID BHAWNAGRI, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOGI by Yogananda Paramhansa, Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna. But the end result is confusion. Each book gives different account of God. If God is seeking us then why the same is confusing us by providing so diverse ways of following him. Ramakrishna says money and women has to be avoided on the path of God. While Osho and Modern Gurus says just contrary. In fact in word of Osho, without treading the path of *** , it is difficult to follow the path of God for modern man. For Vedanta, the seeking has to follow the ascetic path. The path the self restraint. While the path of tantra (the Left Marg) to utilize women and wine for attaining the Samadhi. It is Just incomprehensible to believe that just two contradictory path lead to realization of same God. When you look to go nearer to a particular cities or places , then on the way you start meeting land marks, evidencing that the path, you are following , is going to lead you to your destination. In fact on the ways, you find many stones, indicating the distance which is yet to be covered in reaching the destination. But in case of God, things are just contradictory. The more people you approaches to seek advise regarding the God, the more disappointment comes to you. The more book you read to tread the path of God, the more confusion you creates for yourself. The more you discuss the topic of people around, the more alone you become. The more you tread the path of truth, the difficult your life become. Then how it can be said that WHAT YOU SEEK, IS SEEKING YOU????? In fact , truth is that What we seek, creates hindrance in being sought for.
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
If what you seek , is seeking you, then why seeker is not meeting, what is the sought for?
It is a general saying that What You Seek is Seeking You. If it is so , then why the sought for (i.e. God ) is not meeting the seeker or seeker is discovering the sought for (i.e. God). It is very easy to say that God is looking and searching for us. If it is so, then why we deviate from our path. Why we are attracted to the lust, money or other worldly material. If God is searching us, then certainly he has to guide us in tracing him. But the reality is just opposite. If tread the path of God, people will laugh at you. If you are working in any office, it is very easy to talk about politics, movies, girls, foods, clothes etc. It is very difficult to find a companion with whom you can speak about God. It looks as if God has created all these hindrances so that it is not convenient to seek him. You seek about movie and you find movie theater. You look for clothes, you find the multiples mall easily. But what about God. Go and ask questions to so called Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Guru and ask for their experience regarding proof of god, and you do not find definite answered. I have met various so called spiritual leaders, spiritual Gurus and asked about their spiritual experience about the God. But I receive only hesitating answer, that too also in Negative. I do not want to name such leaders. I have also read many books like GOD SPEAKS by MEHER BABA, LAW OF SPIRIT WORLD by KHORSHID BHAWNAGRI, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOGI by Yogananda Paramhansa, Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna. But the end result is confusion. Each book gives different account of God. If God is seeking us then why the same is confusing us by providing so diverse ways of following him. Ramakrishna says money and women has to be avoided on the path of God. While Osho and Modern Gurus says just contrary. In fact in word of Osho, without treading the path of *** , it is difficult to follow the path of God for modern man. For Vedanta, the seeking has to follow the ascetic path. The path the self restraint. While the path of tantra (the Left Marg) to utilize women and wine for attaining the Samadhi. It is Just incomprehensible to believe that just two contradictory path lead to realization of same God. When you look to go nearer to a particular cities or places , then on the way you start meeting land marks, evidencing that the path, you are following , is going to lead you to your destination. In fact on the ways, you find many stones, indicating the distance which is yet to be covered in reaching the destination. But in case of God, things are just contradictory. The more people you approaches to seek advise regarding the God, the more disappointment comes to you. The more book you read to tread the path of God, the more confusion you creates for yourself. The more you discuss the topic of people around, the more alone you become. The more you tread the path of truth, the difficult your life become. Then how it can be said that WHAT YOU SEEK, IS SEEKING YOU????? In fact , truth is that What we seek, creates hindrance in being sought for.
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my existence is redundant you could find multiples of me on any street enclosed in overcast skin we endorse allergy to self
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Aug 11, 2012
Aug 11, 2012 at 1:53 AM UTC
relapse
Now, laying on the bed. Your legs spread, I’m all over it. Standing overhead, You getting over it. Simon say, repeat  after me: Deep ****** filling your need. Uncontrollable; lust controlling me. Our Body language, making progress. Overcome by my touch Multiples, then ecstasy, next is me, feeling the energy. Ready to digress. Swallow my pride, leave the rest to me. Handle it the best: Removing your clothing, quickly undress, actions speak louder than words; so you know the rest. Inside your body: Expanding, Stretching, Flexibility: Flexing as we *** Deeper ****** Getting deeper, Continuously; getting closer. You know what comes next. The explosions, explosive Killing me. The experience; Destiny left us breathlessly. Head over heels; but to some degree, your upside down: restlessly looking at me eagerly. Still so ***** plans to *** again:together in your holy matrimony.
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May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 10:55 AM UTC
Potency
Stock them high was the order of the day In queues one by one, they flock shops A social warehouse of common sales Slashed home events, buy one get one On a balcony I sip Chai Latte swiftly Masses line up on spotlight street path Each drawn in enterprises of expenditure A dime for a good, a rhyme to amass more Coloured triangle on the forehead illuminates A third eye, a seer pry, mood eased to try Our eyes meet and my tiled notebook melt Sing my heart don't protest,soul free to sate We lost in narrowed jungles strolling multiples Outer casts giggling, deep withering multiplex Pasted blocks of concrete as loneliness replies A vice subtle, an automated paradigm in demise
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Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 1:24 PM UTC
A Dime for A good
(do not follow your heart) do not follow the resolved feeling, the          benefit of the doubt a hundred times over and                         bent over backwards and hollow do not forget numbers, multiples of being alone          prime and so easily covered with the foam that                  washes away, worthless                        do not follow.                   do not forget. take these foundations you insist upon dispersing like ashen arms, gritty sand wiped into an eye by mistake         take these.                 take these compounded days and                 take these dug out pits of stomach and                 take these falls and     get the hell out.
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
Leaving
Multiples Personalities I’ll defeat you, I said I have study your every moves You clustered my inside, Gasping for air, I struggled It snow, I wore a tee shirt No boots though, I took the train Trouble follows me Outrageous! I scream Split personalities, alters assembled At court street, Nevins and Applebee Each taking turns to maneuvers in the cold breeze I fought with all my might, then headed to the voodoo priest Gibberish sounds he offered However, not for too long With some great effort Conquering we fought the beast Depression you lose; we won.
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 9:38 AM UTC
Multiples Personalities
Dear five, without you I would not be here. For my mom was born In your month of May. And my dad was born On the fifth of June. Both of my siblings And I make a five Person family crew. My bank account would Be empty, but for Five random dollars I’ve managed to save. Would you consider Inspiring more than Just me? With your great Set of multiples? Without ten, fifteen, Twenty-five, oh where Would we be? Dear five, You’re so important To all, not just me.
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May 4, 2022
May 4, 2022 at 6:45 PM UTC
Dear Five