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We never took pictures together because you don't like how big your eyes are I would drown in them for you but you would be too busy watching the sunrise to notice. You have glasses because you're blind But they aren't the right prescription because you still don't see your beauty. I remember the night you had me drive two hours away from the city lights just so you could point out all the constellations you memorized when you were younger. I let you go on and on about stars, waiting for you to mention the way you outshine all of them But you kissed me instead and I think that was even better. Even when Summer faded out, you would always smell like sunshine. I wanted to live forever in the daydream of you and me walking along the shoreline. Your laughter was synonymous with sunflowers and how everytime you caught sight of them you couldn't stop yourself from smiling. But that should have been my warning sign because Russia's official flower is the Sunflower and ever since you left I've traded water for ***** and this winter has been unusually rainy but it's still too bright for me to go outside.
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 5:15 PM UTC
Facts about Sunflowers
it’s official— i hate being alone. this isn’t a poem but it’s words i needed to say
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Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 3:56 PM UTC
words from an ex-introvert
You made my dad a grand father But he doesn't mind You've been the son at the back of his mind You made my ma a grandma And made her heart glow Funny she's never loved something that made her feel old You made my malla and me uncles It feels kind of cool To think now after being spoiled we'll be spoiling you. You made Akki a mom Or you made it official I don't think she's been anything less than maternal. You've made James a dad And a fine one at that Time will prove that i'm right and of that I'm glad. Welcome to the family! We were born into it too It's wierd at first but it grows on you. And we will do our best To make you feel one Friend and a loved nephew son and grandson.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 6:41 AM UTC
What you made the day you were born.
You want me to wear logos in my hair and purchase the matching scarf? A billboard for sale at the human scale Sporting your brand Oh, what a larf! Go Team Go! Print on a throw For the low price of fifty-four dollars I'd rather be happy not buying your sappy stuff that you sport on your collars you tell me to buy because i'll look fly and fill up my closet with swagger Believe when I say not one single day I'll fall to the dance of your dagger!
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 4:47 PM UTC
The Official Poem of the NFL
[Official Part-1] this  world  can  be  dangerous  bleak,  wild  and  careless  you're  living  without  knowing  how  many  days  you'll  ride  every  day  you  face  with the  problems  you  think they  are  bigger  than  'you' but  they  are  smaller  than the  whole  universe mini  world,  bright  sky time  is  gold;  it  will  fly no  one  is  getting  it  no  one  is  feeling  it  what's  in  your  veins  what  lead  you  to  the  chains  seem  every  little  is  in  a  mess  like  every  human  is  in  stress  walking  on  the  sharpest  bridge  thinking  I'm  ready  to  stop  maybe  I  can  lay  here  and  flop  on  to  the  cold  concrete  ground  am  I  ready  to  beat  this  round,  what's  next  or  what's  behind  how  hard  it  is  to  feel  kind  when  it's  all  making  you  blind  and  here's  where  you  can show  your  difference by  being  kind noise  trauma,  unnecessary  drama  everyone  wants  to  be  an  alpha  race  of  fame  and  goals  to  gain  end  of  nature  and  crazy  bane  after  this,  I'll  never  be  the  same  relationships  have  a  journey  which  starts,  goes  and  ends  I  found  One  has  no  'end' GOD  IS  MY  BEST  FRIEND.  ☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩ @lightinthedarknesspoetry
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Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
GOD IS MY BEST-FRIEND
[Official Part-1] this  world  can  be  dangerous  bleak,  wild  and  careless  you're  living  without  knowing  how  many  days  you'll  ride  every  day  you  face  with the  problems  you  think they  are  bigger  than  'you' but  they  are  smaller  than the  whole  universe mini  world,  bright  sky time  is  gold;  it  will  fly no  one  is  getting  it  no  one  is  feeling  it  what's  in  your  veins  what  lead  you  to  the  chains  seem  every  little  is  in  a  mess  like  every  human  is  in  stress  walking  on  the  sharpest  bridge  thinking  I'm  ready  to  stop  maybe  I  can  lay  here  and  flop  on  to  the  cold  concrete  ground  am  I  ready  to  beat  this  round,  what's  next  or  what's  behind  how  hard  it  is  to  feel  kind  when  it's  all  making  you  blind  and  here's  where  you  can show  your  difference by  being  kind noise  trauma,  unnecessary  drama  everyone  wants  to  be  an  alpha  race  of  fame  and  goals  to  gain  end  of  nature  and  crazy  bane  after  this,  I'll  never  be  the  same  relationships  have  a  journey  which  starts,  goes  and  ends  I  found  One  has  no  'end' GOD  IS  MY  BEST  FRIEND.  ☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩ @lightinthedarknesspoetry
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We'd bound around For golf downtown Frisbees always in hand "The students are coming!!” Was a seasonal refrain As we’d goofily gallivant Mother’s Day shows We‘re free, mother-suckers For your kids, a show we grant A CLOWN SHOW! A DOWNTOWN SHOW! THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN’T! Rock their world with juggling See the Doctor for what ails Rudi and O in laundromat land Jeanie, Splash, Allison, Donna, Silly girls astonishing with Leaps, jokes and handstands Chewey, Steamboat and Grog "Yeah-yeah! Yeah-yeah!” Silly boys grandstanding All hail Papa Gale! We Funned with Cpt. Plunge Leader of the band! Sweet Georgia! **** croquet!* It was grand! **** croquet was the official lawn game of the Sweet Georgia Brown Clowns during the summer 198x Trinity Country tour [wherein we masqueraded as a Norwegian Salmon Kissing team at a Moose Lodge Talent Show in Lewiston, CA* {true!}]: “Don’t forget your hat!”) *(we won)
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 9:11 PM UTC
BROWN TOWN
While I don't suffer, or suffer from Normal, eurocentrism, northern malaise, Nor, academia, a blood disease, I do mind manners in which doings And not doings are done or aren't, As it brings life and light to them, Or it doesn't, for those most attached To living or dying are most closely death. This while acid rain from your closed eye And an acre of rainforest falls each second. Thus Earth's tears bleed for all you see is gray. As machinations of travailing winds, Miraging, veil, mirror narcissistic nihlistic False-ego as self, do "..we(e),.." evince to be? A republican chides, "put another poet On the barbie", his idea of conservation. Prump has had his exec. branch criminally: Edit the official video and script of his Helsinki news conference where tutin was asked, "Did you help prump become president and did you Have your gov't do the same", with tutin's answers, "Yes I did, yes, I did..." + premeditatedly separate Latino families at the border to torture them, Dictate that "if they want to see their kids again They have to sign away their rights and leave". He just said, "don't believe what you hear, see", Almost a quote from Orwell's '1984', in which Is written, "this dictate of the gov't was most Important of all, don't believe what your ears Hear or your eyes see".  Since altright universe Invaders were installed in the Blackhouse we've Known things will only get worse, what other Reason could his "military parade in 11-18" be for Except military rule, will the American daymare end?
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 7:13 AM UTC
RumputiN, Underworld Crown
While I don't suffer, or suffer from Normal, eurocentrism, northern malaise, Nor, academia, a blood disease, I do mind manners in which doings And not doings are done or aren't, As it brings life and light to them, Or it doesn't, for those most attached To living or dying are most closely death. This while acid rain from your closed eye And an acre of rainforest falls each second. Thus Earth's tears bleed for all you see is gray. As machinations of travailing winds, Miraging, veil, mirror narcissistic nihlistic False-ego as self, do "..we(e),.." evince to be? A republican chides, "put another poet On the barbie", his idea of conservation. Prump has had his exec. branch criminally: Edit the official video and script of his Helsinki news conference where tutin was asked, "Did you help prump become president and did you Have your gov't do the same", with tutin's answers, "Yes I did, yes, I did..." + premeditatedly separate Latino families at the border to torture them, Dictate that "if they want to see their kids again They have to sign away their rights and leave". He just said, "don't believe what you hear, see", Almost a quote from Orwell's '1984', in which Is written, "this dictate of the gov't was most Important of all, don't believe what your ears Hear or your eyes see".  Since altright universe Invaders were installed in the Blackhouse we've Known things will only get worse, what other Reason could his "military parade in 11-18" be for Except military rule, will the American daymare end?
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Sag my corpse in 32 degree weather through the city of God where paraplegics dream of running. “Oh Rhodesian mercenary,” humble my soul again like in C(hi)(ca)ongo. But remember The revolution starts on my mama’s bed at half past six. So excuse me while I smoke my drink like a Brooklyn Leftist from the 40’s tramples burning cigarettes on cold pavements where codeine and Sprite make any Tuesday fabulous because we already suffered from (and for) the goods of mankind. But before you read me the history of Hatchepsut; I learned the art of man within the confines of FCC regulations after my ‘Pa threw ******* out the window and made life in the cell not mundane by telephoning philosophical-entendres     that tomorrow never happened. He too was from the blood of the ancestors whose bodies were charred on as goods— whose children now char their bodies with the goods of the goddess of Victory— the official trademark for the lost Exodus—the blood and blue moribund— sagging pyrrhic victories in 32 degree weather as homage to their charred ghost (fore)fathers who preyed to the city of God for bread
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 8:35 PM UTC
Portrait of a milk carton as a young adult
we're on a break, meaning we catharsis **** often in public places, often with an edge of violence, much like the session in the family restroom, here at Big Daddy's Bar-B-Que (travesty, travesty). still waiting for Em to to finish "tidying up." and the brisket is salty. or it's the leftovers from her forehead. she should have cut her fingernails. thinking of a way to hide the blood trails running wild on the back of my t-shirt. catharsis, she says. it's healthy, she says. Elvis croons over the arcane stereo system and a white-haired woman with gelatinous arms taps her fingers on the tabletop along to "Teddy Bear." the waitress keeps a hawk's eye on my half-empty/half-full glass of water. and I'm afraid to take a drink. here comes Em. she's an athlete. and we're on a break, meaning we don't see each other's parents. don't nod and listen. and don't say things like, "oh yeah, your sister Sarah. how's she?" hallelujah, hallelujah. Em played point guard in high school. her last official sporting endeavor. but twenty minutes ago she told me to look up a complicated position via iKamastutra on my phone because she's an athlete, and I'd be "amazed at what this machine [her body] can do." but I hate when she says **** like that. catering to an I'm-almost-certain-peg of my fantasy. harder, harder and before I finish, she insists on swallowing and it makes me uncomfortable but we're on break, and to argue would be a crucifixion to this "vacation." I think about Elvis. and wonder if any woman is still alive that swallowed his *** and when it's down to just one, does that mean anything? "well that was fun," Em says. her mascara wasted. the brisket is salty. I take a generous drink of water. I hear the sound of breaking glass. the waitress has busted a bottle of ketchup in her rush to refill my 2/3rds empty cup. "mazel tov," I say.
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Jan 31, 2013
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:57 PM UTC
#nsfw
we're on a break, meaning we catharsis **** often in public places, often with an edge of violence, much like the session in the family restroom, here at Big Daddy's Bar-B-Que (travesty, travesty). still waiting for Em to to finish "tidying up." and the brisket is salty. or it's the leftovers from her forehead. she should have cut her fingernails. thinking of a way to hide the blood trails running wild on the back of my t-shirt. catharsis, she says. it's healthy, she says. Elvis croons over the arcane stereo system and a white-haired woman with gelatinous arms taps her fingers on the tabletop along to "Teddy Bear." the waitress keeps a hawk's eye on my half-empty/half-full glass of water. and I'm afraid to take a drink. here comes Em. she's an athlete. and we're on a break, meaning we don't see each other's parents. don't nod and listen. and don't say things like, "oh yeah, your sister Sarah. how's she?" hallelujah, hallelujah. Em played point guard in high school. her last official sporting endeavor. but twenty minutes ago she told me to look up a complicated position via iKamastutra on my phone because she's an athlete, and I'd be "amazed at what this machine [her body] can do." but I hate when she says **** like that. catering to an I'm-almost-certain-peg of my fantasy. harder, harder and before I finish, she insists on swallowing and it makes me uncomfortable but we're on break, and to argue would be a crucifixion to this "vacation." I think about Elvis. and wonder if any woman is still alive that swallowed his *** and when it's down to just one, does that mean anything? "well that was fun," Em says. her mascara wasted. the brisket is salty. I take a generous drink of water. I hear the sound of breaking glass. the waitress has busted a bottle of ketchup in her rush to refill my 2/3rds empty cup. "mazel tov," I say.
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They live in huge houses, drive fancy cars Most know poverty only secondhand So how can they fix a problem... They don't really understand Given the role of a leader However, I'm convinced they are confused We live in worlds too far apart... How can they lead with similar views Their children go to private schools Only the finest and elite Their children will never need public education So they allow funding to deplete Their children will succeed I believe it's part of their plan To ensure that high society Will forever lead the average man The evidence is no secret They don't seem to care if we agree They know they hold this power So it doesn't matter if we see Our taxes keep going up Unemployment is at an all time high Life keeps getting harder for those just scrapping by The people making these decisions Of course they find it easy enough to do They're not deciding for themselves They decide for me and you The truth of the matter is... This country is ruled by hypocrisy They disguise this, however, very cleverly Today it's what we know as Democracy "A political government run by 'The People' through 'Selected' officials"... Democracy defined Compare it to the way it was truly designed Sure we get to 'select the official' But the one thing they seem to neglect They pick the people Many, that corruptive politics help select
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 5:11 PM UTC
The Government (Part 2)
Author:  Kristen Stevens Sunday, June 21, 2009 Current mood:outside the loop And yes I know that's a plagiarization (real word??? no matter) of a stupid show...but you shouldn't watch it anyway so there. ME! Last week, as you may have heard was not of the fun, so this week in comparison rocked! And, yes, I am going to end every sentence with exclamations! (it's for the sarcastic effect don't panic) As such I’m going to let YOU write my entry…you’ll see. Once upon a time there was a ______ (adj.) girl. She loved her xbox very much. One day an evil ________(noun) descended on the precious object and smote it with the fury of _______(name of a god). The girl ___________(verb) for many minutes staring at the remains of her once beloved box. She promptly went to the other, less amusing, magic box and asked for _______(noun). She____________(adv.) navigated her way through treacherous and distracting destinations. As she approached the official site, a most ___________(adj.) thing occurred. The destination was ________(noun). Much like the construction in her hamlet, it prevented her from registering her distress. Days _______(noun) slowly, with still no relief for ________(pronoun). What’s a girl to do when  ________(frustrating situation)? In her profession the customers would not appreciate it if she came after them with___________(weapon of choice from popular video game). It had been one week, since the demise of _______(object). She no longer was _______(emotion). The days were literally ________(color). Rain fell _______(verb ending in –ing) the streets. There was still no reply from the xbox deity. Thus ends the tale of piteous woe. This girl has been considering swearing fealty to another more worthy gaming god! There are three systems and I own two of them! Don’t make me get the third! This is a threat! (not you guys, the __________{insert favorite utterance} at Microsoft) goes away quietly muttering to self unkind and unpleasant things that should be done to xbox distributors By the way, how was that I figure, if you’re going to take the time to read it. I should give you something fun to do at the same time. Who doesn’t like madlibs? Huh?
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Sep 21, 2010
Sep 21, 2010 at 8:23 AM UTC
Who had the best week ever?
Author:  Kristen Stevens Sunday, June 21, 2009 Current mood:outside the loop And yes I know that's a plagiarization (real word??? no matter) of a stupid show...but you shouldn't watch it anyway so there. ME! Last week, as you may have heard was not of the fun, so this week in comparison rocked! And, yes, I am going to end every sentence with exclamations! (it's for the sarcastic effect don't panic) As such I’m going to let YOU write my entry…you’ll see. Once upon a time there was a ______ (adj.) girl. She loved her xbox very much. One day an evil ________(noun) descended on the precious object and smote it with the fury of _______(name of a god). The girl ___________(verb) for many minutes staring at the remains of her once beloved box. She promptly went to the other, less amusing, magic box and asked for _______(noun). She____________(adv.) navigated her way through treacherous and distracting destinations. As she approached the official site, a most ___________(adj.) thing occurred. The destination was ________(noun). Much like the construction in her hamlet, it prevented her from registering her distress. Days _______(noun) slowly, with still no relief for ________(pronoun). What’s a girl to do when  ________(frustrating situation)? In her profession the customers would not appreciate it if she came after them with___________(weapon of choice from popular video game). It had been one week, since the demise of _______(object). She no longer was _______(emotion). The days were literally ________(color). Rain fell _______(verb ending in –ing) the streets. There was still no reply from the xbox deity. Thus ends the tale of piteous woe. This girl has been considering swearing fealty to another more worthy gaming god! There are three systems and I own two of them! Don’t make me get the third! This is a threat! (not you guys, the __________{insert favorite utterance} at Microsoft) goes away quietly muttering to self unkind and unpleasant things that should be done to xbox distributors By the way, how was that I figure, if you’re going to take the time to read it. I should give you something fun to do at the same time. Who doesn’t like madlibs? Huh?
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I met you over Facebook... You were a stranger to me, I knew not you, or your personality. You were a random, I found you on Facebook. I said, ''Hi, I know you don't know me and that this is probably weird, but, hi''. You were cute. I didn't think it would hurt to add you and maybe talk to you a little. About a month after I had sent that message I found out I was switching schools... Little did I know you went to that school. We started talking a lot more, we became good friends. ...I had a crush on you... I met you about a little while after, you were so cute. I walked in the door and you just stared at me. I was frozen. I was new, I didn't know what to do. I sat in the back of the room, I kept to myself and was very quiet. Little ol' you wouldn't let that happen. You were nice, you talked to me, your friend on the other hand... That little creepy ******* just stared at me. You and I started talking but so did your friend and I. I had you and him both wrapped around my little pinky. An accomplishment any girl in that class would love to have achieved. Well, I dated him. I dated my crushes best friend. The creepy little **** who would stare at me for hours on end. After no more than a month, he dumped me. My feeling for Billy, my previous crush started to stir. Why? We became great friends. Best friends. I was really sad when I found out you were dating my best friend. You guys had been dating ever since I had gotten there and I now just found out. Boy don't I feel dumb. That relationship you two had was cute... But, it was short lived. You told me you liked me... I was shocked, happy, astonished, and then again disappointed. I told myself to wait, told myself, ''Oh. He'll come around,'' It never happened. I fell in love with you. You invited me over, so I went. We had fun. We watched movies... We played footsies? Yeah, it happened. The next Friday after that we hung out and you tutored me... Wasn't exactly tutoring... More like a kissing class. Oh well, I didn't care... At the moment. We we're caught up in the moment, and I head you whisper something in my ear. ''Let's make it official,'' I said, ''Let's do it'' You picked me up and carried me into the bedroom, laid me down on the bed, and passionately kissed me on the lips. I kissed you back, life was getting better already. March 22nd, 2012. It's our anniversary, also my Dad's birthday. That day leads us to where we are today. Still together, still in love, reaching for our forever. I never knew that a random guy I added on Facebook would end up meaning so much to me. I never dreamed I would find someone I love this much. I could never ask for more. Now every chance my Dad get he sais, ''You and him are the best birthday present I had ever gotten!'' I wish he was still here today to say that, he left about two months into our relationship.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 6:18 AM UTC
I met you over Facebook...
I met you over Facebook... You were a stranger to me, I knew not you, or your personality. You were a random, I found you on Facebook. I said, ''Hi, I know you don't know me and that this is probably weird, but, hi''. You were cute. I didn't think it would hurt to add you and maybe talk to you a little. About a month after I had sent that message I found out I was switching schools... Little did I know you went to that school. We started talking a lot more, we became good friends. ...I had a crush on you... I met you about a little while after, you were so cute. I walked in the door and you just stared at me. I was frozen. I was new, I didn't know what to do. I sat in the back of the room, I kept to myself and was very quiet. Little ol' you wouldn't let that happen. You were nice, you talked to me, your friend on the other hand... That little creepy ******* just stared at me. You and I started talking but so did your friend and I. I had you and him both wrapped around my little pinky. An accomplishment any girl in that class would love to have achieved. Well, I dated him. I dated my crushes best friend. The creepy little **** who would stare at me for hours on end. After no more than a month, he dumped me. My feeling for Billy, my previous crush started to stir. Why? We became great friends. Best friends. I was really sad when I found out you were dating my best friend. You guys had been dating ever since I had gotten there and I now just found out. Boy don't I feel dumb. That relationship you two had was cute... But, it was short lived. You told me you liked me... I was shocked, happy, astonished, and then again disappointed. I told myself to wait, told myself, ''Oh. He'll come around,'' It never happened. I fell in love with you. You invited me over, so I went. We had fun. We watched movies... We played footsies? Yeah, it happened. The next Friday after that we hung out and you tutored me... Wasn't exactly tutoring... More like a kissing class. Oh well, I didn't care... At the moment. We we're caught up in the moment, and I head you whisper something in my ear. ''Let's make it official,'' I said, ''Let's do it'' You picked me up and carried me into the bedroom, laid me down on the bed, and passionately kissed me on the lips. I kissed you back, life was getting better already. March 22nd, 2012. It's our anniversary, also my Dad's birthday. That day leads us to where we are today. Still together, still in love, reaching for our forever. I never knew that a random guy I added on Facebook would end up meaning so much to me. I never dreamed I would find someone I love this much. I could never ask for more. Now every chance my Dad get he sais, ''You and him are the best birthday present I had ever gotten!'' I wish he was still here today to say that, he left about two months into our relationship.
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This is the core of industries It's crazy oh you see assemblies before ores fall in the streets but It's all for you and me A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but There's not where it settles Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest *** or kettle And now we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In our steampunk nation Our steampunk nation It's places having creation But with black metal makings And wordsmith's an occupation like phrase on paper's the way we say she's Making our hearts start raving and baby maybe even raging for For beaming metals and Yeah steaming kettles, Meccas of our cyberstation Hades And now we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In our steampunk nation Our steampunk nation Oh how do we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In a steampunk nation A steampunk nation
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
Steampunk Nation
New Year's Eve party. With the popular kids. That you don't know well. But your boyfriend's going, and you need to go too. (for a New Year's kiss, of course.) Your favorite pair of jeans because they are easy to dance in. Your best floral tank top because it's brand new (and it's cold out, so you can have an excuse to wear his jacket.) Coral blush because it looks good with your skintone. Purple eyeliner because it makes your eyes pop. And french manicure, (your very first one!) Done by your older sister, aided with scotch tape for the tips. (It makes your hands look pretty, and official, like your best friends mom.)
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Jan 1, 2012
Jan 1, 2012 at 9:17 PM UTC
The Homemade Manicure
(for Cyril Connolly) The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Fantastic grow the evening gowns; Agents of the Fisc pursue Absconding tax-defaulters through The sewers of provincial towns. Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep; All the literati keep An imaginary friend. Cerebrotonic Cato may Extol the Ancient Disciplines, But the muscle-bound Marines Mutiny for food and pay. Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form. Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
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The Fall of Rome
The inadequate bookshelf that sat near the door that my sister used to call her own was mostly made up of adolescent reads, books better suited for preteen girls rather than intellectually budding young ladies— juvenile vocabularies and simple, non-complex plot lines do little to craft and create worldly, knowledgeable women. I thought I must spring clean the naiveté away and replace it with the works of great authors like Sylvia Plath                        Simone de Beauvoir                                                              Virginia Woolf                        Margaret Atwood Betty Friedan; ingenious femme fatales that cut down to the brittled bones of the misogynists and burned their marrow along with the ashes of bras and aprons and 350 degree oven heat.   Growing up, to me, seemed like a wonderful epiphany chock-full of ideas and opinions and clever, ironic remarks that chased satirical witticisms like felines to rodents and wolves to deer— being an adult would guarantee me a say, a vote            prior 1920’s America                                                   play dress up as a suffragette            women’s rights femininity personified by dolls in plastic houses. To be eighteen-years-old, the goal, the legality, the bright light at the end of the tunnel; the official womanhood it would bestow upon me seemed like something almost tangible with the way that it loomed over my head. Get good marks graduate high school travel back in time sixty years meet a nice boy become a “good wife” have dinner ready by five bear two beautiful heirs clean up the messes left in the kitchen fast-forward to the twenty-first century go to a good college find a stable career settle down if the fancy strikes you live non-docile and full of passion— the parallelism of times are severely di     lap           i             dat                   ed. 1950’s America would never be a home for me because I am much too wild to be contained.
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 12:12 AM UTC
Exemplar
The inadequate bookshelf that sat near the door that my sister used to call her own was mostly made up of adolescent reads, books better suited for preteen girls rather than intellectually budding young ladies— juvenile vocabularies and simple, non-complex plot lines do little to craft and create worldly, knowledgeable women. I thought I must spring clean the naiveté away and replace it with the works of great authors like Sylvia Plath                        Simone de Beauvoir                                                              Virginia Woolf                        Margaret Atwood Betty Friedan; ingenious femme fatales that cut down to the brittled bones of the misogynists and burned their marrow along with the ashes of bras and aprons and 350 degree oven heat.   Growing up, to me, seemed like a wonderful epiphany chock-full of ideas and opinions and clever, ironic remarks that chased satirical witticisms like felines to rodents and wolves to deer— being an adult would guarantee me a say, a vote            prior 1920’s America                                                   play dress up as a suffragette            women’s rights femininity personified by dolls in plastic houses. To be eighteen-years-old, the goal, the legality, the bright light at the end of the tunnel; the official womanhood it would bestow upon me seemed like something almost tangible with the way that it loomed over my head. Get good marks graduate high school travel back in time sixty years meet a nice boy become a “good wife” have dinner ready by five bear two beautiful heirs clean up the messes left in the kitchen fast-forward to the twenty-first century go to a good college find a stable career settle down if the fancy strikes you live non-docile and full of passion— the parallelism of times are severely di     lap           i             dat                   ed. 1950’s America would never be a home for me because I am much too wild to be contained.
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You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me, for you was lethal. You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one, Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty, Blind force with accomplished shape. Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense bridge Going into white fog. Here is a broken city, And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave When I am talking with you. What is poetry which does not save Nations or people? A connivance with official lies, A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment, Readings for sophomore girls. That I wanted good poetry without knowing it, That I discovered, late, its salutary aim, In this and only this I find salvation. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
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Dedication
I This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches, Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course; They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes, But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes. II Dawn freshens, Her climb is done. Down towards Glasgow she descends, Towards the steam tugs yelping down a glade of cranes Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen. All Scotland waits for her: In dark glens, beside pale-green lochs Men long for news. III Letters of thanks, letters from banks, Letters of joy from girl and boy, Receipted bills and invitations To inspect new stock or to visit relations, And applications for situations, And timid lovers' declarations, And gossip, gossip from all the nations, News circumstantial, news financial, Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in, Letters with faces scrawled on the margin, Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts, Letters to Scotland from the South of France, Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands Written on paper of every hue, The pink, the violet, the white and the blue, The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring, The cold and official and the heart's outpouring, Clever, stupid, short and long, The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong. IV Thousands are still asleep, Dreaming of terrifying monsters Or of friendly tea beside the band in Cranston's or Crawford's: Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh, Asleep in granite Aberdeen, They continue their dreams, But shall wake soon and hope for letters, And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart, For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Night Mail
I This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches, Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course; They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes, But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes. II Dawn freshens, Her climb is done. Down towards Glasgow she descends, Towards the steam tugs yelping down a glade of cranes Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen. All Scotland waits for her: In dark glens, beside pale-green lochs Men long for news. III Letters of thanks, letters from banks, Letters of joy from girl and boy, Receipted bills and invitations To inspect new stock or to visit relations, And applications for situations, And timid lovers' declarations, And gossip, gossip from all the nations, News circumstantial, news financial, Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in, Letters with faces scrawled on the margin, Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts, Letters to Scotland from the South of France, Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands Written on paper of every hue, The pink, the violet, the white and the blue, The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring, The cold and official and the heart's outpouring, Clever, stupid, short and long, The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong. IV Thousands are still asleep, Dreaming of terrifying monsters Or of friendly tea beside the band in Cranston's or Crawford's: Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh, Asleep in granite Aberdeen, They continue their dreams, But shall wake soon and hope for letters, And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart, For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Hormones raging...for what I'm told not to engage in, even if we're engaged, if it's not official than its still revealed as...fornication. There's a disturbing underestimation of the result given for this particular sinful demonstration, society has taught us that we test the car before we drive it, but the 1st issue with this analogy told is that we're comparing human sin to...driving a vehicle? But if we're going to establish analogies on this subject , then, well, why don’t we also consider these: do we begin eating Thanksgiving dinner before were done saying grace? Do they hand out diplomas and degrees for classes you haven't passed yet? Do they give Super Bowl trophies to teams expected to win? So how do we justify receiving the prize of an unmet process? Far too many have allowed marriage to become an afterthought or not even a passing idea our better judgment caught because man had rather receive a temporary pleasure that sin conceives birthed in disobedience, deceptive grip around your conscience until your choked by the demands of a lustful flesh that wants to be fed in continual expedience. Or...Maybe, I’m just being a hater, fighting not to be twistedly envious and curious of a world that I’m forbidden to embrace.  Or Maybe I’m fighting...the temptation and frustration of being a single man patiently searching for that good thing and the favor my Father blesses along with her. Maybe I’m fighting...not to nosedive into the bottomless trap laid for human souls, lured in by lack, of self-control. It troubles me in just how simple... he brags and boasts then plots and plans his next victim in the desecration of his and her Creator’s Temple. But It’s not all his fault, because it was up to her to give him the key to this priceless location better known as her body.
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 12:59 PM UTC
Flee!
Hormones raging...for what I'm told not to engage in, even if we're engaged, if it's not official than its still revealed as...fornication. There's a disturbing underestimation of the result given for this particular sinful demonstration, society has taught us that we test the car before we drive it, but the 1st issue with this analogy told is that we're comparing human sin to...driving a vehicle? But if we're going to establish analogies on this subject , then, well, why don’t we also consider these: do we begin eating Thanksgiving dinner before were done saying grace? Do they hand out diplomas and degrees for classes you haven't passed yet? Do they give Super Bowl trophies to teams expected to win? So how do we justify receiving the prize of an unmet process? Far too many have allowed marriage to become an afterthought or not even a passing idea our better judgment caught because man had rather receive a temporary pleasure that sin conceives birthed in disobedience, deceptive grip around your conscience until your choked by the demands of a lustful flesh that wants to be fed in continual expedience. Or...Maybe, I’m just being a hater, fighting not to be twistedly envious and curious of a world that I’m forbidden to embrace.  Or Maybe I’m fighting...the temptation and frustration of being a single man patiently searching for that good thing and the favor my Father blesses along with her. Maybe I’m fighting...not to nosedive into the bottomless trap laid for human souls, lured in by lack, of self-control. It troubles me in just how simple... he brags and boasts then plots and plans his next victim in the desecration of his and her Creator’s Temple. But It’s not all his fault, because it was up to her to give him the key to this priceless location better known as her body.
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Not only am I drowning but so many are going down along with me-- our hopes, our dreams, our ideals are being swept out to sea the man who claims victory is more than just a man he embodies evil and greed like no other in this land-- he cares nothing for AMERICA unless it brings profit his way and he will stop at nothing to rule forever and a day... So don't bother to save me as I am falling beneath the sea, I cannot tread water for he is determined to drown me and so many others who only want what's best for our beloved U.S.A. and oh my god this test is far too much and I kneel down and pray and ask the gods above to watch over the entire globe for beware, I see it coming this man in charge has not much of a frontal lobe and we are doomed not just as a united country but as a human kind for we've elected an official who has literally lost his mind...
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 7:16 PM UTC
Doomed to Drown...
A DEATH CREATES A DECEMBER/OCTOBER TWIN BIRTH WITH RAY POCOCK’S LIFE FOLLOWING HIS TRAGIC NEXT LIFE’S DEATH YOU SEE ROBERT KINOSHITA, TURNS 100, AND GOES UP TO SATURN TO DO A FEW ROBOT DANCES, AND INVENTS THIS LITTLE SONG I AM THE GREATEST, I MADE A FAMOUS ROBOT IT WAS IN A GREAT GREAT SHOW TITLED LOST IN SPACE I WANTED TO LIVE FOREVER, BUT I EVENTUALLY KICKED THE BUCKET BUT I LIVED TO BE 100, TO SAY I DID THE ROBOT DANCE I DID THE ROBOT DANCE, SAYING I AM A ROBOT, I AM A ROBOT, MY WAY IS COMING TRUE THROUGHOUT THE LAND I AM A ROBOT EVERY SINGLE DAY I CREATED ROBOT B-9, HE WAS FAMOUS FOR SAYING DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER WILL ROBINSON AND THEN SAID, I AM A ROBOT, I AM A ROBOT, I AM COMING TO EXTERMINATE YOU, I AM A ROBOT FOREVER AND EVER AND THEN AS I GET OFF STAGE I TIP A KEG OF METHANE ALL OVER RAY POCOCK TO SAY, LET’S MAKE TWINS IN OCTOBER, WELL LET’S MAKE THEM DUE IN OCTOBER ANYWAY AND ROBERT AND RAY SAID WE ARE PERFECT ROBOTS WE WILL CREATE NEW LIFE, IN OCTOBER, OH YEAH RAY HAS NO IDEA, EITHER HAS ROBERT, BUT THEY BOTH SAID WE ARE ROBOTS AND DANGER, IF WE LET THE TERRORISTS WIN WE ARE CRONUS’S, EMBASSADORS, I AM CRONUS I AM THE ONE IN THE FAMILY, WHO LIKES IMAGINATIVE ROBOTS AND WE DANCE, WE ARE BIG ROBOTS, WE ARE BIG ROBOTS WE HAVE COME TO ESTERMINATE YOU GUYS IF YA COME TO CLOSE DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER WILL ROBINSON THERE WILL BE DANGER IF ROBERT AND RAY SEPERATE, CAUSE THEY ARE JOINED TO PROTECT THE EARTH, AND BRING PROPER ROBOTS BACK WE WANT HELPFUL ROBOTS WE WANT HELPFUL ROBOTS WE WILL GET THEM NOW, ROBERT KINOSHITA TIP METHANE ALL OVER BARRY ALLAN CAUSE, HE WON’T EXCEPT HE IS NOW ELIZABETH ANN CAMPBELL DANGER BARRY ALLAN ROBERT SAID IF YOU GET THIS YOUR LIKE ME AND MUMMY CRAP OUT OF YOUR SONS DANGER AHEAD, TO OLD HAGS WE ARE BIG ROBOTS, AND WE WILL STAY BIG ROBOTS FOREVER
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 3:08 AM UTC
ROBERT AND RAY, JOINED AS TWINS BORN IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER THIS YEAR THE OFFICIAL PARTY TO WELCOME ROBERT
A DEATH CREATES A DECEMBER/OCTOBER TWIN BIRTH WITH RAY POCOCK’S LIFE FOLLOWING HIS TRAGIC NEXT LIFE’S DEATH YOU SEE ROBERT KINOSHITA, TURNS 100, AND GOES UP TO SATURN TO DO A FEW ROBOT DANCES, AND INVENTS THIS LITTLE SONG I AM THE GREATEST, I MADE A FAMOUS ROBOT IT WAS IN A GREAT GREAT SHOW TITLED LOST IN SPACE I WANTED TO LIVE FOREVER, BUT I EVENTUALLY KICKED THE BUCKET BUT I LIVED TO BE 100, TO SAY I DID THE ROBOT DANCE I DID THE ROBOT DANCE, SAYING I AM A ROBOT, I AM A ROBOT, MY WAY IS COMING TRUE THROUGHOUT THE LAND I AM A ROBOT EVERY SINGLE DAY I CREATED ROBOT B-9, HE WAS FAMOUS FOR SAYING DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER WILL ROBINSON AND THEN SAID, I AM A ROBOT, I AM A ROBOT, I AM COMING TO EXTERMINATE YOU, I AM A ROBOT FOREVER AND EVER AND THEN AS I GET OFF STAGE I TIP A KEG OF METHANE ALL OVER RAY POCOCK TO SAY, LET’S MAKE TWINS IN OCTOBER, WELL LET’S MAKE THEM DUE IN OCTOBER ANYWAY AND ROBERT AND RAY SAID WE ARE PERFECT ROBOTS WE WILL CREATE NEW LIFE, IN OCTOBER, OH YEAH RAY HAS NO IDEA, EITHER HAS ROBERT, BUT THEY BOTH SAID WE ARE ROBOTS AND DANGER, IF WE LET THE TERRORISTS WIN WE ARE CRONUS’S, EMBASSADORS, I AM CRONUS I AM THE ONE IN THE FAMILY, WHO LIKES IMAGINATIVE ROBOTS AND WE DANCE, WE ARE BIG ROBOTS, WE ARE BIG ROBOTS WE HAVE COME TO ESTERMINATE YOU GUYS IF YA COME TO CLOSE DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER WILL ROBINSON THERE WILL BE DANGER IF ROBERT AND RAY SEPERATE, CAUSE THEY ARE JOINED TO PROTECT THE EARTH, AND BRING PROPER ROBOTS BACK WE WANT HELPFUL ROBOTS WE WANT HELPFUL ROBOTS WE WILL GET THEM NOW, ROBERT KINOSHITA TIP METHANE ALL OVER BARRY ALLAN CAUSE, HE WON’T EXCEPT HE IS NOW ELIZABETH ANN CAMPBELL DANGER BARRY ALLAN ROBERT SAID IF YOU GET THIS YOUR LIKE ME AND MUMMY CRAP OUT OF YOUR SONS DANGER AHEAD, TO OLD HAGS WE ARE BIG ROBOTS, AND WE WILL STAY BIG ROBOTS FOREVER
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You can tell a lot about A person by the ones he admires. Another telling factor is The people whom he inspires. Donald Trump, for example, Praises Putin, a leader who Has jailed dissenters, squashed human rights, And done away with opponents, too. After a questionable referendum, Which restricts in many ways Civil rights, the leader of Turkey, Erdoğan, received Trump's praise. Duterte of the Philippines-- Authoritarian and leading official-- Has had thousands of people killed In a manner blatantly extrajudicial. So that's his way of solving the problem Of drugs in the Philippines is it? And guess who wants the blood-thirsty, Despotic leader to come for a visit? And then there's the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. Only a rookie Would say that the mad, unhinged and murderous Leader was a "pretty smart cookie." Trump's had business ties with three Of the above countries. There's no mistaking. But does this mean that a Trump Tower In Pyongyang is in the making? -by Bob B (5-3-17)
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May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017 at 9:57 AM UTC
Praising the Unpraiseworthy
Recently, in the "New York Times," An op-ed essay has hit the press, Thus causing the president To send out vicious tweets in distress. Claiming to be a senior White House Official, the writer wants to let The people know that even though Trump is unhinged, not to fret. Because Trump is ill-informed, Impulsive, and given to constant lying, He can't be trusted to handle the job, Which to many is terrifying. He's impetuous, adversarial, Reckless, petty, and quick to revile. Any good has happened DESPITE And not BECAUSE of his leadership style. The writer insists that our knowing One special thing will lessen the gloom: Even though Trump is a mess, Luckily, there are "adults in the room." Thwarting the president's misguided Impulses is the task Of these "adults," each of whom Has to hide behind a mask. To publish the piece anonymously Some people feel is wrong. But, hey, it only confirms something That we have known all along. -by Bob B (9-6-18)
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
Confirming the Obvious
"Kami na ni A" Or in English "Me and A are official now" Exact words you told me Those were the most Hurtful, painful, distressful words I have ever heard from you And I don't know what to say I don't know what to feel I know I'm happy for you Bc finally she answered you after a year. The long wait is over for you. But my tears They fell, escaped, from my eyes. I was not able to help myself I am literally crying my eyes out right now Maybe you are currently jumping in joy But what you don't know is that I am in pure agonizing pain right now Like someone stabbed a knife in my heart
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Jun 5, 2015
Jun 5, 2015 at 12:55 AM UTC
Officially taken