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New Year's Day 1:16 AM and my body is weary beyond time to withdraw and rest ample room allowed me in everyone's head but community calls right over the threshold drums beating through the walls children playing their truck dramas under the collapsible coatrack in the narrow hallway outside my room The TV lounge next door is wide open it is midnight in Idaho and the throb easy subtle spin of the electric slide boogie step-stepping around the corner of the parlor past the sweet clink of dining room glasses and the edged aroma of slightly overdone dutch-apple pie all laced together with the rich dark laughter of Gloria and her higher-octave sisters How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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The Electric Slide Boogie
You wrote a poem that made me want to cry, a blue moon occasion of risk and shown feelings. A love poem in response would be too overdone for me and perhaps it'd seem an obligatory exchange. You know I love you but only so many lines can be written and I've run out of new words to excite you. If I could I'd just hold you to show how I feel, but I'll go slightly against my decision and write you a poem to thank you or at least acknowledge these feelings and then for once, I'll end up the awkward one.
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Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 12:16 AM UTC
response to a love poem
As your tongue laps It's way down my front I sigh with boredom We're so overdone
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 2:33 PM UTC
All Too Used To Being Used
I’m just so tired of every day. I’m so tired of the gray and the way my body begs me and begs me for just a few more hours of darkness. And I never know if it’s asking that because it feels tired, or because it’s afraid that my thoughts and monsters might drag it out passed its’ limits like it normally does. It’s such an odd thing. I’m terrified of darkness, and sometimes it’s all I crave. One half of me begs for summer days filled with shooting clouds and soft blankets that are hard to lay on because I’m sweating. The other half wants nights filled with angry music and dark clothing. Piercings and dyed hair, shoving my mouth against a stranger with tingling finger tips from what ever my ‘friend’ had given me only minutes before. One wants a calm surreal happiness. The other wants to get revenge on the world. Exhaust her body until it is filed down to skin and bones. Big heavy bags underneath my eyes that hold nothing but the reminder that I will always be tired. Splotchy cheeks, oh that’s right, I was crying last night. It doesn’t make sense. I feel so much more strongly on one side even though the other is so much better. For me. For me for me for me. But is it what I deserve? Is it what I see myself really wanting? Who knows. I don’t want to care about me. I want to throw myself away, and in the meantime, hold someone else. Of course I wouldn’t drag them down with me… Or maybe I would. Maybe I don’t deserve people. Or at least I should avoid them. But I can’t be alone, because a lonely life is a pointless one. And if I am pointless, then I am wasted space, and I should not wave my arms around in the air anymore. My lungs should not do their regular function, and maybe, just maybe, my heart could be given to someone who would put it to much better use. My skin feels overused and overdone. There’s sand in the cracks of my hands and I swear I will never feel satisfied in anything that I ever do. I am not soft to the touch. I am rough. No one wants to put their hand in mine, and wear me like I am the sea. No one wishes they could spin me around and push me off, so that I would beg and plead for the right direction towards them. No one wants me to love them like I so badly want someone to love me. And I won’t have it. I will never have it. I am not meant for anyone, because I am not meant for myself. That is the problem. It’s right there. It’s right in my own face. I am not meant for myself.
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Oct 23, 2012
Oct 23, 2012 at 8:55 PM UTC
no
I’m just so tired of every day. I’m so tired of the gray and the way my body begs me and begs me for just a few more hours of darkness. And I never know if it’s asking that because it feels tired, or because it’s afraid that my thoughts and monsters might drag it out passed its’ limits like it normally does. It’s such an odd thing. I’m terrified of darkness, and sometimes it’s all I crave. One half of me begs for summer days filled with shooting clouds and soft blankets that are hard to lay on because I’m sweating. The other half wants nights filled with angry music and dark clothing. Piercings and dyed hair, shoving my mouth against a stranger with tingling finger tips from what ever my ‘friend’ had given me only minutes before. One wants a calm surreal happiness. The other wants to get revenge on the world. Exhaust her body until it is filed down to skin and bones. Big heavy bags underneath my eyes that hold nothing but the reminder that I will always be tired. Splotchy cheeks, oh that’s right, I was crying last night. It doesn’t make sense. I feel so much more strongly on one side even though the other is so much better. For me. For me for me for me. But is it what I deserve? Is it what I see myself really wanting? Who knows. I don’t want to care about me. I want to throw myself away, and in the meantime, hold someone else. Of course I wouldn’t drag them down with me… Or maybe I would. Maybe I don’t deserve people. Or at least I should avoid them. But I can’t be alone, because a lonely life is a pointless one. And if I am pointless, then I am wasted space, and I should not wave my arms around in the air anymore. My lungs should not do their regular function, and maybe, just maybe, my heart could be given to someone who would put it to much better use. My skin feels overused and overdone. There’s sand in the cracks of my hands and I swear I will never feel satisfied in anything that I ever do. I am not soft to the touch. I am rough. No one wants to put their hand in mine, and wear me like I am the sea. No one wishes they could spin me around and push me off, so that I would beg and plead for the right direction towards them. No one wants me to love them like I so badly want someone to love me. And I won’t have it. I will never have it. I am not meant for anyone, because I am not meant for myself. That is the problem. It’s right there. It’s right in my own face. I am not meant for myself.
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Pacing in endless circles Appearing to be chasing their tails With nothing much to focus on, Eyes reflecting haunted souls unveil A ghost town abandoned long ago With no signs of life and the dust Rising up trying to hide the shame Of a system which failed the public trust. Street smells permeate the air; Sanitation becomes a four-letter word. There's no need for appetite here, Not in this theater of the absurd, And, well, I wouldn't feed the stuff To my worst enemy if I had one. It's a no-kill shelter with defunct inhabitants. If resiliency of the spirit be overdone, The ability to survive incredible odds, Look at souls forever trapped in their cages. As if to mock decency and humanity The signs read "Patria o Muerte."
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
Shelter Dogs
∅⚢☢⚧☯✰⚩✿⚥∅☢⚧☯✰⚢✿⚥☠⚩☯⚧✰ Too little and of course, too late they spend what’s left imprudently attempting to alleviate the love of God’s own liberty: The world transexual one-party state. They think it’s normal — right for all lost in a prideful dying fall their lions heed the sea-horse call attempting to transgender fate; the devil searches for a mate his nightly Babylonian date: the world transexual one-party state. They’ll legislate the Lord away (his fundie followers as well) their hateful heaven, holy hell shall wither up and disappear before redemption can draw near. Their myths no more shall obfuscate nor dangle such celestial bait that underwriters overrate: the world transexual one-party state. Their antichrist is overpriced, the nations, globally enticed, now glorify the deviance in herd-like mass obedience surrendering to expedience: where good is bad, and bad is great and Christ the only one to hate, allegiances exacerbate the world *********** one-party state. Parties will form and parties end but parties can no more defend consolidation into one than flip a switch and dark the sun; the Caesars left this part undone the Muslims are just having fun with our *********** one-party state. Bring on the night until we see that dark means dimming by degree two parties? Overdone by one ! So let it bleed and let it be till One is All and all agree that we are doomed to hesitate when God cannot resuscitate the late One-World *********** State.
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Apr 6, 2016
Apr 6, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC
Switch the Flip
∅⚢☢⚧☯✰⚩✿⚥∅☢⚧☯✰⚢✿⚥☠⚩☯⚧✰ Too little and of course, too late they spend what’s left imprudently attempting to alleviate the love of God’s own liberty: The world transexual one-party state. They think it’s normal — right for all lost in a prideful dying fall their lions heed the sea-horse call attempting to transgender fate; the devil searches for a mate his nightly Babylonian date: the world transexual one-party state. They’ll legislate the Lord away (his fundie followers as well) their hateful heaven, holy hell shall wither up and disappear before redemption can draw near. Their myths no more shall obfuscate nor dangle such celestial bait that underwriters overrate: the world transexual one-party state. Their antichrist is overpriced, the nations, globally enticed, now glorify the deviance in herd-like mass obedience surrendering to expedience: where good is bad, and bad is great and Christ the only one to hate, allegiances exacerbate the world *********** one-party state. Parties will form and parties end but parties can no more defend consolidation into one than flip a switch and dark the sun; the Caesars left this part undone the Muslims are just having fun with our *********** one-party state. Bring on the night until we see that dark means dimming by degree two parties? Overdone by one ! So let it bleed and let it be till One is All and all agree that we are doomed to hesitate when God cannot resuscitate the late One-World *********** State.
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You left like a jumping fish. If I had blinked, I would have missed it and seen only your ripples left behind. I am a fish out of water-- Cliché, I know (heartbreak is so overdone), but gasping for something Forever Out of Reach. She is a flying fish, a fanciful gift nature blessed to glide through your life, because you had water and I, empty air, and she could wing beside you, both of you leaving your ripples behind.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM UTC
Plenty of Fish in the Sea
Your effort to save me was three words long As though years of bitterness could be rectified With a superficial, overdone, idiotic phrase... So that you could at least say you "tried." It's pathetic how the words tickle the back of my throat Always waiting to spill onto the nearest sympathetic ear And even more so pathetic that they are never said... Because I'm convinced you won't say what I want to hear. It is in your ignorance that you reach out to shattered people Without recognizing the barbed wire around them And you'd be infected with their plague with the slightest ***** I hope you're infected, I hope you end up broken. You're not above this. You're not. You pretend to be just as okay as we do You're not some miracle healer; not godsend I hope you realize we, every single one of us, hate you.
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 10:07 PM UTC
Pathetic
We’re all born with our eyes closed to what we learn to be the world. Our sounds begin with crying, our fingers bunched and curled. We’re taught our eyes should open and our hands should follow suit. Our lips we’re told to quiet, our lungs we’re taught to mute. We’re taught rules are to be followed, enforced calmly with intent. Our freedoms and our thoughts are forced and every feeling bent. We grow into what we are made of and what we’re meant to be These people born with their eyes closed now teaching us to see. A potluck set of people and we’re told to pick just one Forever and for always our individuality is undone Over time it comes back around and soon we have to teach Our own little entrées that bunched up hands can’t reach Closed eyes are not able to watch and loud mouths don’t ever listen We bend and break and force our little dishes until they glisten. We age and rot and give up on what our hearts once dreamed And dying we may realize that it’s not what it had seemed. Saint Peter looks inside his book and asks us how we are And crying with our eyes closed we ask our lucky stars Why never in our lives we questioned what we were Here we are at God’s front door and we finally concur Hands bunched up and fingers curled, eyes shut and kept closed tightly The world we lived on and left for here was horrid and unsightly. Yet every morning we woke up and our eyes opened to the sun We've been quietly observing a world that’s vastly overdone.
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Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 4:42 AM UTC
Beginnings and Endings
We’re all born with our eyes closed to what we learn to be the world. Our sounds begin with crying, our fingers bunched and curled. We’re taught our eyes should open and our hands should follow suit. Our lips we’re told to quiet, our lungs we’re taught to mute. We’re taught rules are to be followed, enforced calmly with intent. Our freedoms and our thoughts are forced and every feeling bent. We grow into what we are made of and what we’re meant to be These people born with their eyes closed now teaching us to see. A potluck set of people and we’re told to pick just one Forever and for always our individuality is undone Over time it comes back around and soon we have to teach Our own little entrées that bunched up hands can’t reach Closed eyes are not able to watch and loud mouths don’t ever listen We bend and break and force our little dishes until they glisten. We age and rot and give up on what our hearts once dreamed And dying we may realize that it’s not what it had seemed. Saint Peter looks inside his book and asks us how we are And crying with our eyes closed we ask our lucky stars Why never in our lives we questioned what we were Here we are at God’s front door and we finally concur Hands bunched up and fingers curled, eyes shut and kept closed tightly The world we lived on and left for here was horrid and unsightly. Yet every morning we woke up and our eyes opened to the sun We've been quietly observing a world that’s vastly overdone.
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We can escape, now, it's smoky with a chance of curtain drawn, our minds won't tramsit light from our empty, covered windo- the train is here. I'm ready to go. And though I'm leaving on a train with room for only one, I'm hoping you can catch a cheap ride hidden in my pocket. Nobody checks your person, anymore, Nobody cares; Homeland Security lovingly fed us fattened falsities As the fat cats in suburban alleyways tore off the thickest pieces of marrow from the national animal of our Fiction States of America. I have known this because I have seen it from my seat in coach, thank god, too, because the train is packed. So fill up if you aren't going to hop in, wishing to distort your mind with all of their public drugs, community opiates transmitting across electrical wires hidden in the ground, the trees, the air itself, stitched into the layers of dark matter and cosmic foam insulating our fragile and overdone Universe. I hear their static, that pantomimed reality, caught inside carbon fibers running through everything, running through me, running through you, running into and out of your brain like a thief without pause or moral. We could run, too, the heavy bass notes of the nurturing ocean could shield the screech of the battered train's wheels; the wheels need a rest from screeching, anyway. Quick! While the conductor isn't looking! The wires will tell him you're here until you're gone, hidden in my coat pocket inside a layer of my inner smoke. Well, if you insist, I suppose you may leave, but once the wound of knowledge opens, just know it never closes. It will fester and prickle with the fetid odor of truths turned into lies. I know I'm talking to myself, now, but I don't want to let you go, though I'll stay here, safe, in the train carriage, hidden in smoke. Smoke, smoke, smoke, the train heats up, breaths out smoke from its burning and throbbing pipe. The engine has built up an overdose of heat, trying to throw off the weeds trying to grow inside. They tried to enter me, and they will soon enter you, now, without my smoke to shroud you, to leave your naked wound easily hidden in paranoid dreams. Screeeeee, screeeeeee, screeeeeeee, the wheels screech out, ready to go, ready to run, to run down the track, to run through all obstacles, to run through everything, to run through me, to run through you, to run in and out of your brain, blown away in a puff of smoke, my memory has burned away and blows off as ash and smoke.
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Feb 6, 2011
Feb 6, 2011 at 7:32 PM UTC
In a Puff of Smoke
We can escape, now, it's smoky with a chance of curtain drawn, our minds won't tramsit light from our empty, covered windo- the train is here. I'm ready to go. And though I'm leaving on a train with room for only one, I'm hoping you can catch a cheap ride hidden in my pocket. Nobody checks your person, anymore, Nobody cares; Homeland Security lovingly fed us fattened falsities As the fat cats in suburban alleyways tore off the thickest pieces of marrow from the national animal of our Fiction States of America. I have known this because I have seen it from my seat in coach, thank god, too, because the train is packed. So fill up if you aren't going to hop in, wishing to distort your mind with all of their public drugs, community opiates transmitting across electrical wires hidden in the ground, the trees, the air itself, stitched into the layers of dark matter and cosmic foam insulating our fragile and overdone Universe. I hear their static, that pantomimed reality, caught inside carbon fibers running through everything, running through me, running through you, running into and out of your brain like a thief without pause or moral. We could run, too, the heavy bass notes of the nurturing ocean could shield the screech of the battered train's wheels; the wheels need a rest from screeching, anyway. Quick! While the conductor isn't looking! The wires will tell him you're here until you're gone, hidden in my coat pocket inside a layer of my inner smoke. Well, if you insist, I suppose you may leave, but once the wound of knowledge opens, just know it never closes. It will fester and prickle with the fetid odor of truths turned into lies. I know I'm talking to myself, now, but I don't want to let you go, though I'll stay here, safe, in the train carriage, hidden in smoke. Smoke, smoke, smoke, the train heats up, breaths out smoke from its burning and throbbing pipe. The engine has built up an overdose of heat, trying to throw off the weeds trying to grow inside. They tried to enter me, and they will soon enter you, now, without my smoke to shroud you, to leave your naked wound easily hidden in paranoid dreams. Screeeeee, screeeeeee, screeeeeeee, the wheels screech out, ready to go, ready to run, to run down the track, to run through all obstacles, to run through everything, to run through me, to run through you, to run in and out of your brain, blown away in a puff of smoke, my memory has burned away and blows off as ash and smoke.
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If you shot me with your gun I wonder- if it would make me feel..? You have had me tossed caressing what was once zaftig and turned simply into "oh, that one". I wonder- if your mental switch-ery makes me ideal? After everything you have said, tearing away that of mine which you find superfluous and overdone; I wonder- if I could ever heal? But, regardless, you have had your devilry and grotesque fun, When you took that shot through me with your ****** gun. I can now fathom what it means to feel. I can now realize that this pain is what makes it all real.
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Jan 9, 2011
Jan 9, 2011 at 8:48 PM UTC
Mental switch-ery: caressing an empty shell.
I was sitting at the computer trying to think of a way to describe a woman's *** as anything other than a woman's *** and there were marlboro black cigarettes on my creaking desk and I had a fifth of whiskey on the windowsill and I rubbed my forehead and thought of fruits-- apples and oranges-- no, no that's overdone and I thought of animals-- elephants and horses-- but, again, no, I'd come across as one of those sick ******** that go to the zoo in   stained trench coats and rub themselves against the chain link and Eve would walk in beautiful girl with short hair and a sharp mind she'd ask what I was writing about and I'd say women but the women were never her, she pointed out and I'd say I don't want to jinx this, what we have, you know? and she'd say okay, okay I'd get lit up every evening and I'd text other women I'd tell them about the shapes of their ***** and the sizes of their brains and they'd usually say uh huh yeah but I was fishing, always fishing for that compliment that sliver of hope, that unsatisfied wife when you're trying to be Bukowski you'll throw yourself under the bus again and again for what? a story, trivial and base, and that good woman, that best woman, that Eve, one day while making breakfast she'll say to the eggs in the skillet I can't take this **** anymore and you'll say so don't and she'll say fine and she'll walk out the front door wearing your t-shirt you'll feel free for a week and alone for two years.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
Trying to Be Bukowski Will ******* Ruin Your Life
You always said I talked too much. And while I certainly don't think most people of at least a reasonable degree of competency would be inclined to disagree, it just seems to me that you were thinking about it all wrong. Perhaps the real problem was not my tendency to speak loudly and with great frequency but rather it was the inferiority of your listening abilities, or lack thereof. You see, I wouldn't need to constantly dwell and reiterate and repeat if you would have been able to conceive  even momentarily that there was reasoning tucked between the seams of my stories that I kept waiting for you to find. I wanted to give you chances repeatedly to display some needed empathy and to meet even my most basic needs or, **** it, just common decency but all requests were met selfishly and I think its time to leave it behind. I am ready to breathe regularly and sleep without the haunting dreams and stick to it this time without relapsing. I am ready to finally start resisting picking up the phone when you inevitably decide you are feeling a little too lonely and know that you can always count on me to be too desperate and too weak to waste an opportunity to speak because you always said I talked too much. I hope I am finally running out of things to say.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 7:45 AM UTC
A Good Bye with Overdone Assonance
*After enough heart breaks I finally found a perfect hypocrite who loved me "supposedly" unconditionally our days were full of light felt like moon was a little closer like a flower we blossomed we emitted a heavy fragrance haters choked on it each day we fell more and more in love woow to that love it was crazy and adventurous while I bought her guns and bullets bows and arrows she got me flowers and chocolates wrote me heart quenching poems and at night ,serenaded my heart I painted her staircase pink and got her ***** dresses her walking upstairs the view I enjoyed But sigh!things just changed its dawn, sun is up and the moon far gone Medusa turning me into a stone would have been merciful maybe I did overdone something's believing I was cementing our fragile relationship after all the road to hell is filled with good intentions*
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 12:35 PM UTC
Juliet
I am from a rooftop garden That smell like fresh guavas And hard, wired fences Behind which lies a foggy skyline A dreaming city I am from a small, brown-red backyard shed Tucked between rural green fields Where two little girls defended the world from evil by Laughing and swinging wildly on a rusted, fluorescent swing set I am from a row of townhouses Where no matter how late the return Warm lights inside glow Beckoning I am from strong rocks Against which foamy, icy waves crash Leaving behind grass Soft to touch And hard to uproot I am from eating overdone fried chicken From short-lived patience From a voicemail That will always say From Lucy, Tulu and Samah From don’t eat that, it’s for the guests And if you have to do it, do it, but I don’t want to hear about it. From too many whys And not enough faith I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh From jostling crowds and hearing a million voices outside I am from Limerick, Ireland. From rustic houses and quaint parishes I am from Wallingford, Pennsylvania From suburbia and inane boredom From the college-genius who crashed weddings on weekends, The woman who is still unimpressed by sushi in Japan I am from feeling sad if you do But wanting to make you laugh anyway
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 6:11 PM UTC
Home
Write your poems about death. (write ur emo-black-hair skinny-wrist-white-scar silent-back-of-classroom ster-e-o-type po-e-try about death) Write your overdone morbid imagery, similes (write ur unhappy-heart out-in-ink-onto-paper arteries-bleeding-out ur-blue-and-purple octopus-veins-ur ster-e-o-type po-e-try about death)
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 7:21 AM UTC
untitled
DISTURBIA HYSTERIA FOLDED ROLLED IN THE BACK OF MY EYELIDS FLUTTERED BY HAIL BUT MY EYES DON'T BLINK DRIED LIKE CONCREAT CRACKED OPEN FROM TEARS OVERDONE READNESS CONTAGIOUS IN MOUNT OLYMPUS PALE LIKE COCAIN IT CONTAINS YOU LIKE EVAPORATION I CRAWL WHILE I SLURR THE LIFE OF MY EYES LIKE CHECKING ON INTO IMMAGRATION BOBB MY HEAD BACK AND TWIST OPEN THE CAP OF EVERY BLOOD FLOW BEHIND THE SOCKET AND IT GOES IT FLOWS LET GO LOOSE LIKE A **** TO HER KNEES PLEASE YOU ME INTO YOU INTO ME IN MY EYES STAY OPEN CAN'T PUT THEM TO SLEEP AND SHEEP DON'T COME ROUND HERE NO MORE AND MY SIGHT KEEP SEEING METEPHORES OF HUMOR FORMING INTO EVERY TRICK PLAYING OPTICAL ILLUSION YOU WERE ...AN ILLUSION CREATING MADNESS AND THE CORE OF MY HAIR ROOT RAISNG SKIN DEEPINING ICE BURGE SKIN FROZEN THE BECONS ABOUVE THE SKULL TOP SPITTIN OUT PELE'S LAVA MELTING BURNING TEARING APPART THIS MASSACRE OF MY HEART AND I AM LEFT TO HARVEST HARBOR WHAT'S LEFT OF THE UGLINESS IN MY EYE (INCREDIBLE INK- TEAM JAGUAR HAWAII ) © Copyright 2014 S.T. Parish CSP Rebel of Eden
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 2:53 AM UTC
THE UGLINESS
When I met you, believe me, I didn’t intend to fall for you. By no means did I want to put your laugh on repeat every time it filled the air, every time it filled the room, all the moments when it felt like time didn’t have a definition to begin with. When I met you, I did not believe that opposites could attract. I did not know how valuable words could be until they came in slow thought out sentences, quickly traveling from your lips to my ears and hanging in the space between us like Christmas ornaments, the ones that are so beautiful you understand why they should only be put on display for a short period of time, the kind where you’re afraid to touch them in case you might leave a fingerprint, smudge the beauty of it off with your quick responses and loud voice, the ornaments you put high enough on the tree for everyone to see, but not high enough for the risk of it to break. You tell me that you are easily breakable, when people first meet you, you tell me, that your brain stops functioning because it cannot handle the pressure that new people bring with them. It’s not easy for you to let people in enough to see your elaborate conversations. My luck is the kind of luck that gets me close enough to want for me to see it, know that I’m close enough to touch it only to have me land on my face not much farther from where I began. I am lucky enough to know you, lucky enough to hear all the ticks of your brain that the world could only dream of hearing, but I will never be lucky enough to love you. I’m a desert that doesn’t get rain for hundreds of years at a time, and you are a thunderstorm that will only stay for a little while, you will overflow me with happiness, flood me with hope, and create fields of dreams and overdone romantic scenarios that I am not good enough to play the role for. When you leave, when you return to the amazon where you belong, there will be some lonely hikers who will find the remains of what I wanted it to be between us. They will pick the flowers with your name on it, but they will not question. Some questions aren’t meant to be answered. And the same reasoning applies to how beautiful Christmas ornaments don’t belong on the same branch with the generic ones you find at the bottom of the dollar store bin.
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
Christmas Ornaments
When I met you, believe me, I didn’t intend to fall for you. By no means did I want to put your laugh on repeat every time it filled the air, every time it filled the room, all the moments when it felt like time didn’t have a definition to begin with. When I met you, I did not believe that opposites could attract. I did not know how valuable words could be until they came in slow thought out sentences, quickly traveling from your lips to my ears and hanging in the space between us like Christmas ornaments, the ones that are so beautiful you understand why they should only be put on display for a short period of time, the kind where you’re afraid to touch them in case you might leave a fingerprint, smudge the beauty of it off with your quick responses and loud voice, the ornaments you put high enough on the tree for everyone to see, but not high enough for the risk of it to break. You tell me that you are easily breakable, when people first meet you, you tell me, that your brain stops functioning because it cannot handle the pressure that new people bring with them. It’s not easy for you to let people in enough to see your elaborate conversations. My luck is the kind of luck that gets me close enough to want for me to see it, know that I’m close enough to touch it only to have me land on my face not much farther from where I began. I am lucky enough to know you, lucky enough to hear all the ticks of your brain that the world could only dream of hearing, but I will never be lucky enough to love you. I’m a desert that doesn’t get rain for hundreds of years at a time, and you are a thunderstorm that will only stay for a little while, you will overflow me with happiness, flood me with hope, and create fields of dreams and overdone romantic scenarios that I am not good enough to play the role for. When you leave, when you return to the amazon where you belong, there will be some lonely hikers who will find the remains of what I wanted it to be between us. They will pick the flowers with your name on it, but they will not question. Some questions aren’t meant to be answered. And the same reasoning applies to how beautiful Christmas ornaments don’t belong on the same branch with the generic ones you find at the bottom of the dollar store bin.
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Fall in love with a man who's good with words; Who tells you there won't come a time he won't be around, But as the days turn to months and the months turn to years, As you choke back your tears while you drown in your fears, He is nowhere to be found. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll find 100 different ways to say that he loves you, Each one sweeter and more heart-tugging than the last, Watch him use them for his own manipulation, Up until he decides that this is it, that his "love" has come to pass. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll express how he hates seeing you sad, making you cry, But like a stubborn child, he never learns from his mistakes, Protecting his ego and his sense of pride, when all you wanted was to see him try. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll need you to know that he thinks you're a goddess, And oh, will you believe his overdone flattery, But realise this: once he's done and he's gotten what he came for, Every single flaw and secret will be made into a mockery. The same voice that sang you praises, will be shouting words shaped like knives aimed at your heart. The same tongue that formed you personalised spoken poetry, will lash out at you, further crumbling the pieces he promised to put back together. The man who's good with words rarely means them, He's mastered them because they are all he has to offer, all he has to bring to the table, But still you need to fall in love with him and his words, So you'll know how to treasure the man who _doesn't need them_.
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Aug 14, 2016
Aug 14, 2016 at 2:30 PM UTC
Romeo
Fall in love with a man who's good with words; Who tells you there won't come a time he won't be around, But as the days turn to months and the months turn to years, As you choke back your tears while you drown in your fears, He is nowhere to be found. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll find 100 different ways to say that he loves you, Each one sweeter and more heart-tugging than the last, Watch him use them for his own manipulation, Up until he decides that this is it, that his "love" has come to pass. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll express how he hates seeing you sad, making you cry, But like a stubborn child, he never learns from his mistakes, Protecting his ego and his sense of pride, when all you wanted was to see him try. Fall in love with a man who's good with words; He'll need you to know that he thinks you're a goddess, And oh, will you believe his overdone flattery, But realise this: once he's done and he's gotten what he came for, Every single flaw and secret will be made into a mockery. The same voice that sang you praises, will be shouting words shaped like knives aimed at your heart. The same tongue that formed you personalised spoken poetry, will lash out at you, further crumbling the pieces he promised to put back together. The man who's good with words rarely means them, He's mastered them because they are all he has to offer, all he has to bring to the table, But still you need to fall in love with him and his words, So you'll know how to treasure the man who _doesn't need them_.
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I never thought my mentality could be torn to such an extent. Worse than the slaps The shoves the kicks the punches I went in for Joy I had hope never thought I could live a life so exhausted Stress is the word of the day. Every day But its so overdone It goes beyond anxiety. Fear helplessness Every cent I earn goes to the family we were supposed to be creating Now its all going to the family I wish I could be deserting How can I love her when I come home and “You're a piece of **** “Where were you all day?” “You're a piece of **** I'm a piece of **** I'm a ************* piece of **** I'm gone to often, I don't dress nice, always on my phone have to many **** friends don't care enough never clean smell horrible can't perform don't love her enough Tell me a way to show my love Tell me I want to know because maybe it will get her to stop maybe it will get her to be who I told “I do” It was all mental for a while I thought when you broke it was like in half I didn't know there were shatters tears splits explosions My identity was numb by the time she started physically my friends and family believe the rumors *********** has addicted another husband I don't have what it takes be a “real man” No hope, no reason, no soul her life her punching bag her creativity Don't tell me women can't physically abuse they're not dumb You get punched, slapped, kicked so you grab her see you in a year when you get out she called in and there was marks on her arms from your hands now you're the guy who has no pride I haven't had one for a while If I did I would have been locked up two years ago But I also don't have a me so its easier It hurts yes but I'm in more pain when I think about not being able to see my boy
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 7:49 PM UTC
Her Trapped
I never thought my mentality could be torn to such an extent. Worse than the slaps The shoves the kicks the punches I went in for Joy I had hope never thought I could live a life so exhausted Stress is the word of the day. Every day But its so overdone It goes beyond anxiety. Fear helplessness Every cent I earn goes to the family we were supposed to be creating Now its all going to the family I wish I could be deserting How can I love her when I come home and “You're a piece of **** “Where were you all day?” “You're a piece of **** I'm a piece of **** I'm a ************* piece of **** I'm gone to often, I don't dress nice, always on my phone have to many **** friends don't care enough never clean smell horrible can't perform don't love her enough Tell me a way to show my love Tell me I want to know because maybe it will get her to stop maybe it will get her to be who I told “I do” It was all mental for a while I thought when you broke it was like in half I didn't know there were shatters tears splits explosions My identity was numb by the time she started physically my friends and family believe the rumors *********** has addicted another husband I don't have what it takes be a “real man” No hope, no reason, no soul her life her punching bag her creativity Don't tell me women can't physically abuse they're not dumb You get punched, slapped, kicked so you grab her see you in a year when you get out she called in and there was marks on her arms from your hands now you're the guy who has no pride I haven't had one for a while If I did I would have been locked up two years ago But I also don't have a me so its easier It hurts yes but I'm in more pain when I think about not being able to see my boy
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To the simple minded man This day would have been like the rest Would have been an overdone steak dinner Alone But he plays a broken bone remix Of ex-lover’s gritted teeth It is the click in his jaw over steak That reminds him of the gnashing He nurses a beer In between helpings But there’s always the click A painful metronome For past music When he was capable of lapping the language out of her mouth Days when he was all noise Like a hallway echo Or a fist through drywall Or a nightmare gasp But now all he needs is the cotton he eats To soak up the sound So he won’t have to listen to himself keep sayin’ There used to be this growl my gut made For your bitter music When we choreographed a collision Of bone And breath And teeth that touched when I still thought I wasn’t pressing hard enough The masticating click Reminds him of her smile It hurts his jaw And his memory But he continues making her painful sound Like it might actually bring her back And it does a little Just for today And tomorrow? Tomorrow is too far away
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Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 5:55 AM UTC
This Day Reminds Him (FLP)
I gazed at her skin, fried and sprayed orange like the flames That swallowed her soul, dragged her down to hell with ‘em… Let her burn. Staring at her sparkly stripper shoes, I wondered how she could sleep at night. Well, she probably wasn’t alone. Her hair, so harsh, bleached blonde beyond compare, Frail, fraudulent, wannabe beauty Like her shallow, gimmicky, stage get-up for the guys, Giving the goods in mass quantity, like a buffet. How cheap could she be? I ogled her body, ***** that resembled balloons. Psh. More like implants. Honey, you’re not fooling anyone. Her makeup, tacky and overdone. It could never be plastered over her tattered self-worth. I glared at her clothes, or lack thereof, itsy-bitsy and a poor excuse For a cover-up, of any kind, Physical or emotional. Leave something to the imagination, would ya? Some girls, how pathetic they are. I’m better. I have morals. Even if I don’t abide by them… Even if I despise the creature I’ve transformed to……. I gaped at the reflection, in the million-watt mirror lit aglow… Who could this be? It never could be me. Staring between false eyelashes, she was easy to see. A party girl. A *** No, no! It’s not me…
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Apr 30, 2011
Apr 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM UTC
When I Laid Eyes on Her
the best love stories are the overlooked the ones that you sat round the dining table listening to when you were a child and you couldn't ever imagine your grandparents being young and so in love love stories are kisses in the pouring rain but only because she forced him to because she thought it'd be romantic it's bickering in the living room when he gets home from work about how he never does anything it's watching tv together late at night being completely comfortable in each others silence it's her doing the dishes and him vacuuming the carpet it's him kissing her goodnight every night for 40 years it's her still getting butterflies at the sight of him after all this time it's quiet nights out at a family restaurant it's holding hands during thunderstorms because he knows she's terrified of lightning the best love stories aren't the grand and overdone the best love stories are completely overlooked
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM UTC
the overlooked
baffled at ** hum yawn snore boredom what a conundrum this viral life infarction unnecessary creation boring old pity party hum drum cry me a river; don’t want none get off your *** *** enjoy the sun some be a person impaired some? take your **** meds *** walk the woe is me to the dump slum debbie downer 24 sev 365 clusterfucktion sad lil’ emo infection overdone depression queen incursion misery loves company seduction
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 12:02 AM UTC
emo-shun potion
H    is for help! you know I'm alive E    for estranged, expressionistics         contrive R    eading rhymes- revise, review         reprise, recite- rethink and renue. O    verwhelming-         vertly, overdone-          bsessive... o  ntology~        Still, I'm the one. I'm the hero, of the story- Don't need to be saved.
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Mar 2, 2024
Mar 2, 2024 at 8:57 PM UTC
Hero / The Lori Meyers