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"overdue" poems
i’ve given up on days that begin in late afternoon, skipped breakfast and lunch, days that fade slowly and end with ****** cut-out holes in eyelids because the second i close them and it all goes black, every moment with you comes back played on fast-forward, the memories moving so quickly that both our faces are blurred and it feels like everything i’ve ever felt for you is overflowing the tub, filling the washroom with suds that take forever to melt i’ve given up on those days. i’ve traded them for ones that begin with sunrises instead of sunsets, days that are spent falling forward instead of trying to chase the past, and i don’t look back and see something broken, or something that was better off left unopened i look back and see our bodies so close together that you can’t tell where yours begins and mine ends, i see my heart that grew twenty-three times its size, i see you and me wrapped up in something that i didn’t know existed outside of blurry 35 mm and overdue and falling-apart library books that sit on the nightstands of middle-aged women who are bored with their lives and i’m just so happy i got to love you at all. but i’ve folded up all the days spent with you and taped them in the messy pages of my journal and now i’m running into the sun, running away from every lie that’s trying to wedge its way in between my ribs, running in the opposite direction of words like "regret" and any feeling that insists that none of it was worth it because all of it was worth it. every moment we were together pumps through my veins, and it will always be there; it will be there when we’ve both graduated, when you move out west, when you kiss your family goodnight, when you sit in your backyard with tears in your eyes because you’ve lived a life you are proud of it will be there when i finally make it to new york city, when i kiss someone who isn’t you, when i find the answers you inspired me to search for, when i sit on my rooftop with tears on my cheeks because i’ve lived a life fuller than i could’ve ever imagined and you and i will live these lives apart, we’ll move on and forget what it felt like to wake up beside one another; we’ll find what we’re looking for elsewhere and we’ll understand why this all had to happen the way that it did but what we had will always exist somewhere, in rotting apples and old mail and unplayed mix CDs, in mosaics that line the city streets, in sirens and red and white flashing lights that shine through your window while you are asleep you and i were magic, we always will be.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 11:25 PM UTC
atoms
i’ve given up on days that begin in late afternoon, skipped breakfast and lunch, days that fade slowly and end with ****** cut-out holes in eyelids because the second i close them and it all goes black, every moment with you comes back played on fast-forward, the memories moving so quickly that both our faces are blurred and it feels like everything i’ve ever felt for you is overflowing the tub, filling the washroom with suds that take forever to melt i’ve given up on those days. i’ve traded them for ones that begin with sunrises instead of sunsets, days that are spent falling forward instead of trying to chase the past, and i don’t look back and see something broken, or something that was better off left unopened i look back and see our bodies so close together that you can’t tell where yours begins and mine ends, i see my heart that grew twenty-three times its size, i see you and me wrapped up in something that i didn’t know existed outside of blurry 35 mm and overdue and falling-apart library books that sit on the nightstands of middle-aged women who are bored with their lives and i’m just so happy i got to love you at all. but i’ve folded up all the days spent with you and taped them in the messy pages of my journal and now i’m running into the sun, running away from every lie that’s trying to wedge its way in between my ribs, running in the opposite direction of words like "regret" and any feeling that insists that none of it was worth it because all of it was worth it. every moment we were together pumps through my veins, and it will always be there; it will be there when we’ve both graduated, when you move out west, when you kiss your family goodnight, when you sit in your backyard with tears in your eyes because you’ve lived a life you are proud of it will be there when i finally make it to new york city, when i kiss someone who isn’t you, when i find the answers you inspired me to search for, when i sit on my rooftop with tears on my cheeks because i’ve lived a life fuller than i could’ve ever imagined and you and i will live these lives apart, we’ll move on and forget what it felt like to wake up beside one another; we’ll find what we’re looking for elsewhere and we’ll understand why this all had to happen the way that it did but what we had will always exist somewhere, in rotting apples and old mail and unplayed mix CDs, in mosaics that line the city streets, in sirens and red and white flashing lights that shine through your window while you are asleep you and i were magic, we always will be.
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In The Prison Of Winter, No Rise, No Set orbit nearly closed, the radio announcer gleefully chirruping, the twittering fool, "only ** graves to X off till                                                spring" the weight of the prior the wait of the more no matter how little yet to come                     too much insufferable having suffered multiple life sentences you snit **** u don't know better, ha, they don't even run                                          concurrently there are no sunsets in the girding grays of harsher enough and words that fail me, are the winners in the winter of the **** tests and hunts, I have successfully                                  failed of course I'm wrong you petulant hobgoblin wringing nyet from me you'll get no concession, **** science, there are no sunsets in the winter and the sunrises, short unsweetened, light-less, less of less, frigid glaring revealers of dead trees and deader                     men maybe in the Rockies, perhaps the Alps, wonderlands photoshopped, pretty lies on the Internet BS posted where I live, wear the wear the weary neath the sweat stink of layers of unbundled choking hands, winter's damage assessed and assessment is never overdue, payable in                                              immediacy heating bills I can't pay, a job that said no more of you, unpretty please, a woman who sorcerer-scarced herself right freaking black magic quick, trust me I have certified verified, me and Nixon, X's on the kitchen calendar, there is daylight, there is mighty night, almighty in long and colorless and nothing in between, but the smog stained slush of                                                     smothered life but definitely no sunrises and no sunsets watched all day from the imprisoning kitchen window which doubles as a **** you                        mirror there are no, not any, you know what, cannot even say them, the pipe dreams of better yet, pipes that have beaten down me and my disassociated senses, signed sealed and now delivered, from the formerly known as The Summer Man
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM UTC
In the Prison of Winter, No Rise, No Set
In The Prison Of Winter, No Rise, No Set orbit nearly closed, the radio announcer gleefully chirruping, the twittering fool, "only ** graves to X off till                                                spring" the weight of the prior the wait of the more no matter how little yet to come                     too much insufferable having suffered multiple life sentences you snit **** u don't know better, ha, they don't even run                                          concurrently there are no sunsets in the girding grays of harsher enough and words that fail me, are the winners in the winter of the **** tests and hunts, I have successfully                                  failed of course I'm wrong you petulant hobgoblin wringing nyet from me you'll get no concession, **** science, there are no sunsets in the winter and the sunrises, short unsweetened, light-less, less of less, frigid glaring revealers of dead trees and deader                     men maybe in the Rockies, perhaps the Alps, wonderlands photoshopped, pretty lies on the Internet BS posted where I live, wear the wear the weary neath the sweat stink of layers of unbundled choking hands, winter's damage assessed and assessment is never overdue, payable in                                              immediacy heating bills I can't pay, a job that said no more of you, unpretty please, a woman who sorcerer-scarced herself right freaking black magic quick, trust me I have certified verified, me and Nixon, X's on the kitchen calendar, there is daylight, there is mighty night, almighty in long and colorless and nothing in between, but the smog stained slush of                                                     smothered life but definitely no sunrises and no sunsets watched all day from the imprisoning kitchen window which doubles as a **** you                        mirror there are no, not any, you know what, cannot even say them, the pipe dreams of better yet, pipes that have beaten down me and my disassociated senses, signed sealed and now delivered, from the formerly known as The Summer Man
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Sunday will come Just a few days from now An eternity to wait To say what is long overdue Sunday will come And we will confess ourselves Fear will hold us Hope will push us closer And on Sunday When we both shake in emotion My hand in yours We will find a way to work through
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 11:10 PM UTC
Sunday
I feel invisible Yet you claim(ed) I am the air you breathe And perhaps like air I am always present, But presently forgotten The heaviness of your hush is crushing me with empty blows This silence leads me to wander down a path cloaked in a heavy mist That whispers harsh truths such as: Our hopeless, fictitious, drawn out infatuation is like A library book that was checked out last March You underlined and doggie-paged the first few chapters And then left it on your shelf to collect dust all of April and May I foolishly kept begging you to finish the book Read the last sentence Take time to skim over the epilogue Please Find your way to the back cover I foolishly ignored your “I can’t”s And now it’s late August and our love is long overdue, In the opposite sense of what the phrase typically means I write with angry lead because I am too stubborn to admit I just filled a trash bin with tissues And that the cuffed sleeves of my flannel Are damp like grass’s morning dew I have so much more to say, Although I cannot find the words To say anything more than You should’ve written. Because two weeks of nothing Was enough for me to realize that you are just a passing breeze Seldom present, presently becoming something of the past.
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Aug 17, 2013
Aug 17, 2013 at 3:32 PM UTC
The End
Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Being bled onto The landscapes between thighs Incarcerating women's wombs Justifying men's genes Foreigners appropriating Women's and men's sexualities Losing the power to be When changing our roles' long overdue Gendering our words and attitudes Man, who taught you to be a chauvinist! Woman, who taught you to be a ********* Don't put your god in gendered bigotry Do man's emotions feminize him? When will women freely carry torches! What gender do you assign this voice? What gender do you assign this words? Will the masses even understand these choices? Don't worry, my sexuality won't infect you Criminalizing sexuality Placing it front and center, implying that's all I am Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Being bled onto The landscapes between thighs Graffiti, defiling the masses not high classes Because men and women of society Full of stride, take pride, in their gendered hyde Graffiti, defiling the masses not high classes Ignored hoods, barrios, countrysides, ghettos, projects Devouring women's and men's bodies Younger and younger people falling to HIV/AIDS and STDS Vaginas receiving the violence, wombs bringing misery LGBT youth ****** into fire Lost males (in mental chains) ****** to assert their manhoods Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Full of dangerous chemicals, being sprayed onto The landscapes between thighs Attempting to legislate our stories, without warrant
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 10:06 PM UTC
Graffiti (Between Landscapes of Thighs)
Id love a big fat **** Or a wrinkled up old bag An ugly looking hag Who wants a ******* **** If I had a big fat ***** with a big fat bucket I'd lay between her fleshy thighs, and definitely **** it My thrusting **** inside her **** is where I'd like to tuck it Spunking up would be sublime, when I lick and **** it When your about to **** the fat, it takes a certain knack Stuffed up fishy **** ***** or **** ******* round the back A nice piece of chunky **** with a big long sweaty crack Fatty *** holes make you hard ,my **** would not be slack I would ride a big large Gal, just like a waterbed Bathroom ******* would be fun, as well as in the shed Spunking up between her legs, cream cheese would then be spread When both holes are full of *** she can **** my **** instead And after I have finished, with all of those fat ******* Something different I would want, maybe some old wrinkled witches All wearing apple gatherers, and big large ******* britches Older ***** long overdue, scratching long lost itches A lot of fun I could have, in an old folks place Disrobed willing grannies ***** stuffed right in my face At least eight bits of gristle ****** a display of my disgrace With each granny ****** in turn, if they can stand the pace As I lift their skirts up their knickers I would sniff I'm hoping that old fannies good, and they don't smell or whiff The smell of old used granny **** is probably just a myth But I won't let it bother me, as long as I get stiff I wouldn't even care, if they wore crap NHS glasses As long as I could **** and *** inside there wrinkled arses I would **** them old ****** , all from different classes Some of them in wheelchairs and some with heart bypasses. It's irrelevant how fat you are, I really do not mind As long as you are willing, and your pussy's wet and kind And if you like it up the **** then I'm that way inclined ******* ***** is quite fine, so is ******** from behind So come on girls fat or old, all slags are a possibility Your sexuality can flood out, there's no need for negativity I'm willing to **** who comes along, to the best of my ability Just make sure that I stay stiff, and maintain my agility
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Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 5:44 AM UTC
Fat Slags And Old Bags *** Again - 2018
Id love a big fat **** Or a wrinkled up old bag An ugly looking hag Who wants a ******* **** If I had a big fat ***** with a big fat bucket I'd lay between her fleshy thighs, and definitely **** it My thrusting **** inside her **** is where I'd like to tuck it Spunking up would be sublime, when I lick and **** it When your about to **** the fat, it takes a certain knack Stuffed up fishy **** ***** or **** ******* round the back A nice piece of chunky **** with a big long sweaty crack Fatty *** holes make you hard ,my **** would not be slack I would ride a big large Gal, just like a waterbed Bathroom ******* would be fun, as well as in the shed Spunking up between her legs, cream cheese would then be spread When both holes are full of *** she can **** my **** instead And after I have finished, with all of those fat ******* Something different I would want, maybe some old wrinkled witches All wearing apple gatherers, and big large ******* britches Older ***** long overdue, scratching long lost itches A lot of fun I could have, in an old folks place Disrobed willing grannies ***** stuffed right in my face At least eight bits of gristle ****** a display of my disgrace With each granny ****** in turn, if they can stand the pace As I lift their skirts up their knickers I would sniff I'm hoping that old fannies good, and they don't smell or whiff The smell of old used granny **** is probably just a myth But I won't let it bother me, as long as I get stiff I wouldn't even care, if they wore crap NHS glasses As long as I could **** and *** inside there wrinkled arses I would **** them old ****** , all from different classes Some of them in wheelchairs and some with heart bypasses. It's irrelevant how fat you are, I really do not mind As long as you are willing, and your pussy's wet and kind And if you like it up the **** then I'm that way inclined ******* ***** is quite fine, so is ******** from behind So come on girls fat or old, all slags are a possibility Your sexuality can flood out, there's no need for negativity I'm willing to **** who comes along, to the best of my ability Just make sure that I stay stiff, and maintain my agility
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An ecosystem found upon An outer crust of dust Inside abode without a lawn With tenant taming rust. Sitting stagnant, songs of stellar Sing sublime lines Through minds that remain in cellar, Never seeing the pines. Many stagnant years have passed, Detectives overdue, The body brought them all aghast, The stench, the dust, and view. An ecosystem found upon An outer crust of dust Inside abode without a lawn With tenant taming rust.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 3:49 AM UTC
Stagnation
Recovery is a long and painful process. Its a lengthy, twisting, one way road. It is not fair, life never is. You need to accept that that is just the way it goes. Broken hearts, they will never shatter even. We were so close until the day she said she was leaving. It was so easy for her to let us go. She left me here alone and why I still don't know. She thought I would be broken, as soon as she was gone. Now it's time for me to prove that she had thought wrong. Yes I cared about her; she had said she cared about me. Those were empty words, burdened with all the lies that I now see. It was far too perfect that I should have known it could never be true. It hurts even after so much time; my recovery is beyond overdue. I was blindsided; she always knew exactly the right words to say. She made my heart race and I had never considered the chance that she would just walk away. I wish I had known what she had planned to do. Because she only proved why trusting people is not what I should do. Now there are no more lies and I’m no longer waiting. No more time of mine is she taking. I am so done; I wasted so much of my time. All on a girl who couldn’t even consider mine. My heart still stands, as if it was never broken. It is as strong as her lies, so easily spoken. But the time I had with her I will never regret. She taught me a few lessons that I will not soon forget. The first thing I learned is to not trust someone with your heart, Because in the end, it will likely end up ripped apart. Then there’s lesson two, and this comes from a different part; Do not be with someone if you already know you’re going to break their heart. I’m done lying to myself and not completely accepting me. It only took a broken heart and then the recovery.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM UTC
Recovery
Recovery is a long and painful process. Its a lengthy, twisting, one way road. It is not fair, life never is. You need to accept that that is just the way it goes. Broken hearts, they will never shatter even. We were so close until the day she said she was leaving. It was so easy for her to let us go. She left me here alone and why I still don't know. She thought I would be broken, as soon as she was gone. Now it's time for me to prove that she had thought wrong. Yes I cared about her; she had said she cared about me. Those were empty words, burdened with all the lies that I now see. It was far too perfect that I should have known it could never be true. It hurts even after so much time; my recovery is beyond overdue. I was blindsided; she always knew exactly the right words to say. She made my heart race and I had never considered the chance that she would just walk away. I wish I had known what she had planned to do. Because she only proved why trusting people is not what I should do. Now there are no more lies and I’m no longer waiting. No more time of mine is she taking. I am so done; I wasted so much of my time. All on a girl who couldn’t even consider mine. My heart still stands, as if it was never broken. It is as strong as her lies, so easily spoken. But the time I had with her I will never regret. She taught me a few lessons that I will not soon forget. The first thing I learned is to not trust someone with your heart, Because in the end, it will likely end up ripped apart. Then there’s lesson two, and this comes from a different part; Do not be with someone if you already know you’re going to break their heart. I’m done lying to myself and not completely accepting me. It only took a broken heart and then the recovery.
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stripped naked in the figurative sense, I see a girl that is far overdue for a dose of joy. so much emptiness in her eyes, blood flow has become invisible. beauty. oh so much beauty in the way she cares absolutely too much for those that are unaware of her favorite color nevertheless asks how she feels every blue moon. perfectionist could quite possibly be her middle name by the way her heart beats in sync with the spontaneous moods that show their appearance every two days or so. anxiety equals a rapid beat. "if you feel worried then you must act on it" seems to be her philosophy because when she's sad and shaky the heart must go slow. for, she. is. slow. when the depression hits and vulnerability only shows its face behind closed doors im sure she would say that she feels as though she's suffocating. suffocating in the figurative sense, where everyone is there watching her but no one can differentiate heavy breathing in basketball practice from a ******** asthma attack. idiots. so numb. she's so numb in the figurative sense. you ask her how she is and each time it's an automated "good" as if practiced hundreds of times before a theatre performance. an actress. she's an actress in the literal sense. planting a smile from ear to ear even when it's an obvious gloomy day for everyone else. she puts on a show of happiness that could very much earn her an oscar, if only she were literally in the entertainment business. I can see her falling in the way her back hunches just 10 degrees lower than it had a year ago. I would recommend a doctors appointment but im hoping she learns to fix it on her own. I'm hoping it begins to appear in someone around her that maybe she isn't as okay as she seems. this beautiful perfectionist doesn't just have bad days and doesn't just spare her low moods in spite of upsetting those around her. this beautiful perfectionist doesn't see herself as beautiful. this beautiful perfectionist is so far from perfect. maybe if someone looked a little deeper in the literal and figurative sense, they would choose to ask, after her automated response of "good", "are you really?" -mxy
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Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 9:33 PM UTC
figuratively speaking
stripped naked in the figurative sense, I see a girl that is far overdue for a dose of joy. so much emptiness in her eyes, blood flow has become invisible. beauty. oh so much beauty in the way she cares absolutely too much for those that are unaware of her favorite color nevertheless asks how she feels every blue moon. perfectionist could quite possibly be her middle name by the way her heart beats in sync with the spontaneous moods that show their appearance every two days or so. anxiety equals a rapid beat. "if you feel worried then you must act on it" seems to be her philosophy because when she's sad and shaky the heart must go slow. for, she. is. slow. when the depression hits and vulnerability only shows its face behind closed doors im sure she would say that she feels as though she's suffocating. suffocating in the figurative sense, where everyone is there watching her but no one can differentiate heavy breathing in basketball practice from a ******** asthma attack. idiots. so numb. she's so numb in the figurative sense. you ask her how she is and each time it's an automated "good" as if practiced hundreds of times before a theatre performance. an actress. she's an actress in the literal sense. planting a smile from ear to ear even when it's an obvious gloomy day for everyone else. she puts on a show of happiness that could very much earn her an oscar, if only she were literally in the entertainment business. I can see her falling in the way her back hunches just 10 degrees lower than it had a year ago. I would recommend a doctors appointment but im hoping she learns to fix it on her own. I'm hoping it begins to appear in someone around her that maybe she isn't as okay as she seems. this beautiful perfectionist doesn't just have bad days and doesn't just spare her low moods in spite of upsetting those around her. this beautiful perfectionist doesn't see herself as beautiful. this beautiful perfectionist is so far from perfect. maybe if someone looked a little deeper in the literal and figurative sense, they would choose to ask, after her automated response of "good", "are you really?" -mxy
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My fingers tangle and trip over sloppy knitting like a deer learning to walk on crooked pencil legs. Like a song I don't quite know the words to. I move unsteadily, uncertain, with short shaky breaths. Remember when I taught my lungs to breathe again in August? After so many mistakes that I didn't know how to reconcile. I wanted to die out back of a hotel in Montana, dramatic in the weeds and grasshoppers. Needles fighting, I spread a mess of mustard yarn across my fingers like I need a napkin. Has anything changed? Dropped stitches, weary knots leaving gaping holes. I think of how I ran away from it all. There are days I still look back. But I look straight into the sky as if demanding an explanation from God himself. I have to shade my eyes sometimes, seeing blinding brilliance in the sun now. I can't live any longer only by the light it sheds everywhere else. No, in births of light and bursts of truth and slow, overdue breaths is a song I'm finally learning the words to. You will not defeat me. I rip out my knots and begin again.
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 12:07 PM UTC
Knitting
Do you wanna build a snowman? Come on, let's go and play. I never see you anymore, come out the door, it's like you've gone away. We used to be best buddies. But now we're not. I wish you would tell me why! Do you wanna build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman. 8 year old Elsa: Go away, Anna. 5 year old Anna: Okay, bye. 8 year old Anna: (knocks) Do you wanna build a snowman? Or ride our bikes around the halls? I think some company is overdue. I've started talking to, the pictures on the walls! (Hang in there, Joan!) It gets a little lonely. All these empty rooms, just watching the hours tick by (tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock) 15 yr old Anna: (Knocks) Elsa? Please, I know you're in there. People are asking where you've been. They say, "Have courage." And I'm trying to, I'm right out here for you. Just let me in. We only have each other. It's just you and me. What are we gonna do? Do you wanna build a snowman?
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 11:52 AM UTC
Lyrics to Do You Wanna Build A Snowman
You bought the house with lavender seeded in the front porch. The scent flutters between the doorsill and through the letterbox like bills overdue and invoices outstanding. A postal aroma, envelope glue smells like flowers to me. I was never granted the privilege of rearranging flowers You said, there was more to life than flora, these emerald, sap dripping, saturated stems Swelling petals fascinated under my untried eyes, You said I must not even graze the things. I longed for a taste of the forbidden flora. Did buds taste like honey? Were they sour like you told me? Would they poison these supple and innocent lips, turn them pink to grey? Could tastebuds kiss the perennial vines, the posies, the spray of efflorescence A taste of simple sweetness - I remember when you ripped the front-porch-lavender. The roots could not resist your claws. You sweat to mutilate strained flowers, You always work harder. Verdure spoiled. Ravaged, ruptured, tanked soil.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 4:04 PM UTC
Where Lavender Blooms
'Twas the night before Thanksgiving And all through the forest All the turkeys were gathered From the richest to poorest For a meeting was called To plan their revenge For all of their loved ones Who were ever cooked or singed Now this turkey rebellion Was long overdue How would they get even? And what would they do? I was there that night When their meeting adjourned Keep reading this poem To see what I learned This meeting went on For what seemed like an hour 'Til a gobbler stepped forth In their circle of power Now all the turkeys agreed To this gobbler's idea They'd all eat some exlax And give them diarrhea No matter how they cooked it Bake it or boil it The humans would spend All day on the toilet So, remember this Thanksgiving As you try to relax Have plenty of TP For those sudden attacks
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Nov 10, 2010
Nov 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM UTC
'Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving
“You are the leaders of tomorrow” They told us over and over Right from the tender age of three Through childhood and adolescence. We have outgrown our youth We are now mature men We have come of age to lead Just as promised decades ago. At a recent gathering Our leaders of yesterday Stricken with age and power And long overdue for retirement Addressed us, saying, “Bla bla bla, bla bla, bla bla bla…” “You are the leaders of tomorrow” That last statement jolted me awake From his uninspiring, boring speech. Then it dawned on me We are a sleeping generation We have long been waiting- sleeping! When we should be leading *Our greedy, power-drunk leaders, Will die in active service! They will NOT hand over to us! Not if we sit and wait for them*. I had a revelation that the “tomorrow”, We were promised “yesterday” Is fast becoming yesterday, today! And while the Nigerian youth sleeps His chance is being usurped by his fathers Yesterday we heard this promise Today we hear the same promise But come tomorrow, we will be too old to lead And our children’s turn, it will be. We have been scammed of our future By the very ones we entrusted them with And like turns in a game of scrabble, We have missed ours- forever! Our leaders are old men Who have no faith in youths And come tomorrow, our children, Will have graves to look up to Because we would have no experience From which to advise them… And like an unwanted track on a CD Our generation would have been skipped By the geriatric push of a ⇒ button! © Raphael Uzor
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
Generation Skipped
“You are the leaders of tomorrow” They told us over and over Right from the tender age of three Through childhood and adolescence. We have outgrown our youth We are now mature men We have come of age to lead Just as promised decades ago. At a recent gathering Our leaders of yesterday Stricken with age and power And long overdue for retirement Addressed us, saying, “Bla bla bla, bla bla, bla bla bla…” “You are the leaders of tomorrow” That last statement jolted me awake From his uninspiring, boring speech. Then it dawned on me We are a sleeping generation We have long been waiting- sleeping! When we should be leading *Our greedy, power-drunk leaders, Will die in active service! They will NOT hand over to us! Not if we sit and wait for them*. I had a revelation that the “tomorrow”, We were promised “yesterday” Is fast becoming yesterday, today! And while the Nigerian youth sleeps His chance is being usurped by his fathers Yesterday we heard this promise Today we hear the same promise But come tomorrow, we will be too old to lead And our children’s turn, it will be. We have been scammed of our future By the very ones we entrusted them with And like turns in a game of scrabble, We have missed ours- forever! Our leaders are old men Who have no faith in youths And come tomorrow, our children, Will have graves to look up to Because we would have no experience From which to advise them… And like an unwanted track on a CD Our generation would have been skipped By the geriatric push of a ⇒ button! © Raphael Uzor
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Karma is a ***** You heard the saying so many times. What goes around comes around. The golden rule. Whatever. Karma is a ***** But not to the people who deserve it. The people who were the nice ones, Who have been suffocated; Their payment is long overdue. I know a lot of people, including myself, That have struggled to be kind for so long. They have completely possessed the person They once were. Lately I've been a ***** Please forgive me. Ive tried for so long. And I can not deal with this anymore. I feel the need to rebel. Because it is something to do. You would do it to. And most likely have If you have been as caged in As I was.
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Dec 11, 2013
Dec 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM UTC
Deserve
The boy haden't bathed in over a month His **** crack was itching and burning His underpants were soaked in slimy, wet muck And his toes a thick jam were churning His armpits stank worse than a fat pigs raw *** His breath smelled like rancid fish His hair was so oily, matted to his head His own mother wouldn't give him a kiss "Enough!" he cried as a passing fly died When he raised his arm to exclaim. "I must bathe right away! I am long overdue!" "I sure hope the washcloths are brave." "To the bathroom man!" He shouted as he ran And his underpants sloppily squished "I will remove this filth and brush my green teeth" "And my mother I will kiss!" "The closet's ahead!" He said as he sped. And he stopped there to get some stuff. Some soap, some shampoo and a towel or two. But he knew that it wasn't enough. Look though he might, to his horror and fright, Not a single washcloth could he find. Then panic set in 'cause the stink of his skin Was driving him out of his mind. He looked yet again but to his chagrin The washcloth shelf was bare. The washcloths had run off For they would not wash So filthy a boy on a dare "Oh what will I do!" "Boo-hoo, boo-hoo!" The boy cried as flies swarmed his head. "I'd **** myself but I already smell" "Far worse than anything dead!" Then one washcloth came back Holding it's nose and a sack Of bath salts that smelled like dill. It said to the boy "Go pickle yourself!" "And give me a nausea pill!" So the boy rejoiced and filled the tub With water, hot as he could stand. And using the bath salts, he jumped right in And the pickling began. He lathered the washcloth with water and soap And scrubbed with all of his might. Away he washed all of the filth 'Til none was left in sight. He washed his hair and brushed his teeth And dried and dressed himself well. And the washcloth exclaimed as it hung on the tub "Holy crap! that was pure hell!" So the boy now clean ran to be seen By his mother he loved so much. And she gave him a kiss and said "This is pure bliss!" "I can kiss you and keep down my lunch!" The moral I'll tell you and true I will be So no one will say that I lied. Don't wait a whole month to take a bath Or you washcloths may run and hide.
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Aug 1, 2012
Aug 1, 2012 at 7:53 AM UTC
The Stinky Boy
The boy haden't bathed in over a month His **** crack was itching and burning His underpants were soaked in slimy, wet muck And his toes a thick jam were churning His armpits stank worse than a fat pigs raw *** His breath smelled like rancid fish His hair was so oily, matted to his head His own mother wouldn't give him a kiss "Enough!" he cried as a passing fly died When he raised his arm to exclaim. "I must bathe right away! I am long overdue!" "I sure hope the washcloths are brave." "To the bathroom man!" He shouted as he ran And his underpants sloppily squished "I will remove this filth and brush my green teeth" "And my mother I will kiss!" "The closet's ahead!" He said as he sped. And he stopped there to get some stuff. Some soap, some shampoo and a towel or two. But he knew that it wasn't enough. Look though he might, to his horror and fright, Not a single washcloth could he find. Then panic set in 'cause the stink of his skin Was driving him out of his mind. He looked yet again but to his chagrin The washcloth shelf was bare. The washcloths had run off For they would not wash So filthy a boy on a dare "Oh what will I do!" "Boo-hoo, boo-hoo!" The boy cried as flies swarmed his head. "I'd **** myself but I already smell" "Far worse than anything dead!" Then one washcloth came back Holding it's nose and a sack Of bath salts that smelled like dill. It said to the boy "Go pickle yourself!" "And give me a nausea pill!" So the boy rejoiced and filled the tub With water, hot as he could stand. And using the bath salts, he jumped right in And the pickling began. He lathered the washcloth with water and soap And scrubbed with all of his might. Away he washed all of the filth 'Til none was left in sight. He washed his hair and brushed his teeth And dried and dressed himself well. And the washcloth exclaimed as it hung on the tub "Holy crap! that was pure hell!" So the boy now clean ran to be seen By his mother he loved so much. And she gave him a kiss and said "This is pure bliss!" "I can kiss you and keep down my lunch!" The moral I'll tell you and true I will be So no one will say that I lied. Don't wait a whole month to take a bath Or you washcloths may run and hide.
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~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
on Saturday, even the cows sleep late
~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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I’m sorry This is overdue I’m sorry I did that to you I’m sorry We stayed together after I told you I’m sorry That note was ever needed to be wrote I’m sorry It was because of me I’m sorry The gun didn’t have bullets I’m sorry The window in ur room wasn’t high enough I’m sorry There wasnt A rope I’m sorry That note was left for me to find I’m sorry It didn’t work Im sorry You felt obligated to get me back I’m sorry My best friend volunteered I’m sorry You did it more times to hurt me I’m sorry I pushed you to putting the bruises on ur heart into my wrist I’m sorry I embarrassed you I’m sorry You made me look down the fall before I jumped I’m sorry I didn’t do it cause of you I’m sorry I wish I still could I’m sorry It’s been two years and my life is still all cause of you I’m sorry All of this is my fault I’m sorry.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 8:00 PM UTC
apologies
Over time they will look back on you, The one who rose with morning drew Cared for everything, and have so few, Lastly, they will take up on your cue, When your words become the last adieu, And people you encouraged start life anew. Lately, they will think back on you, The hardworking and patient mule, For you our thanks overdue, For your sacrifices, we never knew.
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May 5, 2018
May 5, 2018 at 9:30 PM UTC
The Mule
As the stars shine in the dark night sky, my heart shines upon your soul. The flame encases them, flowing through them, around them Descending upon the earth they separate Journeying to find each other again I will never stop seeing you for what you are. Her eyes are a fiery world of emotion, volcanic The depth is endless, shaken from the reality of this world Soft gentle skin, smooth, unseen perfection Her mind an endless ocean of thought She breathes, searching, for the flame that burns within His mind battered from the constant misunderstanding The past is over and his new beginning is overdue Searching for the taste of all that he knows, Searching for the flame that burns within The universe sets it’s plan in motion It’s an inevitable fate Two souls searching, working toward this certain conclusion. The flame is cast, frequency’s align Ascending far above the earth The flames merge once again, bound by destiny And again the flame encases them, following them into eternity Forever searching for the merging of the twin flame.
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 8:34 PM UTC
Twin Flame
You say one thing but don't follow through Leaving me alone left to ponder and ask why Did I do or say something that hurt you I understand you are busy but I know you have time My mind wonders is this fate Is destiny revealing that this relationship is way overdue Maybe we just need to escape for our own sake See some place new where we both can share the view Please I don't want this to be goodbye We can run faraway and start with a fresh new slate But for now I wait as you seem to be preoccupied in another lie ****** just look me in the eye and tell me it straight
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 5:39 AM UTC
Preoccupied Lies
A misunderstood mind, A heartache of mine, My main frame covered in dust. A good clean long overdue, Awakening when I find you, Helping me to vanish the rust.
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 5:57 AM UTC
Misunderstood
Karma is a ***** You heard the saying so many times. What goes around comes around. The golden rule. Whatever. Karma is a ***** But not to the people who deserve it. The people who were the nice ones, Who have  been suffocated; Their payment is long overdue. I know a lot of people, including myself, That have struggled to be kind for so long. They have completely possessed the person They once were. Lately I've been a ***** Please forgive me. Ive tried for so long. And I can not deal with this anymore. I feel the need to rebel. Because it is something to do. You would do it to. And most likely have If you have been as caged in As I was.
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 9:22 AM UTC
Deserve
I’ve never needed more words than the ones I already have. I am a lost library book. I have become overdue, forgotten and I once gave you a good time.
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Mar 30, 2016
Mar 30, 2016 at 1:00 AM UTC
A love like angry hands scratching the floor where you once stood
Hi, I'm an insecure poet Just like I don't like myself I don't like my poetry I don't know but sometimes My poems aren't just it They are unclear and weird Like my personality is They're short and stout Just like I look physically They sometimes rhyme too much Like I overdue too much Sometimes the free verses Seem like the amateur I am And everything's clichéd Like my creativity got ****** They're hairy and dark And ugly and scarred But most of the time They're just all over All over excellence Just like my neighbour Is all over men And I try too hard I get all over it But when I let go No matter that I'm fat The breeze carries me forth No matter that I'm dark I shine And my creativity Crawls out of crevices To create poetry That warms the soul
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Jun 9, 2017
Jun 9, 2017 at 11:17 AM UTC
Insecure Poet