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Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture Give me absolute control over every living soul And lie beside me, baby, that's an order! Give me crack and **** *** Take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul I've seen the future, brother: it is ****** Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible I've seen the nations rise and fall I've heard their stories, heard them all but love's the only engine of survival Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is ****** Things are going to slide ... There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms There'll be fires on the road and the white man dancing You'll see a woman hanging upside down her features covered by her fallen gown and all the lousy little poets coming round tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson and the white man dancin' Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St Paul Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We don't like children anyhow I've seen the future, baby: it is ****** Things are going to slide ... When they said REPENT REPENT ...
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The Future
Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture Give me absolute control over every living soul And lie beside me, baby, that's an order! Give me crack and **** *** Take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul I've seen the future, brother: it is ****** Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible I've seen the nations rise and fall I've heard their stories, heard them all but love's the only engine of survival Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is ****** Things are going to slide ... There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms There'll be fires on the road and the white man dancing You'll see a woman hanging upside down her features covered by her fallen gown and all the lousy little poets coming round tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson and the white man dancin' Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St Paul Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We don't like children anyhow I've seen the future, baby: it is ****** Things are going to slide ... When they said REPENT REPENT ...
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neon lights skyscrapers busy streets blank faces empty pockets innocence lost in thin air. overturned truck honking cabs bumber to bumper broken rib missing tooth bruised eye. rotten flesh distant shadows scattered bullets cardboard signs wailing women hushed tones. pinch of salt freshly squeezed lime shot glass vape juice white cloud euphoria.
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Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 at 7:26 PM UTC
Metropolitan Shot Glass
Snarling, fangs shining, moonlight illuminating ferocious beasts, limbs tangling, separating, lunging, caught within deadly battle. Scarlet streams trickle from trees gouged like the bellies of their prey, canine fiends bare their teeth, their growls like black thunder, facing these soulless demons smeared with the blood of many. Bodies drop with screams still rattling inside their rib cages, demons devouring with rage that can never be quenched, their hearts ripped from their chests, veins slit, arteries torn mercilessly out of still warm flesh. Creatures created from pure insanity that breed nothing but anger, fear and despair, children's corpses torn apart, their skulls shattered. Snapping of jaws still slimed with internal juices, bits of raw flesh clinging to hair that shimmers under the blood red moon. Hissing from the shadows, knotted into frenzied war, animated corpses beside twisted bodies of wolves, wounds gushing ruby tears, still pulsing organs shredded. Flames rush from overturned fires, shrieking forms, torches wavering through darkness. Pale beings gather for the finale, blood spatters across ground, staining everything within it's reach. Only two are left, facing each other in the coming dawn. Heaps of creatures litter this burned, bloodied ground, none alive.
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Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 5:05 AM UTC
Vampire vs Werewolf
I've called this ghost town home for far too long. Spent my nights drinking with the dead. Each sip cementing their existence in my head. Listlessly taking shot after shot. Whiskey, the water of life, commemorates the spirit of the deceased. One for those who passed away in peace. Two for those taken prematurely. Toast number three shall be a farewell to me but I am not ready to no longer be. You see, if I were to dream eternally and sink deeper down the fiery well, those infamous nine levels of hell, I would forge fresh footprints through the ash covered ground. Walking with boots of compressed gunpowder, the trail I leave behind is always primed to catch up with me and spark the time bomb I walk with. The seconds tick tick tick away. The clock is always heading toward zero. I tried to be a hero for many, yet couldn't save myself. My desires put upon a shelf. A self inflicted penance handed down from the only one I was foolish enough to call god. I am too far gone to be saved. Grave stones mark the decay of my hopes and dreams. The etchings on each marble tablet will eventually fade away. The soil I am to be buried in must be overturned if anything is to grow where I could not. Mother nature always finds a way to nurture even the worst of her children. Like any good matriarch, she refuses to accept anything less than her child's full potential. Even in death. Though I refused nourishment and love, mother earth still holds me close. Embraces me in a final attempt to squeeze the last drops of good which were buried deep and thought to be dried long ago. Ignoring her guidance, I've lived as if I would never end up six feet. Deep were my thoughts, dangerous my actions. Though I lived as if I couldn't be defeated, my first true test comes as I fight for control of my soul. Angels and devils are now my judges, each making their case for my demise. The scales of destiny weigh my past actions. The outcome holding my future. So I'll fill my glass one final time, and toast to those who left before me. I'm coming home.
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Mar 21, 2014
Mar 21, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
Ghost Town
I've called this ghost town home for far too long. Spent my nights drinking with the dead. Each sip cementing their existence in my head. Listlessly taking shot after shot. Whiskey, the water of life, commemorates the spirit of the deceased. One for those who passed away in peace. Two for those taken prematurely. Toast number three shall be a farewell to me but I am not ready to no longer be. You see, if I were to dream eternally and sink deeper down the fiery well, those infamous nine levels of hell, I would forge fresh footprints through the ash covered ground. Walking with boots of compressed gunpowder, the trail I leave behind is always primed to catch up with me and spark the time bomb I walk with. The seconds tick tick tick away. The clock is always heading toward zero. I tried to be a hero for many, yet couldn't save myself. My desires put upon a shelf. A self inflicted penance handed down from the only one I was foolish enough to call god. I am too far gone to be saved. Grave stones mark the decay of my hopes and dreams. The etchings on each marble tablet will eventually fade away. The soil I am to be buried in must be overturned if anything is to grow where I could not. Mother nature always finds a way to nurture even the worst of her children. Like any good matriarch, she refuses to accept anything less than her child's full potential. Even in death. Though I refused nourishment and love, mother earth still holds me close. Embraces me in a final attempt to squeeze the last drops of good which were buried deep and thought to be dried long ago. Ignoring her guidance, I've lived as if I would never end up six feet. Deep were my thoughts, dangerous my actions. Though I lived as if I couldn't be defeated, my first true test comes as I fight for control of my soul. Angels and devils are now my judges, each making their case for my demise. The scales of destiny weigh my past actions. The outcome holding my future. So I'll fill my glass one final time, and toast to those who left before me. I'm coming home.
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motherless, is who, to society, i am. it's on my centrelink forms, it's written on my face, it's why my teachers pity me. but i never get to be, me, rosie. motherless, is what i've been, since the candles, fleetingly glowed, and i made a wish not to lose those i loved, as i turned, 16. motherless, the things that happened for me to receive this title, killed me, and, killed her, too. the whole world, without her, has turned cold and blue. motherless, has poisoned my whole world, my whole being, whole gravity, whole soul has been overturned. motherless, is what now consumes me, and has, painfully, since i turned 16.
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Feb 26, 2012
Feb 26, 2012 at 3:55 AM UTC
mother(less
I remember a dog with matted fur lounging in the shade of a collapsed arch, staring in a way that animals sometime stare that makes me wonder if the beliefs of Kantianism are nothing more than old wives’ tales spun from smoke and cinder. I remember the faint smell of sulfur mixed with seawater in the shadow of the volcano that poured out its wrath by the bowlful, the golden urns of the gods spilling fire and magma from the very cradle of hell. I remember the empty bathhouses, the villas with half-painted frescoes, the expensive red paints made from crushed beetle shells, the overturned tables and chairs, the uneven stone streets carved by horse-drawn cart wheels. I remember the skeletons huddled in boathouses, unearthed from their ash-spun graves for prying eyes, for the rapid shutter of camera lenses, for the proof of their existence, as if to leer at the living and say, “We are all nothing but carbon and bone.”
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 10:30 PM UTC
Herculaneum in Two Hours
Anwar Ibrahim Convicted of ****** in 2008 Acquitted in 2012 The Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal He is currently serving his sentence An aide to Anwar Said he was sodomized by Anwar ****** even if consensual Is punishable by up to 20 years in Malaysia Anwar responded the complaint was politically motivated Support for Anwar grown stronger His wife is battling his conviction Some say that political rival Dr. Mahathir Will recover from his decrease in popularity And remain in control Because he helped Malaysia through a though economic time Although it seems as though Anwar is gaining support From a majority of the Malaysian people Human rights groups accused Malaysia's government of using An anachronistic colonial era law that criminalizes "Carnal *********** against the order of nature" To persecute Anwar Anwar leads a three-party opposition that has become Increasingly popular in the predominantly Muslim nation This is not just Anwar has been wrongly accused I will pray for his wife And his supporters Stay strong Anwar You are an innocent man
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 8:44 PM UTC
Anwar Ibrahim Wrongly Accused
Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter" by Chaim Nachman Bialik loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Merciful heavens, have pity on me! If there is a God approachable by men as yet I have not found him— Pray for me! For my heart is dead, prayers languish upon my tongue; my right hand has lost its strength and my hope has wilted, undone. How long? Oh, when will this nightmare end? How long? Hangman, traitor, here’s my neck— rise up now, rise and slaughter! Behead me like a dog—your arm controls the axe and the whole world is a scaffold to me although we—the chosen few— were once recipients of the Pacts. Executioner, my blood’s a paltry prize— strike my skull and the blood of innocents will rain drenching your pristine uniform again and again, staining your raiment forever. If there is Justice—quick, let her appear! But after I’ve been blotted out, should she reveal her face, let her false scales be overturned forever and the heavens reek with the stench of her disgrace. You too arrogant men, with your brutal injustice, suckled on blood, unweaned of violence: cursed be the warrior who cries "Vengeance!" on a maiden; such cruelty was never contemplated, even by Satan. Let innocents’ blood drench the abyss! Let innocents’ blood seep down into the congealing darkness, eat it away and undermine earth's rotting foundations. Al Hashechita ("On the Slaughter") was written by Chaim Nachman Bialik in response to the ****** Kishniev pogrom of 1903, which was instigated by agents of the Czar who wanted to divert social unrest and political anger from the Czar to the Jewish minority. The Hebrew word schechita (also transliterated shechita, shechitah, shekhitah, shehita) denotes the ritual kosher slaughtering of animals for food. The juxtapositioning of kosher slaughter with the slaughter of Jews makes the poem all the more powerful and ghastly. Such anti-Semitic incidents prompted a massive wave of Eastern European emigration that brought millions of Jews to the West. Unfortunately, there have been many similar slaughters in human history and the poem remains chillingly relevant to the more recent ones in Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo. Keywords/Tags: Holocaust, poem, Bialik, translation, slaughter, massacre, God, prayer, executioner, hangman, blood, innocents, justice, false, scales, injustice
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Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM UTC
Chaim Nachman Bialik "On The Slaughter" translation
Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter" by Chaim Nachman Bialik loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Merciful heavens, have pity on me! If there is a God approachable by men as yet I have not found him— Pray for me! For my heart is dead, prayers languish upon my tongue; my right hand has lost its strength and my hope has wilted, undone. How long? Oh, when will this nightmare end? How long? Hangman, traitor, here’s my neck— rise up now, rise and slaughter! Behead me like a dog—your arm controls the axe and the whole world is a scaffold to me although we—the chosen few— were once recipients of the Pacts. Executioner, my blood’s a paltry prize— strike my skull and the blood of innocents will rain drenching your pristine uniform again and again, staining your raiment forever. If there is Justice—quick, let her appear! But after I’ve been blotted out, should she reveal her face, let her false scales be overturned forever and the heavens reek with the stench of her disgrace. You too arrogant men, with your brutal injustice, suckled on blood, unweaned of violence: cursed be the warrior who cries "Vengeance!" on a maiden; such cruelty was never contemplated, even by Satan. Let innocents’ blood drench the abyss! Let innocents’ blood seep down into the congealing darkness, eat it away and undermine earth's rotting foundations. Al Hashechita ("On the Slaughter") was written by Chaim Nachman Bialik in response to the ****** Kishniev pogrom of 1903, which was instigated by agents of the Czar who wanted to divert social unrest and political anger from the Czar to the Jewish minority. The Hebrew word schechita (also transliterated shechita, shechitah, shekhitah, shehita) denotes the ritual kosher slaughtering of animals for food. The juxtapositioning of kosher slaughter with the slaughter of Jews makes the poem all the more powerful and ghastly. Such anti-Semitic incidents prompted a massive wave of Eastern European emigration that brought millions of Jews to the West. Unfortunately, there have been many similar slaughters in human history and the poem remains chillingly relevant to the more recent ones in Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo. Keywords/Tags: Holocaust, poem, Bialik, translation, slaughter, massacre, God, prayer, executioner, hangman, blood, innocents, justice, false, scales, injustice
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Naturally it is night. Under the overturned lute with its One string I am going my way Which has a strange sound. This way the dust, that way the dust. I listen to both sides But I keep right on. I remember the leaves sitting in judgment And then winter. I remember the rain with its bundle of roads. The rain taking all its roads. Nowhere. Young as I am, old as I am, I forget tomorrow, the blind man. I forget the life among the buried windows. The eyes in the curtains. The wall Growing through the immortelles. I forget silence The owner of the smile. This must be what I wanted to be doing, Walking at night between the two deserts, Singing.
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Air
What must you think of me? Dark Hungry eyes Full of hurt and hope, And All That love, So sudden. I've never met someone like you. I know you see it, And yet somehow I think you believe it, Receive it, Understand. And I don't know what to do, Because Nobody's ever known that And not flinched from me The way you recoil when your hand rests accidentally on a hot stove. In your eyes I saw... Joy. I saw that you wanted What was in Mine. And god, I've been trying to recover from that ever since. It makes no sense to me. No sense. You saw You saw the secret. It spilled out at your feet And I wanted to fall to my knees there And beg you to forgive it. But your eyes never shamed me- They glowed (god I cannot unsee them) With excitement, As if maybe my touch shocked you The way yours shocked me. In that moment You must understand, And every other moment since When your eyes have found mine And burned my disguises to dust within seconds, Every single thing I ever knew about myself Was overturned. That's why I can't get you out of my head. Why I'm scared, Why everything I do now is a little shaky and uncertain in my mind, Because everything Is new. I based my life on the knowledge that I had to hide. Everything I was sure of, everything that had been Proven Time and again to me By never being disproved Dissolved in that moment. You razed it to ash. When you touched me with tenderness, I fell apart. When you kissed me, I lost everything I've been wanting to shed For my entire life.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM UTC
"I Love Your Nailpolish." "I Love Your Hands."
What must you think of me? Dark Hungry eyes Full of hurt and hope, And All That love, So sudden. I've never met someone like you. I know you see it, And yet somehow I think you believe it, Receive it, Understand. And I don't know what to do, Because Nobody's ever known that And not flinched from me The way you recoil when your hand rests accidentally on a hot stove. In your eyes I saw... Joy. I saw that you wanted What was in Mine. And god, I've been trying to recover from that ever since. It makes no sense to me. No sense. You saw You saw the secret. It spilled out at your feet And I wanted to fall to my knees there And beg you to forgive it. But your eyes never shamed me- They glowed (god I cannot unsee them) With excitement, As if maybe my touch shocked you The way yours shocked me. In that moment You must understand, And every other moment since When your eyes have found mine And burned my disguises to dust within seconds, Every single thing I ever knew about myself Was overturned. That's why I can't get you out of my head. Why I'm scared, Why everything I do now is a little shaky and uncertain in my mind, Because everything Is new. I based my life on the knowledge that I had to hide. Everything I was sure of, everything that had been Proven Time and again to me By never being disproved Dissolved in that moment. You razed it to ash. When you touched me with tenderness, I fell apart. When you kissed me, I lost everything I've been wanting to shed For my entire life.
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Something breaks just around the bend Longing is overturned Replaced with a dull sort of fear An impending sadness Beauty, though gleaming with violence Surrounds a thoughtful desire Lust grows and swells Bitter metallic love tastes sweet on starved tongues Blood is no longer just red But stunningly gone
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Oct 5, 2022
Oct 5, 2022 at 3:34 PM UTC
dull lust turns sweet in the nighttime
It was the boys’ bath night and you had bathed and were drying yourself with the white towel they had given you when the bathroom door flew open and Anne stood there one-legged in her pink flowered nightdress perching on her crutches like a hawk her eyes bright and dark a smile lingering on her lips well ****** me she said what a sight for a girl’s lovesick eyes and she entered the bathroom and pushed the door shut behind her with her bottom almost uncrutching herself in the process you pulled the towel tight around you and stared at her it’s the boys’ bath night you muttered girls aren’t allowed in while boys bath she moved over to the mirror and gazed at herself you’re right she said I’m not a boy I’m a tight titted girl and she laughed and crutched herself over towards you making you flatten yourself against the wall gripping the towel with one hand and holding her back with the other and she leaned down and kiss the back of your hand then looked you deep in the eyes what have you got hidden behind that towelling skirt then?   she said and you gripped the towel tighter with both hands and she menacingly moved one hand cautiously towards the towel her armpits gripping the crutches tightly as she moved you shouldn’t be in here you said I’m not in there yet she laughed and grabbed the towel away with a force that took her and the towel toppling to the bathroom floor where she lay like an overturned beetle you stood naked your hands covering what your father called your toolbox gazing down at her struggling to get up well don’t just stand there like a prize parrot help pick me up she said and so with one hand covering you knelt down to help lift her up but then she pulled you down beside her and laughed and her laughter echoed around the walls but then she paused and put a hand over her mouth hearing Sister Bridget’s nearby footsteps and noisy calls.
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Mar 15, 2012
Mar 15, 2012 at 3:16 AM UTC
ANNE AND THE BOYS' BATH NIGHT.
It was the boys’ bath night and you had bathed and were drying yourself with the white towel they had given you when the bathroom door flew open and Anne stood there one-legged in her pink flowered nightdress perching on her crutches like a hawk her eyes bright and dark a smile lingering on her lips well ****** me she said what a sight for a girl’s lovesick eyes and she entered the bathroom and pushed the door shut behind her with her bottom almost uncrutching herself in the process you pulled the towel tight around you and stared at her it’s the boys’ bath night you muttered girls aren’t allowed in while boys bath she moved over to the mirror and gazed at herself you’re right she said I’m not a boy I’m a tight titted girl and she laughed and crutched herself over towards you making you flatten yourself against the wall gripping the towel with one hand and holding her back with the other and she leaned down and kiss the back of your hand then looked you deep in the eyes what have you got hidden behind that towelling skirt then?   she said and you gripped the towel tighter with both hands and she menacingly moved one hand cautiously towards the towel her armpits gripping the crutches tightly as she moved you shouldn’t be in here you said I’m not in there yet she laughed and grabbed the towel away with a force that took her and the towel toppling to the bathroom floor where she lay like an overturned beetle you stood naked your hands covering what your father called your toolbox gazing down at her struggling to get up well don’t just stand there like a prize parrot help pick me up she said and so with one hand covering you knelt down to help lift her up but then she pulled you down beside her and laughed and her laughter echoed around the walls but then she paused and put a hand over her mouth hearing Sister Bridget’s nearby footsteps and noisy calls.
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The M6 is slow southbound north of Lymm. Queuing likely Junctions 4 through to 3. Accident on the slip-road at Strensham South. Rubberneckers slowing just to see. Busy clockwise on the M25. Overturned tanker - now down to one lane. Rush-hour traffic, best avoid the drive. M62 heavy westbound again. Ongoing road works on the A1 (M). High sided vehicles avoid the Forth Bridge. Reports of a breakdown just come in For those leaving the M5 heading north.........   Felicity comes, I turn off the dial   The traffic has cleared - if just for a while.
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Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 2:30 PM UTC
Traffic
On a slow train out of the Savannah’s sudden exile, the sunlight swallows me, a calligraphy of days, hours, minuets, now inscribed on my limbs, syntax gives over to a dry, dry sound, and parched, the aftertaste of sloe gin inhabits my ribs, the lay of bones, a labyrinth of absence, and this velvet ache at my wrists, a pure burning, burning the memory red, words swell and crumble with a kiss, what absence, Soul of Winter, what absence is this, spreading over roadmaps, soliloquies, nights stretch into mornings, always mornings, as my fingertips pull daylight from an orange in dream alphabets that soon dwindle to vowels, the word, harbour, bends the old alder beyond what it can bear, so many ways, you say, to live like a prisoner, at home, the rooms are all windswept, reckless chairs overturned , abandoned in this, the evening’s parable, love is no more than a syllable in a bottle of shattered blue glass, a poem written on the underside of a child’s teacup, their jump ropes curl like adders at our feet, the thread from where I dangle in doorways and twilight, as I bide time, perilous over train tracks, your fingers trace tally marks along my vertebrae, the hollows darkening in a pathos of blue rheumatism, and in the carnivorous tremor of my body breaking like the spine of a book, the paper gone pink at the edges, like azaleas and bruises, erosion, after all is the altar of the body, and there are scars beneath my temple, and this ache, still, in my wrists, unbearable when it rains, ghosts inhabit my lungs, wrung from the silence of shut windows, eternal clotheslines and linen span for miles across the Savannah, and the early frost is at last, calling me home....
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Jan 10, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 at 5:11 PM UTC
Scars Beneath
On a slow train out of the Savannah’s sudden exile, the sunlight swallows me, a calligraphy of days, hours, minuets, now inscribed on my limbs, syntax gives over to a dry, dry sound, and parched, the aftertaste of sloe gin inhabits my ribs, the lay of bones, a labyrinth of absence, and this velvet ache at my wrists, a pure burning, burning the memory red, words swell and crumble with a kiss, what absence, Soul of Winter, what absence is this, spreading over roadmaps, soliloquies, nights stretch into mornings, always mornings, as my fingertips pull daylight from an orange in dream alphabets that soon dwindle to vowels, the word, harbour, bends the old alder beyond what it can bear, so many ways, you say, to live like a prisoner, at home, the rooms are all windswept, reckless chairs overturned , abandoned in this, the evening’s parable, love is no more than a syllable in a bottle of shattered blue glass, a poem written on the underside of a child’s teacup, their jump ropes curl like adders at our feet, the thread from where I dangle in doorways and twilight, as I bide time, perilous over train tracks, your fingers trace tally marks along my vertebrae, the hollows darkening in a pathos of blue rheumatism, and in the carnivorous tremor of my body breaking like the spine of a book, the paper gone pink at the edges, like azaleas and bruises, erosion, after all is the altar of the body, and there are scars beneath my temple, and this ache, still, in my wrists, unbearable when it rains, ghosts inhabit my lungs, wrung from the silence of shut windows, eternal clotheslines and linen span for miles across the Savannah, and the early frost is at last, calling me home....
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I shouldn’t have   I guess I forcefully moved my things into your heart on parham street This fool has been celebrating a grubby clean slate He drank a cocktail before the harvest After storing his brain safely in the garbage He asked ‘would you be mine’ I shouldn’t have said I love you first Now realising that was the pistol to your head And i jumped the gun twice and over again This fool stands in awe of his folly He reads his scribbles of idyllic love poems and ******** dovy quotidians Every compelled ‘i love you’ will be overturned My hands over-burned from the blisters Bitter from the bile from every memory Though i took my time, I was patiently stupid I shouldn’t have Now i’m sat here with this lollipop of regret Now knowing that every graphic snapshot was because of that same pistol No wonder why it all seemed strange I used to gnaw about making you feel like you needed to trust me and love me I was yet weary of receiving the blame of every kiss, pause and touch I didn’t realise that the foundation was built on compelled labour I was to quick to celebrate, but now i know what i should have
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 5:38 PM UTC
Forced to Love
Once upon a special day, Twenty years ago, God placed a legend on this earth: Anzhelika Van Gogh. She's the epitome of art, Her curls are a sculpture. Even the coffee that she spills Creates an abstract picture. When she walks into a room, All eyes turn to stare. It may or may not be because She overturned a chair. Eating healthy is a chore, Water just won't do. She'll wash down her chicken wings With a Mountain Dew. Her fashion inspiration Is any mom of four. All outfits are determined by The options on the floor. She's wild and chaotic. But often, so is art. The more you get to know her, The more you see her heart. Fellas, are you hearing this? She's beauty AND she's brains. But bring umbrellas with you 'Cause in her life, Christ reigns. She'll leave an impact on your life, And shower you with love. Happy birthday to the gift God sent us from above.
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Jun 3, 2019
Jun 3, 2019 at 1:06 PM UTC
Anzhelika
Strange insecurity overflowing backwashing traitors skilled by entities willing to viciously ****** massively diminish minds whom without say-accept what's to be overturned
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Jul 16, 2012
Jul 16, 2012 at 10:32 AM UTC
below the median
Blissful the wind feels my skin Touching it smoothly, blows against it, ruffling More and more, I find a sense of calmness. A purity overturned, and made pure again. Stars shine, but as they age they turn different colors. Compacted, these aged stars of life become beautiful jewels. But moreover, the persons mean more to us, Because of their heart, and their character. The love purifies our impurity somehow. Not long ago, I was so miserable. I wanted to take back all of those years. I thought the pain I caused made me the most evil thing on earth. I felt like I was nothing worth anything. The fact that you didn't seem to care when others would've.. That made it worse. But I have no regrets. Everything has woven together beautifully. And through love, purity is now pure again. Purity in a richer form. In the midst of gloom, No one sees the immense pain I carry. Fearing the worst, I always died before the actuality. I was so immune to feeling. This purity I feel I now have - No it is not innocent, but it is beautiful, Blissful, unforgettable, unimaginable.
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 3:29 PM UTC
Purity
The snow set in the barn, Where the horses once laid On a cold night, ice spiraled We tossed,turned, all packed The troops tamed to acquiesce Rifles silenced, bullets sacked  Stocks in deficit, awaiting ambush Sores overturned and edged in holes Our nerves dead in the silent night Risking an aching machine, a body Pushing to extremities, thrill seeking My mind numb, body ignited in dumb Left, right… series audibly recurred Halting to reflect the extreme valour A salute to quench and honor a reality For I once sacrificed my "liberties" for "others"
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC
Dumb Insolence
Cups of coffee and plates with sugar crumbs from pastry warm with cinnamon and cardamom, and books overturned on antique tables with scruff marks and scratches, loved, well-used, (and me, in the middle of it all, listening to the heartbeat of this country and its sincerity, learning wisdom through small things). He is a six foot springtide of caffeine and literature, effervescent with sincerity and kindness and warmth. I smile at him over the rim of my cup, and suddenly I am swept up and moving with his current, in love with him and a summer spent scribbling into casebound notebooks and with my hair flying in the wind that rustles the trees around us, and with his lips on my neck. Wild roses on brick walls and wooden window frames, and the lavender growing on the curb all smile, content to witness summer love bloom like all things tend to do, in this season and this place. I let him explain to me the stars in nights that never seem to really begin but last forever; he teaches me in not-quite darkness what they mean, and I tell him under fairy-lights how small I feel in the multitude of this universe. He nods solemnly and I feel his breath in my hair, holding me on this earth as he shows me galaxies. - lund. cs.
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Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 11:49 AM UTC
Lund
We are born for a purpose but We lay in silence Silence that we long to escape from But until the promised time We can just hope For a jail free card. The authorities decide And we rejoice Because hope is about to materialize We are about to be let out So we stay aroused. We pack our bags and belongings We are leaving Egypt Into the Promise Land Where our destiny lies But where lies exist We are never certain But we cling on to hope Now Hope disappoints And decisions are overturned An authority has cold feet Seems we are going to stay in Egypt We plead Mercy, but she's got her mind made up Now dreams have been shattered. Anger embraces us And in our moment of rage We decide to riot Disturb our sacs until we are let out!
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 4:17 AM UTC
Why We Go Blue - *****
i know what my problem is, what my problem has always been. i hate myself in every way possible. i hate the way i look but thats just the surface. i hate the way i think and feel the most. my mind twists everything into an unrecognizable image and tells me that this is the way things are and have to be. and i feel with such despair that my heart renders my mind useless in the face of fear. i can't talk myself out of a panic because my heart is so loud that reason is lost in the sound. so i hide my heart and my mind and i do what i can about the way i look. but it's not as easy when my heart and mind demand to be heard when my composure wears off at night. then i turn into the pathetic disaster i've always been. the mess of a person that i've kept hidden. and believe me, i want to change. because i know that asking someone to love me the way i am is far too great a task. who could look at a person that screams curses at the mirror with such relentless sadness and hate and decide to love them? well i was hoping you could. i don't know if that's too much to ask, for someone so beautiful to love such a mess. am i way out of line to wish that you would hold me and tell me that everything is fine? should i leave such desires for daydreams and poetry? because my stupid heart wants me to beg you to stay and love me.
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Nov 7, 2016
Nov 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM UTC
overturned rocks
It's long drive on this highway The window creaks its jagged way down I breathe in the new air for the first time in months George Watsky is building his Cardboard Castles in my stereo On repeat- I think of Emerson On repeat- Skip- On repeat- I think - I feel like his transparent eyeball Repeat- His eyeball- I begin to understand what has always seemed a clumsy metaphor I begin to feel - one with everything Skip- everyone is love Repeat Love Every-Everyone is me And you Skip- Everyone is all I need. Repeat I am all I need And you - I don't need anything Except for - -more road -more time -more gas the CD starts skip-skip words Hopping - lines Reminding me Of finite fuel Repeat- finite time with work looming just hours away Repeat- death, just decades away Then, as if responding to my overturned thoughts My ****** speakers belt out: Hey ******* - The sun is shining
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 10:36 PM UTC
CD skipping along Route 11
Dinosaur bones, discovered under an overturned rock. Dust-covered and forgotten photos in the attic. The rug pulled out from under us. Highway patrol of a distant creature. I woke up on the wrong side of a very terrible generation. Just when I thought all was good, it wasn’t. Giant ego ruined their reputation. Lost on the beaten path. My faith smells like ***** dishes. Heroes come and go; villains will always be. Dramatization of the fire. It’s up, up and away with a feeling of mutilated pasts. A young woman in a bad man’s dream. Keep a cool head while we enter the jungle. Booby-trapped instincts. This plan was doomed from the start. Let’s go back while we still have two of our appendages. The dog stares at the door, waiting for a Drunk. We both drink, but we’re not arrogant ****** The love I have for a friend of true nature. What’s that in the shadow of the empire? A rebellion. Smoke out the rat. The back door is a fire lane. A simply-put puzzle. Razorblade Cake-Mix. The sound scared the children. Candy from a stranger, candy from a friend, both will likely **** you in the terms of very end. I’ll stand on the first fallen soldier. He doesn’t know me in the meantime. A happy face for all those once told to forget it. My dignity in a department store lost-and-found. Jump for joy, parade for unemployed. A long line of henchmen waiting to be sidekicks. Watch where your education gets you when us dropouts change our pace. You’re better than no one, we’re better than no one, but we faced the facts about this a long time ago. Convincing isn’t working. A dark hole in the bottom of the bird-feeder. No more nourishment for your ill-advised brain.
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Apr 8, 2012
Apr 8, 2012 at 6:17 PM UTC
Razorblade Cake-Mix
Dinosaur bones, discovered under an overturned rock. Dust-covered and forgotten photos in the attic. The rug pulled out from under us. Highway patrol of a distant creature. I woke up on the wrong side of a very terrible generation. Just when I thought all was good, it wasn’t. Giant ego ruined their reputation. Lost on the beaten path. My faith smells like ***** dishes. Heroes come and go; villains will always be. Dramatization of the fire. It’s up, up and away with a feeling of mutilated pasts. A young woman in a bad man’s dream. Keep a cool head while we enter the jungle. Booby-trapped instincts. This plan was doomed from the start. Let’s go back while we still have two of our appendages. The dog stares at the door, waiting for a Drunk. We both drink, but we’re not arrogant ****** The love I have for a friend of true nature. What’s that in the shadow of the empire? A rebellion. Smoke out the rat. The back door is a fire lane. A simply-put puzzle. Razorblade Cake-Mix. The sound scared the children. Candy from a stranger, candy from a friend, both will likely **** you in the terms of very end. I’ll stand on the first fallen soldier. He doesn’t know me in the meantime. A happy face for all those once told to forget it. My dignity in a department store lost-and-found. Jump for joy, parade for unemployed. A long line of henchmen waiting to be sidekicks. Watch where your education gets you when us dropouts change our pace. You’re better than no one, we’re better than no one, but we faced the facts about this a long time ago. Convincing isn’t working. A dark hole in the bottom of the bird-feeder. No more nourishment for your ill-advised brain.
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