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"pitted" poems
I knew the orange on the orange tree you had an ache in your shoulders uncomfortable in an unnatural way yesterday I passed you talking to flowers you hadn't moved you hadn't strayed but hiding in the leaves was a forced disguise the omens told me something quiet and unceasing reminding me of a slumbering domesticated cat dreaming of cutting yourself loose from truncated ease dropping down from the branch with panther steps licking fruit lips ripe with revealed acidic petals riddled with a past you revelled mixing in with zest shocking chances stepped in for the next dance sleep taken aback by wings cut from a dark sky the sidewalk pitted and cracked beneath the pounce relief escaped the twigs with a spring like waking prey pressing into night foliage shaken from a nice balance as I saw you take control with nothing to mask your face on the surface too smooth for violence was laughter of glowing gloom to embarrass and deter such rebellious arrogance with a twist struggling from a lame curse its flavours sharp against your sweetened perfume muscle expecting you to build a limestone shed for tears rather than take on the night with a mind to wrestle the outside aches for your physical attraction gaining courage from the purpose in your eyes tense as the tightness of your dress' intention demanding that my hands draw from such lines the sinuous heat of pulsing flesh's invitation curved upon seeds not chaste but not quite refined which I try not loving with some cool disambiguation you left me the taste of syrup of grenadine too reputable to ripple vain red tipple eyed on a table spilt with pink gin and mandarin sharp teeth tingling a tartness into my hand sliding slowly at a tilt like drops of sweat on skin focus dwindling into the clasp of an escaping shade wrapped carefully under soft rice paper and then tucked under a heel with a pointed kick like a blade only to feel you relent and burst open soft in appeal again and again
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 3:28 PM UTC
Orange Drops
I knew the orange on the orange tree you had an ache in your shoulders uncomfortable in an unnatural way yesterday I passed you talking to flowers you hadn't moved you hadn't strayed but hiding in the leaves was a forced disguise the omens told me something quiet and unceasing reminding me of a slumbering domesticated cat dreaming of cutting yourself loose from truncated ease dropping down from the branch with panther steps licking fruit lips ripe with revealed acidic petals riddled with a past you revelled mixing in with zest shocking chances stepped in for the next dance sleep taken aback by wings cut from a dark sky the sidewalk pitted and cracked beneath the pounce relief escaped the twigs with a spring like waking prey pressing into night foliage shaken from a nice balance as I saw you take control with nothing to mask your face on the surface too smooth for violence was laughter of glowing gloom to embarrass and deter such rebellious arrogance with a twist struggling from a lame curse its flavours sharp against your sweetened perfume muscle expecting you to build a limestone shed for tears rather than take on the night with a mind to wrestle the outside aches for your physical attraction gaining courage from the purpose in your eyes tense as the tightness of your dress' intention demanding that my hands draw from such lines the sinuous heat of pulsing flesh's invitation curved upon seeds not chaste but not quite refined which I try not loving with some cool disambiguation you left me the taste of syrup of grenadine too reputable to ripple vain red tipple eyed on a table spilt with pink gin and mandarin sharp teeth tingling a tartness into my hand sliding slowly at a tilt like drops of sweat on skin focus dwindling into the clasp of an escaping shade wrapped carefully under soft rice paper and then tucked under a heel with a pointed kick like a blade only to feel you relent and burst open soft in appeal again and again
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I may not do things traditionally But I'll get them done eventually If they're the things that are right for me I'll be okay and set myself free. In this life of turbulent strife pitted and ripe with rotten tripe a sunlight bright pains my sight but your soothing ice cools my vice The aid you paid is not ready made it gives me hope I'm not just a dope your love is more than a pity rope, slivered and raw it gives me splinters But luckily i'm in for a treat more than a friend sent to mend oh yes, you're more, my candy store settle my sweet tooth you randy ***** unwrap the rainbow you insane ***** ride the rhythm of my *** prism a rod shaped crystal built like a missile cocked locked and loaded it cant miss-ya. explodin' and remoldin' the fabric of time an infinite blanket wraps us entwined in a frantic romantic purely satanic ritual of reality, the utmost sensuality.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 11:51 AM UTC
Raunchy Surprise
this is just another ******* **** poem why just another **** poem? you sit there and think why talk about this so often when the economy is collapsing and children are starving and there's a possibility of a world war 3? but guess what ****** this poem isn't for you its for those who's souls have been tied down and beaten for those who have lost all hope for those who have been told that its "all their fault" to them, this poem isn't just another ******* **** poem it is their savior poem the one thing that points out the ****** up things like double standards and victim blaming it may give them the push that will break the ropes that hold their souls down this is the poem that will restore hope for those who have given up because society has given up them and tossed them away like a used ****** and I will continue writing other ******* **** poems until my mother stops telling me to not forget my mace until I dont have to pay for 500$ self defense classes, on the off chance that hey, maybe I wont be ***** tonight. until im not blamed for being attacked until my ****** is not pitted for his football carer being ended prematurely until I can dress like a **** and get home safely I will continue writing **** poems until I have nothing ******* left to write about
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:36 PM UTC
Just another ******* **** poem
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 7:59 PM UTC
NȺƶȺɍɇŧħ FɍȺǥmɇnŧs
Ash to mouth divide north and south east and west, shout  with class of Scout let it out with griffin clout we here we out , hear me out — rhymes in time without silent shrines to mime cleared the crowd covered eyes and mouth over body desert shroud if vengeance is your business then from swords to plow en lakesh an eye for an eye binds the all to be blind but you can’t unsee the signs no thoughts unclouded by loss out the window I toss mosaic fragments that cost health and awesome sauce Nazareth gutted commandments by anarchy spelled disaster after culture massive ego it swell up the road ahead a pit depress the juncture so we spit the dirt divide just to touch the other from pup to wolf so many bites, a pitted puncture so much disfunct the fight till all be winded lungs sir you can run but  from gamma ray you no hide passed a black hole wand inside a body died but it’s alright (it’s heaven sight till Zombie night ) animate dead necromantic black ring the rhythm of life and death a chronic swing the pendulum blade cross over cosmic skin consciousness draw out from within traced the win which wound round tat to skeleton a dusty tome bound and crafted man medicine subtracted by the head that spin in the sky and its happening, blessen-ings the miracle is mystery u cant guess it talking 3 eye see talking vip climb high as canopy walking so my shadow lands under me. ten toes touch to the dusty roads when toads appear throats close mighta had the Midas touch still the golden one was too much to flush you might live in Laos you my livid crowd you might live it now neva hit my limit how cause you live in now when you wake up proud timid mind plowed divid-dine fill the cloud insta crowd wowed this I vowed
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palace of lights caved blooms through the body like reality pitted against a comic book not knowing where life came from not knowing how it will end food tubes or road **** is creation substance-less? 24 carat nonsense, or pure wisdom? perhaps bad therapy for lab animals and store front dummies monkeys shudder at needles unless candied with a heroine syringe chemistry a science of belligerence and euphoria pleasure before despair and than a sea of pain and a **** impaling her the lushly contoured female a frictionless exchange of power for ******* ecstatic death as her eyes bob and flutter like cascading echo's my birth tarot card **** of swords her favorite when I push through her like blood bubble gum b l o o d b u b b a b u b b le g u m a **** cathedral of lights flicker spit guttural diphthong like a vipers castanets uterine fire bursts like an appendix bomb her **** a zoo c u n t z o o i am peanuts worms and hay her face a mask to hide behind breath play sibilant **** specter or nightmares shadows and villains aphrodiac gagged and drugged hot ***** bound a big eyed **** s l u t l o v e *** cannibals turn me on her ****** a goddess a Russian roulette for shtttty kisses sploosh she shot me cuckoo spit k o cuck  k o  k o o twizzles willie milk in a drowning moss draped moon orifice under a shattered zodiac wrapped in tentacles of night she turns me on
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Feb 9, 2019
Feb 9, 2019 at 1:44 PM UTC
She Turns Me On...Cunt Zoo Manga
From space you can see it it's really that huge a structure of cosmic dimensions, and yet it was built before JCB or other earth moving pretensions. These days we may feel we cannot make change with mankind pitted brother 'gainst brother. But The Great Wall of China shows what we can do by just putting one brick on another. Taken from Alternative Poetry Books - Yellow edition by Michele Brenton/banana the poet - published by Endaxi Press
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Nov 1, 2009
Nov 1, 2009 at 7:14 AM UTC
The Great Wall of China
Like some pitted, coal-black dragon egg, it sits among the other fruits, exuding weight. It draws my eyes away from the obsequious apple and banal pear, its shape curving elegantly between their contours. As my hand clasps around it, I feel its skin of sinful reptilian texture. As I place it upon the cutting board, a hundred possibilities spring to mind. What will I do with this trove that lies before me? I will take a knife in one hand and the avocado in the other. I know that, like gold it will be heavy, and will feel soft without being so. The knife breaks the skin. Never has so smooth a wound been made, as the blade circumnavigates the centre. And with a twist, it falls open. A blinding springtime dawns on my eyes, revolving around a dark sun, and the absence of one. So perfect these halves look, side by side, the only two pieces of a sultry puzzle. There is no blast of stinging scents. They are the enigmatic philanthropists of the fruit world, bestowing their riches quietly, without great shows of favour. The first long, horizontal slice slides free and lies, curving wonderfully in and out. Fingers reach down and arm moves up, lips part. The moment the vibrant green meets desiring red, I breathe again. Nothing else in this world has such a wealth of subtle freshness, or spreads as soft as morning sunlight. And yet it is never airy or thin, but carries an embracing gravity. I open my eyes. The rest of the fertile crescent awaits me.
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Sep 12, 2014
Sep 12, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
Avocado
Sere and yellow, Rough and round, [bright pebbles in a mound] Pitted and mellow, Winding our necks round, We wore them. Amber beads unearthed from clay, Fashioned by my artist love, Glowing yellow, filled with day, Captures sunbeams from above. I still love them. Some say gods have made these, To ensnare the light of Sun, But we women saved these, In memory & hope of sons, We keep them. Fat & smooth as butter, We turned them in our hands. The bone beads scraped with madder, The amber just with sand. Those of shadowy carnelian Embedded like a shield, We treasure as we fear them, Like wounds on battlefields. The others soaked with brownish earth, Sere and yellow, Rough and round, [bright pebbles in a mound] Pitted and mellow, Winding our necks round, We wore them. So, when we are dead, take not from us, These rounded, golden suns, But bury them with us, with sword and severed buss, To revere the slaughtered ones, Who never returned to us. Revised November 15, 2016
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Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 at 8:55 AM UTC
Amber Beads - Inspired by Giles Watson's photography
I find myself on uncertain ground, Straddling an impossible horizon. On one side is day, where my consciousness thrives On the other is night, where fatigue claims its prize. For years, it seems, I have longed for sleep, For a reprieve from wakefulness, and the sun’s piercing light, But now, as I stand astride this unlikely fission, I fear what awaits within night’s unyielding prison. The darkness has beckoned, calling me forth Even now, its sweet siren reigns down on my soul, Oh, how easy, to just close my eyes and let my thoughts be consumed, The promise of nothingness nearly impossible to refuse. But my silhouette on the ground reminds me of light, And I owe it to myself, past and future alike To reconsider day and all it provides, Before I make a choice, here, where two opposites collide. I can remember hope, and the anticipation of greatness, But also despair and nights spent alone. Laughter and desire, pitted against resentment, An ever-tipping balance between dissatisfaction and contentment. No, it’s just not enough for me to fully commit, I’d much prefer blackness and its long-awaited calm, Yes...I will forget about day and its promise of grief, Instead, I’ll take night and its selfless offer of relief. Just one step forward and I'll be forever engulfed in silence, But first I’ll rest here for just one second longer- I need to say goodbye to day and pay respects to light, Then I'll go forth, and forget this place where day leads unto night.
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 3:05 PM UTC
Precipice
I find myself on uncertain ground, Straddling an impossible horizon. On one side is day, where my consciousness thrives On the other is night, where fatigue claims its prize. For years, it seems, I have longed for sleep, For a reprieve from wakefulness, and the sun’s piercing light, But now, as I stand astride this unlikely fission, I fear what awaits within night’s unyielding prison. The darkness has beckoned, calling me forth Even now, its sweet siren reigns down on my soul, Oh, how easy, to just close my eyes and let my thoughts be consumed, The promise of nothingness nearly impossible to refuse. But my silhouette on the ground reminds me of light, And I owe it to myself, past and future alike To reconsider day and all it provides, Before I make a choice, here, where two opposites collide. I can remember hope, and the anticipation of greatness, But also despair and nights spent alone. Laughter and desire, pitted against resentment, An ever-tipping balance between dissatisfaction and contentment. No, it’s just not enough for me to fully commit, I’d much prefer blackness and its long-awaited calm, Yes...I will forget about day and its promise of grief, Instead, I’ll take night and its selfless offer of relief. Just one step forward and I'll be forever engulfed in silence, But first I’ll rest here for just one second longer- I need to say goodbye to day and pay respects to light, Then I'll go forth, and forget this place where day leads unto night.
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in ashes hidden, smoulders god of love from matted dancer's focus conflagration purely come continues still perhaps in empty homage of a sa ta na ma personage of ((Shiva)) white bones pierce the sky in upward curtain-seethes of heat beyond imagined burning hells... the triad ventures into zero-zones of anti-life, sands of absolute defeat. shadow trust imparts a silent teacher's mantras; soothing psychic words, "Bala" and "Adi-Bala" carry over dunes of morbid thirst-- the gape of ancient serpent-maws choking dust of frightened, elephantine skeletons fissured by immobile sun-- their inner sound become cool water of a summer stream in timeless desert, traverses strain of royal line: god-fated tutelage of seedling savior, lightning skill with bow and virtue sinew shining arms horizon's arid form: despite begrudging honor kings expect when offspring given after years in hard-earned sacrificial grace: yet still obeisance ends in facing demonaic rage to which is pitted youth to slay-- despite allay by symbol feminine, as if to question her abode would conjure her in dire storm and quake announce gigantic step and hairy gulf-- with arrow sprays destroy Thataka's trident, curdling throat the slitting of, rejoicing pantheon proclaims heroic, forever railing under epic breath of tacit page theodical: "we gave you progeny, now grant us our theocracy; before your son our asthras lay their weaponry" .
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Aug 12, 2012
Aug 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM UTC
Rama's inauguration, facing the murderous gluttony of Thataka
Deceit comes in so many disguise Caught unaware by its stealth blow Shaking the core of your belief Leaving you no ground to stand on Relentless deceit, so many layers Coming in the garb of trusted Conceited, it takes pride in hurting Deceit is conniving for fresh strike Tearing away the soul and its existence It has thrived through centuries Launched many warring factions Pitted against each other, thirsty for blood For deceit will always draw blood Silently bleeding the heart of its feelings Deceit always innovates, with new disguise
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 2:47 AM UTC
Deceit
LIFE is a bunch of berries...... some sweet...some sour..... some crushed....some pitted.... some green....some...blushing...pink.... some pearly black..... lets gather them up...... for life looks great when served together.....
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM UTC
life's platter
an aerosol angel with college-ruled wings and paint stained fingertips stranded in a sea of pigmentation lately, she's been feeling out of place not all compasses point due north a parrot in a sea of sharks who's never learned to sail they're selling tickets to the shit-show on the shore line catch the half priced sunday matanee save the date a trapeze ******* with a choke hold on the universe's coat tails tap dancing through star charts and love poems at the pace of lightning's strike some failures just have to be public if lessons are to be learned the prettiest ballerinas aren't afraid to fall she's learned the hard way to find beauty in skinned knees strength in stubbed toes and faith in a broken heart no point in dressing up, honey prince charming doesn't frequent freak shows he's an arrogant flake, anyway her best bet is a strong man or a fire breather when looking for a boy to bring home one man to bare her burdens and another to scortch the wreckage of what's left careful what you wish for butterflies the size of funnel cakes shake her rib cage to pieces silver confetti on pitted pavement he looked so handsome beneath the neon lights horrified and ecstatic all at once like a lost boy in neverland scanning the crowd of strangers for any possible princess tiger lillie's someone to ride alongside on the ferris wheel all night untill the sheriff shines his flashlight down the path that points them home alone but handsome boys know little about matters other than themselves so she's gotten good at feeling bad it's time to find a man someone who can build things instead of just break them
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Nov 19, 2012
Nov 19, 2012 at 3:17 PM UTC
carousel.
an aerosol angel with college-ruled wings and paint stained fingertips stranded in a sea of pigmentation lately, she's been feeling out of place not all compasses point due north a parrot in a sea of sharks who's never learned to sail they're selling tickets to the shit-show on the shore line catch the half priced sunday matanee save the date a trapeze ******* with a choke hold on the universe's coat tails tap dancing through star charts and love poems at the pace of lightning's strike some failures just have to be public if lessons are to be learned the prettiest ballerinas aren't afraid to fall she's learned the hard way to find beauty in skinned knees strength in stubbed toes and faith in a broken heart no point in dressing up, honey prince charming doesn't frequent freak shows he's an arrogant flake, anyway her best bet is a strong man or a fire breather when looking for a boy to bring home one man to bare her burdens and another to scortch the wreckage of what's left careful what you wish for butterflies the size of funnel cakes shake her rib cage to pieces silver confetti on pitted pavement he looked so handsome beneath the neon lights horrified and ecstatic all at once like a lost boy in neverland scanning the crowd of strangers for any possible princess tiger lillie's someone to ride alongside on the ferris wheel all night untill the sheriff shines his flashlight down the path that points them home alone but handsome boys know little about matters other than themselves so she's gotten good at feeling bad it's time to find a man someone who can build things instead of just break them
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she touched up untended walls all alone, no party assembled attempting to create reactions with her color selection and inspire sunken eyes with the antonym for "you are worthless" and "no one cares" ...but the paint is peeling and her motivation runs constant as she prepares her endurance to spackle and smooth grooved surfaces prime marks and hide pitted edges to place appropriate strokes adequately and try a little color contrast on previously blended door and window trim ...but the paint is peeling now bubbles form and fall flakily at her feet as a sleight of hand starts its mischief of defacing the layers of her self-affirmation with synonyms for the premature initiative she displayed so, she drops her tools and starts peeling removing the pain that is hindering her renewal and covering the constant decay correctly working toward a strengthened surface that maintains its finish against the cruelest force and accepts loving, touches without turning them to criticism.
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Jan 22, 2011
Jan 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM UTC
Peeling Paint
I'd watched the hills drink the last colour of light, All shapes grow bright and wane on the pale air, Till down the traitorous east there came the night And swept the circle of my seeing bare; Its intimate beauty like a wanton's veil Tore from the void as from an empty face. I felt at being's rim all being fail, And my one body pitted against space. O heart more frightened than a wild bird's wings Beating at green, now is no fiery mark Left on the quiet nothingness of things. Be self no more against the flooding dark; There thousandwise, sown in that cloudy blot, Stars that are worlds look out and see you not.
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Thought's End
You mispronounce my name You forget I'm lefthanded I think this is just me I think this is one-sided Your warmth has dissipated It left a hardness Inside my chest, Like a plum Now pitted and pruned But I still hope To see you soon
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 8:41 AM UTC
One-sided
"Black Man Murders White Cop!" "White Man Shoots Up Black Church!" "School Shooter Targets Christians!" Media paints the canvas of The world in black and white. The canvas is torn and taped Back together; the cracks filled In and covered up, like they were Never there. Ignorance is bliss, and What isn't seen isn't there, right? Unfortunately, the thirst for Hatred erased all of the Colors of the rainbow, and Pitted the remaining, black and White, against each other. It's impossible to paint the entire World in one color and expect It to be beautiful, unique, diverse. One cannot just take away the colors That are vital to such a masterpiece.
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Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 6:33 PM UTC
America's Thirst
Open up my Ribs and drink my soup With your mouth directly over my stomach I don't think that I'd taste like anything though but as long as Daddy is able to enjoy it Drink up the yellow chunks of fat from my body Stick a straw in my veins and drink me until I am dry Even my innards: stuff them, cut them, and then bake them right up Although my body is about to drop from my Daddy I'm Sorry, but I don't think this is a good idea! A stranger, Onii-san, told me He pitted my collapsing body and took me by the hand away~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be a bad kid Forgive me please, Forgive me Please! Poor Pitiful Me. I'm sorry, Sayonara I'm a bad kid running from Daddy I'm sorry, Forgive me please! I'm afraid I'm in love with someone other than my Daddy! Onii-san greedily pours my Amniotic Fluids down his throat He cuts open my body and touches all the insides He doesn't eat me and he doesn't even fight me He said that my collapsing body is too ugly for anything I'm Sorry, but I don't think this is a good idea! Onii-san, he must hate me My collapsing body is just too disgusting Seal me away and that shall be my ending~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be such a useless kid Forgive me please, forgive me please! I'm too scared to be alone! I'm sorry, Sayonara I'm a bad kid now running to Daddy I'm sorry, Forgive me please! I can't love anyone other than my cruel Daddy! When I went home, Daddy was with lots of men They said they believed I would come home They wanted to eat what was left of my broken body That was what they had said~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be a bad kid Forgive me please, Forgive me Please! Poor Pitiful Me. I'm sorry, is it yummy? That is the flavor of a warm heart I'm sorry, although it hurts please eat my fulfilled Heart! I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be such a useless kid Forgive me please, forgive me please! I'm too scared to be alone! I'm sorry, it hurts too much but as long as you are able to enjoy eating I'm so happy! Sayonara Everyone Else, Come help yourselves to anything but my heart!
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM UTC
I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry (Redo!)
Open up my Ribs and drink my soup With your mouth directly over my stomach I don't think that I'd taste like anything though but as long as Daddy is able to enjoy it Drink up the yellow chunks of fat from my body Stick a straw in my veins and drink me until I am dry Even my innards: stuff them, cut them, and then bake them right up Although my body is about to drop from my Daddy I'm Sorry, but I don't think this is a good idea! A stranger, Onii-san, told me He pitted my collapsing body and took me by the hand away~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be a bad kid Forgive me please, Forgive me Please! Poor Pitiful Me. I'm sorry, Sayonara I'm a bad kid running from Daddy I'm sorry, Forgive me please! I'm afraid I'm in love with someone other than my Daddy! Onii-san greedily pours my Amniotic Fluids down his throat He cuts open my body and touches all the insides He doesn't eat me and he doesn't even fight me He said that my collapsing body is too ugly for anything I'm Sorry, but I don't think this is a good idea! Onii-san, he must hate me My collapsing body is just too disgusting Seal me away and that shall be my ending~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be such a useless kid Forgive me please, forgive me please! I'm too scared to be alone! I'm sorry, Sayonara I'm a bad kid now running to Daddy I'm sorry, Forgive me please! I can't love anyone other than my cruel Daddy! When I went home, Daddy was with lots of men They said they believed I would come home They wanted to eat what was left of my broken body That was what they had said~ I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be a bad kid Forgive me please, Forgive me Please! Poor Pitiful Me. I'm sorry, is it yummy? That is the flavor of a warm heart I'm sorry, although it hurts please eat my fulfilled Heart! I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I must be such a useless kid Forgive me please, forgive me please! I'm too scared to be alone! I'm sorry, it hurts too much but as long as you are able to enjoy eating I'm so happy! Sayonara Everyone Else, Come help yourselves to anything but my heart!
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Four girls sit cross-legged On cold pitted concrete It’s always cold here Their rear-ends frozen Bare ankles growing sore Pouring over textbooks Finishing today’s homework or Tomorrow’s. Hope there’s no pop quiz. They nod In unison I didn’t study Neither did I The other two stare At their books nonplussed Their papers scattered, a ruler and a pen Out of the library and into the cold arrives The fifth She looks about and sees A grey curl A long head A heavy tail It’s soft, someone thought, as she saw the raised leg Which came down fierce like lightning, A defiant, queerly polished white saddle-shoe One of two strange shoes That looked like no one else’s but why? Flattened the entirety into the cold, cold concrete The meteorite that destroyed a species of one. Conjoined twins, now dead There’s no way we can repair it Can’t even peel it away The custodian will have to scrap it off with a blade and wash it down We laughed All but one.
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 12:23 AM UTC
Junior High School Ceramic Assault
i thought that discovering who i was would come as a relief. i thought that (as foolish as it was) i would live in a world of bright lights and love, acceptance and home. but no. it came in the form of a trial of the heart, held by the conscience. it came in the form of hatred and fear, towards myself and others. it came with a world of danger, a world pitted against my being. it came with guilt, convulsing inside me, giving me bad posture. it came in the blood running down my arms, my legs it came with pain. it was Pandora's box: The Sequel and in the place of hope was joy. but I can't allow myself to feel that yet.
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Jun 14, 2021
Jun 14, 2021 at 7:10 AM UTC
ftm
I’m here in my mask; I only wear it on good days, A mask to hide the scars; The scars of my life and yours, Reflecting away my fear; Ever present yet unseen. I’m here in my mask; I wish I wore you more often, Without expression or feeling; Undeterred by glaring eyes, Hiding unkindly shadows; Silent and passionless. I’m here in my mask; Another lonely hidden day, Sharp yet poker face grey; Unbetraying to all my secrets, Shrouded in mystery, Afraid to feel; to live. I’m here in my mask; Yet tire of the truths you hide, Every-time I wear you; You fit less comfortably, Pitted with imperfections; Cracking like the man beneath. I’m here in my mask; But for how much longer? Dissolving before my eyes; One day I will take you off, Lower my guard and reveal; The mask beneath you.
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 11:29 PM UTC
My Mask
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom? You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method. She always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really, she was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember her? …of course you wouldn’t. You would have her more like this: That weird nerd who doesn’t talk to anyone. has long hair and draws on his pants, is awkward in every conceivable way - and possibly gay. He spends all day in his notebook, writing who-knows-what. Who cares - - about what his dreams were? He was just another background character in your life. There was one time you cheered him on, at the hot-dog eating contest. The only time you ever touched his hand was to give him a high five for that. You always pitted him. silently. Never out loud. She was there. Hiding behind his eyes. And she loved you. As much as one could love someone in seventh grade. But you never loved her. You couldn’t have. She didn’t even know she existed yet.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM UTC
Remember Her? (extended)
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom? You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method. She always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really, she was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember her? …of course you wouldn’t. You would have her more like this: That weird nerd who doesn’t talk to anyone. has long hair and draws on his pants, is awkward in every conceivable way - and possibly gay. He spends all day in his notebook, writing who-knows-what. Who cares - - about what his dreams were? He was just another background character in your life. There was one time you cheered him on, at the hot-dog eating contest. The only time you ever touched his hand was to give him a high five for that. You always pitted him. silently. Never out loud. She was there. Hiding behind his eyes. And she loved you. As much as one could love someone in seventh grade. But you never loved her. You couldn’t have. She didn’t even know she existed yet.
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Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman **** and go free to **** again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
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Chicago
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman **** and go free to **** again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
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Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 12:31 PM UTC
Swiss Cheese
Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. W.B. YEATS * * * * * * My soul looked down from a vague height, with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth, Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe, And pitted with great pocks and scabs of plagues. Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire, There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled. It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed. By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped Round myriad warts that might be little hills. From gloom's last dregs these long-strung creatures crept, And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes. (And smell came up from those foul openings As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.) On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings, towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire. Those that were gray, of more abundant spawns, Ramped on the rest and ate them and were eaten. I saw their bitten backs curve, loop and straighten. I watched those agonies curl, lift, and flatten. Whereat, in terror what that sight might mean, I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, bur crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head
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The Show
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. W.B. YEATS * * * * * * My soul looked down from a vague height, with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth, Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe, And pitted with great pocks and scabs of plagues. Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire, There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled. It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed. By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped Round myriad warts that might be little hills. From gloom's last dregs these long-strung creatures crept, And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes. (And smell came up from those foul openings As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.) On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings, towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire. Those that were gray, of more abundant spawns, Ramped on the rest and ate them and were eaten. I saw their bitten backs curve, loop and straighten. I watched those agonies curl, lift, and flatten. Whereat, in terror what that sight might mean, I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, bur crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head
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