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"polos" poems
Dear Nakama...       Kau tenang saja, mulai sekarang aku tak kan marah, kesal, sedih, cemburu, iri, ataupun jengkel saat kau berhubungan dengan Dia. Aku tak apa-apa. J Dear Nakama...       Sekarang, kau bisa melakukan apa saja sesuka hatimu padanya. Toh, Aku sudah melupakan semua perasaan itu, Aku sudah bisa bangkit dari keterpurukan ini. Jadi, tak ada lagi alasan untuk mu menjauhkan? Dear Nakama...       Aku merindukanmu, Tak ingin melihat kau seperti ini, mengapa kau seperti ini? L Dear Nakama...       Bukankah, kita sudah saling berjanji takkan pernah saling menyakiti,  akan terus menghubungi dan jangan sampai hilang hubungan? Dan sekarang, Aku ingin menagih janji itu... Dear Nakama...       Aku di sini sedang sedih. Tapi semoga, Kau baik-baik saja... Dear Nakama...       Apakah aku tidak boleh mengetahui keadaanmu? Tapi, bukankah itu suatu hal yang wajar di antara hubungan persahabatan? Aku tak mau kehilangan “TEMANKU”, aku tak mau kehilangan “SAHABATKU”, dan Aku tak mau kehilangan “KAKAKKU”...  :’( Dear Nakama...       Selama ini hanya Kau orang yang bisa mengerti Aku, mempercayaiku, dan menyayangiku dengan setulus hati. Akupun Selalu berusaha agar bisa menjadi seperti itu... Dear Nakama...       Setiap hari aku menimbun sedih, menyembunyikan sakit, menampung rindu, menabung kekecewaan, mengumpulkan kegelisahan, dan terus menelan air mata hanya untukmu... Dear Nakama...       Pandanganku kabur, pergerakanku kaku, kakiku lesu, tanganku beku, lidahku kelu, air mata terus jatuh, dan sesaat aku merasa duniaku runtuh ketika mengetahui kau sedang berusaha menjauh... Dear Nakama...       Apa yang harus ku lakukan agar kau mau kembali seperti dulu? Saat-saat di mana Aku belum mengenalnya, saat-saat di mana aku masih menjadi gadis kecil yang polos dan tidak mengenal cinta, saat-saat di mana kita sering berbincang tentang kartun kesukaan kita! Dear Nakama...       Aku minta maaf, jelas-jelas ini salahku. Dan bodohnya lagi, Aku baru menyadarinya sekarang. Maafkan Aku jika Aku melakukan kesalahan yang membuatmu tersakiti. Kesalahan yang di sengaja maupun tidak di sengaja... Semoga kau berkenan untuk memaafkanku... Sahabatmu : Haruna J
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 5:52 PM UTC
Dear NAKAMA
Dear Nakama...       Kau tenang saja, mulai sekarang aku tak kan marah, kesal, sedih, cemburu, iri, ataupun jengkel saat kau berhubungan dengan Dia. Aku tak apa-apa. J Dear Nakama...       Sekarang, kau bisa melakukan apa saja sesuka hatimu padanya. Toh, Aku sudah melupakan semua perasaan itu, Aku sudah bisa bangkit dari keterpurukan ini. Jadi, tak ada lagi alasan untuk mu menjauhkan? Dear Nakama...       Aku merindukanmu, Tak ingin melihat kau seperti ini, mengapa kau seperti ini? L Dear Nakama...       Bukankah, kita sudah saling berjanji takkan pernah saling menyakiti,  akan terus menghubungi dan jangan sampai hilang hubungan? Dan sekarang, Aku ingin menagih janji itu... Dear Nakama...       Aku di sini sedang sedih. Tapi semoga, Kau baik-baik saja... Dear Nakama...       Apakah aku tidak boleh mengetahui keadaanmu? Tapi, bukankah itu suatu hal yang wajar di antara hubungan persahabatan? Aku tak mau kehilangan “TEMANKU”, aku tak mau kehilangan “SAHABATKU”, dan Aku tak mau kehilangan “KAKAKKU”...  :’( Dear Nakama...       Selama ini hanya Kau orang yang bisa mengerti Aku, mempercayaiku, dan menyayangiku dengan setulus hati. Akupun Selalu berusaha agar bisa menjadi seperti itu... Dear Nakama...       Setiap hari aku menimbun sedih, menyembunyikan sakit, menampung rindu, menabung kekecewaan, mengumpulkan kegelisahan, dan terus menelan air mata hanya untukmu... Dear Nakama...       Pandanganku kabur, pergerakanku kaku, kakiku lesu, tanganku beku, lidahku kelu, air mata terus jatuh, dan sesaat aku merasa duniaku runtuh ketika mengetahui kau sedang berusaha menjauh... Dear Nakama...       Apa yang harus ku lakukan agar kau mau kembali seperti dulu? Saat-saat di mana Aku belum mengenalnya, saat-saat di mana aku masih menjadi gadis kecil yang polos dan tidak mengenal cinta, saat-saat di mana kita sering berbincang tentang kartun kesukaan kita! Dear Nakama...       Aku minta maaf, jelas-jelas ini salahku. Dan bodohnya lagi, Aku baru menyadarinya sekarang. Maafkan Aku jika Aku melakukan kesalahan yang membuatmu tersakiti. Kesalahan yang di sengaja maupun tidak di sengaja... Semoga kau berkenan untuk memaafkanku... Sahabatmu : Haruna J
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When news broke out that the glorious White Building was to become dust to make way for a high rise that would displace both bones and ghosts, we were standing in a parking lot, my friends’ fists clutched tight around their motorcycle handles, their rapid Khmer lilting with each syllable as they quickly planned a memorial service for another shard of history that once did not have blood dripping from where it had been broken. My nickname was Country Girl, clueless and silly, full of questions, songs and dances, a patched-up mess with the face of a Vietnamese, the laugh of a Filipino, and the pride of a maybe, sometimes, almost Khmer. We left just as the city was starting to wake again. In journalism school, they never taught us how to grieve for ourselves, so we tried in the best way we knew how -- a funeral procession of worn rubber shoes and checkered polos, in our backpacks the cameras that would write our eulogies for us. I was the stranger whose connection to the deceased no one understood, but still let in, taught me a prayer, offered some porridge. That afternoon, I whispered a prayer. White Building, who stares death in the face, once a mother to the hands that had colored their age gold, please welcome me. Do not let your skeleton collapse beneath the weight of this stranger. Please, welcome me.
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Aug 27, 2021
Aug 27, 2021 at 2:10 AM UTC
Pyre
I was moving out Parked my bike down the street With a cart hinged on the bolt beneath the rusty pole connected to my seat. The yard was steep, and the stairs leading down the front Vanished each car- go carrying trip of dictionaries and travel guides that could have been lumped together in boxes separately tossed into the neon green synthetic fiber rain-proof buggy Connected to my seat. I ran across the lawn, one last time Buckling the watch I found from high school remembering it’s broken and not caring then I saw men wearing polos beneath Greek symbols beneath a doorway and held my breath as they stared at me. This vacant lot held something which I carried back to find my bike was gone, replaced by a life-sized depiction of a bike saying “no bikes--” A girl inside, explaining where I could find mine I walked down the grey spiral of handicapped access ramps surrounded by aquariums or tvs which comprised the store's interior. The last ramp faced an exit and went straight past refrigerators next to vending machines In the alley behind this office supply store were two old men Roasting my bike on a chain beside the others Disconnected, hung its tires lying on the ground beside their feet and the carriage slung aside like a bloodied gazelle's neck. “What the **** A woman got into my face “don’t use that word” ***** a perfectly good word, after all, it’s how we got here” One man smiled. He felt bad. They helped me put the bike together and I walked it back to my house. I saw my car down the street. I thought about the long trip to the interstate and wondered why I’d rode my bike Then I went back up the stairs of the blue sided hill, to see the roommate I hated and thought about stealing his SNES and stereo but took only my one possession and walked past rotting turkey bacon in a plastic pouch on the top of a table beside some legos and left.
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Apr 22, 2012
Apr 22, 2012 at 1:21 PM UTC
Dream April 22
I was moving out Parked my bike down the street With a cart hinged on the bolt beneath the rusty pole connected to my seat. The yard was steep, and the stairs leading down the front Vanished each car- go carrying trip of dictionaries and travel guides that could have been lumped together in boxes separately tossed into the neon green synthetic fiber rain-proof buggy Connected to my seat. I ran across the lawn, one last time Buckling the watch I found from high school remembering it’s broken and not caring then I saw men wearing polos beneath Greek symbols beneath a doorway and held my breath as they stared at me. This vacant lot held something which I carried back to find my bike was gone, replaced by a life-sized depiction of a bike saying “no bikes--” A girl inside, explaining where I could find mine I walked down the grey spiral of handicapped access ramps surrounded by aquariums or tvs which comprised the store's interior. The last ramp faced an exit and went straight past refrigerators next to vending machines In the alley behind this office supply store were two old men Roasting my bike on a chain beside the others Disconnected, hung its tires lying on the ground beside their feet and the carriage slung aside like a bloodied gazelle's neck. “What the **** A woman got into my face “don’t use that word” ***** a perfectly good word, after all, it’s how we got here” One man smiled. He felt bad. They helped me put the bike together and I walked it back to my house. I saw my car down the street. I thought about the long trip to the interstate and wondered why I’d rode my bike Then I went back up the stairs of the blue sided hill, to see the roommate I hated and thought about stealing his SNES and stereo but took only my one possession and walked past rotting turkey bacon in a plastic pouch on the top of a table beside some legos and left.
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Father, Son, Mechanic… Man, I’ve wanted to talk to you – really talk to you – for some time now. to see your face in front of me, instead of dangling from necklaces, or hanging, melancholy, over sexless couples’ beds. I’ve spent a lot of time reading all that stuff you wrote (supposedly), and I’ve enjoyed it, Man, I have. but I keep wanting it to be a letter, when in the end it’s just a bipartisan explanation – an engineer’s guide to building a pretty vehicle around a faulty engine. I always see you, arms spread, sprawled across the older bitter-america’s steering wheel. my mama would tease me, saying you’d want me to help some day. but you and your cronies drove me like a beat-down El Camino, joyfully taking me through wrong turns and bumpy streets waiting for my chassis to split. and once I ran out of gas to offer, you refused to touch me at all, letting me rot in your cobweb garage. and all those ******* in turtlenecks and polos popped, they’ve gleefully branded your logo on their chemical biceps and gaily explain how close you were. how they knew you like no one else did, how you guys didn’t have a connection, but a relationship. people should only let their mechanics touch their cars, though, and keep their innards free of oily fingers. to be honest, I don’t think I’ll be coming back to this establishment again. it’s a little too clean for my taste, and your prices are way to high especially when all you get is a little peace of mind and a sense of humbled grandeur. don’t worry about the car, though – you can keep it. you’ve sort of spoiled all its good intentions, so I’ll be buying a new one sometime soon. I guess I’ll be taking a taxi. No, actually. I’ll hitchhike home.
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Jul 12, 2010
Jul 12, 2010 at 11:20 PM UTC
Father, Son, Mechanic...
Father, Son, Mechanic… Man, I’ve wanted to talk to you – really talk to you – for some time now. to see your face in front of me, instead of dangling from necklaces, or hanging, melancholy, over sexless couples’ beds. I’ve spent a lot of time reading all that stuff you wrote (supposedly), and I’ve enjoyed it, Man, I have. but I keep wanting it to be a letter, when in the end it’s just a bipartisan explanation – an engineer’s guide to building a pretty vehicle around a faulty engine. I always see you, arms spread, sprawled across the older bitter-america’s steering wheel. my mama would tease me, saying you’d want me to help some day. but you and your cronies drove me like a beat-down El Camino, joyfully taking me through wrong turns and bumpy streets waiting for my chassis to split. and once I ran out of gas to offer, you refused to touch me at all, letting me rot in your cobweb garage. and all those ******* in turtlenecks and polos popped, they’ve gleefully branded your logo on their chemical biceps and gaily explain how close you were. how they knew you like no one else did, how you guys didn’t have a connection, but a relationship. people should only let their mechanics touch their cars, though, and keep their innards free of oily fingers. to be honest, I don’t think I’ll be coming back to this establishment again. it’s a little too clean for my taste, and your prices are way to high especially when all you get is a little peace of mind and a sense of humbled grandeur. don’t worry about the car, though – you can keep it. you’ve sort of spoiled all its good intentions, so I’ll be buying a new one sometime soon. I guess I’ll be taking a taxi. No, actually. I’ll hitchhike home.
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The attendees are told, in a manner befitting a high mass You have been finally set free, (Although, in truth, free is a very large and entirely vague word), And the message is sent forth from all comers in all corners: Vendor and visionary alike, German socialists who left university to ride boats for Greenpeace, First lieutenants doing their level best To appear at ease in civilian polos and khakis, But no matter the vessel, The message is still the same.   The tyranny of cables and storage space is dead, It is all but shouted from the lecterns, (Although it is noted, in small print and sotto voce That there are certain requirements In terms of hardware and licensing) And it is stated by Those Who Know In tones which neither brook nor invite contradiction, That they have surmounted, all Hadrian-like, The alpine divide separating mere data and magic. Two or three blocks down the street from the convention center, In a narrow storefront housing an exhibition of ether-only comics Which have broken the nettling constraints Of editors and syndication, There sits, under a somewhat opaque And slightly scratched piece of plexiglass, A yellowing comic strip of uncertain vintage, In which a frowzy cat, Free of the constraints of panels, gender, and standard grammar, Is the recipient of a mouse-tossed brick Whose flight, unfettered by physics, probablility, indeed time itself Ends striking its mark right between the x’s of the eyes The projectile itself an inexplicable alchemy Of confusion, mirth, frustration And the impossibility of an undeniably pure love.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 9:29 AM UTC
in re: cloud computing and cartoon cats
The attendees are told, in a manner befitting a high mass You have been finally set free, (Although, in truth, free is a very large and entirely vague word), And the message is sent forth from all comers in all corners: Vendor and visionary alike, German socialists who left university to ride boats for Greenpeace, First lieutenants doing their level best To appear at ease in civilian polos and khakis, But no matter the vessel, The message is still the same.   The tyranny of cables and storage space is dead, It is all but shouted from the lecterns, (Although it is noted, in small print and sotto voce That there are certain requirements In terms of hardware and licensing) And it is stated by Those Who Know In tones which neither brook nor invite contradiction, That they have surmounted, all Hadrian-like, The alpine divide separating mere data and magic. Two or three blocks down the street from the convention center, In a narrow storefront housing an exhibition of ether-only comics Which have broken the nettling constraints Of editors and syndication, There sits, under a somewhat opaque And slightly scratched piece of plexiglass, A yellowing comic strip of uncertain vintage, In which a frowzy cat, Free of the constraints of panels, gender, and standard grammar, Is the recipient of a mouse-tossed brick Whose flight, unfettered by physics, probablility, indeed time itself Ends striking its mark right between the x’s of the eyes The projectile itself an inexplicable alchemy Of confusion, mirth, frustration And the impossibility of an undeniably pure love.
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White polos and navy blue pants and skirts paraded through the narrow classroom door. Red and yellow chairs pushed back from the small wooden desks, Neon tennis ***** stopping them from scuffing the floor. "Waxing floors is so **** expensive," The principle whispered to the wide-eyed teacher. Backs turned to the large ears on the small bodies. Nose deep into the latest Barnes & Noble purchase, Fear struck me as the two gray haired women ushered me into the hall Where two navy blue pants and one navy blue skirt stood, Eyes mirroring each other’s knowledge. “Now apologize.” Embarrassment burned red in the six cheeks That mumbled confessions to their victim A victim unaware she had been voted most blessed in the chest Oblivious to the whispers of nerd, pizza face, and giraffe Brace face, frizzy haired freak, and loser Friday’s vocabulary quiz asked what the definition for friends was. I left it blank.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 1:15 AM UTC
Untitled
Kanye West made me think polos were cool. I thought playing rap music while wearing polos would make me into a rapper. And then I turned into a tennis player. Tennis got me out of the hood. Let it be known. I could have went to court, and instead I chose the Tennis Court. Tennis is fun. Before it was ratchet. Now it is tennis racket. Rapping was fun. Bernie Sanders liked rap. He liked Killer Mike, and he was a phenomenal rapper. Hilary listened to me. So I don’t know what that means. I should have been a rapper, but when I saw a videotape of Arthur Ashe playing tennis for Wimbledon, I felt a yearning grow inside of my gut, and it grew until I raised my hand to my mouth to smother the scream of nostalgia that I was feeling. I wanted people to like me so I started rapping at cafeterias and bleacher stands. People drank cola and munched on popcorn as I talked about growing up in the hood of Burke. Real **** went down in the Burke. Like **** you wouldn’t believe. And that’s real. I hung out on a rooftop overlooking the city drowned in sunshine that was sad as the girl who left me. Kanye West saved me from becoming a piece of **** And even if he’s an ******* now, everyone knows he was the greatest with 808’s and Heartbreak. Robocop used to play from the car speakers, as we rolled spliffs in the front seat, the wind pouring into the windows.
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Jun 21, 2016
Jun 21, 2016 at 1:52 PM UTC
Stan
Este llano de muerte, esta tierra maldita, Este otero desnudo de costados resecos, Este páramo triste, donde el hombre que grita No encuentra un solo monte que devuelva sus ecos, Este desierto mudo, esta monotonía, Esta soledad ocre como una calavera, No nos deseperanza: sabemos todavía Que, después del estío, otoño nos espera. (¡Tener alas de pájaro. Dios mío, tener alas De pájaro!... ¡Volar hasta la mansedumbre Del mar!...¡Llegar a Ti por sus blancas escalas A quemarnos los ojos con tu divina lumbre!) Sabemos que defiendes con tu dorado escudo los trópicos dorados, los solitarios polos. Míranos, desterrados, sobre el suelo desnudo. ¡Señor, Señor, por qué nos has dejado solos!
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Llanura
Her birth name was Ryan, But she was a girl In every aspect Except the one you wanted to believe. And her older brother, His name was Simon, But we called him "D", Short for Denial. Because that was all he could do, Deny life was bad. And we loved them so much, But when the old German man died, They went to a new home, And then Reese couldn't take it, After they cut her hair And made her wear polos And jeans. No more sparkly shoes, Only white sneakers. No more pink, Only blue. So she was gone, And most of D left with her. And when he finally faded out of this world, Everything broke. In March, Literally a year later, We found his letter that he left for us. To this day, When I think of anyone I love dying, I promise myself I'll try to be with them, Because you were so alone, And I don't want anyone, Especially my Reese And Simon Jonathan Marter To feel so alone again.
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 7:09 PM UTC
D is for Denial and R is for Reese
Looks like this cursed title falls to me I’m Gatsby At least, now I am Beer money inheritance Tighter than the rope round his neck It all falls to me, no glee Just a ****** musical rolling in my head I was a kid once Little more than a dunce Friends out of my league Hiding in leaves Beyond fields of bricks hidden by empty heads Falling asleep on desks It’s lazy education Low preparation The works of leaving kids stranded In a world they’ll never get Falling far of flat In terms of getting their hands on it Giving us all a pit Just weak little gnats Blood rain leaves us wet Once again, branded Who’d have guess high school never ends In this bad sandbox Sister never knew about him He was potential personified I always new, never said a word Terribly waiting for him to take the world Finish each loose end Understand depths beyond comprehension Could never really get how he worked Killed in the end, a waste more than gold Could have done so much Underestimated, self-made, the works Never really got how it worked Tell me now, how he died Never mind, I don't wanna know Throwing me inheritance Like the father figure I never had And certainly never deserved A few years older Always sticking out his neck Now a check? Miss me with that If I wasn't strapped It’d go to wreck Just like his house At the end of this mess Robbed beyond repair Silk robes in the furnace How did he earn this A man so earnest Now he’s in the sternest prison around In the grave, like a pound for a stray Waiting for the day One shot leads to release In such a permanent way This won’t lead into peace It will lead to more delete Lives hanging in the balance Bankrupt to the finest Capacity they could have imagined But now it’s all me Suits, colors, and all Just a puppet for the crew of the ****** Whispering to me through wrinkled polos Rolling through the power vacuum And I don’t know How quickly I’ll be booted Or how long I’ll hear his voice Bouncing around in the black water in the back of my mind
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Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM UTC
Gatz
Looks like this cursed title falls to me I’m Gatsby At least, now I am Beer money inheritance Tighter than the rope round his neck It all falls to me, no glee Just a ****** musical rolling in my head I was a kid once Little more than a dunce Friends out of my league Hiding in leaves Beyond fields of bricks hidden by empty heads Falling asleep on desks It’s lazy education Low preparation The works of leaving kids stranded In a world they’ll never get Falling far of flat In terms of getting their hands on it Giving us all a pit Just weak little gnats Blood rain leaves us wet Once again, branded Who’d have guess high school never ends In this bad sandbox Sister never knew about him He was potential personified I always new, never said a word Terribly waiting for him to take the world Finish each loose end Understand depths beyond comprehension Could never really get how he worked Killed in the end, a waste more than gold Could have done so much Underestimated, self-made, the works Never really got how it worked Tell me now, how he died Never mind, I don't wanna know Throwing me inheritance Like the father figure I never had And certainly never deserved A few years older Always sticking out his neck Now a check? Miss me with that If I wasn't strapped It’d go to wreck Just like his house At the end of this mess Robbed beyond repair Silk robes in the furnace How did he earn this A man so earnest Now he’s in the sternest prison around In the grave, like a pound for a stray Waiting for the day One shot leads to release In such a permanent way This won’t lead into peace It will lead to more delete Lives hanging in the balance Bankrupt to the finest Capacity they could have imagined But now it’s all me Suits, colors, and all Just a puppet for the crew of the ****** Whispering to me through wrinkled polos Rolling through the power vacuum And I don’t know How quickly I’ll be booted Or how long I’ll hear his voice Bouncing around in the black water in the back of my mind
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Lo quiero                                                                                                                                                   Lo odio Me encanta                                                                                                                                      Me desespera Lo adoro                                                                                                                            No quiero nada con él Es mi príncipe azul                                                                                                       Es el dolor en mi trasero Es el amor de mi vida                                                                     Es la persona que más detesto en esta vida Pero, al fin del día, es lo mejor que jamás me haya pasado.                                                                         . . .
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 12:50 AM UTC
Polos opuestos
Lo quiero                                                                                                                                                   Lo odio Me encanta                                                                                                                                      Me desespera Lo adoro                                                                                                                            No quiero nada con él Es mi príncipe azul                                                                                                       Es el dolor en mi trasero Es el amor de mi vida                                                                     Es la persona que más detesto en esta vida Pero, al fin del día, es lo mejor que jamás me haya pasado.                                                                         . . .
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I stood there In the dim lights of our den A place once cherished But now otherwise ignored It had become his Hiding place His refuge for When he wouldn’t speak At those times Like right now I would stand there Behind him Delicately trailing random patterns On his sweat-soaked tee’s back He used to dress nicely Plaid polos and such But ever since she passed He was rather shoddy in his appearance; sloppy I could feel his body Rise and fall Each breath shorter and less healthy Than the last But I said nothing Simply humming softly Finally he lifted his head His pale, pallid skull Topped with slightly thinned Reddish hair It’d been so thick before Before she passed He turned slowly To face me His face was a sickly purple so unlike the warm peach It’d been when she was alive His lips were pale and chapped Unlike their previous full pink And they were shuddering violently As he tried to speak After another moment of silence Eventually he did If you’d just been Quiet He whispered In a harsh, raspy voice His now yellowed teeth that he once prided in deeply Gleamed in the den’s faded light If you had just Kept your **** mouth shut He elaborated In a sour undertone I felt my stomach sickening itself But refused to show reaction to his words If you had just been able to silence yourself for a ****** minute She would not have died I knew it was true And so I did not try to stop him as he stood He was gone within hours To accompany her To abandon me The idiot that could not keep quiet Thus now I am what you might call a Mute For silence is a friend That never betrays
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Jun 4, 2011
Jun 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM UTC
A Friend
I stood there In the dim lights of our den A place once cherished But now otherwise ignored It had become his Hiding place His refuge for When he wouldn’t speak At those times Like right now I would stand there Behind him Delicately trailing random patterns On his sweat-soaked tee’s back He used to dress nicely Plaid polos and such But ever since she passed He was rather shoddy in his appearance; sloppy I could feel his body Rise and fall Each breath shorter and less healthy Than the last But I said nothing Simply humming softly Finally he lifted his head His pale, pallid skull Topped with slightly thinned Reddish hair It’d been so thick before Before she passed He turned slowly To face me His face was a sickly purple so unlike the warm peach It’d been when she was alive His lips were pale and chapped Unlike their previous full pink And they were shuddering violently As he tried to speak After another moment of silence Eventually he did If you’d just been Quiet He whispered In a harsh, raspy voice His now yellowed teeth that he once prided in deeply Gleamed in the den’s faded light If you had just Kept your **** mouth shut He elaborated In a sour undertone I felt my stomach sickening itself But refused to show reaction to his words If you had just been able to silence yourself for a ****** minute She would not have died I knew it was true And so I did not try to stop him as he stood He was gone within hours To accompany her To abandon me The idiot that could not keep quiet Thus now I am what you might call a Mute For silence is a friend That never betrays
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I'm just waiting for something that takes my breathe away something beyond shredded couch cushions and New Jersey TV I want to see Mountains in the fullness of their splendor I want these dirt roads to mark the place where I first made love to a boy who broke my heart I want to see the sky from eye level without crying because I'm afraid of heights I want to swim in water so deep That the sharks get scared to dive there I just want to be fearless irrationally brave unbelievably foolish because my whole life up until now has been so practical Lack luster uninspired its hard to find a muse in polos and khakis and I'm tired of being tired of doing nothing
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Apr 10, 2015
Apr 10, 2015 at 1:04 PM UTC
Daydreaming
It's all the same but different, wise guys still get hints, Polos are still mints, sand castles still do best on the beach, James still has the largest peach, supercallifrilous will still be expealidousis, they'll still be osmosis, my fake sibling will still be my faux sis. They'll be dawn still & moonlight thrill & silly cats on window sill, still, still. They'll be puns on the hill & run of the mill, they'll be hibernation curl to blossoming trill, chances missed & days to rue & summer nights with joyful coo, but still's not the same without you. Because there is one less friend of cats & dogs, this little world has one less cog.
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May 22, 2015
May 22, 2015 at 3:33 PM UTC
Cog
I feel it That itching That aching That yearning To break out With a toothbrush and spare clothes And hop on a plane Or a train Become a stowaway See the world through different eyes Things are bigger than what we grew up with And culture goes beyond Pencils and polos I can observe that world of keen minds Inhaling the aroma of savory finery Find elegance Strength History In the grand scheme of things We are very small and Insignificant But we are watchers And creators So we watch and create And re-create And this is how we can change the world
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 4:51 PM UTC
The Grand Scheme of Things
It's a wonderful day. So I drink. Skies are grey when the son is away. I'm on the brink of tears. 'cause my pen's out of ink. I need ritalin with a beer.  You'll say  I've  wasted my years. But who cares if my brain's purée? This is my life and I don't need it anyway. January first, I'm out with the boys. Oh the Joys of avoirdupois. Bowing to the sink. The Popped collars on our polos, salmon pink. We drink until we can't think. She'll  take my kid away. I can't live a single man life. I still need to pay. No man's lonely without a wife. I'll visit next birthday. An unskilled worker's pride, Always fills the void inside. Dole squad can catch me. I won't have pay no fee. New year, same me. Happy 2019.
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Jan 5, 2019
Jan 5, 2019 at 8:25 PM UTC
National Sport.
Didn’t really know why I felt the way I did When I saw her it was like nothing made sense She coordinated chucks and black nail polish with Lacoste polos She belched and smoked but she hated profanity She was only in high school but she was wise beyond her years She was the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen, but she was lonely Only thing that made sense was that I liked her Did she reciprocate the same feelings? I already knew the answer And I was content Yet In the back of my mind I knew I had a chance when I first made her laugh I smiled when she told me she was into the same bands as me I fistpumped when I heard she dumped her boyfriend But then I remembered Who I am and who she was and I stopped myself Because she was the wild child And I was the awkward guy We didn’t belong together, we weren’t right for each other I stopped calling her and slowly I left her life Next day I turned on the television and I saw a couple Holding hands Walking down their street Talking about how nice the weather is And I thought to myself Why can’t the weather be good in Seattle? I called Elizabeth.
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Dec 4, 2016
Dec 4, 2016 at 5:38 PM UTC
Text?
They were country club boys who wore polos and expensive cologne riding around in cars bought with Daddy's money and sneaking to smoke cigarettes out in the edge of the woods and they would mock her they'd laugh at her for being “beneath” them for not having the proper upbringing or the nicest clothes until the shadows started to fall and night crept in it was her they came to for comfort it was she who held their secrets as they'd cry into her arms and whisper all their thoughts the boy with the crew cut who didn't want anyone to know that he liked other boys or the boy with the shaggy hair who hid the bruises where his father liked to beat him & she would cry with them for all the pain they felt even though it wasn't hers and they never looked at her in those moments like she was an object or beneath them in those sweet moments it was she who saved them from themselves from others & during the days when they'd shift their eyes and go along with the jokes she'd hide a smile because she knew this was just the image and not who they really were
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 4:09 PM UTC
country club boys
I took your sticky hand Both of us uncomfortable in long checkered jumpsuits and button down polos. That Thanksgiving we made pilgrim hats and pasta string necklaces We walked to the park through the little white gate that seemed so tall we could barely reach but now it squeaks and the bells broke. The path through the sour grass flowers is overgrown with cancerous weeds the trees are too small to climb, and the big one with roots is populated by empty teenagers making out and carving their names in our place.   This is where the bodies are buried. Where we said goodbye. Where we played, our little world of imagination filled lazy times streamed with sudzy bubbles: Popped. I’m sorry I failed you Jack. That she failed you. For giving up too soon. I know you wish she held on longer, that she fought for you and I. You moved away because she left you And I left you and so you left me, alone. You lost so much, but you got out, peeled your eyes from the flickering screen. Flashbacks of our shared childhood ripped away.
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Sep 30, 2016
Sep 30, 2016 at 8:20 PM UTC
Where the bodies are buried
Mi corazón y el océano son polos opuestos, por eso en mi corazón lo siento. Me llora cada noche por no verme, me grita con tormentas su añoranza. Yo también añoro al océano y de mis ojos surgen lágrimas saladas, sal de océano. Mi corazón se rompe y él lo sabe, el océano lo sabe todo. Sabe su soledad y sabe la mía y sabe que estamos destinados a encontrarnos. // My heart and the ocean are opposing polea, that's why in my heart I feel it. It cries me each night to see me, it cries with storms its longing. I long the ocean too and from my eyes salty tears emerge, ocean's salt. My heart breaks and it knows it, the ocean knows it all. It knows its loneliness and it knows mine and it knows we are destined to meet.
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:22 PM UTC
El océano y yo // The ocean and I
My life has become a series of fragments seperated by cups of coffee; stacks of dog-eared books fade to lecture slides and surprise tests- flash forward to scratchy nylon polos and "please hold, Jeff is busy" until the lights turn down and I hit empty, only to refuel with a lukewarm cup of the house blend.
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Mar 30, 2016
Mar 30, 2016 at 1:42 PM UTC
Fragments
"Jika benar kurangnya dia bisa sempurnakan kamu Apa kurangku tak cukup?" Kita di kamarmu malam ini Membahas apakah semesta masih maukan kita? Apakah alam masih setuju... . . . . 10 tahun berlalu pantas Kita masih belum dewasa tentang soal ini... Seperti ada sesuatu yg menahan Tapi tak kau luahkan... Dan saat itu tak ku kenal lagi permintaanmu Permintaan yg polos, tapi menghancurkan... Tapi aku pasti itu mmg benar kamu Yg susah tuk ku duga Keras kepala Amarahmu tak pernah reda Sayangmu tak kau nampakkan... Dan mau mu yg tak jelas... Kamu berantakkan Halusku sebut namamu... lalu, "Dunia takkan pernah habis kau jelajahi Kelak kau kan pertemukan apa yg tertulis buatmu Semesta juga harus setuju jika itu sudah kehendaknya Jadi tak usahlah kau risau" Semakin jauh Kita tak bertemu lagi.
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Sep 25, 2021
Sep 25, 2021 at 3:29 PM UTC
Selamat jalan
i think the americans ought to relearn their policy on isolationism - the chinese have already overtook the americans on the grounds of national capitalism -       and what a ****** opinion this ends up being,..         the only way americans will retain their americanism is by isolating themselves from thee rest of the world,   lest they become the lingua franca that equates itself as merely lingua fornicata - no, i'm not the ***** of french joke with bilinguals, or mono-linguals, or mono-linguals = americans, or three language speakers being tri-linguals,   it just means: you own a ******* **********                 how's that?! lingua franca became lingua fornicata... i swear to god the americans ought to rekindle the isolationist policies that FDR made real...           to live in a monochromatic world is about as interesting as living next to 20 taj mahals     within a 20sqm radius...              i have more of those marble monstrosities in my head, abstract...               americans ought to relearn isolationism...                    just to slow the **** down on the globalist agendas... given the made in china                    national capitalism, which was only perfected via socialism...             funny...        nationalistic capitalism only emerged from socialism...                             well, you save capitalistic countries via pumping them money rather than pride....                                english doesn't actually encourage ******* why would it, it already has ******      it's lingua fornicata... perhaps, once upon a time it was lingua franca...              now what             the english economises is ***** everything else is made in china; the english used to be the marco polos of this world, now? they're the don giovannis. don't you worry about me, the slavic women adore the fact that they can be the ****** of the kings of europe... hey, i'm done in 70 years or less given the chance i shorten this prison sentence by 20+ years... if i take to the fetish of prayer... which part of the story am i take honour for? the part that i die, or the part that i am born, but have no allegiance to life? mesmerise me, indulgence me, tell me the difference. i will be content with the last breath, prior to any breath akin to mine: take its first.
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 9:27 PM UTC
FDR / lingua fornicata
i think the americans ought to relearn their policy on isolationism - the chinese have already overtook the americans on the grounds of national capitalism -       and what a ****** opinion this ends up being,..         the only way americans will retain their americanism is by isolating themselves from thee rest of the world,   lest they become the lingua franca that equates itself as merely lingua fornicata - no, i'm not the ***** of french joke with bilinguals, or mono-linguals, or mono-linguals = americans, or three language speakers being tri-linguals,   it just means: you own a ******* **********                 how's that?! lingua franca became lingua fornicata... i swear to god the americans ought to rekindle the isolationist policies that FDR made real...           to live in a monochromatic world is about as interesting as living next to 20 taj mahals     within a 20sqm radius...              i have more of those marble monstrosities in my head, abstract...               americans ought to relearn isolationism...                    just to slow the **** down on the globalist agendas... given the made in china                    national capitalism, which was only perfected via socialism...             funny...        nationalistic capitalism only emerged from socialism...                             well, you save capitalistic countries via pumping them money rather than pride....                                english doesn't actually encourage ******* why would it, it already has ******      it's lingua fornicata... perhaps, once upon a time it was lingua franca...              now what             the english economises is ***** everything else is made in china; the english used to be the marco polos of this world, now? they're the don giovannis. don't you worry about me, the slavic women adore the fact that they can be the ****** of the kings of europe... hey, i'm done in 70 years or less given the chance i shorten this prison sentence by 20+ years... if i take to the fetish of prayer... which part of the story am i take honour for? the part that i die, or the part that i am born, but have no allegiance to life? mesmerise me, indulgence me, tell me the difference. i will be content with the last breath, prior to any breath akin to mine: take its first.
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Who the **** wants to hear another sob story of a girl all alone, bored with her thoughts or the agony of being home? How the light of the sun casts out all her faults, or simply pretending that long, hot June days are soon to be lost. Summer is choking in more ways than one, forcing relations with those whom you'd rather be done. Lost friends we call them, those from your past. But truth be told, everyone knew we'd never last. **** foundations split sooner than hoped, but what was lost to her then was more than just most... Most of what she clung to from days of old, where the glory of embroidered polos signified gold. But here, two years later from the grim summer of '12, she closes old books and shoves them back to their shelves. Banished are the memories of these days from the past, and cut are the ties from "friends" who'd never last.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 1:41 AM UTC
Lost Summer