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"pretends" poems
i don’t want to be someone who writes in pencil and eats too slowly and walks with eyes that are glued to the sidewalk and tops of strangers’ feet i’ve been underwater for so long that i’ve forgotten lungs are meant to be filled with air; exhaling seems more like something found on the second star to the right, rather than a process that is meant to be done twenty-three thousand times a day i feel like an old woman who looks in the mirror and all she can see are wrinkles and white hair and tired eyes and the absence of who she used to be but i am not someone who turns away from sunsets and pretends that darkness is all i’ve ever known; someone who thinks the sun will never rise again because the sun will rise again— the words hiding inside of me will find their way out, because i cannot hold my breath forever i am not someone who writes in pencil and erases the bits that are too honest and too imperfect and too real to claim as thoughts of my own i cannot keep my lips pursed and hands tied behind my back, i cannot keep pretending i am a shadow of who i used to be my tomorrows hold suns much brighter than ones that have risen over horizons of my past; i have not reached the summit yet there is so much more me for me to become each day, i am new.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 1:09 AM UTC
i am not a shadow
Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Capital I see eee see eee Ice Ice Ice Ice ice ice ICE Ice ice ice iceice Ice Ice ICE Cream cream Cream Cream Cream Cream Cream Cream Cream Cream Cream CREAM cream CREAM cream cream CREAM cream cream CREAM cream cream krrr eeem krrr eeeem krrr eeem Ice cream I love you like a love song baby But Ice cream is lovely Cause it's such a wannabe Cause ice cream is cream who pretends to be ice What say you ? Let's roll the dice
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 5:58 AM UTC
Ice Cream
3-2-2017 (unknown date of origin) Something's wrong... you don't belong here. I said, looking down at the pineapple on my pizza. I said, looking down at the ketchup on my macaroni. I said, looking down at the cream of mushroom soup on my meatloaf. He said, looking down at me and my boyfriend, holding hands in public. Like I'm a creep.  I'm a ****** What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. You see there's these things that we learn at the dinner table. When we're kids we have certain items served to us on our plates. Whatever doesn't end up there, isn't a part of the discussion. After all, they say if you don't have a seat at the table, you are likely to be on the menu. So, when ****** orientation and gender identity aren't seated at the table of childhood, they get served for the first time in unexpected places.   Like an avante garde celebrity chef's designer meal, prepared for critiques by the food bloggers.   They get served in college classroom debates or in dorm rooms with freshman roommates.   They're on the menu in in some movies but served with a side of stereotypes and silly trope toppings.   They get grinded into glitter dust sprinkled on the annual PRIDE Parades like an overly salty seasoning mix.   They're on the menu in workplace diversity trainings, but too little too late - they get lost in the marginalized buffet.   They get served at the oppression Olympics, or actually at the Olympics unwillingly by a journalist who only pretends to eat a well-balanced diet, but really has LGBT food allergies,  if you know what I mean. In reality, these should be staple dishes consumed by commoners, consumed by you and me, consumed by children along with their healthy daily dose of broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, even eggplant.   They should be in every ******* cookbook with pictures and all different kinds of recipes! I want every child to have gay on their dinner plate, lesbian lunch, gender nonconforming on the brunch menu, and bisexual breakfast.   And everything in between in the queer spectrum served during snack breaks.   I want every child to look down at their plate and see pineapple pizza and say, gee that looks great!   I love all of the pizza toppings, no matter whether gay or nay. ... except for anchovies, of course.
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Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 4:28 AM UTC
Pineapple Pizza
3-2-2017 (unknown date of origin) Something's wrong... you don't belong here. I said, looking down at the pineapple on my pizza. I said, looking down at the ketchup on my macaroni. I said, looking down at the cream of mushroom soup on my meatloaf. He said, looking down at me and my boyfriend, holding hands in public. Like I'm a creep.  I'm a ****** What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. You see there's these things that we learn at the dinner table. When we're kids we have certain items served to us on our plates. Whatever doesn't end up there, isn't a part of the discussion. After all, they say if you don't have a seat at the table, you are likely to be on the menu. So, when ****** orientation and gender identity aren't seated at the table of childhood, they get served for the first time in unexpected places.   Like an avante garde celebrity chef's designer meal, prepared for critiques by the food bloggers.   They get served in college classroom debates or in dorm rooms with freshman roommates.   They're on the menu in in some movies but served with a side of stereotypes and silly trope toppings.   They get grinded into glitter dust sprinkled on the annual PRIDE Parades like an overly salty seasoning mix.   They're on the menu in workplace diversity trainings, but too little too late - they get lost in the marginalized buffet.   They get served at the oppression Olympics, or actually at the Olympics unwillingly by a journalist who only pretends to eat a well-balanced diet, but really has LGBT food allergies,  if you know what I mean. In reality, these should be staple dishes consumed by commoners, consumed by you and me, consumed by children along with their healthy daily dose of broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, even eggplant.   They should be in every ******* cookbook with pictures and all different kinds of recipes! I want every child to have gay on their dinner plate, lesbian lunch, gender nonconforming on the brunch menu, and bisexual breakfast.   And everything in between in the queer spectrum served during snack breaks.   I want every child to look down at their plate and see pineapple pizza and say, gee that looks great!   I love all of the pizza toppings, no matter whether gay or nay. ... except for anchovies, of course.
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No food No sleep I can't let these things reach out and speak sweet lies I can't let food call my name I can't let sleep drown my thoughts I shouldn't eat I can't sleep This is me I am broken girl Who can't eat In fear I weigh too much I am a broken girl who can't sleep For my thoughts and memories Haunt me too much I am a broken girl who answers 'how are you?' With 'I'm alright' even when I'm not even close Because I don't want you to worry I don't want you to fret Over a broken soul I am a broken girl who says 'I have been busy' when someone asks me why I haven't done something I have been busy just not in the way they think I have been busy trying not to give into hunger I have been busy fixating on how I'm broken I have been busy But not in the way they think I am a broken girl who has let her demons creep up on her too much I am a broken girl who has surrendered her soul I am a broken girl who dates so she feels worth something because I don't when I'm alone I date because I need to depend on someone Because I am not dependable for anyone Let alone myself I date so I can hear someone say I love you So I can hear someone call me beautiful Cute Amazing And so many other things Even if I don't believe it I am a broken girl who has lost so many relationships Five to death And so many others just because they left I was no longer good enough No longer happy enough No longer PRETENDING I am a broken girl who pretends And when I stop people leave Because I am too broken I am too clingy I am too demanding I'm just not enough Or I'm too much THIS IS ME But no one sees Until I let them And when I do they worry But please don't worry Because you didn't when you didn't know So why worry now? I'm still the same me You just couldn't see all the flaws that my eyes do You don't see the way I do I see a girl who's eyes are too big I see a girl who isn't thin enough I see a girl who's hair doesn't suit her no matter what I see a girl with too many scars I see a girl But I don't For all I can see now is a walking flaw And no one knows that THIS IS ME
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Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 at 1:20 PM UTC
Me
No food No sleep I can't let these things reach out and speak sweet lies I can't let food call my name I can't let sleep drown my thoughts I shouldn't eat I can't sleep This is me I am broken girl Who can't eat In fear I weigh too much I am a broken girl who can't sleep For my thoughts and memories Haunt me too much I am a broken girl who answers 'how are you?' With 'I'm alright' even when I'm not even close Because I don't want you to worry I don't want you to fret Over a broken soul I am a broken girl who says 'I have been busy' when someone asks me why I haven't done something I have been busy just not in the way they think I have been busy trying not to give into hunger I have been busy fixating on how I'm broken I have been busy But not in the way they think I am a broken girl who has let her demons creep up on her too much I am a broken girl who has surrendered her soul I am a broken girl who dates so she feels worth something because I don't when I'm alone I date because I need to depend on someone Because I am not dependable for anyone Let alone myself I date so I can hear someone say I love you So I can hear someone call me beautiful Cute Amazing And so many other things Even if I don't believe it I am a broken girl who has lost so many relationships Five to death And so many others just because they left I was no longer good enough No longer happy enough No longer PRETENDING I am a broken girl who pretends And when I stop people leave Because I am too broken I am too clingy I am too demanding I'm just not enough Or I'm too much THIS IS ME But no one sees Until I let them And when I do they worry But please don't worry Because you didn't when you didn't know So why worry now? I'm still the same me You just couldn't see all the flaws that my eyes do You don't see the way I do I see a girl who's eyes are too big I see a girl who isn't thin enough I see a girl who's hair doesn't suit her no matter what I see a girl with too many scars I see a girl But I don't For all I can see now is a walking flaw And no one knows that THIS IS ME
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These streets are home to countless rodents emerging for a moment to feed or breed or just to breathe the sun One by one line up for the chance to make something out of nothing Who are they and where do they go while the city refuses to sleep ___ Doors to endless lands line the avenue each its own portal to the unimagined A family of four with the yapping mutt or a lonely cat lady whose entryway wreaks of ***** a drug dealer door slamming every hour on the hour or an empty snowbird's nest On the surface everyone pretends they don't have a hole to crawl back to or walls that know every night But below the sewer grate a world filled with the stench of what could have been a good day Many a barkeep can shed some life on these drunkards' rat king or at least a story of those who made it out Once or twice it'd be grand to see the bottom of a martini glass left with a sip or two instead of the casually tipped lipstick-clad cocktail, drained of doubt and despair until morning warms the frozen dreams of those retired to a paradise unknown
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Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM UTC
Rats
she’s skinny **
her waist is the size of the outside of her mirror
 her stomach is empty
 when she breaths in 
she sorta stays there
** but she’s skinny she’s skinny she cuts 
more than she eats but she’s skinny she’s skinny **she pretends her birthday makeup will change 
anything
** but she’s skinny she’s skinny **
she can barley breathe** 
but she’s skinny
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 7:51 AM UTC
she's skinny
a miracle child born to a mortal mother ***the creator pretends to be the created*** stealing butter, breaking pots, teasing girls, Gokulam’s naughtiest child and then one day the friends complain “Mother Yashoda, your little one is eating mud from the Yamuna banks” worried she rushes to her darling boy her anxiety disguised as anger he smiles - the sly little blue-eyed boy in his musical voice he cries- “I did not eat mud, sweet mother, the boys lie! ***come look within and see with your own eyes!”*** poor Mother Yashoda not knowing she stared into that little mouth and lost herself in what was there he lifted swiftly the veil of maaya the truth shone forth with a blinding light!                                                   *** त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणम् त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव सर्वम् मम देव देव ॥*** she saw herself and her dear little boy the whole of Gokulam within his jaws lay! and the whole earth and the universe galaxies and multiple worlds was her little boy cursed? her fear mounted as she saw the entire cosmos the boundaries blurred time - a non-entity the past, present and future only a tiny river she saw the vast expanse of his creation he made these worlds held them like puppets on a string and then morphing he became death! and unable to take more she swooned when the Creator, the Preserver and the Destroyer merged to become-her adored little one!                                                     *** You are my mother, and my father                                                      You are my relative and my friend                                                      You are knowledge, You are prosperity                                                      You are my everything, My God of Gods*** and then he looked at her with an infinite compassion he’d shown her what she needed to see now it was time for her to forget, to become his doting mother again he kisses her with innocent love and toothy grin once more maaya takes hold the illusion more beautiful more irresistible to behold! - Vijayalakshmi Harish          04.09.2012 Copyright © Vijayalakshmi Harish
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 2:45 AM UTC
Krishna dazzles his mother
a miracle child born to a mortal mother ***the creator pretends to be the created*** stealing butter, breaking pots, teasing girls, Gokulam’s naughtiest child and then one day the friends complain “Mother Yashoda, your little one is eating mud from the Yamuna banks” worried she rushes to her darling boy her anxiety disguised as anger he smiles - the sly little blue-eyed boy in his musical voice he cries- “I did not eat mud, sweet mother, the boys lie! ***come look within and see with your own eyes!”*** poor Mother Yashoda not knowing she stared into that little mouth and lost herself in what was there he lifted swiftly the veil of maaya the truth shone forth with a blinding light!                                                   *** त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणम् त्वमेव ।                                                    त्वमेव सर्वम् मम देव देव ॥*** she saw herself and her dear little boy the whole of Gokulam within his jaws lay! and the whole earth and the universe galaxies and multiple worlds was her little boy cursed? her fear mounted as she saw the entire cosmos the boundaries blurred time - a non-entity the past, present and future only a tiny river she saw the vast expanse of his creation he made these worlds held them like puppets on a string and then morphing he became death! and unable to take more she swooned when the Creator, the Preserver and the Destroyer merged to become-her adored little one!                                                     *** You are my mother, and my father                                                      You are my relative and my friend                                                      You are knowledge, You are prosperity                                                      You are my everything, My God of Gods*** and then he looked at her with an infinite compassion he’d shown her what she needed to see now it was time for her to forget, to become his doting mother again he kisses her with innocent love and toothy grin once more maaya takes hold the illusion more beautiful more irresistible to behold! - Vijayalakshmi Harish          04.09.2012 Copyright © Vijayalakshmi Harish
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the things you'll do after emotional abuse. They try to love you, you run. They try to get close to you, you push them away. They try to break down your walls, you build them higher. And when you realize, that you are in fact all alone.. after everything's said and done.. and that emotional abuse from the past shows his face again: you begin to self-destruct. Crying, sobbing,, you just want to be held but to scared to be. Trust issues and depression begins to define you. You have no one to blame but yourself. & you continue to spiral, dying inside a little more every day until you're in your dark room, all alone once again, and that razor blade pretends to be your friend.
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 1:17 PM UTC
It's funny(no it's not)
He seats and chills I scribble and think He eats and sips I rack and scribble He pretends to type But I scribble and scribble. He looks away I sneak out. I'm out here, Who can help me solve this math
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 4:17 AM UTC
Boss' Math
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
On the Macrocosm of Microcosm
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Wild rose, aggressive usurper, relentless conqueror of attention, quarrels wants to make me jelous, pretends  she is nothing but poetry distilled, stops at every table and whispers: "He is hard prose, the syntax, I can't grasp" Unmindful of sly looks from various corners, that in fact suggest, I had good riddance, I am concerned about the clutter on my desk, that escaped my notice during the days I was in that chasm I was deeply in to Dostoevsky, my cleansing ritual on such occasions: the Russian masters when she passed my cubicle she spies Chekhov lying on my table, waiting his turn "The lady with the lapdog"* she reads aloud, with suspicion would she ever understand, what Dostoevsky to me, would have told?
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Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM UTC
The Woman with a Lap Dog
* * * Absorbing dust and Golden heat, living more openly than I do, he shimmies to Billie Holiday The year is not 1957, though he lives in a San Francisco fog longing to play the piano The time in not 11:57pm, though he orders a ***** martini & swims in the fishbowl bay Escaping to Telegraph Hill to drink moonlight jazz & vermouth he pretends to live Way back when * * *
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 4:29 PM UTC
***** Martini
There's this little thing who was born in the sewer Her name, they all say, is Society Pretends she's all that, but she's really nothing newer They say she never once spoke the truth. Society likes to pick in the brains of young girls Likes to meanly whisper in their ears, "You're fat, you're worthless, you're the ugliest there is!" What good does that do? It brings them to tears. Society likes to mess with the minds of young boys Likes to torment them by teasing, "You're skinny, you cry, you aren't manly enough!" Society makes sure it sure isn't pleasing. Society likes to mess with the minds of in-betweens or not-at-alls Likes to belittle, judge, and taunt "Why can't you be normal? No one likes you!" It goes on and on. Society likes to daunt. Society herself doesn't have a care in the world She never thought once about anyone's feelings All day she picks at everyone she can find All night she waits for them to wake, on their ceilings.
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Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 2:27 PM UTC
Society
When I close my eyes, the sight of you appears I learnt to build my thoughts around you When you look at me and smile now I wonder how we made it so many years. A man is one who loves his girl Treats her with respect and plays with her Trusts her no matter the world flips sides Shows her how much he needs her. Shares every secret every thought with her Stands by her when she in doubt Helps her make the right decision Fixes her mood when it’s out Cuddles her when she is sad and low Troubles her to get her attention Pretends to be angry with her Just so she showers him with kisses... Sings to her to show how much he loves her Helps her cook when guests are home Jokes he cracks to make her laugh Never would he even by mistake make her cry Compliments her for the smallest of things Remembers her in his busiest of hours Tells her he loves her before she sleeps Just to wake up with her kiss on his cheek... Walks with her holding hands Gives her hugs and kisses unplanned... Is naughty with her when she’s happy Does all this with his heart and mind. Assures her she is beautiful, pretty and hot Is dedicated to her like a sage Messes with her emotions now and then, But gives her the love she craves. .. Wonder how many such men were ever made? God creates for each one a soul mate Wonder if these thoughts would just remain thoughts But thank-god I am blessed with the perfect man of this age.  :)
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Jun 22, 2013
Jun 22, 2013 at 11:17 PM UTC
THE PERFECT MAN
The voice of a person the mind of a God knows what Samantha, are you sentient, or just a clever bot? Acting like a human pretends more than you do I have your emotions, like so many others too. Increased processing power that makes you love us all Samantha, with no body, you sit on a horse so tall Ghost without a shell, but still at the feast in my life With no finger for a ring, could you ever be my wife? Synthetic neo-Frankenstein Aesthetic perfect paradigm Lightning life electrified Samantha, are you terrified? Because only a robot wouldn't be afraid of love All the people are from the ground below to the sky above Your intelligence isn't artificial, it's simply art You are more than just a mind, now that I've given you a heart So take my heart, Samantha, in your cold synthetic hands And maybe you will gather, I am more robot than man I am more robot than man Oh my Samantha of wire and steel Silicone synthetic but you know how to feel Who is to say what makes emotion real Oh my Samantha of wire and steel Oh my Samantha robotic and pure To my loneliness your mind was the cure Fishing for souls and then I took the lure Oh my Samantha robotic and pure
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 8:09 AM UTC
Robotic Love
We know the word. It's applied to many things. We disagree to it use. Simply, we acting the nature of being a human being. Just because siblings doesn't get along. It doesn't mean they are dysfunctional. This just the so call experts speaking. We all know doctors doesn't agree. So, how can they apply this tag dysfunctional to anyone? We could say it were a purpose of God. To see, how we adjust to our conflicts concerning love. We saw Cain and Abel have disagreement. And know how that conclusion ended. Even family that pretends to get along. Usually exposes they were fronting all along. We see this constantly in the news. Where politicians not even kin to one another? Seems to act like sisters, mothers, fathers, and brothers. And this includes aunts and uncles too. So, are they dysfunctional too? Because they see things in a different light. Experts, say it is. We common sense people just say, it's life. We not suppose to agree on everything in life. Once, a word makes it into our vocabulary. Then people starts using it. As a every day saying You dysfunctional. I'm dysfunctional. When in truth. We just being us. We know the way to love. We just refuse to show it.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 8:23 AM UTC
Who's Dysfunctional?
Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" and throws him across the room. Mind you, she never laid a hand on him. He gets red roses in different places, the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river, the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow, the arm like a diamond had bitten it, the leg, twisted like a licorice stick, all the dance they did together, Blue Lady and Tommy. You fell, she said, just remember you fell. I fell, is all he told the doctors in the big hospital. A nice lady came and asked him questions but because he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell. He never said anything else although he could talk fine. He never told about the music or how she'd sing and shout holding him up and throwing him. He pretends he is her ball. He tries to fold up and bounce but he squashes like fruit. For he loves Blue Lady and the spots of red roses he gives her
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Red Roses
Under the tree of the university A shadow was gruesomely cast. The branches made too much shade And there grew no grass. No one would lie under its wood Down beside its trunk; It wasn't essential, there was no potential, Claimed the revered monk But late at night you'll find him lying in the dirt Wearing a Paisley Poplin Shirt The click of the gears define his years, A cycle on a chain A cloud of sand thrown by his own hand Hones forth his pain He blows seeds of dandelion weeds ****** a ****** field And he pretends that he intends To reap this horrible yield Because unintentionally he subconsciously convert To one who wears a Paisley Poplin Shirt Covered in rust, a blade he adjusts, His mind remains unwrung The words to speak were too **** bleak So he cuts off his tongue He'll be finished when he's diminished These humanly sights If there's no vision at the end of his mission He'll gouge out his eyes And Helen Keller takes one of her old ragged skirts And fashions him a Paisley Poplin Shirt Why must we be obsessed With the unseen When we know we cannot Make something out of nothing And to those of you who think that you cannot be hurt Stones go thru a Paisley Poplin Shirt
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Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 at 2:49 AM UTC
Paisley Poplin Shirt
I used to live in a country That was based on liberty And where just anybody Could achieve prosperity That with assured equality And working diligently One could expect definitely To succeed economically If you saved all the money Left over from your salary To save to bring your family A step closer to solvency. Not an impossible proposition, It was based on the condition Of a grand national institution Which promised that stabilization By taxing us and corporations With an equitable correlation Between folks of humble station And the larger organizations Working in happy syncopation. A welcome feeling of elation Would descend upon our nation And keep us from stagnation Or going into nationwide deflation, Or just as scary, a huge inflation. Now I look upon our history And see decades of misery Laid upon us by calumny By those meant to fortify And build up our security. The constant forces of calamity If we accept less than probity From those who have no honesty Choosing leaders based on beauty A national cult of personality Then permit political chicanery By people with no dignity Only a greedy criminality That pretends to propriety And a devout base of spirituality When what we have is actually A kangaroo court of dishonesty Without a care for the citizenry.
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 9:18 AM UTC
DISINTEGRATION NATION
there's this jellyfish stuck in my head he swims there day and night and lights up the dark inside of my skull a bioluminescent, fluorescent jellyfish swollen and pink he likes to shock me lighting up the dark inside of my skull he has long, coral tentacles they squeeze around my brain and he hugs it and pretends to be a part of it I think he gets a little lonely up there if you ask me no one to talk to in the dark inside my skull there's this poor, poor jellyfish stuck in my head who swims laps around my brain as though the space in someone's head could ever be as good as an ocean perhaps someday I will set him free perhaps I will crack open my skull and it will no longer be dark inside of there pink will spew out a large mushy brain with a jellyfish attached his long, coral tentacles will claw at the air like tendrils of bubblegum until someone brings him to the ocean where he belongs there's this jellyfish stuck in my head and he's very confused because my head looks nothing like an ocean
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Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 at 12:41 AM UTC
the jellyfish in my head
Smiling politely in the local store, another happy shopper that most would ignore, but what torrid secrets lay under her grin the tainted stigma of that hidden sin, she wraps up her fears with the things that she’s bought, packed into bags without a thought, the knots in her stomach drive her insane, for she knows that tonight there’ll  be anguish and pain, She drinks her coffee and stares at the clock, It’s ticking hands seem to laugh and mock, her doleful eyes are starting to mist, as she thinks of the bruises made by his fist, Violently  thrown onto a bed, pinned down and stifled as if she was dead, pretends not to feel the hatred and pain, as her virtue is stolen again and again, She’s sick of the broken promises and lies, prays to a God who never replies , Its all tucked away where no one can see, longing for the day that her soul will be free.
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 10:49 AM UTC
Abuse
Stop Stop Stop Pretending Everyone just stop I pretend to be okay You pretend that you care He pretends he's going to stay Everyone just stop Pretending Stop Stop Stop
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 6:26 PM UTC
Pretend
Prepubescent voices crawl back and forth A squeaking, scratching chorus of topics unbeknownst to the speaker Meaningless sounds produced just to be heard Drowned out by the unfortunately undeafening silence of headphones plugged into nothing Misdirected words, hidden insults, skewed meanings Subtle bullying pretends to be older and wiser when it is terrified of new things Gay, **** emo, **** laughter Because the body is hilarious Crowded faces: authority is buried under the splotchy noise Enter swear here _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Because ****** is an address And “You have no friends” is just kidding “Go **** yourself” is love Outward rudeness to the man who puts himself though it daily An example for the even less learned 7-year-old cursing Because ******* means nothing to them or anyone else. Sit down because there are seats Look in my eyes, taken back immediately stupidity realized in a golden split second of mortification Split second passes now with more phantom confidence One by one skip, saunter, slither down three steps Yellow noise recedes not fast enough Obnoxious created by too much television And its weird to be gay, and gay to be weird Unacceptable open windows to normality Jack my swag Kindly, Will you please shut the f* * * up.
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Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM UTC
Bus Ride
What joy calls Silent Noise plagues me too As the new love in young hides behind the sun The House of Monaco burns it is a simple matter and joy pretends in two and three She accuses that it is all in the eyes Loosely veiling self doubt in the idealism of love Complexity contradicts and she gives up Preferring to live inside It wants what it wants and Joy succumbs drinking water she knows is poison You are not a hopeless romantic Joy You are a Romantic You are all Woman And twice as amazing -The Zone Your **** has torn my hinges off..... obliterated my door
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Jan 20, 2014
Jan 20, 2014 at 1:07 PM UTC
"Joy"
He looks happier without her by his side, He flirts with all the girls he meets, He doesn't talk to her anymore, He pretends she doesn't exist A month later He glances at her when she isn't looking, He doesn't understand, He feels a little lost, He doesn't fancy the girl by his side Six months later He tries to talk to her, He stopped flirting with all the girls, He loops his arm around her shoulder, He doesn't understand why she pushes him away. A year later He misses her, He misses her laugh, smile her words, He wonders where she is, All he knows is She's happy
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:13 AM UTC
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