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son spreads knee blood into ******* &/or sidewalk chalk. mixes reds to pinks with head cracking asphalt. of god & country. of soggy bread in a lunch-bag; snackpack readied. he skates. the concussed ****** of booming youth. omega he: to the wolf pack outers. breathing love of summer, he is the son drunk on hi-c & burping. watching teenaged supersoakers yodel on a bridge. florida. son sneaks out late to rationalize the city’s features under strange light & love of nightly people. boy sculpts body out of beast, turned dark corners. arrives swollen. his father erects a roofed flattop in the backyard slab with flood light electronics taught to worship the shred. mother rattles the blender on the kitchen outskirts, ***** breathed & nearing with hugs. blister-itched. glossed folds of scar tissue. those days on summer-beyond when the neighborhood pulsates. with satellite dishes tuneforking high-frequency vibrations from outerspace & pigeons explode. son’s ears bleed, & the television goes unwatched. he snaps plank & ankle protein, refurbishing his legs into iron-rods or wands of summer anthem. cold war. he empties sugar-sweat & toxins into the storm-drain. essence of wet heat, skin pinched, & friend of ghosts. a three legged dog lay in the shade leisurely watching the boy skate on endless.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 1:11 AM UTC
skateboard gothic
Is it our nature To cause intentional harm, To make things suffer? Do we find pleasure When we terrify others, Is this really us? History has shown A fierce beast resides within, There’s a tame one, too. All humans struggle With Yin-Yang disharmony, With the good and bad. Some rationalize There is a duality, We’re devils and saints. Humans **** humans, Insatiable blood lust, **** and **** again. Humans help humans There is charity and love, How long will it last? Is it our nature To cause pain and to do harm; Or, to pursue good?
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Oct 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010 at 6:07 PM UTC
Haiku (Western 5-7-5) Collection #33 – Human Nature
November is the cruelest month Reminiscence forced of things far gone and Bitter foreshadowing of what is to come The leaves have lived up to their name The trees, a shell of what they once were The grass clings to its last hope The temperature makes its empty threats The beauty of Autumn deteriorates She is haughty and cruel We were strung along for so long But like all good things Her presence is too fleeting We try to rationalize her departure We didn’t need her anyway Her sister is far more beautiful Autumn was never committed We will look for someone else What luck! Her sister is coming Her name is winter! But alas, how could we love Someone so bitter and cold? November is the cruelest month Joy is attacked in a dark alley Melancholia does the mugging Bitterness steals the Hope November tears apart the heart With a ruthlessness unseen In any other month. The days are soon so short and cold The landscape is so barren There is a hint of snow But it is more like rain It is so unfortunate to see Nature’s beauty going all to waste The thirtieth is here Judgement Day has arrived It is only possible to conclude July was great if too hot indeed January hard but nearer the end September its usual lovely self One month stands alone in its horror November is the cruelest month
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
November is the Cruelest Month
This is me apologizing. This is me finally coming up for air and coughing up apologizes instead of swallowing them down with gulps of water. This is me looking at your face and seeing the bags under your eyes because you stayed up all night trying to call me and apologizing. Looking at your nails and seeing the skin around them ****** and scabbed and the beds unevenly bitten down to nothing and apologizing. Looking at your eyes and seeing the way you bought colored contacts to cover the fact you spent days unmoving from a mirror trying to love yourself and apologizing. This is me seeing the needle points on your lips from where you injected your own blood to attempt to regain that color I claimed to be in love with and apologizing. As I'm looking at your arms and seeing where you scrubbed your skin with chemicals trying to erase the essence of me and when you smile I can see that you chugged a bottle of bleach to try and whiten your teeth bright enough so that you could be accepted by God himself into the pearly gates all I can do is apologize. I'm sorry that you spent hours carving my name into his back with your fingernails and biting your own tongue so hard it bled when he told you he loved you. When his flesh connected with yours causing the world to stop for a second and listen to your shrieking I know it was me you were screaming for and I'm sorry. As I'm standing here staring at you and watching them put brush stroke after brush stroke of blush onto your lovely pale cheeks trying to restore the life you lost so many years ago I'm finally realizing it's too late to apologize yet all I can think about is how this isn't even close to the eulogy you deserved. I should be talking about the way you danced and how your voice made my own falter momentarily and how you were more alive when you were dying than I ever will be when I'm living rather than apologizing but all I can seem to rationalize is how I spent years dry swallowing your love and spitting up knives to use to carve my initials into your thigh so you would always remember me and how I never even had the common decency to count to three before destroying you and I'm sorry. I'm afraid to look up now that I've finished apologizing because I know your empty eyes filled with nothingness will be staring back so horribly confused because I doubt you ever continued listening after I used the world eulogy and I'm sure you're going to wonder why I'm talking as if I'm sitting at your funeral rather than on the end of your bed but I don't know how else to make you grasp the concept of what you're doing to yourself by loving me in a better way than this and I'm sorry. C.a.l
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 7:21 PM UTC
Eulogies
This is me apologizing. This is me finally coming up for air and coughing up apologizes instead of swallowing them down with gulps of water. This is me looking at your face and seeing the bags under your eyes because you stayed up all night trying to call me and apologizing. Looking at your nails and seeing the skin around them ****** and scabbed and the beds unevenly bitten down to nothing and apologizing. Looking at your eyes and seeing the way you bought colored contacts to cover the fact you spent days unmoving from a mirror trying to love yourself and apologizing. This is me seeing the needle points on your lips from where you injected your own blood to attempt to regain that color I claimed to be in love with and apologizing. As I'm looking at your arms and seeing where you scrubbed your skin with chemicals trying to erase the essence of me and when you smile I can see that you chugged a bottle of bleach to try and whiten your teeth bright enough so that you could be accepted by God himself into the pearly gates all I can do is apologize. I'm sorry that you spent hours carving my name into his back with your fingernails and biting your own tongue so hard it bled when he told you he loved you. When his flesh connected with yours causing the world to stop for a second and listen to your shrieking I know it was me you were screaming for and I'm sorry. As I'm standing here staring at you and watching them put brush stroke after brush stroke of blush onto your lovely pale cheeks trying to restore the life you lost so many years ago I'm finally realizing it's too late to apologize yet all I can think about is how this isn't even close to the eulogy you deserved. I should be talking about the way you danced and how your voice made my own falter momentarily and how you were more alive when you were dying than I ever will be when I'm living rather than apologizing but all I can seem to rationalize is how I spent years dry swallowing your love and spitting up knives to use to carve my initials into your thigh so you would always remember me and how I never even had the common decency to count to three before destroying you and I'm sorry. I'm afraid to look up now that I've finished apologizing because I know your empty eyes filled with nothingness will be staring back so horribly confused because I doubt you ever continued listening after I used the world eulogy and I'm sure you're going to wonder why I'm talking as if I'm sitting at your funeral rather than on the end of your bed but I don't know how else to make you grasp the concept of what you're doing to yourself by loving me in a better way than this and I'm sorry. C.a.l
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_"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."_ -Maya Angelou My soul is a sweetie: She’s a cute but **** with an infectious smile, an enchanting personality. She wears dark colors, slightly goth makeup, and thick-rimmed glasses. She likes candles, tea, sweaters, and cannabis, and goes on long walks in the woods by starlight. She’s cool and confident, outgoing and fun, and as beautiful as a moonrise reflected off of a frozen lake. She’s me. But I am not her. She’s the me inside of the me inside of me. She cries when my mind grapples with the bounds of the mental illness that gives her life. She screams in pain when my mind tries to rationalize her and explain her away. And she glows with joy whenever I try to grow closer to her. She’s the part of me I never asked for, whose existence hurts like a deep burn, but nonetheless makes me truly be myself.
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Dec 16, 2018
Dec 16, 2018 at 11:57 AM UTC
She: A Poem about Dysphoria
Pretty Little Cup Cake Store: I walk through the door. Somehow I think it will Cheer me up. A white iced-pink sprinkled cupcake Will help me forget. While unwrapping the trendy black and  baby blue doted baking paper Will bring back the past again. But, even I know it is a ruse A joke I play on myself. You know the owners are some super hot soccer moms whose family invested in their latest project. Those **** bakers with pretty white aprons And size two retro-pink waitress uniforms; Smiling and cooing at the lavender infused cake That makes this treat go down so smooth. A gluten-free icing with a garnish of kumquat. This will land their pictures on the local news. I am not a size two. I will just as soon eat a nutty-buddy by Little Debbie But, this trendy cupcake cafe, makes me feel I am one of those Pretty ladies in the retro pink waitress uniform. Kinda like a celebration, for a party of one. I am not a hot pretty stick chick I will buy four, five or six of those pretty cupcakes. Pretending I am buying a hostess gift. But, the truth..... My husband forgot that we married 8 years ago this day. I will pay too much for too little product: but the cake box is cute I will sit in my car Eating, till my teeth hurt. I will rationalize; that I will cleanse tomorrow. I will go home. He will ask how I am, while staring at the TV. "Shussh" he will say, "I'm trying to hear." There is no use to remind him He will play the tired "I'm-in-the-dog-house game." I prefer stuffing four, five or six pretty little cupcakes Into my mouth then listening To his tired apologies, weak little lies and false promises of a planned Surprise. Instead; I will go to my room; then my private bath: I will stick my fingers down my throat And cough up my life.
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Apr 5, 2016
Apr 5, 2016 at 7:27 PM UTC
Pretty Little Cupcakes
Pretty Little Cup Cake Store: I walk through the door. Somehow I think it will Cheer me up. A white iced-pink sprinkled cupcake Will help me forget. While unwrapping the trendy black and  baby blue doted baking paper Will bring back the past again. But, even I know it is a ruse A joke I play on myself. You know the owners are some super hot soccer moms whose family invested in their latest project. Those **** bakers with pretty white aprons And size two retro-pink waitress uniforms; Smiling and cooing at the lavender infused cake That makes this treat go down so smooth. A gluten-free icing with a garnish of kumquat. This will land their pictures on the local news. I am not a size two. I will just as soon eat a nutty-buddy by Little Debbie But, this trendy cupcake cafe, makes me feel I am one of those Pretty ladies in the retro pink waitress uniform. Kinda like a celebration, for a party of one. I am not a hot pretty stick chick I will buy four, five or six of those pretty cupcakes. Pretending I am buying a hostess gift. But, the truth..... My husband forgot that we married 8 years ago this day. I will pay too much for too little product: but the cake box is cute I will sit in my car Eating, till my teeth hurt. I will rationalize; that I will cleanse tomorrow. I will go home. He will ask how I am, while staring at the TV. "Shussh" he will say, "I'm trying to hear." There is no use to remind him He will play the tired "I'm-in-the-dog-house game." I prefer stuffing four, five or six pretty little cupcakes Into my mouth then listening To his tired apologies, weak little lies and false promises of a planned Surprise. Instead; I will go to my room; then my private bath: I will stick my fingers down my throat And cough up my life.
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What if I ran when you told me to? What if I hadn’t said no? What if I had left you the way you left me? And what if you weren’t the first girl? Would I have loved you the same? Would I still be bound and chained by this addiction? I grew closer to you than anyone, I sang to you on the phone before your surgery, I straightened your hair when you couldn’t lift your shoulder How do you reconcile this? How do you rationalize it? Or discard it? I couldn’t always be there for you, But I always tried, Despite the distance, I always tried
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 3:22 PM UTC
Reconcile
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 11:21 PM UTC
a glimpse of my mind
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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I am afraid of speaking. I am afraid of the texture of my voice, and the effect it will have on you. I don't want to be pressed into the caricature of an angry woman; voice raised in what they call a hysterical display of emotion. Calm down. Be rational. Stop being So Dramatic. Well let me tell you something: I am an angry woman. Because all I can see is my best friend’s blonde head, coming within an inch of becoming the crushed drywall beneath his fist. All I can see is the false piety painted on his pastor’s face, asking, “well… did he hit you?” I see her eyes closed in the darkness, fingers gripped in the sheets he tore off of her body to wake her. She has to hold on to something. He says, “Show me you're enjoying it.” Calm down. Be rational. Like he wasn't gaining access INTO her BODY by FORCE. Like, of course it's her job to lay down and take it. Like it. Lick his lips for the taste of honey, because honey, he told you to. but it's poison. It enters her bloodstream, weakening her will to resist it. She looks at her phone, at a text she did not compose herself, or send, “Hey hot stuff. When you see this, let's have *** “If I pretend I didn't write this I'm just playing hard to get.” Do you get it? Yeah. I am an angry woman. Stay calm, dear sister. Be rational. Rationalize the gaslighting, because the big picture doesn't look beautiful when you hang it above the sofa; and her home was staged to look like a family so that when you look in the window, you don't see that she was a hostage. You don't see that her son was asleep in the bed when he grabbed her face between his hands and crushed it, And called it “gently redirecting her gaze.” From the window, you can't see his body blocking the exit. You can't see her baby, with his little fingers curled around her ******* begging for comfort. I will not calm down. And in case you are so damaged by devotion to comfort that you can't see it, it is right to be angry. It is righteous. I am angry, and more rational than I have ever been in my entire life- rationally, righteously begging for justice to flow down like rivers. I am an angry woman.
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 4:07 PM UTC
Another angry woman.
I am afraid of speaking. I am afraid of the texture of my voice, and the effect it will have on you. I don't want to be pressed into the caricature of an angry woman; voice raised in what they call a hysterical display of emotion. Calm down. Be rational. Stop being So Dramatic. Well let me tell you something: I am an angry woman. Because all I can see is my best friend’s blonde head, coming within an inch of becoming the crushed drywall beneath his fist. All I can see is the false piety painted on his pastor’s face, asking, “well… did he hit you?” I see her eyes closed in the darkness, fingers gripped in the sheets he tore off of her body to wake her. She has to hold on to something. He says, “Show me you're enjoying it.” Calm down. Be rational. Like he wasn't gaining access INTO her BODY by FORCE. Like, of course it's her job to lay down and take it. Like it. Lick his lips for the taste of honey, because honey, he told you to. but it's poison. It enters her bloodstream, weakening her will to resist it. She looks at her phone, at a text she did not compose herself, or send, “Hey hot stuff. When you see this, let's have *** “If I pretend I didn't write this I'm just playing hard to get.” Do you get it? Yeah. I am an angry woman. Stay calm, dear sister. Be rational. Rationalize the gaslighting, because the big picture doesn't look beautiful when you hang it above the sofa; and her home was staged to look like a family so that when you look in the window, you don't see that she was a hostage. You don't see that her son was asleep in the bed when he grabbed her face between his hands and crushed it, And called it “gently redirecting her gaze.” From the window, you can't see his body blocking the exit. You can't see her baby, with his little fingers curled around her ******* begging for comfort. I will not calm down. And in case you are so damaged by devotion to comfort that you can't see it, it is right to be angry. It is righteous. I am angry, and more rational than I have ever been in my entire life- rationally, righteously begging for justice to flow down like rivers. I am an angry woman.
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I am standing still as a rock curled up on the floor shaking back and forth. I am overreacting in response to your underreaction and something in my body just doesn't feel right anymore. A piece of me is angry that you dared to have this much control over me. Why were you trusted with a sword you didn't know how to use? Because these wounds are leaking blood and staining the new clothes I'm wearing for you. My underwear is covered in pictures of your favorite fruit that will never taste the same again. I am trying to rationalize your behavior. I am making up excuse after excuse for you and I am disgusted with myself. It was you who put me in this situation and it is all your **** fault which is why I am to blame. I didn't know that nothing was strong enough to break glass, but here I am shattered after your lack of words struck me. Who do you think you are, because apparently I know nothing about you. It was so subtle that I almost missed its hands wrapping around my throat. My face was blue by the time your rejection had sunk into my skin, pins and needles over every bit of flesh. I was changed in an instant. You don't miss me back. That knowledge bouncing back and forth inside of my skull on a Monday night. And maybe you were tired or maybe you were stressed or maybe you were revealing the truth to me, finally, releasing your feelings, or lack there of for the first time. Wasn't I so lucky to be there for your debut? I can feel ants crawling around on my heart and they must be hungry because they keep biting away miniscule pieces of me that I guess I didn't need. You mean so much to me but I must be meaningless. I am breaking down and apparently you couldn't care less. You never told me you didn't love me, you never told me you didn't miss me, I had to figure that one out for myself, you never told me I was nothing, but that is how I am feeling. And soon you will have to see my face and I will get to look upon yours and we will be together. My soul will be screaming out at you, demanding to know what changed, but my lips will not make a sound. I am silent and it has always been my greatest weakness, well, until I fell in love with you, anyway. All of this pain, yet I won't have a word to say. I am trapped here wondering what way it will go. Most of me doesn't even want to know. It's only a matter of days and even after all of this, I still manage to miss you, but You don't miss me back.
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May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 8:13 PM UTC
You don't miss me back
I am standing still as a rock curled up on the floor shaking back and forth. I am overreacting in response to your underreaction and something in my body just doesn't feel right anymore. A piece of me is angry that you dared to have this much control over me. Why were you trusted with a sword you didn't know how to use? Because these wounds are leaking blood and staining the new clothes I'm wearing for you. My underwear is covered in pictures of your favorite fruit that will never taste the same again. I am trying to rationalize your behavior. I am making up excuse after excuse for you and I am disgusted with myself. It was you who put me in this situation and it is all your **** fault which is why I am to blame. I didn't know that nothing was strong enough to break glass, but here I am shattered after your lack of words struck me. Who do you think you are, because apparently I know nothing about you. It was so subtle that I almost missed its hands wrapping around my throat. My face was blue by the time your rejection had sunk into my skin, pins and needles over every bit of flesh. I was changed in an instant. You don't miss me back. That knowledge bouncing back and forth inside of my skull on a Monday night. And maybe you were tired or maybe you were stressed or maybe you were revealing the truth to me, finally, releasing your feelings, or lack there of for the first time. Wasn't I so lucky to be there for your debut? I can feel ants crawling around on my heart and they must be hungry because they keep biting away miniscule pieces of me that I guess I didn't need. You mean so much to me but I must be meaningless. I am breaking down and apparently you couldn't care less. You never told me you didn't love me, you never told me you didn't miss me, I had to figure that one out for myself, you never told me I was nothing, but that is how I am feeling. And soon you will have to see my face and I will get to look upon yours and we will be together. My soul will be screaming out at you, demanding to know what changed, but my lips will not make a sound. I am silent and it has always been my greatest weakness, well, until I fell in love with you, anyway. All of this pain, yet I won't have a word to say. I am trapped here wondering what way it will go. Most of me doesn't even want to know. It's only a matter of days and even after all of this, I still manage to miss you, but You don't miss me back.
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HE always gets the higher rank, Not just HIM but any Of the fall soldiers. What do they fulfill, That you are missing, Are you troubled behind closed doors? You have a youth of your very own, Standing right here, Tacitly craving just a loving expression. You wound me when you advise tactfully, that I should vacate, So you and your vernal pibe, Can take in abortive entertainment. Little did I know, Lounging in the same environs, Was a taboo in the posh palace. I would reflect, Reimagine & rationalize. If you neglect to You may find a solitary soul. My heart hopes for the highest, But days past tell me otherwise. Humans argue, fuss and struggle, But those who, Value and treat unconditional loves, Warmheartedly get the real pleasure. If I ride off from this declining, Tormenting cliff, like a lost knight, Know why. & When things get distressing, Maybe then you will understand. Love & Art, Offspring 1991-20??
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 3:39 AM UTC
priority.
Talk incessantly. Dwell on temporal affairs. Ask friends for advice; ignore it. Air out perceived problems constantly. Respond defensively. Never take criticism at face value. Write off whoever won't humor you. Accuse others of misunderstanding you. Build your lifestyle on whims. Presume entitlement to *** for "being nice". Choose an inappropriate diet for your body. Avoid personal responsibility. Refuse to own your failures and errors. Justify behaviors that create conflict. Rationalize unfruitful thought and action at all cost. Dismiss what contradicts your prejudices. Compare yourself to Jesus. Insist on your specialness. Insist that others acknowledge it. Don't communicate your expectations. Blame others for your bad choices. Fish for compliments. Use sentiment to ply others. Use sentiment to ply yourself. Subject anyone to yourself while the above applies to you.
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
Stupidity: A How-To
Look inside myself to find what is decaying me, rotting me, eating at my soul. Rid myself of it. Rip it from it's home where it has become so comfortably warm. But once I find it; rationalize with whatever it may be. Once I know what hides within me; if I let it go, I'll surely feel worn and even without it I'll always be torn. k.d.
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Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014 at 12:14 AM UTC
Eating at me
"It's good, but maybe you should write shorter," I was told. Granted this was told to me by a man that believes the word artistic to be closely related to the word autistic, but I can only assume that riding any unfamiliar wavelength is terribly confusing, if not immeasurably difficult. Knowing that you can confide in yourself, whether or not I'm misinterpreting individual delegation for conscience, I believe altruism to be fundamental to a person before growth can occur. Unless of course you're writing short poems. And if you're curious enough to implement apathy, sarcasm is a fine starting point. They say that if you want to master something you need to perform daily. Accompany this with the old adage, "Love what you do," and you can imagine the potential. Mastering an activity with love is transcendent, calm although sometimes piquant. Passion and pleasure aren't identical, but imagine the potential. I don't bleed ink. It has to be an attempt at benevolence, to say that. Extreme literary pretensions you must have to bleed out. Writing should have a pulse. It. Should. Make. Each. Word. Count. Yet, when this man told me that my words are good, but I should keep it shorter, knowing not if I could or would, I became curious as to why he worried more about length and not the content and story as a whole. Then I had to rationalize this to myself, and thought: It would be easier to convey words with images, like a film or animation. But I don't bleed ink, and I guess I don't bleed popcorn.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 11:16 AM UTC
I Don't Bleed Popcorn
"It's good, but maybe you should write shorter," I was told. Granted this was told to me by a man that believes the word artistic to be closely related to the word autistic, but I can only assume that riding any unfamiliar wavelength is terribly confusing, if not immeasurably difficult. Knowing that you can confide in yourself, whether or not I'm misinterpreting individual delegation for conscience, I believe altruism to be fundamental to a person before growth can occur. Unless of course you're writing short poems. And if you're curious enough to implement apathy, sarcasm is a fine starting point. They say that if you want to master something you need to perform daily. Accompany this with the old adage, "Love what you do," and you can imagine the potential. Mastering an activity with love is transcendent, calm although sometimes piquant. Passion and pleasure aren't identical, but imagine the potential. I don't bleed ink. It has to be an attempt at benevolence, to say that. Extreme literary pretensions you must have to bleed out. Writing should have a pulse. It. Should. Make. Each. Word. Count. Yet, when this man told me that my words are good, but I should keep it shorter, knowing not if I could or would, I became curious as to why he worried more about length and not the content and story as a whole. Then I had to rationalize this to myself, and thought: It would be easier to convey words with images, like a film or animation. But I don't bleed ink, and I guess I don't bleed popcorn.
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Sweltering insurgencies of electric power chords Tribal reverberations of skin-stretched drum boards Rolling and filling; syncopating the noise Of the tit-less toys The dick-less boys Enraptured in the music The anthem Of invidious phantoms My eyes hurt inside and I want to pull them out and Scrape out the gunk and rust that’s behind my self-indulgent perseverance so I can cry for the first time in years… Wrapping my hands around his slender torso Licking away the paint, the dripping ooze; more so Than hastening my ****** and mordant urges To bite what emerges And my mouth purges The obelisk from underneath The iron-pierced jester The voracious molester My hand tightens as I grip his throat tighter and I want to squeeze until his eyes pop from his sockets and laugh until I puke against the walls, watching the ****** fluids mix like an execrable marinara sauce… I turned thirty while still being sixteen The vivid beauty of the world was only in dreams But none of mine, none that I can recall Many years have passed since I took the oral fall Where no one saw Intransigent need to live For the snake in my veins hungered for more So many had their way until I was limp and sore. Defamatory fingers of mire and strife Probing and stretching My insides And devilishly comforting With limpid ambrosia That’s infected by bilious worms and maggots covered in icing And fruit Amatory gauntlets fastened and secured over Handless limbs that retract under matriculated frictions That fracture, crack, morph, distort Emphasize, marginalize Rationalize, desensitize Acts of *********** evasion, moral drainage; Pieces, bits, chunks, sections, portions, servings; Arms, legs, eyes, tongues, fingers, toes, Love, lust, infatuation Adoration Boys, girls, women, men, Angels, demons, monsters, humans Creators, gods, titans, divas All extended and limited from the minds that worship Sanctify, mesmerize, glorify, rectify While humans eat more, love more, **** more Than the angels, demons, monsters, and titans We ponder and cherish Nevermore, for me Ever lore, for all Crows surround And chaos found.
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Apr 22, 2013
Apr 22, 2013 at 11:11 PM UTC
Anatomical Pieces, Didactic love
Sweltering insurgencies of electric power chords Tribal reverberations of skin-stretched drum boards Rolling and filling; syncopating the noise Of the tit-less toys The dick-less boys Enraptured in the music The anthem Of invidious phantoms My eyes hurt inside and I want to pull them out and Scrape out the gunk and rust that’s behind my self-indulgent perseverance so I can cry for the first time in years… Wrapping my hands around his slender torso Licking away the paint, the dripping ooze; more so Than hastening my ****** and mordant urges To bite what emerges And my mouth purges The obelisk from underneath The iron-pierced jester The voracious molester My hand tightens as I grip his throat tighter and I want to squeeze until his eyes pop from his sockets and laugh until I puke against the walls, watching the ****** fluids mix like an execrable marinara sauce… I turned thirty while still being sixteen The vivid beauty of the world was only in dreams But none of mine, none that I can recall Many years have passed since I took the oral fall Where no one saw Intransigent need to live For the snake in my veins hungered for more So many had their way until I was limp and sore. Defamatory fingers of mire and strife Probing and stretching My insides And devilishly comforting With limpid ambrosia That’s infected by bilious worms and maggots covered in icing And fruit Amatory gauntlets fastened and secured over Handless limbs that retract under matriculated frictions That fracture, crack, morph, distort Emphasize, marginalize Rationalize, desensitize Acts of *********** evasion, moral drainage; Pieces, bits, chunks, sections, portions, servings; Arms, legs, eyes, tongues, fingers, toes, Love, lust, infatuation Adoration Boys, girls, women, men, Angels, demons, monsters, humans Creators, gods, titans, divas All extended and limited from the minds that worship Sanctify, mesmerize, glorify, rectify While humans eat more, love more, **** more Than the angels, demons, monsters, and titans We ponder and cherish Nevermore, for me Ever lore, for all Crows surround And chaos found.
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* *PART I Let the world be - against our LOVE Let the society also be so - against our LOVE Let the laws, rules, regulations be - against our LOVE Let the religions, scriptures, gurus be - against our LOVE Let our friends, colleagues and Family, relatives be - against our LOVE Let even YOU and me be - against our LOVE Let them be, Let us be.. Let everyone be - against our LOVE Yet it is NOT going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART II Every "against" is just a gray smoke Trying to pretend to be a blue sky "They"- the one who are against LOVE If they are eager to crucify Jesus If they are eager to lynch Mansoor If they are eager to poison Meera If they are eager to throw LOVERz In the pyre of FIRE Remember this... The air around us is "LOVE" The whole world shall burn In the grief of two LOVERz flames So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART III We all know, we all know That the enemies of LOVE are many They are educated, smart, intelligent Powerful, leaders and identity groups etc. Those who can reason, argue & debate, Rationalize with practicality & pragmatism But they do not even have a heart To feel the trueness & purity of our LOVE So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART IV What comes out of our LOVE Is the most Powerful & Almighty NATURE LOVE in my heart - is not ruled by anyone LOVE in YOUR heart - is not ruled by anyone LOVE in our heart - is "OUR" LOVE It is not even ruled by us So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART V Today those who pretend to be masters Today those who pretend to be leaders Today those who pretend to be gurus Those who pretend to "I know it ALL" They won't be here tomorrow to live They are only passengers of life Traveling illegally without tickets Because they are living without LOVE So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VI Do not forget, Do not forget LOVE has taken centuries It has taken ages From the garden of Eden Where Adam - Eve ate the apple Since Romeo-Zuliet died When Layla-Majnun wailed in longing LOVERz have poured their breathe Into every living thing on earth So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VII The breath you take is of LOVE The breath I take is of LOVE The breath the whole world takes is of LOVE Who are we to say "YES" and "NO" to LOVE? LOVE does not even take our permissions So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VIII LOVE is not even this moment "NOW" LOVE is not a slave of any constitution LOVE can't be imprisoned in any identities: Religious, regions, gender, caste, Class, society, color, race, age etc. LOVE is not owned by anyone LOVE is not even owned by LOVERz So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE"* *
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Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 11:35 PM UTC
So Don't Worry..
* *PART I Let the world be - against our LOVE Let the society also be so - against our LOVE Let the laws, rules, regulations be - against our LOVE Let the religions, scriptures, gurus be - against our LOVE Let our friends, colleagues and Family, relatives be - against our LOVE Let even YOU and me be - against our LOVE Let them be, Let us be.. Let everyone be - against our LOVE Yet it is NOT going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART II Every "against" is just a gray smoke Trying to pretend to be a blue sky "They"- the one who are against LOVE If they are eager to crucify Jesus If they are eager to lynch Mansoor If they are eager to poison Meera If they are eager to throw LOVERz In the pyre of FIRE Remember this... The air around us is "LOVE" The whole world shall burn In the grief of two LOVERz flames So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART III We all know, we all know That the enemies of LOVE are many They are educated, smart, intelligent Powerful, leaders and identity groups etc. Those who can reason, argue & debate, Rationalize with practicality & pragmatism But they do not even have a heart To feel the trueness & purity of our LOVE So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART IV What comes out of our LOVE Is the most Powerful & Almighty NATURE LOVE in my heart - is not ruled by anyone LOVE in YOUR heart - is not ruled by anyone LOVE in our heart - is "OUR" LOVE It is not even ruled by us So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART V Today those who pretend to be masters Today those who pretend to be leaders Today those who pretend to be gurus Those who pretend to "I know it ALL" They won't be here tomorrow to live They are only passengers of life Traveling illegally without tickets Because they are living without LOVE So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VI Do not forget, Do not forget LOVE has taken centuries It has taken ages From the garden of Eden Where Adam - Eve ate the apple Since Romeo-Zuliet died When Layla-Majnun wailed in longing LOVERz have poured their breathe Into every living thing on earth So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VII The breath you take is of LOVE The breath I take is of LOVE The breath the whole world takes is of LOVE Who are we to say "YES" and "NO" to LOVE? LOVE does not even take our permissions So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE" PART VIII LOVE is not even this moment "NOW" LOVE is not a slave of any constitution LOVE can't be imprisoned in any identities: Religious, regions, gender, caste, Class, society, color, race, age etc. LOVE is not owned by anyone LOVE is not even owned by LOVERz So don't worry, it is not going to be "The end of our LOVE"* *
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I like to take care of things, despite the fact that I never could care for myself I tend to flower seedlings, little green silent things thriving on the bathroom shelves They reach upward to the light while my own soul reaches down to... My spirit withers while I Sow seeds of zinnia and ox-eye Poppies spring from fertile ground while I feel like I could die Cut sprigs of Rosemary and on the same day put furrows in my skin, I need to Prioritize, rationalize or soon I'll share the ground they're in
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May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 2:24 PM UTC
Gardening
Here I sit. I don't believe I'm sitting. I don't believe in anything. I can think I'm sitting. As long as I maintain that I could be wrong. I don't believe in love. Even if I wanted to. I can tell how I feel when you're around. And how I feel when you're not. I don't believe in life. Or death. How could I ever rationalize a belief in something I don't understand? I think. About fireflies, world ********** scotch, and jokes. The jokes are to make you laugh. It's my favorite song. I don't believe in anything. I envy those that do. I'm just a lonely nihilist who wants to believe in you.
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 8:39 PM UTC
The lonely nihilist
Dear Mom, I hate you for pointing out my insecurities every day of my adolescent life. I used to love you before I noticed you couldn't love me the way I was. Dear middle/high school, I hate you for making me fight for my body like it was a war. Dear myself, I hate you for caring so much about things that shouldn't matter and for making me obsess over the every little calorie. Dear Bulimia/Anorexia: I used to love you, I used to be proud to show you off, I used to be careless about the way you made me feel. I used to come home and weight myself five time a day, I used to measure out my dimensions. I used to rationalize calories for different parts of the week, and on bad times, throughout the months. I used to eat 6 almonds every day for three months and taught myself that fainting is just like sleeping. I used to scratch my head and pull out locks of my hair. I loved you, like a heroine addict loves dope. **** you** for making me so weak, **** you** for showing me a normal life, and **** you** for purging on it years later. You let me have my sweet taste and I've let it consume me. **** you** for making me turn my mirrors around and for making me look at myself as if I was broken and needed a good fixing. **** you** for taking my life and for taking my pride. I can't possibly think of the many ways to say how I loved you. I can't think of all the ways I want to say how much I hate you. I used to blame myself for not abiding to your rules, I used to blame myself for that burger I ate last month, I used to blame myself for the weight I've gained. Dear You, I have personified you to the point where I'm scared to tell you I don't want it anymore. You are not a disease, and you're so proud of it. **You're a ******* part of me. A part I don't want to be anymore**.
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 12:14 PM UTC
Dear Bulimia
Dear Mom, I hate you for pointing out my insecurities every day of my adolescent life. I used to love you before I noticed you couldn't love me the way I was. Dear middle/high school, I hate you for making me fight for my body like it was a war. Dear myself, I hate you for caring so much about things that shouldn't matter and for making me obsess over the every little calorie. Dear Bulimia/Anorexia: I used to love you, I used to be proud to show you off, I used to be careless about the way you made me feel. I used to come home and weight myself five time a day, I used to measure out my dimensions. I used to rationalize calories for different parts of the week, and on bad times, throughout the months. I used to eat 6 almonds every day for three months and taught myself that fainting is just like sleeping. I used to scratch my head and pull out locks of my hair. I loved you, like a heroine addict loves dope. **** you** for making me so weak, **** you** for showing me a normal life, and **** you** for purging on it years later. You let me have my sweet taste and I've let it consume me. **** you** for making me turn my mirrors around and for making me look at myself as if I was broken and needed a good fixing. **** you** for taking my life and for taking my pride. I can't possibly think of the many ways to say how I loved you. I can't think of all the ways I want to say how much I hate you. I used to blame myself for not abiding to your rules, I used to blame myself for that burger I ate last month, I used to blame myself for the weight I've gained. Dear You, I have personified you to the point where I'm scared to tell you I don't want it anymore. You are not a disease, and you're so proud of it. **You're a ******* part of me. A part I don't want to be anymore**.
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Never appease one to please one.... Never pacify one to satisfy one..... Never contradict one to predict one.... Rationalize one to correct one..... Debate one to change one...... Sound minds are strong minds...... Have peace cross you over....... Meditate to create........ Hold no, hostilities, resentment, anger, hate..... Hold on to, humility, forgiveness, compassion, love....... Stay real.... Stay away form games..... Think before you speak....... Do what you say.... Dream big and chase your dream........ Surround yourself with one's with goals..... Learn self motivation..... Direction and drive is the key..... Discipline yourself..... Count on no one and the intelligent will follow.... Be a true leader and it will lead you to success.....
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
Rules to Success
The front page news hit home! Thirteen dead in a gambling pen... A dead bell hounds those rain soaked back streets bullits smash soot blind windows and the smell of blood makes you sick... White light of the camera eye spinning red  globes An attendant shacks his head"How do you rationalize this mess" "Just bag up the rest" A child whimpers. "Hush, Little flower, it is just death's long shadow way down in Chinatown."
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Sep 23, 2010
Sep 23, 2010 at 5:26 PM UTC
Chinatown massacre...
Catch the motes of dust in light To feel the threads of time suspend, In serenade of life’s allure Where precious moments never end. Silver tears run down the cheek In swift departures curled embrace, Poingnancy for moments few Of entwined limbs and whiskered face. Separations loneliness In gnawing of the very soul, The wish for time to dissipate To make the separate halves a whole. Anticipation’s rawness now Throws arrowed light to early shroud, The eagerness to touch and kiss Brings clear blue sky to morning cloud. Rationalize the wonderment Of slender fingers through your hair, In fantasy of sheer delight Her silhouette reflected there. Hold the tantalizing heat Of tender fires of passion bound In throngs of longing, deeply felt, Within the belly’s tufted mound Exhaustion in the tangled sheet As bands of sunlight kiss your hair, Gently now, in drifted sleep And gales of pleasure fill the air. Catch the motes of dust in light To feel the threads of time suspend In serenade of life’s allure Where precious moments never end. Marshalg Victoria Park tunnel Auckland 24 July 2010
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Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010 at 12:27 PM UTC
Dust Motes in Morning Light
How can I Falcon fly While I die In a web of lies Where they brutalize Us like flies We must communicate By connecting To avoid rumors of hate That are infecting The non-inspecting No problem detecting Yet happiness expecting Tyrant electing Issue deflecting Fascism respecting Public that's perplexing So the Internet should remain harmlessly neutral Instead of adding to our economic Kama Sutra Finding new ways to ***** each other Like restricting access to information So we won't hear the screams of our brothers To the rich and powerful's elation Dealing with this pseudo-fame Feels like a burdensome shame In order to listen to people I have to hear them talk But I fall into a deep hole When their ignorance is written in chalk Easily erased But also easily traced Yet not so easily faced Until we're easily replaced By the voices of our oppressors Promising to alleviate the pressure If we'll take a position that's lesser And never ask them to be a confesser Each electorate Must be kept separate And must be made desperate So take away their voices That should limit their choices The rich want to be molding the clay So they say to touch it you'll have to pay I can't sit here and stand it This particular predicament That's beyond my bandwidth Eating this **** sandwich Given by a grand witch So I add the name capitalist To my ******* list Which they seem to agree with They rationalize you have to be an ******* to survive They explain in business that's the only way to thrive Yet get upset when I call them the biggest ******** alive The Internet can do infinite good Yet it is minimized and misunderstood The faithless fathom It as a nameless chasm Made inside our rage filled cabins But they refuse to see the connections The healthy introspection And historical corrections They'd rather use deflection Mentioning mundane memes Or divisive digital teams They see the shell But not the turtle They put us in hell With a data girdle Everybody has the same capability to add to the Internet So they should have equal capacity to use the Internet Sometimes our economic systems make us act counterintuitively To what is fundamentally needed by our species Something humanity has never had before A comprehensive brain that can connect and inform us all We've seen money corrupt the minds of humans Let's not let it corrupt the mind of humanity
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM UTC
Data Girdle
How can I Falcon fly While I die In a web of lies Where they brutalize Us like flies We must communicate By connecting To avoid rumors of hate That are infecting The non-inspecting No problem detecting Yet happiness expecting Tyrant electing Issue deflecting Fascism respecting Public that's perplexing So the Internet should remain harmlessly neutral Instead of adding to our economic Kama Sutra Finding new ways to ***** each other Like restricting access to information So we won't hear the screams of our brothers To the rich and powerful's elation Dealing with this pseudo-fame Feels like a burdensome shame In order to listen to people I have to hear them talk But I fall into a deep hole When their ignorance is written in chalk Easily erased But also easily traced Yet not so easily faced Until we're easily replaced By the voices of our oppressors Promising to alleviate the pressure If we'll take a position that's lesser And never ask them to be a confesser Each electorate Must be kept separate And must be made desperate So take away their voices That should limit their choices The rich want to be molding the clay So they say to touch it you'll have to pay I can't sit here and stand it This particular predicament That's beyond my bandwidth Eating this **** sandwich Given by a grand witch So I add the name capitalist To my ******* list Which they seem to agree with They rationalize you have to be an ******* to survive They explain in business that's the only way to thrive Yet get upset when I call them the biggest ******** alive The Internet can do infinite good Yet it is minimized and misunderstood The faithless fathom It as a nameless chasm Made inside our rage filled cabins But they refuse to see the connections The healthy introspection And historical corrections They'd rather use deflection Mentioning mundane memes Or divisive digital teams They see the shell But not the turtle They put us in hell With a data girdle Everybody has the same capability to add to the Internet So they should have equal capacity to use the Internet Sometimes our economic systems make us act counterintuitively To what is fundamentally needed by our species Something humanity has never had before A comprehensive brain that can connect and inform us all We've seen money corrupt the minds of humans Let's not let it corrupt the mind of humanity
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I can’t, I sigh. But you have to, you assert. There isn’t the time, I claim. But I want it, you argue. I want to give it, but not right now or today, I rationalize. What if I needed it, you probe. There are things I need too, but my plate is full, I exclaim. Then I must find it somewhere else, you profess. I can do it, I will give it to you, I assure. When will that be and how long will it take, you inquire. When I am done, I blubber. Well, I am done, you declare. Please, I beg When will you be done, you retry. Never, I murmur. Never is too long, you calculate. But- I begin. No buts, what are you so busy with, you demand. Loving you, I whisper.
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Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 12:51 PM UTC
Reassurance