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Clash. Zap. Thunderclap. Orbitals charged with electricity collide - feels like  crossing the streams let's - smash atoms like Adam and Eve, pierce fiercely with particles blown white hot from my accelerator Insatiable Like  trying to fill up a black hole, so i accelerate her excite her, ignite her, my touch lights her on fire combust. a cloud of ecstasy like Co2  rises higher I've got my eyes on your ions take a picture it'll last longer? snap a photo digitize her particles turned pixels tilt their head skyward transcendant enlightenment, released it inside her E=mc^2 , i can please you at the speed of light we just rewrote the big bang theory and this time we got it right opposites attract and charged sparks fly we might not touch but ion be ****** if we don't try I'm a ****** intellectual I love your body AND your mind.
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Apr 5, 2012
Apr 5, 2012 at 2:13 PM UTC
****** Intellectual
Even the longest journey Begins with a single step Tendulkar has waited patiently to be a part of winning the world cup The master has some incredible records to his credit No cricketer in the modern era can compare with him for merit Yesterday nearly 120o million Indian glued to the television sets Irrespective Of caste, colour, creed, religion or sects Dhoni and Co rewrote history after twenty eight years From the faces of Indian cricketers rolled joyous tears Cricket brought All the cricketing countries Unbelievably together The western Coach Gary Kirsten and Co were responsible For the Eastern thriller The great sport became the emotional healer and the gap filler And the greatest ever crowd puller Tendulkar has carried the Nation’s burden for nearly twenty four years So His team mates carried him on their broad shoulders Even Tendulkar could not help shedding his emotional tears It was really a great Moment for the entire nation to celebratewith cheers
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Apr 3, 2011
Apr 3, 2011 at 7:47 AM UTC
THE A WESTERN COACH AND THE EASTERN THRILLER
our conversations are all in blue. i try not to mind it, like i try not to mind the hair falling out of my scalp. you're just busy being unattached to me. i make excuses for you as easy as i double text. they flood my head like mantras, but not the kind that make you feel calm or loved. it's more like telling yourself you won't throw up after the twisty roads up the mountain. but i want to see the view with you. so i keep sending you blue paragraphs filled with 'sorry's and 'i love you's. you send the same grey 'i love you, too's. and we call it communication. i'm the driver and the passenger the carsick kid trying not to throw up and the toddler asking over and over if we're there yet. but i want to see the view with you. would it hurt to send a grey paragraph? or ask me, in your best whine, if we are at the top yet? throw up in my lap. drive me crazy. ask me for the aux cord and i'll give it to you. i'm done listening to this album on repeat. i want to hold your hand without worrying if your fingers are numb and you just don't want to hurt my feelings. this car needs more you. and i don't mean the you dressed in grey half messages that you probably rewrote three times. i need the you that talked about faking our deaths together like it was the only part of life worth living. wearing that laugh you always say is too loud, but really it sounds like music. i like my music loud and angry. and ****** at your parents for being expired versions of themselves, always expecting you to be organic. i need that you like i need a vice. because that's who i want to see the view with.
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May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021 at 3:13 AM UTC
road trip (one sided conversations and other blue things)
our conversations are all in blue. i try not to mind it, like i try not to mind the hair falling out of my scalp. you're just busy being unattached to me. i make excuses for you as easy as i double text. they flood my head like mantras, but not the kind that make you feel calm or loved. it's more like telling yourself you won't throw up after the twisty roads up the mountain. but i want to see the view with you. so i keep sending you blue paragraphs filled with 'sorry's and 'i love you's. you send the same grey 'i love you, too's. and we call it communication. i'm the driver and the passenger the carsick kid trying not to throw up and the toddler asking over and over if we're there yet. but i want to see the view with you. would it hurt to send a grey paragraph? or ask me, in your best whine, if we are at the top yet? throw up in my lap. drive me crazy. ask me for the aux cord and i'll give it to you. i'm done listening to this album on repeat. i want to hold your hand without worrying if your fingers are numb and you just don't want to hurt my feelings. this car needs more you. and i don't mean the you dressed in grey half messages that you probably rewrote three times. i need the you that talked about faking our deaths together like it was the only part of life worth living. wearing that laugh you always say is too loud, but really it sounds like music. i like my music loud and angry. and ****** at your parents for being expired versions of themselves, always expecting you to be organic. i need that you like i need a vice. because that's who i want to see the view with.
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The envelope was red, white and blue just like the flag Betsy Ross spent days with bleeding fingers over so many years ago. It was addressed to me from an unknown sender. I was giggly, jumpy. Who would write to me? I wasn’t important. Just a seventh grade nobody stuck in a sparkly purple wheelchair. Mom said I could join. She secretly wanted her outcast of a daughter to have a sense of normalcy during her last fading moments of childhood. I just wanted to have fun. I wasn’t ready to accept that I was different. I knew that I was. The stares told me so but I didn’t want to be. The letter said that I could represent my fine country as America’s National Teenager. Me? All I had to do was show my ability by competing in a scholarship pageant. You know, a beauty pageant except it wasn’t being called so because adults are trying to be sensitive to teenager’s feelings because we’re more likely to be sensitive, emotional and prone to disruptive and potentially harmful outbursts. The perks of being a wallflower. Teenagers, we know this. We’re also not stupid. I and every other girl who would participate knew this pageant was nothing more than a beauty pageant; a popularity contest. That didn’t keep us from dreaming of becoming rich and famous, stop the crying fits, hormones from raging or acting like drama wasn’t our life’s goal and college major. Four days in Southern Idaho and an eight-hour drive to and from gave me plenty of time to practice my talent, an essay. Even then, I knew I had no real physical attributes. Instead, I shoved my fears aside and wrote, rewrote and polished my essay on America until my parents, teachers, and friends repeatedly had to tell me “that’s enough already. You’ll do great.” I made friends, told stories, laughed until snot came out my nose and answered the ever cautious “What happened to make you look that way?” I had the time of my life. I knew I wasn’t going to win because let’s face it, I’m not pretty enough. And just as predicted, I left with “Most Inspirational” and cried ugly tears when I didn’t come home as America’s National Teenager. Looking back, I was a real American teenager. I don't need a pageant to tell me so.
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 9:15 PM UTC
America's National Teenager
The envelope was red, white and blue just like the flag Betsy Ross spent days with bleeding fingers over so many years ago. It was addressed to me from an unknown sender. I was giggly, jumpy. Who would write to me? I wasn’t important. Just a seventh grade nobody stuck in a sparkly purple wheelchair. Mom said I could join. She secretly wanted her outcast of a daughter to have a sense of normalcy during her last fading moments of childhood. I just wanted to have fun. I wasn’t ready to accept that I was different. I knew that I was. The stares told me so but I didn’t want to be. The letter said that I could represent my fine country as America’s National Teenager. Me? All I had to do was show my ability by competing in a scholarship pageant. You know, a beauty pageant except it wasn’t being called so because adults are trying to be sensitive to teenager’s feelings because we’re more likely to be sensitive, emotional and prone to disruptive and potentially harmful outbursts. The perks of being a wallflower. Teenagers, we know this. We’re also not stupid. I and every other girl who would participate knew this pageant was nothing more than a beauty pageant; a popularity contest. That didn’t keep us from dreaming of becoming rich and famous, stop the crying fits, hormones from raging or acting like drama wasn’t our life’s goal and college major. Four days in Southern Idaho and an eight-hour drive to and from gave me plenty of time to practice my talent, an essay. Even then, I knew I had no real physical attributes. Instead, I shoved my fears aside and wrote, rewrote and polished my essay on America until my parents, teachers, and friends repeatedly had to tell me “that’s enough already. You’ll do great.” I made friends, told stories, laughed until snot came out my nose and answered the ever cautious “What happened to make you look that way?” I had the time of my life. I knew I wasn’t going to win because let’s face it, I’m not pretty enough. And just as predicted, I left with “Most Inspirational” and cried ugly tears when I didn’t come home as America’s National Teenager. Looking back, I was a real American teenager. I don't need a pageant to tell me so.
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January 19, 2017 The sword of Damocles hangs tense in the American night as a nation steels itself, My friends stick to their guns, my enemies do the same, and there's all these children who don't know which side of a border they'll end up on when the dust settles, there's all these trees down south who never asked to feel the weight of bodies on their branches, there's all these people talking in circles and there's nothing but doom on the television, Dr. King, I think of you this night, three days following the holiday they pinned to your corpse like a participation ribbon, I think of what they've done to you, Dr. King, they murdered you, they dissolved you in bleach, they rewrote your history and their mouths defile you to this day Dr. King, I want you to know there are parts of you that cannot be stripped away, Two hundred fifty thousand raised voices, five hundred thousand raised hands, Countless bodies in the street, countless jail sentences, countless tears shed in pursuit of a dream Dr. King, they tried to tell me your dream was of peace, but it's always been about freedom Dr. King, I know you would understand what must be done in the pursuit of freedom Dr. King, you knew that nonviolence could only work until they came for your blood Dr. King, you knew one day you'd have to strike back but they never gave you the chance Dr. King, they come for the blood of your brothers and sisters today Dr. King, they put words in your corpses mouth and teach it to dance, Dr. King, they will claim you no longer Dr. King, your chains will be broken, Dr. King, one day, you will be free at last, Glory glory, hallelujah, free at last
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 2:01 AM UTC
Elegy for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ending in a dancing corpse and the breaking of chains
January 19, 2017 The sword of Damocles hangs tense in the American night as a nation steels itself, My friends stick to their guns, my enemies do the same, and there's all these children who don't know which side of a border they'll end up on when the dust settles, there's all these trees down south who never asked to feel the weight of bodies on their branches, there's all these people talking in circles and there's nothing but doom on the television, Dr. King, I think of you this night, three days following the holiday they pinned to your corpse like a participation ribbon, I think of what they've done to you, Dr. King, they murdered you, they dissolved you in bleach, they rewrote your history and their mouths defile you to this day Dr. King, I want you to know there are parts of you that cannot be stripped away, Two hundred fifty thousand raised voices, five hundred thousand raised hands, Countless bodies in the street, countless jail sentences, countless tears shed in pursuit of a dream Dr. King, they tried to tell me your dream was of peace, but it's always been about freedom Dr. King, I know you would understand what must be done in the pursuit of freedom Dr. King, you knew that nonviolence could only work until they came for your blood Dr. King, you knew one day you'd have to strike back but they never gave you the chance Dr. King, they come for the blood of your brothers and sisters today Dr. King, they put words in your corpses mouth and teach it to dance, Dr. King, they will claim you no longer Dr. King, your chains will be broken, Dr. King, one day, you will be free at last, Glory glory, hallelujah, free at last
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the girl has her face removed and replaced with a plastic advertisement for bubble gum chew on my head she says with a slick smile and as she fades down an alley she is whistling an old Broadway showtunes she is reinventing herself from inside a box of cereal trips are for hippies there are gypsy's hanging round her door selling tickets to the dinner theatre of her self inflicted dreams the actors are picketing out front for better lines she took the best ones and rewrote them to resemble the life and times of sherlock holmes she disrobes her masked face and with a cautious shy smile envelops him with her presence her planned nature crafted to perfection without second thought without hesitation eats him alive from the inside still hungry she mingles in the crowd so she can steal their french fries and **** on their soda's she's celebrated and cheered as she mounts the stage her left handed shuffling fingers grasping the fundamentals  of her mind but a weak grip on reality's slippery skin leads one the rabbit hole to delusions publicly lived standing in the worlds shadow talking to yourself laugh louder than the one next to you lest they think you weak minded and the small sounds at your ear is your free will escaping she lay down at the end of her day and with Aesop's fables wished herself away from this dinner theatre of the mad
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 5:11 AM UTC
dinner theatre of the mad
I sat there like a museum of moments, a mosaic of emotions as she dissected my personas and did an autopsy of my past. Memories climbed my spine from the forgotten attics in my heart with every question, she asked. But my tongue was a drought and my voice box was a rust box, as the child in me was bullied into quietude. My edgy, messy and raw memories molded my perception, rewrote my interpretation and deepened my experience. There was underlying vengeance as the layers of fabricated scabs were scrapped to disclose the deeply entrenched, tender emotional scars. As the present, struck a cord my limbs would turn into cement as the echo would bring me back to the endless street of time and I would be dragged through open wounds within me. The pain would seep in the nooks and crannies of my soul. At every jibe and remark one more part of my flesh would be chiseled away. The sky would join in my sorrow as the clouds gathered like sheep summoned by a shepherd and then we would begin to weep our unresolved issues onto tissues. I revisited the bathrooms that became sanctuary in high school with its gossip soaked walls and tear-stained countertops. I dream of the people that have lost their way in my memory; a fabrication of nostalgia. But the tranquility of waves, can’t even erase the memories of their wrongdoings. My past engraved itself into my muscle memory ingrained its teachings and matured my sensibility. The dim shadows that would creep And the blues that I would pour are becoming budding flowers in my chest. Weaving from the same web I was entangled in building from the same sorrows I was drowning in. I began connecting, understanding its stem stitching my memories. I write for my younger self who felt silenced and erased by the world. I shape all the tainted pieces of memories into art and paint shades of my past as each is soaked in a memory. I craft subconscious relief, breathing memories into 6 alphabets that were strung into paragraphs, beginnings and end. I reached out to corners to bring out sunrises and sunsets and reignite dying embers as I de-spell the damage that silently reverterbrates through generation. I find home in my skin and love myself, whole; Shadows, crevice and all.
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 8:34 AM UTC
Healing Memories
I sat there like a museum of moments, a mosaic of emotions as she dissected my personas and did an autopsy of my past. Memories climbed my spine from the forgotten attics in my heart with every question, she asked. But my tongue was a drought and my voice box was a rust box, as the child in me was bullied into quietude. My edgy, messy and raw memories molded my perception, rewrote my interpretation and deepened my experience. There was underlying vengeance as the layers of fabricated scabs were scrapped to disclose the deeply entrenched, tender emotional scars. As the present, struck a cord my limbs would turn into cement as the echo would bring me back to the endless street of time and I would be dragged through open wounds within me. The pain would seep in the nooks and crannies of my soul. At every jibe and remark one more part of my flesh would be chiseled away. The sky would join in my sorrow as the clouds gathered like sheep summoned by a shepherd and then we would begin to weep our unresolved issues onto tissues. I revisited the bathrooms that became sanctuary in high school with its gossip soaked walls and tear-stained countertops. I dream of the people that have lost their way in my memory; a fabrication of nostalgia. But the tranquility of waves, can’t even erase the memories of their wrongdoings. My past engraved itself into my muscle memory ingrained its teachings and matured my sensibility. The dim shadows that would creep And the blues that I would pour are becoming budding flowers in my chest. Weaving from the same web I was entangled in building from the same sorrows I was drowning in. I began connecting, understanding its stem stitching my memories. I write for my younger self who felt silenced and erased by the world. I shape all the tainted pieces of memories into art and paint shades of my past as each is soaked in a memory. I craft subconscious relief, breathing memories into 6 alphabets that were strung into paragraphs, beginnings and end. I reached out to corners to bring out sunrises and sunsets and reignite dying embers as I de-spell the damage that silently reverterbrates through generation. I find home in my skin and love myself, whole; Shadows, crevice and all.
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I stand here Outside My Brother’s Bar Reflecting on All the great Things the people Who graced this Old bar Did in their lives Three men I admire For their visions And lack of acceptance And apathy Those who rewrote The American Dream Who didn’t succumb to Mass, popular, opinions As Thoreau said: “majority rules with power not right or fairness” I came here In high school Now, I am, on my own will as they were, —overmen
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 5:14 PM UTC
Bourbon and Coke
"You won’t affect me, I’m in control” The words that stoked the embers Long ago- laziness, my wife ****** it all over and ambition, my father abandoned his son the dogma rewrote itself before my brother, conviction was convicted of capriciousness -my family was lost Death is a powerful thing it’s transcendence, one could say and when the future dies the present is lost in disarray to think so lightly of the end is foolish, arrogant, in fact If a ******* wishes to die, does he curse the world or the ones that fed him to it? there is a lot of hate going around hate that can’t be absolved simply by love this ******* is hell spawn It takes will to overcome fear not courage or bravery vanity words for a vain republic getting plastered on screens worldwide yeah that’s it… overcoming fear Becoming it What more can money buy? A new life? A new dream? A reset button? Unlikely A simple barter on the divine sale ideals don’t come without risks the higher the horse, the longer the fall but that’s not the case at all the highest one here gets to buy **** IT ALL the ultimate get out of jail free card But I’ve already gotten way off track Either way, you won’t affect me I’m in control.
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 4:54 PM UTC
Gb Ab Bb Cb Db Eb F Gb
You stepped in my soundtrack Bought out the baton You laughed at my lyrics Rewrote verses wrong You chewed on my chorus And spat it back out Cracking my key notes And muting my loud You revised my rhythm Swallowed my rhyme scheme You mashed up the melody Now I want a new theme
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Oct 7, 2012
Oct 7, 2012 at 10:53 AM UTC
Stealing my song
Joseph's father loved him best as the child of his old age, and the dreams he told to the other family members,were the words of a sage,behold here comes the dreamer,his brothers all said, every time that joseph drew near,as the younger brother ,he made each one tremble inside from fear, so they plotted how to **** him, and take away his many colored coat, but fate refused to let him die, and the story of it all, was rewrote,catch that dreamer, before he gets away, sharing dreams and inspiration, each and every day, behold here comes the dreamer, such a mocking and smirking sound, but joseph foretold in advance, that to him, they would sooner or later,bow down, behold here comes the dreamer, are they talking about me or you? behold here comes the dreamer , remember that ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a historic dreamer and history maker too
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 7:55 PM UTC
BEHOLD THE DREAMER BY VICTOR TRIPP
Sky spits ***** flecks of conversation onto swift lips and the tooth knife draws blood from grin in the evening that is probably too cold or maybe just right. I climbed the warehouse wall in my head while you watched my eyes move up and over and around and down back to your denim jacket for the sixth or seventh time that evening and then up to meet eyes with spots from fluorescent lights. I told you a story and then we rewrote it for just a few minutes in several different locales with varying degrees of passion and curiosity while lessening the distance of feet and hips and gaze to try to feel something new and same.
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 4:38 AM UTC
Party
to my delight,    for I was only six months away       from letting her know            my dreams and desires, she asked me     out of the blue         to lunch with her             sit-down, not buffet; as she proffered     the offer her eyes            kind of sparkled                and she tilted her head to the left, touched     her hair... now this           was unexpected a tad urgent                as I rewrote                    the novel-erased all my fears. She touched my forearm gently      and I saw               sparkles and fireworks                    and candlelit dinners as all that      would utter from                my mouth agape                      over and over again was hells yes....hells yes
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Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 at 9:57 PM UTC
hells yes
...I love you... [deleted, never sent] Is there anything I can do to help fix it? [deleted, never sent] ...Please don't run away... [deleted, never sent] Maybe I should get back with my ex?... what do you think?... [Stopped at get back with, never even finish writing, deleted, never sent] ...You know things wont be the same right?... [deleted, never sent] Remember the day with the pillow fort, Yea, That was the day I promised myself I would save you.... Look how that turned out. [Thought about sending, deleted, never sent] I will always be here for you... Please remember that... [deleted, rewrote, and sent]
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 12:10 PM UTC
Texts I Want To Send You
There once was a shadow who thought he was a man, He made his empty bed in a shame of familiars, For years if not an eternity he never did one single thing, He contemplated creativity in all its smoke and mirrors, His only credo was padding his unknowing, limp ego, Got a gig, speaking before a throng of other shadows, He rewrote the crook about his own insignificances, suddenly Nothing's became every things, all was sorely well in the bleak Under toes.  Shadowman had found his stage, had rearranged Chaos and insignificance to the point of no enlightenments, No regrets.  What a sage! Shadowman aped, traced, spewed in studied literature, Experienced, faith, trust, fidelity, danced numbers, In a cellophane pack with all the added extras included, Found that reflecting words only got in his narcissistic way, Left the California sun for the New York lowlands Of the east, that only shine after the hurricane's Deluge.  Shadowman has reams of flesh plastered On a mall of wallowing sites only Shadowmen frequent, Modern is the moly man who makes his own myth. Shadowman has traveled to the great southern climes Where hotels of shade tell tales of locals and enlightenment is in a drug Called something South American or other?  A drug so smug it is a plug For his dun holy soul.  Shadowman is only a silhouette of himself. He freely gives seminars to the lame, chained to themselves freely, Where all the vain echoes are chambered, embodied, entombed.
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Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014 at 11:19 PM UTC
Requiem for a Shadowman
Each day is given to me. I take it, the meds smooth it, the collision impact tween car and life, a different kind of hangover, is "written off," through irony delicious, by writing. it is not strange, it is not unusual, that clarity obtained, afforded, by the unexpected. I am stained, a stained glass window, the early light coming through, illuminated and repairs, enlightens and softens, renews, both me and the floor's cold stone slabs, where my knees touch the ground, confirm to me I am well, alive. I do not run. there is no compulsion, no need, for the direction is clearer now, the signs point forward, this way, exit the roundabout smoothly, on my way to my centre. Words i wrote in a way that someone majestically rewrote for Me - such a pleasure
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Dec 22, 2013
Dec 22, 2013 at 6:38 PM UTC
My Claim
My sweetest pain It feels like deja- vu, yet I am the writer this time around I have set the stage, everything is on cue I decided how this will end, I planned it all Right to the time the dagger hits my heart I choose to relive the pain Because its my sweetest pain The pain was so intense, I was submerged in it So I rewrote the script, so that I would feel it again Only this time i will not be numbed by the shock This time I will make sure that it doesn't break me I am prepared to sacrifice everything Just to taste my sweetest pain Again Do you think its coincidence that the life span is the same Or that the offspring is the same ages in both productions The only way to perfect it, is to rehearse it That way I control when the dagger strikes That way I can taste my sweetest pain Again The scripts are identical in so many ways I smile at how well I planned it, this is my Oscar moment All the actors are in place, cameras ready to roll As I strike the dagger I smile as I feel my sweetest pain Again!
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM UTC
My Sweetest Pain
Educational hangover You rewrote my internal story Switched around the dialogue Kept my life anything but boring Educational hangover You got me drunk on knowledge Faded on grades Homework stacked Books for days
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Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021 at 3:23 AM UTC
#61
She said; Once I heal from all these chemical burns I'll exude forgiveness You'll be impressed by my emotional stability And my lack of vulnerability I'll be such a gentle ***** You lose sight of when our roles switched I have another dimension to my soul now All the knives are out of my throat now All the stories are rewrote now It's impossible to detect the dishonesty in my voice
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May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 4:12 PM UTC
Chemical Burns
'Coz it's hard to see The one who made these heartbeats Having his own Made by another Inside your own system Pain, painful that pain Makes you bow to the ground And cry tears in vain The first above else Sweetest among sweet Extreme above realest Was just the least to think I thought I'd stand a chance A shot to make a change Of what was left behind Before these pages came I could've rewrote My stupidiest mistakes And make new moments Saving thy heart from these aches But it's just so amazing How our story was told Words written in ink Won't undo even a hundred fold We've been in fragments Shattered and torn And kept crawling back To where we're from That has been so long Didn't know you were gone To fit with another piece And our pattern was ceased Even if it's so hard I won't ever ask Just for my sweetest first To have what he deserves What we did has been done What's been there has been left These pages will continue And so I must too I'll wait for the day For another piece to come To fill these empty sheets And make this story book complete For that someone dated back in the year 2010
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 4:11 AM UTC
First's Curse
give me love: not later, not tomorrow, not yesterday but today i'm tired of hiding away to revise myself for you there is no revising left,this is it this is the conclusion i know dear you liked the intro a whole lot more im sorry, ive been chain smoking constant painful inhales, to feel less drownings of anxiety let my blood fill with toxins of alcoholic infatuations another girl; kissing cheek and staring into pale blue eyes the pale blue eyes i got stuck in for six months on a break for revising, isolation from everyone i changed i changed i changed i faked happiness because i was not allowed to be sad i changed i changed i changed i got rid of the addictions all on my own i changed i changed i changed i am doing what makes me happy to impress you i revised it for you, i rewrote myself for you i changed i changed i changed but i did not revise enough, so you found a new one my size my height my hair color my eyes my ******* name; the same name and you took her and left me here with my revisions giving love, later, tomorrow, yesterday, and today to her
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 4:49 PM UTC
revised
Someone wrote a biography of a man. Said he liked to write poetry and spend time in nature. But there are many things its readers will never know about. The streams of thought, the analysis, confusion, the Sadness, sprinkles of joy, the Transcension. A strange man he was..sweetly strange, but strangely bitter. At odds with the halves of himself..or perhaps thirds. But who will know? Someone wrote a biography of a man, but didn't say he was crazy. Or that he had a sharp mathematical mind and tried to add up the components of life to find it wasn't an equation in the first place. It was omitted that he was not merely a man, but of some other kind, often missing his home and his people, though he didn't know who they were. They didn't say when he became deaf, that he still played his favorite songs because he could feel them all the same and see them in colors. And no one knew that he refused to write in pen, but pencil only because one day his work would be rubbed away by the sands of time, just like his body. Someone wrote a biography of a man, but there was no account of what he did on a beautiful day, like the time he sat by a stream pondering his life and rewrote the biography of a man.
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Sep 20, 2010
Sep 20, 2010 at 8:11 PM UTC
Biography of a Man
Remember how I said that I would write you into something perfect so that you would stop walking out on me? So I rewrote you by bending the lines of STAY Problem is People change And I found you stretching into HEART BREAK and HIT AND RUN And me trying to find anything better than “Please don’t leave me” That’s when I learned to write you into AGAIN And TOMORROW Then I figured the math of FOREVER Is 2xtoo long When you factor in the absolute power of ME Turns out Father Sound too much like Forever And DAD Is something neither of us ever really HAD And the Past Is something we are both running from Now MAN Is the thing I am most scared of becoming I find myself begging my reflection to stop me from it That’s when I learned to write myself into FORGIVE And how to factor myself into the equation of ENDLESS My name was the first word I ever learned to say It has 8 letters in it Sideways it is ∞
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May 23, 2011
May 23, 2011 at 1:30 AM UTC
The Math of My Name
The sunset smeared itself across the sky, a crime scene of color— red bleeding into orange, violets bruising the edges. I stood there, guilty of wanting to call you, to say, "Do you see this too? Do you feel it? Or has the world stopped being beautiful for you since I became the ghost you refuse to name?" For a moment, the colors burned so bright I almost forgot the sound of your silence— the way you folded your love into sharp corners, how you rewrote me as the villain in a story we never agreed to tell. Almost. But then the shadows stretched long, like they always do, and I remembered how you used to say the sky looked like an apology before it turned black. I laughed, because tonight it did— looked like you. A burst of brightness trying to outrun the dark, fading before it ever stood a chance. I almost forgot you hate me. Almost forgave you for it, too. But sunsets only linger for a breath, and some things— like your name in my mouth— are harder to let go of than light.
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Dec 27, 2024
Dec 27, 2024 at 1:48 PM UTC
The sunset was so beautiful, I almost forgot you hate me.
If I rewrote the story and somehow are paths did not cross. In temptations fire. We would only know the cold of others. Freezing in the silent agony unable to speak. The statue remains its meaning erased. As into others we will seek. The emotions we no longer share. Alone I am now inthe isolation of many blank stares. The jokes are but a wall built to conceal. All that I am. That I could never reveal. Use the substances to keep you numb. And let the voices take you to another place. Beyond the madness there lies beauthy in pain. And always truth. Destruction breeds art. I light up in a room of vacant stares and empty lives. To blind in addiction to know the other does exist. In this den like some scene from a ***** parlor from the west. Ashes hit the floor along with my pride. This battle im losing with devilish glee. All but nothing is left. so in the shadows I confide.
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Apr 16, 2010
Apr 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM UTC
A Note To None