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"righteously" poems
As a bisexual, I fear Few will want you to be proud. They will bend your ear Saying things to you out loud That would be better left Totally, embarrassingly unsaid Instead of rattling around Inside the cathedral of your head. Too many try to make it Seem like a kind of venal crime To want to make love with Someone of your own kind And maybe with the same Gender with which you were born. To some it is very biblical And subjects you to public scorn. Finding someone **** With the same plumbing as you It not only delightful It can be a dream come true. It feels correctly natural And works like the other way Even though people scorn And use words like *** and ‘gay’ Or ****** and even taco Whatever that might end up meaning. The important thing to me Bisexuality is so powerfully appealing. So, those who dislike me And feel so righteously zealous That bisexuality is wrong Are very possibly just jealous. Or maybe just uptight Living by someone’s else’s rules; Not what they’ve learned And therefore are bigoted fools.
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 10:57 PM UTC
BISEXUAL BIGOTRY
Human Observations (the woman pees) if you walk the world with pen and paper or eclectic electronic devices, sure as the sunrise espied, the pen will quick leak when wearing white and so will too the righteous words righteously, thereafter when you can't sleep and you must slam your sweaty fist into pillow know that the pillow is silent thinking, dude, you really ain't got a hope, a prayer fallen asleep in the soaking tub a thousand and one times, ain't never drowned like the warning ones say I will do but only when restless in my rustling no-safety night sleep in my lumpy bed, where I’ve already dream-drowned a million times the woman pees, safe and secure, comforted by the knowledge that we have bathrooms separate, her toilet, man *** free, tho we just finished making sweaty, fluid swapping *** she does not, won't put on makeup in her pj's to take out the garbage, that is why she keeps loverman, so handy, nearby, shamelessly firm, unwavering, good god, great for one "disposable" use per night when you tell your child that you love them, and they do not reply at all, it isn't that they don't love ya back, 'tis only that they haven't learned to love themselves something well that just cannot be taught. the more trinkets I buy her, more she screams stop, but never not once has she said, here, take it back if you don't believe in Faeries and Elusives, try, for then you have a middling chance of getting the missing, disappearing whole sock hiding in her ****** back, intact If must look up the time where your love is currently hiding/residing, then the probability is more than 1.000, that you no longer love her enough, or she, you, not at all you know it is time to shut down, hang up the pen and close the iPad cover, surrender, give up the poetry gig 4 real when you start to prefer an autocorrect suggestion ~ More to follow. someday.
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Feb 2, 2018
Feb 2, 2018 at 7:19 PM UTC
Human Observations (the woman pees)
Human Observations (the woman pees) if you walk the world with pen and paper or eclectic electronic devices, sure as the sunrise espied, the pen will quick leak when wearing white and so will too the righteous words righteously, thereafter when you can't sleep and you must slam your sweaty fist into pillow know that the pillow is silent thinking, dude, you really ain't got a hope, a prayer fallen asleep in the soaking tub a thousand and one times, ain't never drowned like the warning ones say I will do but only when restless in my rustling no-safety night sleep in my lumpy bed, where I’ve already dream-drowned a million times the woman pees, safe and secure, comforted by the knowledge that we have bathrooms separate, her toilet, man *** free, tho we just finished making sweaty, fluid swapping *** she does not, won't put on makeup in her pj's to take out the garbage, that is why she keeps loverman, so handy, nearby, shamelessly firm, unwavering, good god, great for one "disposable" use per night when you tell your child that you love them, and they do not reply at all, it isn't that they don't love ya back, 'tis only that they haven't learned to love themselves something well that just cannot be taught. the more trinkets I buy her, more she screams stop, but never not once has she said, here, take it back if you don't believe in Faeries and Elusives, try, for then you have a middling chance of getting the missing, disappearing whole sock hiding in her ****** back, intact If must look up the time where your love is currently hiding/residing, then the probability is more than 1.000, that you no longer love her enough, or she, you, not at all you know it is time to shut down, hang up the pen and close the iPad cover, surrender, give up the poetry gig 4 real when you start to prefer an autocorrect suggestion ~ More to follow. someday.
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Asleep alone I got the light scare Of a nightmare With my plight there Which wouldn't fight fair Awake awaits Chirping is all I hear Dragging life into focus Getting the lens clear To see things are hopeless My aches and pains Are my body's refrain To remind me of existence Despite my mental resistance I am lucid I take my shoelace And loop it To run a new race Timidly trembling The violence in my dreams Matches the silence and screams That defile us and our team Making the nightmares real And the pain I can feel So it's love I steal A devil's deal Hell unsealed I can hear the vultures chirping Or maybe they're just burping Out the demons I ignored My forgiveness they implored To meet a silent scorn Like a muted tribal horn Banishing them to another realm With my ostracism at the helm Until the lonely are overwhelmed And I see the error of my ways Once I'm part of this chaotic haze Practically paralyzed I am lost In this game I've met the boss He and I the same He is a voice Chirping in my ear Saying I have no choice I should give in to fear And just drink beer Until the end is here Carelessly comatose The birds that once sang beautifully Now retreat dutifully When they see my thoughtless anger Turn me into a ruthless stranger Creating danger For those living righteously They start fighting me Trying to enlighten me Which is only exciting me Because I lack the sight to see What the world could be If we could harmonize Like the birds Not using argent lies But soothing words Yet there is no tax exemption For my reluctant redemption So my mind invented No incentive Soul slaughtered The tear jerking Birds chirping Constantly remind me Inside my sleep they find me Thrusting me into a life unwinding Through my window the sun is blinding When I start to fear my brother After seeing mirrors in others Reflecting my attitude Of ingratitude I had a nasty nightmare Of Camp Crystal Lake Filled with misfit flakes Paying for their mistakes With pain and suffering As deep as a submarine Being torn apart For every decision Hiding their heart To avoid incisions And once all these losers are slain The birds chirping start a new day
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Jun 29, 2018
Jun 29, 2018 at 4:14 AM UTC
Chirping
Asleep alone I got the light scare Of a nightmare With my plight there Which wouldn't fight fair Awake awaits Chirping is all I hear Dragging life into focus Getting the lens clear To see things are hopeless My aches and pains Are my body's refrain To remind me of existence Despite my mental resistance I am lucid I take my shoelace And loop it To run a new race Timidly trembling The violence in my dreams Matches the silence and screams That defile us and our team Making the nightmares real And the pain I can feel So it's love I steal A devil's deal Hell unsealed I can hear the vultures chirping Or maybe they're just burping Out the demons I ignored My forgiveness they implored To meet a silent scorn Like a muted tribal horn Banishing them to another realm With my ostracism at the helm Until the lonely are overwhelmed And I see the error of my ways Once I'm part of this chaotic haze Practically paralyzed I am lost In this game I've met the boss He and I the same He is a voice Chirping in my ear Saying I have no choice I should give in to fear And just drink beer Until the end is here Carelessly comatose The birds that once sang beautifully Now retreat dutifully When they see my thoughtless anger Turn me into a ruthless stranger Creating danger For those living righteously They start fighting me Trying to enlighten me Which is only exciting me Because I lack the sight to see What the world could be If we could harmonize Like the birds Not using argent lies But soothing words Yet there is no tax exemption For my reluctant redemption So my mind invented No incentive Soul slaughtered The tear jerking Birds chirping Constantly remind me Inside my sleep they find me Thrusting me into a life unwinding Through my window the sun is blinding When I start to fear my brother After seeing mirrors in others Reflecting my attitude Of ingratitude I had a nasty nightmare Of Camp Crystal Lake Filled with misfit flakes Paying for their mistakes With pain and suffering As deep as a submarine Being torn apart For every decision Hiding their heart To avoid incisions And once all these losers are slain The birds chirping start a new day
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The true spirit of Ramadhan Its not about thirst and hunger Its not about starvation from the hours of dawn till the hours of dusk Its not about food paradise at Ramadan bazaar and lavish preparation for Iftar... The real purpose of fasting is to attain righteousness to behave righteously... To See no evil To Hear no evil To Speak no evil To Empty your stomach so you'll feed your soul reciting the holy book Al-Qur'an for blessings.. The merciful will double the reward more than your heart desires fast for the sake of attaining to God the true nature of fasting Ramadhan ...observe it in its true spirit ~ Sharina~
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 11:17 PM UTC
The true spirit of Ramadhan
The days are dark and clouded Stars fear to shine and the moon is dreaded The pain in our heart too heavy to make us cry The prophesy joy is still far off to force out a smile Miracles are now very scarce and expensive to buy The truth is too bitter and too unhealthy to lie My once good friend which is hope is ready to die No peace in heaven, no life in hell Then where exactly lie our help Since I have no horse I will use my leg My pain is nobody is feeling my pain since is better to pray than fait I won't try to drop out in the school of life by suicide again I will stand on holy grounds to fight for a better life in faith. They say the tail is for the slaves so I dare to become the head No matter how deadly the journey seems I still believe in a rosy end Since the kingdom will come here, here I will righteously pitch my tent. Let them keep throwing brimstones Let them keep feeding my hunger for meat with stones I seek for honey but sour limes and bitter leaf water they seek to drunk me with They should keep turning my once soft paths to thorns But I know they can't eclipse my glory it will keep glowing I'm like a palm fruit, no matter the harsh weather they might bring I will keep flourishing I'm like age, no matter the obstacles they might set I will keep growing For I'm a destiny child, destined to move from glory to glory.
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Dec 25, 2013
Dec 25, 2013 at 4:57 AM UTC
Destined Glory.
My heart bleeds blue at midnight. I heard owls hooting in my despair. Alone ,I lay naked underneath the beaming moonlight. I touch slowly my neck and close my eyes. Thinking of a predator I been waiting for a lifetime slowly slithering its warmth on my thighs.So preciously antagonizing my soul with its piercing eyes.It's breath is an intimidating musical hiss. I crave it's injection. Hiss between every piercing kiss.I touched myself harder as the owls hooted into the moonlight. I needed you. Imagining my predator teasing my heated skin with its cold fangs. Immensely waiting for its long hollow teeth to pierce me. While wishing, it instantly became the predator of my heart as it slither around my skin.The music began to start.Predator started to taunt, looking for the sweetest fatal bite.My soul began gasping harder, My predator, oh please prey on me harder.Slither uncontrollably, slither harder as my breaths change heavily. Predator inject itself slowly through every bite.Oh I am in love.It was perfect dosage. This is love. Intoxicating every blood vessel of my body.Every bite,I felt more yours. I instantly became weaker, your bite was the perfect dosage for the **** It was perfect dosage.The perfect poison. This was love. The perfect ********** Underneath the moonlight , vivaciously sweating naked I screamed. Longing more for your touch.The owl hooted once more, morning has come. I awake , I was loved for the first time. With its injection , The predator righteously own my crimson heart
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Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015 at 3:21 AM UTC
Venomous ***
My heart bleeds blue at midnight. I heard owls hooting in my despair. Alone ,I lay naked underneath the beaming moonlight. I touch slowly my neck and close my eyes. Thinking of a predator I been waiting for a lifetime slowly slithering its warmth on my thighs.So preciously antagonizing my soul with its piercing eyes.It's breath is an intimidating musical hiss. I crave it's injection. Hiss between every piercing kiss.I touched myself harder as the owls hooted into the moonlight. I needed you. Imagining my predator teasing my heated skin with its cold fangs. Immensely waiting for its long hollow teeth to pierce me. While wishing, it instantly became the predator of my heart as it slither around my skin.The music began to start.Predator started to taunt, looking for the sweetest fatal bite.My soul began gasping harder, My predator, oh please prey on me harder.Slither uncontrollably, slither harder as my breaths change heavily. Predator inject itself slowly through every bite.Oh I am in love.It was perfect dosage. This is love. Intoxicating every blood vessel of my body.Every bite,I felt more yours. I instantly became weaker, your bite was the perfect dosage for the **** It was perfect dosage.The perfect poison. This was love. The perfect ********** Underneath the moonlight , vivaciously sweating naked I screamed. Longing more for your touch.The owl hooted once more, morning has come. I awake , I was loved for the first time. With its injection , The predator righteously own my crimson heart
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The Holy Ones I want to shove socks in my pants, so it looks like I have one of those Italian-line painting ***** I want to do it when I go to the grocery store so fourteen-year olds and thirty-year olds alike stare at my junk as it fills the stitches of my pelvic arena, I want to make eye contact with mothers and grandmothers, brothers and dads as they shift uncomfortably in those handicap battery powered carts that are reserved for the handicapped but are often only used by the near-morbidly obese, near because they’re not quite dead yet, morbid because they can’t help but imagining my **** sliding past their tongue and what it feels like as the tip pushes past their uvula and they gasp for air through their nose because they’ve never had a **** like this in their mouth before. This would be my **** **** This would have me making lists of adult film star names for film star jobs I’d never take because I’d be busy making lists of phone numbers, the college girls I’d have my pick of ******* and the mothers and grandmothers who I’d be happily turning away from while I select my own organic radishes from the produce department at the specialty market on Vine. This **** is better than a rolled up wrapped stack of hundreds or the leather jacket I had in high school, it’d be better than when I walked down Michigan Ave in Umbro Valentino donning a Parisian accent, I can see me having to buy new briefs just to make room for this **** And my own **** getting jealous of the girth I’d be faking it’d swell up, and in the middle of ordering my four-pump Vanilla Almond milk Latte from Starbucks my gray wool socks would fall to the floor, and up from the band of my Acne Jeans would bulge the tip, just the tip, like she said when I was in college, or just the tip like I said when I just needed to feel something other than how emotionally wrecked you made me feel when you told me not to touch you anymore. You ****** me up righteously. And still, 380 women later, I’m ****** up and I don’t have a single pair of socks to wear
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Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 1:34 AM UTC
The Holy Ones
The Holy Ones I want to shove socks in my pants, so it looks like I have one of those Italian-line painting ***** I want to do it when I go to the grocery store so fourteen-year olds and thirty-year olds alike stare at my junk as it fills the stitches of my pelvic arena, I want to make eye contact with mothers and grandmothers, brothers and dads as they shift uncomfortably in those handicap battery powered carts that are reserved for the handicapped but are often only used by the near-morbidly obese, near because they’re not quite dead yet, morbid because they can’t help but imagining my **** sliding past their tongue and what it feels like as the tip pushes past their uvula and they gasp for air through their nose because they’ve never had a **** like this in their mouth before. This would be my **** **** This would have me making lists of adult film star names for film star jobs I’d never take because I’d be busy making lists of phone numbers, the college girls I’d have my pick of ******* and the mothers and grandmothers who I’d be happily turning away from while I select my own organic radishes from the produce department at the specialty market on Vine. This **** is better than a rolled up wrapped stack of hundreds or the leather jacket I had in high school, it’d be better than when I walked down Michigan Ave in Umbro Valentino donning a Parisian accent, I can see me having to buy new briefs just to make room for this **** And my own **** getting jealous of the girth I’d be faking it’d swell up, and in the middle of ordering my four-pump Vanilla Almond milk Latte from Starbucks my gray wool socks would fall to the floor, and up from the band of my Acne Jeans would bulge the tip, just the tip, like she said when I was in college, or just the tip like I said when I just needed to feel something other than how emotionally wrecked you made me feel when you told me not to touch you anymore. You ****** me up righteously. And still, 380 women later, I’m ****** up and I don’t have a single pair of socks to wear
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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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Your ghost haunts me still. [Did you send him here to me?] I see your tousled blond hair, those bright blue eyes your round red lips, but It is never really you. Your lips are the first I ever thought of touching. [Did you know how close I came?] It snowed the day after you left. I tried desperately to catch just one perfect flake to send to you. You cannot mail a snowflake! my mother righteously said. [Did you remember the frozen day when I loved you first?] My heart is frozen now. And I suppose it didn't matter since you were gone. You left me here and I could not forgive you, that must be why your ghost haunts me now. I am sorry. I am so sorry. I let you slip through my fingers and now there is nothing left.
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 10:14 AM UTC
snowflake
Some get that way by playing it safe, memorizing mantras, righteously abiding by rules, some get there by cutting seams, lost in purposelessness, partaking of ether, marijuana, alcohol, or anything that's buzzy enough, some find their sweepstakes in curls, in fantasies, on the internet, or in the aftermath, some claim the spoils, some gracefully accept determination, some divorce their wives, some happily raise their pulse to the heavy metals, some review albums and cut down the ******** some write love stories for our grandmas, our moms, our ex-girlfriends, some find it in politics, right winging, left winging, chicken winging, some in bomb threats, some find it in supremacy, others in melting pots, some cheer up over breakroom chitty-chats, some in **** *** some in sympathizing with pedophiles trapped in iron lungs, some when they have hit the bottom rung, some by rationalizing, boosting themselves above half-wrongs, to coast on the half-rights, some by breaking up, some by declaring war, only to get discouraged, yet proud of the scars, some kids dance to experimental music, some write blogs about capitalism, some find it kicking it with bitter vegans, others while murdering their parents, but everyone is a winner, everyone is right, everyone has earned the paycheck, the vacation, the **** wife, and the key to eternal life.
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Dec 16, 2010
Dec 16, 2010 at 8:03 AM UTC
Everyone is a Winner (hoo-rah-ray)
Freres humains qui apres nous vivez, N'ayez les coeurs contre nous endurcis ... Men, brother men, that after us yet live, Let not your hearts too hard against us be; For if some pity of us poor men ye give, The sooner God shall take of you pity. Here are we five or six strung up, you see, And here the flesh that all too well we fed Bit by bit eaten and rotten, rent and shred, And we the bones grow dust and ash withal; Let no man laugh at us discomforted, But pray to God that he forgive us all. If we call on you, brothers, to forgive, Ye should not hold our prayer in scorn, though we Were slain by law; ye know that all alive Have not wit always to walk righteously; Make therefore intercession heartily With him that of a virgin's womb was bred, That his grace be not as a dr-y well-head For us, nor let hell's thunder on us fall; We are dead, let no man harry or vex us dead, But pray to God that he forgive us all. The rain has washed and laundered us all five, And the sun dried and blackened; yea, perdie, Ravens and pies with beaks that rend and rive Have dug our eyes out, and plucked off for fee Our beards and eyebrows; never we are free, Not once, to rest; but here and there still sped, Driven at its wild will by the wind's change led, More pecked of birds than fruits on garden-wall; Men, for God's love, let no gibe here be said, But pray to God that he forgive us all. Prince Jesus, that of all art lord and head, Keep us, that hell be not our bitter bed; We have nought to do in such a master's hall. Be not ye therefore of our fellowhead, But pray to God that he forgive us all. Algernon Charles Swinburne, trans.
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Epitaph In The Form Of A Ballade
Freres humains qui apres nous vivez, N'ayez les coeurs contre nous endurcis ... Men, brother men, that after us yet live, Let not your hearts too hard against us be; For if some pity of us poor men ye give, The sooner God shall take of you pity. Here are we five or six strung up, you see, And here the flesh that all too well we fed Bit by bit eaten and rotten, rent and shred, And we the bones grow dust and ash withal; Let no man laugh at us discomforted, But pray to God that he forgive us all. If we call on you, brothers, to forgive, Ye should not hold our prayer in scorn, though we Were slain by law; ye know that all alive Have not wit always to walk righteously; Make therefore intercession heartily With him that of a virgin's womb was bred, That his grace be not as a dr-y well-head For us, nor let hell's thunder on us fall; We are dead, let no man harry or vex us dead, But pray to God that he forgive us all. The rain has washed and laundered us all five, And the sun dried and blackened; yea, perdie, Ravens and pies with beaks that rend and rive Have dug our eyes out, and plucked off for fee Our beards and eyebrows; never we are free, Not once, to rest; but here and there still sped, Driven at its wild will by the wind's change led, More pecked of birds than fruits on garden-wall; Men, for God's love, let no gibe here be said, But pray to God that he forgive us all. Prince Jesus, that of all art lord and head, Keep us, that hell be not our bitter bed; We have nought to do in such a master's hall. Be not ye therefore of our fellowhead, But pray to God that he forgive us all. Algernon Charles Swinburne, trans.
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Mediocrity Mediocre No good melody A definition stained on the upper region of my brain Actively producing fungi fumes Nauseated, you are excused Instant hate when uttering its name It makes our hands shake, to be displayed in such a way It has no purpose, only an intention Killing curiousity, by outlining others self righteously Mediocre is my creative space for acceptance and I have requested an invitation to everybody No reasoning just letting go of expectations consuming Hope to see you soon
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Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 at 4:00 PM UTC
A mediocre poem
God and Creation God and the Church God and Me A husband and his bride Two lovers wrapped in a divine embrace A love that is so close, so intimate, so beautiful It could not possibly be broken from the outside But within Within Within it is delicate It is sensitive It is fragile Because it is love And fragility is not weakness But it is vulnerability It is nakedness And as I stand before God Naked He says, “I see you, I know you, and I’m not going anywhere.” But as I look upon perfection It seems the only thing left to see Is my imperfection And I say, “You see me, you know me, so I’d rather be anywhere but here, and I’d rather be anything, but naked” So I run I run away from a perfect love And into broken arms and broken hearts Broken hearts that don’t care to know me They only care to feel me And I only want to be felt Because it’s easy But it’s empty Why am I imperfect? Why do your white linens Show off my stains? Why can’t I bleed away my stains? Why do you have to see me ***** before you can wash me clean? And why can’t the washing be easy? Why does it have to hurt so much? And why is it that even though everyone says the work on the cross is finished I still feel like I’m waiting for it? You are God: Promiser of providence So why can't you guide me where I want to go? I know The answer is in the question. And I know Your guidance will take me to a much better place And honestly I want to follow your voice and run into your arms But I can't I can't bear the thought of revealing to myself What you already know: That I am broken And I can't fix myself See as long as I keep myself in this hallucination That either I'm not broken Or I am working to make myself better Then I can keep myself busy righteously Because as long as I keep moving I don't have to rest Because in rest You are there And where you are The truth reigns And for someone who wants to be independent Who wants to be able to fix himself That is terrifying "Do not be afraid "Be still and know that I am God "I see you and I know you and I'm not going anywhere "You are broken, you are sinful, but I'm not going anywhere "You can't fix it, but I will. I'm not going anywhere "I'm not going anywhere."
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 5:49 PM UTC
I'm Not Going Anywhere
God and Creation God and the Church God and Me A husband and his bride Two lovers wrapped in a divine embrace A love that is so close, so intimate, so beautiful It could not possibly be broken from the outside But within Within Within it is delicate It is sensitive It is fragile Because it is love And fragility is not weakness But it is vulnerability It is nakedness And as I stand before God Naked He says, “I see you, I know you, and I’m not going anywhere.” But as I look upon perfection It seems the only thing left to see Is my imperfection And I say, “You see me, you know me, so I’d rather be anywhere but here, and I’d rather be anything, but naked” So I run I run away from a perfect love And into broken arms and broken hearts Broken hearts that don’t care to know me They only care to feel me And I only want to be felt Because it’s easy But it’s empty Why am I imperfect? Why do your white linens Show off my stains? Why can’t I bleed away my stains? Why do you have to see me ***** before you can wash me clean? And why can’t the washing be easy? Why does it have to hurt so much? And why is it that even though everyone says the work on the cross is finished I still feel like I’m waiting for it? You are God: Promiser of providence So why can't you guide me where I want to go? I know The answer is in the question. And I know Your guidance will take me to a much better place And honestly I want to follow your voice and run into your arms But I can't I can't bear the thought of revealing to myself What you already know: That I am broken And I can't fix myself See as long as I keep myself in this hallucination That either I'm not broken Or I am working to make myself better Then I can keep myself busy righteously Because as long as I keep moving I don't have to rest Because in rest You are there And where you are The truth reigns And for someone who wants to be independent Who wants to be able to fix himself That is terrifying "Do not be afraid "Be still and know that I am God "I see you and I know you and I'm not going anywhere "You are broken, you are sinful, but I'm not going anywhere "You can't fix it, but I will. I'm not going anywhere "I'm not going anywhere."
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if you slit your wrists only nectar flows You are not this body You are Spirit eternal Your body is a sacred temple fashioned by God for you to learn how to love more expansively So suicide is not an option Swami says this: “DEVOTEE: Swami, when I am distressed, I feel like committing suicide. SWAMI: You should not. However difficult life is, try to be its master and not its slave. Every human being has a preordained life span. It is like staying in a leased house. Before you actually vacate the house, you have to find another one to move in. Similarly, before leaving one body, God selects another body and a span, depending upon the karmic debts. In case death is inflicted arbitrarily, you are denying yourself a chance to work out your karma as early as possible and reach a permanent abode. In suicide, you are stranded midway. It would be a frightening state of affairs for you. There is no vacant space in nature. God has filled the space with spirits and many other invisible entities. When suicide is committed, they show up and terrorize you. Moreover, a jivi is blissfully aware of God only for one hour in its life. First, fifteen minutes while shedding the mortal coil, i.e., at death; second, fifteen minutes after coming out of the womb, i.e., at birth; and third, thirty minutes during the marriage. God is present with the jivi on all these three occasions. Hence, do not destroy the life that God has given you. Lead the life you have got righteously. The person who faces the trials in life calmly and always remembers God will one day, definitely, get His grace. Do not doubt its veracity. Face these tests with faith in Him.
 (Swami asked other people to get their doubts clarified. Nobody asked anything.)” ~Sai Rapture, p.82
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Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM UTC
Suicide is not an option
if you slit your wrists only nectar flows You are not this body You are Spirit eternal Your body is a sacred temple fashioned by God for you to learn how to love more expansively So suicide is not an option Swami says this: “DEVOTEE: Swami, when I am distressed, I feel like committing suicide. SWAMI: You should not. However difficult life is, try to be its master and not its slave. Every human being has a preordained life span. It is like staying in a leased house. Before you actually vacate the house, you have to find another one to move in. Similarly, before leaving one body, God selects another body and a span, depending upon the karmic debts. In case death is inflicted arbitrarily, you are denying yourself a chance to work out your karma as early as possible and reach a permanent abode. In suicide, you are stranded midway. It would be a frightening state of affairs for you. There is no vacant space in nature. God has filled the space with spirits and many other invisible entities. When suicide is committed, they show up and terrorize you. Moreover, a jivi is blissfully aware of God only for one hour in its life. First, fifteen minutes while shedding the mortal coil, i.e., at death; second, fifteen minutes after coming out of the womb, i.e., at birth; and third, thirty minutes during the marriage. God is present with the jivi on all these three occasions. Hence, do not destroy the life that God has given you. Lead the life you have got righteously. The person who faces the trials in life calmly and always remembers God will one day, definitely, get His grace. Do not doubt its veracity. Face these tests with faith in Him.
 (Swami asked other people to get their doubts clarified. Nobody asked anything.)” ~Sai Rapture, p.82
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A beautiful place, filled with flora and greenery, Where nature’s daintiness at its best you can see… I sit by the roses, at my favorite spot, Pretty much confused, lost deep in thought… All around me are flowers and trees of every shape and size, A kaleidoscopic foliage appeasing the eyes… The rustic elegance forms a romantic view, If only I could share the romance with someone I knew... There’s a reason this place is called Cupid’s arrow, Its to contemplate, and come to know, If love has struck you, And if that love is pure and true… After which its for spending quality time with that special someone, To pass love around and have some fun, To fulfill your romance’s every desire, And stoke your heart’s burning fire… So I sit there, wondering, pondering, About him, and if it was love he did bring, He entered my life just a short while ago, Until then who he was I didn’t in the least know… That he likes me he has made it passively imperative, And in certain subtle ways I find him attractive, But do I truly love him? That I do not know, And it is this answer I want Cupid’s arrow to show… Whether by destiny, or by chance, It was here that we had our first fling of romance, All it was, was that we passed each other, Each staring wistfully at the other… But for these few fleeting moments time slowed considerably, And I remember each moment, vividly… How entrancing his brown eyes were, Ad how the rest of the world became a blur… And just as we were crossing each other, the blissful trees Whispered romance through the pleasant breeze… And rained a shower of flower petals on the two of us, It seemed over our infatuation nature did dote and fuss… Which is why I took this as a sign, That maybe, maybe this guy could be mine.. My once chance at true romance, I really want to take that chance… But what if he were to break my heart, What if cupid’s arrow tore me apart, I’m smitten, but I’m not sure I love him, Because hearts succumb easily to materialistic desire’s whim… And what would happen to him, if it didn’t work out… He too, would be heartbroken, no doubt… I care too much to affect him in any way, If anything happened I wouldn’t live to see another day… So I sit wondering, whether I ever dare, To even try and lay my heart bare, Open up and confess everything, Or just let it remain a fling… All around me, nature portrays romance, But love, it’s a double edged lance, The trees are rustling again, I see him walking towards me, I have to decide if Cupid’s arrow has struck righteously…
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Nov 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010 at 4:03 AM UTC
Cupid's arrow...
A beautiful place, filled with flora and greenery, Where nature’s daintiness at its best you can see… I sit by the roses, at my favorite spot, Pretty much confused, lost deep in thought… All around me are flowers and trees of every shape and size, A kaleidoscopic foliage appeasing the eyes… The rustic elegance forms a romantic view, If only I could share the romance with someone I knew... There’s a reason this place is called Cupid’s arrow, Its to contemplate, and come to know, If love has struck you, And if that love is pure and true… After which its for spending quality time with that special someone, To pass love around and have some fun, To fulfill your romance’s every desire, And stoke your heart’s burning fire… So I sit there, wondering, pondering, About him, and if it was love he did bring, He entered my life just a short while ago, Until then who he was I didn’t in the least know… That he likes me he has made it passively imperative, And in certain subtle ways I find him attractive, But do I truly love him? That I do not know, And it is this answer I want Cupid’s arrow to show… Whether by destiny, or by chance, It was here that we had our first fling of romance, All it was, was that we passed each other, Each staring wistfully at the other… But for these few fleeting moments time slowed considerably, And I remember each moment, vividly… How entrancing his brown eyes were, Ad how the rest of the world became a blur… And just as we were crossing each other, the blissful trees Whispered romance through the pleasant breeze… And rained a shower of flower petals on the two of us, It seemed over our infatuation nature did dote and fuss… Which is why I took this as a sign, That maybe, maybe this guy could be mine.. My once chance at true romance, I really want to take that chance… But what if he were to break my heart, What if cupid’s arrow tore me apart, I’m smitten, but I’m not sure I love him, Because hearts succumb easily to materialistic desire’s whim… And what would happen to him, if it didn’t work out… He too, would be heartbroken, no doubt… I care too much to affect him in any way, If anything happened I wouldn’t live to see another day… So I sit wondering, whether I ever dare, To even try and lay my heart bare, Open up and confess everything, Or just let it remain a fling… All around me, nature portrays romance, But love, it’s a double edged lance, The trees are rustling again, I see him walking towards me, I have to decide if Cupid’s arrow has struck righteously…
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Scientists made a lofty discovery The universe continually expands and contracts In the exact same manner absolutely So we ultimately live the same lives for all eternity So we devised a way to send a message to the next universe A message that would stay in place Even without the existence of space A message that would survive time Even through the end of our line The message conveyed: Don't make our mistakes Correct our sins Our universe ended The new one began The first humans mindlessly worshipped the message Hearts of the willing sacrificed They killed for control of its mystic power It belonged to whoever owned the ivory tower Until religions were developed Although they were all somewhat derived from the message People began to see the message itself as a pagan hieroglyph An incoherent interference They killed all that worshipped it Senseless slaughter Things got hotter When people were finally intelligent enough to understand it They saw all the things we did wrong And how to avoid those mistakes But the things we did that were wrong Seemed much more convenient and easier They used the weapons we told them not to make And the ideas we told them to steer clear of Swords became guns Racism became genocide Love became hate More direct ways of imposing their vision onto the world Foregoing empathy and compromise They submitted to the fascism of their subjectivity And were plunged into the Dark Ages Steel ***** and chains Followed by bullet rain Humanity was lost and found Humanitarians gagged and bound People had to make mistakes for themselves Until they decided to stop living in hell Humanity collectively decided to follow the message righteously After they saw hope for the future Through the vision our message provided And they realized they should write a message of their own
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Jan 26, 2018
Jan 26, 2018 at 7:33 AM UTC
Message
Scientists made a lofty discovery The universe continually expands and contracts In the exact same manner absolutely So we ultimately live the same lives for all eternity So we devised a way to send a message to the next universe A message that would stay in place Even without the existence of space A message that would survive time Even through the end of our line The message conveyed: Don't make our mistakes Correct our sins Our universe ended The new one began The first humans mindlessly worshipped the message Hearts of the willing sacrificed They killed for control of its mystic power It belonged to whoever owned the ivory tower Until religions were developed Although they were all somewhat derived from the message People began to see the message itself as a pagan hieroglyph An incoherent interference They killed all that worshipped it Senseless slaughter Things got hotter When people were finally intelligent enough to understand it They saw all the things we did wrong And how to avoid those mistakes But the things we did that were wrong Seemed much more convenient and easier They used the weapons we told them not to make And the ideas we told them to steer clear of Swords became guns Racism became genocide Love became hate More direct ways of imposing their vision onto the world Foregoing empathy and compromise They submitted to the fascism of their subjectivity And were plunged into the Dark Ages Steel ***** and chains Followed by bullet rain Humanity was lost and found Humanitarians gagged and bound People had to make mistakes for themselves Until they decided to stop living in hell Humanity collectively decided to follow the message righteously After they saw hope for the future Through the vision our message provided And they realized they should write a message of their own
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**It gets deeper... wider It's a good feeling... to know that I can confide in her She's always been there Even when I thought she wasn't When I thought I'd kicked her out of my life completely Self righteously so But just like before... I again fell for her That unfortunate incident, years ago... her mistake 'My' **** take Could not be forgiving My hard headedness, probably as a result of hard living Feeling like I was 'gangsta' She loved me and all my 'rasta'... Tendencies And I wasn't empathetic enough to accept an apology Turned her politely away, silently insulting her with ****** street terminology I was a ***** So we grew apart quick But still remained friends Though feelings between us rendered us 'strained ' friends Until it got real Had to accept how I feel, and forgive her And that fondness rekindled Into that which it was Pause... fast forward... some dumb person posts a Comment  on facebook, afraid that I'd lost her Scary... but it opened my eyes after so long To realise, with 'Shee' is exactly where I belong.**
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Jun 21, 2010
Jun 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM UTC
Shee.
You remind me much of myself. You remind me much of myself except, more together... You remind me of myself every time I see the words "Midnight" "Haiku" All of your words are golden bright, a white knight righteously marching for truth. Optimistic Siddhartha--     A Copacetic Beyonder back again to remind man it's all going to be allright, man.
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Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012 at 10:58 PM UTC
Dear Matthew P. Hill,
Be nice Live politely Be small. Be small. Be small. Be sweet Live righteously Be small. Be small. Be small. I'm here but am I? I love all the street cats. I'm here but you won't see All the ancient souls in me. I'm here but am I? Instead I listened quietly. I'm here but oft forgot, Drain my empathy. I am right here, I am. With borrowed sorrow, I am here, right here, Listening. Listening. Listening.
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Jan 22, 2021
Jan 22, 2021 at 8:33 AM UTC
Tardigrade
"I don't want you to think I'm racist. I love black people! I just hate ******* Now, you will not believe how many people have said this to my face. That they smile, thinking themselves so eloquent and clever, Illustrates a problem to me much larger than the hatred of a race. My tongue stays. I wouldn't want my "angry ****** to show her teeth. She would ask if the color or the speech or the level of poverty made the black, Or the ****** or the ***** or the **** or monkey or beast. She may be eloquent and clever herself, but those white ears would never hear that. We are conditioned to be blind and deaf and loudly ignorant to reality. The rich and powerful have made us starkly numb to our own folly and pride, So that we may believe ourselves to be indignant most righteously, While we unconsciously hate all that is different, opposed, other, outside. But I will be the same human with all my eloquence and cleverness, pride and folly, Whether I am seen as "black" or ****** or maybe simply just "Cydney"
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Jun 13, 2019
Jun 13, 2019 at 6:24 PM UTC
Black v. ******
*well O... well... O, give me life! i need no beggars of the cyclone to repeat the foundations of seasons and things tectonic! O... well, O! rounded-up by rugby geometrics for an oval symmetry of the orbits... O... might i add - oh? well harp me a sigh with it too - or play me the ******* violins... i too might add my toes in the muddy sands of the Calais of India that's Goa: with toes clenched inward like a grip of a crow, or the antics of a ballerina; indeed Calais, the footnote of the Angevins... tell your integrating dogma to successors of william the conqueror's behaviour, as by-way dehumanising righteously - such the tongue spoken, such the tongue rebelling - via the term identified with utmost against the irish post-stamp claims for a peace treaty: rōnin; no, you be sub-human teaching me the language and then venturing into treating me as a simple cashier - no education system is necessary to craft the near robotic professions! why crave capitalism in the educational system when all might be happier un-educated for the professions the lazy aristocrats intended for them?* i'll march against your little utopia... by god i'll march against your Parisian Disney fairyland with teeth clenched and fingernails bit to a manicure! for the chastity of white lacking colours of a rainbow - since on white an imprint, and on black an absorption to stack-up the many lacks of expression.
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 8:42 PM UTC
execution of Thomas More
If the Messiah they need is a woman Convince them only men are holy. If the Messiah they need is black Convince them only white is holy If the Messiah they need is same gender loving or non-binary Convince them only heterosexual is holy If the Messiah they need is proud Convince them only humility is holy If the Messiah they need holds knowledge in their left hand Convince them the right hand is holy If the Messiah they need has a ten point plan of righteously defending one's self Convince them that the only holy answer is nonviolence. If they ever one day happen to believe that they can define: Self By Self Through Self Of Self Convince them that holiness is only attainable through a message and belief of: Holy and selective Prosperity Holy and selective Favoritism Holy and selective Elitism If they ever happen to look in the mirror and one day love all that they see Convince them that the holy standards of beauty deems every and all that makes them what they are ugly If they ever happened to one day realize that the Messiah that they need is within all of them as a United People Convince them that the holy Messiah can only lay in one person per generation and then publicly assassinate the person that they believe Or you have chosen To be their Messiah. © Christopher F. Brown 2018
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 2:04 AM UTC
The Wormwood Memos
Pigments fall from the sky They swim in our skin Some would rank them By that God But he gave them all to us By natural superiority But that makes for inferiority Oppression violence abuse hate Always find outlets through these excuses *** color religion culture And those that do nothing Those that see the wrong and still do nothing Forge the way for wrongdoers Moderate the righteously inflamed And accept the abuse When rights are stolen Injustice runs unchecked All will suffer. In the end remains just the question What's next? When will you be the victim? When will you act? When will your sense of justice Cry out for rightful compensation For rightful equality and freedom? When will you scream and fall? For you and others With you and others And right the wrongs And take up that torch of liberty? As others before you That you have mocked And called impatient rabblerousers And ridiculed their cause Now just as noble as yours.
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 10:05 PM UTC
Pigments fall from the sky
What does your soul say through your eyes Do they show your truth or do they show your lies Are you really happy with yourself and your path Or is something in the way, is it holding you back How do you know what you feel is right Is it when you feel less of the dark and more of the light Is there a happy medium, like what Buddha taught Is everything an illusion, or is that just one thought How do we know what we really feel How do what know what is truly real Our souls create reality and there are so many different kinds How many universes are we projecting with our minds We are each a deep expression of the  universe and the divine But if that's the case why do so many of us whine Why can't we find the power that's within Why do we sell ourselves short, why do we see things as sin Karma isn't even what people think it is They mistake it for the law of attraction, what goes around comes around, but that's not it Karma comes at the end of life and it tallies our deeds It's kind of like judgment day, but it's our soul it feeds Tell me what I did, was I as good as I thought Did I learn everything I needed to, was I righteously taught I know I learned lessons and I know I hurt souls But I didn't do it on purpose, I just played many roles I taught people lessons and they taught me mine In life we have to learn quick, we don't have much time Our lives are short, but they sure feel long Is loving everyone deeply right or is it wrong The emptiness in us, it comes and it goes Sometimes we feel dull, sometimes we glow It's hard to be consistent when things always change Just adapt when we need to and transcend our ways
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 6:09 PM UTC
Dancing With Polarity
What does your soul say through your eyes Do they show your truth or do they show your lies Are you really happy with yourself and your path Or is something in the way, is it holding you back How do you know what you feel is right Is it when you feel less of the dark and more of the light Is there a happy medium, like what Buddha taught Is everything an illusion, or is that just one thought How do we know what we really feel How do what know what is truly real Our souls create reality and there are so many different kinds How many universes are we projecting with our minds We are each a deep expression of the  universe and the divine But if that's the case why do so many of us whine Why can't we find the power that's within Why do we sell ourselves short, why do we see things as sin Karma isn't even what people think it is They mistake it for the law of attraction, what goes around comes around, but that's not it Karma comes at the end of life and it tallies our deeds It's kind of like judgment day, but it's our soul it feeds Tell me what I did, was I as good as I thought Did I learn everything I needed to, was I righteously taught I know I learned lessons and I know I hurt souls But I didn't do it on purpose, I just played many roles I taught people lessons and they taught me mine In life we have to learn quick, we don't have much time Our lives are short, but they sure feel long Is loving everyone deeply right or is it wrong The emptiness in us, it comes and it goes Sometimes we feel dull, sometimes we glow It's hard to be consistent when things always change Just adapt when we need to and transcend our ways
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I like to sit across from my ______ She usually tells me about how I should be better. But I don't want to be. Everyone says my generation's only talents are to keep our legs open and Our mouth's closed. I like to think we can read and write and Fall in love with strangers on subways in the forgotten underground. Everyone says that we don't know how to live righteously But if we were never taught how can we learn? Someone once told me to keep my legs shut, They told me ladies know better. They told me when their eyes not their lips. They told me to keep my mouth closed. They told me with their actions not their words. But it doesn't matter now. If you're going to say to me: "You're from that generation" I'll say to you: "If you wanted to change us you should have taught us If you wanted us to pave the way you should have shown us the starting Road We were taught to sing praises to those who came before us. But what for?"
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:22 PM UTC
Generation X