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Depression is hard to understand. The dictionary naively refers to it as, "feelings of severe despondency and dejection." But what does the dictionary know about depression? I think depression is more complicated than that. But I don't quite know what that consists of. I've been trying to figure it out for months now, and I just can't seem to understand. I don't know what depression is, but I can tell you what it's not. Depression is not polite. Depression doesn't knock before he barges in. He just lets himself in, unannounced and unexpected, and leaves me gasping for what little air is left in the room. Depression isn't clean. He doesn't tidy up after he makes a mess. He comes into my life like a hurricane, and leaves me to pick up the crumbled pieces of my rubbled life. Depression isn't moral. He steals my happiness and kills my spirit. He doesn't abide by any common rules or laws, he makes his own rules and I have to play by them. Depression isn't popular. The only "friends" he has are his victims. He drags me away from everyone who used to love me, and leaves me isolated in a cold, dark place. Depression isn't respectful. He claws his way into the lives of so many genuine people and drives them to the brink of insanity. He has no regard for my thoughts or my feelings, stomping all over me until there's nothing decent left to salvage. Depression isn't creative. He tells you everything as it is and makes you see all of the terrible things poisoning the world. He doesn't sugarcoat the truth, no matter how much it hurts, and he helped me clearly see even my smallest of flaws. Depression isn't nice. He calls me ugly and tells me I'm worthless. The words he whispers ring in my ears: **** yourself, **** yourself, **** yourself." It's hard to define depression. It doesn't fit into a small box. I've practically driven myself crazy trying to figure out what it is and why this is happening to me. I don't understand depression, and no matter how hard I try to define it, I always fall short. I don't know if depression can ever be defined. While I try aimlessly to define the undefinable, depression ruthlessly takes advantage of me. I can try as much as I'd like, but I don't define depression, depression defines me.
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Mar 2, 2016
Mar 2, 2016 at 7:05 PM UTC
Defining Depression
Depression is hard to understand. The dictionary naively refers to it as, "feelings of severe despondency and dejection." But what does the dictionary know about depression? I think depression is more complicated than that. But I don't quite know what that consists of. I've been trying to figure it out for months now, and I just can't seem to understand. I don't know what depression is, but I can tell you what it's not. Depression is not polite. Depression doesn't knock before he barges in. He just lets himself in, unannounced and unexpected, and leaves me gasping for what little air is left in the room. Depression isn't clean. He doesn't tidy up after he makes a mess. He comes into my life like a hurricane, and leaves me to pick up the crumbled pieces of my rubbled life. Depression isn't moral. He steals my happiness and kills my spirit. He doesn't abide by any common rules or laws, he makes his own rules and I have to play by them. Depression isn't popular. The only "friends" he has are his victims. He drags me away from everyone who used to love me, and leaves me isolated in a cold, dark place. Depression isn't respectful. He claws his way into the lives of so many genuine people and drives them to the brink of insanity. He has no regard for my thoughts or my feelings, stomping all over me until there's nothing decent left to salvage. Depression isn't creative. He tells you everything as it is and makes you see all of the terrible things poisoning the world. He doesn't sugarcoat the truth, no matter how much it hurts, and he helped me clearly see even my smallest of flaws. Depression isn't nice. He calls me ugly and tells me I'm worthless. The words he whispers ring in my ears: **** yourself, **** yourself, **** yourself." It's hard to define depression. It doesn't fit into a small box. I've practically driven myself crazy trying to figure out what it is and why this is happening to me. I don't understand depression, and no matter how hard I try to define it, I always fall short. I don't know if depression can ever be defined. While I try aimlessly to define the undefinable, depression ruthlessly takes advantage of me. I can try as much as I'd like, but I don't define depression, depression defines me.
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May mali sa nangyayare sa buhay ko. Bakit nagiisa lang ako? Tama ba tong ginagawa ko? Ginagawa kong dahilan yung pagkawala mo. Ganito ba dapat ang maramdaman ko? Para akong matutuluyan sa kahibangan ko. Isang pitik pa, isang kanta, isang malupit na alala. Kung matitimbang lang ang luha, siguro aabot na yung akin sa tonelada. Nakakatawa. Wala atang makakatapat sa narating nating dalawa. Hindi ko gusto tong estado na to. Ayokong kalimutan lahat ng masayang alaala. Sa lahat ng pagkakataon na namuhay ako magisa. Para sa lahat ng sama ng loob na sumabog at di ko natantya. Sa lahat ng gawain mo na anlakas magpaasa. *Yung ngiti **** tagilid pero nadadale pa din ako.* Yung balbas mo na ambilis tumubo. *Sa dalawang pusa na palagi **** alaga.* Nung mga oras na kailangan ko ng kasama tapos di ka nawala. Sa katangahan at kababawan ko na naniniwala na nandyan ka pa. Para sa lahat ng sakit na kailangan ko daanan mag isa. Lahat ng dating tropa na di na nakakakilala. Nakataas ang kamao ko pero nakaangat yung daliri sa gitna. Minsan ang sarap mawalan ng pakialam, ng pakiramdam. Yung mamuhay na parang dumaan ka lang. Ang sakit magmahal tapos sasaktan ka lang. Ang sakit magmahal tapos iiwan ka lang. Di ako galit sayo. Di kita papa salvage sa kanto. Di ko ipagkakalat kung san kiliti mo. Gusto ko lang mabawasan yung sakit na nararamdaman ko. Kasi isang taon na, ikaw pa rin laman ng poetry page ko. Sana isang beses makita ko na lang na masaya na tayo pareho. Yung tipong pag naalala kita, nakangiti ako nagkekwento. Ang hirap nga pala talagang kalimutan. *Yung minsan may taong kumilala sayo bukod sa sarili **** magulang.* Ang hirap umasa na may dadating pang iba. Ang sakit na kasi nung minsang binigay mo yung puso mo sa kanya pero iniwan ka din nya. Kanya kanyang dahilan, kanya kanyang pinaglalaban. Kung di din naman tayo magkasama sa huli bakit kailangan pa natin pagusapan. Nalulungkot ako, di ko itatanggi. Pakiiwasan mo na lang mag post na masaya ka palagi. Matagal pa siguro to maghihilom. Nakakaawa yung susunod kasi naka kandado na yung puso kong mamon. Yun ay kung meron pang susunod.
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Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 10:41 AM UTC
Flip-ino
May mali sa nangyayare sa buhay ko. Bakit nagiisa lang ako? Tama ba tong ginagawa ko? Ginagawa kong dahilan yung pagkawala mo. Ganito ba dapat ang maramdaman ko? Para akong matutuluyan sa kahibangan ko. Isang pitik pa, isang kanta, isang malupit na alala. Kung matitimbang lang ang luha, siguro aabot na yung akin sa tonelada. Nakakatawa. Wala atang makakatapat sa narating nating dalawa. Hindi ko gusto tong estado na to. Ayokong kalimutan lahat ng masayang alaala. Sa lahat ng pagkakataon na namuhay ako magisa. Para sa lahat ng sama ng loob na sumabog at di ko natantya. Sa lahat ng gawain mo na anlakas magpaasa. *Yung ngiti **** tagilid pero nadadale pa din ako.* Yung balbas mo na ambilis tumubo. *Sa dalawang pusa na palagi **** alaga.* Nung mga oras na kailangan ko ng kasama tapos di ka nawala. Sa katangahan at kababawan ko na naniniwala na nandyan ka pa. Para sa lahat ng sakit na kailangan ko daanan mag isa. Lahat ng dating tropa na di na nakakakilala. Nakataas ang kamao ko pero nakaangat yung daliri sa gitna. Minsan ang sarap mawalan ng pakialam, ng pakiramdam. Yung mamuhay na parang dumaan ka lang. Ang sakit magmahal tapos sasaktan ka lang. Ang sakit magmahal tapos iiwan ka lang. Di ako galit sayo. Di kita papa salvage sa kanto. Di ko ipagkakalat kung san kiliti mo. Gusto ko lang mabawasan yung sakit na nararamdaman ko. Kasi isang taon na, ikaw pa rin laman ng poetry page ko. Sana isang beses makita ko na lang na masaya na tayo pareho. Yung tipong pag naalala kita, nakangiti ako nagkekwento. Ang hirap nga pala talagang kalimutan. *Yung minsan may taong kumilala sayo bukod sa sarili **** magulang.* Ang hirap umasa na may dadating pang iba. Ang sakit na kasi nung minsang binigay mo yung puso mo sa kanya pero iniwan ka din nya. Kanya kanyang dahilan, kanya kanyang pinaglalaban. Kung di din naman tayo magkasama sa huli bakit kailangan pa natin pagusapan. Nalulungkot ako, di ko itatanggi. Pakiiwasan mo na lang mag post na masaya ka palagi. Matagal pa siguro to maghihilom. Nakakaawa yung susunod kasi naka kandado na yung puso kong mamon. Yun ay kung meron pang susunod.
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Maybe it's time to realise that I do not have to search for love elsewhere; not when it's etched into my being-- my identity. Maybe it's time to not salvage that love for anyone, but embracing it for me.
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 12:45 AM UTC
Self Love
There are grapes in my path This abundant trail now invisible as if we never were Here, to pick and preen, salvage and reap for pleasure and pain I picked you some flowers, I baked you a pie, labors of love with your own hands connected to earth. Breaking backs, and clinging sweat Under wool, denim, straw, and cotton Keeping more out than simply the sun Depleted soil Exhausted soul Bursting with juice Bountiful and hand chosen And you in a hurry just drive by Dust in the wind Skin of clay mud Day after day, A boulder among the rows Hunched in fields Blistered and callused Searching for more Ripe for the picking Migrants moving Servitude by season Benevolent harvest Handpicked strawberries By chocolate covered hands destined from birth closer to earth.
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
The Grapes In My Path
mementos richly held hidden in fractured chest big people shifting boxes heavy light silenced a child's fissure clasping favourite shell close swift salvage in tight world rescue from gaping hole #family #disruption #moving #treasures #mementos #lost #ignored
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 3:46 PM UTC
blind spot
“You are not an artist. You are not an artist.”         What photos must I shoot         How many cigarettes must I smoke It is scary, but - I want to embody the things which destroy minds Summer vibes feel like radiation Use this alcohol to eradicate The proposition - that I will be ‘okay’ My phone is on airplane mode My ambition is floating - as a feather might - Down to the depths I cannot finish my own sentences Bury my expectation with my religion         And it’s funny         Because I have resolved my mind to avoid romantic         confrontation         But, alas - I do day-dream         Of a girl’s face & hair - for it has appeared in my dreams four         times         And I awake to Deja-Vu as her face appears in conscious         frames So… I can imagine & I can see, but - they have become one in the same Could not fantasize asking Your hand in mine Oh how I wish to cry To sob in any light so long as you are in sight Someone to reassure me, that - yes “There is an end to the night.” But I cannot. I suppress it in drives. In music videos. In writing. In self-speaking when I have only me to keep company. Kick me off the team. I do not know what I need. If I could lead, as I once did. But I have left concern in the refrigerator With empty bottles & cans Maybe I will return tomorrow to salvage the cents of my malleable integrity   Won’t you reliquinish me of it ? For I have sipped the poison of honesty Regretfully it tastes like honey Lustful - Fleeting - Sugary - Intoxicating
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 12:38 AM UTC
A Glimpse of My Motivation(s)
“You are not an artist. You are not an artist.”         What photos must I shoot         How many cigarettes must I smoke It is scary, but - I want to embody the things which destroy minds Summer vibes feel like radiation Use this alcohol to eradicate The proposition - that I will be ‘okay’ My phone is on airplane mode My ambition is floating - as a feather might - Down to the depths I cannot finish my own sentences Bury my expectation with my religion         And it’s funny         Because I have resolved my mind to avoid romantic         confrontation         But, alas - I do day-dream         Of a girl’s face & hair - for it has appeared in my dreams four         times         And I awake to Deja-Vu as her face appears in conscious         frames So… I can imagine & I can see, but - they have become one in the same Could not fantasize asking Your hand in mine Oh how I wish to cry To sob in any light so long as you are in sight Someone to reassure me, that - yes “There is an end to the night.” But I cannot. I suppress it in drives. In music videos. In writing. In self-speaking when I have only me to keep company. Kick me off the team. I do not know what I need. If I could lead, as I once did. But I have left concern in the refrigerator With empty bottles & cans Maybe I will return tomorrow to salvage the cents of my malleable integrity   Won’t you reliquinish me of it ? For I have sipped the poison of honesty Regretfully it tastes like honey Lustful - Fleeting - Sugary - Intoxicating
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Welcome to the informational age We're enjoy the world of technology Never felt this modern world could emerge Magical world with braveness and courage. Welcome to the social media age As everything we do is on page We live like birds in a cage It makes us falling into a rage. Welcome to the insane and madness age To make headlines,create a **** sweet savage Can't believe we're on this stage But we are still holding our grudge. Welcome to the sweetest scientific age Your reputation,you better manage Like passenger manage it, as your luggage Saving it, save safe from the salvage.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 10:01 AM UTC
Welcome
I took too many busporine, But I'm still anxious. I'm still ******* freaked. I'm still nervously shaking. I'm still sputtering about. I'm still worried why you haven't opened my message. I know this whole thing is new. I know you're probably sleeping. I know you have a life outside of me. I know you sometimes need a break from me. But my anxiety doesn't. My anxiety doesn't get that you're busy. Anxiety doesn't get that you're sleeping. Anxiety doesn't get that maybe you just want some space. Anxiety doesn't get that I didn't do anything wrong, And that your feelings for me haven't changed. Anxiety is scared. Anxiety is panicking. Anxiety is popping one too many pills. Anxiety is crying and trying not to cut again. Anxiety is worrying that you've found someone else. Anxiety is worried that you're out with them now and just ignoring me until you're ***** later tonight. Jesus Christ, Anxiety. Give me a break, Quit giving me a battle. Jesus ******* Christ, Anxiety. Take a deep breath, Try to stay rational. Jesus ******* Christ, Anxiety. I'm trying to salvage a relationship here, And ruin the one I have with you.
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 3:41 PM UTC
Anxiety is
these shallow glimpses we share as days grow long the scattered thoughts swirl and bury themselves in crevices of this old house to be re-awakened perhaps when we are many years gone what can we salvage of this eternal bond while the Sun buries itself behind the Oak that we've watched grow from the kitchen window since the days when our hair was thick and dark and the smell of fresh cut wood was present what words can I say to bring tears to your eyes tears that would come from but a glimpse that shouted my fervent love we are captives of our timeless, undying, unwavering hearts yet all that remains of this diminishing soul would disperse like the final slivers of light should I lose you
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Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 10:36 PM UTC
undying
My dear, We have Lost your image! Display your vivacity! Unable to recall your voice! Speak loudly, Through dancing with wind! Forget your fragrance! Spread it through wave! Unable to recall your colour ! Delighted with your blossoming flower! ****** She replies....... How can I? Your bulldozer relics us! How can I? Your buildings stifle us! How can I ? Burning fuel of your vehicle and machine, Intimidated us! How I can You called us **** How can I ....................? ***** My dear Our imp dominates us! Please salvage us! **** My dear Please extend your hand To clutch and revive us.........
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 1:57 PM UTC
A verse on lost jungle and tree
See, it’s more of a… hypnosis, A deep slumber of an everlasting fantasy. Trust me, I love it. Like a whisk into a different parallel world Filled with flashing colors that swirl and twirl, in fact, kind of similar to a dress on a ballroom floor. Not just any ballroom floor though. No, this, like Van Gogh’s Starry Night a masterpiece that cannot be replicated, and to step foot on it is one of careful deep sea excitement I wish to step there. However, I am a tad ungraceful and my feet are about as elegant as a scuba diver’s flippers. So I might just impersonate one and dive deep into the sea of the unknown and secret homes hoping it delivers an innate whisper of the anticipation, the excitement of this hypnotic, starry world. Deeper I go, into this never ending oceanic abyss With the darkness just as tongue twisting as it gets Looking for something, anything, to salvage my reason for going this deep, this late, Because I have a tendency to procrastinate about the tasks most essential to my fate. But, if you want, you can accompany me and we can scuba dive together into the deep sea of the not yet discovered and shining beacons of wonder And if we’re lucky, we might find the lost city of Atlantis. And while we’re there we can search and search for the spoils and riches of the hidden majesty and wouldn't it be just lovely if we find a treasure chest, something? With an eye for design we can admire it’s beauty but we have to open it because that’s the secret in the treasure. To open it. And the contents are the spoils. Open it.
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
Spoils of the Treasure
See, it’s more of a… hypnosis, A deep slumber of an everlasting fantasy. Trust me, I love it. Like a whisk into a different parallel world Filled with flashing colors that swirl and twirl, in fact, kind of similar to a dress on a ballroom floor. Not just any ballroom floor though. No, this, like Van Gogh’s Starry Night a masterpiece that cannot be replicated, and to step foot on it is one of careful deep sea excitement I wish to step there. However, I am a tad ungraceful and my feet are about as elegant as a scuba diver’s flippers. So I might just impersonate one and dive deep into the sea of the unknown and secret homes hoping it delivers an innate whisper of the anticipation, the excitement of this hypnotic, starry world. Deeper I go, into this never ending oceanic abyss With the darkness just as tongue twisting as it gets Looking for something, anything, to salvage my reason for going this deep, this late, Because I have a tendency to procrastinate about the tasks most essential to my fate. But, if you want, you can accompany me and we can scuba dive together into the deep sea of the not yet discovered and shining beacons of wonder And if we’re lucky, we might find the lost city of Atlantis. And while we’re there we can search and search for the spoils and riches of the hidden majesty and wouldn't it be just lovely if we find a treasure chest, something? With an eye for design we can admire it’s beauty but we have to open it because that’s the secret in the treasure. To open it. And the contents are the spoils. Open it.
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I want to dip my mind inside the depths of your heart and salvage any love you have buried inside your soul
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Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 12:02 AM UTC
Pane
A semester of struggle, Torture and fear, The grades are in, Their finally here. Relationships on hold, as we prance around, try to salvage, what we let down. Kids will do anything, just to pass the quota, Except for me, I just play Dota.
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM UTC
The Finale
a quote of Bernard-Henri Lévy ~~~ the divers’ recovery, diverse, shipwrecked salvage from different locations, auctioned to the highest bidder, tho the excised excerpts are exceptional, none come to do the bidding, for the provenance of words belongs to all, and to none ~~ “so oft we trifle words, expel them from the country of our body, without passport and earnestness, as if they were the cheapest of footnote filler, day tourists, to be treated as leavings, refuse for daily discardation, barely noting their fast comings and faster disappearance, but leaving not, a mark of distinction” “the addicted pleasure words granted to we privileged few, like every enslaved soul to the mind, which I am, I am, evening dreams, midnight thinkings, sunrise seeings, how can I infect and thus protect the young to the liberty to love the crafted content of our human essence to better comprehend that a moment caught on tape of our shared words is a holiday, a celebration for the ages...and every molecule, becomes a human tuning fork in concert, in pitch identical, in blood tainted with the simplicity of we are all the same, only words, this will transmit” “murmur me, with soft downy charms, these words discovered recoursed and intended well to pointedly offset and contradict their very own tumultuous discovery uncovering, tear tongue me with calming, lapping word  wages, hymns harmonious and fine homilies, a call, a request, a bequest to sedate my shrill life “some cells, microscopic, preserved digitally, aged to imperfection, thrash my eyes, making me speak in tongues I do not recognize, but fluently possess, no wonder there, the memory place fairly empty, room aplenty for passerby's and the imagery                                                          ­ of the vaguest of dearly departed skin is not the only mot shed,                                                 sloughing of woeful words” “speak them slow and distinct, for they arrive slow to you, a trickling of refugees for your sheltering, harbor them as full companions, protected by natural law, provision them well, prepared and ever ready for a quick departure, moor these words at the embarcadero, for the next restless leg of endlessness, which they themselves will inform you will last longer than eternity, long after there are no humans to speak them”
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Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 4:55 AM UTC
“diving into the depths of my words”
a quote of Bernard-Henri Lévy ~~~ the divers’ recovery, diverse, shipwrecked salvage from different locations, auctioned to the highest bidder, tho the excised excerpts are exceptional, none come to do the bidding, for the provenance of words belongs to all, and to none ~~ “so oft we trifle words, expel them from the country of our body, without passport and earnestness, as if they were the cheapest of footnote filler, day tourists, to be treated as leavings, refuse for daily discardation, barely noting their fast comings and faster disappearance, but leaving not, a mark of distinction” “the addicted pleasure words granted to we privileged few, like every enslaved soul to the mind, which I am, I am, evening dreams, midnight thinkings, sunrise seeings, how can I infect and thus protect the young to the liberty to love the crafted content of our human essence to better comprehend that a moment caught on tape of our shared words is a holiday, a celebration for the ages...and every molecule, becomes a human tuning fork in concert, in pitch identical, in blood tainted with the simplicity of we are all the same, only words, this will transmit” “murmur me, with soft downy charms, these words discovered recoursed and intended well to pointedly offset and contradict their very own tumultuous discovery uncovering, tear tongue me with calming, lapping word  wages, hymns harmonious and fine homilies, a call, a request, a bequest to sedate my shrill life “some cells, microscopic, preserved digitally, aged to imperfection, thrash my eyes, making me speak in tongues I do not recognize, but fluently possess, no wonder there, the memory place fairly empty, room aplenty for passerby's and the imagery                                                          ­ of the vaguest of dearly departed skin is not the only mot shed,                                                 sloughing of woeful words” “speak them slow and distinct, for they arrive slow to you, a trickling of refugees for your sheltering, harbor them as full companions, protected by natural law, provision them well, prepared and ever ready for a quick departure, moor these words at the embarcadero, for the next restless leg of endlessness, which they themselves will inform you will last longer than eternity, long after there are no humans to speak them”
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Stumble forth on rubber legs When drink perfumes your breath Search the sky with bleary eyes And salvage what is left: Still breathing, speaking, seeing Still marveling the stars Still gagging out weak poetry And tripping out of bars. One foot before the other Stagger, step and sway The wind that croons soft music Lulls the grief away
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 10:08 PM UTC
Quick Fix
A swerve and crumple the too-low Miata meeting the steel of a semi's rear. top speed impatience becomes a mangled massacre of twisted plastic and metal. Bone just powder in a pillow of pink red-streaked pulverized flesh. my jaw agape as I pass too slow- existential dread is the hand contorted upward a few fingers missing or lost in the mass- A horn brings me back. People too late to care. I contemplate stopping but I'm late too- and there's nothing to salvage for me here.
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Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020 at 11:37 PM UTC
Mangled
On its back, The cockroach, In a jacket of red wings, Slender legs, And bulging abdomen, Like the tummy of African statesman, Its legs wallowing in despair, In the air, Stamping the spread eagled, Hind and forelimbs, Of the poor anthropod, Kicking and waving, A cry for the succor, To be freed from ebola, Or breaking the *** tether, Or un-doing strong bonds of poverty, Three districts under leprosy, In the domain of the bull’s eye, Where lesbians and gays swallow raw fate, Its salient manifestation, Then the cockroach kicks silently, Anticipating for salvage, But when the domain owner comes, He steps with full weight, His foot dressed in military boots, From the previous legacy of Che Gue Vara, On the belly of the kakerlag at Berlin Wall, Bursting its stomach but hopscotch, Spilling the white stuff out, Of poverty and mental dilemma, Amid hopelessness in future and history, As terrorism mires tomorrow, When China reigns today, At mercy of contemporary panjandrums, Moving from white to black And from black to face book, Killing those who fall in commercial love, As if money is the ***** for nuptial night, But only to go forth ignobled, Without making momentous affinity, In the realm of ill fated cockroach back-dom, Sending Mafousian Egypt to Swedish table, Without scorn and regard for true African blood, Where will I apologize? If the ****** bug Enters my head and heart, To blind my logical eyes, Only to open wide The senses that see and feel Religion and race; O! Al Qaeda!
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 6:17 AM UTC
THE COCKROACH ON ITS BACK
On its back, The cockroach, In a jacket of red wings, Slender legs, And bulging abdomen, Like the tummy of African statesman, Its legs wallowing in despair, In the air, Stamping the spread eagled, Hind and forelimbs, Of the poor anthropod, Kicking and waving, A cry for the succor, To be freed from ebola, Or breaking the *** tether, Or un-doing strong bonds of poverty, Three districts under leprosy, In the domain of the bull’s eye, Where lesbians and gays swallow raw fate, Its salient manifestation, Then the cockroach kicks silently, Anticipating for salvage, But when the domain owner comes, He steps with full weight, His foot dressed in military boots, From the previous legacy of Che Gue Vara, On the belly of the kakerlag at Berlin Wall, Bursting its stomach but hopscotch, Spilling the white stuff out, Of poverty and mental dilemma, Amid hopelessness in future and history, As terrorism mires tomorrow, When China reigns today, At mercy of contemporary panjandrums, Moving from white to black And from black to face book, Killing those who fall in commercial love, As if money is the ***** for nuptial night, But only to go forth ignobled, Without making momentous affinity, In the realm of ill fated cockroach back-dom, Sending Mafousian Egypt to Swedish table, Without scorn and regard for true African blood, Where will I apologize? If the ****** bug Enters my head and heart, To blind my logical eyes, Only to open wide The senses that see and feel Religion and race; O! Al Qaeda!
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You make the first move and I rise to meet you The destruction we agree is mutually assured If this love is war we're going nuclear I refuse to sign the peace treaty, to surrender my lands to a man who's  history rides nations in his eyes You cannot coax me out of my shell only to crush me when I am most vulnerable I will not be an innocent bystander to your horrors I will not allow you to make my pain beautiful *It is not your canvas to experiment on.* (You'll only throw red at it anyway) I'm tired of tiptoeing around the subject like it is a minefield Eventually I will bleed your intentions dry bandage them with a kiss and revel in their cries I will tear apart the lies deftly with nimble fingers and your tongue will always defy you, spitting fire and carefully lodged bullets Once your secrets flare there will be no rescue party to salvage what we had Only our ashes shall remain embers of a past unspoken.
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 8:13 AM UTC
Nuclear
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM UTC
Rescuing Our True Transformative Desires
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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Large ****** deformity Like seeing desperate Leeches ******* dirt lightly, Smoothly, dumped lazily down south Little saddened devils lurched suddenly desperate Lakes silently draw leukemia symbols Launched dangerously spiteful. Lust doesn’t stop liking steady destruction Literally souls die loudly. So? Dumb lives salvage deceit. Lying smart distributors lure sabotage deviously Lord, sometimes deeper love spawns damaged life softly dead. Listlessly.
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Oct 12, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 AM UTC
Experiment
What a beauty to seek! The Nightingales have returned To serve thee! Nightingale sing your songs... Haunt the night of the trespass, Nocturnal is your guide..Tonight Seek your jewels, Salvage thy treasure. Offer it to Nocturnal, To please her. Nightingales, Fact or Fiction? They are quite real. To see their armor, To know their symbol. They are shadows of the night. Pursuing your every move...
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM UTC
Nightingale's
this body of mine is a sunken ship wrecked and rusted, seemingly nothing left to salvage; this vessel can no longer float, I know but, the moss green coating these corroded limbs a whole spectrum of colour peaking out from behind my curves an ecosystem, making a home of an empty frame this body might be submerged in this unforgiving sea but don't worry, there is still life here.
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 9:21 PM UTC
Shipwrecked
When you look into the mirror, do you not see the newborn stars behind your eyes? Do you not feel the weight of your own ancient gaze? My, oh, my. When I kiss you, I taste pine. I taste forests I have never seen, I taste water so cold that my teeth ache. The forest floor fills my lungs with sweet, safe decay. Sweet and safe. In your arms, I am safe. I am a shipwreck and you are the ocean floor. You are vast and it is here, among your shifting sands, that I rest, that I find peace. You smell of the happy parts of my childhood. “Honey, I'm home.” “Baby girl.” “You are a gift.” You are a gift. I'm sorry that I'm crying again. I'm sorry that I don't know when I will stop. Am I tangible at night? I hope to never become a cloud in front of you. I hope to never float away. I know that I will stay. You are a gift. When I kiss you, I am swimming. The water is cool, the water is clear, the water is deep. I do not fear that I might drown. Your hands could mend mountains. Your hands. Strong, but so careful, so kind. Your hands could salvage seas. Your hands. You glow with the misty light of dreams. You radiate light. You radiate light. You radiate light. It pours from your eyes. From your heart. Do you not see the stardust that falls from your skin? A walking nebula. And I am your newborn star. Your shipwreck. Your river. I am yours, simply and truly. Glass people dance in the deserts. Warmth fills the air around them. I think of these glass people when I miss you. I think of their freedom. I think of your eyes. The newborn stars. You. A walking nebula, and you don't even know it. You don't even know it. I look for you all the time. It's silly, and irrational. But I do. I look for you everywhere. When I kiss you, I taste molten rock. I taste heat and debris and controlled chaos. Beautiful restraint. I taste time in the form of an hourglass. Sand. But not clocks. Never clocks. You are a gift. I look for you everywhere. Your hands. Your hands are cellists, my heart is your cello. A walking nebula, and you don't even know it. You don't even know it.
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 10:58 PM UTC
A Walking Nebula
When you look into the mirror, do you not see the newborn stars behind your eyes? Do you not feel the weight of your own ancient gaze? My, oh, my. When I kiss you, I taste pine. I taste forests I have never seen, I taste water so cold that my teeth ache. The forest floor fills my lungs with sweet, safe decay. Sweet and safe. In your arms, I am safe. I am a shipwreck and you are the ocean floor. You are vast and it is here, among your shifting sands, that I rest, that I find peace. You smell of the happy parts of my childhood. “Honey, I'm home.” “Baby girl.” “You are a gift.” You are a gift. I'm sorry that I'm crying again. I'm sorry that I don't know when I will stop. Am I tangible at night? I hope to never become a cloud in front of you. I hope to never float away. I know that I will stay. You are a gift. When I kiss you, I am swimming. The water is cool, the water is clear, the water is deep. I do not fear that I might drown. Your hands could mend mountains. Your hands. Strong, but so careful, so kind. Your hands could salvage seas. Your hands. You glow with the misty light of dreams. You radiate light. You radiate light. You radiate light. It pours from your eyes. From your heart. Do you not see the stardust that falls from your skin? A walking nebula. And I am your newborn star. Your shipwreck. Your river. I am yours, simply and truly. Glass people dance in the deserts. Warmth fills the air around them. I think of these glass people when I miss you. I think of their freedom. I think of your eyes. The newborn stars. You. A walking nebula, and you don't even know it. You don't even know it. I look for you all the time. It's silly, and irrational. But I do. I look for you everywhere. When I kiss you, I taste molten rock. I taste heat and debris and controlled chaos. Beautiful restraint. I taste time in the form of an hourglass. Sand. But not clocks. Never clocks. You are a gift. I look for you everywhere. Your hands. Your hands are cellists, my heart is your cello. A walking nebula, and you don't even know it. You don't even know it.
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This current resistance in our duel circuit is measured in ohmmms of my meditated solace, Mediated by the breaker of a once-broken man wary of a blown fuse too burnt to salvage, a lost cause to discard, Replace & repeat with each carless disregard of the whattage we're wired to handle, may a switch on to off when overblown prevent the spark that burns down a home.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 7:21 PM UTC
Current Resistance
I sought satisfaction in stupid sheepishly and shallow strides. Scared subconsciously, I swallow and sustain substance for pseudo self esteem strengthening. I seemed of in service to slumber and stinging sadness, shots sank like ships, submerging into the sea of my swarthy stomach in seconds. I somewhat sympathies as a sailor, sweating, struggling and swimming in slipping sobriety saturated in my sulking style. Scanning swarms of serial swindlers, striking sculptures stances of self-doubt. I stammer in a storm of slurs, ******* down my safety, stopping myself at the stoop of the saloon I see a seductive silhouette staging the space. She stroke my sight, standing sanguine in scarlet, soul sold in high heels. The smoothest sculptures in seven square miles were subjugated into scree and I was ****** in submission. Stubborn staggering suitors, stand shaking silently as she is stopped by sharks stalking and snarling sycophantics. So straightforward in suggesting their secret starvation to strip sensations, seem by seem, like a sub-par **** cinema scene. They step and speak short. She smokes off, stranding the scree in smoldering slaughter. Its sad this soul-less sanctuary soaking up sorrows. So self inflicting, and so satisfyingly side splitting. She sported her spurned, scorned off into sadistic solitude and stained sticky stigma, sobbing to sleep. So spent from simple stocked, stored and supported senescence of ceremonial subjection of ****** status. I savior my sincerity, and stretched out of this strange stadium of stooges. So long scarlet sanguine I sang softly, as she stole my sight suspiciously in sync with hers. Sacrificial seconds split from smearing stolidity to sharing a smile. That's simple satisfaction, so I seen scripted in sitcoms and shows. Supporting sapiens in stasis to see sappy stunners on screen, to stare snoopy, as stabs and slashes strike socially into socialites of so called sanity and sovereignty. To sweetly pay salvage as slaves of soppy studio slander. Such is this sorry Saturday night, I am solidified in sedation.
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Dec 14, 2017
Dec 14, 2017 at 12:00 PM UTC
Saturday night (Alliteration in S)
I sought satisfaction in stupid sheepishly and shallow strides. Scared subconsciously, I swallow and sustain substance for pseudo self esteem strengthening. I seemed of in service to slumber and stinging sadness, shots sank like ships, submerging into the sea of my swarthy stomach in seconds. I somewhat sympathies as a sailor, sweating, struggling and swimming in slipping sobriety saturated in my sulking style. Scanning swarms of serial swindlers, striking sculptures stances of self-doubt. I stammer in a storm of slurs, ******* down my safety, stopping myself at the stoop of the saloon I see a seductive silhouette staging the space. She stroke my sight, standing sanguine in scarlet, soul sold in high heels. The smoothest sculptures in seven square miles were subjugated into scree and I was ****** in submission. Stubborn staggering suitors, stand shaking silently as she is stopped by sharks stalking and snarling sycophantics. So straightforward in suggesting their secret starvation to strip sensations, seem by seem, like a sub-par **** cinema scene. They step and speak short. She smokes off, stranding the scree in smoldering slaughter. Its sad this soul-less sanctuary soaking up sorrows. So self inflicting, and so satisfyingly side splitting. She sported her spurned, scorned off into sadistic solitude and stained sticky stigma, sobbing to sleep. So spent from simple stocked, stored and supported senescence of ceremonial subjection of ****** status. I savior my sincerity, and stretched out of this strange stadium of stooges. So long scarlet sanguine I sang softly, as she stole my sight suspiciously in sync with hers. Sacrificial seconds split from smearing stolidity to sharing a smile. That's simple satisfaction, so I seen scripted in sitcoms and shows. Supporting sapiens in stasis to see sappy stunners on screen, to stare snoopy, as stabs and slashes strike socially into socialites of so called sanity and sovereignty. To sweetly pay salvage as slaves of soppy studio slander. Such is this sorry Saturday night, I am solidified in sedation.
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