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ryn Dec 2014

i wish
to infinitely
soar•in the highest
of skies•always higher,
and always more•held back by
the string that ties•i'd still welcome
hale air•as it blows stunningly
fresh•meets and carries my
body bare•bearing invi-
sible treasures in its
cache...•the errant
breeze i'd openly
fight•but i was
made with a
shoddy kit
•i'm fail-
ing and
falter-
ing...
like
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alex Nov 2014
There are countless tally marks engraved into this
pit of hurt and sorrow. I have been down
here lying flat on my belly trying not to
grind my teeth. Your name keeps
circling my head making me
dizzier and dizzier by the
minute. When I finally
realize I am being su-
rrounded by water,
it's too late.I look
all around for an
escape but your
name just dan-
ces in front of
my eyes. Eve-
ry hole on my
face starts to
fill up. I beg
myself  to st-
op crying, but
I    can't hear.
The water wa-
nts   to take
me too, but
the weight
tied around
my ankles m-
akes it impos-
sible. When
I look up thr-
ough the tra-
nquil water I
swear the
last thing
I see is
your
sm
il
e.
Mateuš Conrad Jun 2020
simple word: emma... emma... wright...
           a postman dropped
a package at 294 havering
road... when he should have dropped it at...
294 pettits lane north...
so i...
     walk up with this
package come 9pm... knock on the door...
              a dog barks...
a youth opens the door
i ask:
does...............   e-m'ah...
    yep... not: em-m'ah...
     does... E-m'ah... white...
i probably butchered
wright so i'm supposing:
white rather than wright...
right... because:
plain stephen: the trill is gone
hello: tarantula bitten numbing
on every... ******* R to come...

not that i think myself a poet...
but... when you...
have a goblin in your gob...
and you speak someone else's
teased **** of a tongue
in your, own... mouth...
E-m'ah...
                 no... not EM-M'AH...
          it went back toward
the greeks... μω / ημ...
              
                   the best reason to...
walk into a forest and get blind
drunk...
all because...
   E-m'ah... not emma: not
em-m'ah...
                     e-and... m'am...
                 a demon in my throat
how could i... somehow...
"forget" how to say... a girls name...

there's no more curiosity left
in me...
salvage the hopes of leftovers...
because there are always some...

i... supposedly write...
            this frustration of...
un-invited bogus wrapping tow...
snub... and choke on... ropes...
a sentence...
          
          i have these... sensation envelopes...
they're not hallucinations...
much milder...
          the eyes are forever blind...
no... these sensation envelopes...
     whereby...
    my own tongue feels foreign
in my own gob behind the gate
of rubric of ivory... 26?
     no... that's the letters... humans have...
32 teeth...
  
               to speak... in 26...
   i had my original... ******... 32...
that's 6 short...
       ****'s sake... e-m'ah...
   rather than em-m'ah...
                     enough to make a man
drink himself to a sleep
towing a worship of death...

                      at my disposal...
about four fifths of fingers...
itchy... typing...
     and when speaking arrives...
a foreign tongue...
         it... truly wasn't...
a complicated: confiscation of a word...
     HCl mouthful...
   even though... hydrochloric     (acid)
is not a mouthful...

      шure: and a supriße...
                as-serted...
                     ςeriously: c-c... chim-chimney...
                            the french: cedilla...
ç could only, have been... born...
from the greek...           sen-sible.

that irritating sound of a turning
of a door-****...
    or plucking... a silence...
when... there's a sloth-rummaging...
leak of a waterwork... tap tap tap...
a sound and a name for:
something...
   no crescendo... not even a...
rattling: allure...
for... how sand and snare...
imitate... rain and a metal
roof....
                  arch:          e-
              ­                              +    
                             ­                   -cho...

such days... best left... forgotten.

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