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"sinkholes" poems
A kid wakes up; tuns on the news Sees the Texas police killing children again What can I tell you?  You the few Does anybody listen here, my friend So this kid he gets a brainstorm Let's keep killing more and more I know I can be just like them I'll go to school; **** all my friends And it's Monkey See, Monkey Do Inspiration is so cool Monkey See, Monkey Do I'm a killer, how 'bout you Where are all the fearless leaders? Ain't there anybody left? No, not that kid from jersey Mobsters really aren't best All politicians are are sinkholes Usurping monies for their parties It makes this country one big stink-hole You know behind their backs they're farting They passed the rest of all the guns out More More More is all they shout-shout This is great for all the children Who sit scared shit-less at every grade school but it's Monkey see, Monkey do One good leader showed us to Monkey see, Monkey do I'm a killer, how 'bout you?
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Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014 at 7:16 AM UTC
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Her eyes are sinkholes in a quiet, sleeping state and I was a girl, lost and misplaced at twenty-one, looking for love in infinitesimal spaces: on her palm creases and chipped, ruby nails, and in the blown-out ends of her lotus tattoo I find myself tracing a secret, at the spiked tips of her hair tamed by fairy lights and on the slits of her skin — a rabbit hole of wonders, I always fall like Alice in sworn careful tiptoes and crash headfirst; a broken wishbone, a tainted wish some habits you just can't quit. like — October and her obsidian eyes, and the sunless ways we kissed — being lost and misplaced made sense for a while in the detached comfort of her cold bed, colder hands, warmth has become an oppression. But this dalliance has always been a disaster waiting to happen and I am a paramour, a memory, a face in the crowd swallowed in a seismic fall — and losing October has always been a disaster waiting to happen — this bed, always a site of a losing battle and I find myself in a soiled, torn dress, lying helpless on the other side of her war. Tonight, I light myself a candle; maybe one day, I'll finally learn to run away from a girl made of disasters and not towards her.
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Oct 16, 2022
Oct 16, 2022 at 1:39 AM UTC
October
we all long to feel something whether it’s the electrifying fire of pursuit or the breathless weight of fear bitter feels better than clearly broken baited by the false promises of self-righteousness our shards and sinkholes are clearly showing pupils dilate and feet backpedal uncertain of how to face real emotions or people we bar the doors of our hearts and blast the radio Static interrupts our False peace is shattered Broken windows taped together finally Come Crashing down . . . . . . the cool breeze gently tosses your hair reminding you that it really is ok to feel that the wetness on your cheeks is not a sign of weakness that the heaving of your chest is not a sign of hopelessness each deep breath supplies oxygen and release shifting weight from the needy to the New that promises a brighter day shines beyond this steely frame.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:05 AM UTC
untitled
the one constant in your life is you. I am the tectonic plates, shifting and burying and grinding changing against myself with little cares for trees and bushes, I do not mind that my earthquakes destroy sheep I do not lose sleep over my sinkholes, nor does the fresh breeze disturb my actions- you might think your life changes when someone leaves or someone dies, or someone new comes and maybe yes, it does, but you are really far beyond the scope of one meteorite, one blast of destruction or creation- this is no apocalypse. The world is different, now, but not really- it still exists, and it still is called by the same name- no matter what physical shifts occur, it's made of the same mass of **** and dirt and rock and pure lava tossing in the celestial laundry. What do you find there? You are more unchangeable than you know and yet, once you are changing- there is no stopping the earth from folding in on itself and unearthing your new truth.
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM UTC
tectonic plates
the grit courage of trust still too young and now, too old, to comprehend, love~trust and all its secondary derivatives, not extant on a plane of new bed sheets of silk~linen tablecloth rectangularity go into the park's garden; black soil fingernail coating awaiting, impatiently for you, dig in direct hands ungloved is it not, sensual and yet gritty, two coextensive sensations? slip inside (you/me, me/you), there is a razor's edge duality duty, trust, serve and protect, take and handle with rough-care, for this our state of beauty au naturel, the rush and the fall, the climb and the conquering, only to start again, each step, each rung, coated with the the grit courage of trust -                                           do you begin to comprehend? trust is a bumpy landing on a glide path that is strewn with potholes that can grow into sinkholes without the grit of trust the soles of my feet are a message, gritty from walking all-life, not just the edges, is a two act play of roughening, upon the limbs the things,   that carries us ***** but bares the wearing of unkind touches of reality working us over why the soothing, but not the smoothing daily twice is the cream that emerges from the grit courage of trust even the vinery's progeny of great love, grapes that must embrace the wind and rain, the wearing down tools of the exterior that brings an acknowledgement -                                                             do you begin to comprehend? this is not an algebraic formulaic solution solvable problem, this derived from dirt, access to accidental, the tongue and the nail, the cracks upon the skin, that grow wonderful deeper, unfillable, where the love gets in, were the words are written and stored, rough to the touch, under the grit courage of trust -                                                        do you begin to comprehend? this grit is unbelievable beautiful   only a love po-em.       5:22am
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 10:09 AM UTC
the grit courage of trust (a love poem)
the grit courage of trust still too young and now, too old, to comprehend, love~trust and all its secondary derivatives, not extant on a plane of new bed sheets of silk~linen tablecloth rectangularity go into the park's garden; black soil fingernail coating awaiting, impatiently for you, dig in direct hands ungloved is it not, sensual and yet gritty, two coextensive sensations? slip inside (you/me, me/you), there is a razor's edge duality duty, trust, serve and protect, take and handle with rough-care, for this our state of beauty au naturel, the rush and the fall, the climb and the conquering, only to start again, each step, each rung, coated with the the grit courage of trust -                                           do you begin to comprehend? trust is a bumpy landing on a glide path that is strewn with potholes that can grow into sinkholes without the grit of trust the soles of my feet are a message, gritty from walking all-life, not just the edges, is a two act play of roughening, upon the limbs the things,   that carries us ***** but bares the wearing of unkind touches of reality working us over why the soothing, but not the smoothing daily twice is the cream that emerges from the grit courage of trust even the vinery's progeny of great love, grapes that must embrace the wind and rain, the wearing down tools of the exterior that brings an acknowledgement -                                                             do you begin to comprehend? this is not an algebraic formulaic solution solvable problem, this derived from dirt, access to accidental, the tongue and the nail, the cracks upon the skin, that grow wonderful deeper, unfillable, where the love gets in, were the words are written and stored, rough to the touch, under the grit courage of trust -                                                        do you begin to comprehend? this grit is unbelievable beautiful   only a love po-em.       5:22am
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I’ve been thinking about hands a lot lately and how fingerprints are like permanent, foreshadowing tree rings etched onto our beings; I wonder if the number of rings on my palms have any correlation to the number of years I’ll live or the number of years he’ll live or the number of years that she lived. I’ve been thinking a lot about         life lines        and        heart lines and if there is any stock to be found in palmistry; I wonder how my fate line got to be so muddled with my luck line.   I see my life the way a clairvoyant would: in cut-up and choppy strips of film— I should have seen the omens, I should have read the smoke signals, I should have recognized the cards. Act One began on a waning crescent moon and continued until its gluttonous belly had swollen with light; I thought to myself that craniums made of gallium often melt the quickest, that blood filled with plutonium often flows the slowest.  I would have given my body up to the pathologist free of charge, would have let him dig his hands into my entrails for some sort of divination, some sort of revelation— I was never told to beware the Ides of June nor the Kalends of November. Act Two began with the birth of Jack Frost and has been continuing without intermission for the past four celestial cycles; I thought to myself that heart valves made of sodium polyacrylate often love the most, that sinkholes disguised as fingertips often feel the deepest.  He whispered in my ear cliched words about not believing in God, but how I made him feel blessed, and in that moment I knew he was the oneiromantic being that had been shadowing my dreams since 1996— I guess you could say that, sometimes, I believe in love. There is an art to fortune-telling there is an art to hands there is an art to bones there is an art to dreams, and over the years, I have found them coinciding more often than not.  In my sleep, in notebooks, in irises, in mirrors, in poetry, in small little sighs. I do not know if I believe in fate or destiny, in God, in auras, or in the Blood Moon Prophecy, but I do know that I believe in you.  I find myself writing sappy verses and smelling your shirts and I do not know if it is because I miss you or if it is because I’m bored or if they’ve somehow                        mergedintothesamething.   I’ve been wondering a lot lately about where you show up on my hands; about where he showed up and where she showed up.  I want to know which lines bisect and which lines fall short; I want to know if the resemblance between         mother        and         daughter continues into that of my palm lines.  I want to know if my life line matches hers and if my heart line is even worth giving away— find me in your crystal ball, make me your sacrificed animal, look for my body in the stars, and we will know that         it was all made to be.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 7:02 PM UTC
Haruspex
I’ve been thinking about hands a lot lately and how fingerprints are like permanent, foreshadowing tree rings etched onto our beings; I wonder if the number of rings on my palms have any correlation to the number of years I’ll live or the number of years he’ll live or the number of years that she lived. I’ve been thinking a lot about         life lines        and        heart lines and if there is any stock to be found in palmistry; I wonder how my fate line got to be so muddled with my luck line.   I see my life the way a clairvoyant would: in cut-up and choppy strips of film— I should have seen the omens, I should have read the smoke signals, I should have recognized the cards. Act One began on a waning crescent moon and continued until its gluttonous belly had swollen with light; I thought to myself that craniums made of gallium often melt the quickest, that blood filled with plutonium often flows the slowest.  I would have given my body up to the pathologist free of charge, would have let him dig his hands into my entrails for some sort of divination, some sort of revelation— I was never told to beware the Ides of June nor the Kalends of November. Act Two began with the birth of Jack Frost and has been continuing without intermission for the past four celestial cycles; I thought to myself that heart valves made of sodium polyacrylate often love the most, that sinkholes disguised as fingertips often feel the deepest.  He whispered in my ear cliched words about not believing in God, but how I made him feel blessed, and in that moment I knew he was the oneiromantic being that had been shadowing my dreams since 1996— I guess you could say that, sometimes, I believe in love. There is an art to fortune-telling there is an art to hands there is an art to bones there is an art to dreams, and over the years, I have found them coinciding more often than not.  In my sleep, in notebooks, in irises, in mirrors, in poetry, in small little sighs. I do not know if I believe in fate or destiny, in God, in auras, or in the Blood Moon Prophecy, but I do know that I believe in you.  I find myself writing sappy verses and smelling your shirts and I do not know if it is because I miss you or if it is because I’m bored or if they’ve somehow                        mergedintothesamething.   I’ve been wondering a lot lately about where you show up on my hands; about where he showed up and where she showed up.  I want to know which lines bisect and which lines fall short; I want to know if the resemblance between         mother        and         daughter continues into that of my palm lines.  I want to know if my life line matches hers and if my heart line is even worth giving away— find me in your crystal ball, make me your sacrificed animal, look for my body in the stars, and we will know that         it was all made to be.
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It took a hastily-made hangman puzzle to **** you, a present-day friend of mine to simply whisper that three-letter word as if she were restating the gospel. Ironic, then, that as you were dying, I felt an era-long noose loosening. I remember finding skin pores mistakenly labelled as sinkholes, every confession warranting a "believe me, we knew" after the other. If you had spent any more time, an indefinite amount of days deciding to stay lurking in the corners of the closet, out there in the rafters where no one could hear you whispering poison into my gut reactions, I might have sprouted a kamikaze bloodline, a raucous rhythm in the ranks cackling louder with each year of silence, each span of secrecy. Although your plastic inflection vanished with a collective unlocking of the joints, your cryptic sentiment still loiters while my common sense is sleeping, and I remember to repeat, three times like Dorothy, that moment I could only be my true self on paper.
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011 at 4:40 AM UTC
Elegy to a Former Self
you left sinkholes in my head large enough to ensnare my wildest, unfiltered dreams. they're now trapped in my mind and lost in the grey matter. ashes to serotonin norepinephrine to dust ex nihilo nihil fit
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Dec 8, 2011
Dec 8, 2011 at 4:59 AM UTC
sinkholes filled with grey matter
I never called it **** the events of the night the gin had made us hazy and the drugs had us reckless. The half hour you spent strumming me like some pawn shop guitar Suffocating me in the sheets which were covered in the filth of your former lovers. I never called it **** The way your hands had rudely ripped my previously untouched skin and your mouth devoured my innocent lips. Never thought much of the way you had told me to be quiet while I whispered for you to stop because I'd never done this before and it was painful and I wept. Because you had warned that I would wake the others and I was embarrassed and you had made me ***** I never called it **** Never let the repetition of your phrases sink in too much as you told me it was fine and it was okay that I'd like it. I never thought too hard. Because you moved too fast and the room was spinning and I gave in to waiting for it to be over. And when you had gotten too tired of hearing me whimper and my pleading had become obnoxious you sighed an angry **** this" and stomped off to the bathroom to finish yourself, after commanding I put my clothes back on, And find somewhere else to sleep, I stumbled across your ***** basement to where the others slept and collapsed hiding silently in the sinkholes of your couch, Listening to your grunts before the light came on and you passed out avoiding the stains of my youth on your sheets. And I never called it **** In the morning you drove me home making little effort to hide your disgust in my failure to get you off While I looked out the car window at all the houses I had grown up next to, None of which looked familiar any more attempted to ignore the stinging of the poisonous scars you had left behind pretending that my body wasn't covered in the scratches and bruises of your insincere actions. And when we arrived outside my parents' house after an eternity of painful silence you didn't speak merely grunted at my departure and I snuck quietly through the front door to the shower where I scrubbed until the marks from your fingernails became indistinguishable from the skin I had rubbed raw until it bled trying to convince myself that I had eliminated all the remnants of your scent and the dirt from your actions. But I never called it ****
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 1:54 AM UTC
I Never Called It ****
I never called it **** the events of the night the gin had made us hazy and the drugs had us reckless. The half hour you spent strumming me like some pawn shop guitar Suffocating me in the sheets which were covered in the filth of your former lovers. I never called it **** The way your hands had rudely ripped my previously untouched skin and your mouth devoured my innocent lips. Never thought much of the way you had told me to be quiet while I whispered for you to stop because I'd never done this before and it was painful and I wept. Because you had warned that I would wake the others and I was embarrassed and you had made me ***** I never called it **** Never let the repetition of your phrases sink in too much as you told me it was fine and it was okay that I'd like it. I never thought too hard. Because you moved too fast and the room was spinning and I gave in to waiting for it to be over. And when you had gotten too tired of hearing me whimper and my pleading had become obnoxious you sighed an angry **** this" and stomped off to the bathroom to finish yourself, after commanding I put my clothes back on, And find somewhere else to sleep, I stumbled across your ***** basement to where the others slept and collapsed hiding silently in the sinkholes of your couch, Listening to your grunts before the light came on and you passed out avoiding the stains of my youth on your sheets. And I never called it **** In the morning you drove me home making little effort to hide your disgust in my failure to get you off While I looked out the car window at all the houses I had grown up next to, None of which looked familiar any more attempted to ignore the stinging of the poisonous scars you had left behind pretending that my body wasn't covered in the scratches and bruises of your insincere actions. And when we arrived outside my parents' house after an eternity of painful silence you didn't speak merely grunted at my departure and I snuck quietly through the front door to the shower where I scrubbed until the marks from your fingernails became indistinguishable from the skin I had rubbed raw until it bled trying to convince myself that I had eliminated all the remnants of your scent and the dirt from your actions. But I never called it ****
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I have a light under my concrete For others It is fatally luminous So it must be contained I relegate rays to the darkest depths So no light may exit But then you walked on my blacktop And cracks started to form in my road Light began to escape You were fascinated I was terrified Because the more you traversed my pavement The further my road split Brilliant flashes with increasing frequency surfaced Your curiosities were piqued Mine were plagued By what lies underneath And when it would blind you I tried to warn you from inside my cocoon You said you'd purchase sunglasses You never understood This light Shatters glass like Stone Cold Steve Austin It's intensity is a stunner It may be the Sun itself But you insisted on continuing To travel down this path As models import wrinkles Potholes become sinkholes Fears were realized Senses overwhelmed Skin burned Blackened Into something unrecognizable As all signs of life fade I'm stranded on a crumbled road With only sightless cadavers to lead me home
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Jun 14, 2017
Jun 14, 2017 at 12:05 AM UTC
Blacktop
The Navigator stands at the top of the hill, a spotlight illuminating the fog, looking for a direction. The stars are gone, another moonless night, all he has is his intuition and questionable insight. And so the dance of change begins Moving outward while moving in Like a blind man at a drive through atm, wondering how he got there, listening for a sparkle looking for an animal spirit in the dark. There are cliffs and caverns sinkholes and canyons along the way He's been known to fall and rise again - while heading towards the river The Navigator, he is an expert on moving in the darkness looking for that one flash our lives on display The Navigator, he knows the signs, sometimes right sometimes wrong The paths have many directions to follow But with the first step all other paths fade away. Decisions are made The Navigator, he has his day, his way.
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 8:16 PM UTC
The Art of Navigation
She quenches her thirst with The tears of the inhabitants Of sinkholes, claims them, And gives birth to them anew. Exhaling the winter wind, the Scalding embers of December. No one knows her name, But you can confide in her. Share your disarray, she will Rectify you with her rhetoric. She's seductive like suicide, While I am as hung as a noose. An irresistible demon, a potter Shaping your every desire, a puppeteer Manipulating the strings attached to your limbs. Hailing from the same realm as Shang Tsung, mortal anguish empowers her. (c) 2014 Brandon Antonio Smith
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 4:21 PM UTC
She Quenches Her Thirst With Tears
The floodgates have opened and the tide is high the dam has burst in explosion of tear-bombed third eye saltwater rushes culling dark demons from the deep the most buried of creatures awoken from sleep viperfish and tube worms vampire squid twirling their tentacles to summon the id squelching up impulse from sinkholes of mud primal instincts excavated from tombs of slick crud Deep-seated fears have been beckoned to play to disregard tears take resistance away and while blown over by this twisted abyss she remembers a flicker of the shadow of bliss and like a mermaid rising up towards surface blue heights she grasps at the cirrus leaking tendrils of light pulling up hand by hand, in sea-tangled vine a vague sense of sweetness flushes out brine and when she breaks through the surface, her heart like a sieve she finally owns it- the power to breathe
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Jul 4, 2017
Jul 4, 2017 at 7:22 PM UTC
flicker of bliss
In USA, There is a presidential election fight, Well, everything seems to be alright, It might be alright, everything seems tight, Sometimes, I dream of a red sky, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. Turkey Sends bombs for free into Syria, on the other side, Well, it seems that nothing is more important than having pride, When Syrians in Turkey need to hide, I've never dreamt of a sky so red, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. The Greeks Don't want to sell to Canadian consumers their gold, Well, it seems that in Canada it is very cold, Why is it so cold in Canada all the time and the gold isn't sold? I really dreamed of a huge red sun, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. The world Is waiting for a new shift of magnetic poles, But, instead of this, earth makes gigantic craters called sinkholes, Smart money makers lose the remote controls, I really had a multicolored dream, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. Much more protesters Want to change their lives and their presidents. To feed their kids, they work 12 hours per day for a few cents, It's something to think about, when life has no sense. I dreamed of a world having a little pink, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor.
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 8:37 PM UTC
This Earth Is Cracking
"Tread with caution Construction ahead" The sign passes behind her Lost to ecstasy and joy She crashes through Brush and thicket On dream-paved paths To where the little white cottage stands Spit-cleaned  and rag-polished Waiting "Caution-sinkholes Beware fragile earth" She slows her pace Bouncing slightly Till the ground caves in She leaps as earth sinks at her heels Consuming her spirit Leaving dirt on her knees And the little white cottage stands Cobwebbed and dust-lined Waiting "Beware- cliff ahead High tide, rough waters" She approaches warily The dirt still caked To the soles of her shoes But ignores the sign Arrives unprepared The cliff comes as sudden as a drop Land to air in seconds split Frozen water breaking her fall And the little cottage stands Stone-cracked and rain-streaked Waiting "Danger- falling rocks Avalanche prone zone" The water drags at her fingers As she crawls to the shore Huddled under the cliff Overhang so close She can smell the mossy wear Water-clogged she fails to hear The rumble of stones Till they crash to the ground And the little cottage stands Foggy-black and death-caked Waiting "Construction Site- Building in progress" The stones crash against her Down to the sand She falls to her knees Pinned by the boulders With the weight on her shoulders She remembers the signs But wishes she remembered sooner And the water takes her As the little black cottage stands Time-worn and wind-torn Waiting for the future Never to come
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 3:09 PM UTC
Warning Signs
**rust and ichor veins are lacerations and ruptured seams no idyllic countryside sinkholes and lava from the skin to the bone marrow from the ribcage to the deepest HEART the earth is bleeding edged with scarlet a septic wound her nature spasming with her groaning whales die from their weeping sea life washed ashore in their hundreds of thouands birds fall from the sky white doves become black as ravens oily and ravenous mass extinction honey bees will be no more to pollinate anything the earth is bleeding war's bitter wine seeps from every pore of mankind hatred the cup of the world the grail to be drunk deeply til tomorrow is sated and there is no longer any blood to be spilled** soulsurvivor (c) 6/10/2015
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 1:22 PM UTC
the earth is bleeding
When you met him he was charming and had a shimmer of silver to his smile. He knew what to say before your brain could construct the words. And this young man didn't believe for a concrete second that chivalry is dead. He was suddenly everything. But it started to change, as everything inevitably does. He told you first how to pursue a career. And then your closest friends weren't good enough anymore. You made a ****** ritual sacrifice here or there. Old connections had to go, keep the monster contained. He sunk his tendrils deep into the non-photo blue sediment of your mind. And the man you called your own was tweaking the serene oceans of your psyche subtly and oh so surely. You inadvertently let him shift your beating heart into a writhing chaos engine for love, whatever love means anymore. And he push, push, pushed you ****** into deep sinkholes you've never dared even tread near before. You are falling forward and back through the singularity of space and time, feebly holding your hands in front of your face, trying to protect yourself from a 20,000 foot fall. Stopping your descent isn't a valid option. Halt a moving body so suddenly it will snap its neck. you are quickly approaching terminal velocity. Anyone who could of caught what is left of you was gone long, long, long ago. There is no coming back from such impact. It's mathematical.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 11:28 PM UTC
It's Mathematical
I long for a means coalesce like particulates in suspension and not coagulate. Into a monstrous scab. I hate to make cheloid tissue of this deadly grouping. Id **** to be whole by finding a pairing. The obstruction to human progression, The roadblock of progress, We are merely all platelets in this wound. These free thinkers are the only. Thing. Holding in all of the blood of the truth in man's march. The moon was the beginning the end is the sun. To a fusion of the atom, And the birth of our flux. To the birth of our achievement, When we let loose the wound. When the inside has healed and we aren’t bandaging the fumes, Of a gaseous existence to penetrate everyone’s lungs, With the stillness of thinking and the spirit of calm. Currently. We wait in the basement. Sitting for our, Plan. To strike. We will strike the match that flames the fumes of human resistance and build a castle of knowledge, hope, science, and destroy the sinkholes for progress. The things that deplete our resources, And the fire in our eyes will stab into every bastilles walls. Of evil.
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM UTC
The Death of Theocracy
There is a road a narrow path with darkness ahead darkness behind flashing memories disappearing neon traces trailing. The seekers of wisdom a flash light in hand darkness ahead a Diogenes searching for wisdom and a wise one knowing this way lies madness that way lives love. Behind is birth Ahead is death. Pitfalls Skyways through the sinkholes the marshes deserts the mountains the ocean too. Periods of walking alone Periods of walking with you Blindness fills our eyes the dark it is always all encompassing as we feel our way along. But you are the light your life is that small shinning flash light illuminating each moment of our searching lives...
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 11:19 AM UTC
Strolling Through The Darkness
fingernails through the slits of borrowed garments brilliance leaks from sinkholes riddling your forearms earth touch in your tendons tarred feet to sync with astral chords and soil chains -
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
half a head of hair
In USA, There is a presidential election fight, Well, everything seems to be alright, It might be alright, everything seems tight, Sometimes, I dream of a red sky, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. Turkey Sends bombs for free into Syria, on the other side, Well, it seems that nothing is more important than having pride, When Syrians in Turkey need to hide, I've never dreamt of a sky so red, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. The Greeks Don't want to sell to Canadian consumers their gold, Well, it seems that in Canada it is very cold, Why is it so cold in Canada all the time and the gold isn't sold? I really dreamed of a huge red sun, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. The world Is waiting for a new shift of magnetic poles, But, instead of this, earth makes gigantic craters called sinkholes, Smart money makers lose the remote controls, I really had a multicolored dream, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor. Much more protesters Want to change their lives and their presidents. To feed their kids, they work 12 hours per day for a few cents, It's something to think about, when life has no sense. I dreamed of a world having a little pink, The earth is cracking, I'm slowly dancing On your sweet love floor.
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 8:07 PM UTC
This Earth Is Cracking
your eyes send signals forecasting a tremor. so i pull you close and kiss the cracks on your parting lips tonight. broken glass and land slides, tidal waves and ruined city, you taste like catastrophe waiting for a trigger. but no, i am not complaining. your mood may change like tectonic plates, drift apart and rearrange but never will i fear your unpredictable seismic waves. for this is a part of you i have accepted long before my heart began beating your name. you may shake my world to pieces, rive it with aftershocks and sinkholes, but for now let's turn off the lights. let me lull your troubled fault lines.
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Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 1:15 AM UTC
SEISMIC ACTIVITY
Wading through the mire and sinkholes of contingencies I move gingerly, quietly, gasps merely whispered upholding propriety and pragmatics of housing association bylaws enough to make me consider mowing my own lawn but humans are human, co-exist as they say And although I detest your husband's cigarettes I am quite sure blowing smoke back down the air vent would not be as effective as your decibel oblivious obnoxious self, imitating my lustful voice I am a reasonable woman, truly a lady, preferring mature consultation But the fact is, honey, if you imitate me again when summer air re-invents lingerie season the two of you might want to go outside for that smoke because you haven’t heard anything yet
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 2:45 PM UTC
To The Blonde Chick Who Lives Below Me
Girls like me are taught to treat our bodies like metaphors, we are taught that we can only be desired if we are oceans and hillsides, if we are Septembers and sinkholes. They paint us, all sunset eyes and nicotine, hoping to color us in with their washed out words, so that maybe we can mean something. We are taught to fold into ourselves, to shrink our waists and our voices, that being small minded will compensate for the space that we take up. We are taught to apologize for the space that we take up. Girls like me have to be thankful to the stranger who comes and dares to want us, as if we’re only worth our weight in love poems, as if he’s doing me a favor with his wandering hands. Girls like me fill our heads with shipwreck and sorry’s, hoping that this time it’ll be different. That this time, for once, love might be blind. That this time, for once, we can be enough. Girls like me are afraid of being enough. Because maybe if I think of my body as anything more than a graveyard, your ghost hands will find somewhere new to rest.
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Sep 15, 2014
Sep 15, 2014 at 12:20 AM UTC
Atelophobia
Last tendered lifeline sought as battered psyche under your bellowing wave rips Final act of penance remitted from bleeding, parched lips Hemorrhaging from bandaged sorrows that only strerile soul doth eclipse A hollow stare from deserted strand harboring the wreckage of two, desolate ships Posture now callous bearing the scars of your shallow, superficial preening grips Disheveled hair, limp dividend declaring inferior complex that from each emotive strand drips Pale, drawn face; vessel sunken from draining sinkholes as our relationship dips  Pensive smile revealing the fault line of each strained shock as chasm deeper slips Shuttering ears filtering out the rehearsed, rhapsodic notes of your telepathic scripts Token, parting gesture from arrhythmic heart erasing each beat as your radar blips
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Aug 14, 2011
Aug 14, 2011 at 10:08 PM UTC
Love's Shoal