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Money melting in a spoon, let's shoot it into our veins. Flashing Kardashian lights, streaming into our brains. Donald Trump! He's our man! Mark Muslims is the plan! All-you-can-eat- Pile. It. The. **** High. When you walk or When you talk, let the words squeak out like they're between Your thighs. Thighs. American thighs, Dreaming next to our Calvins. Our slacktivism, our regurgitated ideas spitballing out of our McDonald's mouths into our peers' ears, distilled by years And years of "almost-knowledge" that we quasi-ascertained, if we knew what that meant -- but we've been left behind! No child left the **** behind! We were left behind and there's no possible way we slacked off, that we're dumb, that we aren't the movie stars destined for Lamborghini cars, five-star bars, designer bodies for designer you and designer me: the most special of the unique, the Pearls that have been made in the darkest parts of the sea, the darkest parts of origin. Origin. ****** **** American **** virginal ideals sliding around the muck of a marketable **** fuckfest, ******* of the American mind, the congratulations of the American ego, the proud mother and father tears associated with buying and lying, "trying" and frying our food, our ideas, our friends, our neo-impressionistic children in Jordans, skinny jeans, on tumblr: the unknowing cousin of Fox News, surprised by its own wit and wisdom: they're ******* twins. Carbon copies, unknowing, unwilling, un-un-un. The romanticism of mental illness. The close-up of reality-tv emotion. The manipulation taught to servers from managers. The manipulation taught to customers from society. All we care about is **** image, and *** Self-preservation: **** Donald Trump and **** you.
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Apr 20, 2016
Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM UTC
American ****
Money melting in a spoon, let's shoot it into our veins. Flashing Kardashian lights, streaming into our brains. Donald Trump! He's our man! Mark Muslims is the plan! All-you-can-eat- Pile. It. The. **** High. When you walk or When you talk, let the words squeak out like they're between Your thighs. Thighs. American thighs, Dreaming next to our Calvins. Our slacktivism, our regurgitated ideas spitballing out of our McDonald's mouths into our peers' ears, distilled by years And years of "almost-knowledge" that we quasi-ascertained, if we knew what that meant -- but we've been left behind! No child left the **** behind! We were left behind and there's no possible way we slacked off, that we're dumb, that we aren't the movie stars destined for Lamborghini cars, five-star bars, designer bodies for designer you and designer me: the most special of the unique, the Pearls that have been made in the darkest parts of the sea, the darkest parts of origin. Origin. ****** **** American **** virginal ideals sliding around the muck of a marketable **** fuckfest, ******* of the American mind, the congratulations of the American ego, the proud mother and father tears associated with buying and lying, "trying" and frying our food, our ideas, our friends, our neo-impressionistic children in Jordans, skinny jeans, on tumblr: the unknowing cousin of Fox News, surprised by its own wit and wisdom: they're ******* twins. Carbon copies, unknowing, unwilling, un-un-un. The romanticism of mental illness. The close-up of reality-tv emotion. The manipulation taught to servers from managers. The manipulation taught to customers from society. All we care about is **** image, and *** Self-preservation: **** Donald Trump and **** you.
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As he stepped into the ring, Everyone his name did sing. They wanted him to win The title, for the commoners. The title in his last fight. He was out of practice, His reflexes had slacked. Gloves, boxers, guard, did him justice There was something which he lacked. Lacked in his last fight. Before he could hear his favorite song, Followed by the nerve-racking gong. He had a look around To catch a familiar sight, Have a look at her before his last fight. He checked the stands, Then glanced around the ropes And before he had given all hopes He heard a familiar sound Right before the first round. Go hubby go! Punch him left and right! She screamed with all her might. Putting a smile on his face, And then he boxed like an ace. Winning the title, just for her. The title in his last fight.
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Jan 17, 2018
Jan 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM UTC
His Last Fight
He was out in the field Trying to earn a living He did this every year Nothing had ever been given The sweat poured off his brow Humidity was overwhelming The Sun's rays like hammers was beating down Being on the verge of starving was compelling Making him work that much harder For he was paid by the bushels he picked Every night he gave God thanks for the farmer For he was very fair, although very strict The man stood up for a moment stretching out his worn out back Sweat dripping from every pore, he took a look around He stood there counting his blessings, not the things he lacked He was determined not to let this poverty driven life get him down He continually worked so very very hard, he never slacked His eye's fell over the field that stretched out to the horizon Through the dust and haze, beamed his beautiful smile For in his mind he could see what use to be, the mighty herds of bison The Indians like him just trying to carve out a lifestyle They where also unjustly exiled But none of that mattered, not on this sweltering day He knelt back down to get as much work done as he could For his children where hungry, their bellies would not get filled by the Sun's rays He was a better, taller man kneeling in that dirt, those that knew him understood
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 12:34 PM UTC
A Migrant Worker
In my nightmare, I was standing in the dark. The wind bellowing around me, like somone screaming. I was told to lift the mountain with my bare hands and not leave until I did so. My insides lit up like a little sun was there, threatening to burn me up. Sour claws of nausea rip my innards, as if they were teeth gnawing on my raw flesh, being burnt by the sun within. Ignore it. It will pass if I focus on the task. That was my first mistake. Still, dug my fingers in the ground and began to lift. Hands began to burn and scream, sweat turned to smoke and muscle strained. Teeth gritted, I pushed passed the pain, focused on the mountain and I. Smoke mixed with the wind and the darkness and the screaming, bellowing through the nightmare. The Sun burns hotter. Mustered up every ounce of strength I could. And I lifted. Heaved the heavy mountain up to the Heavens. The pain shook through my body until. Finally the mountain and earth separated and the void between is quickly filled with air. The weight pass from my hands to my shoulder. I had done it. At last almost Atlas-like. Standing there, mountain remaining on shoulder. But now what? The sun still burned, hotter than ever, that blasted furnace. And in the moment, my attention did lapsed and my body slacked, prelude to the collapse. What was I thinking? The wind screamed around me and I began to shake in the dark. A fake Atlas, with the weight on his shoulder unbearable. The pressure was too much, too heavy, and too late to do anything. And the sun burns on. I want to run to the nearest pier and jump, to disappear beneath the waves. Stop the burning, end the atrophy of my muscles. I’ve done unhappy deeds and now I want the most human of needs. The end to my pain.   That’s the truth. I yearn for it. The sun burns still I let go of the weight and allow gravity to do its job. Flattened as the mountain was reunited with the earth. Thought I could carry the world on my shoulder, but I am no Atlas. I can't even carry a mountain. I tried and look where I am now. I am shattered. Brittle bones becomes broken and turn to dust. I have given all I got, thrown in the lot. Soon my skin will rust and rot away. Soon there will be nothing left to sustain such a fire but the sole desire for rest. The sun within continues to burn me. Until I am nothing but smoke, bellowing in the wind.
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 4:44 AM UTC
The Weight of the World is a Heavy Thing but the Weight of My World is Heavier
In my nightmare, I was standing in the dark. The wind bellowing around me, like somone screaming. I was told to lift the mountain with my bare hands and not leave until I did so. My insides lit up like a little sun was there, threatening to burn me up. Sour claws of nausea rip my innards, as if they were teeth gnawing on my raw flesh, being burnt by the sun within. Ignore it. It will pass if I focus on the task. That was my first mistake. Still, dug my fingers in the ground and began to lift. Hands began to burn and scream, sweat turned to smoke and muscle strained. Teeth gritted, I pushed passed the pain, focused on the mountain and I. Smoke mixed with the wind and the darkness and the screaming, bellowing through the nightmare. The Sun burns hotter. Mustered up every ounce of strength I could. And I lifted. Heaved the heavy mountain up to the Heavens. The pain shook through my body until. Finally the mountain and earth separated and the void between is quickly filled with air. The weight pass from my hands to my shoulder. I had done it. At last almost Atlas-like. Standing there, mountain remaining on shoulder. But now what? The sun still burned, hotter than ever, that blasted furnace. And in the moment, my attention did lapsed and my body slacked, prelude to the collapse. What was I thinking? The wind screamed around me and I began to shake in the dark. A fake Atlas, with the weight on his shoulder unbearable. The pressure was too much, too heavy, and too late to do anything. And the sun burns on. I want to run to the nearest pier and jump, to disappear beneath the waves. Stop the burning, end the atrophy of my muscles. I’ve done unhappy deeds and now I want the most human of needs. The end to my pain.   That’s the truth. I yearn for it. The sun burns still I let go of the weight and allow gravity to do its job. Flattened as the mountain was reunited with the earth. Thought I could carry the world on my shoulder, but I am no Atlas. I can't even carry a mountain. I tried and look where I am now. I am shattered. Brittle bones becomes broken and turn to dust. I have given all I got, thrown in the lot. Soon my skin will rust and rot away. Soon there will be nothing left to sustain such a fire but the sole desire for rest. The sun within continues to burn me. Until I am nothing but smoke, bellowing in the wind.
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i was drowning in your galaxies of blue. blue so pale- like your e y e s when i swore i could feel them on me but you weren't there. i was drowning in your galaxies in which the stars would shine shine bright / bright light / bright white light / pale bright white light- not like printer paper in the sun more like the pigment of your skin in the moonlight. i didn't mind. drowning didn't seem so bad. because even though i felt awful and sad, i also felt loved, and that was so very pretty to me as a poet. as a lonely star amidst constellations. you almost said the "l" word a total of (probably) seven times in the five long-short months that we were almost lovers. i actually said the "l" word a total of five times. twice as a half joke, hoping you'd pick up where i slacked in clarity but never in sincerity and three times (thrice) in my goodbye in which i beheld these self-evident truths: that the almost (always almost) meant that we could never be lovers and i thought that i'd prefer us to be nothing to each other but maybe friends. (maybe, maybe, maybes make me want to wish on stars but not the ones in your eyes) and although time flies i'm still somehow drowning in your galaxies of blue. and i wonder if its killing me slowly as your stars blink and i'm gone when they open their eyes. almost.
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Oct 3, 2016
Oct 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM UTC
galaxies
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
Blu-tack Beard the Pirate
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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It's been a while, since I've thought about killing myself. Almost a year probably... Today though, I was awoken to my mother yelling at me for taking off a ring, and leaving it at my grandmothers. This ring may or may not be lost now. And now I am sure I have lost another ring for the exact same reason. Because of the shower and a dislike for wearing jewelry in the shower. I also don't like cleaning my room. It's a pain. It's my space. Let it be a wreck. I did do the few things in college I said I would never do. I slacked off. I goofed off. I messed up. So my mother took her anger and just spewed everything she thought of me. I'm not saying she's not a fit mother. But, It changes things when you know how people see you. Selfish. Slob. Narcissistic. Most everything else, implied. Those words, are quotes. Though at the end, I woke up searching for lost items. Realizing found attributes, that I would have never put together. My messy room is a direct relationship to my own self worth. "Slobbish" attributes mean that you think low of yourself, and are selfish. So all you teenage boys, sorry to think you're self worth is low as well. Forgetting a ring and not rushing to get it because you just felt it would be safe. Selfish. Selfish. That one I still don't understand. She kept asking, why I took it off. And I always take it off when I get ready. So if you ever take off an important ring for any reason, and leave it somewhere, thinking it will be safe. Selfish. And because I'm a dramatic one, once my mother left for the day. I thought *If I'm so selfish, I'll just **** myself* If I'm so selfish, I can just die. Because at the end of the day, suicided is the most selfish act you can commit. I'm not saying I'm going to do it. I'm to lazy. That takes effort. It would mean I cared about what was said. But... Obviously I can't. Right? Selfish, Self Centered, No Self Worth, Slob, Ignorant. So yes, It's been a while since I thought about suicide. But since I'm selfish... Should I think of it more? Since it's been a while...
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 1:19 PM UTC
It's Been A While
It's been a while, since I've thought about killing myself. Almost a year probably... Today though, I was awoken to my mother yelling at me for taking off a ring, and leaving it at my grandmothers. This ring may or may not be lost now. And now I am sure I have lost another ring for the exact same reason. Because of the shower and a dislike for wearing jewelry in the shower. I also don't like cleaning my room. It's a pain. It's my space. Let it be a wreck. I did do the few things in college I said I would never do. I slacked off. I goofed off. I messed up. So my mother took her anger and just spewed everything she thought of me. I'm not saying she's not a fit mother. But, It changes things when you know how people see you. Selfish. Slob. Narcissistic. Most everything else, implied. Those words, are quotes. Though at the end, I woke up searching for lost items. Realizing found attributes, that I would have never put together. My messy room is a direct relationship to my own self worth. "Slobbish" attributes mean that you think low of yourself, and are selfish. So all you teenage boys, sorry to think you're self worth is low as well. Forgetting a ring and not rushing to get it because you just felt it would be safe. Selfish. Selfish. That one I still don't understand. She kept asking, why I took it off. And I always take it off when I get ready. So if you ever take off an important ring for any reason, and leave it somewhere, thinking it will be safe. Selfish. And because I'm a dramatic one, once my mother left for the day. I thought *If I'm so selfish, I'll just **** myself* If I'm so selfish, I can just die. Because at the end of the day, suicided is the most selfish act you can commit. I'm not saying I'm going to do it. I'm to lazy. That takes effort. It would mean I cared about what was said. But... Obviously I can't. Right? Selfish, Self Centered, No Self Worth, Slob, Ignorant. So yes, It's been a while since I thought about suicide. But since I'm selfish... Should I think of it more? Since it's been a while...
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614 In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The Lungs—within— Could He—know—they sought Him— Could They—know—He breathed— Horrid Sand Partition— Neither—could be heard— Never slacked the Diggers— But when Spades had done— Oh, Reward of Anguish, It was dying—Then— Many Things—are fruitless— ’Tis a Baffling Earth— But there is no Gratitude Like the Grace—of Death—
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In falling Timbers buried
What are the lessons of today? Are they informed by vague hungry phantoms, jaw-slacked, who burr on the tongue, that singular nothingness before an itch shows? The truths which form beneath your skin are those which would find more knowledge in some other knowing mouth, ready for digestion. Have you travelled far today, pilgrim? Have your feet insisted anything of worth upon the forest floor, or drawn up the simple truths already buried there? Did you subject yourself to rain for miles of wandering only to come out again as the clouds hurried to hide their shame behind the hills? Have you been troubled by the whims of the broken twig, the taxation of the wind's shanty breath? Take off your blindfold and watch as I give you a wave from a shadow you nearly tripped over. Give over your heart to me and my land. What have you learnt today, pilgrim?
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 4:20 PM UTC
Come On, Pilgrim
*concerning anti-kantian lexicon completion to understand the notion of a priori (it's a niche interest... c. bukowski explains it better in the book tales of ordinary madness in the chapter titled **** and kant and a happy home... well, not really, if he knew german i’d say that he was truly defining a priori, learning a language rather than unconsciously acquiring one from the first word mama or whatever toddlers say first when they mastered the bladder and **** muscles, which are oddly designed to be consciously / forcefully trained because they're crafted as slacked... weird), let’s say that’s about as much relevant to me as is this scenario:* an actress about to perform the monologue script of not i, prior to performance and at the stage of memorisation asks samuel (beckett): ‘what does this mean? this one line? it’s bothersome for my conscience, my sense of meaning and direction, what does it mean?’ then ol’ samuel tells her: ‘back up, bets and back up, it’s the most self-conscious eventuality of all vague attempts to stand outside of oneself within the scaffold of using language - this dismemberment beginning with extracting thought for the senses to see hear and feel, writing... this morphing of the substance we consider thought without ethos, ethics, choices, looking at the zeitgeist... but honestly? i haven’t got the foggiest idea... i wrote it because i wrote it, the desired intentions are reserved for those desiring to read it and leave it.’ like the famous p.s. of human history written by moses on sinai, the melting of ice enveloping britain and elsewhere up north, formerly known as the ice age causing flooding elsewhere... and that metaphor of: lions gazelles... two-by-two, two-by-two being a metaphor for monogamy... whereas the harems of other animals like walruses was obviously avoided and gave us islamic polygamy (added to the fact that people refer to themselves via the zodiac... taurus... scorpio... capricorn... or the chinese calendar... dragons tigers pigs rats and monkeys etc.); otherwise known as hermeneutics - extraction of meaning from very concise texts... very very concise texts which, if taken literally... leave you as quickly as they came, and make you specialise in geology or biology instead.
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:25 AM UTC
the famous p.s. written by moses / on noah
*concerning anti-kantian lexicon completion to understand the notion of a priori (it's a niche interest... c. bukowski explains it better in the book tales of ordinary madness in the chapter titled **** and kant and a happy home... well, not really, if he knew german i’d say that he was truly defining a priori, learning a language rather than unconsciously acquiring one from the first word mama or whatever toddlers say first when they mastered the bladder and **** muscles, which are oddly designed to be consciously / forcefully trained because they're crafted as slacked... weird), let’s say that’s about as much relevant to me as is this scenario:* an actress about to perform the monologue script of not i, prior to performance and at the stage of memorisation asks samuel (beckett): ‘what does this mean? this one line? it’s bothersome for my conscience, my sense of meaning and direction, what does it mean?’ then ol’ samuel tells her: ‘back up, bets and back up, it’s the most self-conscious eventuality of all vague attempts to stand outside of oneself within the scaffold of using language - this dismemberment beginning with extracting thought for the senses to see hear and feel, writing... this morphing of the substance we consider thought without ethos, ethics, choices, looking at the zeitgeist... but honestly? i haven’t got the foggiest idea... i wrote it because i wrote it, the desired intentions are reserved for those desiring to read it and leave it.’ like the famous p.s. of human history written by moses on sinai, the melting of ice enveloping britain and elsewhere up north, formerly known as the ice age causing flooding elsewhere... and that metaphor of: lions gazelles... two-by-two, two-by-two being a metaphor for monogamy... whereas the harems of other animals like walruses was obviously avoided and gave us islamic polygamy (added to the fact that people refer to themselves via the zodiac... taurus... scorpio... capricorn... or the chinese calendar... dragons tigers pigs rats and monkeys etc.); otherwise known as hermeneutics - extraction of meaning from very concise texts... very very concise texts which, if taken literally... leave you as quickly as they came, and make you specialise in geology or biology instead.
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Girl I was brought into this world Covered in my own mother’s blood. Soaked and glistening Under the florescent lights. Red dripping onto the linoleum floor. Metallic scent intermingling with antiseptic. My vocal cords were the first things to come in. My screams battled my mother’s. My screams shattered the doctor’s ear drums. Years passed and I learned how to be quiet. Years passed and I stretched. I was a bulb planted in a field. I was tended to the same way the girl next to me was, But I didn’t grow quite right. Fire I swallow hot coals Like some swallow gum. They stick to my insides for 7 years. For years I was convinced I was water. Fluid and easy. Fluctuating between a trickle and a storm. But now I realize I am fire. Flames like tongues enter my slacked jaw. There is no easy way to handle me. Myth When I was a child My father would read the Book of Revelation to me. While most little girls got Goodnight moon, goodnight stars. I got the ***** of Babylon. I was built by stories. Armored with words dripping from Ancient people’s lips. By the time I was nine I could Recount the abduction of Persephone In less than twelve seconds. Because of Persephone I will not eat pomegranate seeds. Skin Do not be fooled by the softness of my skin Or the white of my pigment. I am not a diamond, I am not a ruby. I am flesh, I am human. I am wrapped in a body that loves me And I will love it back.
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
Anatomy
I'm shakin' hands with the trees, High-fiving their leaves, leaving both of us silly and genuinely pleased. and by 'both' I mean ten. We were wrestling zen- Buddha pinned, nearly sinned till he slacked, touched my back, bought a drink for my friend- I'm remembering now what I couldn't then.
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Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 11:49 PM UTC
High-fiving their leaves
Remember Wyoming? Those two days find their way to me, and it always seems so vibrant. How it hurt to breathe with the constant cigarette smoke in our mouths, and how hard it was to light one in the windy cough of the night. I remember us and the others drinking some tea, and seeing myself in its ingredients. I remember looking in the splintered mirror for half an hour, exploring the wonderful fluke of my face. I remember feeling every ***** of you in the prickly light of night. The desert howled at us and we howled back, not caring if our sounds would slap the others in the face. When we stumbled back in afterwards, the space was silent. Someone took something and they heard their own voice, but they didn’t like that echoing clatter. Their hands were over their ears; they writhed on the floor like their skin was a size too small. It was then I realized that our cabin had no windows or doors, but just gaping indigo gashes, and I felt so defenseless against the angry emptiness of those American wastes. Eventually his body slacked, indicating that he was stuck in himself once again. We stayed inside for the rest of the night, keeping our eyes away from the spaces in the walls. We huddled together, me and you, on the concrete floor, and tried to keep the fire going. I remember someone through in that Aldous Huxley novel, and I thought it was a waste. I, for one, always liked the ending, with the feet rotating like Columbia Mall’s carousel. But I’m sure you’d beg to differ.  The next morning we and the others shook ourselves awake, and shambled our way into the Dodge. I sat in the flatbed, and as we hollered down the highway, I watched a single cloud slip across the sky at the same rate we were driving, and lied on my side for those 8 hours; the cloud looked like a tired blur. But when we arrived outside Omaha, and everyone and you jumped out to **** I realized that the cloud I thought was still must’ve flew about seven hundred miles. It could’ve fooled me. And then you kissed me on the cheek and took a Camel out of my pocket, skipping into the soda shop like a child, two days younger.
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Apr 9, 2010
Apr 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM UTC
those American wastes
Remember Wyoming? Those two days find their way to me, and it always seems so vibrant. How it hurt to breathe with the constant cigarette smoke in our mouths, and how hard it was to light one in the windy cough of the night. I remember us and the others drinking some tea, and seeing myself in its ingredients. I remember looking in the splintered mirror for half an hour, exploring the wonderful fluke of my face. I remember feeling every ***** of you in the prickly light of night. The desert howled at us and we howled back, not caring if our sounds would slap the others in the face. When we stumbled back in afterwards, the space was silent. Someone took something and they heard their own voice, but they didn’t like that echoing clatter. Their hands were over their ears; they writhed on the floor like their skin was a size too small. It was then I realized that our cabin had no windows or doors, but just gaping indigo gashes, and I felt so defenseless against the angry emptiness of those American wastes. Eventually his body slacked, indicating that he was stuck in himself once again. We stayed inside for the rest of the night, keeping our eyes away from the spaces in the walls. We huddled together, me and you, on the concrete floor, and tried to keep the fire going. I remember someone through in that Aldous Huxley novel, and I thought it was a waste. I, for one, always liked the ending, with the feet rotating like Columbia Mall’s carousel. But I’m sure you’d beg to differ.  The next morning we and the others shook ourselves awake, and shambled our way into the Dodge. I sat in the flatbed, and as we hollered down the highway, I watched a single cloud slip across the sky at the same rate we were driving, and lied on my side for those 8 hours; the cloud looked like a tired blur. But when we arrived outside Omaha, and everyone and you jumped out to **** I realized that the cloud I thought was still must’ve flew about seven hundred miles. It could’ve fooled me. And then you kissed me on the cheek and took a Camel out of my pocket, skipping into the soda shop like a child, two days younger.
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Round 1: MIND " You can't be doing this to me again. Falling for another person, a person who's not worth it. You may think the heart has healed but I swear every inch of this Body Hasn't, I'm tired of these tears of the cries really its ******* me over, I don't have the strength to numb your heart once you decide to do this again, for once follow me, please" THE HEART " No matter what happens if you follow the mind you'll be hurting knowing they aren't yours and they could never be" Round 2: Mind: "Allow me to remind you of what last happened. At night you cried yourself to sleep or drugged yourself. You woke up and your surroundings were dark. You slacked off your studies and resorted to drink your **** away. Remember when mummy first caught you? Remember the look of pain and fear that she gave you? You became what haunted her most nights." Heart: "I'm sorry. I'm hurting you but what can I do? If I push these emotions away then I'm just hurting you more. I don't know what you want me to do" Round 3 Mind: "I'm done fighting. What the heart wants is what it gets. I'm tired and still in shock from the last event. What makes you so sure we'll survive the next one?" Heart: " Life consists of pain. Can we just enjoy the sweet moment before they turn sour?" Conclusion:...
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
Heart Vs The Mind
There is one time when the body pauses The dazzling placid late night Inside a concealed crisp castle There is a slacked thrown of pose One trivial light flickers softly Beside a firm restful coffin Now I lay me down to sleep A phrase heard through life Happens in the reality of this moment Stripping cloth from the frosted vision Once again becoming true natural The chilled air surrounds the body Seeping in the lowered soul Laying ever so still on a lush plank A quicksand of memories as the body sinks The light now slender Nothing but the somber knights They cover a chattered body Leaving a sense of protection and warmth Are the eyes open or closed? A thought lucidly pounding in the brain The sense of smell is the true friend At this sudden listless time Only supple crystals shift the nose Tingling the starved fragile hairs Face cannot be wiped The body is made of oppressed stone The arms weighted to a pull Tied down by tickled silk shackles The legs a block of endless heavy The body is no more a vital vessel But an anchored hard shell Although the fleshy mind stays alert Thoughts, dreams, emotions Marinating in a skulled *** Fusing together to make a dream An intense deep sleep In the world of non reality
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Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010 at 6:50 AM UTC
The Body Pauses
You walked in. Shocked of course, What mother wouldn't be? Even a step mother at that. But still, you left. Closed the door behind you After you shook my hand "My name is Sam" "Nice to meet you." I wish you had said something. Said you don't allow ****** in your house. Told me to get out and never come back. Forbade him to ever see me again. Screamed at him for bringing me here. But you didn't. You just, left. Didn't you see? See the way I jumped across the room The first moment his grip on my arm slacked. How his calloused fingers dug into my wrist. The tears, brimming in my black lined eyes. How my muscles, barely there, strained to pull away. "Don't make me do that don't make me do that don't make me do that." I just wanted to go home Didn't you see?
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Jun 9, 2017
Jun 9, 2017 at 12:34 AM UTC
Didn't You See?
TinMan down Frowned On the ground What happened Didn't happen But the brown Turned to BLACK Slacked into lack. Feelings reeling Heart burst Like glass Splintered into ash Nomad crawling Sprawling Couldn't feel the grass. Can't count minutes Thru hours Stretched to DAYS The silence of no contact Howling in the wind Stillness so BLACK Cutting like a knife. Nomad finally mounting Getting to his knees 13 DAYS no contact To black to see the sun A crack of light Screaming Beaming Like music Mona Lisa breathing Chuckling Teasing Nomad to his feet Hearing a heart beat Seeing the moon's silvery glow It all begin to flow 13 days of Black Absolutely no contact Worse than dead Nomadic shook his head Mona Lisa said Honey, come to bed.
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Jul 31, 2015
Jul 31, 2015 at 10:13 PM UTC
13 DAYS BLACK
In loose terms in slacked mouth lies in stretching truths spider web fine unfit for consumption lines and grievances I write with tongue in cheek firmly held away from teeth bared in a grimace oh we have begun.
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 2:32 AM UTC
Done.
all i want to be in life is a bit of colonel tavington; i executed loosing my mother tongue and when i gripped the new diacritic i earned a famous colonial greed, even though i was lied to, because polish diacritic was there in ś while english was yorkshire nudist blank slacked so i had to go back to augustus looking over my shoulder utilising the d but not the ∂ like chiseling a v for a u in marble to question the existence of parabolas easier. i mean, i like that arrogant frown and i’ll admit it unabashed into liking it, i want that ******* twinning to pop that corn into popcorn for goo awe ah of the cinema goers. i can be silent throughout the day, but at night i lose the lazy drunk and soak the soap in carbonated and bubble the words out: vengeance! thrill the jaw to munch on un-edible edibles! crack the bone **** the marrow! all i want to be in life is a bit of colonel tavington, very few sentiments for being loved and loved in private, loved i can handle but only in the public domain as prime antagonist.
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 8:03 AM UTC
colonel tavington
THE ANGRY WATERS that recoiled and threatened a tsunami lie placid now, bacalmed and still as shiny as a glass topped dining table THE HOWLING WINDS that longed to be a hurricane have settled into zephyrs and soft breezes that barely riff the petals of the autumn roses THE RAGING THUNDER that tried so hard to break the windows has rolled on and is nothing but a distant echo that recedes as fast as memories of childbirth pain THE VICIOUS RAIN that threatened to go flooding has slacked off into a gentle winter mist that wraps the dawning sun in silken haloes THE VOLCANIC FLAMES that lept across the sky as lightning have danced across the hills to other valleys leaving only ozone to mark where they have been AND I AM SPARED AND WHOLE Unwounded and unscarred Undamaged by their passing Unscathed in places that should bleed And safe in who I plan to be At last the God of Hope Has noticed me And offered me His hand to take And walk into Tomorrow.           ljm
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Dec 27, 2017
Dec 27, 2017 at 10:09 AM UTC
DENOUEMENT
wind blows, curtians fluttered, flapped. truth, fiction muttered, the breeze slacked. rain falls, panes close. Soft rhythmic in art iculate riddles, droplets stream, tapped memory flows. Con den sa tion dampens sill, time drifts, I remain still. grey grey gazing, hyp not ical. rain rain, go away come again some other day.
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 4:41 PM UTC
Bemused
All alone The seed was sewn The **** has grown Close to the bone I've been dethroned Turned to sandstone Watch me crumble Everything I bumble So very humble Everything I fumble I just mumble My thoughts are jumbled My mind is cracked There's no coming back I'm afraid I slacked So much I lack A joker not a jack A punch in the back No wings, can't fly Only look at the sky Soulless eyes Slowly dies No tears to cry Into the pan to fry
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Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 12:15 AM UTC
Turned to Sandstone
He sought to break What he could not shake in its fury He sought to beat What he could not fight at its strongest He slacked when time slept In its weakest moment He forgot to fix the cracks on his happiness, To ruin the battle of his sorrow, To beat the taunting teeth of hardship He watched as champions    Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
MAKE OR BREAK (AN EXCERPT)