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"slathered" poems
i told my therapist about you, while your lips were still slathered alllll over my body. i showed her the places we had been, and all the things we had seen. i told her what lies underneath that pretty                                               pretty skin of yours, and i told her how i knew. i spelt out your name as she scribbled it on her cute little clipboard, i told her about the   first     night and the      second and the   fourth and that time in the closet. i told her everything, i really just wanted to   get                                                   you                                       out   of my brain, it didn't matter if saying these things put me in  sososo  much pain. because you've  moved   on  so why can't i? i told my therapist about you, but i still can't tell you                                            goodbye.   i know i'm  s t u p i d, for holding on this l                                o                                 n                                  g, i know it's useless, for wishing you weren't                              gone. but my words carry on like a heartbeat s     l      o      w steady                           fast u   s   e   d   n    t   a   y i   keep   keep   keep  breaking and breaking and breaking and i told my therapist about you.
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 2:05 PM UTC
my therapist says i have ADHD
i told my therapist about you, while your lips were still slathered alllll over my body. i showed her the places we had been, and all the things we had seen. i told her what lies underneath that pretty                                               pretty skin of yours, and i told her how i knew. i spelt out your name as she scribbled it on her cute little clipboard, i told her about the   first     night and the      second and the   fourth and that time in the closet. i told her everything, i really just wanted to   get                                                   you                                       out   of my brain, it didn't matter if saying these things put me in  sososo  much pain. because you've  moved   on  so why can't i? i told my therapist about you, but i still can't tell you                                            goodbye.   i know i'm  s t u p i d, for holding on this l                                o                                 n                                  g, i know it's useless, for wishing you weren't                              gone. but my words carry on like a heartbeat s     l      o      w steady                           fast u   s   e   d   n    t   a   y i   keep   keep   keep  breaking and breaking and breaking and i told my therapist about you.
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Her shadow Washed in sin, covered in blood Oh, what a sad little dove Festering secrets, slathered in shame Purity poisoned, life to blame Born unwanted, a mother denies Behind the shadow of our eyes His shadow In dynamics Of dysfunctional dismay Lost in secret family shame These emotional contacts delay That we carry 'til the end of our days Cast in stone, in foundation of lies All these shadows behind our eyes Her pain Painful memories of long ago Though, I know, I must let go Triggers upon the aching scars That burns within an injured heart Full of fear, in the wake of lies All behind the shadow of our eyes His pain An unending twitch The fast fading smile The ever bleeding heart Of a broken lost child Carrying stones up endless hills All these issue we're forced to feel And stuff them down, way down inside Behind the shadow of our eyes Her darkness Hidden is a blacken variant Attached with unbreakable sealant Of life's destiny, from the gods Concealed amid, evolved facades A mind, compartmentalized Behind the shadow of our eyes His darkness Desensitized to life, empathy left poor Bottomless abyss where my spirit now soars Love is a dream in my abandoned role The pieces won't fit my wandering soul.... The window to a soul hides Behind the Shadow of our Eyes
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May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017 at 11:44 PM UTC
Behind the Shadow of our Eyes (Collaboration with Traveler Tim)
Paints of dark twilight hues, Slathered across in blunt strokes. Blend with deft hands, Cajole gently with jabs and pokes. Backdrop begging for a few others. Longing to hold in infinite embrace. Friends of earth and midnight sky. Worthy of a doe-eyed lovers' gaze. Cascading moonbeam... Drenching all in silvery white. Restless twinkling stars... Singing their mismatched might. Silhouetted landscape as horizon, Darkened oils of plateaued ridges. Finest brush could only manage, To close the gap, I build bridges. Nearing completion, this stint on canvas. Nuances of dawn for what I've begun, Usher the arrival of a brand new day. All I need now is a few drops of sun.
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 11:05 AM UTC
Sundrops
The ocean, oh it looked so blue, shades of colour swimming around like clouds around the moon, The water, oh it looked so clean, but it was just the sun's reflection making it clear, Underneath the waves lay a graveyard, a promise of death, a promise of extinction, Tombs made of plastic, slathered in oil, steaming with toxic waste, and all the people know, The damage is unfolding faster than we are evolving, The turtles are ingesting plastic as if it were their only meal, begging for their fins to just be free, so they can dive through the sea, The seals are tangled in nets, lines and lures, plastic bags and packing bands, till they're tied to their grave as if life were just a brief phase, The seabirds skim the ocean waves for fish and squid, yet plastic is their only catch of the day, leaving them broken inside and out, and dead on the beaches we claim are our own, The whales are submerged beneath the sea, eating most things that they see, plastic, plastic everywhere beneath, not giving them much time before they can no longer breathe, The dolphins are gliding through the sea, taking what they can to eat, plastic as their only meal, tearing them apart from within, leaving them starving for weeks, till the grave is the only thing they see, Us humans are so weak, we can’t see how deep the pain seeps, but when nothing is left for us to eat, and the rich have nothing left to steal, we’ll end in the same graves as all the lives we could have healed.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 12:16 PM UTC
The oceans and the seas
It smells like first love Says the perfume bottle Smells like true love Says the bath bomb What does first love smell like? First love smells like rain The heavy scent of the air Before a thunderstorm True love smells like cookies Baking in the background And a rich *** of coffee Brewing from fresh beans And of cinnamon in hot chocolate And lavender, like my lotion And spice, like his deodorant First love smells lightly of sweat Because you're nervous True love smells like tears Because it's never a dry-eyed affair It smells like the flowers Of the wedding bouquet And the crimson and white Christmas flower display First love smells like body spray Slathered on to hide the sweat True love smells natural Bad breath in the morning And yet fine Because it's theirs. First love turns to sweet summers' air Vanished with August's last week True love kisses the scents Both foul and fair That break upon my cheek.
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Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 11:48 PM UTC
Scentsation
when i want inspiration to write poetry i watch a heaving tempest of kisses they have a better flavor than cooking shows what's prettier than pretty pretty in pigtails shaking her delicious derriere whipped Soufflé? i'm kissing butter princess witchy ****  spread lickity splits eating her with a big wide **** eating grin like an open face dagwood whats more poetic than that hopeful glaring of Adonis's plumper in paradise filling Cleopatra's slathered meringue? ga-ga-ga-gag me, daddy merciless, pa-leazze fluttered big wet talking eyes like pools of blue honey getting it zigged zagged hard against a redraw mouth throttling fluted gullet while eager throat gasps a symphonic music of the spheres in relentless staccato chokes lovin her big devil **** splashing all gym built wonder-boy a litter of ****** and tongues licking pig greedy rapturous milkshake waterfalls whimpering mmmmmm oooh big daddy oh my ****** god pillar of colossus you Tunisian donut you pierce me like a spoon through summer guava who screams like that eating lunch but a half ate apricot? better than a football game I'd rather take her greek more fun than math or small talk preferable to a pat on the back at work or a ridged procession at a funeral oh beautiful dark fig squatting crotch candy bubbling tapioca *** queen of spun sugar ****  all pyrotechnics and fluttering sinews if you asked most do they watch **** they'd grow smug like a senator or punch you in the mouth outwardly high-minded refusing the blessing of a video **** parade of pirouetting vaginas and glistening areolas for the glory of the secret ************ ceremony the *** moralists only good for a secret ****** living their lives with passions submerged and nothing to confess except for guilty offerings as they wander through dreamland shopping malls wanting to know Victorias ***** little secret seduced but not caressed by a mouthpiece for castrated dreams
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Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 4:05 PM UTC
****
when i want inspiration to write poetry i watch a heaving tempest of kisses they have a better flavor than cooking shows what's prettier than pretty pretty in pigtails shaking her delicious derriere whipped Soufflé? i'm kissing butter princess witchy ****  spread lickity splits eating her with a big wide **** eating grin like an open face dagwood whats more poetic than that hopeful glaring of Adonis's plumper in paradise filling Cleopatra's slathered meringue? ga-ga-ga-gag me, daddy merciless, pa-leazze fluttered big wet talking eyes like pools of blue honey getting it zigged zagged hard against a redraw mouth throttling fluted gullet while eager throat gasps a symphonic music of the spheres in relentless staccato chokes lovin her big devil **** splashing all gym built wonder-boy a litter of ****** and tongues licking pig greedy rapturous milkshake waterfalls whimpering mmmmmm oooh big daddy oh my ****** god pillar of colossus you Tunisian donut you pierce me like a spoon through summer guava who screams like that eating lunch but a half ate apricot? better than a football game I'd rather take her greek more fun than math or small talk preferable to a pat on the back at work or a ridged procession at a funeral oh beautiful dark fig squatting crotch candy bubbling tapioca *** queen of spun sugar ****  all pyrotechnics and fluttering sinews if you asked most do they watch **** they'd grow smug like a senator or punch you in the mouth outwardly high-minded refusing the blessing of a video **** parade of pirouetting vaginas and glistening areolas for the glory of the secret ************ ceremony the *** moralists only good for a secret ****** living their lives with passions submerged and nothing to confess except for guilty offerings as they wander through dreamland shopping malls wanting to know Victorias ***** little secret seduced but not caressed by a mouthpiece for castrated dreams
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Father checks if I'm sleeping; I wake up, and see little tinctures of nothing night-sky poetic, I see blandness slathered in a huge speck. Where was that spirit and excitement and everything that life offered not too long ago? Who wakes up to do their homework at midnight?
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM UTC
Exam Season.
The pizza took her place in bed. It slathered itself all over her. The pizza objectified my body. It slid between her ******* leaving traces of red sauce and strands of hot, almost liquid cheese in the nook of her cleavage. It slowly dripped off of her ******* as she spread its residue across her ***** From there, the succulent, almost watery juices rolled off of her teet and onto her folded legs as she knelt there in the store window. Everyone could see her. But as long as those who were most enthralled came inside to purchase a pie or two, no one seemed to care.
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Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 11:49 PM UTC
Succulence in Essence
I am the shy man you see at 6 AM in Starbucks umbrella cocked under my left arm like a guidon, formless and murky as the latte in my cup, neufchatel slathered on the bageled cusp of a new day, one bus token removed from yesterday's office, aspiring toward tomorrow's and the next day's sunrise, convinced of nothing printed in splashy headlines of USA Today. I am the strong man who smiles at the concept of growing ******* watching women surrender their eggs, take on new testicles. I would eagerly belly your child, assume your burden, let you envelope me with velvet *** dream submissive destiny in the absence of Bodhisattva's caress, if delicious debauchery empowers you. I am a Boy Toy on the half-shell, a nascent embryo filled with dread of wombs which recently had bound me. You offer deliverance. I am seed in your fertile loam-brown soil. I germinate sinking roots in your mind, fully conscious I will flower, a stubborn hybrid planted for your pleasure. I am a pilgrim without a rock, the twilight sky beneath your periwinkled heavens.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 12:21 AM UTC
That You May Truly Know Me
Such solidarity we created On the hilltop with the cows Discussing sassafras, Our Chakras, Summer-berry wine. Per aspera ad astra But without inhaling tar We have come. The cornbread with anise and wheat berries Cruncy and sweet Slathered with strawberry jam Was such a luxurious meal For us two tired wanderers. We're left over from the '60s Living in the past but in the moment Listening to Mama Tried (well, she did!) And crying over Wharf Rat We model turtles, Celtic knots, a moose Dream of yesterday and tomorrow Say what we mean Take a misguided turn driving home And our minds meander to slumber and internal illusions.
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Nov 21, 2010
Nov 21, 2010 at 3:25 PM UTC
Musings on a Nature Walk
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
Utopia
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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I could put it into specifics by describing your toothpaste. No matter how recently you had bought it, that sorry tube was always a mangled mess. Twisted, creased, folded plastic or whatever it was, topped with a messy, half-open, broken-hinged, ineffective cap. Slathered with the blue-and-white residue of rushed mornings and tired nights. Exhausted. Does toothpaste try? It gets the job done, sure. But you probably waste half the toothpaste by destroying the tube like that. You were like this with many things. Exhausted, a little bit crumpled and always partially wasted. Like toothpaste, I know you were always trying, and you nearly always succeeded at whatever you were doing, you were just often left with something not finished to your own standards. Dissatisfied with your own success. As I'm sure toothpaste is when you have a fine smile but still end up needing a filling again. Toothpaste does a good job, you must understand. We are just sometimes careless, and we sometimes don't have the time we need. We all still end up needing to schedule a dentist's appointment once in awhile. Nobody likes the dentist. They’re bound to be good people, dentists, but I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t dread the dentist’s throne. Really, we’re supposed to avoid them - the whole goal is to never have reason to see the dentist, right? But we always do. For a regular check-up at least, if we can remember to book the appointment, as much as we may want to get out of it. Something that should be so easy to get out of, had you just brushed your teeth right all the time. So toothpaste is never as effective as you want it to be. But maybe that’s what makes it so satisfying - squeezing the life out of that tube, you can feel like you have power over the inevitable. That’s what you wanted.
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May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
Toothpaste (a short story)
I could put it into specifics by describing your toothpaste. No matter how recently you had bought it, that sorry tube was always a mangled mess. Twisted, creased, folded plastic or whatever it was, topped with a messy, half-open, broken-hinged, ineffective cap. Slathered with the blue-and-white residue of rushed mornings and tired nights. Exhausted. Does toothpaste try? It gets the job done, sure. But you probably waste half the toothpaste by destroying the tube like that. You were like this with many things. Exhausted, a little bit crumpled and always partially wasted. Like toothpaste, I know you were always trying, and you nearly always succeeded at whatever you were doing, you were just often left with something not finished to your own standards. Dissatisfied with your own success. As I'm sure toothpaste is when you have a fine smile but still end up needing a filling again. Toothpaste does a good job, you must understand. We are just sometimes careless, and we sometimes don't have the time we need. We all still end up needing to schedule a dentist's appointment once in awhile. Nobody likes the dentist. They’re bound to be good people, dentists, but I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t dread the dentist’s throne. Really, we’re supposed to avoid them - the whole goal is to never have reason to see the dentist, right? But we always do. For a regular check-up at least, if we can remember to book the appointment, as much as we may want to get out of it. Something that should be so easy to get out of, had you just brushed your teeth right all the time. So toothpaste is never as effective as you want it to be. But maybe that’s what makes it so satisfying - squeezing the life out of that tube, you can feel like you have power over the inevitable. That’s what you wanted.
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Nine years later I still feel everything. Potent ****** reaction. Guilt has caused Riverbed cheeks. This single image That I've kept buried In an attempt to leave behind Is seared into my mind. It plays out: My mother is there; up against the wall. Pig-tailed braids And slender in overalls. Cowering In hyperventilation And sobs Looking so child-like, Cornered By 3 betrayals in human form. Voices raised in accusation Ripping into her In my bedroom. Feeling ill and lost I lie face down on the bed, Covering my ears, Screaming. Blocking out The family fight Chaotic and ferocious, Like worlds end Crumbling my foundation Only feet away Words like daggers Slathered in anger, Hate, and distrust. I couldn't handle Seeing my mom like that; Bullied, scared, And broken down. Hated and attacked By a husband Who vowed to love and protect her; By a son-in-law Who was meant to respect her; By my sister Who was first-born to her. All because a misunderstanding, A rumor, A lie. And I, Too young to understand What this meant, But who knew the truth, Didn't come to her rescue. And now she Is outcasted and alone And I Can't wash myself Of this searing recollection. 21 years old I still find myself Lying face down, Covering my ears, Screaming.
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May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013 at 3:36 AM UTC
Family Breakdown
i. descend i've lost weight since we last met we fit differently from before- bird-thin, the both of us- but this hollow in your feathered chest is still where i feel most at home- your jade eyes a nest, to cultivate my happiness i've been betrothed to the birds you stayed back, earthbound i fell, a cataract, from the red cliffs you watched me sink, earthbound i was ripped to shreds in the tundra freezing and thirsty and you listened instead to the flowers, drowning me out as i whispered for help they told you sunlight stories when i was trapped in dusk i was an inch from the edge of night and you fled so as to not be consumed. ii. unpend i know what i told myself- i said i shed my mourning veil- but i still weep for the morning lark, your lightening song haunting my brittle nightingale i write you letters every night with a fountain pen slathered in red ink saying what i never could, spilling my regret on the page (wake up with ****** hands) i should have known you were no one to trust you're just a fledgling we're all so naïve. iii. the end i take flight, for brave is the man who would leap from the bluff to prove his worth; for i can take action now- i can say this now, where before i sat on the sidelines i will not wilt in your arms just for a moment i will hold you tight my prisoner thank you for keeping me alive i don't need that anymore thank you for staying by my side when i had eyes set to **** thank you for helping me to ascertain that i’m no phoenix thank you for participating in my stupid guessing games you were the match to ignite my nicotine habits but now i'm the one who's decided to spark and fade green-eyes, i've made a decision and this time i'll stick with it- featherlight now, i will make my escape
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Dec 10, 2012
Dec 10, 2012 at 12:47 AM UTC
of glorious plumage
i. descend i've lost weight since we last met we fit differently from before- bird-thin, the both of us- but this hollow in your feathered chest is still where i feel most at home- your jade eyes a nest, to cultivate my happiness i've been betrothed to the birds you stayed back, earthbound i fell, a cataract, from the red cliffs you watched me sink, earthbound i was ripped to shreds in the tundra freezing and thirsty and you listened instead to the flowers, drowning me out as i whispered for help they told you sunlight stories when i was trapped in dusk i was an inch from the edge of night and you fled so as to not be consumed. ii. unpend i know what i told myself- i said i shed my mourning veil- but i still weep for the morning lark, your lightening song haunting my brittle nightingale i write you letters every night with a fountain pen slathered in red ink saying what i never could, spilling my regret on the page (wake up with ****** hands) i should have known you were no one to trust you're just a fledgling we're all so naïve. iii. the end i take flight, for brave is the man who would leap from the bluff to prove his worth; for i can take action now- i can say this now, where before i sat on the sidelines i will not wilt in your arms just for a moment i will hold you tight my prisoner thank you for keeping me alive i don't need that anymore thank you for staying by my side when i had eyes set to **** thank you for helping me to ascertain that i’m no phoenix thank you for participating in my stupid guessing games you were the match to ignite my nicotine habits but now i'm the one who's decided to spark and fade green-eyes, i've made a decision and this time i'll stick with it- featherlight now, i will make my escape
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it's not even noon, but my thoughts are drenched with *** bound and gagged. you're dancing around the kitchen, clad only in a pair of lace ******* you paid too much for at Victoria's Secret liaisons by the seaside, sand sieving through your hair: all forms of metal-backed currency taste like ***** on your fingertips stuffed roughly in my mouth, call me a **** pretty please? promethazine slathered over watermelon sherbert and soaked in Sprite; put a lid on it and shake vigorously until well mixed. Xanax exacerbated migraines mean naptime for me, and I forgot to tell you the Gatorade is spiked with ***** (or maybe tequila; I've well and truly forgotten) and all of this is just another means of replacing you. you're wrapped in an ecru trench coat, cinched at the waist over concealed weaponry: unlicensed pistol and wet coral ***** constrained by a black leather holster and cobalt cotton. you kissed me with ******* in your nostrils and nosebleed on your lips; you killed me with contempt in your mouth and venom on your nails.
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 5:18 PM UTC
kissin kate barlow
I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 3:17 PM UTC
"On Privilege"
I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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From what glorious kingdom Will my armored warrior hail That for my small hand On slathered horse Journey roads of heaven and hell Riding stone covered ground Of long black waiting shadows To return to my lost soul Stolen waiting tomorrows On the quest to my heart Slay the crimson dragon pain His jeweled reward but one Eternal love to gain Written when my thoughts are not tainted with Poe This poem is copyrighted and stored in author base. All material subject to Copyright Infringement laws Section 512(c)(3) of the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. S512(c)(3), Tammy M. Darby  Dec. 29, 2013
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM UTC
The Knight
If you ask me, he lit the match that set the Moon on fire It’s not a myth; I was there, when I had no home And I walked in Saturn’s ring rain for so long it sloughed off my skin I marched, trying to flatten the crater I’d made Because I was ashamed of it I was the last meteor to hit his heart; the loudest But that was so long ago The quietest revolutions are usually the most violent If you ask him, I smelled like Genesis and Revelation from the inside ******* insatiable I slathered honey on my cheeks and boiled my blood so hot until my arteries turned charred black I licked my wounds from the impact and discovered just what the hell was poisoning me If you ask me, I didn’t know him last night and I won’t know him on the last night But my God, he inspires me
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May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 at 8:28 PM UTC
Genesis and Revelation
Sound asleep, dead to the world. Enjoying the best sleep in a long time. Then the alarm goes off and I roll over to turn it off. The blaring sound goes away and I relapse into a peaceful slumber. On my only day off, I find rest to be bliss, but alas life is not perfect and my wife has other plans. The battle is fought once a week, with new and creative ways found to jar me from my sleep, but on this particular day I am determined to not be bothered. So through 3 alarm clocks and innumerable catcalls I snooze on. Only rolling to one side or the other to avoid the harassment that seeks to steal my peaceful sleep. Then as if by design, I begin to have the most elaborate dream. Wrapped in a sheet, I am held fast as my feet slip and slide in the mud. For a moment I feel the ooze beneath my feet. Then at a moments notice, the ooze is replaced by warm water running over my toes. I begin to giggle as the water feels as if it is filled with sand. Then to my stark surprise, I open my eyes to find my feet slathered in peanut butter and my golden retriever licking my feet to relieve me of the ooze of which I had dreamed. Thus once again my wife wins the battle, and rattles me from my slumber with a furry alarm clock and a list of things for me to do today.
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 9:25 PM UTC
The Furry Alarm Clock
Oh no, he did it again, undressed another woman, as she begged him no, while her head spun to a different world, she pushed him away, her fingernails grasped at his skin, she whispered, “please…. stop,” but he didn’t listen, not a single soul would listen. She’s all alone, stripped of her dignity, her spirit pushed down the drain, as he entered inside her, her heart beat faster, but her body was numb, she couldn’t feel her arms, or her legs, her fingers lost all touch, and her voice screeched with pain, she’d never cried so much yet felt so little, as her body stopped, and her soul tried to escape to a better place. But truth is it doesn’t always happen in this way, with a firm “No” and attempt to get away. Sometimes he’s kind and sweet, or powerful and famous, he’s your teacher, mentor, or friend, the love of your life, or a one night stand, and you uncomfortably say “No”, “Maybe not now”, “I don’t feel like it”, “Maybe you should go”. Yes, sometimes we scream “Please No”, but other times we drown under the waves in our ears telling us it will end soon, or we fall into the sound of our body begging for forgiveness for letting another human take a part of us away. As he touches you, and you pull away, after the hundredth time you’re so weak, so violated, caving like a prisoner pushed to the edge, laying numb and senselessly wishing for your last breath, as your body is fumbled, and your heart tumbles, your honor and morality thrown to the floor, stomped and spit on as your words become worthless to another person's soul. Drugged or drunk, sober or young, you’re futile, as your body becomes his, and what once belonged to you is stripped, and slathered in pain, then thrown aside like a bad book and never looked at the same, but his life doesn’t change, and all the things you used to love become a reminder of what once was. The feeling of his hands on your hips, imprinted on your skin like a tattoo you can’t laser off, a lifetime of what should’ve been, but will never be. “What can I become when his face is all I see when I think of; love, lu*st, or even my own sanity? Where does the healing begin when my body’s just become an empty limb? What will my friends and family think? What can I say when the world won’t even believe the rich who’ve paid the same price of insanity for the man who took their dignity? It took him just a few minutes for me to feel this pain everyday, So who’s going to believe me when I say by ****** me he took my life away?”
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Feb 3, 2019
Feb 3, 2019 at 4:09 PM UTC
1 in 5 women
Oh no, he did it again, undressed another woman, as she begged him no, while her head spun to a different world, she pushed him away, her fingernails grasped at his skin, she whispered, “please…. stop,” but he didn’t listen, not a single soul would listen. She’s all alone, stripped of her dignity, her spirit pushed down the drain, as he entered inside her, her heart beat faster, but her body was numb, she couldn’t feel her arms, or her legs, her fingers lost all touch, and her voice screeched with pain, she’d never cried so much yet felt so little, as her body stopped, and her soul tried to escape to a better place. But truth is it doesn’t always happen in this way, with a firm “No” and attempt to get away. Sometimes he’s kind and sweet, or powerful and famous, he’s your teacher, mentor, or friend, the love of your life, or a one night stand, and you uncomfortably say “No”, “Maybe not now”, “I don’t feel like it”, “Maybe you should go”. Yes, sometimes we scream “Please No”, but other times we drown under the waves in our ears telling us it will end soon, or we fall into the sound of our body begging for forgiveness for letting another human take a part of us away. As he touches you, and you pull away, after the hundredth time you’re so weak, so violated, caving like a prisoner pushed to the edge, laying numb and senselessly wishing for your last breath, as your body is fumbled, and your heart tumbles, your honor and morality thrown to the floor, stomped and spit on as your words become worthless to another person's soul. Drugged or drunk, sober or young, you’re futile, as your body becomes his, and what once belonged to you is stripped, and slathered in pain, then thrown aside like a bad book and never looked at the same, but his life doesn’t change, and all the things you used to love become a reminder of what once was. The feeling of his hands on your hips, imprinted on your skin like a tattoo you can’t laser off, a lifetime of what should’ve been, but will never be. “What can I become when his face is all I see when I think of; love, lu*st, or even my own sanity? Where does the healing begin when my body’s just become an empty limb? What will my friends and family think? What can I say when the world won’t even believe the rich who’ve paid the same price of insanity for the man who took their dignity? It took him just a few minutes for me to feel this pain everyday, So who’s going to believe me when I say by ****** me he took my life away?”
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at night, i dream of sun-drenched eggshell walls baking in the morning like yukon gold potatoes where we wake unbothered by the encroaching light i’ll meet you in the kitchen to switch on the toaster oven the coffee *** pulling our ceramic mugs from the drying rack carrying our books with bent covers to the balcony where you set down thick slices of french bread slathered in butter and a bowl of fresh, cold strawberries on a small round table that we found at a sunday yard sale two summers ago we take turns taking crisp bites in between sips of steaming coffee mine with raw honey and cream, yours black our oily thumbs staining the corners of thin ivory pages i listen to the sound of you reading; of the world waking up birds singing their sunrise songs; and my heart slow, and buoyant, and irrevocably yours
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May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 11:41 PM UTC
golden years
Come to me... I want you" I whisper breathlessly in your ear I crave you under my skin, Between my thighs With every inch that pulses... Come to me... stroke my body With your wet desires, Taste me as I bring myself to your lips, I want to sink my silken need, Wrap around your aching sinew; G l i d i n g My hip motion, In rhythmic beats... Listen, As my song liquefy's, Drowns you, In the swallowing gush; Midnight My decadent addiction Drips velvet... Melting The shudder, of a russet kiss Devoured Slathered in October's earthy scent, The gem faceted light reveals My softness... in your hands; Sliding your desire Coating me... Deepest silken magenta Drinks poignant yearn Laced lips... Wrap around Groans that echo Spoon feeding enchantment upon A sinful swallow... Unashamed, shadows smile Where a tongue teases Pulse beat moments... Your skin scent, A rush in torrid blues Tethered, Stitched into silken crevices; Where flesh consumes itself against Your burning, Red in my veins... Stroke my petals with a moist lick of tongue, Watch me As I bloom and open wider, Enter the swelling pinkness Wander ever deeper into my fragrance; "You make me burn" I whisper into your mouth... Touch my flesh in breaths Bend me, fold me, lick my sighs Move me from within. Let your fingers caress my open thighs Hold me deeply Throb in my grip... Kiss the place where ***** peaks taste your tongue... ~Breathless~ higher ~Faster~ higher ~Deeper~ higher Come To Me..............
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 4:41 PM UTC
Come To Me:
My mother taught me to finish all the food on my plate, that children in Africa are starving for a taste of it - and only disrespect leaves crumbs behind but I never guessed I would be middle-aged at eighteen          Never thought I’d know exactly what those kids were starving for. I’m pushing a full plate towards her tight-lipped disgust slathered in every last drop of stubborn society - she will always be the epitome of gluttony in the most frail and forgotten way, Always asking for more than I could ever give. Only those will a full cupboard of snacks stand before the cool air of refrigerators discerning the difference between craving and needing as the hours ticks away like racing dollar bills I spent every last second stuffing her full with time           But she told me that her stomach was empty I am eighteen going on thirty-two raising a defensive daughter I never gave birth to and now I know what those kids in Africa starve for -          Not just food                     But the taste of having too much                              Too easy          so that they can feel hungry again.
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Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
Hunger
how you defined me is extinct in the wild. i'm still not sure if you meant that i am the last of my kind or if i was the only thing you had left to swallow and with distaste you spit me out like i was dish washing soap slathered onto your tongue. even though you were right, that i am all i will have left in the end, i still never saw you look upon me like i was special just because i am going extinct, one day at a time. - kra
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 3:39 PM UTC
swallows