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"sneers" poems
To **** or not to **** that’s the ******* question: Whether 'tis nobler in the bowels to suffer The twists and turns of outrageous rumblings Or to take action against a bellyful of gas, And by farting pump one out? To strain, to bloat No more; and by a mighty outburst we’ll end The gut’s ache, and the thousand natural stenches That the **** is heir to, 'tis a resolution Right devoutly to be wish'd. To **** to **** But perchance to **** there's the ******* problem; For in that mighty **** of doom what turds may come, When we have let the little beauty out from mortal tail, Must give us pause; there's the danger That makes calamity of the farter’s life; For who would bear the sneers and mocks of men, The neighbour’s shock, the lover’s curling lip, The pangs of horrid stench, the ******* o’erflowing, The leaking **** orifice, and the drips, Impatient strainings that the tragic farter makes, When he himself might sweet easance make With a careful prodding finger? Who would a ******** wear, Grunting and sweating with noisome convulsions, But that the dread of solids after air-release, The undiscover'd oozings, from whose delivery No toilet visitor recovers, puzzles the will, And makes us bear the bellyache we have Than fly to others we know not of? Thus indigestion does make cowards of us all; And then the native heave of constipation Is sicklied o'er with the pale fear of defecation; And enterprises of both ******* and crapping With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of exciting toilet action.
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM UTC
Hamlet's Toilet Problems
To **** or not to **** that’s the ******* question: Whether 'tis nobler in the bowels to suffer The twists and turns of outrageous rumblings Or to take action against a bellyful of gas, And by farting pump one out? To strain, to bloat No more; and by a mighty outburst we’ll end The gut’s ache, and the thousand natural stenches That the **** is heir to, 'tis a resolution Right devoutly to be wish'd. To **** to **** But perchance to **** there's the ******* problem; For in that mighty **** of doom what turds may come, When we have let the little beauty out from mortal tail, Must give us pause; there's the danger That makes calamity of the farter’s life; For who would bear the sneers and mocks of men, The neighbour’s shock, the lover’s curling lip, The pangs of horrid stench, the ******* o’erflowing, The leaking **** orifice, and the drips, Impatient strainings that the tragic farter makes, When he himself might sweet easance make With a careful prodding finger? Who would a ******** wear, Grunting and sweating with noisome convulsions, But that the dread of solids after air-release, The undiscover'd oozings, from whose delivery No toilet visitor recovers, puzzles the will, And makes us bear the bellyache we have Than fly to others we know not of? Thus indigestion does make cowards of us all; And then the native heave of constipation Is sicklied o'er with the pale fear of defecation; And enterprises of both ******* and crapping With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of exciting toilet action.
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A female tennis player might give An umpire a piece of her mind When she disagrees with him. Consequently, she is fined Or penalized in other ways. However, if the player's a male, He can spit, destroy his racket, Yell, and viciously assail The umpire at a tournament. He could even resort to calling The ump an "abortion," and little or nothing Happens to him. Now THAT'S appalling! A candid man might be considered "Direct" or "outspoken." Isn't that rich? But if you are an assertive women, You are basically called a ***** A man who loudly demonstrates At a Senate hearing in an angry fashion Could be considered "aggressive" or even Be called a man of "impetuous passion." A woman, however, who interrupts A Senate hearing with passion hears Herself being called "hysterical" when She's led away to Senators' sneers. Sexism? Discrimination? Inequality? Status quo? It certainly appears that way. The double standard has got to go! -by Bob B (9-11-18)
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 9:13 AM UTC
The Old Double Standard
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mind Disdains the pleasures of fantastic kind; Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude, And wreck the solace of the poet's mood! Young Zeno, practis'd in the Stoic's art, Rejects the language of the glowing heart; Dissolves sweet Nature to a mess of laws; Condemns th' effect whilst looking for the cause; Freezes poor Ovid in an iced review, And sneers because his fables are untrue! In search of hope the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! Stay! Vandal sophist, whose deep lore would blast The grateful legends of the storied past; Whose tongue in censure flays th' embellish'd page, And scorns the comforts of a dreary age: Wouldst strip the foliage from the vital bough Till all men grow as wisely dull as thou? Happy the man whose fresh, untainted eye Discerns a Pantheon in the spangled sky; Finds sylphs and dryads in the waving trees, And spies soft Notus in the southern breeze For whom the stream a cheering carol sings, While reedy music by the fountain rings; To whom the waves a Nereid tale confide Till friendly presence fills the rising tide. Happy is he, who void of learning's woes, Th' ethereal life of bodied Nature knows; I scorn the sage that tells me it but seems, And flout his gravity in sunlight dreams!
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Fact and Fancy
The *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he’d rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he’d rather chase a mouse. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it! The *** Tum Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He’s always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he’s at home, then he’d like to get about. He likes to lie in the bureau drawer, But he makes such a fuss if he can’t get out. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any use for you to doubt it: For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it! The *** Tum Tugger is a curious beast: His disobliging ways are a matter of habit. If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast; When there isn’t any fish then he won’t eat rabbit. If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers, For he only likes what he finds for himself; So you’ll catch him in it right up to the ears, If you put it away on the larder shelf. The *** Tum Tugger is artful and knowing, The *** Tum Tugger doesn’t care for a cuddle; But he’ll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing, For there’s nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any need for me to spout it: For he will do As he do do And theres no doing anything about it!
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The *** Tum Tugger
The *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he’d rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he’d rather chase a mouse. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it! The *** Tum Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He’s always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he’s at home, then he’d like to get about. He likes to lie in the bureau drawer, But he makes such a fuss if he can’t get out. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any use for you to doubt it: For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it! The *** Tum Tugger is a curious beast: His disobliging ways are a matter of habit. If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast; When there isn’t any fish then he won’t eat rabbit. If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers, For he only likes what he finds for himself; So you’ll catch him in it right up to the ears, If you put it away on the larder shelf. The *** Tum Tugger is artful and knowing, The *** Tum Tugger doesn’t care for a cuddle; But he’ll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing, For there’s nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle. Yes the *** Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat— And there isn’t any need for me to spout it: For he will do As he do do And theres no doing anything about it!
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High Priest Paul stalks them in the night He promises forgiveness by the edge of his knife He never stops to question or hesitates to bite Believe in him and he will make it right Scar-Faced Jake doesn't like to wait He murders Myan time and claws the hands of fate He bullies his way to the top of the state He wears a velvet hat and sells you ****** bait Senator Chris keeps his lovers on a list A check for every thrill and a line for every kiss Somewhere, out there, far beyond the bliss There's kids wondering where their daddy is Groovy Jungle Jim buries his guitars Played them like a fiddle in middle country bars Slept with the lowlifes and wannabe a stars His voice is the air and his clothes are in the yard Ali of the Valley sees the starry sky is clear Reflecting in her eyes like a cosmic mirror Wondering if the universe looks at us and sneers While the people on the earth scoff and call her weird Mr. Priestess Slim puts the bottle on the floor It's full of whiskey eyes but just a moment more Someone is rapping on his chamber door But when he opens it up, he starts a holy war
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Feb 20, 2016
Feb 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM UTC
Night in the Insanity Imporium
drunk on the dark streets of some city, it's night, you're lost, where's your room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water. ****** bar's sloppy wet, it soaks part of one of your shirt sleeves. It's a clip joint-the scotch is weak. you order a bottle of beer. Madame Death walks up to you wearing a dress. she sits down, you buy her a beer, she stinks of swamps, presses a leg against you. the bar tender sneers. you've got him worried, he doesn't know if you're a cop, a killer, a madman or an Idiot. you ask for a ***** you pour the ***** into the top of the beer bottle. It's one a.m. In a dead cow world. you ask her how much for head, drink everything down, it tastes like machine oil. you leave Madame Death there, you leave the sneering bartender there. you have remembered where your room is. the room with the full bottle of wine on the dresser. the room with the dance of the roaches. Perfection in the Star **** where love died laughing.
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Big Night On The Town
men and their egos (I turned twenty this summer) are inseparable insufferable begrudgingly they admit “guess you were right” believing that will make them heroes, by full on confessing they are ******** I turned twenty in the summer my tan legs in cutoffs (it’s summer) drives them to madness, accused, you are pitiless, for their dreams of you involve ransom   still, you search and quiet plead like Abraham, to the heated air, while listening to Whitney Houston and Ed Sheeran, (on your earbuds just so nobody knows your weakness) for just that one good man in the township of ***** and Gomorrah my mother bitter sneers good luck with that, forgetting I am now twenty years so old, so advanced, that my hopes and aspirations are no longer those the ones in my high school yearbook my poetry fills pages, a human urban renewal, laying out a city of hope recalling that ***** and Gemorrah were destroyed
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Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 at 11:49 AM UTC
men and their egos (I turned twenty this summer)
MA KING AME-RICA GRATE AGIN ( for Brian ) "Your mum's an alien..an... ha ha ha ha alien!" the children chant and taunt. I see through tears their sneers and hated etched upon their features like a mask they could/couldn't take off. It is like a thousand years ago all over again. The Age of the thing called Trump when humans were both orange and stupid. Now we have computers built into each whorl facts at our fingertips with just a finger snap we can call up what used to be called videos of the Trump thing teaching humans how to hate. I, unlike my sisters am not green except for a slight greenish hue every now and then. I am more the chameleon and can blend in. I have the necessary arms and the obligatory number of eyes. Only my mum and sisters look like a lurid 1950's comic "THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!" yet earth would not be here if aliens( us )had  not come to save them from themselves back when earth had entered the Age of Dictators as the history apps. quaintly put it Now is come again the hateful hate ma king Ame-rica grate again like a mind grinding its teeth. I'm sorry am the English no good and the spelling as well we will have to hide behind our mind walls that we had to build to keep humans out. My mother taking me lovingly in her tentacles stroking me and drying my eyes and making tea With a snap of my fingers I bring up my favourite video and a Kermit hologram floats before my face "It's not that  easy bein' green!" and I singalong like any human being "...when green is all there is to be."
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 5:10 AM UTC
MA KING AME-RICA GRATE AGIN( for Brian )
MA KING AME-RICA GRATE AGIN ( for Brian ) "Your mum's an alien..an... ha ha ha ha alien!" the children chant and taunt. I see through tears their sneers and hated etched upon their features like a mask they could/couldn't take off. It is like a thousand years ago all over again. The Age of the thing called Trump when humans were both orange and stupid. Now we have computers built into each whorl facts at our fingertips with just a finger snap we can call up what used to be called videos of the Trump thing teaching humans how to hate. I, unlike my sisters am not green except for a slight greenish hue every now and then. I am more the chameleon and can blend in. I have the necessary arms and the obligatory number of eyes. Only my mum and sisters look like a lurid 1950's comic "THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!" yet earth would not be here if aliens( us )had  not come to save them from themselves back when earth had entered the Age of Dictators as the history apps. quaintly put it Now is come again the hateful hate ma king Ame-rica grate again like a mind grinding its teeth. I'm sorry am the English no good and the spelling as well we will have to hide behind our mind walls that we had to build to keep humans out. My mother taking me lovingly in her tentacles stroking me and drying my eyes and making tea With a snap of my fingers I bring up my favourite video and a Kermit hologram floats before my face "It's not that  easy bein' green!" and I singalong like any human being "...when green is all there is to be."
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We're all human here, right? Why, then, is my side, most human, Something bidden I hide? --- Mockings chant their mocking things, Swinging from the hinges of reality. While, sneers and jeers born from, Overgrown fears, Leave small ****** in my ripe heart - Unceasingly. At the door, my mind assured me, go, And my feet, those dumb things, did listen. Went right into havoc, Wreaked solely by tragic, Souls, so pathetic, I can't even stand it. Who's ripping up my soul so darkly, Save, me and the audience I've made? Surely, the swift-sounding people, With valiant battles to battle - Are too busy to waste time at the gallows. You dug the hole, And jumped right on in, I merely picked up the shovel, And finished it. Though, now, my heart aches, So red and opaque, Curse you, For doing you in. 07.2011
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Jul 17, 2011
Jul 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM UTC
Secrets Don't Make Friends
You aren't the first to walk these roads. These lonely, gravel trails covered in broken glass and nails. Every time a rickety car breaks down and fails it leaves it's wreck along the side of highway, just watching the traffic pass them by. They are monuments to every effort we have made and given up on. They are why you MUST try. Whether you live in a town or a city, there are going to be some pretty ****** moments in life. It takes a lot of strife to get a small amount of satisfaction but the chain reaction of doubts and down 'n' outs is drowned out by the radio static and I don't mean to sound dramatic but I understand. I just want you to know you're not going to go on your own this time. Every moment spent crying is time that could better spent trying. If I told you I don't have these moments, well, I'd be lying. Because I've felt the color drain from my face as I try to remember the last place I left my courage because it's not at arm's reach this time. Sneers and eyerolls draw spirals around me like I'm at ground zero of an M.C Escher painting. I can rephrase suffering so many ways. But at this pace, I still can't outrun my own thoughts. I find my courage at last but there is no sticking place to ***** it to, so I just say ***** it." I can't say I knew it would end this way, but if all this poem comes down to is a whiny teenager trying to be edgy than I guess I...
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 1:18 AM UTC
***** it
i am afraid we have begun to dissociate, unable to dissolve, I dissipate we lavish emotion, laugh laudably and cry with our larynx ripped out of our throats i just need a little attention 'cause it's midday and the midwife has a migraine, with spoiled milk and clogged drains, laundry a mile-long with tenuous children tense with grimace and gray we believe uncertainty for the hopeless and expectations for the great the subtle hum followed by slithering smirks followed by snarls and sneers and weird sober social experiments, followed by small town dramas and big time hypocrites.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM UTC
Well, they sure ain't sharks
Broken Boy, Broken Boy, Please do not cry! Your eyes is filled with terrified tears. Can you see your father is nearby? His eyes burns with the fury of Ares- Causes your spirit to whimper in fear. Like fragile porcelain dolls been shattered, He brutally beats your bruised body- Leaves your spirit broken and battered Broken Boy, Broken Boy, Please do not cry! Oh be a sweet darling good boy and listen! Can you hear the sound of your father’s fist crunch? Drowning in deluge of emotional distress, Your eyes has lost its innocent glisten. With each punch, Your aura of gentleness gradually dies. Your heart cold like gargoyles in fortress Broken Boy, Broken Boy, Please do not cry! The Broken Boy has now become a Man. His haughty handsome face sneers with disdain. His soul now barren as the desert of Afghan. His subconscious mind haunted by past pain. Lost in the wilderness of his own wrath, His breath is drunk with the taste of violence, Has he grown up to be a psychopath? Broken Boy, Broken Boy, Please do not cry! You have become a man of vendetta! Following the footsteps of your father- Belt your boy till his skin turns magenta- His affection for you begins to languish. This abuse is a never-ending cancer. Like you, your son shall wear a mask of anger To camouflage his heart’s suppressed anguish. Broken Boy giving birth to another Broken Boy Will the curse of Broken Boy ever end?
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 10:53 AM UTC
Broken Boy
The dead-bolts on the interior doors Against the nephews most securely locked (One is destructive; the other explores) Ignored by their mother (usually crocked) The brother-in-law babbles about his bowels And surgeries over the festive spread Ignoring his wife’s disapproving scowls Detailing each grim therapy and med The puppies are safely penned inside Because of an incident with a crowbar And a nephew who kicked and screamed and cried - He wasn’t allowed to **** the dogs or bash the car His mother comforted him in his tears And glowered at me for telling him no And comforted herself with a few more beers Her special child is sensitive, you know The brother-in-law’s colonoscopy With lurid adjectives of graphic doom Comes with the pie and more iced tea His miseries circulate around the room Then from the living room an expensive crash “Not me!” “Not me!” More screams and denials and cries An old family vase – it’s now just trash “You shouldn’t have glass around,” their mother sighs The brother-in-law offers to show his scars He finds his shirt buttons, makes his move We other men escape outside for cigars Cigars!? The women uniformly disapprove One nephew leaps upon a garden seat And jumps and yells until it falls apart Their mother says her boy is cute and sweet “Are you all right, my dear little heart?” The brother-in-law holds his tummy and groans And tells us all about his flatulence And just which foods lead to what moans (Perhaps he should practice some abstinence) The women come outside to cough and choke With practiced puritan disapproval and sneers About the satanic scent of tobacco smoke The world’s best mother chugs a few more beers The brother-in-law explains why he can’t drink It’s about his digestion (be surprised) And we shouldn’t smoke; if only we’d think And we (got a match?) are properly chastised Then at the end of this mandatory day Of mandatory Hallmark merriment All of them finally go the (space) away And how did the mailbox get broken and bent? But the brother-in-law pauses at the garden gate “Say, did I tell you about my new pills…?” And so dear solitude again must wait While darkness slowly falls upon the hills
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Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 4:51 PM UTC
A Good, Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving with the Family and the Relatives Who Just Won't Go Away
The dead-bolts on the interior doors Against the nephews most securely locked (One is destructive; the other explores) Ignored by their mother (usually crocked) The brother-in-law babbles about his bowels And surgeries over the festive spread Ignoring his wife’s disapproving scowls Detailing each grim therapy and med The puppies are safely penned inside Because of an incident with a crowbar And a nephew who kicked and screamed and cried - He wasn’t allowed to **** the dogs or bash the car His mother comforted him in his tears And glowered at me for telling him no And comforted herself with a few more beers Her special child is sensitive, you know The brother-in-law’s colonoscopy With lurid adjectives of graphic doom Comes with the pie and more iced tea His miseries circulate around the room Then from the living room an expensive crash “Not me!” “Not me!” More screams and denials and cries An old family vase – it’s now just trash “You shouldn’t have glass around,” their mother sighs The brother-in-law offers to show his scars He finds his shirt buttons, makes his move We other men escape outside for cigars Cigars!? The women uniformly disapprove One nephew leaps upon a garden seat And jumps and yells until it falls apart Their mother says her boy is cute and sweet “Are you all right, my dear little heart?” The brother-in-law holds his tummy and groans And tells us all about his flatulence And just which foods lead to what moans (Perhaps he should practice some abstinence) The women come outside to cough and choke With practiced puritan disapproval and sneers About the satanic scent of tobacco smoke The world’s best mother chugs a few more beers The brother-in-law explains why he can’t drink It’s about his digestion (be surprised) And we shouldn’t smoke; if only we’d think And we (got a match?) are properly chastised Then at the end of this mandatory day Of mandatory Hallmark merriment All of them finally go the (space) away And how did the mailbox get broken and bent? But the brother-in-law pauses at the garden gate “Say, did I tell you about my new pills…?” And so dear solitude again must wait While darkness slowly falls upon the hills
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Chains on your door Rabid rabbits that are biting at your core A second sentence notice waiting on the floor In the eyes of the gods you feel like a cheeky ***** Sometimes you want to see Without sailing To breathe In the presence of crashing boars Fire fire raging on the shore The tips of your finger calloused and sore Take a flight to the next big war So you can find something or someone to answer for The words look at you They're not smooth jokers anymore The notes they sneer and rage at you While you're still next to the second notice on the wooden tiled floor On the lit streets you find the gravel and all the other things And the city like a midnight jungle in full swing Like a speechless parrot you try and sing While not minding the other things **** the other things When you know that life burns like the shore you once slept on It cradles you and your books like kings Then sneers like the music that you once thought grafted butterfly wings Don't look too far, the gravel is the king of things ***** is a feeling akin to literary spark You drink from the cups of beggars in the Rimbaudian park And upon your grand tombstone is a question mark Where was he when they needed him? If they knew of the evil sin Of the city jungle And the things and whims They would've clenched their fists And held their breath Found the cave where triangles are circles And circles mean death
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 5:49 PM UTC
Triangles Are Circles
Smears of charcoal under my eyes The white of my bones shines through my skin Blood streams through the cracks in the floor Horror behind me, horror above Chained to the basement wall, ravenous Awaiting my abductor, half curious The door screams and creaks open My body jumps, a frightened child ***** boots stomp slowly down the stairs To the rhythm of my petrified heart DEAD YET? He bellows My mousy chest no longer moves Up and down There is a sickening silence Heart attack Is there existence after this day? No escape He trudges closer, squinting at my shell My once beautiful thin frame Now resembling a Holocaust victim Rib cage exposed, eyes locked He sneers again, I asked you a question My voice box is being strangled By the sadistic frog in my throat The seconds tick as I find my words Piece them together in my mind And try my best to lock away my strength You may be able.. Kick *To **** my body..* Steel toed boots To slice me to bits.. Crack But I promise you.. Another rib You cannot.. Bleeding **** I can taste my decay My essence..
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 4:20 PM UTC
Stockholm Syndrome
Hand over hand, You slowly ascend, Afraid of the impact, You would have in the end. Many times had you dreamt, Of this very day. The day that your fears, Would all go away. You have summoned the courage, To climb to the top. But more courage is needed, For the hundred foot drop. You remember so clearly, The snickers and sneers, The way they would tease you, For showing your fears. But today will be different, You will prove them all wrong, And show them how truly, You want to belong. As you stand there triumphant, Perched up on your ledge, you make the mistake, of looking down over the edge. The people below, Looked at you in awe. They watched on in horror, Couldn't believe what they saw. From up on the scaffold, Way up in the sky, The dizziness got you, You fell from ahigh. At first, just a gasp, But then to a scream, Then suddenly you realized, This isn't a dream. You really had done it, It wasn't that bad, You thought to yourself, Then suddenly...Splash!
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 5:03 PM UTC
Overcome
To lose the robust and ephemeral vitality, is waking up in dazed desolate imitation, that creases and crinkles euphoric principality. Blades of grass, sharp tipped spears of unreality. A chilling, a challenged negation; to lose the robust and ephemeral vitality. Spinning round the ugly formality, are snickers, unshy sneers of an evil salvation, that creases and crinkles euphoric principality. Thrilling no longer a verb, piano key pressing its precious mortality into her throbbing thrashed temple dictation. To lose the robust and ephemeral vitality. A ****** numb soul with the criticality of skeptics, chewing their lips, a dead cell castration emotional stripping, slipping into complete impromptu filtration. That creases and crinkles euphoric principality.
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Jun 21, 2012
Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM UTC
Depression: An Explanation
I am a hijab, A piece of soft cloth, firmly and gracefully pinned around her head, Covering her hair,ears and neck, not her face. I am a fabric in different colours, most commonly  in black or white. I am her safe guard, Against the harsh sun and wind, Unwanted men's glares, Their sneers and harsh words, Her beauty, pride and soul within. For her,I command respect, Make unknown men keep their distance. I give her a symbol of purity and piety, Together with serenity in her eyes. Because of me she is not oppressed, She is as free as a bird, To soar over mountains,cross oceans,play sports of her choice and achieve the best education. She enjoys life but by having me around her she pleases Allah too.
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 11:41 AM UTC
Hijab
I'm wasting my money away, Like its alive and running astray. My first pay check disappeared, Before they knew what they feared. When I'm down and oppressed, The one way I can still express, That I'm myself, not any less, Is to spoil myself with things in excess. My mother clearly thinks I'm stupid, That I'm only young and deluded. And my father, with his selfish sneers, Expects monetary repayment for a debt of 18 years. So with their own uneducated impressions, And their age-induced mindset regressions, They give in to their control obsessions, And provoke all my hidden depressions. And when I can't make use of drugs, Or feel the pleasure of lustful hugs, The only thing I've left to do, The only way to make it through, Is spend and spend all that I can, Use all what's left inside my hand, Prove that all their reprimand, Has no authority, gives no command. Yet the only purpose for all this ridiculous strife, Is to demonstrate that I'm the one who controls my life.
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM UTC
Materialism
Zebra-striped cushion covers on soft-white chairs, cream topped calorie delights, inviting - this patisserie in Nairobi: "you're welcome" the smartly outfitted African girl spoke in flawlessly accented English as I pore over the menu - a posh girl dressed in haute denim and a sleeved top walks in and spoke French in pouted lips as she found her corner spot, reading; an Asian couple walk in, wife in hijab and baby in tow, as the man sneers at me and answers 'assalamu alaikum' on phone as I ponder on identity when the French matron in Yoga tops walks in saying namaste to me, and calls out for Henry - her outfitted and bespectacled pomeranian oh don't we all want to be someone else
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Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 at 10:45 PM UTC
Yoga tops
Come rest, the weary; A sheltered bay Slings and arrows ne’er compared To the mumbled words never said Personal perceptions pursued Come eat, the hungry; A feast, fit for cattle Jesters a King’s only friend The only pest made to ignore Power ignited so rarely in the strong Come come, child; A ***** constructed Wood timber and sneers The difference between “survive” And “thrive” is how fat you get
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 4:21 PM UTC
Written in a Cafeteria Private-room
Tiny flame huddled close to fading wick, A rag doll seized in the fist of a tempest. Fading quick, Wax molten in our grip. Burning, viscous through trembling fingers it slips. Knuckles crack like the fire in the hearth Consuming logs uprooted from the earth Giving birth to each ember on the mantle, Dancing decay around subdued bowing candles. Crying white tears upon the silent tables The evening sneers at hush filled fables. Horses bray in solemn stables Dreaming of pastures new, Wick snuffed out by daylights fingers Flame made still by the morning dew.
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 6:51 PM UTC
Candlelight
Ah, heedless girl! why thus disclose What ne’er was meant for other ears; Why thus destroy thine own repose, And dig the source of future tears? Oh, thou wilt weep, imprudent maid, While lurking envious foes will smile, For all the follies thou hast said Of those who spoke but to beguile. Vain girl! thy lingering woes are nigh, If thou believ’st what striplings say: Oh, from the deep temptation fly, Nor fall the specious spoiler’s prey. Dost thou repeat, in childish boast, The words man utters to deceive? Thy peace, thy hope, thy all is lost, If thou canst venture to believe. While now amongst thy female peers Thou tell’st again the soothing tale, Canst thou not mark the rising sneers Duplicity in vain would veil? These tales in secret silence hush, Nor make thyself the public gaze: What modest maid without a blush Recounts a flattering coxcomb’s praise? Will not the laughing boy despise Her who relates each fond conceit— Who, thinking Heaven is in her eyes, Yet cannot see the slight deceit? For she who takes a soft delight These amorous nothings in revealing, Must credit all we say or write, While vanity prevents concealing. Cease, if you prize your Beauty’s reign! No jealousy bids me reprove: One, who is thus from nature vain, I pity, but I cannot love.
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To A Vain Lady
The misty morning moaned through great spiritual fogs, while the dogs lay exhausted on the tombstone curbs. A black car crept and the driver had no hands. In the purple screaming clouds were the faces of a thousand dead birds, hawking about, calling inscrutable names, grasping at imaginary worms from the trees of the burning wood. Where have I gone? The grey meandering man licked his lips as sullen death encapsulated the brittle bones and every step was bringing him closer to the ashen ground from whence the monsters came. A phosphorescent haze would whirl and dance in sweet contortions, a dance for the dead, as the night fought day with ecstatic swords. The sun is crying. The son is crying. Halt for the watchmen, bats in hand and gloves hanging from belt loops. Halt while the lands are molested and the peasant sneers at waves that hum and bring about simultaneous life and death. Open the door! Open it wide. Life is the eternally beating drum The drum from which we hide.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 4:04 PM UTC
Part II: The Dying Man Had Final Words, The Screeching Sirens Were Too Loud
Morbid hallways swathed in death, smeared with blood soaked discontent, wrought with cacophonic lament; this is my asylum. Eyeless gazes pierce the veil that separates my mind from Hell. Though, thin's the shroud that shan't prevail; this is my asylum. Lipless, toothless, ear to ear; these wretched grins sinewed with fear. Putrefaction rots their sneers; this is my asylum. This is where the dead don't die; this hellion mire's where they abide with fleshless hands stretched toward the sky; this is my asylum. Asphyxiation, let me breathe, lest I join these mortuous fiends. Purge my soul; I shall bequeath myself to my asylum.
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 10:56 PM UTC
My Asylum