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My father walked me down the aisle, But my mother held my arm. He went with me, But we went not towards the altar, But towards the door. My father walked me down the aisle, And the ***** rang through the church, Humming through the elaborate crown molding, Carved by my ancestors. He went, Not beside me, But before me, And I watched, As he was illuminated by the bright, Overbearing, Texas sun. My father walked me down the aisle, But I did not wear white. My father walked me in silence, And I shed tears not for a man standing at the altar, But for the one I would never see again. My father walked me down the aisle, And no veil obscured my face. All eyes were upon me, but not for my pristine beauty, Instead for my clenched jaw and furrowed brow, Severe and fierce to distract from my glassy eyes. My father did not leave me at the end of our walk to sit beside my mother. She clung to me for support and sobbed breathlessly, Loudly, Unavoidably, And I carried her with one hand, My sister the other, And walked towards my future. A future family, Not one person more, But one person less. I walked, One final time, With him. My father walked me down the aisle, And I will never forget it. Hundreds of eyes isolating my family from the crowd, Slow and muffled sounds drowning in the deafening beat of my heart, Blurred faces staring, Black heels clacking against the cobbled path from the church, The anguished wails of my mother, The whimpering of my sister, And the wooden box that glided before us, Pulling, A string tied to our patriarch, The pin key of our family, Pulled taut and then snipped with the slam of the hearse doors. My father walked me down the aisle, Before I had a chance to grow up. He walked me, Out of the church, Away from the altar, Never to be walked again.
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Feb 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018 at 5:17 PM UTC
My Father Walked Me
My father walked me down the aisle, But my mother held my arm. He went with me, But we went not towards the altar, But towards the door. My father walked me down the aisle, And the ***** rang through the church, Humming through the elaborate crown molding, Carved by my ancestors. He went, Not beside me, But before me, And I watched, As he was illuminated by the bright, Overbearing, Texas sun. My father walked me down the aisle, But I did not wear white. My father walked me in silence, And I shed tears not for a man standing at the altar, But for the one I would never see again. My father walked me down the aisle, And no veil obscured my face. All eyes were upon me, but not for my pristine beauty, Instead for my clenched jaw and furrowed brow, Severe and fierce to distract from my glassy eyes. My father did not leave me at the end of our walk to sit beside my mother. She clung to me for support and sobbed breathlessly, Loudly, Unavoidably, And I carried her with one hand, My sister the other, And walked towards my future. A future family, Not one person more, But one person less. I walked, One final time, With him. My father walked me down the aisle, And I will never forget it. Hundreds of eyes isolating my family from the crowd, Slow and muffled sounds drowning in the deafening beat of my heart, Blurred faces staring, Black heels clacking against the cobbled path from the church, The anguished wails of my mother, The whimpering of my sister, And the wooden box that glided before us, Pulling, A string tied to our patriarch, The pin key of our family, Pulled taut and then snipped with the slam of the hearse doors. My father walked me down the aisle, Before I had a chance to grow up. He walked me, Out of the church, Away from the altar, Never to be walked again.
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this is a tale of two star-crossed lovers with a love so powerful they tainted the heavens with bursts of colours they were never meant to be; mischievous little kids finding love in sinful glee in laughter, between dreams and reality and though it was lawless, they found solace because in every prison, they found a rhyme and a reason but even for a love so great, they could not escape the fates’ wrath and envy destiny pulled on their threads cut them loose, thrusted them into misery; for their memories were wiped clean, but feelings remained as strong as they had ever been the boy exiled in a far off land across the pacific sea the girl trapped in her need to break free in a realm both boring and bland ensnared in a labyrinth of woe the lovers yearned for anything— for something, for someone, to obliterate this endless longing the gods answered them in the form of two loved ones polished in every edge, a perfect someone but perfect felt too perfect and not perfect enough to fill up the hole left by a perfectly imperfect until one day the gods whispered for the winds to push the two and the birds to tug at their sleeves over mountain and sea even through the darkest valley so their paths would finally meet and so they did. in the flurry of a moment a pair of brown eyes met and time was frozen once more the two stared intently as if remembering a broken melody a lost childhood song branded as a wrong the birds fluttered and flew taking the cursed red fibre snipped them in two and the lovers felt all the lighter it was the girl who spoke first: **** the stars. i don’t want perfect, i want you.”* eyes dazzling, the boy nodded: *“we’ll invert the universe— the night sky a blank white the stars pitch black the earth moving in reverse”* the fates saw and surrendered as the stars began to wither for this love is love in all its splendor so the lovers walked away with a promise under their breaths, they both swore: *“i lost you once, but nevermore.”* ****
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Jan 21, 2018
Jan 21, 2018 at 10:46 PM UTC
f*** the stars
this is a tale of two star-crossed lovers with a love so powerful they tainted the heavens with bursts of colours they were never meant to be; mischievous little kids finding love in sinful glee in laughter, between dreams and reality and though it was lawless, they found solace because in every prison, they found a rhyme and a reason but even for a love so great, they could not escape the fates’ wrath and envy destiny pulled on their threads cut them loose, thrusted them into misery; for their memories were wiped clean, but feelings remained as strong as they had ever been the boy exiled in a far off land across the pacific sea the girl trapped in her need to break free in a realm both boring and bland ensnared in a labyrinth of woe the lovers yearned for anything— for something, for someone, to obliterate this endless longing the gods answered them in the form of two loved ones polished in every edge, a perfect someone but perfect felt too perfect and not perfect enough to fill up the hole left by a perfectly imperfect until one day the gods whispered for the winds to push the two and the birds to tug at their sleeves over mountain and sea even through the darkest valley so their paths would finally meet and so they did. in the flurry of a moment a pair of brown eyes met and time was frozen once more the two stared intently as if remembering a broken melody a lost childhood song branded as a wrong the birds fluttered and flew taking the cursed red fibre snipped them in two and the lovers felt all the lighter it was the girl who spoke first: **** the stars. i don’t want perfect, i want you.”* eyes dazzling, the boy nodded: *“we’ll invert the universe— the night sky a blank white the stars pitch black the earth moving in reverse”* the fates saw and surrendered as the stars began to wither for this love is love in all its splendor so the lovers walked away with a promise under their breaths, they both swore: *“i lost you once, but nevermore.”* ****
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We’d been together so long, it seemed That nothing could tear us apart, We lived our lives in a world of dreams And Barbara lived in my heart, But frost had covered the window pane And then it began to snow, As Barbara turned, with a look of pain And said, ‘It’s best that you go.’ I didn’t know what she meant at first As I looked up from my book, “Go where?’ I questioned, but thought again As she quelled my heart with a look. ‘I said I want you to leave,’ she cried, And her face was set in stone, ‘We’ve come to the end of the path,’ she sighed, ‘I want to be left alone.’ Then suddenly all confusion reined I didn’t know what to say, Whatever had brought this mood on her, I wished it would go away. But she was firm, and she packed my things And ushered me out the door, I stood there shivering in the cold To be back on my own once more. I found a flat and I camped the night There was barely a stick or chair, I’d have to buy all the furniture To make it a home in there. But I sat and cried in the empty room As the question came back, ‘Why?’ I’d loved her so and my heart was torn, I thought I wanted to die. I went to her with my questions, but She slammed the door in my face, Whatever love she had had for me Had vanished, without a trace. It hurt so much that she cut me off With never so much as a sigh, I called that all that I wanted was To tell me the reason, why? The roses had bloomed so late that year Were still in the garden bed, We’d always tended the bush with joy, We both loved the colour red, So I snipped one off as I left one day, And planted it under her door, To let her know that I loved her still I didn’t know how to say more. Her brother called in a week or so, Said she was in hospital, She’d gone in just for a minor cure And thought that he’d better tell. So I caught the bus and I went on down With a quaking fear in my heart, She hadn’t said there was something wrong Before she tore us apart. The doctor came in his long white coat, His brow and his face was grim, I said, ‘Don’t tell me the news is bad,’ He said, ‘I’m out on a limb. Your wife just passed from the surgery, But she pulled, from under her clothes, And asked if I’d pass this on to you,’ In his hand was a red, red rose. David Lewis Paget
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Jan 14, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 at 1:10 AM UTC
The Rose
We’d been together so long, it seemed That nothing could tear us apart, We lived our lives in a world of dreams And Barbara lived in my heart, But frost had covered the window pane And then it began to snow, As Barbara turned, with a look of pain And said, ‘It’s best that you go.’ I didn’t know what she meant at first As I looked up from my book, “Go where?’ I questioned, but thought again As she quelled my heart with a look. ‘I said I want you to leave,’ she cried, And her face was set in stone, ‘We’ve come to the end of the path,’ she sighed, ‘I want to be left alone.’ Then suddenly all confusion reined I didn’t know what to say, Whatever had brought this mood on her, I wished it would go away. But she was firm, and she packed my things And ushered me out the door, I stood there shivering in the cold To be back on my own once more. I found a flat and I camped the night There was barely a stick or chair, I’d have to buy all the furniture To make it a home in there. But I sat and cried in the empty room As the question came back, ‘Why?’ I’d loved her so and my heart was torn, I thought I wanted to die. I went to her with my questions, but She slammed the door in my face, Whatever love she had had for me Had vanished, without a trace. It hurt so much that she cut me off With never so much as a sigh, I called that all that I wanted was To tell me the reason, why? The roses had bloomed so late that year Were still in the garden bed, We’d always tended the bush with joy, We both loved the colour red, So I snipped one off as I left one day, And planted it under her door, To let her know that I loved her still I didn’t know how to say more. Her brother called in a week or so, Said she was in hospital, She’d gone in just for a minor cure And thought that he’d better tell. So I caught the bus and I went on down With a quaking fear in my heart, She hadn’t said there was something wrong Before she tore us apart. The doctor came in his long white coat, His brow and his face was grim, I said, ‘Don’t tell me the news is bad,’ He said, ‘I’m out on a limb. Your wife just passed from the surgery, But she pulled, from under her clothes, And asked if I’d pass this on to you,’ In his hand was a red, red rose. David Lewis Paget
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He misses me still, but that's old news. He's missed me for so long now - he can do it in his sleep. He does it while he eats alone at his desk, while he runs for a train, while the rain is coming down in sheets. While a girl takes off her dress and he reaches for her, his hands hesitate a decimal. He turns off the light, and misses me. It grows inside his chest, like a bonsai tree - something natural but stunted. Snipped and pruned carefully, but not allowed to grow outside it's box. Not allowed to put down roots. He hauled it off, across the sea. Across China and the Middle East, he misses me. Half a world apart, in Amsterdam I walk with my eyes to the ground, all brown and grey. Thinking of the planes and trains that bore him away. This has become second nature for me. It's midnight in Tokyo, he sits at his desk in the light from the street thinking of trees, canals, red bricks, me and when we sleep, he and I both, it's with ghosts in the sheets.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 6:16 AM UTC
Separation
They creep me out. Those sticky-out veins in your neck, the way they stretch like pythons’ tongues as if they’re going to snap – they’ll snap. Like elastic, they’ll snap (just the thought …) They creep me out, the fact that they’re so FLESHY and for some reason, remind me of goats’ beards and stringy turkey necks (I don’t know, but, just the thought …) They creep me out. I’ve got the weird feeling that they could be snipped away by silver scissors like loose threads. They’ll snap. Like elastic. They’ll snap. Stretching, Stretching (just the thought …)
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 5:42 AM UTC
Sticky-Out Veins In Your Neck
DO YOU SWEAR NOT TO HURT ME? Said the scissors to the rock I  KNOW WE HAVE A HISTORY BUT I ASSURE I DO NOT MOCK! The rock looked at the paper Then he looked back at his feet I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY he said I THINK YOU'RE REALLY NEAT The scissors was beside herself Jumped high into the air But because she was so gleeful Snipped off some of paper's hair So paper screamed and shouted She was mad with awful rage And she jumped onto rock's back As he tried to turn the page The scissors with confusion Felt to blame and so she rushed To try and help the rock In the process getting crushed And so the rock got still Lying covered by the sheet When paper realized what she'd done She fluttered to rock's feet And cried and cried and sobbed And stared at her split ends And paper rock and scissors Would never become friends.
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Nov 12, 2010
Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM UTC
Rock Paper Scissors (Children's Poem)
This is not about you. This is not about the transmutation of your jail celled mind wrapped in self-help and cellophane. This is not about your new found discovery discovering me and my afflictions according to the white man’s diction a dictation of my past extracted and examined under the microscopic power of time. This is not about your self-defined enlightenment when you made a deal to unearth the truth of HeLa coated in dust covered particles of HeLa on your nightstand and I laid in a grave unmarked. This is not about my big lips and thick hips under ***** covers running a sweat fever on my thighs shaking feet in stirrups and the pain was rich after a tight pinch and I didn’t know what part of me had been snipped to grow cold and never die. No, this is not about you. This is about me. A historic legacy left to thrive across the time less chains of nucleic tidal waves Covalent bonds could never rival the strides of this soul miles beyond the distant COLORED ENTRANCE something brewing inside dividing inexplicable replication, readying for harvest behind a dried tobacco field
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 3:21 AM UTC
Ready for Harvest (in memory of Henrietta Lacks)
Carefully the needle penetrates into my skin With every new puncture the thread follows along In and out again and again Till it reaches the end and finally A harsh pull, a few tugs Then the string is snipped free at last Its been completely sewn shut Only after you closed me up Did you ask me how my day was How I was feeling But what could I say With my mouth sewn shut?
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM UTC
Needle and thread
This is where we cross paths Is it meant to be? When you speak the hooks sink deeper Echoings inside of me Eyes of pure desire Masked by double-meanings I saw her say she loves me But I was only dreaming I will light your house on fire If you do not give me your name I trace the length of your fingers The grace of hips leave me insane I still do not dare touch you Your coy smile slipping on and off Your words hint at love and grandeur The joy of simple life As if the Norns have snipped a thread Bony fingers knot us together I feel the hands of fate Upon the tapestry eternal Vibrations I know you must feel Vibrations I know you feel
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM UTC
Operator
When I was a little girl, I loved to play with dolls. On Christmas morning, I would wake up And a beautiful, pristine little doll sat beneath the tree. Encased within those shiny plastic walls, Displayed like a piece of fine art at a museum.                             — Except, I could never stay behind the red velvet rope. I snipped, and slashed, and cut away, Until her plastic fortress was breached. She was mine. I stroked her soft, fine hair, Feeling the silky strands upon my fingertips And I whispered in her ear “I will love you forever”. She looked upon me With bright blues eyes, Rose painted lips, And a compliant smile. I knew she was mine. And then I would play… Yank the blue polka dot dress off her slender figure And contort her delicate frame into any position I pleased. She was mine to love. Mine to control. Shoved her into my backpack and brought her to school Grubby little fingers reached out to play with her: The girls playing dress up, The boys playing dress down. And now, her once silky hair, brittle strands of straw, So wild and tangled no comb could soothe. Raced to the kitchen, grabbed the scissors And hacked away furiously, Somehow believing I could fix her With the very scissors I used to break her protective walls. Now found myself staring wistfully at the dolls with long shinny hair When my mother took me to the department store. Then one day, as I played with her in the backyard, A leg popped off and would not go back on. So I threw her disfigured body in the trash Atop the rotting carrot peels and broken egg shells. That compliant smile shone through, Begging me to take her back…                      — But I had a new doll now. Years later, when my childish things were packed away in the attic, I sat upon the park bench in my blue polka dot dress, With shimmering locks cascading softly upon my collarbones. And you told me I was your Mona Lisa. You told me, “I will love you forever”. I smiled And promised I would do anything to make you happy. But then you started coming home With alcohol on your breath and wrath in your eyes. And struck me for all the things I did wrong. I said I was sorry, Promised to do anything to make you happy. But it was never enough. You threw me upon the bed with fury glittering in your crimson orbs. Took me with carnal lust That never seemed to ease the hate. And left me broken, With blue fingerprints imprinted upon my porcelain skin. — And never came back Now, when people ask me why I never let my daughter play with dolls, I reply: Some things are better left in the box.
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 4:57 PM UTC
Why I Never Let My Daughter Play With Dolls
When I was a little girl, I loved to play with dolls. On Christmas morning, I would wake up And a beautiful, pristine little doll sat beneath the tree. Encased within those shiny plastic walls, Displayed like a piece of fine art at a museum.                             — Except, I could never stay behind the red velvet rope. I snipped, and slashed, and cut away, Until her plastic fortress was breached. She was mine. I stroked her soft, fine hair, Feeling the silky strands upon my fingertips And I whispered in her ear “I will love you forever”. She looked upon me With bright blues eyes, Rose painted lips, And a compliant smile. I knew she was mine. And then I would play… Yank the blue polka dot dress off her slender figure And contort her delicate frame into any position I pleased. She was mine to love. Mine to control. Shoved her into my backpack and brought her to school Grubby little fingers reached out to play with her: The girls playing dress up, The boys playing dress down. And now, her once silky hair, brittle strands of straw, So wild and tangled no comb could soothe. Raced to the kitchen, grabbed the scissors And hacked away furiously, Somehow believing I could fix her With the very scissors I used to break her protective walls. Now found myself staring wistfully at the dolls with long shinny hair When my mother took me to the department store. Then one day, as I played with her in the backyard, A leg popped off and would not go back on. So I threw her disfigured body in the trash Atop the rotting carrot peels and broken egg shells. That compliant smile shone through, Begging me to take her back…                      — But I had a new doll now. Years later, when my childish things were packed away in the attic, I sat upon the park bench in my blue polka dot dress, With shimmering locks cascading softly upon my collarbones. And you told me I was your Mona Lisa. You told me, “I will love you forever”. I smiled And promised I would do anything to make you happy. But then you started coming home With alcohol on your breath and wrath in your eyes. And struck me for all the things I did wrong. I said I was sorry, Promised to do anything to make you happy. But it was never enough. You threw me upon the bed with fury glittering in your crimson orbs. Took me with carnal lust That never seemed to ease the hate. And left me broken, With blue fingerprints imprinted upon my porcelain skin. — And never came back Now, when people ask me why I never let my daughter play with dolls, I reply: Some things are better left in the box.
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Before I knocked and flesh let enter, With liquid hands tapped on the womb, I who was as shapeless as the water That shaped the Jordan near my home Was brother to Mnetha's daughter And sister to the fathering worm. I who was deaf to spring and summer, Who knew not sun nor moon by name, Felt thud beneath my flesh's armour, As yet was in a molten form The leaden stars, the rainy hammer Swung by my father from his dome. I knew the message of the winter, The darted hail, the childish snow, And the wind was my sister suitor; Wind in me leaped, the hellborn dew; My veins flowed with the Eastern weather; Ungotten I knew night and day. As yet ungotten, I did suffer; The rack of dreams my lily bones Did twist into a living cipher, And flesh was snipped to cross the lines Of gallow crosses on the liver And brambles in the wringing brains. My throat knew thirst before the structure Of skin and vein around the well Where words and water make a mixture Unfailing till the blood runs foul; My heart knew love, my belly hunger; I smelt the maggot in my stool. And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days. I, born of flesh and ghost, was neither A ghost nor man, but mortal ghost. And I was struck down by death's feather. I was a mortal to the last Long breath that carried to my father The message of his dying christ. You who bow down at cross and altar, Remember me and pity Him Who took my flesh and bone for armour And doublecrossed my mother's womb.
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Before I Knocked
Before I knocked and flesh let enter, With liquid hands tapped on the womb, I who was as shapeless as the water That shaped the Jordan near my home Was brother to Mnetha's daughter And sister to the fathering worm. I who was deaf to spring and summer, Who knew not sun nor moon by name, Felt thud beneath my flesh's armour, As yet was in a molten form The leaden stars, the rainy hammer Swung by my father from his dome. I knew the message of the winter, The darted hail, the childish snow, And the wind was my sister suitor; Wind in me leaped, the hellborn dew; My veins flowed with the Eastern weather; Ungotten I knew night and day. As yet ungotten, I did suffer; The rack of dreams my lily bones Did twist into a living cipher, And flesh was snipped to cross the lines Of gallow crosses on the liver And brambles in the wringing brains. My throat knew thirst before the structure Of skin and vein around the well Where words and water make a mixture Unfailing till the blood runs foul; My heart knew love, my belly hunger; I smelt the maggot in my stool. And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days. I, born of flesh and ghost, was neither A ghost nor man, but mortal ghost. And I was struck down by death's feather. I was a mortal to the last Long breath that carried to my father The message of his dying christ. You who bow down at cross and altar, Remember me and pity Him Who took my flesh and bone for armour And doublecrossed my mother's womb.
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here the grass look up brunette trunks, branched arms flex their form is calm, spindly fingers bloom their open palms there they reach for spreading clouds encapsulated sounds of gentle leaves, green noise orange hues through cherry waves of grape and lemon, sweetened pecks of the sun set in amber—morsels of melody, snipped bits of things in canon contrapuntal sprouting airgerms fugal, fungal
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 5:54 AM UTC
equanimity
War; absolute This will be my macadam into re-assemblage For if I'm not on edge, I'm taking up too much precious space What wickedness lies beneath the surface of the skin? I should know this place better than anyone But my landscape has become mercurial Ever changing, impossible to map I am forced to navigate its pitfalls in ever complicating ways It has become a desolate place I alone should rule here, my sovereignty unquestioned Yet I've become content to be complacent, and have allowed a sickly intruder to slip past my walls They infect, demoralize: turn my skin to stone They must be expunged; cut out, snipped from the healthy flesh like a cancer As one removes a gangrenous foot to save the leg Though my tools at the moment are blunt, I sharpen them daily with the whetstone afforded to me They will not continue to expel bile into the bloodstream for long My strength returns by the hour They know this, and they tremble I am the goddess to whom this altar is devoted I am righteous fury, come to cleanse this blight with holy fire and flood The war drums sound as the gate is lifted The iron bell tolls -- judgement day cometh
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 8:25 PM UTC
Valkyrie
there are earthquakes inside the knuckles that held my hand, and writhing rivers in the light blue strands that dip into your shoulder blades i am not afraid to say that i am afraid which may seem like an oxymoron, but i promise you it is not i broke glass over your head and cried into the shards, only because i was trying to make you see how beautiful it is, how the glittering light loves broken things you always snipped the tags off of tea bags and when i asked why you said you were saving for something that you couldn't remember but ********* it is important
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 7:51 PM UTC
nausea
on this day of winged hearts and chocolates one tends to write about their "better half," their lovers or husbands This is not one of those. I have no better half I am an entity whole. Woman proud and complete deep down strata of soul this union is held by the thread of our children tender shoots growing in our shared care and even that thread is frayed I write this valentine's poem for the love of myself for the knowledge that when I love myself first and the universe will give and I will snip that thread so begging to be snipped and fly off into the winds, my three moonbeams in tow always at my side They will never cease their growing under my watchful eye I will be loved like I am supposed to be whether by another or only me for I now know what I need Slowly layers unpeel and each day I am more ready So take your little fluttery paper hearts that you never gave me anyway and paste them all over your own for soon you will find you might need them
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Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 at 11:44 PM UTC
un-valentine
He said he liked her hair long: messy and unruly against upturned cheeks and winks. Braided secrets running between lilac blooms and plaits. He tasted of *** and berries Short. Sweet. Sin. He is a wisp of an inferno eating all the words playing tip toe on her bitten lips. Winter came as a painter’s brush dipped in blue and grey. Secrets that taste of sleep syrup and honey f r o z e Drunk bees dance in pale and grey roses. A careless mistake came in bruises, a stain of an indigo sunset. Rusty kitchen scissors snip, snip, snipped away all the bad, sugary tartness eating a toothache. Spring crept up on a bare nape and shoulders Her sun-baked eyes burned, softened like butter, maple syrup and something harder than life.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 6:02 AM UTC
pixie cut
I walk among the too-tall pines, lonely sentinels who alone still bare their green. They are unashamed in the colors they show, natural exhibitionists in a world of barren arms and almost-snow. I squeeze around their stuck-out branches, sometimes stabbed and sometimes poked. That’s the thing with trees— there is no tenderness, there is no intimacy because it's all a joke. Their pines and their needles stick to your warmth, cling to the heat that rolls off your body in thick moist heavy puffs. How I hate them and their everlastingness, how I despise their infinity. One by one I have cut down their branches, have snipped off the green in thick, poky batches. Carefully and quietly I arrange them in the slush, build them into a body that I can slip into when there is green abound and the Earth is lush.
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Nov 7, 2012
Nov 7, 2012 at 5:28 AM UTC
I walk among the too-tall pines
You snipped my red string with scissors constructed of guilt and manipulation And wound it so tight, the fingertips he once kissed turned blue In hasty desperation to make a forced connection, your clumsy fingers tangled end to end, artificial “fate”s sealed with ****** knots and whispered promises of false hopes and starry-eyed, idealistic dreams of naive men You twirled me in circles until dizziness felt like love, until I was convinced that I could only see straight with you next to me Your kisses tasted like passion and coffee and deceit Your touch seared my broken skin and left me gasping for more You make me figuratively hate the skin that I'm in And I want to claw it off my bones, layer by layer, until I literally hate the skin I'm in How dare I let tears fall at night and sob myself into submission To you And your hurtful words Your hurtful silence The knife in your hand The knife in your back And the scissors she used to sever Her string and yours
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
Red string of fate
The seams are ripping- all mentality is lost. I seem to be slipping and for what cost? What is the reason for my destruction? A familiar detour I know too well. I continue to stay under construction, something to people I dare not tell. For why worry them when all hope is gone I look as I feel, after all I'm no con. So yes the seam, I can say is now ripped the sisters of fate look at my life line- it's finally been snipped.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM UTC
Life Line
8yrs young lo0000nnnnnnnnggggggggg thick  shiny  blue  black  hair Air Force Papa wanted a Wash N Wear He wanted mija* with Dorthy Hamill hair So I was ordered to March down the street to Emilias Holy Carport Emilia La Bautista Mexicana* She knew no english but she knew Jesus She'd cut your hair and save your soul That day i requested un "Dori Hamel" Cut She smiled and charismaticly said Amen! Te vas a ver muy bonita* Her holy * tijeras snipped my hair glided to the cement floor like feathers off angels wings She made me look right she made me look left and when i looked up... I HAD A MULLET my tears came down because of my Dukes of Hazzard crown and I marched home to Dixie
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Feb 4, 2011
Feb 4, 2011 at 7:32 PM UTC
My Crowning Glory
one morning, Jack awoke with a distinct feeling that something was not quite right. as he peeled his eyes from a crusty sleep his suspicions were further aroused by a marked loss of sight from his right eye as though he was peering through a thick charcoal jungle he clutched his hand towards his face and was alarmed to find a rather substantial lock of hairs protruding from his right eyebrow. wondering if perhaps he might still be in a world of waking dreams where one couldn’t really trust one’s intuitions, he wandered over to the light switch, flicked it on/off a couple of times. having reached the conclusion that he was definitely not dreaming, and that his retinas (or his left one, at least) were definitely receptive to fluctuating light levels he made his way to the bathroom to inspect his face, with one hand bemusedly fondling his recently grown eye-brow fringe. in the bathroom he stumbled across his wife sitting on the toilet. on catching sight of her hairy husband, she let out a deranged scream. "darling, you'll alarm the neighbours" said Jack. but his wife, who did not seem to be sufficiently worried about alarming the neighbours, or anyone in her resident universe continued to make strange warbling noises. so, Jack instead decided to study his growth in the kitchen sink. although not made from exemplary reflective material, the sink was able to confirm his impression that his right eyebrow had, overnight, been subject to an alarming rate of growth.   his wife appeared in the doorway. “I’m sorry for screaming. it was only because I thought you were a pirate” she said. and though he knew that this was just one in many of a long string of inter-marital lies that bounced between them, he let it pass. a decision having been decided upon in perhaps not the most democratic manner possible, Jack's wife fetched the kitchen scissors from the drawer by the dishwasher. as she snipped away, chunks of black fell soft like feathers from sunburnt wings and landed on the Lino. Jack felt inexplicably sad. they went off to work as usual, and no one noticed the jagged edge of his once pirated-eyebrow.
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Apr 19, 2012
Apr 19, 2012 at 5:11 AM UTC
Pirate
one morning, Jack awoke with a distinct feeling that something was not quite right. as he peeled his eyes from a crusty sleep his suspicions were further aroused by a marked loss of sight from his right eye as though he was peering through a thick charcoal jungle he clutched his hand towards his face and was alarmed to find a rather substantial lock of hairs protruding from his right eyebrow. wondering if perhaps he might still be in a world of waking dreams where one couldn’t really trust one’s intuitions, he wandered over to the light switch, flicked it on/off a couple of times. having reached the conclusion that he was definitely not dreaming, and that his retinas (or his left one, at least) were definitely receptive to fluctuating light levels he made his way to the bathroom to inspect his face, with one hand bemusedly fondling his recently grown eye-brow fringe. in the bathroom he stumbled across his wife sitting on the toilet. on catching sight of her hairy husband, she let out a deranged scream. "darling, you'll alarm the neighbours" said Jack. but his wife, who did not seem to be sufficiently worried about alarming the neighbours, or anyone in her resident universe continued to make strange warbling noises. so, Jack instead decided to study his growth in the kitchen sink. although not made from exemplary reflective material, the sink was able to confirm his impression that his right eyebrow had, overnight, been subject to an alarming rate of growth.   his wife appeared in the doorway. “I’m sorry for screaming. it was only because I thought you were a pirate” she said. and though he knew that this was just one in many of a long string of inter-marital lies that bounced between them, he let it pass. a decision having been decided upon in perhaps not the most democratic manner possible, Jack's wife fetched the kitchen scissors from the drawer by the dishwasher. as she snipped away, chunks of black fell soft like feathers from sunburnt wings and landed on the Lino. Jack felt inexplicably sad. they went off to work as usual, and no one noticed the jagged edge of his once pirated-eyebrow.
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Mammy's accidents usually happened Within a hundred foot radius of her stove. Except the one time she had to work Outside the home, At the Aylmer Tomato Cannery.      (*Daddy was in his wet season,       Being laid off was his reason)* The tip of her thumb was snipped, And gone. The joke never got old. Someone looked inside Every can we opened - From that day on - Truth is, We always knew A good bit of Mammy Was in her stew.
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 11:36 PM UTC
Blood Red Tomatoes
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 12:03 AM UTC
the direst, driest dissolution
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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i take too much medicine during the day so while i'm sleeping nightmares come to toy with my fragile subconscious & i crack like a wooden puppet when it's strings are snipped. it's like watching a black & white film & all of a sudden, it turns to color. prisms twirl in your eyes, & gasps escape from your mouth like thick serpents crawling through your teeth. flies buzz everywhere in a place where i could always count on the walls being clean. paranoia is a repulsive, monstrous, sluggish thing, that creeps through your brain cutting off everything you know in order to leave you discarded & ***** with nothing.
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Aug 29, 2010
Aug 29, 2010 at 8:47 PM UTC
scissors
there was a man with hair on his face it grew and grew all over the place there was no place it did not grow a face so hairy only his eyes did show his big thick beard was almost black but red and blonde hairs he did not lack over his lips and ears it did so drape so he took his scissors and began to shape he took his time he snipped with care but in the end he cut too much hair his hair lay in a clump within his hands he did cup and thought to himself *well i ****** this all up* looking in the mirror he really felt sad thinking back 5 minutes to the beard he just had all and all this really did blow but it will be back in a few weeks or so
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 6:22 PM UTC
Hair