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"subdivision" poems
There is a body floating in the water of Lake Michigan again, but no one is willing to fish it out.  There is a body floating in the pond near my subdivision again, but everyone already knew that anyway.           I am sitting eighty miles away, overlooking a city that is not mine, thinking about how the moon outside my window is the same moon that you can see from down below in your partially frozen-over dirt bed.  I am thinking about the vampire that sits in his apartment, chugging two-to-three bottles of blood a week, and wondering if he is haunted by the same ghosts as I am.           It’s taken me eighteen years to realize that I was infected with a different variation of his curse all along—I am less human and more lycanthrope than I would like to admit.  I am not like you, I am not like him, I am my own breed and that terrifies me.  (There are black cats prowling in my heart and fragments of mirrors in my liver and salt that bleeds from my heels when I walk.)         No matter how many rabbits’ feet I tie to my keys, how many dreamcatchers I put above my bed, how many cloves of garlic I hang over my door, I am never able to rid myself of the chill that goes hand in hand with the phantom you left here.         Mother, I think I killed a man two full moons ago and I haven’t been the same since.  I threw his body into the lake and watched him drift out into the unknown, watched the kraken drag him down, watched the water spew him back up like a cork.  And now I need you to make your way back to the land of the living to sit by my side.  I want you to cut off my head and make me a trophy animal.  Create a rug from my fur.  Eat my organs and freeze the rest for winter.  Use me for your own survival.  I just want to be helpful.         I want to be everything the vampire was not but my fingers are breaking from holding on too tight.                                                                                                          I should let go.
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 2:06 AM UTC
Witch Hunt
There is a body floating in the water of Lake Michigan again, but no one is willing to fish it out.  There is a body floating in the pond near my subdivision again, but everyone already knew that anyway.           I am sitting eighty miles away, overlooking a city that is not mine, thinking about how the moon outside my window is the same moon that you can see from down below in your partially frozen-over dirt bed.  I am thinking about the vampire that sits in his apartment, chugging two-to-three bottles of blood a week, and wondering if he is haunted by the same ghosts as I am.           It’s taken me eighteen years to realize that I was infected with a different variation of his curse all along—I am less human and more lycanthrope than I would like to admit.  I am not like you, I am not like him, I am my own breed and that terrifies me.  (There are black cats prowling in my heart and fragments of mirrors in my liver and salt that bleeds from my heels when I walk.)         No matter how many rabbits’ feet I tie to my keys, how many dreamcatchers I put above my bed, how many cloves of garlic I hang over my door, I am never able to rid myself of the chill that goes hand in hand with the phantom you left here.         Mother, I think I killed a man two full moons ago and I haven’t been the same since.  I threw his body into the lake and watched him drift out into the unknown, watched the kraken drag him down, watched the water spew him back up like a cork.  And now I need you to make your way back to the land of the living to sit by my side.  I want you to cut off my head and make me a trophy animal.  Create a rug from my fur.  Eat my organs and freeze the rest for winter.  Use me for your own survival.  I just want to be helpful.         I want to be everything the vampire was not but my fingers are breaking from holding on too tight.                                                                                                          I should let go.
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kumikinang ang mamahaling parol na nakadambana sa bintana ng mansion na nasa loob ng isang malaking subdivision. nagniningning ang patay sindi nitong kulay na umaaliw sa balana. salamat sa malaking pakinabang na kanyang kinita nang walang anomang pakundangan sa dugo at pawis ng mga abang manggagawa. nasa kanyang sala naman ang mataas na Christmas Tree habang sa paanan nito nakahandusay ang kahon-kahon na magagarbong mga regalo. malayong-malayo ito sa barung-barung ng mga nagtitiis sa siphayo ng dusa at karalitaan. ang mahabang lamesa na nasa kanyang komedor ay talagang pinagpala sapagkat nakapatong dito ang hiniwang hamon, keso de bola, spaghetti, carbonara, lasagna, ubas at ang lahat ng masasarap na pangarap ng isang batang kalye na kumakalam ang sikmura habang tinitiis ang ginaw ng Disyembre. matapos ang kanyang masaganang Noche Buena ay mauupo sya sa kanyang malambot na sofa na di halos mabilang ang libong halaga. dun n'ya iinumin nang buong pagmamalaki ang mamahaling brandy o di kaya naman ay whiskey. katabi ang kanyang pamilya sabay-sabay silang manonood ng misa habang nakatuon sa higanteng flat screen na telebisyon. ang homily ng ingleserong pari ay patungkol sa pag-ibig sa kapwa at pagbibigayan.
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Nov 3, 2017
Nov 3, 2017 at 4:32 AM UTC
Ang Pasko Ng Burgis
ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM UTC
mercury ave.
ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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A Crop of Lies irrigate farmland Deception grows and dies Its corpse sustains A cycle refrains Cold, this night is Cracks open the ground Revealing a sight Seeping through with light Regions were found To be taken and conquered Sailors sailed to eat sailors And they as well ate bread Sounds of paranormal had Guided every boat, then plane Then spaceship, to the inside Of a toy box they made “These Crops dictate Truth” Says Man (or monster) Every night is cold; cracked These Crops are impure Livestock tell stories of their leader It’s more of saying really Because they’re ******* livestock The Truth cannot tell nor talk Reason slips off their skin Like water off oil Harder and harder it is For Man to let joy soak in Journeys of discovery Travel through the television Crisps, colas, pies, and cakes Is what ******* does it Beef pulp, French toast, tomato paste Is what ******* does it All we consume is **** Crying fat morons decompose “I really like the rain” Says ****** with pudding stain And her body melts and pours As the rain does inexcusably Great big dogs soak up in the rain Unlike Man with his walking cane They are all dying as they retreat Underneath a roof of sin to replace Emotional politicians claim they’re drug-free As they smoke cigs and drink alcohol Infant babies were torn apart in shopping malls Did the World set them free? Man (or monster) propose To have a war on anything Must any more children die? Or can they get high; watch television? What the **** is wrong with an aspect Of harmless self-discovery Can Man wager livestock’s epiphany? Is it o.k. to live in a subdivision? Or on a farm, or in the television? Do these Crops have to dictate Which victim we choose to mate? To dictate our truth? Can the fake astronaut admit? He got ******* high; watched sitcoms Ate potato chips, ate cereal out of the box Never told a soul it was a hoax Crops soak in the sweet rain As the political Man weeps These Crops become true Dying Men no longer retreat A Crop of Lies Become so true This wisdom is beauty What we see now Is as clear as day
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 2:25 PM UTC
Irrigation
A Crop of Lies irrigate farmland Deception grows and dies Its corpse sustains A cycle refrains Cold, this night is Cracks open the ground Revealing a sight Seeping through with light Regions were found To be taken and conquered Sailors sailed to eat sailors And they as well ate bread Sounds of paranormal had Guided every boat, then plane Then spaceship, to the inside Of a toy box they made “These Crops dictate Truth” Says Man (or monster) Every night is cold; cracked These Crops are impure Livestock tell stories of their leader It’s more of saying really Because they’re ******* livestock The Truth cannot tell nor talk Reason slips off their skin Like water off oil Harder and harder it is For Man to let joy soak in Journeys of discovery Travel through the television Crisps, colas, pies, and cakes Is what ******* does it Beef pulp, French toast, tomato paste Is what ******* does it All we consume is **** Crying fat morons decompose “I really like the rain” Says ****** with pudding stain And her body melts and pours As the rain does inexcusably Great big dogs soak up in the rain Unlike Man with his walking cane They are all dying as they retreat Underneath a roof of sin to replace Emotional politicians claim they’re drug-free As they smoke cigs and drink alcohol Infant babies were torn apart in shopping malls Did the World set them free? Man (or monster) propose To have a war on anything Must any more children die? Or can they get high; watch television? What the **** is wrong with an aspect Of harmless self-discovery Can Man wager livestock’s epiphany? Is it o.k. to live in a subdivision? Or on a farm, or in the television? Do these Crops have to dictate Which victim we choose to mate? To dictate our truth? Can the fake astronaut admit? He got ******* high; watched sitcoms Ate potato chips, ate cereal out of the box Never told a soul it was a hoax Crops soak in the sweet rain As the political Man weeps These Crops become true Dying Men no longer retreat A Crop of Lies Become so true This wisdom is beauty What we see now Is as clear as day
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hammock and a stack of playboys. first emerged, boy. feature trees and teens and punch drunk lovers. chalk murals, girl. into the quiet density of love. quiet city. dance party, usa. we end up making movies about our fathers whether we know it or not. home videos. we double down on arcade tickets & spin for a kite to tangle. climb the town hill and bury our warmth. kiss to forget or remember this bliss & strange language. strange sprawl of lights seen. the homeowner’s association melt a pile of plastic flamingos into an idol osiris. dead god. & wait, wait for halloween. our parentals diligently sweat. they are conjurors of snacks and supper. they are creatures of the ritual routine. we ritual. we homework. we breathe easy, waiting for nothing.    (except for more holidays)
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 7:15 AM UTC
subdivision
There once lived a family of rats, caught up in wires and tubes and they probably thought they had it good until the car started. That car’s air conditioning smelled like death stench for weeks, until we got it looked at. Who knew we killed a family, who knew they ate their way under the hood, who knew we killed a family and they reminded us of it for weeks. —— My mother and father killed my dog, barely big enough to not be called a puppy anymore, they ran over her, as she slumbered in the tall weeds and grasses of a field. —— We had a chicken named Thumper, his body grew big but his head never did, and he teetered and tottered on ballerina pointed feet, and the other roosters wanted to eat him alive. When we sacrificied him, my parents plucked his back, and they saw that his skin was a green-purple secret, hidden by a humpback and so many feathers. —— Our third horse got caught in the river. Big Mama got caught in Little River. I guess it’s not surprising when big things die when they get caught in little things. —— The coyotes got the rest of the chickens. —— The rattlesnakes almost got the rest of the horses. —— Most people don’t know that farm-fresh eggs are covered in blood. —— We had two of the largest, ugliest geese. They flew away. —— The cat died under the hot tub, we couldn’t find her for days. —— The forest is always a graveyard, is always hallowed ground, is where we buried the animals. Then they built a subdivision.
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Sep 27, 2012
Sep 27, 2012 at 2:22 AM UTC
Morbid Farm Life Anecdotes (or The Only Things I Know How to Write About Lately)
There once lived a family of rats, caught up in wires and tubes and they probably thought they had it good until the car started. That car’s air conditioning smelled like death stench for weeks, until we got it looked at. Who knew we killed a family, who knew they ate their way under the hood, who knew we killed a family and they reminded us of it for weeks. —— My mother and father killed my dog, barely big enough to not be called a puppy anymore, they ran over her, as she slumbered in the tall weeds and grasses of a field. —— We had a chicken named Thumper, his body grew big but his head never did, and he teetered and tottered on ballerina pointed feet, and the other roosters wanted to eat him alive. When we sacrificied him, my parents plucked his back, and they saw that his skin was a green-purple secret, hidden by a humpback and so many feathers. —— Our third horse got caught in the river. Big Mama got caught in Little River. I guess it’s not surprising when big things die when they get caught in little things. —— The coyotes got the rest of the chickens. —— The rattlesnakes almost got the rest of the horses. —— Most people don’t know that farm-fresh eggs are covered in blood. —— We had two of the largest, ugliest geese. They flew away. —— The cat died under the hot tub, we couldn’t find her for days. —— The forest is always a graveyard, is always hallowed ground, is where we buried the animals. Then they built a subdivision.
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I believe there is no sanctuary for me in this subdivision of dreams, cathedrals built by unknowns I am like grass cracking their concrete, I was carved by a stone knife in the mountains where I learned to speak I am the rider called death bleeding in my sleep, sitting in the saddle with Dark, the black man and his crazy blues I sink down like a diver into the deep water, like an unknown poet going down with his ship.
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Jul 17, 2016
Jul 17, 2016 at 8:32 PM UTC
Dark, the black man
i am lost in the wisp of your faltering the fluttering of concrete entrenched into stoic rigmarole to reach out layer by layer peeling unearthing a catatonic subdivision of disjoint subdivisions a limit ordinal between touch and feeling where we kiss on the cusp of that silent ocean on the edge of sound drowned in the nebulous familiarity of a distant melody a tired resolve re  solve the old puzzle  muscle memory's misted amnesia half the pieces falling out the warn tinderbox inarticulate drowned severed isomorphisms over brea(d)thless infinities self adjoint matted topologies nestled snugly in the amniotic absolution of form before being       hands of matted ice contorted into perfection by the sculpting propensities   of undulations of estrangement, where we touch in the cusp of self reflections thousand mirrors inverted propensities                         infinite infinitesimals   nestled meromorphic partitions hidden corners in the brevity of dusk multiplicities fragmenting behind empty veils (  to be seen is to be made discrete    to be discrete is to flicker                                      and disappear   (inevitably invariable           inevitable invariability)) we        stand in a waterfall of gravel    and drown our voices in the choke of our cellophane hearts caked              into fillets of aphasic tundra   where we whisper our nothings in the desert on the boundary of silence our words                          escape us            like rats from shipwreck                                       we are                        disembowelled catharsis                            intentional and fatuous                                    retching upon itself        severed and free        and dead
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 8:53 AM UTC
Untitled
i am lost in the wisp of your faltering the fluttering of concrete entrenched into stoic rigmarole to reach out layer by layer peeling unearthing a catatonic subdivision of disjoint subdivisions a limit ordinal between touch and feeling where we kiss on the cusp of that silent ocean on the edge of sound drowned in the nebulous familiarity of a distant melody a tired resolve re  solve the old puzzle  muscle memory's misted amnesia half the pieces falling out the warn tinderbox inarticulate drowned severed isomorphisms over brea(d)thless infinities self adjoint matted topologies nestled snugly in the amniotic absolution of form before being       hands of matted ice contorted into perfection by the sculpting propensities   of undulations of estrangement, where we touch in the cusp of self reflections thousand mirrors inverted propensities                         infinite infinitesimals   nestled meromorphic partitions hidden corners in the brevity of dusk multiplicities fragmenting behind empty veils (  to be seen is to be made discrete    to be discrete is to flicker                                      and disappear   (inevitably invariable           inevitable invariability)) we        stand in a waterfall of gravel    and drown our voices in the choke of our cellophane hearts caked              into fillets of aphasic tundra   where we whisper our nothings in the desert on the boundary of silence our words                          escape us            like rats from shipwreck                                       we are                        disembowelled catharsis                            intentional and fatuous                                    retching upon itself        severed and free        and dead
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a moment refines least of all i, coarse subdivision of all second skies, stars, or nothing, minute from fall. or fallen already. asleep for hours. hope coiled helplessness around her wrist, caught my head. spent days in space. at least, most of them. can't help subduction any same, another algebra in stone. collapse like month's passage. hope won't speak, every theory is glowing. a year dissolves empty, replacing every field with stripmalls to mountains again. a century forgets regicide. an eternity later, we press against the wall like dust coalescing. hope strings us up, couple more embers in the sky.
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
found lost
i met you on MySpace and you had a girlfriend and we had a threeway phone conversation and i thought you sounded so **** when you shrieked "I love you!" to her when you had to go, and then you broke up and she said it was because your medication had changed you and you reek of *** and it Just Wasn't Working Anymore, and then Rick came over and brought you along and your tall, wild-haired being took my breath away and you wore tight, brightly colored pants, and you were dark and thin and your teeth always gripped your purple lip ring and it made you look like you were constantly biting your lip, and your eyes were amber and they surprised me when i looked up and saw them focused on me, i felt as if i'd stumbled upon a rare species of human, an exotic species Out of My League. Then you told me to step on your skateboard and i did and you grabbed my hand and pulled me and my 13 year old body was then introduced to Euphoria and then the rain soaked us and you could see my yellow-and-pink bra and i hoped you liked it even though there wasn't much, and we IM'd nonstop and i had no idea what it meant, but i felt like flying and your presence filled me with hot air that was cooled only by your absence, which came when you left me in the winter. i cried for reasons i did not understand, i cried every night, i walked through my dumb subdivision and would hallucinate you coming around the corner and my knees would buckle and my vision would blur, i thought i was bipolar. And i existed in a fog of longing and nostalgia and frustration and arousal, and then you came back and we were both a little more grown up and we spent more time together and i started wishing you'd do something to do your hair and maybe smoke a little less and maybe go to school a little more and then i went to a football game at my new high school and i saw the muscular athletes and the clean-looking boys and i gave my phone to Robert and asked him to tell you that i wanted to break up with you and it was so easy for me and i was disgusted by you (but you were still in love)
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Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM UTC
i thought i was bipolar
i met you on MySpace and you had a girlfriend and we had a threeway phone conversation and i thought you sounded so **** when you shrieked "I love you!" to her when you had to go, and then you broke up and she said it was because your medication had changed you and you reek of *** and it Just Wasn't Working Anymore, and then Rick came over and brought you along and your tall, wild-haired being took my breath away and you wore tight, brightly colored pants, and you were dark and thin and your teeth always gripped your purple lip ring and it made you look like you were constantly biting your lip, and your eyes were amber and they surprised me when i looked up and saw them focused on me, i felt as if i'd stumbled upon a rare species of human, an exotic species Out of My League. Then you told me to step on your skateboard and i did and you grabbed my hand and pulled me and my 13 year old body was then introduced to Euphoria and then the rain soaked us and you could see my yellow-and-pink bra and i hoped you liked it even though there wasn't much, and we IM'd nonstop and i had no idea what it meant, but i felt like flying and your presence filled me with hot air that was cooled only by your absence, which came when you left me in the winter. i cried for reasons i did not understand, i cried every night, i walked through my dumb subdivision and would hallucinate you coming around the corner and my knees would buckle and my vision would blur, i thought i was bipolar. And i existed in a fog of longing and nostalgia and frustration and arousal, and then you came back and we were both a little more grown up and we spent more time together and i started wishing you'd do something to do your hair and maybe smoke a little less and maybe go to school a little more and then i went to a football game at my new high school and i saw the muscular athletes and the clean-looking boys and i gave my phone to Robert and asked him to tell you that i wanted to break up with you and it was so easy for me and i was disgusted by you (but you were still in love)
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i'd seen you around school, i watched your wrestling practices after i was done with track, one time i saw you almost get into a fight with one of your teammates (but when we actually started talking, i didn't connect the two images together) our conversations were of ****** nature and you told me you lived in my subdivision and i thought 'this is great' and we met up in the heat of summer and we went to the pool and i was a little alarmed by how quickly you became comfortable with grabbing me and holding me and finally we sat down and i thought it was awkward to sit on a stranger's lap especially when your hand wandered south and i couldn't keep my breath from becoming shallow and i couldn't help throwing my head back and i thought "this shouldn't be happening" and i thought i'd fix it by hungrily kissing you but then you picked me up and said bend over and i said No and you whispered in my ear, you said "*are you scared of no longer being a ****** tease*" and i said "n-no, that's not it at all" and i was disoriented and i was scared and i don't know why i loved it so much, i don't know why i fell in love with you, i don't know why the next week was spent mostly with you, you were so good with your tongue but so bad with self control and you taught me how to raise goosebumps with my breath and you taught me that arousal makes men angry and you taught me to never flaunt myself ever again, i cried because you were going away to college, you begged me to sneak out and comfort you when you were arguing with your parents, i don't know why i fell in love with you, but i fell out of it in the same way, you left town for a week and the fog in my head cleared, i ignored your calls and was so relieved that i never pointed my house out to you.
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Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 4:51 PM UTC
you wanted to possess me
i'd seen you around school, i watched your wrestling practices after i was done with track, one time i saw you almost get into a fight with one of your teammates (but when we actually started talking, i didn't connect the two images together) our conversations were of ****** nature and you told me you lived in my subdivision and i thought 'this is great' and we met up in the heat of summer and we went to the pool and i was a little alarmed by how quickly you became comfortable with grabbing me and holding me and finally we sat down and i thought it was awkward to sit on a stranger's lap especially when your hand wandered south and i couldn't keep my breath from becoming shallow and i couldn't help throwing my head back and i thought "this shouldn't be happening" and i thought i'd fix it by hungrily kissing you but then you picked me up and said bend over and i said No and you whispered in my ear, you said "*are you scared of no longer being a ****** tease*" and i said "n-no, that's not it at all" and i was disoriented and i was scared and i don't know why i loved it so much, i don't know why i fell in love with you, i don't know why the next week was spent mostly with you, you were so good with your tongue but so bad with self control and you taught me how to raise goosebumps with my breath and you taught me that arousal makes men angry and you taught me to never flaunt myself ever again, i cried because you were going away to college, you begged me to sneak out and comfort you when you were arguing with your parents, i don't know why i fell in love with you, but i fell out of it in the same way, you left town for a week and the fog in my head cleared, i ignored your calls and was so relieved that i never pointed my house out to you.
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I define my violence with internal revenue, Mind changers, Pill bottles. These viruses incubate in, Subdivision playgrounds, Kiddies Kiddies Kiddies, and civil wars.
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Feb 2, 2013
Feb 2, 2013 at 3:11 PM UTC
Right now, it's like this.
They said we had it all Middle American brats bottom barrel aristocrats we were told we were propitious children left alone to wonder the bland landscape of our gated community to stand in submission in our lovely subdivision When things changed it was us they blamed or the media or the influence of the ghetto so far away but never did we stray it all came to us and that was OK we wanted something more then material things Our parents were there but never really there not enough to care though they thought they were Asking random questions drinking their cocktails of white wine and ****** telling us to turn down the volume and what kind of **** were we listening to today telling us how music was better back in their day You gave us the world and in return we shouldered all the blame took the blame for all the pain and were reminded daily of how things could have been how things should have been if only you waited to have kids And you wonder why we f*ck and fight stay up all night become drunken fools at seventeen just so we can change the routine so we can feel alive by slowly dying cigarette smoke and xanax bars some percocet then drive our cars to some place any place where someone will tell us that we are special and unique beautiful as they touch our cheek and make us feel human again smart and talented more then our cookie cutter gated box of a life we have been told since birth we must carry on We just want to feel alive to feel that someone really knows us deep inside from front and back To feel that we are good enough that its OK to be different to feel different and still know you will love us just the same and take back some of the blame to hold us up so we don’t fall and shatter like glass from a child to a parent, is that too much to ask? David Martin
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM UTC
Middle American Factory for Youth in Revolt
They said we had it all Middle American brats bottom barrel aristocrats we were told we were propitious children left alone to wonder the bland landscape of our gated community to stand in submission in our lovely subdivision When things changed it was us they blamed or the media or the influence of the ghetto so far away but never did we stray it all came to us and that was OK we wanted something more then material things Our parents were there but never really there not enough to care though they thought they were Asking random questions drinking their cocktails of white wine and ****** telling us to turn down the volume and what kind of **** were we listening to today telling us how music was better back in their day You gave us the world and in return we shouldered all the blame took the blame for all the pain and were reminded daily of how things could have been how things should have been if only you waited to have kids And you wonder why we f*ck and fight stay up all night become drunken fools at seventeen just so we can change the routine so we can feel alive by slowly dying cigarette smoke and xanax bars some percocet then drive our cars to some place any place where someone will tell us that we are special and unique beautiful as they touch our cheek and make us feel human again smart and talented more then our cookie cutter gated box of a life we have been told since birth we must carry on We just want to feel alive to feel that someone really knows us deep inside from front and back To feel that we are good enough that its OK to be different to feel different and still know you will love us just the same and take back some of the blame to hold us up so we don’t fall and shatter like glass from a child to a parent, is that too much to ask? David Martin
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I feel as though I'm in a cage, School, work, eat, sleep, A never ending cycle forming A life of daily routine, not surprises One day we have to stop and ask did God really put us here to get stuck in a boring routine did God create beautiful life just to work, pick up groceries, eat I don't believe God created this world, So big, un- discovered, beautiful So that we can hunker down In a concrete subdivision And let routine slowly tear away At the dreams we once had
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Sep 15, 2014
Sep 15, 2014 at 6:25 PM UTC
Routine
When my family and I moved into this house in 1977, Dad was our patriarch. For four decades I have lived in a subdivision that is called Crosby Park. Today I've lived in this subdivision for forty years. I was only five years old when I moved here. When a person lives at a place for that many years, it fits like a glove. This is where I'll live for the rest of my life and it's a place that I love. I'll tell you why my place means more to me than it did just ten years ago. It's because this place is now mine and there's no place like home.
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 11:02 AM UTC
There's No Place Like Home
Land is disappearing ok, farms to be exact swallowed up by cities they're gone, and that's a fact developers are buying what the farmers now will sell for the subdivision builders who are waiting at the well standing in a parking lot of what used to be a farm I remember corn and animals and I remember a red barn now, it is a big box store selling food from somewhere else grown in little laboratories from little dishes on a shelf there used to be a farm right here a place that grew our food we knew what we were buying now we don't and we are ******* the big box stores keep coming and they're starting to intrude we once had farms and churches now we don't and we are ******* I remember driving out of town twenty minutes at the most you'd pass by at least four farms now the farmland is the host to development and wind farms No parks, just urban sprawl no fields of cows and horses just another **** strip mall There used to be a farm here it was sold to pay the tax it was auctioned off in silence behind the farmers backs no more farms or farmers no more barns with painted names just big houses with no back yards where you don't know your neighbors names there used to be a farm right here a place that grew our food we knew what we were buying now we don't and we are ******* the big box stores keep coming and they're starting to intrude we once had farms and churches now we don't and we are *******
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
there used to be a farm right here
There are voices in my head That decide to Come out every night They control every Subdivision in my mind And induce all the pain They give freedom To all my thoughts and secrets For them to fill my soul They give me the strength Throughout the night To face all my fears But in the morning I'm back to the same Fears I overcomed at night But how could such be temporary How can it come only at night And just disappear like that in the morning Dear voices in my head Speak to me now For I've lost all hope In finding my true worth in life
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 1:23 AM UTC
Voices In My Head
In Sandy Springs stands a mansion, but not for very long. The trees, grown great, will share its fate, soon all will be gone. “its progress!” say the town fathers; a new subdivision tract. To preservationists it’s a tragedy; mark the calendar in black. A massive Tudor mansion, an edifice so grand- At fifteen thousand square feet it could house a massive clan. Too soon the wood will splinter and the stone and stucco part. The walls will be imploded as the demolition starts. The wrecking ball will smash stained glass that Tiffany supplied. You will almost hear the timbers shriek as the vandals work inside. The stately home of Thomas Glenn was once Atlanta’s pride. It was finished in the tragic year of Nineteen twenty nine. He passed away soon after, the family moved away. Now empty, its’ clocks all stopped, it waits its’ judgement day. We men of mortal flesh all know how quick we pass away. Our achievements soon forgotten, our honors made of clay. We build great homes to house our kin; this hall was built to last. Yet “progress” is inexorable and this; a relic from the past.
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 8:32 AM UTC
Glenridge Hall
The First Property Sold was the Garden of Eden....... The Snake Hanging in the Tree full of Fruit...sold the First Subdivision, As a Real Esssssssssssstate Developer, Slick fork tongued Sales Pitch, Here have a nice Fruit snack, while we go over Sums and Figures Involved. Next Time Bring your Husband By, We can fill Him in on the details, if all else fails. We can Show him,  the School System, Filled with Newly Founded Knowledge. Here in Eden Falls, we are a gaited Community. Proud of the Fact We are Crime Free. At first the Residence was a dream, But as time Passed by things began to fall down The BBQ grill quit working, Coffee percalator stopped Perking, And Brown Green Algae Ran Rampant from the, French Pewter Faucets over Sunken Marble Sinks. The Aquafer water Shed Clause in the Contract, Revealed a way to Dump this Site. But we found S.Atan real Essssstate Deviliment, Had closed up and ran off in the Night. Taking off  with all our Cash, Which Commited, The First Crime in Eden Falls, as Told by God Its nothing but just glorified Real Esssssstate Fraud ........................................ by JMF 10/2/14
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
WHEN EDEN GOT SOLD
All in all is it just a matter of time ? Speaking to me in the easy breathes of sighs I fear no sirens in my house of light Even shadows of light cast pictures of Negative space, speaking for itself          Oh to   B.  b. b.       Be where you can See inside windows , of pentacles              Simple opportunity To reverse the hanged man, in the shadows              Of the corners of the ceiling But how this sets in as normal And my fingers flow immortal I can venture inside the vines And uncover the sleeping Buddha As long as the blue hovers over My Nirvana , above and beyond hope Home,              Speaking now,                                         with a smile.
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 1:31 AM UTC
Subdivision sound
*A deadly task at hand , see the November broom sage conforming with the lay of the land The smooth stones are secure in their creekside homes Adolescent Crepe Myrtles abide in the company of elder Oaks Every plant allotted soil and very much aware of their place Under the ever meandering compression of man with a valuable lesson of humility and grace Behold the wall builders , the ceiling setters , the clothed and the rambunctious The soil breakers , the ravagers , the fire starters , the problem solvers mingled with the war mongers The breath of creation fueling their thirsted conflagrations Behold "the thinkers" , destroyers and the manipulators* ..
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Oct 24, 2016
Oct 24, 2016 at 4:29 PM UTC
Another Subdivision ...
Overdosed on my sin, got myself all twisted up in idiosyncrasies, what happened to that boy who sang in the choir’s musical symphony?  Don’t understand it, I try to move forward but I can’t move, stuck in my ill prison, used to get vision, but now I am apart of a knew subdivision. Falling angel, why was it wrong to question this universe, now religion treats me like I’m Lucifer. Testing my niceness, can’t they see that I just want to be left alone; offended offenders just can’t let it go that I just want to go at life on my own. I always used to ****** analyze my friends to improve their self health, even though I was a ****** that just couldn’t analyze himself. Comatose patient there is no escaping this life that may just have an eternity to go, sorry but I don’t know if ok with that amigo.  Inconclusive theory’s saying that they are factual, searching for facts in a world full of extortion in a system run by cannabis animals. Ticking away the time doth go on with or without me, to be or not to be in this desert wasteland we call reality. Really why should I bother being politically correct, ***** those formality’s, with my fiery vengeance just like scorpion; fatality. Complicated overrated everyday living got me feeling dizzy that I’m starting to fade out, just checked out of my self conscious because I’m just so burned out. To early to late, heart vs. the mind, darkness vs. light, comatose feel like a ghost that has just lost hope with its current host.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 8:17 PM UTC
Comatose
Overdosed on my sin, got myself all twisted up in idiosyncrasies, what happened to that boy who sang in the choir’s musical symphony?  Don’t understand it, I try to move forward but I can’t move, stuck in my ill prison, used to get vision, but now I am apart of a knew subdivision. Falling angel, why was it wrong to question this universe, now religion treats me like I’m Lucifer. Testing my niceness, can’t they see that I just want to be left alone; offended offenders just can’t let it go that I just want to go at life on my own. I always used to ****** analyze my friends to improve their self health, even though I was a ****** that just couldn’t analyze himself. Comatose patient there is no escaping this life that may just have an eternity to go, sorry but I don’t know if ok with that amigo.  Inconclusive theory’s saying that they are factual, searching for facts in a world full of extortion in a system run by cannabis animals. Ticking away the time doth go on with or without me, to be or not to be in this desert wasteland we call reality. Really why should I bother being politically correct, ***** those formality’s, with my fiery vengeance just like scorpion; fatality. Complicated overrated everyday living got me feeling dizzy that I’m starting to fade out, just checked out of my self conscious because I’m just so burned out. To early to late, heart vs. the mind, darkness vs. light, comatose feel like a ghost that has just lost hope with its current host.
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my head the tinkling remembrances of sparkling suns and innocence , of Silver Lake , and stepping on a Blue Racer as I ran back up to the cabin, shocking, yet part of the days, nights, things, all the rowboats the roped off float swimming area, being attacked by a snapping turtle, the small nest up the hill of trees where mom discovered the nest of tiny rattlesnakes, bad dreams I had one night listening to the radio and the stories of a big hairy creature , surviving it, getting stronger, no longer a tiny creature of the concrete subdivision, where trees were rare and creatures were real, the bus route down at the corner. April was , there.
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Mar 13, 2016
Mar 13, 2016 at 12:57 AM UTC
like songs in
Fill In The Blanks Hard to sell a tale with no title, words form first thought on how a memory is wrought Spaces in select places allow ad-lib thinking, would a prescription be useless without the diction Even or odd numbers owe their life to letters, alphabet soup takes more ingredients to add to the *** More we learn more we yearn , added phrases written or heard knowledge is power whether from fact or fiction Treasure the pleasure of the story growing, as we read, we feed getting fuller as we are taught Languages linger until formed into sentences, phases of phrases come and go with different meaning given or taken, reader or writer hold a unique vision With no verb Ned is neutral while Nancy in bright neon is fancy, exclamations with explanations add detail, twisting of details in tales thicken a plot Puzzles can be playful, missing pieces part of its function while also raising a player's stress become part of the addiction Endless sound to be found come together as notes are formed, while adding lyrics show it as more human from plain or pain or something mystic held happily or healing someone distraught No rank if pages are blank, only score when they hold more, letters lack meaning until formed into words, sentences grow adding information like more homes in a subdivision Left in a ledger or record marks time in history, names separating families so their heritage is not a mystery, marks on maps just a spot over which people have always fought So, take heed as we read marks or letters making us better, sensitive subjects shared sensibly, tablets show early scripture, news now in digital, memories made mental form our personal retention R.C.
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Oct 17, 2021
Oct 17, 2021 at 1:30 AM UTC
Fill In The Blanks
Fill In The Blanks Hard to sell a tale with no title, words form first thought on how a memory is wrought Spaces in select places allow ad-lib thinking, would a prescription be useless without the diction Even or odd numbers owe their life to letters, alphabet soup takes more ingredients to add to the *** More we learn more we yearn , added phrases written or heard knowledge is power whether from fact or fiction Treasure the pleasure of the story growing, as we read, we feed getting fuller as we are taught Languages linger until formed into sentences, phases of phrases come and go with different meaning given or taken, reader or writer hold a unique vision With no verb Ned is neutral while Nancy in bright neon is fancy, exclamations with explanations add detail, twisting of details in tales thicken a plot Puzzles can be playful, missing pieces part of its function while also raising a player's stress become part of the addiction Endless sound to be found come together as notes are formed, while adding lyrics show it as more human from plain or pain or something mystic held happily or healing someone distraught No rank if pages are blank, only score when they hold more, letters lack meaning until formed into words, sentences grow adding information like more homes in a subdivision Left in a ledger or record marks time in history, names separating families so their heritage is not a mystery, marks on maps just a spot over which people have always fought So, take heed as we read marks or letters making us better, sensitive subjects shared sensibly, tablets show early scripture, news now in digital, memories made mental form our personal retention R.C.
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