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"teenagers" poems
Clock arms ***** upward while the sleepers lie in their beds thoroughly wet dreams soak the ***** thoughts in their heads Mothers obsessed with 7:00 am alarms rush their ***** teenagers to designated stops while a rising yolk shines bright in eyes of sleepy pupils who wait for a ******* on wheels to shuttle them to institutions addicted to #2 pencils
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM UTC
Average suburban kids
nights take passion forth into an abyss of hundreds of arms swirling under the weight of bodies yearning to connect your destruction came in moments, you fell beneath them and growled, you were the rabid beast hiding in my closet or behind my bathroom door waiting to spring, and you and i, we fell for each other like children, we fumble in the dark like teenagers, we talk through every movement like we've known this dance for years, years, years; my hands, they're too small to spread over your heart like i want them to. your hands, far too big to cradle my face between them like you meant them to. we make it work in the darkest of ways, the black hole in the floor of our bedroom opening up to swallow us whole.
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Jun 23, 2012
Jun 23, 2012 at 5:15 AM UTC
lord shiva and kali ma make love beneath the stars
He watches the world through tear streaked eyes, At the people just living their lives, There was no one who cared or was even aware, That their society was founded on lies, It was the cruelty of man to man's fellow man, That caused his young heart to break, It filled him with sorrow to learn that tomorrow, There was no difference or change he could make. First there's the teen with no hopes or dreams, Who holds the gun to his head, If only we had heard that four letter word, "Help" and he might not be dead, But parents ignore a child's implore, Move along there is nothing to see, Then comes the day when he's taken away, Pushed over the edge by the bully. The starving young pup who lies all beaten up, By the teenagers too cool for school, They've come to learn that next it's their turn, Drunk fathers are awfully cruel, Or perhaps the poor homeless just hoping for kindness, And ends up completely ignored, We can grumble and shout from our comfy warm house, That most likely, they're all just big frauds. Then there comes war the thing all Governments adore, They can line up their pockets with gold, The war against terror? Or just the oil endeavour? It doesn't matter soldiers do as they're told, "An air strike for peace" is the press release, As civilians are rained on by bombs, Can they really believe that what's been achieved, Is greater than the innocent lives that are gone? He watches the world through tear streaked eyes, At the people just living their lives, There was no one who cared or was even aware, That their society was founded on lies.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 11:44 AM UTC
The Cruelty of Man
He watches the world through tear streaked eyes, At the people just living their lives, There was no one who cared or was even aware, That their society was founded on lies, It was the cruelty of man to man's fellow man, That caused his young heart to break, It filled him with sorrow to learn that tomorrow, There was no difference or change he could make. First there's the teen with no hopes or dreams, Who holds the gun to his head, If only we had heard that four letter word, "Help" and he might not be dead, But parents ignore a child's implore, Move along there is nothing to see, Then comes the day when he's taken away, Pushed over the edge by the bully. The starving young pup who lies all beaten up, By the teenagers too cool for school, They've come to learn that next it's their turn, Drunk fathers are awfully cruel, Or perhaps the poor homeless just hoping for kindness, And ends up completely ignored, We can grumble and shout from our comfy warm house, That most likely, they're all just big frauds. Then there comes war the thing all Governments adore, They can line up their pockets with gold, The war against terror? Or just the oil endeavour? It doesn't matter soldiers do as they're told, "An air strike for peace" is the press release, As civilians are rained on by bombs, Can they really believe that what's been achieved, Is greater than the innocent lives that are gone? He watches the world through tear streaked eyes, At the people just living their lives, There was no one who cared or was even aware, That their society was founded on lies.
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Do I relate to the post-postmodern True-life voodoo incomes are hard-earned If I put a hyphen between words Does that spawn a new one like lovebirds Isn't love the same word that I saw Don't crows live like bandits and outlaws Don't they have the outlook of bourgeois Carry stolen crackers in their claws There's no change that I couldn't change Every change that I change always stays the same I wanna sing with a slingshot serenade I wanna donate change to a masquerade I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height So give me all your red green yellow blue If you can find a pool then I'll refract with you You're a mirage and your favorite color's see-through You're my fata morgana from this point of view Are there any words for my freakshow feelings Isn't sugarcoated terminology appealing Wouldn't it be easier to represent the meaning Of a hard to swallow concept with an arbitrary ceiling Cryptic cultish crease in the catalog Paranoia backtrack to analog I can run much faster than I can jog Magic circle summoning Chernobog I can break the barrier of sound and space With these essential elemental explanations in your face But it doesn't matter everything I say will go to waste Because the power of the mind is putting power out of place Hindsight reflecting, teenagers texting Late to the punch with the big money flexing Let's settle this with a match in the ring Or a match to the rope of a cannon firing I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height I wanna hypnotize and paralyze I wanna make them think that I'm their size I wanna break their spirits drink their blood I wanna **** their souls I wanna **** them good
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 7:58 PM UTC
lovebirds
Do I relate to the post-postmodern True-life voodoo incomes are hard-earned If I put a hyphen between words Does that spawn a new one like lovebirds Isn't love the same word that I saw Don't crows live like bandits and outlaws Don't they have the outlook of bourgeois Carry stolen crackers in their claws There's no change that I couldn't change Every change that I change always stays the same I wanna sing with a slingshot serenade I wanna donate change to a masquerade I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height So give me all your red green yellow blue If you can find a pool then I'll refract with you You're a mirage and your favorite color's see-through You're my fata morgana from this point of view Are there any words for my freakshow feelings Isn't sugarcoated terminology appealing Wouldn't it be easier to represent the meaning Of a hard to swallow concept with an arbitrary ceiling Cryptic cultish crease in the catalog Paranoia backtrack to analog I can run much faster than I can jog Magic circle summoning Chernobog I can break the barrier of sound and space With these essential elemental explanations in your face But it doesn't matter everything I say will go to waste Because the power of the mind is putting power out of place Hindsight reflecting, teenagers texting Late to the punch with the big money flexing Let's settle this with a match in the ring Or a match to the rope of a cannon firing I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height I wanna hypnotize and paralyze I wanna make them think that I'm their size I wanna break their spirits drink their blood I wanna **** their souls I wanna **** them good
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everyone keeps saying "we made it" and it's actually a little confusing because it's almost like they thought we couldn't five teenagers on lockdown have never caused so much panic but I guess we're just the deadbeat generation (knock once for failure, twice for rebirth, three times to see your life in twenty years- who knows, maybe you'll have a life in twenty years) we pick locks on bad days turn back the clocks on good days if we try hard enough maybe we'll go back to the glory days I wanna blast music from the busted up speakers in the back of my car I wanna live like I used to we're anthems and parades and kids crying out in the middle of the night when the hole in their stomach opens up or closes we're caught up in a whirlwind of scientific facts and figures and sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs as if that'll help me escape the noise in my head punk isn't about living through the fall of something it's about living through the rise of me I am real I am here I will scream it from the ******* rooftops if I have to I will tap my fingertips on tables even when I'm told not to I will tattoo myself a thousand times over, an endless mantra of existence i exist i exist i exist this isn't a happy ending, or at least it isn't the one I was promised but it's something it's okay and that's good enough because okay is ******* wonderful lace my fingers with yours call me a queen tell me you'll never let me go because I will never let you go we are the kids who will never stop living even when they tell us that we are impossible we are heartbeats pounding on cracked pavement, leather and cheap beer, lather me in love lay me down to sleep with the promise of tomorrow promise me that tomorrow will still be there when I wake up you can have a house but not a home I was a house but not a home until I met you deadbeat degenerates make a better family than most.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 8:37 AM UTC
deadbeat generation
everyone keeps saying "we made it" and it's actually a little confusing because it's almost like they thought we couldn't five teenagers on lockdown have never caused so much panic but I guess we're just the deadbeat generation (knock once for failure, twice for rebirth, three times to see your life in twenty years- who knows, maybe you'll have a life in twenty years) we pick locks on bad days turn back the clocks on good days if we try hard enough maybe we'll go back to the glory days I wanna blast music from the busted up speakers in the back of my car I wanna live like I used to we're anthems and parades and kids crying out in the middle of the night when the hole in their stomach opens up or closes we're caught up in a whirlwind of scientific facts and figures and sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs as if that'll help me escape the noise in my head punk isn't about living through the fall of something it's about living through the rise of me I am real I am here I will scream it from the ******* rooftops if I have to I will tap my fingertips on tables even when I'm told not to I will tattoo myself a thousand times over, an endless mantra of existence i exist i exist i exist this isn't a happy ending, or at least it isn't the one I was promised but it's something it's okay and that's good enough because okay is ******* wonderful lace my fingers with yours call me a queen tell me you'll never let me go because I will never let you go we are the kids who will never stop living even when they tell us that we are impossible we are heartbeats pounding on cracked pavement, leather and cheap beer, lather me in love lay me down to sleep with the promise of tomorrow promise me that tomorrow will still be there when I wake up you can have a house but not a home I was a house but not a home until I met you deadbeat degenerates make a better family than most.
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my math teacher once said that the reason superheroes came about in the USA was because americans are the ones who needed the most saving i didn't know if i should've been offended on behalf of the kids in my class my math teacher isn't american yet i found my mind wandering throughout his lesson on polynomials i thought about super heroes in comic books batman, superman, ironman, wonderwoman someone had to do the saving but they all saved the world maybe they saved individuals i don't know americans are the ones who need the most saving we're the ones who need the most saving teenagers are the ones who need the most saving i'm the one who needs the most saving not from batman or superman or wonderwoman i need to be my own hero and save myself
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 11:51 PM UTC
superheroes
During a walk through the hallway of the primary school I find hallways filled with turkeys and leafs and stiff scrawled characters. What is Mr. Smith's class thankful for? Flowers and toys and cars and dresses and pink and purple and soccer and skirts and barbies and family. How could you sum up all of the things you are thankful for in one word? At the end of the hallway I am faced with a choice: *What are you thankful for?* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What am I thankful for? Happiness, and family and security and nature and friends. I am thankful for friends. I am thankful for laughs and chatts and cries and sobs and games and smiles. I am thanful for ****** contortions and 80s dance sessions, for inabilty to speak. I am thankful for hobos, eating on the side of the road, and for devious scheymes of intoxicatation. Hep beni anlayan bir arkadaşım var müteşekkirim and who listens to my sob stories. I am thankful for singing in the rain. And styling hair in the sink for screeching and howling and hissing. I am thankful for obkirchergasses, for Ströcks and for ice cream plarlours. I am thankful for mentos, and walnuts. I am thankful for bad lip readings and hilarious youtube vidoes. I am thankful for unknown languages and nymphs and for eloquence. I am thankful for good taste in music and for strong opinions. I am thankful for dancing indian pirates with demon chicks and fireballs. I am thankful for two-headed teenagers and barbeques. I am thankful for God and healthy choice prayers, and Hawaii get aways. I am thankful for huge, hanging sweaters and crazy, funky leggings. I am thankful for deep talks about the world's lack of beauty and for poetry buddies. I am thankful for dodgeball playing mice, and poor old wenches. I am thankful for pirate and mermaid adventures. I am thankful for the looks we get: looks of loud disapproval, and whispers of quiet exasperation. I am thankful for golden men and loud singing, for crazy dances with crazy cousins and cute brothers. I am thankful for Aunt Jemima. I am thankful for banging on metal bars with rocks and shouting at the top of our lungs. I am thankful for climbing over gates in order to not step on cracks. I am thankful for amazing humanities teachers. I am thankful for a laugh when the day is over. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How those kids manage to fit all of their thankfulness into one word is beyond me. Even the one-word things we are thankful for, must be described with a million words.
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Nov 22, 2012
Nov 22, 2012 at 7:42 AM UTC
Ode to a Turkey
During a walk through the hallway of the primary school I find hallways filled with turkeys and leafs and stiff scrawled characters. What is Mr. Smith's class thankful for? Flowers and toys and cars and dresses and pink and purple and soccer and skirts and barbies and family. How could you sum up all of the things you are thankful for in one word? At the end of the hallway I am faced with a choice: *What are you thankful for?* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What am I thankful for? Happiness, and family and security and nature and friends. I am thankful for friends. I am thankful for laughs and chatts and cries and sobs and games and smiles. I am thanful for ****** contortions and 80s dance sessions, for inabilty to speak. I am thankful for hobos, eating on the side of the road, and for devious scheymes of intoxicatation. Hep beni anlayan bir arkadaşım var müteşekkirim and who listens to my sob stories. I am thankful for singing in the rain. And styling hair in the sink for screeching and howling and hissing. I am thankful for obkirchergasses, for Ströcks and for ice cream plarlours. I am thankful for mentos, and walnuts. I am thankful for bad lip readings and hilarious youtube vidoes. I am thankful for unknown languages and nymphs and for eloquence. I am thankful for good taste in music and for strong opinions. I am thankful for dancing indian pirates with demon chicks and fireballs. I am thankful for two-headed teenagers and barbeques. I am thankful for God and healthy choice prayers, and Hawaii get aways. I am thankful for huge, hanging sweaters and crazy, funky leggings. I am thankful for deep talks about the world's lack of beauty and for poetry buddies. I am thankful for dodgeball playing mice, and poor old wenches. I am thankful for pirate and mermaid adventures. I am thankful for the looks we get: looks of loud disapproval, and whispers of quiet exasperation. I am thankful for golden men and loud singing, for crazy dances with crazy cousins and cute brothers. I am thankful for Aunt Jemima. I am thankful for banging on metal bars with rocks and shouting at the top of our lungs. I am thankful for climbing over gates in order to not step on cracks. I am thankful for amazing humanities teachers. I am thankful for a laugh when the day is over. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How those kids manage to fit all of their thankfulness into one word is beyond me. Even the one-word things we are thankful for, must be described with a million words.
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in complete melodies the frequencies i hear can not be contained by anything love is drifting through the hills and you are home to its trills she dreams of light, the fire bright and full of crystal skulls and eyeballs dozens of monuments are built just to mark the moments when we could have said i'm sorry merge with the mountains find the source of fountains shine the diamond compass if that's what you are really here for broken dams are our business feed the swans their luminescent lunch-boxes duck for cover, its a wonder that we are all together here that's clearly redundant the tendency to dream is the most important human faculty its a tragedy that the lack of nuclear power showers the atomic world in rainbows as forlorn teenagers in the ice-age of America govern our equipment from their parent's basements and carouse with comfort upon chairs, cushions and couches a million times the victory a million miles of rope to weave a million are the paths to god and a million more are the souls who've learned to cope with tragedy i come cherishing and bearing gifts figures of speech are my playthings i am furniture remodeled daily and intuitively placed around your home the finer things in life are free so see me there upon your television set i am electromagnetic static within the black and white of advertisements i am figures of forgotten speech so record the unwatched programs in your mind’s virtual memory the hard drive of work and play creates hundreds of new retirees each day hundreds of haunted expatriates knuckle-headed people that couldn't tread lightly even if they wanted to so will you please untie me and remove these binds and chains it's time to free the lover from the psyche for that is all she wrote i am a silent p i am a violet apogee i am a cosmic minority i am a message in your tea leaves but if you stand too long in my shoes you’ll likely drown in solitude
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 2:34 PM UTC
a violet apogee
in complete melodies the frequencies i hear can not be contained by anything love is drifting through the hills and you are home to its trills she dreams of light, the fire bright and full of crystal skulls and eyeballs dozens of monuments are built just to mark the moments when we could have said i'm sorry merge with the mountains find the source of fountains shine the diamond compass if that's what you are really here for broken dams are our business feed the swans their luminescent lunch-boxes duck for cover, its a wonder that we are all together here that's clearly redundant the tendency to dream is the most important human faculty its a tragedy that the lack of nuclear power showers the atomic world in rainbows as forlorn teenagers in the ice-age of America govern our equipment from their parent's basements and carouse with comfort upon chairs, cushions and couches a million times the victory a million miles of rope to weave a million are the paths to god and a million more are the souls who've learned to cope with tragedy i come cherishing and bearing gifts figures of speech are my playthings i am furniture remodeled daily and intuitively placed around your home the finer things in life are free so see me there upon your television set i am electromagnetic static within the black and white of advertisements i am figures of forgotten speech so record the unwatched programs in your mind’s virtual memory the hard drive of work and play creates hundreds of new retirees each day hundreds of haunted expatriates knuckle-headed people that couldn't tread lightly even if they wanted to so will you please untie me and remove these binds and chains it's time to free the lover from the psyche for that is all she wrote i am a silent p i am a violet apogee i am a cosmic minority i am a message in your tea leaves but if you stand too long in my shoes you’ll likely drown in solitude
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You wait in the elements, for a man who never comes. You walk to the bus stop feeling hungry. "There's a sandwich in my bag, but I have no box, it must be wet." Ugh. The elderly are getting in the way, The teenagers making too much noise. The bus is packed, It's very steamy, yet cold. You think about his no show. You ponder whether he still thinks about it. But before you know it... Your thoughts turn back to; The way my feet are cold and damp, The way my coat smells like a wet dog, The way my sandwich is soggy, and The way I waited 2 hours for a person who was never turning up. I am Miserable
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 11:24 AM UTC
Damp Shoes and Soggy Bread, my Coat Smells like Wet Dog.
am i more than a thought crossed paths with teenagers who knew no better than to travel down seashell encrusted beaches holding hands with the waves as they left footprints in the sand
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Feb 17, 2014
Feb 17, 2014 at 9:10 PM UTC
Seashells
By Arcassin B Tell me, tell me that your home safe asleep, in your bed, sometimes you would call me just to come over instead, maybe if it was settled then me and you could hit the movies, doing what teenagers do, poring organic fuse, driving those stylish cars, doing things we can't refuse, i swear to god i love you, if you wasnt so beautiful i'd braid it, knowing you, probably hate it, but i said it once before, we go greatly together, for what we have in store, she puts all of that together, this night was so glorious, think i mite live another one, promise that your social insecurities, wont lend me none, you made my life go astray, like becoming a non-virgin, didnt think that over anyway, at least my cell phone still workin'.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM UTC
"Cell Phone"
Summer scents and summer heat Teenagers' laughter and water flying Dripping heads and shoeless feet Trees wear flowers and the sun is shining To him the day's grey and there's too much noise Smothered in his black shirt he's ignored by other boys Saved by the bell, he joins the row some teacher leads While a group of pupils talks, two girls argue and one reads At his usual seat he takes his usual things Acting like he's writing while he's finishing some drawings Yet his mind slips away to something near Someone's stare makes his concentration disappear Frustrated his eyes find her silent stare When the teacher turns his back, she leaves her desk in one, two, three Unbalanced he acts like he doesn't care He could just pretend like he didn't see Next to him she takes place The seat astonished by the company Her hands slowly reach his face And before he knows his vision gets blurry Still wondering what's going on, the poor boy has no clue Until she whispers- with his glasses on: Now I see the world like you. Y.
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 3:23 PM UTC
The Classmate
'They're just a teen' gets dropped on the daily. Like the added couple of letters at the end determine whether our feelings are valued or not. They only ever tell us they're here for us when someone offs themselves on the train tracks next to the school. Call this number if you feel down. Teenage years are the time to find out who you are, and maybe I am a depressed mess, but us Gen Z kids are doing our best to make sure us sad'ens feel alright. Sometimes we don't feel alright, and, so what, if it is just down to hormones and periods, and Max's muscly shoulders or Louise's brown eyes. We are allowed to feel like **** Cos Teenage years are the time where we find out life isn't like animated movies; that bad guys are defeated and the hero wins; cos, in the end, sometimes we're our own saboteurs. And we find out, sometimes that's okay;  to knock ourselves down will make us build ourselves up in the grand scheme of things; I sure as hell know I hate how I feel most days, and I'm sure most teenagers do. I'm just a teen; but I have a loud voice, terrible jokes and a **** economy to grow into, and I'm allowed to be mad and cry and I'm allowed to feel like **** and want to die because in the end, I know it'll all be fine. Married or alone with wine. Sometimes life is **** and that's okay; and to me, that _is_ the teenage dream.
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Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 at 6:06 PM UTC
a teenage mind; explored.
My couch, Is death, And avoidance is a second language, Ask me do I speak it? Conjoined twins, Of misery and manipulation, No calls, Only cushions and customer's custom complaints, From tomorrow, The phone wont ring, So I'll stay down this road, Listening to headlines and headlights Sing, Moody music dwelling, Where the lies and shame met in between, Cut the cue, end the scene The stage has been rebuilt, We talked like teenagers, And you told me that I've changed, But the same, Still that same number, No more gap, But your smile still kills, Pain with palendromes, We were here before, And so again we, Our fighting saying goodnight, Street lamps in different cities, Static. I'm just fine, Playing my part, My mainstream maybe different, But Obsession has been overcame, By the rising tide of a smile, If the teleprompting signs shine through, Meanwhiles and meditations What can I do, Except hope I'm reading, The Right Script, The couch, It asks, Where have you been? I set down another, chip.
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Jun 13, 2018
Jun 13, 2018 at 1:41 AM UTC
Then and Now: A Mishmash of Feelings and You Knows & Who Knows
Shopping outfashioned hunting and gathering, Processed beats fresh, Groceries replaced fruit trees, Malls superceded forests, Churches outnumbered temples, Countries dissolved to territories, Places devolved to areas, Paths broke down into highways, Commodity converted to currency, Laborers submit to machinery, Masters engage in humbug, Apprentices reduced to students, Knowledge downgraded to education, And education is deducted to a show of grades, While schools are the stages, And the corporate world is the bigger runway, With work slumped to employment, Wisdom demoted to profession, Where in jobs are the only future, Careers are the only success, Clicking and pressing buttons are skills, Computers are correspondent to brains, Information refers to news reports, Intelligence means up-to-dateness, Browsing is preferable to reading, Studying is in demand more than learning, Viewing things flashed on screens yields awareness, Transportation is to traveling, As buying is to the three basic needs, And needs embody worldly possessions, Worldly possessions define happiness, Happiness is due to selfishness, Selfishness is traced to the lack of love, The lack of love draws from the lack of faith, Because faith stands for religion, And religion stands for membership, Where politicians are the gods, Celebrities are the preachers, And the preachers are the enemies, While networking is equal to friendship, And connection equates to communication, Experiences require photos, Memories necessitate uploading, Souvenirs can be downloaded, Smartphones are substitute to pets, Gadgets are toys, Holding controllers is playing, Watching TV is exploring the great outdoors, Internet is recreation, And technology is a way of life; While humans are scientists, Nature is a guinea pig, And the earth is a laboratory, Where prices are misidentified for worth, Processes are miscalculated as progress, Impoverishment is confused with improvement, And getting more is mistaken as getting better; And then we wonder why Homes have become houses, Family members have become boarders, Nations are separate species Composed of tired and hungry citizens, Children are monsters Who are biochemically rascals, Teenagers are zombies Whose adventures lead to delinquency, Adults are robots Who just clang when touched, And life is not so simple As how it is said to be.
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 5:40 AM UTC
The Nth Trial-and-error
Shopping outfashioned hunting and gathering, Processed beats fresh, Groceries replaced fruit trees, Malls superceded forests, Churches outnumbered temples, Countries dissolved to territories, Places devolved to areas, Paths broke down into highways, Commodity converted to currency, Laborers submit to machinery, Masters engage in humbug, Apprentices reduced to students, Knowledge downgraded to education, And education is deducted to a show of grades, While schools are the stages, And the corporate world is the bigger runway, With work slumped to employment, Wisdom demoted to profession, Where in jobs are the only future, Careers are the only success, Clicking and pressing buttons are skills, Computers are correspondent to brains, Information refers to news reports, Intelligence means up-to-dateness, Browsing is preferable to reading, Studying is in demand more than learning, Viewing things flashed on screens yields awareness, Transportation is to traveling, As buying is to the three basic needs, And needs embody worldly possessions, Worldly possessions define happiness, Happiness is due to selfishness, Selfishness is traced to the lack of love, The lack of love draws from the lack of faith, Because faith stands for religion, And religion stands for membership, Where politicians are the gods, Celebrities are the preachers, And the preachers are the enemies, While networking is equal to friendship, And connection equates to communication, Experiences require photos, Memories necessitate uploading, Souvenirs can be downloaded, Smartphones are substitute to pets, Gadgets are toys, Holding controllers is playing, Watching TV is exploring the great outdoors, Internet is recreation, And technology is a way of life; While humans are scientists, Nature is a guinea pig, And the earth is a laboratory, Where prices are misidentified for worth, Processes are miscalculated as progress, Impoverishment is confused with improvement, And getting more is mistaken as getting better; And then we wonder why Homes have become houses, Family members have become boarders, Nations are separate species Composed of tired and hungry citizens, Children are monsters Who are biochemically rascals, Teenagers are zombies Whose adventures lead to delinquency, Adults are robots Who just clang when touched, And life is not so simple As how it is said to be.
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a dark place, dingy and cobwebbed: the forlorn basement below an unfinished house; there is no hope of an HGTV house-flip or a makeover or the sort of boring/heartwarming story where some nice white family —or conveniently diverse— sets up shop, smash-cuts through a renovation and gets their dream home. no, the house will remain gloomy, this basement filled with emptiness; no one desires to come through the door, no one except the tweakers and the vagabonds and the runaways, the ****** and the pimps, the celebrities and psychiatrists, the demons and the ghosts, the preachers and their seething congregations of judgmental ****** that live across the street, and the ***** teenagers hunting for a place to try out *** no cleaning crew or maid service or organize-your-life guru or even the most experienced of all the world’s janitors could enter this house and clean it or beautify this basement or disenfranchise the squatters within; the neighbors just try and demolish it every chance they get, to rid their sparkling, spotless community of this disgusting eyesore.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
the perfect neighborhood
Can we talk about the word trigger Because people are dumb Teenagers say they are triggered when They don’t want to write a paper They miss a goal in soccer They drop their phone That is called being annoyed or disappointed That is not triggered A trigger is an emotional allergy Some that triggers distress or panic A trigger is loud noises cause a panic attack
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Sep 22, 2019
Sep 22, 2019 at 10:12 PM UTC
trigger
Let's go skate, Wear all black, Smoke cigarettes, And day dream, In the dead of night. ~S.C. Kelley
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 10:30 PM UTC
Teenagers
Slumming. Slumming around downtown. Slumming around downtown St. Paul. A broke high school student. A broke student with perpetual down time. A broken down senior student letting go of time. Slumming. Slumming down to Raspberry. Slumming down to Raspberry Island. Walking across the Mississippi River. The bridge had been raided. Marching. Marching down teal and raspberry stairs. Icycle nose hairs. Seeing my breath as my chest shivers. I found my heart trapped under the solid river. Teenagers ******** about freshmen that got the bridge raided, Teenagers ******** about artists they've always hated and artists ******** about things they've created. Underagers slowly letting out smoke. Underagers letting out what keeps their lungs beating. Underagers slowly letting out steam, cheating. Me. letting out smoke that came from the ice. Smoke of below zero temperature, freezing my insides. Mindless. Mindlessly walking. Mindlessly walking through endless skyways. Mindless. Mindlessly talking. Mindlessly talking about things I don't remember. Until we've arrived at We-Be-Smokin'. Huddling. Huddling in a group. Admiring the art that claimed the spot before we did. Scuttling. Feet scuttling. Feet scuttling in place to outrun the cold. Reminiscing of months before when I was sitting alone in Starbucks with my venti white chocolate mocha listening to crazy George yell at his imaginary wife. Not being bothered. Not being cold.
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Sep 14, 2012
Sep 14, 2012 at 12:06 AM UTC
Raspberry Island
i’m at work. my coworkers, no, my friends are with me. the restaurant is empty and we’re laughing. laughing about who knows what; maybe a crazy customer, maybe one of his hilarious anecdotes, maybe her joke, maybe just because we’re dumb teenagers who’ll laugh at anything. we’re standing and laughing and for the first time in a very long time i feel it. it flows through my body starting from my chest and goes all the way down to my toes and fingertips. it surrounds me, but not in the suffocating way that the sadness does. no, this is different. this feels like a warm hug that i didn’t know i needed until i got it. i feel like my entire being is lighting up and i want to stay in that moment forever. after just a second, the happiness vanishes, but it still leaves traces inside me. i feel hopeful. when’s the last time i felt that? i feel hopeful and i know just from that fleeting burst of happiness that everything’s worth it. i know that i’ll be able to feel that high of emotions again and god, do i want to. and everyone else is still laughing and smiling and i know that things can’t stay this way forever because eventually a car will pull into the parking lot or the manager will come out and tell us to clean but none of that matters. because in that moment, i am happy and i know that i am not unfixable and i know that i can be a normal dumb teenager laughing at normal dumb things. and that’s all that really matters.
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Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 9:49 PM UTC
happiness pt i
sleeping alone hurts a lot more when you have actually felt the warmth of someone else for weeks on end all these teenagers complain about not cuddling when their cuddling is awkward and strange, hard to fall asleep to but when I was in my friend's arms (and legs, and face, and hands, and feet) it was like the world was okay again and the two of us together were dry and warm, right there taking a break from reality the cold could not touch us.
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 1:56 PM UTC
cuddling
(October 17th, 2013, I think is when I wrote this.) There aren’t many things that I’m good at. I have bad grades. I’m aware of this, but they still insist on shouting as if three letter F’s determine my worth as well as my ability. I’m not athletic, never been remotely decent at sports, picked last for soccer, football, basketball, and everything else, tried to do parkour once- however, that hope quickly dissolved when I discovered that it was still nerve-wracking for me to climb a fence. (One of the many gifts that comes with a severe lack of coordination.) I’m not a quiet person. I don’t know how to hold my tongue most of the time. So when my father’s paycheck is cut shorter and shorter, when he makes little enough as it is, my stay-at-home mother fighting her demons of the severe depression and anxiety that she passed down to me as well as her (auditory) hallucinations, her BPD, her physical disabilities, not making a paycheck at all, and my school supplies consist of 50-cent notebooks that fall apart, and 75-cent pens, I get a little… “upset”. I’ve played guitar for three years. Sometimes, it’s what I’m best at, playing strings of notes and minor chords that come together to form beautiful harmonies- but more often than not, every note is sour… Another thing I’m not good at. But I am a writer. People don’t pay attention to teenagers, they say We’re so full of ourselves, We think we’re so important, they say We need to communicate, but when we try all they hear is whining, and complaining. Teenagers telling their friends in passing conversation that they’re suicidal, that they hurt themselves, just to see who will notice- who will listen- and of course, no one does. Nobody notices that teenagers are the voice of our generation, and our generation, as such, is royally ****** because nobody pays attention. There aren’t many things that I’m good at. But I am a writer. And I have a voice, a pen… And paper torn from a 50-cent notebook.
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Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC
I Am A Writer
(October 17th, 2013, I think is when I wrote this.) There aren’t many things that I’m good at. I have bad grades. I’m aware of this, but they still insist on shouting as if three letter F’s determine my worth as well as my ability. I’m not athletic, never been remotely decent at sports, picked last for soccer, football, basketball, and everything else, tried to do parkour once- however, that hope quickly dissolved when I discovered that it was still nerve-wracking for me to climb a fence. (One of the many gifts that comes with a severe lack of coordination.) I’m not a quiet person. I don’t know how to hold my tongue most of the time. So when my father’s paycheck is cut shorter and shorter, when he makes little enough as it is, my stay-at-home mother fighting her demons of the severe depression and anxiety that she passed down to me as well as her (auditory) hallucinations, her BPD, her physical disabilities, not making a paycheck at all, and my school supplies consist of 50-cent notebooks that fall apart, and 75-cent pens, I get a little… “upset”. I’ve played guitar for three years. Sometimes, it’s what I’m best at, playing strings of notes and minor chords that come together to form beautiful harmonies- but more often than not, every note is sour… Another thing I’m not good at. But I am a writer. People don’t pay attention to teenagers, they say We’re so full of ourselves, We think we’re so important, they say We need to communicate, but when we try all they hear is whining, and complaining. Teenagers telling their friends in passing conversation that they’re suicidal, that they hurt themselves, just to see who will notice- who will listen- and of course, no one does. Nobody notices that teenagers are the voice of our generation, and our generation, as such, is royally ****** because nobody pays attention. There aren’t many things that I’m good at. But I am a writer. And I have a voice, a pen… And paper torn from a 50-cent notebook.
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Prom night Hoping for limelight No fight towards the Alcohol fueled lust We just want what's just To break off some rust To end the night wrapped in her/his arms Waking up to a cheesy love story But nothing gory no glory Just the generic songs Playing through the generic throng Of people looking for more Maybe the unknown Possibly the gold throne But in the end Teenagers aren't hard to get So we danced young Like we'd live forever And at the end of the night We made our own stories
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 9:09 PM UTC
Prom night
By Arcassin Burnham I wasn't sure, If i ever was good enough to ever step to your throne, So I endured, What I could, just to get you alone, Moses separated seas, The pharoas had a different purpose, You just had a jungle full of servants, They act they deserve it, Nobody had to be perfect, Nobody had to be perfect, But your sacrifice was worth it, Hear her roar, Scratching claws, Perfect angels, Baby you don't have no flaws, Fierce, Half lion human face, Would do anything, To serve you in your warm embrace. I wasn't sure, If i ever was good enough to ever step to your throne, So I endured, What I could, just to get you alone, I wasn't sure, If i ever was good enough to ever step to your throne, So I endured, What I could, just to get you alone. My Lion Queen. So before I diss you, Is there anything you wanna say to the critics, Because they would like to know, I'm tired of trying to get your attention, I swear to god ***** you're on your own, Could of saw you at the best your of your abilities, But instead you up and ignore me, But i won't let keep letting you follow me on HP, So what you gotta say the critics, They would like to know, Or do you still have that so called old soul, Stuck inside a teenagers body, The story was told , Over and over, So you could get over yourself, Before I block you, I just wanna hear you cry for help. I took your throne.. lion Queen.
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 12:13 AM UTC
"Lion Queen"