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"tendon" poems
For a creation was devised of the purest and simplest elements in life When the calming and smooth sensation of water caressed your bones, it carved canals of strength along the way Your skin crawled and crept past your defined chin to bind with its lover and when the tendon reached the muscle, it fused in an unbreakable relationship Baby, the sight of your eyes shatters the crystallization of the finest glass And your voice pierces the night fog leaving a path for only you The kindness of your heart poured into the rivers to feed oxygen to all of those who depended on it Your body contains the same carbon that creates sparkling diamonds The majority of the oxygen is the same element creating tornadoes, or when fused to hydrogen to make a hurricane Do you see how powerful you are made? Your soft lips are the same lips that can produce sound in an empty canyon Your bones are the base of your embrace when you sweep me off my feet That mind is the exact replica that discovered how to survive the times that were a bigger struggle than planned Despite all of these acts, how simple or extravagant You are the perfect arrangement of atoms that hold my hand when I am scared to carry on alone And the same arrangement of atoms that pull me close and kiss my lips One might say these actions, however small, have a stronger effect than any hurricane, or tornado, or diamond For you are a creation devised of the purest and simplest elements in life And you are completely mine
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 7:21 PM UTC
A Perfect Arrangement of Atoms
For a creation was devised of the purest and simplest elements in life When the calming and smooth sensation of water caressed your bones, it carved canals of strength along the way Your skin crawled and crept past your defined chin to bind with its lover and when the tendon reached the muscle, it fused in an unbreakable relationship Baby, the sight of your eyes shatters the crystallization of the finest glass And your voice pierces the night fog leaving a path for only you The kindness of your heart poured into the rivers to feed oxygen to all of those who depended on it Your body contains the same carbon that creates sparkling diamonds The majority of the oxygen is the same element creating tornadoes, or when fused to hydrogen to make a hurricane Do you see how powerful you are made? Your soft lips are the same lips that can produce sound in an empty canyon Your bones are the base of your embrace when you sweep me off my feet That mind is the exact replica that discovered how to survive the times that were a bigger struggle than planned Despite all of these acts, how simple or extravagant You are the perfect arrangement of atoms that hold my hand when I am scared to carry on alone And the same arrangement of atoms that pull me close and kiss my lips One might say these actions, however small, have a stronger effect than any hurricane, or tornado, or diamond For you are a creation devised of the purest and simplest elements in life And you are completely mine
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this door exists, stately and staunchly it stands, disheartening and terrifying it remains. the door is unlocked, yet cannot be opened, for in it, a path in time... one decision that can affect everything [such as my choice to wear the necklace you adore, which lead to you noticing me for the very first time, or my idea to play you the song that you fell in love with, which i can no longer listen to] ...for in this door, one path is intimidatingly located. every bone in my body, every last muscle, tendon, ligament each artery, each vein, each capillary every single nerve, even each microscopic cell, implores me not to open this tempting door... [it is almost as if my hand refuses to grasp the handle, to unleash the unknown upon me, the colossal chain of events that would ensue] the immensity of the unfamiliar, the unexplored, tends to perturb me. change is unnerving and is almost as chilling as an abandoned graveyard at midnight. but i bring my mind back to the door, yes! this preposterous door that i have contrived for myself. why is the **** so easily turned? why does it not put up somewhat of a fight, at least jolt me suddenly, as to frighten my curious heart? it is a constant battle between my body my mind and my heart as to which doors to open and which ones to leave ever so steadfastly closed. but never once has there been such a struggle for them to reach an understanding. somehow my heart, [even though a fraction of me, a fist, dripping in blood] is prevailing for the moment. my heart reaches for the handle, attempts to unclose the door... yet, with the best of its ability, withstanding my strong-willed and obstinate heart, my powerful body and commanding mind overcome this hostile takeover, and the door remains shut. it is my body, my skillful mouth, my soft, rose lips, my elegant tongue, and my vocal chords... all of these pieces must contrive the words, conceive the change, which will unveil the path that will forever alter us... slowly, opening the door. being as in love with you as i am, i will not let you slip away from my arms right now. but when we are not together [*i wish you’d have been there, i needed you there*] i stare at this humbling door. if i wait too long, i’ll forever lose you; for it is you who will make this choice for me, opening your own door, fearless and dauntless.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 2:40 AM UTC
The Door
this door exists, stately and staunchly it stands, disheartening and terrifying it remains. the door is unlocked, yet cannot be opened, for in it, a path in time... one decision that can affect everything [such as my choice to wear the necklace you adore, which lead to you noticing me for the very first time, or my idea to play you the song that you fell in love with, which i can no longer listen to] ...for in this door, one path is intimidatingly located. every bone in my body, every last muscle, tendon, ligament each artery, each vein, each capillary every single nerve, even each microscopic cell, implores me not to open this tempting door... [it is almost as if my hand refuses to grasp the handle, to unleash the unknown upon me, the colossal chain of events that would ensue] the immensity of the unfamiliar, the unexplored, tends to perturb me. change is unnerving and is almost as chilling as an abandoned graveyard at midnight. but i bring my mind back to the door, yes! this preposterous door that i have contrived for myself. why is the **** so easily turned? why does it not put up somewhat of a fight, at least jolt me suddenly, as to frighten my curious heart? it is a constant battle between my body my mind and my heart as to which doors to open and which ones to leave ever so steadfastly closed. but never once has there been such a struggle for them to reach an understanding. somehow my heart, [even though a fraction of me, a fist, dripping in blood] is prevailing for the moment. my heart reaches for the handle, attempts to unclose the door... yet, with the best of its ability, withstanding my strong-willed and obstinate heart, my powerful body and commanding mind overcome this hostile takeover, and the door remains shut. it is my body, my skillful mouth, my soft, rose lips, my elegant tongue, and my vocal chords... all of these pieces must contrive the words, conceive the change, which will unveil the path that will forever alter us... slowly, opening the door. being as in love with you as i am, i will not let you slip away from my arms right now. but when we are not together [*i wish you’d have been there, i needed you there*] i stare at this humbling door. if i wait too long, i’ll forever lose you; for it is you who will make this choice for me, opening your own door, fearless and dauntless.
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Introduction There they stood; keeping silent company. Yet of His face, wept searing electricity. To the lovers of life Here they stand, keeping silent company. No utterance dealt; yet clear in both their minds A single, brilliant truth: He longs for her with a savage delight. And it cries from every fibre, exalting! It is in the bearing of his eye; Rifling through her tender flesh In search of what he knows, from voices ages old, is there: That her heart will beat for no other as it beats for him right now; That in this moment, their Souls are bared To each other’s glares- naked, and blemished, and cowering- Yet his eyes remain fixed and sure: And for this, she loves him. For they have seen each other for the First of Times, Truly! And as with many the Ancient Laws unfurled, They stand aware, in lack of ever being taught, Aware with every atom, every straining tendon tight That their time's so very short. And so they drink… wordless To each other, to their youth, and to their bodies Shining like never before in the noonday air Garbed in cloth that snaps and furls around their waists. They imbibe with electric eyes, Eyes that are new born to this world of light And come out screaming, living, and sensitive For lack of ever being touched. They revel in their new-found joy; Pouring from Her figure, Of Her sleek, supple waist and the arch of her back, Bristling with delight, Of His strong hands and easy smile, That spoke of laughter scattered Across countless campfires of summers past. Their light does burn intense as any fire, And when their brimming anticipation Overspills its crimson chalice The silence shall SHATTER. To find peace again in each other's arms. Fumbling in sweet darkness- Of heavy lids, of earthy flesh, With lips embraced... In ravenous finality.
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Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 5:14 PM UTC
In Garbs of Light Unfurled
Introduction There they stood; keeping silent company. Yet of His face, wept searing electricity. To the lovers of life Here they stand, keeping silent company. No utterance dealt; yet clear in both their minds A single, brilliant truth: He longs for her with a savage delight. And it cries from every fibre, exalting! It is in the bearing of his eye; Rifling through her tender flesh In search of what he knows, from voices ages old, is there: That her heart will beat for no other as it beats for him right now; That in this moment, their Souls are bared To each other’s glares- naked, and blemished, and cowering- Yet his eyes remain fixed and sure: And for this, she loves him. For they have seen each other for the First of Times, Truly! And as with many the Ancient Laws unfurled, They stand aware, in lack of ever being taught, Aware with every atom, every straining tendon tight That their time's so very short. And so they drink… wordless To each other, to their youth, and to their bodies Shining like never before in the noonday air Garbed in cloth that snaps and furls around their waists. They imbibe with electric eyes, Eyes that are new born to this world of light And come out screaming, living, and sensitive For lack of ever being touched. They revel in their new-found joy; Pouring from Her figure, Of Her sleek, supple waist and the arch of her back, Bristling with delight, Of His strong hands and easy smile, That spoke of laughter scattered Across countless campfires of summers past. Their light does burn intense as any fire, And when their brimming anticipation Overspills its crimson chalice The silence shall SHATTER. To find peace again in each other's arms. Fumbling in sweet darkness- Of heavy lids, of earthy flesh, With lips embraced... In ravenous finality.
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Pure? What does it mean? The tongues of hell Are dull, dull as the triple Tongues of dull, fat Cerebus Who wheezes at the gate. Incapable Of licking clean The aguey tendon, the sin, the sin. The tinder cries. The indelible smell Of a snuffed candle! Love, love, the low smokes roll From me like Isadora's scarves, I'm in a fright One scarf will catch and anchor in the wheel. Such yellow sullen smokes Make their own element. They will not rise, But trundle round the globe Choking the aged and the meek, The weak Hothouse baby in its crib, The ghastly orchid Hanging its hanging garden in the air, Devilish leopard! Radiation turned it white And killed it in an hour. Greasing the bodies of adulterers Like Hiroshima ash and eating in. The sin. The sin. Darling, all night I have been flickering, off, on, off, on. The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss. Three days. Three nights. Lemon water, chicken Water, water make me retch. I am too pure for you or anyone. Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern ---- My head a moon Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive. Does not my heat astound you. And my light. All by myself I am a huge camellia Glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. I think I am going up, I think I may rise ---- The beads of hot metal fly, and I, love, I Am a pure acetylene ****** Attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these pink things mean. Not you, nor him. Not him, nor him (My selves dissolving, old ***** petticoats) ---- To Paradise.
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Fever 103°
Pure? What does it mean? The tongues of hell Are dull, dull as the triple Tongues of dull, fat Cerebus Who wheezes at the gate. Incapable Of licking clean The aguey tendon, the sin, the sin. The tinder cries. The indelible smell Of a snuffed candle! Love, love, the low smokes roll From me like Isadora's scarves, I'm in a fright One scarf will catch and anchor in the wheel. Such yellow sullen smokes Make their own element. They will not rise, But trundle round the globe Choking the aged and the meek, The weak Hothouse baby in its crib, The ghastly orchid Hanging its hanging garden in the air, Devilish leopard! Radiation turned it white And killed it in an hour. Greasing the bodies of adulterers Like Hiroshima ash and eating in. The sin. The sin. Darling, all night I have been flickering, off, on, off, on. The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss. Three days. Three nights. Lemon water, chicken Water, water make me retch. I am too pure for you or anyone. Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern ---- My head a moon Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive. Does not my heat astound you. And my light. All by myself I am a huge camellia Glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. I think I am going up, I think I may rise ---- The beads of hot metal fly, and I, love, I Am a pure acetylene ****** Attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these pink things mean. Not you, nor him. Not him, nor him (My selves dissolving, old ***** petticoats) ---- To Paradise.
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A duality of elan vital, two people Spectres of emotion Intertwined by a fuselage of bruised skin & tendon Tissues become orbital, gushing towards grafts Helixes of snot, **** and lymph Boy & girl As they embrace the animating principle and eachother, they fuse A one piece tapestry adorned seamless with no hem, beginning or end Always was, always is Patiently turning to liquid as their being unzips Lying figures of runny makeup and genetic ***** Quintessence, a texture of synaptic potential Corpus Callosum An entirety of self, lost in imbued disintegration Theory of mind, looped & bound I will water the thought Roots envisaged in dystopian amygdala Piercing data packets with a frost-like intensity Forgetting our obsolescence moments ago A neuron dipped in nylon Theta waves and the non-euclidean crux of dissociation Ghosts in the machine, your macro god The sympathies of fractional distillation Digitised/assimilated unto the nanosphere Cold hands and brass backs galvanised in oscillated tears Commodified, sold out and bought Stretching, from purple, white and black slowly losing its colour, amorphous in shape brushed across a smudge, ambiguously chromatic Monetised flesh god An eternity bathed in starlight Cutting an incision in the sky to allow entropy Divided dimensions of energy Fleeting and intangible No longer a delirium of seperation All semantics become light As a rusted vehicle passes overhead And all the worlds questions fade out of existence Flutters of red tape and foregone growth of practice Sinew flayed, integrated towards information Our minds shared In circuits and resistors Photons and electrons We radiate
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM UTC
The Miracle Of The Sun
A duality of elan vital, two people Spectres of emotion Intertwined by a fuselage of bruised skin & tendon Tissues become orbital, gushing towards grafts Helixes of snot, **** and lymph Boy & girl As they embrace the animating principle and eachother, they fuse A one piece tapestry adorned seamless with no hem, beginning or end Always was, always is Patiently turning to liquid as their being unzips Lying figures of runny makeup and genetic ***** Quintessence, a texture of synaptic potential Corpus Callosum An entirety of self, lost in imbued disintegration Theory of mind, looped & bound I will water the thought Roots envisaged in dystopian amygdala Piercing data packets with a frost-like intensity Forgetting our obsolescence moments ago A neuron dipped in nylon Theta waves and the non-euclidean crux of dissociation Ghosts in the machine, your macro god The sympathies of fractional distillation Digitised/assimilated unto the nanosphere Cold hands and brass backs galvanised in oscillated tears Commodified, sold out and bought Stretching, from purple, white and black slowly losing its colour, amorphous in shape brushed across a smudge, ambiguously chromatic Monetised flesh god An eternity bathed in starlight Cutting an incision in the sky to allow entropy Divided dimensions of energy Fleeting and intangible No longer a delirium of seperation All semantics become light As a rusted vehicle passes overhead And all the worlds questions fade out of existence Flutters of red tape and foregone growth of practice Sinew flayed, integrated towards information Our minds shared In circuits and resistors Photons and electrons We radiate
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You like to party, I am a partier You like to wander, I am a wanderer Your thighs are the closet to Narnia Is it cool if I go and get lost in that? I'm the lion, the witch in the wardrobe Massage my lap, I have a sore bone Of course cold on the dance floor Like an Eskimo's toes in the North Pole With both toes poking out of two holes In the Eskimo socks, I'm hot Like a cauldron from a warlock Wearing sweatpants in a sauna Who's your father? I'm not I'm motherfuckin' Raven Bowie and here's my **** Rooster, Cock-a-doodle-doo sir Take a hit of the hooka, now make it drop Girl's ***** was bigger than the stomach of Rick Ross Holy mother mountain of tender tendon to get lost in Bounce, bounce, that castle ***** that bottom Make it wobble, wobbly-waddle 'til my third leg has to hobble You don't want to look back on this night And think I should have been freaking on a ***** Freak-freaking on a *****
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 7:13 AM UTC
Castle Mackelmore
Hustlin' out of your garage, it never takes us far. My hands are in your hair, now it's all up in the air... Hard love in your garage, hey now, we are what we are. And it's okay darling, for the stage you're in, 'cause you're still shedding so much skin. Push the blood to the tendon - lend me a hand, save Sunday for sleeping in. When the rhythm hits and the syllables split, I'm just trying you. If I get to heaven, or, if I could only just get the hell on out of here, it would be 'cause I followed you.
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Jan 29, 2012
Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 PM UTC
Hustle, Now
In the dark of night, in the middle of a storm A dish falls, shatters A shriek tears the relative silence Pale pink blood blossoms in the water While rich red blood wells up in the hand Tears falling like a blinding waterfall Stabs and throbs of aching stinging searing pain Blood and pain and tears fill the mind A flash of white tissue beneath the torrents of red Panting sobs and hyperventilation Panicking as victim is rushed to the ER Mother tries to comfort daughter with story of healed, Previously lacerated toes Two words blurted between gasps of pain: NOT HELPING Arrive to an empty lobby, excepting a nurse and receptionist Focus on nothing, only the hand The possible tendon torn, the skin shredded, the blood spilt Dishtowel now soaking red irony fluid instead of clear soapy The story repeated 6, 7, 8 times A nurse asks if I smoke or drink A radiologist asks if there is any chance for pregnancy And for a moment I am shocked out of my pain into pondering The corruption of the modern generations, Such that I am asked these questions Any friend of mine would quickly tell that No, I'm not that kind of teenager... but how many are? Then I am whisked from the x-ray room Off for stitches, they say my tendon is cut That I need stitches The fingers no longer gush, but that triviality is soon remedied A doctor probes the wound for shards Nurse flushes it clean with chlorohexadine Both renew the flow Doctor returns, stitches both fingers and chats away Grand tally of five stitches, a splint, blankets of guaze, And a roll of medical tape Prescriptions for pain meds and antibiotics, both given A scoffing glance, but instructions are followed Forbidden from any activity with the right hand by my mother I struggle even to write, simple chores soon a nuisance First time the splint and stitches are gone, Doctor number two declares my hand usable First time the little finger bends, the half healed skin splits So all for a plate, a hand was rendered more useless
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 10:07 PM UTC
hand laceration
In the dark of night, in the middle of a storm A dish falls, shatters A shriek tears the relative silence Pale pink blood blossoms in the water While rich red blood wells up in the hand Tears falling like a blinding waterfall Stabs and throbs of aching stinging searing pain Blood and pain and tears fill the mind A flash of white tissue beneath the torrents of red Panting sobs and hyperventilation Panicking as victim is rushed to the ER Mother tries to comfort daughter with story of healed, Previously lacerated toes Two words blurted between gasps of pain: NOT HELPING Arrive to an empty lobby, excepting a nurse and receptionist Focus on nothing, only the hand The possible tendon torn, the skin shredded, the blood spilt Dishtowel now soaking red irony fluid instead of clear soapy The story repeated 6, 7, 8 times A nurse asks if I smoke or drink A radiologist asks if there is any chance for pregnancy And for a moment I am shocked out of my pain into pondering The corruption of the modern generations, Such that I am asked these questions Any friend of mine would quickly tell that No, I'm not that kind of teenager... but how many are? Then I am whisked from the x-ray room Off for stitches, they say my tendon is cut That I need stitches The fingers no longer gush, but that triviality is soon remedied A doctor probes the wound for shards Nurse flushes it clean with chlorohexadine Both renew the flow Doctor returns, stitches both fingers and chats away Grand tally of five stitches, a splint, blankets of guaze, And a roll of medical tape Prescriptions for pain meds and antibiotics, both given A scoffing glance, but instructions are followed Forbidden from any activity with the right hand by my mother I struggle even to write, simple chores soon a nuisance First time the splint and stitches are gone, Doctor number two declares my hand usable First time the little finger bends, the half healed skin splits So all for a plate, a hand was rendered more useless
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Holy **** I'm a ****** got no grit and finds life hard. Got ***** whipped and now I can't get hard. Gonna sing myself to sleep and dream of discharge. Walk a mile, fake a smile, i'm stuck as a child. Fighting my mind, desperately trying not to be evil. People dying, I see them. A voice, it tells me to eat them. I know your insides I can practically feel them, Every bone, every muscle and tendon. Skinless people feel they need to follow me around, I try to run but they catch up and pin me to the ground. Pry my mouth wide, put your tongue inside and suddenly there's no sound. A white noise fills my mind and a darkness washes over my eyes. I'm skinless too, I can join those who used to follow me, through the red I see blonde. Lips i need to kiss, a skinless body I need to hold.
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 2:02 PM UTC
I Need A Hug!
Nostalgia is a man I have memories with,                                     but no knowledge of. He is a tree rooted in mystery with leaves that shade          the hungry mouth of a river          malnourished-- pale skin stretched over tendon. Release palm upturned in offering always offering even with nothing to give. Nostalgia                  never learned hatred,                                                        but bitterness cold winter biting at smoking hands bony fingers raw and red and reaching                                                              out out out for empty air
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 12:03 PM UTC
Nostalgia, III
come along with me lets look into the life of the common garden pea maybe you like them maybe you do not but these are my words to the common garden pea from me to them we have all seen them and had to work out how we eat them better stuck in mash potato than balanced on the knife or fork kids just distribute them so neatly on the table and the floor then hold up there plate and ask for some more but have you tried to grow them? if not come on a journey with me plant some peas in the soil water them liberally then let the season warm the earth after about 14 days or so you will see little green shoots place some sticks in for the peas likes something to hold on just like you and me for the pea has a hard life as the season moves on the pea holds out little tendon that grip on the sticks then the snails move in danger will robertson for in one night the snail can ****** all of these the peas that do survive suddenly come alive shooting up like rockets then after the flowers form all white in the sun the pods form and in them form the peas those sweet nuggets we love called garden peas
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Aug 25, 2012
Aug 25, 2012 at 2:06 PM UTC
Garden Peas.
the body falls soft curves collapsing on the edge of bedspread tangled in cliched prison escape ropes tied loose like old tendon, we are all but used. I feel the force of Fibonacci spiraling between ribs and pelvis, golden ratios divining skin, 1 to 1.616
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
Pantomimed Prison
As school comes to an end, I decide to spend the summertime with my instrument. I read music theory for two hours, but my hands yearn for the touch of six strings. Fingers position themselves to stroke bliss. But my phone’s troubled with recurring rings. **** it was mom telling me I have class! I raced for my backpack, and I told her: I will not slack. Papers grew so lonely without their folder to cuddle them close. I couldn’t care to organize them cause usually, I’d lay in my seat repose. Ionic bonds? What do they even mean? And what the heck is “double replacement”? Okay, I should start paying attention. I grasp the pen. I notice the tension. As soon as I write, my hands start to shake. I start over. Now hands begin to ache. What in the world is happening to me? Two words: I scream. Head jerks, and my legs shake. It has to be a dream. It has to be! Don’t want to move, but I have to take notes. Why are random words bursting out my throat? I’ma be real. I need my mommy! Class is over. I exclaim to mother: my fingers refuse to stop tremoring. And I’m getting these tics. What set it off? First thing I do is reach for my guitar. I can’t hold it. I can’t ******* grab it. Eyes of terror stay written on my face. The next day I was in a wheelchair. I cannot look straight- straight up to the sky or look in front and into people’s eyes. My right-hand curves to the left. A tendon sinks into my flesh, and my left fingers cramp up from being intertwined like vines. They are stiff. Hideous. These are not mine. But it does get much better with some time. I can walk again, talk again, and write. But all good things come with downfalls, don’t they? My brain disease will come at me with might. And I refuse to give up on this fight. There will be a time when I reach stage five. And I know it won’t be a pretty sight. I’m ready for what will happen to me. Dearest guitar, please know you’re my heaven. Why bother to fret? Cause’ when the time comes I’ll see you again in a few seconds.
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Jan 8, 2022
Jan 8, 2022 at 4:46 PM UTC
To My Dearest Guitar
As school comes to an end, I decide to spend the summertime with my instrument. I read music theory for two hours, but my hands yearn for the touch of six strings. Fingers position themselves to stroke bliss. But my phone’s troubled with recurring rings. **** it was mom telling me I have class! I raced for my backpack, and I told her: I will not slack. Papers grew so lonely without their folder to cuddle them close. I couldn’t care to organize them cause usually, I’d lay in my seat repose. Ionic bonds? What do they even mean? And what the heck is “double replacement”? Okay, I should start paying attention. I grasp the pen. I notice the tension. As soon as I write, my hands start to shake. I start over. Now hands begin to ache. What in the world is happening to me? Two words: I scream. Head jerks, and my legs shake. It has to be a dream. It has to be! Don’t want to move, but I have to take notes. Why are random words bursting out my throat? I’ma be real. I need my mommy! Class is over. I exclaim to mother: my fingers refuse to stop tremoring. And I’m getting these tics. What set it off? First thing I do is reach for my guitar. I can’t hold it. I can’t ******* grab it. Eyes of terror stay written on my face. The next day I was in a wheelchair. I cannot look straight- straight up to the sky or look in front and into people’s eyes. My right-hand curves to the left. A tendon sinks into my flesh, and my left fingers cramp up from being intertwined like vines. They are stiff. Hideous. These are not mine. But it does get much better with some time. I can walk again, talk again, and write. But all good things come with downfalls, don’t they? My brain disease will come at me with might. And I refuse to give up on this fight. There will be a time when I reach stage five. And I know it won’t be a pretty sight. I’m ready for what will happen to me. Dearest guitar, please know you’re my heaven. Why bother to fret? Cause’ when the time comes I’ll see you again in a few seconds.
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i’m boy with broken jaw my face and flesh of citrus fingers dripping resolute by weight of sweetened tendon the motion to which i descend i last resort upon thy tenderloin gloss touching me under sublunary breath he melts darkness to sugarfisted ****** i taste of all he ever wanted it’s a dirtyparadise out here behind the neon nickelcade day-glo slithering below my belly just ten bucks, and you’ll get your turn
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 2:18 AM UTC
nickel arcade
I saw him again by my side as I wake in the middle of the night. A thin naked man Contorted limbs fit more for a dog than a man. His burning scolding breath on my neck and he screams at me I am The Rake I am The Rake I am The Rake Large head, round black Eyes pierce through me He peels back my covers And beckons to me His hands twist in strange ways As though not bound by tendon And he screams I am The Rake I am The Rake I am The Rake It is still dark as I follow him into the woods I know what he wants - just for me to wake He is The Rake. And he wants my bones.
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 12:20 AM UTC
The Rake
Bone, muscle, and tendon Then love, hate, and redemption An emotional roller coaster A broken bridge A few memories we have all hid A lost word A forgotten phrase Time we have lost And lessons we have gained A secret, a story A little bit of gory But, most importantly What no one can see Under my skin Deep in my heart That is where you will find the real me
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 7:50 PM UTC
Under My Skin
Life, will take your hands and break every tendon in your fingers Life, will rip your fingernails off like the 12th ticket in Stop&Shop;'s deli counter line the cold, dead selects you purchase by the ounce for weekly lunches remind us all of the patience we practice each day Patiently waiting in line patiently waiting to buy He's waiting for her to text back and she is waiting for her heart to attack She's been hearing the war for years now, gunshot reminders and grenade bombers explode through her bloodstream to haunt any destiny of peace We want you to be Okay everyone wants some semblence of comfort but there are needles in my eardrums the music isn't piercing me anymore I miss notes and sailboats streaming into me I know where they are but my fingers are limp Life will numb your fingers so when your mother buys you gloves and hats on your birthday muster the golden mustard stained napkin in your heart and wipe the selfish tears A piano is unrealistic, that opportunity passed years ago Be thankful for the very light reflecting off of the silverware, remember Life will never be simple or fair you will always be here but wish you are there Sometimes you will feel like nobody cares and that's alright nobody has to care except for the gremlins that live inside my hair
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 10:40 PM UTC
The Gremlins wrote this
It starts at the bottom Of my belly, Right above your Favorite spot, Then it pings And pongs From elbows to knees, From toes to shins, From heart to biceps, And from head to fingers, Taking it's final bow On the parts of my back You sculpted- This is how I miss you, In every bend, crack, snap, and creek In every bone, vein, muscle, and tendon.
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 10:47 AM UTC
The Pieces are Starting to Numb
You make the twist and curdle of muscle look sweet Hoods of flesh clench Lines extending towards congratulating champagne toasts Liquid turned taught Floating like a pair of scissors Most subtle razor to ever caress The tissue paper lips of the floor You wrap your heady-spice palms Flourishing and dripping Every pulse a dropped memory They whisper of inspiration and dust Licks of silver swim through you Eyes misty rocks where dreams go to impale their masters Commanding the lovely, forming it to fit Frost spangles the trees that create pillars of tendon The ease of sandpaper on granite You make silken Simple.
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Jul 4, 2012
Jul 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM UTC
Ballet Teacher
There is a man walking slowly in me And he’s going through each room, one by one, Turning on all the lights while passing by Stripping the scenes with silver dollar eyes. With a flick of his chicken bone finger The kitchen lights violently flare up To reveal tomato stains, upset Stomachs, windows and broken table legs. “Call the medic now!”– In the living room The lights just found choked up throats and down town Sticky red wine stains that bleat beat up Little lambs for little peeps and little Mistakes that become big scabs and big scams That swallows the shallowest of waters. Now the man who certainly loves the light Is in the bathroom where the peeping brights Gouge and grind the snuffed and lying young man Till he is but the pulp and rind and juice. “Where’s the medic?” Screams the mad running blood “Where’s the ******* medic?” They cry again. Now he tricks the porch light into being Forcing it to leer upon this **** scene Of a man barely living, most likely Sleeping, with a garden hose stuffed down his Gorgon throat seeping– weeping – all at once. Where is he now? The man who loves the lights? He’s walking to the impressive bedroom. The lights wrestle and work the shadows down Looking for the living, the last one home Hiding away just in his underwear. The man of lights opens the closet door Just takes a look at the creature’s features When he has finished, when he has remarked He marks the skin with light, then tears it off. He takes each muscle each tendon and bone And throws them, crashing the walls as each falls! Boom boom! Goes the muscle through the bathroom Boom boom! Goes the bone through the kitchen Boom boom! Goes the tendon through the bedroom. Boom boom! Goes the heart through the rooftop Boom Boom! Goes the head through the frondoor. There was once a man that walked within me And he has left the lights to burn on and on
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 2:00 PM UTC
The Lights
There is a man walking slowly in me And he’s going through each room, one by one, Turning on all the lights while passing by Stripping the scenes with silver dollar eyes. With a flick of his chicken bone finger The kitchen lights violently flare up To reveal tomato stains, upset Stomachs, windows and broken table legs. “Call the medic now!”– In the living room The lights just found choked up throats and down town Sticky red wine stains that bleat beat up Little lambs for little peeps and little Mistakes that become big scabs and big scams That swallows the shallowest of waters. Now the man who certainly loves the light Is in the bathroom where the peeping brights Gouge and grind the snuffed and lying young man Till he is but the pulp and rind and juice. “Where’s the medic?” Screams the mad running blood “Where’s the ******* medic?” They cry again. Now he tricks the porch light into being Forcing it to leer upon this **** scene Of a man barely living, most likely Sleeping, with a garden hose stuffed down his Gorgon throat seeping– weeping – all at once. Where is he now? The man who loves the lights? He’s walking to the impressive bedroom. The lights wrestle and work the shadows down Looking for the living, the last one home Hiding away just in his underwear. The man of lights opens the closet door Just takes a look at the creature’s features When he has finished, when he has remarked He marks the skin with light, then tears it off. He takes each muscle each tendon and bone And throws them, crashing the walls as each falls! Boom boom! Goes the muscle through the bathroom Boom boom! Goes the bone through the kitchen Boom boom! Goes the tendon through the bedroom. Boom boom! Goes the heart through the rooftop Boom Boom! Goes the head through the frondoor. There was once a man that walked within me And he has left the lights to burn on and on
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. I'm one tissue shy of calamity, next to the last soul in humanity. I am one ounce of pride short of dignity, and one mph away from velocity. I'm in one town, you're intensity, a Master Charge away from identity. One aching tendon from flexibility, and one arc'd degree from the university. Happiness has lost it's frivolity, I have narrowed down my availability. Gumby has lost all elasticity. Will we live beyond infinity? I've never crossed the lines between serenity and insanity, has a poet's moon lost it's sensuality? I am one drink ahead of sobriety. The second to last to stand in society. The unforgivable sin elbows my morality, your pen sells your individuality. One jail bar between your vulnerability. Your down to earth qualities mock your vanity. My daddy never claimed me through paternity, I was the last kid standing in the maternity. And just when I thought this poem was through, you asked me to spend eternity with you.
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Apr 11, 2010
Apr 11, 2010 at 9:11 PM UTC
~The Y's Have it!
when the lighting shatters every last thing you ever thought you needed I'll be here, I'll still be here, my hands wide open like they're soaked in blood, I will pry every last tendon from my bone to prove to you I know what hurt looks like, this, no: this, is not what they call getting better. sometimes our hearts beat for no other reason than they don't know how to stop, sometimes people turn away and leave and never come back and we don't know why, mother, can you hear me? you said there'd be days like this but you never told me how to handle them when they turn into my every day. remember that one time in December? when you finally realized I might need some help or I'd die younger than our dog? I was upstairs contemplating killing myself and you were downstairs screaming about ***** dishes. this is not healing, I'm not going to pretend I know what that is, but I know something's changed, the stars aren't telling me to self-destruct anymore, and that's gotta count for something, right?
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Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014 at 8:50 PM UTC
(it's not a sin to hate your mother)
Bent over the painted lines of her road. Stood a black feathered crow peeling back a tendon of flesh, Like a strand of red twizzler candy, from the tannish white fur of a dead bunny. she thought this was cute. "AWW! THEY'RE KISSING!!" Her daddy did not correct her. This memory, he revisits every time she brings a new boy home. Debates internally, the tipping scales that balance ignorance and optimism. If maybe he should have explained the beauty in death, rather than let her beleive her illusions. The beauty in nature, the circle of life. Like a cat, she brings home dead animals Like the owner of a cat, He is unimpressed. Maybe if he told her the bunny was dead, she would stop offering herself to the crows.
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Apr 29, 2018
Apr 29, 2018 at 12:37 PM UTC
Kissing Crows & Roadkill
Anyone that's ever said cash doesn't equate to fun has never had none They've never had to wonder where their next meals gonna come from Never been one wrong move away from watching your life become an undesirable one Never seen a bright future as an attainable one I'm sure we've all shared a park bench at some point with someone But has it ever been overnight, shivering, posted up with a veteran *** Never been an unsung hero, never feasted on a moldy bun Never had to decide whether to pay some of this bill or a little bit of that one Never had a car run on hope and fumes, never relied solely on your heat to come from the sun Can't see the glass half full or half empty, a waterless situation Never looked at a gun and thought it the best possible outcome No option but to literally try to out run your problem But you can't cause you wanted to stay "grounded" so you cut every tendon So much tension, it's got ya looking at the knife again thinkin' it could relieve some Never laied at your lowest point to weak to get up and been looked down on It's a sad truth how unbelievably common it is to stumble upon... This, but ignorance is bliss so no action to fix the problem is taken You might have been one of these people had you walked in a different shoe when it all begun ©2018
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Apr 5, 2018
Apr 5, 2018 at 12:49 AM UTC
~•§•~ They've Never ~•§•~
i am strong. i am patient. i am brave. what doesn't **** me-- wears me down to my barest bones. breaks my will. makes me stronger. like building muscle- wearing down each tendon, each fiber. until it hurts.   until it no longer works. Slowly it will rebuild itself. And so will my pride. my dignity. My Power. I am Strong. I am Patient. I am Brave. What hasn't killed me- has made me Stronger. You lose, Claire.
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Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 10:21 AM UTC
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