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I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
"You're Too Young to Be A Feminist" // Slam Poetry Transcript
I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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The mirror reveals a face naked and bleak, the sweatpants have holes and the T-shirt is frayed. It'll be over in a couple of weeks. The hours spent escaping to Twitter speak to the test on the floor with a failing grade. The mirror reveals a face naked and bleak. The tissue rips across my salty cheek while my transcript laughs at the mess that I've made. It'll be over in a couple of weeks. I'll go to class tired and return home weak; won't even bother with the "good girl" charade. The mirror reveals a face naked and bleak. "It's fine, Dad. My predicament's not unique. I'll get my diploma, and all this will fade. It'll be over in a couple of weeks." Yet perhaps this last piece of paper I seek will only frame the path from which I've strayed. The mirror reveals a face naked and bleak; It'll be over in a couple of weeks.
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM UTC
The -Itis
The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens faintly in the street, Wakening the appetites of life in some And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript, I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street, And I say, ‘Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.’
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The Boston Evening Transcript
winter's after-the-noon shadow lights, fused-tinged with early-onset grays, harbinger of one for whom death detaches the answer from that question too soon asked, so long unanswered, why me? those gray lights, a violin accompaniment, mourning pitched wailings unasked for, yet always in attendance, court courtiers, feelings of insufficiency, angry angst insects envy days when simplistic unknown fears were the worst enemy, never lingering, for unknowns have no answers and cannot obtain permanent resident visas but reality, another matter, mad hatter, asking repeating what is this, why is this, even comprehension partial gives no comforting answer satisfactory logical envy innocence past, for newer questions now ***** comfort by the lies in the essaying, trialling, if, but, for, the distractions most affordable, so grasp the pen that is the envy of thy companions let the ink wail louder than you, make paper shed what you have used up, let envy of lost and found, found, yet still lost, salve, but not solve, soothe, but not save in the winter afternoons, those shortest days of indeterminable longevity, words received, offer little, but words self-conscripted, a mortal transcript of pain immortalized by pen, relief will yet be, for the pen is the envy of all
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 6:10 PM UTC
***** envy
*the ones warring on the flag of defeat can't be called either troll or parasite... too noble such entitlements, they are the **** genus worthy of ignorance, that they are found roaring on the flag of defeat, when such publicity is allowed of public musing deeper than soft-spoken in one's own room, as transcript of thought made public, ironically without one's geographic coordinates... and what lack of honour to be warring with such circumstances being allowed.* i shouldn't have written my words among poets, too many simplicities surrounded them, with the poets came made surrogates, a stillbirth, if nothing more 9 months of **** as the new economics that gave us appreciative homosexuality, a curbing of the expeditions of population we didn't blame on Chinese or Blue Indians due to having inherited masochistic Christianity, the last greek mythology, THE, LAST! and no more from the greek tongue! no more! then the second feat of the suffragettes that became the surrogates... and yet, i stilled braved to sing for the escapist tongue of brotherhood that the misty mountain's cold encapsulated... in which i braved the brotherhood, every, second, counter, to marriage to a woman... domestication is no adventure! it's no adventure! there is no fear and sudden death in domestication... it breeds cattle! readied for death not ready! *two dungeons deep and caverns old... the pines were roaring on the hight!    the winds were mourning in the night... the fire was red it flamed and spread, the trees like torches, blazed with light.* this... this is my ideal afterlife! take your Koran and terrorism and take a **** in the desert with the cats for worth of knowing such "exquisiteness" as it might be worth mining in the dunes of sand! while the thirst of metalloid and abstract horse-tow gives your false timing... and when you take this anger written on the flag of defeat, and turn to warring with it on your own flag of defeat... you will be conquered, slain and tortured, as is my promise, always honourable.
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May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC
surrogates and suffragettes
*the ones warring on the flag of defeat can't be called either troll or parasite... too noble such entitlements, they are the **** genus worthy of ignorance, that they are found roaring on the flag of defeat, when such publicity is allowed of public musing deeper than soft-spoken in one's own room, as transcript of thought made public, ironically without one's geographic coordinates... and what lack of honour to be warring with such circumstances being allowed.* i shouldn't have written my words among poets, too many simplicities surrounded them, with the poets came made surrogates, a stillbirth, if nothing more 9 months of **** as the new economics that gave us appreciative homosexuality, a curbing of the expeditions of population we didn't blame on Chinese or Blue Indians due to having inherited masochistic Christianity, the last greek mythology, THE, LAST! and no more from the greek tongue! no more! then the second feat of the suffragettes that became the surrogates... and yet, i stilled braved to sing for the escapist tongue of brotherhood that the misty mountain's cold encapsulated... in which i braved the brotherhood, every, second, counter, to marriage to a woman... domestication is no adventure! it's no adventure! there is no fear and sudden death in domestication... it breeds cattle! readied for death not ready! *two dungeons deep and caverns old... the pines were roaring on the hight!    the winds were mourning in the night... the fire was red it flamed and spread, the trees like torches, blazed with light.* this... this is my ideal afterlife! take your Koran and terrorism and take a **** in the desert with the cats for worth of knowing such "exquisiteness" as it might be worth mining in the dunes of sand! while the thirst of metalloid and abstract horse-tow gives your false timing... and when you take this anger written on the flag of defeat, and turn to warring with it on your own flag of defeat... you will be conquered, slain and tortured, as is my promise, always honourable.
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Dear girl who dreams of my manic pixie nightmare You are the one I never expected to meet I am the one you have met a million times before You're the girl obsessed with film craving invasion on television screens, propagandist **** muse, docs and a **** cut I'm the girl obsessed with ******** and using boundaries as skipping ropes or thread to turn my hair to tapestry You're Bowie I'm Hendrix You like visuals, shapes and sound and pretty cinematography and things I can't understand, your mind is a transcript in calligraphy I can't decipher, I like books that come in three and getting to the end and not knowing how to live anymore You're brimming full of hope and dreams and set lighting I'm disappointment and drowning shame in the bottom of tumblers, spilling the leftovers into quotable dialogue You're too good for my obscenity to taint, you can't find what you're looking for in me I'll be your undoing spiralling constantly in a figure 8 You are the manic pixie dream girl we've all been searching for
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 6:21 PM UTC
Manic Pixie Dreamgirl
Decipher the bowels that slushes out through my imagination Crystals and xylophone chimes Pouring out the ink wells of sensation Don't pivot pickets to my position I can't stalemate this war for expansion For my tongue is a swollen pickle Dipped in bitterness and ****** by the lips of semantics I groove in the basses of basics and grow a garden for further foundation For my tongue is a swollen pickle And boy is it's perfume amazing I mean Can you smell the awkward amps? Pumping veins with Crayola visions or a Chaplin transcript with deadpan humor Are you experienced enough for social division? My tongue is a swollen pickle Say whatever the hell I wanna say Crunch me when you digest this sour thought For the reign of excitement's here to stay
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
My Tongue is a Swollen Pickle
In Nebraska, they are murdering transexuals those with necks red as blood and lipstick      This recording is the last of the words which are me      -Play on the air for all to hear or smash them between these two bricks these two red bricks of earth and stone      In Nebraska, they are murdering transexuals which you may think is funny when their lipstick gets smeared ridiculously across the macadam until you see their blood the same as yours until they come for you those "good old boys" with fists like bricks and necks engorged with hate and spit warm beer, **** and vinegar sun beating down on their angry, little brains        This is the final transcript of all that I am embellished with sequins and such scrawled in *****      These words are my lover's breaths floating in darkness above cold ears lost in cartoon-balloon blurbs a drama of gasps a flurry of snow and chipped nails upon the pavement across the prairie in Nebraska
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 5:26 AM UTC
Nebraska
The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Pare 1 Of 3) For the barefoot girl, the faithful album was an afternoon in the sports bar where there had been a guitar player and some ginger ale. Now the trumpet was singing a wide screen view of the big game. Eliminating distractions, the crew was focused on the game, ignoring the girl as she wandered, in bare feet, between the tables. No pretense suggested that the medium was not appropriate for those who climbed railroad ties and those who drank beer in moderation after negotiations about the green sheaves and the upstairs room. In this castle, time was suspended. The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Part 2 Of 3) Ashes were good for the roots of the plant in the window where the response was directed to the coolness, or the hot weather. In sports, the weather seemed to be extreme. It was always freezing cold the opposite; coaches meant to be cautious watching for heat stroke among the players. The club was not louder than the dim barn where animals were removed from the immediacy of the last few weeks of the season. Some of the birds could not fly; there were mice that could climb to humble abodes in the rafters, and the cats gathered apart from the dogs. The heavy lifters had reassuring incantations derived by the artificial structures of the radiology through iconic projection. Antenna reception hovered to mark the insects with aesthetic devices, a discovery by evolution. The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Part 3 Of 3) Screams came from the permutation and signing a transcript of the spiritual drawing which had been seen wandering among all the other creatures living and working in the flying building. The gathering showed grinning teeth and disappeared. Found at the bottom of the mineshaft, was the fictional ring of speculations and associations confronting the mischief of the few by the motionless badges of authority. Life depended on the weathered red boards where the climate ranged like it was galloping across the public space, proved free by the friendliness of kindly associates and the universe of powers, the authority of birds that did not fly and barns that had flown away.
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM UTC
The Setting Was A Colored Stone
The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Pare 1 Of 3) For the barefoot girl, the faithful album was an afternoon in the sports bar where there had been a guitar player and some ginger ale. Now the trumpet was singing a wide screen view of the big game. Eliminating distractions, the crew was focused on the game, ignoring the girl as she wandered, in bare feet, between the tables. No pretense suggested that the medium was not appropriate for those who climbed railroad ties and those who drank beer in moderation after negotiations about the green sheaves and the upstairs room. In this castle, time was suspended. The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Part 2 Of 3) Ashes were good for the roots of the plant in the window where the response was directed to the coolness, or the hot weather. In sports, the weather seemed to be extreme. It was always freezing cold the opposite; coaches meant to be cautious watching for heat stroke among the players. The club was not louder than the dim barn where animals were removed from the immediacy of the last few weeks of the season. Some of the birds could not fly; there were mice that could climb to humble abodes in the rafters, and the cats gathered apart from the dogs. The heavy lifters had reassuring incantations derived by the artificial structures of the radiology through iconic projection. Antenna reception hovered to mark the insects with aesthetic devices, a discovery by evolution. The Setting Was A Colored Stone (Part 3 Of 3) Screams came from the permutation and signing a transcript of the spiritual drawing which had been seen wandering among all the other creatures living and working in the flying building. The gathering showed grinning teeth and disappeared. Found at the bottom of the mineshaft, was the fictional ring of speculations and associations confronting the mischief of the few by the motionless badges of authority. Life depended on the weathered red boards where the climate ranged like it was galloping across the public space, proved free by the friendliness of kindly associates and the universe of powers, the authority of birds that did not fly and barns that had flown away.
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A phone call, Bilbao: "yes, ok. Ok. Ok, yes." Arms are waving 12 hours, a room in Paris: a pencil case is being dropped on the floor, people are thinking in french A police station with green walls: a girl is stretching cling film over her face and falls off her chair Somewhere else in France, I usually picture a farmhouse in the countryside: running around in circles, reading from a piece of paper and trying to be heard over ‘Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux’ On a tube, London: Takes off her bag, shoes, jacket, hat, jewellery, make-up. Lets down her hair
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 8:45 PM UTC
Transcript
Coughing up tales, of which hundreds exist Regretting us and misreading my transcript Displaying a shade of default dismissiveness False bereavement is what you're equipped with Your visage remains a rivulet, negating encrypted lips As you spew nix, levels of sanity collapsed when you loosened it
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Feb 7, 2017
Feb 7, 2017 at 11:32 AM UTC
Endure
Sluggishly you frump to school passing by people whose faces you'll soon forget.       They don't matter, don't waste your time.             tick tock. You go to practice your meeting rehearsal.       Whatever it is you group yourself in to feel like you belong.       And for what else? To look good on a college application maybe; the motions of it are the only thing that matters. Paying attention, making memories is not traditional thought process. How will that look on a transcript?             tick tock. You mindlessly drive home not paying attention to the miniscule details of the nature around you.       It doesn't directly effect you so you see no point in admiring it. what's the need?             tick tock. You lock yourself in your room and open the books that surrounded you for seven hours already today and work for two or three more hours of your precious evening.       You do it because that's what is expected of you.       Monotonous efforts that someday you will be unable to recall.             tick tock.                           When was the last time you have done something                                   that you will be able to vividly remember                                                       years from now? You are wasting your time.                                                                                                                                                             Go. Live.
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Jan 4, 2012
Jan 4, 2012 at 12:12 AM UTC
The Choice is Yours
Sluggishly you frump to school passing by people whose faces you'll soon forget.       They don't matter, don't waste your time.             tick tock. You go to practice your meeting rehearsal.       Whatever it is you group yourself in to feel like you belong.       And for what else? To look good on a college application maybe; the motions of it are the only thing that matters. Paying attention, making memories is not traditional thought process. How will that look on a transcript?             tick tock. You mindlessly drive home not paying attention to the miniscule details of the nature around you.       It doesn't directly effect you so you see no point in admiring it. what's the need?             tick tock. You lock yourself in your room and open the books that surrounded you for seven hours already today and work for two or three more hours of your precious evening.       You do it because that's what is expected of you.       Monotonous efforts that someday you will be unable to recall.             tick tock.                           When was the last time you have done something                                   that you will be able to vividly remember                                                       years from now? You are wasting your time.                                                                                                                                                             Go. Live.
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Alright, world. It's time to get down to business. It's time to start caring about things that matter again. So take your mind away from all the trivial, superficial things and thing about the important things that change the entire dynamic of global society. I had a class last semester about Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Those men amaze me. There was a time where there were people like Karl Marx trying to change the world. Forget whether you agree or disagree with his opinions. Whether he was right or wrong, he was convicted. It was his true beliefs. If you don't understand what I'm trying to say, think of Adolf ****** Some people agreed with beliefs of ****** some people didn't. People to this day are still agreeing and disagreeing with the beliefs of ****** Forget about all that. Even he, someone who was considered an awful man, did something. He tried to change the world. Yes, maybe he ended up changing the world for the worse, but the point is that in HIS MIND, he thought he was changing it for good. And after the existance of these people, all that stuff just... stopped. Who do we hear of nowadays who's trying to change the world (regardless of the outcome)? NOBODY. And the people who are doing things to change the world, nobody gives a **** about because people are too entranced with the more important things like What Not to Wear, the Kardashians, Honey Boo-Boo, and people being famous cake-makers. How many great philosophers, poets, psychologists who really care about the public do we hear around in this era? None! Of the few people who do try to make a difference in the world, none of them get recognized. Well, that is besides those celebrities who ***** a school in Africa because it's a good photo opportunity. I want nothing more than to even do the tiniest thing in my life that will make even a slight impact on the world; write a book, publish a philosophical transcript, but I'm starting to feel like there isn't even a point in doing so anymore because despite my efforts, in this shallow society, nobody would even take a glance.
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 9:22 PM UTC
More of my Ranting.
Alright, world. It's time to get down to business. It's time to start caring about things that matter again. So take your mind away from all the trivial, superficial things and thing about the important things that change the entire dynamic of global society. I had a class last semester about Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Those men amaze me. There was a time where there were people like Karl Marx trying to change the world. Forget whether you agree or disagree with his opinions. Whether he was right or wrong, he was convicted. It was his true beliefs. If you don't understand what I'm trying to say, think of Adolf ****** Some people agreed with beliefs of ****** some people didn't. People to this day are still agreeing and disagreeing with the beliefs of ****** Forget about all that. Even he, someone who was considered an awful man, did something. He tried to change the world. Yes, maybe he ended up changing the world for the worse, but the point is that in HIS MIND, he thought he was changing it for good. And after the existance of these people, all that stuff just... stopped. Who do we hear of nowadays who's trying to change the world (regardless of the outcome)? NOBODY. And the people who are doing things to change the world, nobody gives a **** about because people are too entranced with the more important things like What Not to Wear, the Kardashians, Honey Boo-Boo, and people being famous cake-makers. How many great philosophers, poets, psychologists who really care about the public do we hear around in this era? None! Of the few people who do try to make a difference in the world, none of them get recognized. Well, that is besides those celebrities who ***** a school in Africa because it's a good photo opportunity. I want nothing more than to even do the tiniest thing in my life that will make even a slight impact on the world; write a book, publish a philosophical transcript, but I'm starting to feel like there isn't even a point in doing so anymore because despite my efforts, in this shallow society, nobody would even take a glance.
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My worth is not measured by my standardized test score number. My worth is not measured by the amount of AP classes I am taking. My worth is not measured by my GPA. My intelligence cannot be measured by how many pages of a review book I can do and get a 36 on the ACT, a 5 on the AP exam, an A in the class. I am so much more than these numbers. I am so much more than a transcript.
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
Dear colleges
so..like what we discussed the other day                                        'to feel so infect-able' i mean, cool concept and all but                                                            you said you get it   and-and that's how i feel                                                           you know ; all of the time ... like my brain is open and unprotected                              floods of **** other guys say  or **** i read online stuff doesn't even make sense they're just chewing on a mouthful of teeth                                                         and it imbeds gets right in the jelly and sticks around   and it has nothing to do with anything                         but  i'll spend the day with my mood crumpled                 about some nasty 'piece of shit' directors               behaviour on a film set ... when ...you know it's not even a film i'm interested in seeing and-and there's so much **** right at our front door      we could help with that                                           but.. it's this irrelevant stuff                                                 that's what i'm occupied with am i just that vulnerable ?   i'm an adult..                                              i should function without this damage ... get back to me as soon as you can ;   i'm freaking man !….. you know what ?                                                                                 this is what's important        and this is why we talk                 friends .. in the real world .. you know  such as it is ...left mucking stale turns before dawning a birth pleasing   as drawing in a vital breath or something... ...i just.. i just want it back re-slee­ve me i miss the world why did it leave me behind ? remind me i looked in on it and there's no **** hotel in here no airport lounge / midnite swimming pool /                                            abandoned zoo / empty theatre no hollow feeds of subway tunnels                           no void on anything where's my basic program ?                                  not even a grid of human planted fir trees                                or a giants causeway    or some cellular honeycomb                       or some mad carpet design i lost the pattern tap            i'm off the leash man            it's all a mess              a disarray               organic chaos                 a foreign something       that doesn't want me to connect i want to live like i’m part of the solution but   each day in struggle                                                      it seems i'm increasingly an aspect of the problem i need to be reigned in         and reassigned a post   policed police me        i croon for policing                           i am untrustworthy an emulsion of self deception                       (what does that even mean ?)          spinning turns in quick fix habits i look at these hands   and     if I could dream these hands                  they’d be magicians of value get back to me man ! i miss yupping with you this is the important stuff                                                                         - message ends
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Jun 14, 2024
Jun 14, 2024 at 2:12 PM UTC
transcript of a voicemail left by a friend in need
so..like what we discussed the other day                                        'to feel so infect-able' i mean, cool concept and all but                                                            you said you get it   and-and that's how i feel                                                           you know ; all of the time ... like my brain is open and unprotected                              floods of **** other guys say  or **** i read online stuff doesn't even make sense they're just chewing on a mouthful of teeth                                                         and it imbeds gets right in the jelly and sticks around   and it has nothing to do with anything                         but  i'll spend the day with my mood crumpled                 about some nasty 'piece of shit' directors               behaviour on a film set ... when ...you know it's not even a film i'm interested in seeing and-and there's so much **** right at our front door      we could help with that                                           but.. it's this irrelevant stuff                                                 that's what i'm occupied with am i just that vulnerable ?   i'm an adult..                                              i should function without this damage ... get back to me as soon as you can ;   i'm freaking man !….. you know what ?                                                                                 this is what's important        and this is why we talk                 friends .. in the real world .. you know  such as it is ...left mucking stale turns before dawning a birth pleasing   as drawing in a vital breath or something... ...i just.. i just want it back re-slee­ve me i miss the world why did it leave me behind ? remind me i looked in on it and there's no **** hotel in here no airport lounge / midnite swimming pool /                                            abandoned zoo / empty theatre no hollow feeds of subway tunnels                           no void on anything where's my basic program ?                                  not even a grid of human planted fir trees                                or a giants causeway    or some cellular honeycomb                       or some mad carpet design i lost the pattern tap            i'm off the leash man            it's all a mess              a disarray               organic chaos                 a foreign something       that doesn't want me to connect i want to live like i’m part of the solution but   each day in struggle                                                      it seems i'm increasingly an aspect of the problem i need to be reigned in         and reassigned a post   policed police me        i croon for policing                           i am untrustworthy an emulsion of self deception                       (what does that even mean ?)          spinning turns in quick fix habits i look at these hands   and     if I could dream these hands                  they’d be magicians of value get back to me man ! i miss yupping with you this is the important stuff                                                                         - message ends
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It's not about interest, it's how you place Your classes are weapons in an arms race Your friends are taking two APs, so you take three Soon we're mired in college work when high school is all we see Counselors don't help, they only edge us on Telling us we need advanced levels, or all college spots are gone In Fairfax County, we score so high on tests We ignore our thirty three percent depression and say we're the best Because here all that matters is the grade on your transcript You're a factory product, another computer chip So if you're friend takes five college courses, take seven After a semester, beg mercy and give up on heaven
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:12 PM UTC
AP Arms Race
coffee breath, lead stained hands, fingers numbly typing in numbers that have more value than my test scores, numbers stab like axes cutting down trees that cry in silent screeches in the forest. numbers like ninety seven, ninety, and eighty two. numbers that will never define who i am on a college transcript and these numbers are worth more than who i am in this world, since we are defined by numbers today even though we made the same mistake in 1939, turning people into numbers by stabbing pigments into their forearms, creating a lesser value for them. a forty eight is stupid and a fifteen percent is like a hollow head. i am defined by numbers like fifteen and forty eight and i am told that i should be embarrassed of who i am, or for the number that i am. and if an equation can't be solved," i'm sorry m'am you cant move on", because your capacity is again, defined by a number. i am not a number i am not the forty eight or the fifteen that scratches the back of my eyeballs like nails filing down a chalkboard. i am not the one forty five i sleep at when ripping my hair out trying to solve equations of irrational numbers when i should be solving the equations of my irrational thoughts and everything is turning round and round and round like the infinite possibilities of solutions to equations,   and i go to sleep, and lay my head down as early as possible, but my mind is running in circles with numbers taunting me and defining me and interrupting my sleep. it is morning now, my mother comes and checks on me to see how i am in this "new wonderful day" the tiredness seeps through my purple eye bags that i try to cover with tan makeup, and i think about how i really feel in the morning. i stare in the mirror and numbers stare back, i weep as i sit on the floor with the numbers streaming down my eyes, evacuating them from my system, because numbers have made me mentally insane. there is no hope of numbers leaving because they carry through, even after algebra two, weight and credit scores, and the amount of money you owe in debt, your mortgage payment, and the amount your retirement fund has swallowed up for your uncertain future, i am not a number i am not a number and i will fight numbers off like the moon controls the tide, the tide will never control the moon, and numbers will never control me.
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 11:35 PM UTC
numbers
coffee breath, lead stained hands, fingers numbly typing in numbers that have more value than my test scores, numbers stab like axes cutting down trees that cry in silent screeches in the forest. numbers like ninety seven, ninety, and eighty two. numbers that will never define who i am on a college transcript and these numbers are worth more than who i am in this world, since we are defined by numbers today even though we made the same mistake in 1939, turning people into numbers by stabbing pigments into their forearms, creating a lesser value for them. a forty eight is stupid and a fifteen percent is like a hollow head. i am defined by numbers like fifteen and forty eight and i am told that i should be embarrassed of who i am, or for the number that i am. and if an equation can't be solved," i'm sorry m'am you cant move on", because your capacity is again, defined by a number. i am not a number i am not the forty eight or the fifteen that scratches the back of my eyeballs like nails filing down a chalkboard. i am not the one forty five i sleep at when ripping my hair out trying to solve equations of irrational numbers when i should be solving the equations of my irrational thoughts and everything is turning round and round and round like the infinite possibilities of solutions to equations,   and i go to sleep, and lay my head down as early as possible, but my mind is running in circles with numbers taunting me and defining me and interrupting my sleep. it is morning now, my mother comes and checks on me to see how i am in this "new wonderful day" the tiredness seeps through my purple eye bags that i try to cover with tan makeup, and i think about how i really feel in the morning. i stare in the mirror and numbers stare back, i weep as i sit on the floor with the numbers streaming down my eyes, evacuating them from my system, because numbers have made me mentally insane. there is no hope of numbers leaving because they carry through, even after algebra two, weight and credit scores, and the amount of money you owe in debt, your mortgage payment, and the amount your retirement fund has swallowed up for your uncertain future, i am not a number i am not a number and i will fight numbers off like the moon controls the tide, the tide will never control the moon, and numbers will never control me.
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Now that the daze of drought has cleared, And the torrent has stopped, The cloud of harvest gathered In the womb of the sky. Cord of famine has broken, Trembling under the transformational winds of coolness, making our farmland to yield bumper harvest, banishing the vessels of poverty. Forest adorned the toga of greenness and the beasts in their loneliness, hiding under the cooler shade of trees. Farmers regally rejoiced in the natural endowment. Now that the rain has stopped Let the shekere of harvest announces its arrival.
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Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 3:39 PM UTC
TRANSCRIPT 1: BLISSFUL RAIN
The name stood tall, long, indifferent, but beautiful He was equivocally terrified But equally, at peace, at the sight . She was an angel, she was a transcript from a beautiful future She held his fingers from a silk rope Calling Flabbergasted, you realise how simply wet around the ears you are © Copyright David Bosworth July 2013
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 4:12 PM UTC
Heavens above
You know it. I drop BOMBS like a B-52, Drop psalms like a Bible off the back of the pew, Stay calm, like the '80s stay trippin' on 'ludes, Like the 90s stay trippin' bringin' me here to you. That's how I do it, you know I keep it fluid, I flow so smooth, all my verbiage is fluent, No verse hits late, no syllables truant, Got my angles all lined up, spitting congruence - And I bet you didn't ask about my transcript, fam, And I know you judged a book by its cover, **** And I bet you didn't think I'd call you out right here, Start addressing with respect as though we're peers, no fear, But here it is. Some folks stay out at night to reach for stars, I go home to dodge the fools askin' me to drop bars.
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Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 8:58 PM UTC
"hey, man, you look like you could drop bars"
*The bird that couldn't fly Was hoping to connect The stars up in the sky To finally crack the code Where all the secrets hide Behind the constellations In the star-lit galaxy at night She threw her little messaged question Into the wine-less bottle And up to the bunny on the moon The inscrutable one can read the tricks That the magician to us humans do Deep within his hat We endure within the rabbits fur Hoping for a way out But to go where We remain unsure Sailing through the tides Until we finally reach the shore In between our dreams We reach for carnal desires Someone who has a match To light these cold hearts on fire To burn away the freeze That caused this to conspire So we transcript the dialogue Of our stolen ambiguous memories Turning them into our own thrills, Paintbrushes and pens The hand, though feeble-minded Is the fine-crafted key Claiming to ourselves This is what we really need An already colored-on And scribbled-out canvas To repaint ourselves forever A notion we call eternity Maddened by a melody of echos Of the intangible words Our tongue-ties wish to speak Achieve the figure eight We solemnly wish to keep The desire to never let go Of the things that we've set free A way to make amends With the voices in our heads A trail of broken languages Written in ash and braille What was it that was said Which words have pulled the strings That attach your heart to your head?*
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
**Carnal Desires**
Trust, ties, tears, tears; With setting rising sun, just Truth remains. Trinity's traits transcending to transcript, The temple trusting the tryst to tall togas; Truces, tangs, tangles, tags, teams, with tricks or trills are tackled, tamed by Those trained to taste the towering truth. Taints, taboos, tattoos; With cycling of seasons, only Truth stays there. Transgressing traps, talons, treasons, Thorns, thongs, tides translucent; These tapes, talks, tales transient, Are trifles, tickles, trivial, trite; To tribes treading the track of truth. Talents, tacts, top techs; Against infinite labyrinth, Truth alone can pass. Taut troops trotting the toiling trek; Taunting, tapering the tonnage of trash; Transversing tough tests of tempts, Are trails of tiring trials, For Those who treble the tone of truth. Thrashing traumas to transfixing trance; With beast or with beauty, Truth belongs to soul. Through love and death, the true timeless tapestries; Life translates to truth, and becomes a happy moment; The moment which is forever.
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Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 9:57 AM UTC
Ts
The blinded windows are shreds of paralysed glass. That brokenness....the hunts beyond the borders of the savanna grass. There was time when I died unable to work out this bare shell uncovered. The thousands songs that replay uncreating the moulded monsters. As the roosters awaken the unravelling dusk. At times the skies are brighter, others your voice wander within the beat of my heart. Paralleled as we are, hands widths apart extended with eyelids that feed the light across the oceans horizon. Sometimes, you will never know or read the words that are the reason. Whilst the world was against us, fuelled to make us disappear. Darkness overcame the starry eyes with lies. Despite all, I hoped you would have stayed a little longer. The fire still burned as our heads held up on the waters..... and YES when I wake up in the morning it’s always alright. The static zone of the melodious rhythm sinks below the sole of my feet. Awaking such feeling of aliveness. Sometimes love never goes away and it lights even deeper......
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Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 8:26 PM UTC
A Transcript from my journal
“I won’t have ***** living in my house” As if that’s all you’ve said to offend me Unlucky for you I have a great memory I have a mental transcript of everything you’ve said to me 17 years of tyranny Where do I begin? All the way back to kindergarten The special ed teacher said she thinks I have dyslexia You said it’s an excuse for being stupid That was the first crime of many You’ve called me worthless, ugly, and unwanted plenty But actions speak louder than words You’ve thrown your empty bottles of gloom across the living room Crime after crime I’ve cleaned it up everytime 3 kids and I’m the only one, whose been “lucky” enough seen your gun In april of twenty fourteen you burnt my brothers funeral card Your fist has never hit me quite that hard My body is a canvas you painted black and blue Step back at look at your masterpiece, in her rubber-banded shoes Every day I become more and more like you If I ever have a daughter dear lord is she ******* Who gives a **** if I’m relatively gay 17 years you’ve lived with me everyday Also, why ***** plural? Am I gonna start an army or some **** Am I contagious? I am plenty religious I could count your sins You say it hurts your shins to kneel at church so you keep sitting And ******** on the person that I am Making him perform this scam At family parties pretending to be mine Because my love is a crime Are you out of your mind? Its fine, I’m not going to cut my hair This cross belongs around my neck You need a reality check Its 2018! I am allowed to be seen without a man holding my hand And protecting me from offensive words This is defence served 110 pounds I fell asleep to the sound of a car backfire ‘Call the therapist, this is dire’ Jesus, Mary, do everything you can There’s a chance she wont be marrying a man When life doesn’t go as planned just do more drugs Hit and yell I’ll put in earplugs But I’m going to push and I’m going to shove Until you let me fall in love
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 2:32 PM UTC
What Have I Said to Offend You?
“I won’t have ***** living in my house” As if that’s all you’ve said to offend me Unlucky for you I have a great memory I have a mental transcript of everything you’ve said to me 17 years of tyranny Where do I begin? All the way back to kindergarten The special ed teacher said she thinks I have dyslexia You said it’s an excuse for being stupid That was the first crime of many You’ve called me worthless, ugly, and unwanted plenty But actions speak louder than words You’ve thrown your empty bottles of gloom across the living room Crime after crime I’ve cleaned it up everytime 3 kids and I’m the only one, whose been “lucky” enough seen your gun In april of twenty fourteen you burnt my brothers funeral card Your fist has never hit me quite that hard My body is a canvas you painted black and blue Step back at look at your masterpiece, in her rubber-banded shoes Every day I become more and more like you If I ever have a daughter dear lord is she ******* Who gives a **** if I’m relatively gay 17 years you’ve lived with me everyday Also, why ***** plural? Am I gonna start an army or some **** Am I contagious? I am plenty religious I could count your sins You say it hurts your shins to kneel at church so you keep sitting And ******** on the person that I am Making him perform this scam At family parties pretending to be mine Because my love is a crime Are you out of your mind? Its fine, I’m not going to cut my hair This cross belongs around my neck You need a reality check Its 2018! I am allowed to be seen without a man holding my hand And protecting me from offensive words This is defence served 110 pounds I fell asleep to the sound of a car backfire ‘Call the therapist, this is dire’ Jesus, Mary, do everything you can There’s a chance she wont be marrying a man When life doesn’t go as planned just do more drugs Hit and yell I’ll put in earplugs But I’m going to push and I’m going to shove Until you let me fall in love
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