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Nothings how it looks in fact, maybe the opposite People say I'm energetic When I'm fighting for consciousness Downed NyQuil to solve my imperfections Took Benadryl to sleep Drugs make chatter over the back and forth banter of boredom And action A trip to the hospital Affects the people to care for a minute Hallucinogens fade, but this music it stays No 3G left **** it lets sing Words slurred eyes red I don't give a **** spread love Acceptance And tears of joy The ones that run over the face of a baby boy Mama's proud Baby you're so smart! You're gonna be so successful! Yeah I remember those days Now its nicotine sticks on my lips and E's for my mom to brag about They think I'm lost Am I? Testing to be done Society approved pills to pop And a letter from my aunt Words spread like dye in water I've dropped Down from the heaven of the early years Lucifer can maneuver his way around the city unnoticed A spy who tells lies to himself and greets the people as equal Human again I'd like to be All I want to do is live! But a life's money, family, and a plan Floaters get flushed Couch potatoes get crushed Lazy ***** Ha They just get fat Like these joints everybody wants to roll **** is for beginners but what happens to the pros? No trophy for the taking No stack of gold Just a massive headache And dependence Diet coke doesn't count My sis puts her heart on her sleeve Me I don't even think I have one No wait it's up my *** **** me good **** me long That only love is what turns me on If not Keep out Of my head Or Switch, light Too god **** bright to illuminate these white walls I'm hired to paint 24hrs, 365 days a year, until the day it’s complete Avoidance Births time from time Cuts wrists to elbow Show how mellow I can be Let me cope Every days a new day Born today die tomorrow Next day Wake up Look in the mirror and decide what you'd like to see
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 4:22 AM UTC
Unedited, 1:04am.
Nothings how it looks in fact, maybe the opposite People say I'm energetic When I'm fighting for consciousness Downed NyQuil to solve my imperfections Took Benadryl to sleep Drugs make chatter over the back and forth banter of boredom And action A trip to the hospital Affects the people to care for a minute Hallucinogens fade, but this music it stays No 3G left **** it lets sing Words slurred eyes red I don't give a **** spread love Acceptance And tears of joy The ones that run over the face of a baby boy Mama's proud Baby you're so smart! You're gonna be so successful! Yeah I remember those days Now its nicotine sticks on my lips and E's for my mom to brag about They think I'm lost Am I? Testing to be done Society approved pills to pop And a letter from my aunt Words spread like dye in water I've dropped Down from the heaven of the early years Lucifer can maneuver his way around the city unnoticed A spy who tells lies to himself and greets the people as equal Human again I'd like to be All I want to do is live! But a life's money, family, and a plan Floaters get flushed Couch potatoes get crushed Lazy ***** Ha They just get fat Like these joints everybody wants to roll **** is for beginners but what happens to the pros? No trophy for the taking No stack of gold Just a massive headache And dependence Diet coke doesn't count My sis puts her heart on her sleeve Me I don't even think I have one No wait it's up my *** **** me good **** me long That only love is what turns me on If not Keep out Of my head Or Switch, light Too god **** bright to illuminate these white walls I'm hired to paint 24hrs, 365 days a year, until the day it’s complete Avoidance Births time from time Cuts wrists to elbow Show how mellow I can be Let me cope Every days a new day Born today die tomorrow Next day Wake up Look in the mirror and decide what you'd like to see
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#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
On the Macrocosm of Microcosm
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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**Here I lie wide awake, thoughts pouring through my mind. How sweet the touch your body, when craving after mine.** *Playful eyes and dancing toes, wrestling to shed our clothes. You bite my neck and I taste yours, we slowly kiss, our tongues explore.* **I toss and turn, try to ignore, these visions now vibrate my core, the chance I'd take if you were near, to breathe you in as though you're here.** *Lips running down your heartfelt chest, caressing them along your breast, excitfull moans begin to flow, the further down I go below.* *With grace I trace, my love expands, this sanctioned sin, no reprimands. You feel me now, passions run deep, quietly your sounds they speak, and as they do, I follow through, through the depths of reaching you.* *As inner thighs, quiver and quake, salty sweet your taste I take, your fingers running through my hair, you pace my face, and steady, there! You groan in ecstasy, your love receives the best of me. I slowly give my all to you, with rhythm we begin to move, clasping our hands, you sway your hips, you raise them up, as we eclipse.* **It echos through these deep elations, driving in intense sensations.** *Entangled we begin to dance, form beads of tropical romance. You rain on me, and I on you, our bodies moist like sultry dew.* **Tell me now, where have I gone, this feels like some celestial bond. I'm but alone, in my own bed, yet here you are inside my head.** *Joining rapid beating hearts, pulsating through our tender parts. Increasingly your warm breath's felt, together we begin to melt...* **I must expel this lustrous notion, to sinfully vow my devotion. How can it be, to have not met, yet yarn for you, without regret.**
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Dec 7, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 at 11:20 PM UTC
Unedited desires
**Here I lie wide awake, thoughts pouring through my mind. How sweet the touch your body, when craving after mine.** *Playful eyes and dancing toes, wrestling to shed our clothes. You bite my neck and I taste yours, we slowly kiss, our tongues explore.* **I toss and turn, try to ignore, these visions now vibrate my core, the chance I'd take if you were near, to breathe you in as though you're here.** *Lips running down your heartfelt chest, caressing them along your breast, excitfull moans begin to flow, the further down I go below.* *With grace I trace, my love expands, this sanctioned sin, no reprimands. You feel me now, passions run deep, quietly your sounds they speak, and as they do, I follow through, through the depths of reaching you.* *As inner thighs, quiver and quake, salty sweet your taste I take, your fingers running through my hair, you pace my face, and steady, there! You groan in ecstasy, your love receives the best of me. I slowly give my all to you, with rhythm we begin to move, clasping our hands, you sway your hips, you raise them up, as we eclipse.* **It echos through these deep elations, driving in intense sensations.** *Entangled we begin to dance, form beads of tropical romance. You rain on me, and I on you, our bodies moist like sultry dew.* **Tell me now, where have I gone, this feels like some celestial bond. I'm but alone, in my own bed, yet here you are inside my head.** *Joining rapid beating hearts, pulsating through our tender parts. Increasingly your warm breath's felt, together we begin to melt...* **I must expel this lustrous notion, to sinfully vow my devotion. How can it be, to have not met, yet yarn for you, without regret.**
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The problem with being invisible Is that none of you ever see me You see Friend, Person, Sister, Classmate, Girl Never Me. The problem with being invisible Is that you do not hear me You hear words, sentences, chatter Not the inbetween, not what I'm saying The problem with being invisible Is that you do not think of me You do not lie awake And wonder where Or who I am. I come only occasionally, Casually, In the slums of your minds unedited and full version redirected
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Apr 14, 2013
Apr 14, 2013 at 12:19 AM UTC
Slums
dented but not broken in the demon dark the deep chasms of the wilderness and the forgotten recess silence from tender slumber has awoken the synergy of temptations on their merry dance sip divines peach nectar the naked flesh and heaving chest unleash thy sporadic vital spark the impressed intent of thy chosen scent fuels the interactive nodes neon infused electronic spasms that echo in the dark a subtle jowl in latent jest as twilights nimble fingers unbutton what remains of carefree days and the fallen angels with such sweet caress to touch the mystic unfurl the arc of your rainbow and shine your rays on cobbled memories of Paris in the rain and Tokyo Blue hustles in the backstreets aroma blow the cobwebs a gentle kiss on days like this left unchecked and laid to rest gathered in momentums voice and uttered as a sensual breath the nakedness of emotion the arcane interventions should not be left to fade to fill the empty space they call the void these technicolour moments we've made   stumble on the waves the fragrances of youth etched in unedited stop motion the contours of discovery sparkle in the ether the azure eyes and the open arms of the ocean
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM UTC
Tokyo Blue
Women like me do not fall gracefully, we stumble over our spines, trip over our vowels, and collapse into your arms. Our hearts are open books, Russian novels containing fifty pages on the way your voice drifts across the telephone wires each night. Our hearts are first drafts, unedited verses about each and every person we have ever loved: the stranger on the subway, the girl who gave us a balloon, the boy who stole our virginity but not our heart. Women like me will love you from a distance of a thousand syllables while laying in your bed, we will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible, and when we leave you will finally understand why storms are named after people. - Katrina M.K
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM UTC
Untitled
Some part of you is like the moon softly glowing beside me on my too-small bed, and the monumental loneliness you wear as a halo must be a trick of the eye despite keeping me awake, hunched over a folder of unedited poems at 2:45AM. I wonder what the moon dreams of when the sun tucks it into bed at dawn as your eyelids flutter and your breathing hitches for a moment before you roll over, face the wall, parting clouds with a small sigh.
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 9:01 AM UTC
The Moon in my Bed
Under the bridge Pills, muscle & back relief Empty Cigarettes, mirror pond pale ale Sail away from consciousness **** slowly Socials Studies 10 homework Conflicted cultures, transient economy Fur hats Exploration, exploitation, for Fur hats! Litter, candy wrapper What are you underneath that pretty shell? Hard heart Soft heart Fragile Pencil Potential Lost hope, failed system Failure Still the stream runs on, runs away A steady hum, a constant purr Pure Impure Sinner   One day the stream will dry And be forgotten, swept away into Oblivion Our memories, our ghosts Numbed by the sound of water Vanishes in time's cascade Like pioneers and their fur hats.
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 2:28 PM UTC
Under The Bridge (unedited)
# Throughout the years, you have made pictures of yourself available for us to see and through a number of them-- have shown unedited,  a clear and horrendously honest view,  directly into your deeply-struggling soul--   and even if you may had just days   or hours,  previously conveyed a look of almost carefree    happiness and beauty..   Those chosen few  that graciously gave the glimpse  of how bad it can so often be for you,   also.. unbeknownst to you,      gave light of how tremendously valuable and rare you really are. And like a dyed-in-the-wool stalker,   I saved screenshots of the ones  that moved me to tears years later.. and they still affect me that way and in fairness, some the ones  also to where you were truly glowing   in all  of your natural beauty..   on the ying' side   of the bipolar swing. You are rare and unique.. so very very one of a kind, *(and I have every right throughout the years to say that to you here and now)* --that there is a  worth  within every single part of it all that is wholly beyond measure-- *you can feel it sometimes, little beauty I know there is no way that you cannot.* One day  the ravens will no longer be able to steal that wholly accurate, beautiful self-view so easily from you, ..and you will be able to live that wonderfully-accurate view out,  daily-- having now found it's way down in to your very, central core.. .  .  .   Sorry, young love.. I know how much  a beautiful truth such as this, hurts. You reveal so much of who you are through the raw innerworkings  and conveyances of your poetry and music. You would not be that so very beautiful way, if you did not believe that Love would eventually find a way..   yes, beauty..  even for you. #
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Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021 at 10:11 AM UTC
the art of love
# Throughout the years, you have made pictures of yourself available for us to see and through a number of them-- have shown unedited,  a clear and horrendously honest view,  directly into your deeply-struggling soul--   and even if you may had just days   or hours,  previously conveyed a look of almost carefree    happiness and beauty..   Those chosen few  that graciously gave the glimpse  of how bad it can so often be for you,   also.. unbeknownst to you,      gave light of how tremendously valuable and rare you really are. And like a dyed-in-the-wool stalker,   I saved screenshots of the ones  that moved me to tears years later.. and they still affect me that way and in fairness, some the ones  also to where you were truly glowing   in all  of your natural beauty..   on the ying' side   of the bipolar swing. You are rare and unique.. so very very one of a kind, *(and I have every right throughout the years to say that to you here and now)* --that there is a  worth  within every single part of it all that is wholly beyond measure-- *you can feel it sometimes, little beauty I know there is no way that you cannot.* One day  the ravens will no longer be able to steal that wholly accurate, beautiful self-view so easily from you, ..and you will be able to live that wonderfully-accurate view out,  daily-- having now found it's way down in to your very, central core.. .  .  .   Sorry, young love.. I know how much  a beautiful truth such as this, hurts. You reveal so much of who you are through the raw innerworkings  and conveyances of your poetry and music. You would not be that so very beautiful way, if you did not believe that Love would eventually find a way..   yes, beauty..  even for you. #
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i always feel like i don't belong even when i'm told i'm wrong the people that call me dumb and fat won't even stop to say hi and chat they will never know about the real me or wonder what i hear and see you assume because i'm bigger than most that i also don't have a brain to boast that's because it's all locked inside it's an amazing place with a lot to hide in my head i can be anyone and all i really want is to have some fun to be skinny like you is my passion but i don't want to be empty of compassion when i look in the mirror you know what i see i see an ugly person staring back at me the misconceptions of people around is what causes these thoughts abound i started to believe your words long ago even though my friends told me no no one ever thought i was good looking and smart there's so many people without a heart sometimes i just want to curl up and die even though i shouldn't believe your lies what's your purpose for causing such pain is there really something you look to gain did you ever think to know the real me or are you just afraid of who you'd see someone who has thoughts and feelings, too or a person as mean and hurtful as you my true friends know my inner self the ones who know i'll always help i sit and listen when they need an ear they are the ones that see me clear why do you have to act so mean and hateful weren't you taught how to be shameful why can't you try to see the real me instead of being the bully everyone sees
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 8:53 AM UTC
Bully (unedited)
Aliens     They have no notion of past or present,     everything is about oceans.     When they ask for you     it is really a story about seeing the ocean.     VISITOR #1:     Listen. It is failure of bridges that builds angels.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     Is this the depression     we've all been experiencing?     VISITOR #4:     Please have a seat and forget the edge of that coast,     you were not intended for this distance.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     I believe we're all owed an explanation.     Where is this manifest?     I've never ridden a horse, I am being dreamed about.     VISITOR #1:     You would not believe     the stories redwoods have.     You each get one phone call.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     But the voicemail I've been trying to reach,     all morning,     is full.     "I dream of psychiatrists telling stories     about dreaming of women     they've seen in unedited videos on the internet.     Sometimes they save her from that burning nightclub."     VISITOR #2:     If you're going, leave your voice     somewhere in a room I know.     COLLEGE STUDENT:     We would have no need for phones if you didn't invent distance.     VISITOR #2:     There are trees that become stained with a purple blossom.     During summer the blossoms fall and shadow around the trunk     like a violet negative.     What a beautiful dimension that must be.     They pull her skirt down to examine the body,     palms pour from a sidewalk in L.A.,     everything is cracked-     "My god she's beautiful, huh?"     I think I met them before,     a long time ago.     THE MEMORY OF A VISITOR APPEARING IN A DREAM:     What happens next? Come the exit of electricity from the body;     on a long enough time-line all weather radicalizes and the people     will grow into trees.     You can read about that hollowness and never be prepared for it.     It’s like standing on the edge of an overpass,     and being completely empty of the urge to jump.     This is what I remember:     instructed to reenact creation     she throws clothes     from an open window above the 60 freeway.       "You have to imagine there are people,     surrounding you and talking"
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 10:29 AM UTC
Aliens by "Jamie Garcia"
Aliens     They have no notion of past or present,     everything is about oceans.     When they ask for you     it is really a story about seeing the ocean.     VISITOR #1:     Listen. It is failure of bridges that builds angels.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     Is this the depression     we've all been experiencing?     VISITOR #4:     Please have a seat and forget the edge of that coast,     you were not intended for this distance.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     I believe we're all owed an explanation.     Where is this manifest?     I've never ridden a horse, I am being dreamed about.     VISITOR #1:     You would not believe     the stories redwoods have.     You each get one phone call.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     But the voicemail I've been trying to reach,     all morning,     is full.     "I dream of psychiatrists telling stories     about dreaming of women     they've seen in unedited videos on the internet.     Sometimes they save her from that burning nightclub."     VISITOR #2:     If you're going, leave your voice     somewhere in a room I know.     COLLEGE STUDENT:     We would have no need for phones if you didn't invent distance.     VISITOR #2:     There are trees that become stained with a purple blossom.     During summer the blossoms fall and shadow around the trunk     like a violet negative.     What a beautiful dimension that must be.     They pull her skirt down to examine the body,     palms pour from a sidewalk in L.A.,     everything is cracked-     "My god she's beautiful, huh?"     I think I met them before,     a long time ago.     THE MEMORY OF A VISITOR APPEARING IN A DREAM:     What happens next? Come the exit of electricity from the body;     on a long enough time-line all weather radicalizes and the people     will grow into trees.     You can read about that hollowness and never be prepared for it.     It’s like standing on the edge of an overpass,     and being completely empty of the urge to jump.     This is what I remember:     instructed to reenact creation     she throws clothes     from an open window above the 60 freeway.       "You have to imagine there are people,     surrounding you and talking"
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I look for the source of the disaster. I look in the mirror and it decides to screech. I'm lusting for love and a dime's worth of affection. Haunting vibrations are crippling my decisions. Everyday is unedited from the previous one. Looking for new high's in a comfortable setting. I want to change reality forever so I soak myself in fantasies and exchanges that don't really exist. Im sick of being stuck, nailed to my vexatious living pattern. That's what life is really about, patterns, how you change the patterns. How you leave a mark, a little piece of you, dwelling in forever. I'm a creationist, I consume to create, destroy to rebuild. I'm bored so I dang on the edge of abyss's . I want to see how far I can go, how deep can I scare history. It's all a matter of perspective really, what you sink your desire in. You could be the most beautiful tragedy, a crying saint, a god, love, the Devils cashier. We don't live by rules, there can't be rules, we will never reach our full potential. We have to stretch every emotional and physical boundary we have. We have to be successful or we lose.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 10:43 PM UTC
Attempting to Hustle Life
This is the shorter edited version of our story. It tells you the facts, but it doesn't tell you the why. It leaves a lot of blanks that you can fill in, so it could be about your own highschool experience. If you want to know our story, read the unedited version. There were five of us. Freshman who grew up to be seniors There was the oldest, the skinny one He was tall and awkward He was so quiet and shy He only texted He was uncorrupted He was a lover Then there was the Latino Amazing athletic talent A great friend Funny as hell Romantic and gentle Loyal and patient Next came the little one Obedient and but passionate Younger than everyone Guileless and enchanting In love with the latino The most bendable, changeable one Also there was the clown Everyone’s friend, no one’s best friend Wannabe family man Strangely perceptive Always smiling Ladies’ man And then there was me. Full of surprises Loud, rebellious, crazy Fearless, childish Independent and devoted Steady and never-changing, slightly judgmental That was us. We were all connected, but also independent The boys fought Mostly over the little one Then we fell apart. We’re almost unrecognizable The tall one, the oldest Got his first girlfriend He befriended so many girls But secretly was dreaming of the little one He’s leading his brother And he doesn’t even know it The latino is mostly the same He doesn’t fight as much But he never got over the little one Now he just gets admirers He’ll grow out of high school He already knows how to do life The little one got so lost along the way But I decided to stick around cuz she’s my best friend She’s already taking college classes She’s working with children Now she’s planning her life But she doesn’t seem happy The clown found himself friendless He made a lot of dumb mistakes He still hangs around He parties and smokes To hell with being good At least he’s accepted his fate And I’m lost too I don’t party or drink or smoke or have *** But I’m losing my religion Bad things have happened to me I’m no better than my friends I’m sad I’m no longer special And so we’re lost Some are on the mend But we made it through high school We got so messed up along the way though I drive home listening to Queen The clown showed me that one song And I cry because we are the champions
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 1:48 PM UTC
We are the Champions (Edited)
This is the shorter edited version of our story. It tells you the facts, but it doesn't tell you the why. It leaves a lot of blanks that you can fill in, so it could be about your own highschool experience. If you want to know our story, read the unedited version. There were five of us. Freshman who grew up to be seniors There was the oldest, the skinny one He was tall and awkward He was so quiet and shy He only texted He was uncorrupted He was a lover Then there was the Latino Amazing athletic talent A great friend Funny as hell Romantic and gentle Loyal and patient Next came the little one Obedient and but passionate Younger than everyone Guileless and enchanting In love with the latino The most bendable, changeable one Also there was the clown Everyone’s friend, no one’s best friend Wannabe family man Strangely perceptive Always smiling Ladies’ man And then there was me. Full of surprises Loud, rebellious, crazy Fearless, childish Independent and devoted Steady and never-changing, slightly judgmental That was us. We were all connected, but also independent The boys fought Mostly over the little one Then we fell apart. We’re almost unrecognizable The tall one, the oldest Got his first girlfriend He befriended so many girls But secretly was dreaming of the little one He’s leading his brother And he doesn’t even know it The latino is mostly the same He doesn’t fight as much But he never got over the little one Now he just gets admirers He’ll grow out of high school He already knows how to do life The little one got so lost along the way But I decided to stick around cuz she’s my best friend She’s already taking college classes She’s working with children Now she’s planning her life But she doesn’t seem happy The clown found himself friendless He made a lot of dumb mistakes He still hangs around He parties and smokes To hell with being good At least he’s accepted his fate And I’m lost too I don’t party or drink or smoke or have *** But I’m losing my religion Bad things have happened to me I’m no better than my friends I’m sad I’m no longer special And so we’re lost Some are on the mend But we made it through high school We got so messed up along the way though I drive home listening to Queen The clown showed me that one song And I cry because we are the champions
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I am writing this poem as a letter of reference for my uncultured heart, Unedited and uncensored and Unlike the affections I so willingly gave you. You read me your poems As if I were the first girl to receive them, And boy, Did I receive them. I took them and their delicate lettering that traced My name written boldly and profoundly in the center As if the world was handing itself over to me. To: Olivia From: Jupiter No return address. I kept your smooth words and slipped them into my coffee, Tucked them underneath my pillow case, And folded them into a book I virginally scribbled in. I found them scattered across the night's sky And sewn into the shirt you loved on me. I planted them in good soil waiting for spring. My good, rich soil. Untouched and unused. I Watered them carefully and buried them with a warmth That the sun itself couldn't radiate. You lit me up and I was burning so wildly for you. For you, Jupiter. My garden was beautiful, full. Plentiful. Abundant. Good, rich. Untouched and unused. And little white lilies began to sprout and dot the I's of your I love yous, I miss yous, I was thinking about you, I love you, I miss you. I was thinking about you. I love you. I miss you. I was thinking about you, Jupi. But drier than your recycled sentiments, My soil Became parched and emaciated As more of your lilies grew. My coffee became bitter, My pillow case as soft as sand paper. The small, black journal I carefully pressed flowers with Now stained and sopping wet with Your cheap ink That ran down my skin and into Creases you left your finger prints. Your lilies, though small and sweet, Were deadlier than any poison ivy I'd ever touched previously. The little plot of earth I saved for myself Was now a pile of your cigarette ash And venomous weeds. I burned so wildly for you, But without you. For you, Not with you. I was another one of your American Spirits, Smoked, put out and Tossed into the grave of another fruitless harvest. Taken, left, and used.
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 12:46 AM UTC
Lily of the Valley
I am writing this poem as a letter of reference for my uncultured heart, Unedited and uncensored and Unlike the affections I so willingly gave you. You read me your poems As if I were the first girl to receive them, And boy, Did I receive them. I took them and their delicate lettering that traced My name written boldly and profoundly in the center As if the world was handing itself over to me. To: Olivia From: Jupiter No return address. I kept your smooth words and slipped them into my coffee, Tucked them underneath my pillow case, And folded them into a book I virginally scribbled in. I found them scattered across the night's sky And sewn into the shirt you loved on me. I planted them in good soil waiting for spring. My good, rich soil. Untouched and unused. I Watered them carefully and buried them with a warmth That the sun itself couldn't radiate. You lit me up and I was burning so wildly for you. For you, Jupiter. My garden was beautiful, full. Plentiful. Abundant. Good, rich. Untouched and unused. And little white lilies began to sprout and dot the I's of your I love yous, I miss yous, I was thinking about you, I love you, I miss you. I was thinking about you. I love you. I miss you. I was thinking about you, Jupi. But drier than your recycled sentiments, My soil Became parched and emaciated As more of your lilies grew. My coffee became bitter, My pillow case as soft as sand paper. The small, black journal I carefully pressed flowers with Now stained and sopping wet with Your cheap ink That ran down my skin and into Creases you left your finger prints. Your lilies, though small and sweet, Were deadlier than any poison ivy I'd ever touched previously. The little plot of earth I saved for myself Was now a pile of your cigarette ash And venomous weeds. I burned so wildly for you, But without you. For you, Not with you. I was another one of your American Spirits, Smoked, put out and Tossed into the grave of another fruitless harvest. Taken, left, and used.
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Have mercy on this body, it is learning to bend and shape, but creaks and occasionally splits, releases sighs from spinal aches, the vertebrae laying lifeless, loving you so, whispering of lip marks but no teeth, sunsets but no rises, a bed but no you. These aches are old, I know, these aches are tired, I'm sorry, this skin is a poem and I leave unedited drafts of myself in every bed that has ever held me, ever fractured me with metaphor, abandoned with a half-cocked heart. Take my bullets out. Have mercy.
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM UTC
Aches
These words you speak These words you spin Have infinite meaning A definitive substance Inject my mind Flipping the norm Unravel all the lies They fed to us Unlock my mind, unwind my eyes Take me out of this boxes, boxes Erecting all around me Untwist my tongue, deject my terms Pull me out of the sinking crane Piloting all around me Who gives the **** Just give me a fact All 7 billions souls unique This linear life is meaningless Fictions to act One day I am frog the next a beauty The mystery of the dark All shrugged in blanks They say its locked in your head A crazy existence Dehumanised to decay The police can’t even help
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Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 1:51 PM UTC
Dejected Terms (Guitar Lyrics with audio first-run unedited)
Im standing in front of a forest that is on fire Rose colored glasses The same tint as the flames Theres deer fleeing, raccoon skittering into backyards Growing red moss advancing on the trees Blisters form on the pads of my hands and fingers Something much bigger than the deer, is advancing Its getting hard to breathe, my throat feels like it is on fire Squirrels pair off, try to find their fleeing mates Burning hair Burning paws Encumbered with fears My home is charred and I cant go back Only forward, fleeing forward with the shadowy unknown advancing in the forest behind me
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Sep 2, 2020
Sep 2, 2020 at 3:50 PM UTC
Wildfire, unedited
At The Bottom Of the Bottle Is the Unedited Truth Pray to the Porcelain God With Sobriety in Mind And a Story on Soaked Paper
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 3:49 AM UTC
Write Drunk, Edit Sober.
He awakens, sighs, bones acreak at every move. Reaches for the boilerplate, straps on his rapier wit (but half of once it was), takes an aching hold of his rusty lance, and mounts the ancient keyboard. In clattering, staccato bursts, they gallop through acres of verse:  thatches of haiku and senryu, prim English gardens of sonnet, manicured villanelles, and mile after mile of untamed blank verse just like this. All along the journey, he tilts at the ogres in his mind, swiping in steady rhythm at possesive pronouns replacing contractions, your/you're...their/they're...its/it's...gah! Set to charge full speed downhill from the Valhallan heights of two courses of college English at unedited mounds of unexamined thoughts, he fetches up sharply; slows to a trot, looking uphill at the hordes of English majors eyeing him and his keyboard with malice aforethought.
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Jan 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 at 4:06 AM UTC
Quixote redux
I shall try not to believe, This idea itself gives me relief, But given my upbringing, I can not stay isolated for a long time, and then, Faith is a keyword, Prime ! Yes, few of my own have betrayed me, Yes, my heart is broke, I am hurt and sad! At the same time, blaming, the World is Bad ! With every defeat, I learn a lot, But do I intend to give up? Not ! This society has given me a lot, Compassion and kindness they've brought ! The people have taught me good and bad, Without them this vision I never had ! So the best way is to be little more wise, I still believe by and large, people are nice !!
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 11:38 AM UTC
Don't you quit, Boy !(UNEDITED)
So I hear you need a rebel-- or maybe someone to just hear you out. I like your profile, your bio, the blurbs you write about your life-- but tell me more about you. How do you break down your personality 01101101 01100101 into 140 characters or less? May I suggest we meet face-to-face? Video chat tomorrow at 5:00, sure, but that's not what I meant. I don't want the pixels, the lag, the type face, the webcam-filtered, LED monitor dating profile. I want the flesh, the bone, unedited-- the words before they're deleted and perfected to the point where you finally feel comfortable enough to hit Enter. But you can't "put yourself out there" if you don't get out. I want you beyond the screen, disconnected from the Internet connections and matchmaking engines, filling up the tank and searching for yourself. I want you, bumbling and goofy, your foot nervously tapping as we make awkward eye contact, gazing not into machines and technology but into pure, unadulterated life.
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 10:33 PM UTC
MAN SEEKING WOMAN
~ there is weeping in the streets, a cry heard on the boulevard, the place where lovers meet; no charge for this performance, for cover paid can never save the wounding of this soul; this act, no lore, ’tis their making... become their theatre, this act of war. as arms outstretched, awaiting hope that never comes, slowly die alone, losing grip on life once clenched; no more beating, all lay bleeding in the street far below. this place where horror falls, like darkness 'til their bodies, one by one are gathered up; our heart in pieces, their blood spilled on the ground, we lay flowers here at home, and on the hillsides as we weep for you, here across the sea, as we watch your fading light, oh Paris, where it's raining tears, with you we, the dawn await,   the coming mourning. ~ *post script. how is a poet to act, to think, to feel when there is such devastation as this?  we can only bleed in ink on page, as snippets of news, pictures, unedited video, all... paint a picture of horror, leaving behind brokenness and tears that will flow endlessly. oh Paris, we grieve for you... with you... over you!*
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 3:27 PM UTC
tears for Paris
I am not shy to be a woman. I am not shy to raise my voice. I am not shy to own my body. I am not what others pour their hatred upon me. Oh! So many hurts and slur comments; Labels and taglines your pour on a woman who earn their strip. " Unedited, Raw and Unabashedly" Take me for who I am. You think it is not ladylike to sit or pose. And if you think I care; I don't owe anyone an explanation.
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Dec 16, 2018
Dec 16, 2018 at 7:27 PM UTC
Unapolegtic
(totally unedited) what is this madness in the world?? how is this even happening?? so, we have not enough scourges...?? matters little what creed or colour these are human beings just like you and me and children... no, this is insane perhaps I have not enough in me to understand this level of madness to cope with this this is insane st64......thurs, 22 aug
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 2:03 PM UTC
S Y R I A - This is insane