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"vertebrae" poems
there's poison ivy growing along my spine it caresses every vertebrae it's a climbing plant you know
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 7:48 PM UTC
poison
This woman of blonde locks slim body and perky ******* acne and ribcage and vertebrae she gives me that look drawn smile with teeth bared heaving tummy and deep stare into my eyes like, "Come on." Like a run-on sentence I'll make her come on my face all night and all day the next day Best *** we ever had, we had on a naked mattress after a Sunday doing nothing This woman of five o' clock shadow and travel size **** loose skin from weight loss and a thick neck she is me and look at that lucky feel smearing over my dark mug like I just won the sweepstakes Like a run-on sentence she'll run She'll run, she'll run, run me till we need an oasis Best *** we ever had, we had on a naked mattress Squeeze your legs Squeeze your legs Squeeze your legs Squeeze your legs Squeeze your legs Squeeze your legs, Release them, A baker's dozen
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 3:02 PM UTC
Summer Shudder: "Best *** We Ever"
**SKY BLACK AS TAR AND TWICE AS THICK GOD I KNOW YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO WISH DEATH BUT THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF I ******* SWEAR OH!!!!!!MY GOD I KNOW SCREAMING DOESNT MAKE GOOD POETRY BUT I WANT TO TEAR MY HOME TO PIECES TEAR MY FINGERNAILS FROM THEIR BEDS CURSES CAST OUT WILL COME HOME TO ROOST BUT I WOULD SACRIFICE ANYTHING TO SEE YOU DEAD!!!!!!!DECAPITATION ISNT PRETTY LIKE THE PAINTINGS HUMAN HEADS DONT POP OFF AS CLEAN AS BARBIES BUT ILL SAW THROUGH YOUR CERVICAL VERTEBRAE AND THE LAST WORD ON YOUR LIPS WILL BE A GURGLE!!!!WITH YOUR BONES UNDER MY BED I WILL SLEEP PEACEFUL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS YOU ARE POISON EATING THROUGH THE HANDS OF MY FRIENDS YOU ARE THE DEVIL QUOTING SCRIPTURE IN THE EARS OF CHILDREN!!!!!TRIGGER DISCIPLINE KEEP YOUR FINGER FROM THE KILLING STROKE TILL YOURE READY TO COMMIT ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU ******* SURE ARE YOU READY TO SHARE YOUR BED WITH A CURSE KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE ******* TRIGGER BEFORE YOU SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT WHAT THE FUCK!!!!YOU TOLD ME YOU WERENT CRUEL!!!!YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE SAFE I ******* BELIEVED YOU AS IF I DESERVED SAFETY AS IF I COULD TRUST YOU BUT YOURE ******* EMPTY!!!!WEARING MY FACE TO COVER THE ******* HOLE IN YOURS  WEARING MY SMILE YOU USED ME YOU USED ME AND YOURE WEARING MY ******* SMILE!!!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!LIAR!**
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Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 3:34 PM UTC
liar liar!!!
I am in levels. Past levels. This deep, intrinsic wonderful lost, the lawlessness of its fascinating expenditure of excite. Pushing through the wild and feral snow-dusted plains and timber ridges. Like red-spotted dots breathing through the cylinders called the spine. This descends into a narrow channel of scantly clad greenish scenery in a time-soaked visionary wilderness of snow, Our crab legs dancing down wiry purple highways, our heads could not even look backwards if we had wanted. Furious, love-latitudes, stalking breaths thwacking fork-ended tongues into a pinkish knot buried into the first layer of organic membrane on this railway of miniature canals, showing. And their pride snuck into the elbows, shooting down each vertebrae as it stepped with great precision every ledge that the currency emphasized. The raw accumulation of stolen heart-beats rattling between the interstices of new fuel careering these red engines. Crashing with exquisite pleasure into one another.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 4:41 AM UTC
I am in levels. Past levels. this deep intrinsic wonderful lost, the lawlessness of its fascinating expenditure of excite.
I want to know how many scars you have And memorize the shape of your tongue. I want to climb the curve of your lower back And count your vertebrae Your ribs Your fingers Your goose bumps I want to chart the topography of your anatomy And be fluent in your body language I want you, entire
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 7:49 PM UTC
I Want You Entire
I look at the fractured streets littered with broken promises peeling billboards peddling luxury to the wrong audience the contorted vertebrae of this country's spine and I mourn the death of the American Dream. I see it lying at my feet with every step like the broken-winged bird from childhood fables. "Fix me," she wheezes. I tried once, but it died in my hands. Apparently, "The Dream" used to be two cars but now it's two good fists the wisdom to know when enough is enough and the strength to say it. I was born too late to remember anything else. Here lies the American Dream, bruised and battered by those who vowed to protect her doused in oil and set aflame by misdirection misdemeanors and Miss Universe. Here lies the American Dream who was born from revolution and died in its absence who waited for a day that never came who lived long enough to see the fruit of her labor become a raisin in the sun.
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 6:36 AM UTC
A Eulogy for the American Dream
"Have you talked to dad, since you've been at school?" "Nope." "Are you coming home for thanksgiving?" "I don't know." Josephina breathes in a crackle over the phone. New York, a cacophony in the background. A background of cold, and people talking while walking while hailing a yellowcab with a left and slow-rolling heads locked onto the phones in their right. These people enter taxis, not knowing if they're ever going to reach home, or the airport, or union square, just going on the promise that they won't become road-kill. I can't feel it in my yellow apartment. If anything, my yellowcab idles. Through the receiver A squad car rings nervously, then after a lungful of garbage-smelling air, it becomes a full blare. A pause of noise always ensues, just for a second, the entire corner becomes a silent silo of human beings. "How's new york?" "you know, dad called me and asked about how to get on a diet, can you believe that?" Yes, I can dad is a fat **** a pink, white belly of a man. And a few sandbags for chins. "That's good." "So I'm not going to see you?" "Probably not." "Well, you should call dad, talk to him, he loves you." Some conversations, acheive nothing. The same tired, dead things get run over. Road-kill. Josephina believes she is the spatula that will bring back pancake squirrels and pancake relationships. As much as you don't know about me and dad's relationship, I can give you a kodak moment. A snapshot, of a hovering man, pointing at his son's neck, searching for the misplaced vertebrae, the lack of fear for the world --"the right kind of fear, the fear a man should have of himself"-- and a son, hunched, small hands in fists, a heavy haul of muscles pulled into a dark brow right over black eyes. This picture will suffice.
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Nov 23, 2011
Nov 23, 2011 at 4:59 PM UTC
Pancake Squirrels.
"Have you talked to dad, since you've been at school?" "Nope." "Are you coming home for thanksgiving?" "I don't know." Josephina breathes in a crackle over the phone. New York, a cacophony in the background. A background of cold, and people talking while walking while hailing a yellowcab with a left and slow-rolling heads locked onto the phones in their right. These people enter taxis, not knowing if they're ever going to reach home, or the airport, or union square, just going on the promise that they won't become road-kill. I can't feel it in my yellow apartment. If anything, my yellowcab idles. Through the receiver A squad car rings nervously, then after a lungful of garbage-smelling air, it becomes a full blare. A pause of noise always ensues, just for a second, the entire corner becomes a silent silo of human beings. "How's new york?" "you know, dad called me and asked about how to get on a diet, can you believe that?" Yes, I can dad is a fat **** a pink, white belly of a man. And a few sandbags for chins. "That's good." "So I'm not going to see you?" "Probably not." "Well, you should call dad, talk to him, he loves you." Some conversations, acheive nothing. The same tired, dead things get run over. Road-kill. Josephina believes she is the spatula that will bring back pancake squirrels and pancake relationships. As much as you don't know about me and dad's relationship, I can give you a kodak moment. A snapshot, of a hovering man, pointing at his son's neck, searching for the misplaced vertebrae, the lack of fear for the world --"the right kind of fear, the fear a man should have of himself"-- and a son, hunched, small hands in fists, a heavy haul of muscles pulled into a dark brow right over black eyes. This picture will suffice.
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August, the Red Line, connected tanks of bolted plastic vertebrae. Every seat gone except five rows up, where a sea lion sprawls across two, stuffed backpack, yellow jacket spread out like caution tape. His grunt a wet bark at the glow of his screen. Middle-school deer slip into the aisle, chatter clipped when the sheriff drifts past, their ears flicking, smiles bitten shut. Not a predator- just a gelded ox, chest puffed, badge sagging, glass-eyed, chest rig clattering with blanks. Two lemur-children cling to their tortoise elder, her shell steady against the sway of the car. She shepherds them from the surge of riders: loud Dodger blue parrots in cholo socks, moth-women with plumed lashes beating the stale air, a stray dog, gutter musk dragging at its haunches. And one gray bear muttering alone, arguing with her reflection. Between Koreatown and MacArthur Park, somewhere the sea begins to breathe again, then, feathers forcing through my skin- an alley gull knifing into this clamour, scavenging inside its exhaust. The car rattles, its ribs plated with blistered posters: museum wings open to no one, ‘register to vote’ fading into graffiti script, flu shots promised by smiling ghosts. A bruised hatchling staring out beside the words See something, say something. The warning lights glow like eyes hunting in the dark. From its flanks the train unfurls iron claws. They rake the tunnel walls, the city’s bones, the dark itself.
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Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
The Gull Below
I stay awake— gas, ion and tail. your ghost strokes my back, fingers ski-jumping vertebrae as my face steams into powder. your pith, soft and white: our star in you— rove to your low neckline in fire humming comet. space is blameless in this limb of heartbreak.
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Jun 25, 2017
Jun 25, 2017 at 12:25 PM UTC
hours to waste the day
Not an amulet, an off white vertebrae; bone. Brass wire, a loop at one end. It bends as to make sure this will fit. A gauge that measures mesmerization, And we both must get along, but Not because we're not tough enough: Most of us aren't soft right yet. So many stiffs, folly after folly. The whole carful of loose cadavers, Dangling, their feet hang with wet snow And carnage, Not even musk deer pop up, They've all gone. Roosting in a parabol, With X's sprayed to their groins. Burning pop couples Doing it like laboratory mice. Capybaras Hiss, my own burnt blood is also Flocculating. Turn the cup upside down and See the fire's balmy lachrymal opaque Moss while it does not drip. This is the story of man you asked me about; Devoid of a muzzle, fur onto his chest; coarse Hair in a garland. It is the God of a tool that buzzes into the night. A plateau for this most sensible study. We feel another coming. And when you awoke, your larval tongue My eye mush, a song of verse and melancholy. This half list of greatness, a tally we both wish to see.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 4:38 AM UTC
those mice
your forest’s architecture verdant in spots, and then a stump did the dead leaves ever have a heart beat what made the ballad stop, was it sun? little larva squirming towards a moon and their mama maggots weep – to lose a child, to lose a child when death-creatures want to be an astronaut, the green canopies are bars prosper in the centipede teeth munch fertilizer for a final seed without vertebrae they climb over stars & leave your forest’s architecture crumbling for buzzards.
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Oct 27, 2012
Oct 27, 2012 at 9:16 PM UTC
forest’s architecture
wind's cool lips envelop and chill protruding listeners, speckled stamps on crinkled noses or sun-bit, stacked vertebrae dabbing each one, I count the anatomical stars, fibers of you glancing over with the brim of my own beginning, parted just so maps unwind, sighing deeply but robustly seducing the depths of our curiosity, condemning
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 3:58 PM UTC
Sunburn
elephants stomp with stone-laden feet back and forth, back and forth, creating cracks in my already-battered skull, weakening the very foundations of my sanity. their trumpeting echoes through cold corridors flooding my thought capacity to the brim. a tightrope walker stretches me, thin - i feel the shifting pressure of her nimble feet treading the territories of my weathered frame, back and forth, back and forth, my skin reddens beneath the incessant crossing as the sinew within me starts to atrophy. in my chest cavity there is a ring of fire, manipulating my lungs and feeble heart to mere ash. two golden eyes seen beyond the flames, ready to leap through them - without the inconvenience of fear weighing down his agile paws, both capable and likely to tear my veins to shreds. a grisly strongman has my bones in his grip. he smiles malevolently, gloating his strength over me, squeezing the life from my cartilage - awaiting the snap. i am cognizant of the sound, but i won't flinch. next, the imminent collapse of my vertebrae - i feel them crumble to dust. he laughs. but it is in the pit of my stomach the ringleader sits - commanding me into subsidence with every crack of his whip. i want to meet his eyes but he only averts my gaze. his twisted circus nearly through, the audience begins to dissipate. i stare through the blurred smoke, desperate for his visage - when i see on one of his faded lapels, the embroidery spells out your name. -m.f.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 12:03 AM UTC
welcome to the circus
every achy bone inside me a relic of the former self still inhabiting this shell. exquisite fossils of the life once lived my silhouette, housed in rock, yet the softest part of me rotted out. the vacancy in my expression mirrors the hollowed out spaces between each rib and every "what if" my lungs carry haunted cries apparitions you forged in my memory phantom fingers singed the word “remember” into my paper skin. i am still smoldering. chambers of my heart filled with cobwebs; every strand of silk an unfulfilled wish. we are still tangled up. the spiders have crawled from our throats but the dust is settling. your fingers have intertwined with the segments of my spine, fists taking root in my chest, cradling a stone heart. knuckles bent comfortably around each vertebrae, your hands are cold. the weight of all my sins is crushing me, i suppose i should have noticed when you read the lines in my palm like an obituary. forgive me. - m.f. & j.a
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 4:42 PM UTC
untitled
1                                                                    4 she offers me,                                             a spot of dust she raises me                                              under the couch, on platitudes and warm bread                I know it’s in return for my devotion                         there she loves me like the boats                       today, I start spring-cleaning, she keeps out on the ocean                      (this alone she loves me to be molded,                      should receive not to be unfolded                                     more recognition than it will)                                                                       I pull out the couch she bore me bones                                     the vacuum doesn’t quite the lacrimal bone                                       reach the dust lying the breastbone                                            on unused carpet, all the cervical vertebrae                          the head I use them to simulate                              keeps hitting the wall her expectations                                        unproductive                                                                      I put the furniture back 2                                                                   in place I have names,                                             no one will see the lack I wear them like badges                           of progress inspired by something not quite earned yet                                                   5                                                                      while lucid dreaming I assigned                                                   constellations were on each name                                                  my skin a compartment                                          and freckles in of me                                                           the night sky If I name them maybe they will become                                       pollution drowned out real, not just necessary                             two thirds                                                                      even if most imploded                                                                      before they were seen 3                                                                   6 with enough necessity                             were it not for shadows anyone can tell a lie                                  I would surely learn to                                                                      hate the light
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 6:43 PM UTC
on deception (vignettes)
1                                                                    4 she offers me,                                             a spot of dust she raises me                                              under the couch, on platitudes and warm bread                I know it’s in return for my devotion                         there she loves me like the boats                       today, I start spring-cleaning, she keeps out on the ocean                      (this alone she loves me to be molded,                      should receive not to be unfolded                                     more recognition than it will)                                                                       I pull out the couch she bore me bones                                     the vacuum doesn’t quite the lacrimal bone                                       reach the dust lying the breastbone                                            on unused carpet, all the cervical vertebrae                          the head I use them to simulate                              keeps hitting the wall her expectations                                        unproductive                                                                      I put the furniture back 2                                                                   in place I have names,                                             no one will see the lack I wear them like badges                           of progress inspired by something not quite earned yet                                                   5                                                                      while lucid dreaming I assigned                                                   constellations were on each name                                                  my skin a compartment                                          and freckles in of me                                                           the night sky If I name them maybe they will become                                       pollution drowned out real, not just necessary                             two thirds                                                                      even if most imploded                                                                      before they were seen 3                                                                   6 with enough necessity                             were it not for shadows anyone can tell a lie                                  I would surely learn to                                                                      hate the light
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When I called the visual appeal of your body topography, you laughed. You misunderstood. The sharp angles, the planes, the curves and the hollows of your body, of your skin stretched thin over bone, these are what I find beautiful. This is the topography of you, the places I want to map with my lips and teeth. The familiar places, my home within a home, my love. Your body is geometry, trigonometry, mathematics you hate almost as much as the way I can trace your every rib and vertebrae. Perspective translates your flaws into aesthetic beauty, but your perspective is your own and you will never see what I do. I will love you enough for the both of us, darling, love your flaws more than your perfection just to give you what you deserve.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 10:23 AM UTC
Topography
He weaves slowly between the tables at Buongiorno's stooping over each diner's ear close and intimate as a lover He asks if they can spare a little money for his lunch He's gaunt each cheek shadowed hollow his skin bleached white as bone Each vertebrae is marked prominent Each finger skeltonic thin Unsocked, in shoes laced with knots of string leather uppers baked, cracked and crazy creased His hair is dry-straggle stalks of corn Eyes hold a stare that fixes fast the lies He cuts a powerful figure under that cosy awning though some name him worthless beggar Fearless of taunts and titles offered from shamemongers and well-respected-men-about-town there is no guilt in asking for your basic needs from the latte-ccino mob who have so much to spare. © M.L.Emmett
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 8:23 AM UTC
Shameless in Norwood
let's be honest sometimes I turn towards the wall at night and close my eyes, I can see your hairline, a fracture of scoliosis in your curved spine, I can almost trace the bumps of your vertebrae through that thin cotton sweater let's be honest you start to turn over before I lose you in the geometric dark, sometimes our eyes play tricks on us and we see colors, well, sometimes mine play jokes and I see you.
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 3:48 PM UTC
cyan, magenta, kerscher.
Your words crawled through my auditory cortex like caterpillars, preventing me from hearing anything other than the inflection in your deep voice. As your body inched closer to mine, they took residence in my chest cavity, building chrysali that hung off of my ribs making it more and more difficult to inflate my heavy lungs. They cocooned themselves as I too wrapped myself up in you. Suddenly, your lips were on mine and your hands were counting the vertebrae down my back, scaring the insects from their resting place, resulting in chills up my spine. The newly emerged butterflies flew out of my sternum and up into my throat, longing to be closer to you. But then you pulled away and they instantly died, leaving me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 10:26 PM UTC
Butterflies
It closes The surrounding darkness is somehow contracting Though it was always equally lacking in light, the walls approach on the edges of your vision. The jagged edges that hold a promise of riches never yielded their prize. They fall and crush, snapping your vertebrae without thought. Pinned to the damp floor, your skeletal remains give up their fight. It has won. Not daggers, no, far less civilised, far more brutal shards pierce roughly through your chest. The sound of your screams is replaced with silence The battle is over. Yet still the blows crash against your skull, the pounding on the inside of your head starts to break out. Perspectives reverse Not dark, sunrise, not rocks, a quilt, not screams, but beeps. A day begins It Was All In Your Head Does that make it alright? Do you feel better for that truth? Your mind tricked you, is that what you want? Which restricts more, a prison of rock or thoughts?
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Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 9:10 PM UTC
Caves
Glances shared at infinitesimal instances trickle up my vertebrae, blow the dust away & chew the tin foil for me. Nonchalantly running a gauntlet that I designed with architectural displeasure. If you absorbed all the gold you've ever touched, feverishly drank the blood of gods, suckled the syrup from tangerines until you blessed a famine, stole your story from a pack of gorgeous wolves, or inhaled the whispers of every wise soul it would still not explain your unprecedented growth & elegance. A superlative pressure wave in the eyes of a politician. Purely an enigma. Beauty in the form of human nature. I truly flourish in this experience.
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Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
Chess On The Veranda
She was beautiful. But not in a Cosmo Model, Megan Fox, or Tara kind of way, not how you would expect. It was strange, her beauty. The kind that has you peering through a crowded room to see what you were really looking at. Her eyes, her smile, the way she held herself; strange how just holding her head up a few vertebrae higher could catch such attention.  And the way she was around people, was a mystery. She would be all smiles, childish and comic at one moment; but the next she would lean quietly, her face relaxed with no thought of expression. When she smiled, it took little effort to make her smile brighter, and the promise would make her giggle and laugh. Her laugh could make even the saddest man cry out for joy. And sometimes she would sing, and her voice was like the angels from heaven, to get her to sing was just as much a task as it was to make her smile. While, on the other hand, when she was relaxed, her expressionless face dominant,  the task to make her smile, to get her to laugh grew hard and tiresome. Such a strange beauty, like a well painted piece of art, was rare. She stuck out like a sore thumb in the cluster of thin no bodies. Each girl prim, thin, perky and down to the letter. Each girl barely had a mind of their own, barely had wit enough to keep them. But this girl…this girl could tame the whole room if she pleased. This girl could open her mouth wide and get the whole company into a dance. She had personality, she had spark, she had emotions, she was alive. That’s why he liked her so much. He loved just looking into her auburn eyes, the almond shape of them as interesting as her topics of conversation. He could listen to her voice for hours, just as beautiful as her singing voice. And she could pull your heart like nothing else. That’s what he liked about her.
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Jan 25, 2011
Jan 25, 2011 at 2:05 PM UTC
A Hidden Beauty
She was beautiful. But not in a Cosmo Model, Megan Fox, or Tara kind of way, not how you would expect. It was strange, her beauty. The kind that has you peering through a crowded room to see what you were really looking at. Her eyes, her smile, the way she held herself; strange how just holding her head up a few vertebrae higher could catch such attention.  And the way she was around people, was a mystery. She would be all smiles, childish and comic at one moment; but the next she would lean quietly, her face relaxed with no thought of expression. When she smiled, it took little effort to make her smile brighter, and the promise would make her giggle and laugh. Her laugh could make even the saddest man cry out for joy. And sometimes she would sing, and her voice was like the angels from heaven, to get her to sing was just as much a task as it was to make her smile. While, on the other hand, when she was relaxed, her expressionless face dominant,  the task to make her smile, to get her to laugh grew hard and tiresome. Such a strange beauty, like a well painted piece of art, was rare. She stuck out like a sore thumb in the cluster of thin no bodies. Each girl prim, thin, perky and down to the letter. Each girl barely had a mind of their own, barely had wit enough to keep them. But this girl…this girl could tame the whole room if she pleased. This girl could open her mouth wide and get the whole company into a dance. She had personality, she had spark, she had emotions, she was alive. That’s why he liked her so much. He loved just looking into her auburn eyes, the almond shape of them as interesting as her topics of conversation. He could listen to her voice for hours, just as beautiful as her singing voice. And she could pull your heart like nothing else. That’s what he liked about her.
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Divine Minds Transcend There is so much more than what we see what we fear and choose to perceive what we're told we must believe a place that's hard to conceive a portal to a world beyond belief Since birth, it waits for you and me a world beyond a lucid dream I can tell you where this portal leads it leads to a cure for humanity So step onto the magic train and learn to accept your certain death For life is nothing more then fabricated reality Fate, it seems is not without a sense of irony I finally broke free of the evil me it wasn't church that set me free it wasn't drugs from psychiatry it wasn't money that made me see I had to die from this reality and accept my certain death It's your turn to consider the facts now breathe a bit and try to relax Just one second as I remove the mask then a crack like a whip and a panic attack No slack as you slip into a static bath your vertebrae split you are severed in half You blast away and never look back the math adds up so you have to adapt Half of you is lost and your soul is cracked the other half swirls in the endless black As you float down an uncharted path you finally breakthrough at last All you thought you knew from life is shattered as you step into the looking glass
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 2:35 AM UTC
Step Into The Looking Glass
Turn the wheel into the sun. Forget the stars. Forget the wind. Forget the way the waves are weeping. I am not coming home. We are never again what we once were. And I am not sorry for it. Some of them end before the music can even start. And we are left somehow, like monks, pinching book spines like vertebrae. Seeing if we can find our ability to Stand. Up. In words. Most days. I am only words. But some days, I am more. Some days, the thought of those ivory temples run me up masts.. I am stretched out. Arms wide. Accepting the storm. Ragged. (Stronger for it. Unafraid to unravel more.) Inventing time. Investing it back. Some days. I am yards of cloth, fighting history. And when my sea is calm: Puff your cheeks and blow on my spine. For motion. I am still. I am calm. I am still calm. I am still calmly waiting. It's worth mentioning that we never made love. Now. Everything is different. I am listening to an ***** grinder, playing my heart on his sleeve. Taking light from my future and shedding it on my past. Saying, "What happened? Where did you go?" And I try to answer back but find my throat dry and only able to mutter, "I can't feel you, Lord. I can't feel you." Some days I am lost. Is it fair, when asked what happened, to say, "She did. Calliope happened to me."? Start the music. Let the carousel turn. I am not coming home. Is it fair to say that I am better now. But not always better for it. I am walking a tightrope of strength and.. Something else. Something else entirely. Now, I am tired. I am at a loss for words. I am sinking into the oldest crimes in the oldest ways and creating my own wooden chest. You are on it. Carved. Etched. Playing in my mind like laughter on the really cold days. Your fingerprints matching the grain. A petal for each flower I picked trying to fix it. And this is how it will end. It was this way before it even began. When we found our faults on the back of each others lips with our tongues. Thank you for teaching me the opposite side of love. And this is how I will end it. I will be words. And action. And learn to touch with passion. Learn to make love, like sounds strung together. Masterful. Seamless. As to seem less important. like lyrics. Like an aria. Rising and falling like tides to my mast. Lips pressed and cheeks puffed. And arms outstretched like a horizon to sail into. And all wonderful happy lies. I will be more. In hopes of forgetting that briefly.. I once more allowed myself to be less. And found my self wondering, If it was me who slipped through your fingers... or you who slipped through mine... I once allowed myself to seem less. I guess... I just needed to get you off my chest.
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 12:44 PM UTC
Wouldn't Chest
Turn the wheel into the sun. Forget the stars. Forget the wind. Forget the way the waves are weeping. I am not coming home. We are never again what we once were. And I am not sorry for it. Some of them end before the music can even start. And we are left somehow, like monks, pinching book spines like vertebrae. Seeing if we can find our ability to Stand. Up. In words. Most days. I am only words. But some days, I am more. Some days, the thought of those ivory temples run me up masts.. I am stretched out. Arms wide. Accepting the storm. Ragged. (Stronger for it. Unafraid to unravel more.) Inventing time. Investing it back. Some days. I am yards of cloth, fighting history. And when my sea is calm: Puff your cheeks and blow on my spine. For motion. I am still. I am calm. I am still calm. I am still calmly waiting. It's worth mentioning that we never made love. Now. Everything is different. I am listening to an ***** grinder, playing my heart on his sleeve. Taking light from my future and shedding it on my past. Saying, "What happened? Where did you go?" And I try to answer back but find my throat dry and only able to mutter, "I can't feel you, Lord. I can't feel you." Some days I am lost. Is it fair, when asked what happened, to say, "She did. Calliope happened to me."? Start the music. Let the carousel turn. I am not coming home. Is it fair to say that I am better now. But not always better for it. I am walking a tightrope of strength and.. Something else. Something else entirely. Now, I am tired. I am at a loss for words. I am sinking into the oldest crimes in the oldest ways and creating my own wooden chest. You are on it. Carved. Etched. Playing in my mind like laughter on the really cold days. Your fingerprints matching the grain. A petal for each flower I picked trying to fix it. And this is how it will end. It was this way before it even began. When we found our faults on the back of each others lips with our tongues. Thank you for teaching me the opposite side of love. And this is how I will end it. I will be words. And action. And learn to touch with passion. Learn to make love, like sounds strung together. Masterful. Seamless. As to seem less important. like lyrics. Like an aria. Rising and falling like tides to my mast. Lips pressed and cheeks puffed. And arms outstretched like a horizon to sail into. And all wonderful happy lies. I will be more. In hopes of forgetting that briefly.. I once more allowed myself to be less. And found my self wondering, If it was me who slipped through your fingers... or you who slipped through mine... I once allowed myself to seem less. I guess... I just needed to get you off my chest.
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I miss the forest of your magic as it winds its tattooed way through the serrated textures of nightfall all up inside my vertebrae the soft wind rustling in your elms, outstretched to me like arms as stars burn through this brewing sky in molten, fiery charms They beckon to me unexpected in quiet apertures of subtle they sneak upon me, unprotected, when I'm sunken in my tunnel and sometimes in the quiet stream of the lonely, sacred night I hear a whisper whirring soft as it permeates my spine I let it take me over as I sit, slumped, in the bath it creeps and seethes over my wet skin eats out my silent wrath I let it fill my senses as I walk inside the deep and on wooded paths of solitude's carpet of leaves when I feel no soul is watching the deer start shyly peeking, and lynx resume their stalking then long slashes of ache are reawakened from their lair snaking through my ribcage choking up my hollowed air yet, somehow in the longing of bottomless, falling space I see in distant, faded visions: the precious contours of your face and so, like an enchanted secret box I open you, inhale the confetti of your floating stars wave them over and through my strands of vein, my tripped out, healing scars your essence penetrates my presence like misty mountain rains seeps inside my pores opens up striations of seismic, writhing pain Your invisibility takes form and then in sudden, whipped-up heat it pours out in honeyed rhythm to our own invisible beat and just like that I get taken. Overcome by slakes of love rushing through my arteries like sweet manna from above
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Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017 at 5:58 PM UTC
invisible beats
I miss the forest of your magic as it winds its tattooed way through the serrated textures of nightfall all up inside my vertebrae the soft wind rustling in your elms, outstretched to me like arms as stars burn through this brewing sky in molten, fiery charms They beckon to me unexpected in quiet apertures of subtle they sneak upon me, unprotected, when I'm sunken in my tunnel and sometimes in the quiet stream of the lonely, sacred night I hear a whisper whirring soft as it permeates my spine I let it take me over as I sit, slumped, in the bath it creeps and seethes over my wet skin eats out my silent wrath I let it fill my senses as I walk inside the deep and on wooded paths of solitude's carpet of leaves when I feel no soul is watching the deer start shyly peeking, and lynx resume their stalking then long slashes of ache are reawakened from their lair snaking through my ribcage choking up my hollowed air yet, somehow in the longing of bottomless, falling space I see in distant, faded visions: the precious contours of your face and so, like an enchanted secret box I open you, inhale the confetti of your floating stars wave them over and through my strands of vein, my tripped out, healing scars your essence penetrates my presence like misty mountain rains seeps inside my pores opens up striations of seismic, writhing pain Your invisibility takes form and then in sudden, whipped-up heat it pours out in honeyed rhythm to our own invisible beat and just like that I get taken. Overcome by slakes of love rushing through my arteries like sweet manna from above
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