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"viscosity" poems
Discoboli of African poetry has now sparked above aphasia The aphasic silence today breaks eardrums with cacophony Of the world audience in the by standing duty of workshop tubes, Executing poetic experiment on the origin of **** poeticus To link the archaic baboonish proteins to the black chimpanzee Cradling African man, the sire of all and their poetry. That when the Chimpanzee blood we poured Into the African veins of vena cava and aorta, Feeding the heart with viscosity of nutrition, And the Chimpanzee blood fell into deadly Tomperousness like Shakespearean impetuosity Once seen in Romeo and Juliet, giving timely Birth To untimely half the yellow Sun That juxtaposed planet of poetry Behind the star of tribe as a priority Condemning to stark oblivion all the fated, in full uniform of tribal dimunitions, or mimesis. Ever predated on when tribes form nations. A time to try the chimpanzee blood in the veins Of white humanity, battling cynosure Historically evinced in Antony and his father, Or Tybalt and Mercurial of mercutio, Or Macbeth and counterparts Or Hamlet the Danish and the inheritors of his mother, As the white blood cells of the white blood, Militantly attack the white corpuscles Of the misfortunate chimpanzee, Converting the later into A chewer of misfortune.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 11:55 AM UTC
CHIMPANZEE BLOOD INSIDE AFRICAN VEINES
is like no other early morning, man reborn, in the delivery room of sky blue, the offsetting water deeper bluish hue, the trim-all-around of the mixed salad greens of the staff's scrubs as they usher in unity,  with no imp-unity, the risks, while the supervisory sky, disperses cumulus clouds in peppercorn patterns of white chains, or big wide solitary brushstrokes on a a ****** canvas, gettin' the feel in the palm of the heft of brush, the viscosity of the paint, the day's palette reflecting available colors in order to create a uni~cued original of what has been painted an uncountable times before, and before… tho short weighted, was the sleep of the prior night's restful, he awakes to the early morning light, the sounds of early island rouse him, even, arouse him, for the August chill foretells of the early onset of memory loss of the peculiarities of this summered simmering, human warming and baking and natural braking of the slowing of the heart rate, to better accommodate, nature's hints and hidden reminiscences of the true purpose of the summer's intervention upon our collective and unique bottling, our individualized containers, un~lidded, uncovered, eager for the fuel of sunrays replenish- ing the length of our lives by the elixir of the summer it is a chill 63 Fahrenheit at this time of day as we crossover to the nigh day, from the cooling air conditions of dark, the occasional helicopter intrudes upon the morning's calm, the water placid, the geese honking regarding my watchful rewarding presence, a slew, a bevy, of female vocalists, to ease this transitory performance unfolding, and though one feels the existential of his solitary singularity, as he thinks, nay believes, he is the only one in attendance at this ritualized emergence, he takes in the cool of, the heat of, the admixture of both, the clashing integers of each, and he, fully invigorated, goes silent, for once more, he has uncovered new combinations of old words to accept and describe a new day's creation, miracle of miraculous, defying the odds of this ventures's success, his own continuance  on this sheltered but open all around island implanted tween two tines of land, as if all the surroundings were created just to protect this, wholly holy place… 7:00am Silver Beach Shelter Island Aug 19 2025
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Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC
this particular day...
is like no other early morning, man reborn, in the delivery room of sky blue, the offsetting water deeper bluish hue, the trim-all-around of the mixed salad greens of the staff's scrubs as they usher in unity,  with no imp-unity, the risks, while the supervisory sky, disperses cumulus clouds in peppercorn patterns of white chains, or big wide solitary brushstrokes on a a ****** canvas, gettin' the feel in the palm of the heft of brush, the viscosity of the paint, the day's palette reflecting available colors in order to create a uni~cued original of what has been painted an uncountable times before, and before… tho short weighted, was the sleep of the prior night's restful, he awakes to the early morning light, the sounds of early island rouse him, even, arouse him, for the August chill foretells of the early onset of memory loss of the peculiarities of this summered simmering, human warming and baking and natural braking of the slowing of the heart rate, to better accommodate, nature's hints and hidden reminiscences of the true purpose of the summer's intervention upon our collective and unique bottling, our individualized containers, un~lidded, uncovered, eager for the fuel of sunrays replenish- ing the length of our lives by the elixir of the summer it is a chill 63 Fahrenheit at this time of day as we crossover to the nigh day, from the cooling air conditions of dark, the occasional helicopter intrudes upon the morning's calm, the water placid, the geese honking regarding my watchful rewarding presence, a slew, a bevy, of female vocalists, to ease this transitory performance unfolding, and though one feels the existential of his solitary singularity, as he thinks, nay believes, he is the only one in attendance at this ritualized emergence, he takes in the cool of, the heat of, the admixture of both, the clashing integers of each, and he, fully invigorated, goes silent, for once more, he has uncovered new combinations of old words to accept and describe a new day's creation, miracle of miraculous, defying the odds of this ventures's success, his own continuance  on this sheltered but open all around island implanted tween two tines of land, as if all the surroundings were created just to protect this, wholly holy place… 7:00am Silver Beach Shelter Island Aug 19 2025
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I was floating in honey. The viscosity of the substance Made it so that, while I still needed to work To keep my head afloat, I had a little extra support. So I didn't have to do it alone. And it was good. But my temperature began to rise. I became too hot too fast, and, Because of my actions I started to destroy the beneficial parts That the honey needed to remain useful and healthy. So the honey reacted: Threw my melting self out of its jar. I tried to jump back in But the honey firmly ******* its lid back on, And my charring fists Fruitlessly pounded on the boundary The honey had erected. Then as my body and brain burned, The other honey jars disappeared- Distancing in acts of self-preservation. I knew how I could get my temperature Back to baseline. I just needed a little help So I could work to get back to my normal self. But my actions had pushed away what I needed. So I accepted the fate I had caused, And allowed my body to fall to ash.
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Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 at 9:05 PM UTC
im sorry
kisses on your warm sweet mouth tender lips caressed exploring your ******* and raised ******* .. belly and thighs enveloped those eager dark delicious places that i covet so your musk erogenous the path to your hungry soul eater of the poison apple your eyes widen bright with delight a strange synesthesia you say your smile a hypnotic alter you prone back arched belly willing as i drag a curved blade slowly across your winsome flesh worshiping you breathing your warm breath into my mouth and nostrils come now you coo i am sheildless then little strangles that excite to see how you do will you love it adorations twisted mind she demon a wizened dizzy Venus please yes her **** drenches the bed a warm viscosity legs widen feet piqued ***** exotic delicatessen Heralded i enter with long sweet butter strokes the sabbath of desire I swear i wont let you suffer... never ! why you say? because i love you lovely scythe you call as if lulled to sleep whispering dreadful incantations   . i ache to close the curtain to lifes scalding chatter wrap me in a raggy shawl impale the throat like ive alway dreamed a last exhalation flood gates pour forth as deaths dark fold dissolves all i rock you drugged absinthe and wormwood a last ***** of candles flame white gauze cinched lips on a lost mouth eyes a static pyre i linger wishing you still plush an animated glow so that i could feel your arms, now milky white relics only to take you all over again and again and again dreamer of the abyss yet you stand aberrations, smoke ghost sacrificially swaying your hips calling from Hades dancer of ritual copulation i melt like wax in the sun wither and die myself marriage Italian style dead bells in love blotted out by the Sirens of Mara
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 4:45 PM UTC
SIRENS OF MARA
kisses on your warm sweet mouth tender lips caressed exploring your ******* and raised ******* .. belly and thighs enveloped those eager dark delicious places that i covet so your musk erogenous the path to your hungry soul eater of the poison apple your eyes widen bright with delight a strange synesthesia you say your smile a hypnotic alter you prone back arched belly willing as i drag a curved blade slowly across your winsome flesh worshiping you breathing your warm breath into my mouth and nostrils come now you coo i am sheildless then little strangles that excite to see how you do will you love it adorations twisted mind she demon a wizened dizzy Venus please yes her **** drenches the bed a warm viscosity legs widen feet piqued ***** exotic delicatessen Heralded i enter with long sweet butter strokes the sabbath of desire I swear i wont let you suffer... never ! why you say? because i love you lovely scythe you call as if lulled to sleep whispering dreadful incantations   . i ache to close the curtain to lifes scalding chatter wrap me in a raggy shawl impale the throat like ive alway dreamed a last exhalation flood gates pour forth as deaths dark fold dissolves all i rock you drugged absinthe and wormwood a last ***** of candles flame white gauze cinched lips on a lost mouth eyes a static pyre i linger wishing you still plush an animated glow so that i could feel your arms, now milky white relics only to take you all over again and again and again dreamer of the abyss yet you stand aberrations, smoke ghost sacrificially swaying your hips calling from Hades dancer of ritual copulation i melt like wax in the sun wither and die myself marriage Italian style dead bells in love blotted out by the Sirens of Mara
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I'd rather die than listen to your poetry. **** pellets of perfection, Forget rhyme, rhythm or talent, Leave that **** for the poets, The saps and the ******* Don't start with that alliteration. No pantooms or odes. I'd rather place my head on the chopping block. I'd rather watch blood with such high viscosity, That it flails and leaps toward the opened mouth, Pleading "no more! No more!"
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Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011 at 1:02 PM UTC
For The Poetry Haters
acting on a stage, she builds with each step, step,     step,         stepping, the floorboards trail behind her feet. they form from the soil, the earth breathing beneath, wooden planks sprouting between her toes. she sings in a voice strained and trained, her diaphragm strong and core rumbling in single breaths. her skin brushed with pigment, cheeks tinted rouge and lips scrubbed till pain, gold-dusted on her bones rays reflecting and blinding from her beauty. stomach she ***** in, twenty-four seven, always prim and proper, a perfect specimen of femininity, her blood flows in a viscosity unique only to the elite. fingers down but she lacks words to throw up, she's silent, an empty vessel, her lips meant to be a two-way gate but nothing flows either way. her skin sunkissed turmeric, her irises tapioca pearls, hair flowing and falling from her face toasted nori on the white rice her dress. daily rehearsals of sixteen odd years practicing lines; memorizing them, repeating internally, the stage she builds like a church her loves oppose to the act, but she builds an antidisestablishment forcing her audience of parishioners away from her.
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Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 10:54 AM UTC
the actress
I held out my hands. I placed a drop of soap on each palm and took hold of my ***** spoon and washed it with my hands, cupping and spooning it like my gentle hands were trying to make it croon. Like it were mated and flipped and slapped against threadbare slacks. That spoon is cleaning me, is washing my hands as I wash its tarnished feet, it is forgiving me. For the scalding soups and bitter ice cream, and not washing it but watching it grow crusted, disgusted. And while I swoon for my spoon, and grinning the spinning dizzy grin of Love, I remember, and give thanks for my feast. This spoon feeds me like a child on Mother God’s lap, and kisses me with life, with food. This soap, and my hands, and this bubbling love between my spoon and I, it is clean. My soul is more clean with my spoon. Cleaner than dog’s saliva licking at old wounds, but that’s alright, cause everybody knows ******* love scars, dog. And women love beautiful spoons, maybe because of its viscosity, or its gentle curvature, or the deep loving laugh it invokes, when it sits on my nose. My spoon communion left me with pruned hands, bright eyes, and a coy smile for what flowers in my mind may bloom.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM UTC
Communion
don't stick to anything defy gravity creep up the walls of glass no heat super conductivity zero viscosity helium 2 your a super fluid and you show that drip out the bottom of the seemingly solid mass helium 2 your a super fluid and you show that redefining how i think about cold liquid gas
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Apr 8, 2011
Apr 8, 2011 at 2:16 AM UTC
Helium 2
my love has 1000x the energy of a dead corpse viscosity singing telephone wire aeolion harp my heart beats like a rabbit’s me the prey crouching in tall grass ears flat legs ready to spring with dusk’s breath I will continue to shake with this expression
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 12:27 PM UTC
the hunted
sleeping tears awoke to crimson crust & apple red veins, eyes peering through the dizzying fog to find a faucet & drizzle rain like nectar down the peach pit's core, along rugged edges & oval pores, imperfect patterns & lightning blinks remind the second sadness to cry once again. My swipe of crust is rusting like a smoker's yellowing finger tips gathering paint on callouses & cracked lips mirrored reflections shadow gaze, squinting to locate bronze crow's feet of a man, mid thirties, lying for what-to die dying to wait-for what
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 12:25 AM UTC
Nectar Viscosity
I squashed a cockroach the other day. A big, Fat, Cockroach. It was trying to get away and I squashed it. Not that I had anything against that, Particular cockroach but, I was bare-foot. I had tea, And biscuits, And was bare-foot when he made his dash across the corridor. It took some time to calm down and, Fetch another tray. When I returned, The cockroach had moved. A thick, white streak, Of substantial viscosity, Ran right across the floor and, Straight under my door. Her gartered leg was up on the table. She removed a delicate silver pistol and, With his back turned, Fired a single shot. I used a shoe this time, Like a maniac, And then, Framed by a single, Swinging light-bulb, Waited for the detective.
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 11:25 AM UTC
Serial Killer
Under harsh street lights And a rusted skeletal overpass We walked in the syrupy Silence of a Sunnyside Saturday Night A man asked me in accented English "Want that burrito spicy?" "Yes" His eyebrows go up "Spicy?" "Yes, ******* spicy!" He smiles to himself Reaches back into the food truck And pours sauces and Liquids of varying color And viscosity into the Tortilla Wraps it up for me Gives me my change And waves me off with a smile When we get back to the apartment She is mad Because I choose to make love to the Burrito instead of her I can't help it Drunk eating is one of the Forbidden joys of life She slams the door and Shuffles around yelling By the time I'm done the burrito She is telling me to sleep on the couch Which is fine because I can't Feel my mouth anyway The burrito is so **** spicy I tell her this and that her Kisses would be wasted If she wants to waste her time With me, I want to feel it We sleep together for The night
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Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 at 6:15 PM UTC
Food Truck Burrito
**"His mind would never romp again like the mind of God." The Great Gatsby** Does he fret, Does he sweat, Does he pay his bills On Time, Even tho his personal stash Of anything, Inexhaustible and He bills himself? Is he lonely, So when he romps, His greatest pleasure is Inventing new kinds of pain? Does he like to watch butter Snowmelt, Does he turn the honey jar Upside down Because viscosity is A turn on? Is he lonely? Of course he is, Is that why he endlessly Tinkers with creative destruction? Does he put strawberry jam On his watermelon? Salt on his wounds, Caramelized onions in his Cologne and parfumes? Does he watch reruns? The bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima? The shaving of the heads of the French women? What's his fav. late night host, When he can't sleep And. his damaged dreams Become our unfortunate realities? Acting childish, a métier, So he can scold himself? Does he keep score, Ever say no more, Contemplate suicide, Or just murdering his sons? Did he kiss Shakespeare's lips, Or just his fingertips? Does he sing a Capella With Holly and Cooke, Let Beethoven play rock n' roll? What is he best excuse For playing with Tormented souls, Making so many wonderful things Forbidden fruit? Does he worship regularly at the altar? Irony his faith and skin his vestments? Are his twisted straight, His late, early? His order disordered and when bored, Does he just close his eyes and Let us live in peace?
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 4:46 PM UTC
The Mind of God, Romping
My boyfriend (Peter) and I went down to New Haven Harbor today. Let’s face it, we’re surrounded by oceans, and most of them are downright inhospitable. I live near the ocean, (pointing) it’s right over there. I love the ocean, tripping over whenever I’ve time to spare. The way I’m fawning over it, you’d think I know it well. But I really only love its edges and undulating swells. It’s like a book that I’ve judged by its cover, a beautiful stranger taken as a lover, or a pie when I’ve only tasted the crust. I love something, I suppose, I’ve barely even touched. Peter says that black, inky “outer-space” is a low-viscosity liquid, another, even vaster ocean that’s more dangerous and rarely visited. The air that we breathe is an ocean - our own, vast, atmosphere - in it swim creatures too small to see, but to the naked eye it looks clear. It flows, eddies and swells - birds swoop in it so you can tell. Of course, the ocean has issues - it's hardly news - corrosion, erosion, sharks and drowning - and the way the ocean lets the moon and air push it around. What I love most is its motion, and how it reflects the sun and the moon. Did I mention that hanging-out by the ocean makes for a pleasant afternoon?
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Mar 22, 2023
Mar 22, 2023 at 10:35 AM UTC
oceans
Tears. Salt   water mixed   with fire from my core   ,this molten center; Where   viscosity erupts into the cavernous third   chamber, sufussive. Hands. Feel across the   valleyed surface, touching the unhealed; A perfectly   clean circle sitting upon solar plexus; Cupid’s sharpest hit. Unseen.    The fissure runs deep into a chamber nestling betwixt red pulsing atrium.    Only I sense the tremors here.No beats sing out in this vast ethereal emptiness. Silent.        Vaulted edifices shining bright with colourful minerals. Molten. Lovers leaving stains upon          the walls, as pure deposits cool. Crystallizing in the aftermath of each eruption, my volcanic            heartrock shines like a diamond in the rough.
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
Inside Dormancy...(poem art)
The Winter Feast In the Glass forest Snow falls And trees Stand Darkly visible Beneath Ancient crowns of Snow and ice In these creaking limbs Nothing changes - The slow viscosity of time Drapes the boughs in Delicate shards that Swallow light But Over here In dark stains Beneath old eaves Famined eyes slide among Rivers of shadow Pursuing the warm glow of life - In an instant They absorb the warm hapless thing Whose bright shrieks tear At the fabric of shadows The beasts feed - Their crippled little yelps Resonate Death through the Forest where Time shivers and breaks - From dark boughs Gleaming Thorns of ice whisper To earth In the silent thunder of snow Satisfied The beasts leave - A sacrifice of blood And bone Is made - Crimson tears bloom In the snow - Time gathers the vibrant colour in its Crystal embrace High above Winter winds Caress the old boughs That lovingly Creak and whisper In the Glass forest
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Dec 2, 2009
Dec 2, 2009 at 6:19 PM UTC
The Winter Feast
Onto her creased palm, lime scented glue she poured To mend the loose page on that book she'd borrowed. As she spread the glue, a pleasant feeling of release. For to piece broken things together brought her peace. What of the glue that lingered on her palm, though? Across the sides of her petite hand did overflow... She beheld its yellow viscosity in an odd little trance. From the faint aroma, a new line of thought did advance. Maybe she could use it to stick a note in her dorm, To remind her that in life, transience is the sole norm. Or to fix a friendship once worthy of the bards, That had silently shattered into a million shards. Or perhaps even use it on the heart hiding within her, So the poor old muscle could heal a little quicker... She turned on the tap with a frustration so fierce, And washed off the lime glue along with her tears.
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Dec 4, 2016
Dec 4, 2016 at 12:53 PM UTC
Altschmerz
With each reach I am further away than I hoped. Clawing desperately at walls of mud. Foiled by the viscosity of fools. No matter how hard I try to escape the solitude it haunts me still. Looming over me like a cowl adhered to my skull. Comforting is its presence. Complex are it’s vexes. Is it the walls or my skin that take the brunt of my aggression? Is it outward or all within? Could it be that the darkness is my only friend? The only thing that remains. All my efforts are in vain. All my transgressions explained. My thoughts are all insane. But here in the depth I can escape the pain. So here I shall remain. Filled with more of the same. Questions unexplored… a bane.
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Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020 at 7:55 PM UTC
How i feel today
Maybe, this thing does not matter. It feels like a current, But maybe it’s just another stream with the promise of leading to the sea when it’s truly just heading for a lake. Maybe, I can watch the ducks paddle over the water and the twigs float on by. It could be that this is how you learn, that your gut doesn’t have eyes. But it could also be how you learn that there are some things no eyes can see. Whether it be for the worsening or for the bettering you are floating down this river an island in the water it’s viscosity carrying you, with your hands at the side of your hips where you’ll end up grace cannot be too far when you follow the flow who knows where you’ll end up maybe next to those ducks or in the vast open sea
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 12:10 PM UTC
The Ducks Or The Vast Sea (Maybe there)
Your love is like a swarm of thousand bees Stinging me all over my body Filling in your lunatic venom Me craving for more That toxiferous viscosity rushing and gushing into my veins Leaving no corners of my soul unearthed , undiscovered     As after some lapse of time those pokes oozing out shades of black                     Your pestilential destruction works its way into my nerves Delirium is just so much more acknowledged now The reality is just so neglected now Thrashed far away                             Thats where I like it to be now
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC
Infiltrate 》》》
*daddy screams and shouts, eyes burning with rage mummy cries tears bitter with sage brother is scared, eyes wide as moons we all agree daddy has gone through menopause too soon on our faces, we brush aside this sudden burst "it's just nothing," we say, "he knows family comes first." but the sight of him consumed is etched in the air trapping the three of us in trauma's snare -- his eyes were livid, veins bulged from his neck pulsing with the viscosity of a lava lake he burned like blue fire, the kind that burns too hot destroying everything around it, leaving death-clogged smog i don't know why daddy is so angry today till then, in our room, mummy brother and i will stay i have never seen daddy so angered and flared so distant with fury, so paralysingly mad i fear for this family, i never have before this this fear scares me, so i will make a list i hope it will serve to place some of my fears into linear thoughts, before it rains tears first, daddy has always been holy and kind, on his chest a cross, you would always find but as he grows older, with hair turning grey, with valley-deep wrinkles and memories gone astray, he seems to forget, that i am human too with his words, he beats me, beats me black and blue criticisms and 'bad bad bad' ring through the house if only he saw, he is the wolf that prowls second, daddy had been a family man the kind that spends a fortune flying us over land but lately, he's just been out of touch and sight sins queuing outside the door, waiting to enter at night he seems to forget when i was a child the cards i gave him, the way i made him smile but i remember, when his hair was still black in our family, love and warmth was never in lack time, stop. return my daddy back to me. stop this affair, i beg you; don't let age run free. don't run through your fingers in his hair like that. don't paint his hair grey, don't make it fall away. give me the daddy my mummy met, back.*
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
daddy
*daddy screams and shouts, eyes burning with rage mummy cries tears bitter with sage brother is scared, eyes wide as moons we all agree daddy has gone through menopause too soon on our faces, we brush aside this sudden burst "it's just nothing," we say, "he knows family comes first." but the sight of him consumed is etched in the air trapping the three of us in trauma's snare -- his eyes were livid, veins bulged from his neck pulsing with the viscosity of a lava lake he burned like blue fire, the kind that burns too hot destroying everything around it, leaving death-clogged smog i don't know why daddy is so angry today till then, in our room, mummy brother and i will stay i have never seen daddy so angered and flared so distant with fury, so paralysingly mad i fear for this family, i never have before this this fear scares me, so i will make a list i hope it will serve to place some of my fears into linear thoughts, before it rains tears first, daddy has always been holy and kind, on his chest a cross, you would always find but as he grows older, with hair turning grey, with valley-deep wrinkles and memories gone astray, he seems to forget, that i am human too with his words, he beats me, beats me black and blue criticisms and 'bad bad bad' ring through the house if only he saw, he is the wolf that prowls second, daddy had been a family man the kind that spends a fortune flying us over land but lately, he's just been out of touch and sight sins queuing outside the door, waiting to enter at night he seems to forget when i was a child the cards i gave him, the way i made him smile but i remember, when his hair was still black in our family, love and warmth was never in lack time, stop. return my daddy back to me. stop this affair, i beg you; don't let age run free. don't run through your fingers in his hair like that. don't paint his hair grey, don't make it fall away. give me the daddy my mummy met, back.*
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My heart was pieced together like a patchwork Just like the rest of me Made from parts of ticking time-bombs Stitched and stapled together in a mass of voracious viscosity Violently vilifying the way The thread streams me seamlessly from one person to the next Each feeling they will be the center-ring circus master Until they realize The sewing needle is simply passing through their square The seamstress ran out of string with me Resulting in relapse burlap fistfights along the edges Left me searching for salvation each time The bells chimed to open the day Left me in the company of Misshapen shadows hidden along broken back hallways Back-and-forth handshakes to make sure The other was still there Night after night, staring at your creation in the window But not during the day because monsters like the dark It’s not that it’s easier to sneak and scare I just know the faces of disgust and terror And I don’t need that right now When that’s the same face I want to rip from the mirror That night should have been stormy For all the things that I did To your masterpiece Pulling at strands like they were nooses around my neck Each time like removing an iron bar from my cage Until the burlap sack flew apart flapping like vultures Leaving nothing but the sheep in scarecrow’s clothing Unraveling my sense of time until the clock struck 3 times an echo Once for the creation of your abhorrent abomination Twice for your meticulous sense of the grotesque And three times for putting a soul you saw unhappy Into a prison so much worse When I was on your bench My words came choppily and broken Because I couldn't finish a sentence Without second guessing everything Waiting for a punishment after every word So I wouldn't interrupt The beginning of your sentence With the middle of mine You put my heart together piece by piece Cross-stitching over the years of my childhood Connecting a pair of glasses with a two-tone sense of humor Building a bridge between arms wide open and a shotgun blast But now the words flow fluidly Because now my thoughts are seamless Put together skillfully like a seamstress’s caress No more anticipating the end before the beginning Now that I've come full circle
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 2:51 PM UTC
Patchwork Kid
My heart was pieced together like a patchwork Just like the rest of me Made from parts of ticking time-bombs Stitched and stapled together in a mass of voracious viscosity Violently vilifying the way The thread streams me seamlessly from one person to the next Each feeling they will be the center-ring circus master Until they realize The sewing needle is simply passing through their square The seamstress ran out of string with me Resulting in relapse burlap fistfights along the edges Left me searching for salvation each time The bells chimed to open the day Left me in the company of Misshapen shadows hidden along broken back hallways Back-and-forth handshakes to make sure The other was still there Night after night, staring at your creation in the window But not during the day because monsters like the dark It’s not that it’s easier to sneak and scare I just know the faces of disgust and terror And I don’t need that right now When that’s the same face I want to rip from the mirror That night should have been stormy For all the things that I did To your masterpiece Pulling at strands like they were nooses around my neck Each time like removing an iron bar from my cage Until the burlap sack flew apart flapping like vultures Leaving nothing but the sheep in scarecrow’s clothing Unraveling my sense of time until the clock struck 3 times an echo Once for the creation of your abhorrent abomination Twice for your meticulous sense of the grotesque And three times for putting a soul you saw unhappy Into a prison so much worse When I was on your bench My words came choppily and broken Because I couldn't finish a sentence Without second guessing everything Waiting for a punishment after every word So I wouldn't interrupt The beginning of your sentence With the middle of mine You put my heart together piece by piece Cross-stitching over the years of my childhood Connecting a pair of glasses with a two-tone sense of humor Building a bridge between arms wide open and a shotgun blast But now the words flow fluidly Because now my thoughts are seamless Put together skillfully like a seamstress’s caress No more anticipating the end before the beginning Now that I've come full circle
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, **** Still on the wrong end of a gun, and I feel like a walking phallus-y, spelled with a "ph" A balancing act on a ballast beam I'm sick of splitting pills Like splitting hairs Over an equal piece of the same share I'm sick of playing fair Like alliteration taught to an illiterate In a post-biblical nation I’m trying on your patience And the monstrosity that is my social viscosity Is borne consciously Proceed cautiously But who would I be without the depravity? The sick and sadder me? Another puzzle piece probably Resigned to believe his beliefs aren't faulty Fuckin' salty, and Steeped in a brine of designer beef and corn feed Too yellow to bleed No When I speak, I beg you to see Suffering is a similarity, synonymous with life So proudly riddled with strife, I spit This wisdom demands sacrifice
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Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013 at 2:19 AM UTC
Depravity
The autumn's scent has now released As air is crisp and rife with chills, But cold like this is far from bleak With all these trees where crimson spills. Orange leaves that catch the sunlight, Skeletal, their frames are showing. In their shades of death they give A final dance from breezes blowing. The prickling tickles fingertips To stiffened, numb monstrosities, And you could swear your blood had froze To cause such harsh viscosity. For it's now that summer weeps A solemn, meek exhailed despair, Which whistles in among the leaves And dissipates in frozen air. The autumn's scent has now released, The orange, red and yellow shows, The rigid fingers point away As summer sighs, and summer goes.
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 2:57 PM UTC
The Autumn's Scent