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1.2k · Jul 2015
'90s rock song
Justin S Wampler Jul 2015
yeah, yeah
no, no
yeah, YEAH, yeah
noooo, no

yeah, yeah, no, no
yeah, no, yeah, yeah
no, no, no
1.2k · Jul 2015
Edison
Justin S Wampler Jul 2015
I spit on the light bulb
floating above her head
and as I listened to the
spit begin to slowly sizzle
the light started to fade
and her idea became
nothing more than
nothing.
1.2k · Aug 2015
750ml of cheap brandy
Justin S Wampler Aug 2015
"Good luck!"
The bartender said,
with a grin on his head.

With raised glasses
around the bar.

With a collective gulp,
our worries vanished.

With a collective flick,
our cigarettes lit.

and we all sat silently,
contemplating our own
specific set of doubts.

Looking for
our light within.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2016
It's not easy
trying to decide
on whether to run
or whether to hide.

Because she's a storm,
a torrent of sorts,
and I'm terrified of
falling overboard.
Rain on me.
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
Look how famous I am!
Extray! Read all about it!
.



'How to get likes' was the original title,
this will probably flop.
1.2k · May 2014
Subtle
Justin S Wampler May 2014
Can't you see
the difference between
lonely and alone?

Don't get caught
up in the
similarities.

Maybe we're
meant to be
separated together.
Oh my love, it blossoms like a Venus fly-trap.
1.2k · Aug 2014
February Fourteenth
Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
Another blank page serenade
Another night lost in memories
Your Valentine's Day agenda
Had time in it for me

Another bomb hitting my chest
Another fire I'm struggling to extinguish
All I can do is be here for you
But maybe you'll never be back

And I need to be prepared for that
1.2k · May 2014
contact lends
Justin S Wampler May 2014
It's snowing thick sheets
of glass to coat the surface
of my eyes so that I
may be granted
clarity
while in the face of
the liars and ******
I choose exclusively to
love and adore
Find yourself in my words and grant me the pleasure of writing the script for tomorrow.
Justin S Wampler Nov 2016
All these things I said I would do
are catching up to me
and it seems like laziness is adhesive
keeping me stuck in this chair
but really it's what's within
that's keeping me from
doing all those things I said I would do,
so now I just feel guilty when
I sit down at the end of the day
to stare at monitors and play
stupid redundant games
just like I've been doing
for my whole ******* life

There's a way to break this cycle
and it's as easy as just ******* doing
all those things that I said I would do
1.2k · Jul 2016
Years gone by.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2016
What's a little distance and time,
when they're the only two things
left standing between you and I?
1.2k · Aug 2015
the dry beaches of yesterday
Justin S Wampler Aug 2015
I dive and I sigh
where the sea meets the sky,
in the horizon reflected
on the surface of her eyes.

We're carried away by
a tepid receding tide
of the memories tied
to this time and place.

She fades.

The moon calls me,
whispers my name
into the vapid night,
I eventually came.

Yet it's never been the same,
basking in that forgotten light
illuminating my opaque pain,
it's just not right.
1.2k · Jun 2015
Daisy's nipples
1.2k · May 2014
(optional)
Justin S Wampler May 2014
I have no...
(self-boundaries)
...means of changing.

It's not my fault, I...
(place blame)
...didn't mean to lie.

Why should I try, I will...
(believe in nothing)
...eventually die.

All the underground people...
(your ancestors and mine)


...Do they remember
Being alive?
1.1k · May 2015
the time machine
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Its circular face mocks and laughs
at me with that numerical circumference.

Red and black hands reach out and
grab me tight, leaving bruises on my psyche.

I'm helplessly cast deep into my past
where time flows like molasses.

Back when the clocks
took their time
counting down my life
and rotting my mind.

Back when they were slow
and I just couldn't wait to grow
up.
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
Yesterday's tomorrow was today, and then
the devil sneezed so I told her: 'god bless,'
and she looked at me like she ain't impressed.

But she bought me a beer and then said:
"tell your guardian angel to wait outside,"
as she started massaging my pride.

She knows that I buried god years ago,
right after I stuffed that angel's mouth full
of my personally-sharpened family jewels.

Horney devil,
swallow your forked tongue
right after you're done
lapping up my ***.

Lovely angel,
sorry for cutting you up
while you sat patiently
waiting in stirrups.
Prey for me, mantis-women.
1.1k · Apr 2015
Exhaling Blue Twine
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
I go outside to sit on the steps,
and fumble in my pocket for cigarettes.
I flip the top and start thinking
about her, and my great regrets.

I hate thinking so I begin to look
through my pockets for my matchbook
and my heart starts sinking
as I find the torch I used to use to cook.

It was my utmost favorite flame,
yet whom other than myself is to blame?
We were in love while drinking,
yet when we burned it was always the same.

The same days and,
the same ways;
the same daze and
the same, weighs
heavily
on my heart,
in my brain.

She loved me, yet I was unsure
of whether or not to endure
my ego shrinking,
and becoming impure.
1.1k · Mar 2015
Consumption ( part I ) [10w]
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
I drink beer 'cause I got
mad falling-down envy.
Thorogood once said:


"One bourbon,
one scotch,
and one beer."


.
1.1k · Mar 2015
Ocular Degausser
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
Look how I care
Look how I pour
Look at what I share
Look how there's more
Look at the newsfeed
Look at internet ******
Look how people breed
Look at ISIS gore
Look at mirrors
Look for new wars
Look beyond years
Look at the poor
Look for your peers
Look inside drawers
Look behind you
Look down at the floor
Look nothing's new
Look at the front door
Look for the parts
Look inside your
Looking-glass heart
Close your eyes


.
1.1k · Mar 2015
LSMFT
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
Fate betrays you
if you relax, it's
not worth the risk.

I'm just happy
that her throat
has good grip.

Oh you happy lass,
It'd be just lovely
to watch you cry.

And just make sure
that you look me
straight in the eye.
1.1k · Apr 2015
Smough and Ornstein
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
Video games do not make people more violent.

But,

if I die to this ******* boss
one more ******* time
I'm going to bash someones
skull in with the controller
and play with their brains instead.
1.1k · Jun 2014
4, let's keep it going.
Justin S Wampler Jun 2014
And you, the most
adored ***** who
away I threw
beacuse
I can't love anymore
maybe there's freedom
in other's arms when
i'll be here aging

One ******* day at a ******* time
you keep seeing places that you haven't
been, and find these boys who help you
in lost and found bins
Dying for your touch,
****, even a ******* grin!
and the light shines right through your
******* *** appeal
into the long forgotten shadow
of when you were real
to me.
I love
1.1k · Feb 2015
swivel seat blues
Justin S Wampler Feb 2015
stressed over a great internal debate
between a spray of Jack or Tanqueray,
but after about four or five shots
they taste the same anyway.
Justin S Wampler May 2014
-Says Windows at night
while movies are downloading.


PirateBay trojans, malware, or viruses
all because Demonoid went and died on us!

Though never once have I thought:
"Oh, what shall I do?"

...'Cause it was I
who stole
the operating system
from you.

#computer #nerd #windows
1.1k · Aug 2014
To Get Her
Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
we move
in rhythm and time
keeping pace
and
locking eyes
tangled as one
you're
screaming the name
that they call mine
1.1k · Aug 2014
Reign-Beau
Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
all the things that I've red at night
in the luminous orange of sodium light
just make me feel like a yellow-belly
for being so ******* green with envy
of all the words that blue my mind
written with those lovely indigo eyes
that burn with a fierce violet flame...

...Somewhat like the sun peeking out of the rain.
1.1k · Apr 2015
Goodnight
1.1k · Jul 2015
hydrogen oxide
Justin S Wampler Jul 2015
water please
please

take this drunk
away from me

and leave the
room steady

please
just stop
the spinning

please
grant me
the sleep
1.1k · Apr 2015
Into the Eyes of Disarray
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
When I meet her gaze,
it rips the soul from my body
and ***** it through time and space
into her hollow and vacuous eyes.
Into the vacuum of her being.

I find myself in her mind
and step tentatively over the creases
and folds of her grey brain,
avoiding the beehives hanging like grapevines
from the ceiling of her skull.

But my eyes adjust to the light
and I see that my fears are misplaced,
it's not hives hanging inside her mind
but a series of dark rainclouds
behind black and blue skies.

It's too dim in here, thinks I,
where's all the sunshine?

If it's true, and her sun has died
I would douse myself and burn alive
just to provide her a little reading light,
just to dry out her rainy skies and
maybe brighten up her nine lives.

If it's true that her moon is hollow and dim
then I would be proud to fill it up again,
I would be happy to reinflate it's craters
with my final dying breath,
with all the essence of my being.

And I would hang it there in the night,
surrounded by the hole-punched skies.
So maybe when it reflects my self-immolation,
light would shine down through her beautiful eyes
and into that long-neglected mind.
1.1k · May 2014
Waiting in line
Justin S Wampler May 2014
I can feel the compassion rush to my eyes
and a smile breaks the silence of my lips,
as I stare across the table at your empty seat
vivid imagery lends itself to my cause;

My nose is briefly embraced by  
the shampoo you so worship with each
flowing strand of your liquid golden locks

and then it's the look in your eyes subtly
telling me things that words can't describe,
telling me things that words don't exist for.

instantly, I'm completely lost swimming
in the ever-blue swirls and twine
that surround your all-seeing retinas

instantly, I'm completely left thinking
of the ever-grey thorns on your spine
and the swirl in the rose that adorns it

These are the things I see
even with you absent
from the seat across from me.
1.1k · May 2014
decay
Justin S Wampler May 2014
My feet tell the wheels to spin recklessly beneath me,
but I need more gas to keep on traveling aimlessly.
Fuel pumps like mothers feed mechanical children,
Recycled umbilical cords with vapor-free nozzles.
Lingering smells of vinegar, melted tires,
dried *** and gunpowder like the afterbirth of a new generation.
To each his own,
where global contention resides.
#down
1.1k · Mar 2015
Hands held
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
My hands fascinate me
because all I have left
of her is the dirt under
my fingernails.

The lines in my palms
all point towards the
past and everything I've
ever held.

And my fat knuckles
are getting harder and
harder for me to keep
cracking them.

Nails, bones, knuckles,
tendons, joints, creases,
cuticles, scars, burns,
varicose veins.

No two hands are
ever held the same.
1.1k · Oct 2016
A man, a regular failure.
Justin S Wampler Oct 2016
So many things that I don't want to do
lend me some cash
and maybe a place to crash
because there's so many things
that I don't want to do.

I don't really want to go to work each day
just to sell myself and my time and my name
to gather up money that I just waste anyway
on getting wasted almost every single day.

I don't want to sleep tonight
it's just another poor way
to spend my time
when I could be smoking
or drinking red wine,
I don't want to sleep tonight.
But if I do fall asleep
I don't want to wake up on time.

I don't even want to stand at all
I'll just sit down in the hall
and stare at the walls,
I don't want to move my neck
or cash my ******* paycheck,  
has the **** sun set yet?
It'd be nice in the cool damp nights
if I didn't have to do a thing
I would be quite alright
to lay in the grass and sing.
1.1k · Mar 2015
the horror
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
as 'The Dark Tower' was King's "magnum opus"
it had an ending worth dwelling on.
and now he suffers over
not writing about Roland
as I continue to suffer over
having to write about you.

As if you were my "greatest achievement of an artist or writer"
I voluntarily chose not to move on,
long since alone under the covers.
I think back and remember when
you showed me how to forget lovers.

Yet as I practice the simple techniques
that you painstakingly taught me,
I can't help but remember
I'm trying to forget you.
Notes (optional)









.
1.1k · Jul 2015
4 sweetpea
Justin S Wampler Jul 2015
Flower, Flower.
Your petals so pink, your stem so green.
It reminds me of simpler times, running through the grass as a child.
I love you.
1.1k · Aug 2014
Falling in love with you
Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
The worst thing that ever happened to me
Wouldn't be when my father left
I'd be lying if I said it was.

The worst thing that ever happened to me
Didn't leave visible scars
Up and down my arms

The worst thing that ever happened to me
Happens to begin with 'L'
And ends with an 'E'

The worst thing that ever happened to me
Is the title of
This ****** poem
1.1k · May 2015
Sleepover
Justin S Wampler May 2015
With a salacious grin
he pictures her in
his bunk beds.

He giggles and ponders
if she would like the top,
or the bottom.
1.0k · Mar 2016
New diet
Justin S Wampler Mar 2016
I'd been gaining weight
and losing money.
Between the *****
and the stromboli,
I was getting fat.

Fat and poor.

But in a strike of sudden genius
an idea lit up the dim light bulb
hanging over my head.

I realized the solution lied
right in front of me the whole
******* time.

My tolerance for ***** is high,
and my food consumption
wasn't helping.

So I was buying more and more
beers and shots and bottles and cases
to try and get a buzz after dinner.

So I stopped eating dinner.

It saves me money on food,
and my god I can finally get drunk again!

My wallet is happy,
my mind is quiet,
I'm skinny as ****, and
breakfast has never tasted so good.
1.0k · Feb 2015
Bequeath commissariat
Justin S Wampler Feb 2015
Months later and filled with redundancy
nothing will ever be quiet
We're not missed much these days
we've been gone so long now
Keep wandering on and wondering how
no one ever notices the forearm scars

Tranquil waters flow and wash away
our fervent disdain and distaste
While you leak ideas we breed ideals
and I bleed tweed sweaters
already frayed at the sleeves
threadbarren and disconnected
1.0k · May 2014
f-this
Justin S Wampler May 2014
Flights fly forward fast, for faith falls flat.
flight anxiety solved by the letter F
1.0k · Aug 2014
Parannoyed
Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
Strobe-lights flashing rhythmic patterns;
alternating red and blue.

Searchlights arcing across the earth;
they will find you.
1.0k · Apr 2015
Candy Inside
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
I put my heart on a string
and gave it to you
as a necklace

You hung it from the ceiling
and beat it half to death
like a ****** pinata

Wrapped it around your finger
and yanked it up and down
like a macabre yo-yo

I swallowed all of the pain and
it tasted like hairspray

like chewing up eggshells
like biting aluminum foil
like licking pennies

I don't even want my heart back
please just please **** it now
step on it wearing stilettos

I just want to be whispers in your mind
I want to be a spider on the back of your skull
I want the curse of remembrance upon your soul
1.0k · Apr 2015
I'm the...
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
...centipedes underneath big rocks in the dirt.
...worms on the pavement in the rain.
...rotting roadkill you drove over today.
...maggots writhing inside of dead brains.
...rainbows in great puddles of oil.
...fakest person you'll ever ******* meet.
...weeds and crabgrass polluting the soil.
...reason I hate humanity.
...nightmares preventing your sleep.
...dreams making your knees weak.
...scab you can't stop picking.
...ulcer you can't stop licking.
...spider in the bathroom sink.
...shakes you get if you don't drink.
...doubt whispering inside your mind.
...lies you've been fed all your life.
1.0k · Apr 2015
Boredographic
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
Sometimes reality just don't do it for me.
Sometimes ****** is key.
1.0k · Jan 2015
PoetryBook
Justin S Wampler Jan 2015
Yeah, I only really see the home screen
when I'm desperate for views and likes..

..I've since concluded that this is defined by "Irony"...
...maybe.
Irony is hard whilst masked in sarcasm conveyed via 'Times New Roman'.
1.0k · Apr 2015
The Drippy Caterpillar
Justin S Wampler Apr 2015
I loved the schoolbus.
I had friends in the front,
and friends in the back.

But sometimes when I climbed those steps,
I didn't want to have friends.
I didn't want to smile,
I didn't want to laugh.
I just wanted it quiet so
I sat in the middle sometimes,
right in between everything.

And that's where I met Vanessa,
right there in the middle of the bus.

She sat alone every day,
with her eyes always
cast upon the window
and what lay beyond it.
I noticed her right away
even though she was older
and a few grades ahead of me.

See she was seventeen, and much more
experienced than the fourteen-year-old me.

But I approached her anyway,
working my way into the seat
adjacent to her.
Eventually working up the *****
to actually say something.

We talked for a few weeks,
and she humored me.

Even when I went to sit in the back
and was loud and obnoxious, I would
catch her glancing.
She would look and sneer at me.

So when the day finally came
that she said my name
and told me to sit in her seat,
I dropped everything
and joined her.

Want to see something?
she asked, without so
much as a blink.

Sure, I mean, of course.
I replied, trying my best
not to sound too eager

She kept her eyes on me as
her hands lifted up her skirt,
one inch at a time showing me
more and more of her.

My eyes were locked on
her crotch, I could almost hear
the shutter clicking as I documented
the whole thing mentally.

But she stopped when she revealed
a crescent-shaped scab on her upper thigh.

It was shot through with red lines,
swollen and inflamed and
I swear that it moved and pulsed
right before my eyes.

I couldn't look away
as she picked the scab off
in one big piece, and I saw
a white caterpillar unfold from
her wound in a squelching
symphony of sickening sound
and roll it's way down
her leg, covered with blood and
leaving ****-y streaks.

Then it hit the seat and I gasped
when she grabbed it before it could
crawl away and shoved the
macabre thing into her mouth,
still crawling,
killing it with her teeth.



I never sat with Vanessa again.
995 · Apr 2016
I don't know me like that.
Justin S Wampler Apr 2016
Bounce and rebound around in my head,
are these voices real?
Whispers of lovers now long gone and dead,
tell me what to feel.
992 · Jun 2014
two
Justin S Wampler Jun 2014
two
the lights in your eyes
sent tractor beams into mine
and brought me closer to you
one day after another
for the rest of my time

You wrench the lunch
and the broth slosh-
ing from within my stom-
ach and the sad sorry meal
I picked from the shelves of
an old cold cabinet.
989 · Mar 2015
Momentary
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
Childhood is fleeting
Youth is fleeting
Friendship is fleeting
Vitality is fleeting
Sports are fleeting
Both body and
mind are fleeting
Memories are fleeting
School is fleeting
History is fleeting
The Past is fleeting
Geography is fleeting
Equations are fleeting
Every thing I've ever
learned is fleeting
The clouds are fleeting
The hours are fleeting
The daylight is fleeting
Sleep is fleeting
Weeks are fleeting
Months are fleeting
Years are fleeting
Time is fleeting
976 · Mar 2015
Flicking her cherry off
Justin S Wampler Mar 2015
More than a few years ago
I hid my mind, and have long since
forgotten where I had put it.

I sat on my softpack and I felt
remorseful pity, because
it really crushed my cigarettes.

And I felt such sympathy for them,
so unable to be used.

Then she stood up and held out her
hand, and I gratefully took the
burning smoke from her fingers.

As I exhaled she grew a beautiful blue
halo of twirling, swirling, tinct
smoke rings.

'My death angel,'
thought I.

Then I ashed it too hard
on the brim of
the ashtray.
954 · Jul 2014
(not)titled
Justin S Wampler Jul 2014
well this keyboard is intimidating
but jeez i can't keep
using a pen forever
so what if it's more
comfortable?

This poem looked better
When it was
Written down.
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