Cristina Castillo
[ Eighteen winters past ]
eighteen winters past
and the words i said
were silently spoken
no one heard
no one blamed
me for the ugly
girl i've become;
so violent and careless.
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Tattoo
I am
disturbed with
The mark
you are branded
By him
with repeated
Needles that,
prickled against
Your native skin.
now, you are
Forever owned
shouting in despair
Of love that is
unsure to last.
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Bill Merideth
and all the ways it looks
from the outside,
sin digital
the remastered suspense
the good deal and handshake,
and all he ever really knew
was that his wings were
fucking huge and that it hurt not
to have them open.
as high as he could fly
like the sun he could see
and the sun he'd be if he
weren't me shedding luminous
rain on the people
and all that could ever be.
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A Caution to Everybody
Ogden Nash
Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could
only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly
before he thinked.
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anonymous
a pencil sits, unused
atop a mountain of paper fairytales
listening
watching
no one comes around, alone
under the watchful eye of the past
sits by
turns around to see
and meets
nothing with a smile
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Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
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unanymous
anonymous
cancel my check to the prophet
give me back some peace of mind
all the false assurances in the world
couldn't give it to me again
stop payment on my soul
I don't want to give it to you
your so called glory a niusance
your worship I'll not do
stop talking to me like a child
cancel my covenant with your grace
I know that I am better than you
because I am real and you can be replaced
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sent in by Ritchie
here is why
if there was a way i could show you...
i truly love you
i would touch your conscience with it and
wrap it's warmth around you...
my love will wear you like a crown...
and it's heartfelt presence will tear through
your fear and lay waste to your doubt...
and in this and only this
you will know me
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