Category: Poem
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I feel as though I’ve never been so tired as I am right now.
youth is a song outplayed overplayed a sonic boom ringing in the ears of those no longer young
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Ode to Pumpkin Bread*
the sweetness of you the moistness the “yes” I feel in my veins, soul when I take a bite of you the hominess my grandmother my mother instant comfort *made by poeticgrin
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Six +
Echoes off the walls off brick and cinder block gunshots, the cell closing six lives gone lost plus the children plus the parents plus the ones who cared plus the ones who were only maimed plus all those who didn’t know and never will
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Untitled
I don’t remember you, and I’m sorry instead, my head is filled with thoughts and memories of people not worth remembering not worth considering I see his eyes, dark, and alive and yours, dark, and dead
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Filters
a dust cloud filtered in sunlight and darkness you wanted to be unsettled, disturbed and so you are With words, I want to bring forth tangible evidence of the bile lurking inside, luring me to death, over and over again. I feel pain, and I like it. I feel pain, and it’s unbearable. Then,…
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Severe Angles. Or Emptiness Incarnate
The camera has tight angles severe the way I see the world in black and white or monotone gray all or nothing you or me love, hate, indifference, regret upset the feeling of being a non-person, non-self, non-identity walking through my life, a stranger emptiness incarnate
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I Hope Soon
I hope you miss me I hope you mourned for me I hope you think of me and there’s a tiny bit of sadness I hope you think I’m unfinished business, a sentence without a period I hope you will remember me fondly I hope you are sad that I’m sad I hope you have…
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Clogged
Clogged Mired in mucus Weighed down by infection and affliction Is there anything to be done?
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