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ten times.

If all the world's a stage...

...don't be an understudy

Lizzie, my girl put down that ax. There is a hole in the hem of your mother's skirt that needs mending and your father has enough to bear.
Go now, child - sweep out the hearth and the arms of family who tie you to this place like bees, wasted and spent in June.
Wait then for the letters that never come and the gossip of neighbors to settle in your eyes like the dust from days where nothing happens except stale and old.
See how the sun is nearly setting and

What am I?
nothing
What will I be?
nothing
What am I to you?
nothing
What am I to myself?
nothing
What have you proved to me?
nothing
What have I proved to myself?
nothing
Thank you
for nothing
Goodbye
for without you I am nothing

even though you're already mine i still feel the need to fight
and tell me why
     i still feel the need       to try and impress
     to prove that i'm       unlike the rest
     and i'm still sheltering       you from the competition
     even when the competition       is over
but who could blame me for wanting to keep you

imagine this:
every time you blink it's the first week in june and you're counting the minutes until you're back home. the air's thicker with expectations than my mind is. and your suitcases are lying empty at the bottom of the front stairwell but my heart's been packed full. i want to know what i should be taking away from this. i want know if i can still make your heart skip from half a country away. i want to be something cataclysmic so i'll stick in your memory.
i'll be your trainwreck if you think you could remember me.
imagine this:
it's three weeks from this day and december's always

23 Ways To Annoy People While In A Lift

1) Crack open your bag, peer inside and ask "Got enough air in there?''
2) Stand silently and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off until someone asks if you are alright, then scream as if shocked and run away (if possible)
3) Upon arrival at your floor, grunt and strain to open the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open by themselves.
4) Greet everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral.
5) Meow Occasionally.
6) Stare at another passenger for a whil

i'm taping these words   on the back of my finger;   i'll wear them like a bandage,   and superglue them to brick walls   vandalized with spraypaint tattoos.
i'm stapling my ears behind my head   and cracking every bone in my body   at least seven times – not stopping   until graffiti pours out my skin   in hemophilic hues – vivid colors,   which are nothing more than light.
i'm writing with the arm of a lunatic;   i'm loving with the heart of a savage.   i'm deauthorizing the public opi

The scent was delicious Purple soda pop joys inside a long-stemmed tea-cup She tip-toed delicately upon the top balancing in grace like a sky-dancer resting her shoes Her long straw disappeared into its violet depths and she drank in delightfully Her powdered wings fluttered ever so slightly and her head swam in passionate pleasure until then- she leaps ever so graciously and lightly upon the air- again, dancing in the sky.

"these anchors on my wrists aren't making it any easier to get out of bed," he says. he does this a lot. the staring at his feet and mumbling about what's hard.
his fiancee had a miscarriage. he's upset. it wasn't yours, it wasn't yours, don't you know? it wasn't yours. it never was. i wish to whisper to him. she's no good, she's no good. don't you know? she's no good.
i wish to draw him a picture of a bird, one with no feathers and a tumor on his chest and name him Life. to tell him Life has never had any friends because Life is ugly and Life is dying like everyone else. he wouldn't believe me, he'd say Life is the

Alone on the waves, save the breath, Of the wind that tussles me, There's nowhere else that I would go, This place is where I'm free,
So free to just roam my joyous home, Of salt and sea and sky, I watch the waters ripple as, I see time pass me by, Yet I can only stay a day, I sigh as moments fly away.
Alone on water, caught by her, A seductress is but she, There's nowhere else that one can know, Such calmness and fury, My heart has been hers, for many years, My spirit likes to dive, Within her blue and darkened depths, She make

Here's a Veggie, There's a Veggie, and another little Veggie, fuzzy Veggie, funny Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Worm!
Veggie,
Veggie, egg roll, Veggie, Tarble, Goku, Bulma, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Capsule, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Worm!
Veggie is a Saiyan, Veggie is a Prince,
He never had a father; has been angry ever since!
He lived with a tyrant for over twenty years!
Then he met his rival, and felt so very mere!

Did you ever see a Veggie,
Kiss

Dearest Mr. Sparrow, won't you please Teach me to fly, O, teach me to fly I wish to be one with the breeze I wish to be able to mingle with the sky
Dearest Mr. Sparrow, I'll do anything Anything at all, please just instruct me Take me under your wing I promise to repay thee
Dearest Mr. Sparrow, with your gentle yet violent grace I swear that I'll beg, I'll bleed Won't you share your wealth so I may escape from this place? Please just help me take off so I may be freed.

Anticipation breaks. Clearly displayed energy flares. Green holidays in June. Kalahari liquid measured nanos
Outfitted pole quietly releases string
to undulating vacillating waves. Yowling zap.

You hair dances
As the breeze Gently plays and toys And you smile.
The smile you share Brings smiles in return Making the world brighter And a joy to see.
Side by side we sit On a bench Watching the sun Dance upon the waves
The closeness of you Passes warmth from Your hand to mine And my heart races.
Time stands still And passes quickly If only this time
Could last forever.
For such is romance. A gentle touch A warm true smile A look And the song that flows T

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a literary tradition	^SparrowSong 1w 1d ago	7	~dead-now 2d 20h ago
True poems, the non-fiction poem?	~Automutt Oct 15, 2009	18	~Automutt 2d 23h ago
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