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in my dreams,
he’s not as pretty as he seems.
maybe it’s my heart telling my brain
“it’s not what it’s cracked up to be”
Literature
Downpour
To be ignored, is like a downpour,
where even the raindrops refuse to hit you.
Rain overflowing the gutters in these dirty veins,
as yellow sneakers drag street lines into the cracked pavement.
Hansle and Gretel crums,
a simple reminder of where I house my pain.
If only my lashes had length enough, to hide tears,
but i'm afraid the only growing lashes are from the whip I taste daily.
Downpours come and go in life.
Don't seek shelter under a weathered umbrella,
if the rain wont get you the wind surly will.
Literature
metronomes
i have a nervous habit of ghost-writing words in cursive
when people shout them at me. it all started when
my father taught me how to lose track of time, that
a moment multiplied into a million is just a minute
rolling itself into an hour and before we know it,
every year is stuck in caps lock.
ridiculous
i curl it into my left palm with my right index finger
and practice spatial reasoning as Einstein once did,
how he built a vast sea of
experience
they say that music is the universal language.
tell me, does every room have a tuner or a clock?
our metronomes tick in
time
most don't have enough but i've always known
a surplus. what d
Literature
Sovereign
When the air pulls on your shoulders
and the eyes sit on your spine.
Think of the strength of Atlas
if only he dropped the world.
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touch your tongue to the water
to find that its sand
to find that its sand
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