I counted the tombstones:
how many are coated in
dust and a dead
once red rose,
half rotten pages with half legible prose?
How many shimmer with cob webs
like a blizzard of bleeding snow
in the middle of September?
How many of their names can you remember?
one mirror is a chair in my mind
death is something to sit on
like hunger or sadness
or shades of red or meaningless monopolies
blank faces on broadway at 2 am
hunching their soldier shoulders
so you can't see how beautiful their anguish is
or the light cascading from your windows
when you realize you're all alone
and somebody taught us all to hate ourselves
like echoes shadowed by thunder
like thousands of isolated islands far away enough
that even your heart hesitates
geographic recluses
alone for their own uses
a mirror is a chair in my mind
like shooting stars that need wishes themselves
like dusty glasses on a play ground
or sounds the
Cake consumes cob:
it's a natural order from the deities of tobacco.
Faith dies when it won't come true.
It's hard to tell what came and what we simply never knew
existed.
If I saw you right now, I'd pretend we were red soda again.
I'd tell you stories about ponies and plants and perfume and
perfection.
I'd lick the sticky, icky essence of your mind. It's rather
kind
that you didn't kill yourself
again.
Because, we are men.
That means that if you were dead,
I'd dance around in a kilt like a man waiting for
cannons and barets
and time to reverse so that
days
become
moments of
ssssssssssssssss
lllllllllllll
owwwwwwwwwwwww motion.
You
Lights fade in a non-existent moon shade,
the trauma surpassed by nothing but drama.
And the pretentious felons
not worth my questions
sing, "I was walking far from home, too"
and I still don't understand the difference between
what died and what grew.
All these lights I have to say goodbye to
make up for the joys I knew but should never
have had any chance to treasure;
Why treasure what you can't measure?
Sarcasm is the building block of the placebo orgasm.
The pursuit of happiness: I'm the personification.
I'm going to let you be disappointed now.
I embrace degeneration.
I'm nothing but a blood filled meat sack in search
of the sensat
Coffee and Cigarettes: The Age of Running Water by axes4six, literature
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Coffee and Cigarettes: The Age of Running Water
Smoke and steam trap me within the dream.
The philosophy of the eternities comes back to haunt me:
"Your friend is your enemy."
I was walking far from home
when an angel came out upon the road where my soul abodes:
"You've been taken and mistaken and misshapen."
Heart yearning for the days of redemption,
forgiveness from people so distant who's names are forgotten:
"Those who you can't quote you musn't mention."
Caught between the glorious inevitable and the terrible sensation,
the cliff makes stability:
"Aaron, you are nothing but a mental, fantasy nation."
Blood streams in between what I say and what I mean
because everybody knows that
What?
Memorization of the unforgettable elation?
Harsh faces make it easy in terms of concentration.
Immaculate honor
comes to the accidental scholar,
the father
you've never seen has hands that puppeteer your dreams,
the residue of a cello screaming from the dopamine,
caffeinated shade and blonde cliche babes
Yellow flowers and burning hours
and copper contemplations and sexual sensations.
Metal sun man,
your existence is a scam,
mouth painted red
like the voice inside your head.
Intimacy's intimidations?
Mirror messages massaging
the tyrant towers
of obscenely
sublime subconcious
teetering thoughts
engaging enraged emotions
caught controllers
professional procrastinators
reaccuring dreams
and accidental moon beams.
Coffee coated cigarettes
make nicotine bliss
out of memories from the days of my life I missed.
"I love you, bro" I always say
because I've seen shit change exactly like this
so I may not have a chance to say it the next day.
"I fucking love you, don't you get it?"
This has everything to do with the colors within him
but mostly that grey nights in which I find Grey may keep me from say
Currents, p. 51
I sat there in the sleeping bag with the snow whipping against the tarp, slashing against my shelter, raging against the most firm concept of home I had. The wind screamed anthems of rebellion in my ears, the soothing rhythm of snowfall disrupted by the invisible hand of somebody who wouldn't listen to me. My water lay next to me frozen to the core, and my once wet gloves had hardened against the frost. The rough plastic of the tarp above my head shook angrily in the wind.
After that, I was with my friends in the hallway. I was in a room and people were laughing. I was swimming and nobody was drowning. I sang and nobody told
Am I the Person they want You To Be? by axes4six, literature
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Am I the Person they want You To Be?
Behind the hazel eyes of a man who I don't know dances the reflections of the moon
caught in the street lights
and I can watch the confusion swim and the true self fight.
He's turning into the pious fish
the temporary cush and crush,
the winter rush,
the Coyote toy,
the misinterpreted joy,
and then the struggle of a story.
He shifts his form so he can pretend he's given up the grudge.
He picks up the shovel and works with vigor
but inside those starry eyes, I see water and sober liquor.
I see the grudges and the time he was promised he wouldn't have to wait,
the inner debate,
the inertia he uses to compensate.
I decode the h