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here the waves are
sharper now,
crests like icarus
and falls darker
somehow.
here the years of progress
amplify the crippling flaws.
here are deafened ears
and broken jawbone shards.
here are all the kingsmen
clawing their clansmen to ribbons,
flying them high
as noon.
sharper now,
crests like icarus
and falls darker
somehow.
here the years of progress
amplify the crippling flaws.
here are deafened ears
and broken jawbone shards.
here are all the kingsmen
clawing their clansmen to ribbons,
flying them high
as noon.
Literature
Breakout
I used to hide in my flesh
but each secret slipped out,
each sin: fresh
undressed by night
when the moonlight danced on
black canvas
incandescent love, attack; bite-back at
the dawn -
I am mapped, drawn,
torn: trapped
on my knees
like I was born yesterday
you taught me to fall
you taught me to crawl under the fence
while the power tripped -
I took the thunder from your lips.
Literature
whirlwind drowning
there's a hurricane
sweeping through my drywall veins,
the masts of my strength
and the sails of my heart
collapsing
anxiety makes a mess of me,
cthulhu a raging dominatrix
breathing against the cage of my ribs
and the slope of my spine
--
a warning whirlwind warring
against the tides of this battlecry
and i can't tell the difference
between the fear
and the hurt
of
goodbye
Literature
ocean, suicide.
let me slip forward, off the algae-
covered cliff, so i may rejoin my brothers
and sisters in the waves;
so i may cuddle the sunrise and mourn
the dusk at dinnertime. i swallow blood
by mere chance, the meal a
steal to the shark
nibbling away gently at my wrinkly toes;
eulogizing and crying,
froths embracing my face, tears a foreign delight
to my tired eyes.
the sea and i,
are one. a mother and child,
anthem to appraisal, living to death, contrast
to collapse:
hearts to
b e a t.
jaws of ocean sweetness snap shut, holding
the fingers of sugar and
saltwater still at my throat’s opening,
bursting through my lungs
in the end: remain! a
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That first stanza just reads so well. I love it.