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Rated: GC · Book · Personal · #2250010
Isolation and the many other feelings associated with a 21st century global pandemic.
Pandemic-inspired items.

-mental health
-isolation
-loneliness
-discontent
-politics
-wonder
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December 10, 2022 at 5:24pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:24pm
#1041666
10-14-22


I know this moon you're on
hasn't been named yet.
Like a first day
you're floating aimlessly
between stations,
waiting to be recognized
while simultaneously
being a stranger,
optimistic but apprehensive.
Alone to only your shadow.
We share the same longings
through differing planes;
with this knowledge
you'll never not be at my side.
And when you doubt,
just follow the air;
you'll find me there.
We get too caught up
in this thinking that
everything has to mean something
instead of just being.
I hope you find your place;
I hope it bears your name.
December 10, 2022 at 5:18pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:18pm
#1041665
5-30-22


The cold, rubbing apprehension.
A simple softness, the misuse of touch.
The struggle of a people with nothing
         to fight for
and no say in their abuse.
When irony has nowhere to go,
how far do you go
to give it a home?
And when is it not a place of your own?

This tension is my alibi.
I am not alone.

Fuck your feeling for fucking my concern.
These are the facts you don't wish to learn.
Pity on your "favors'; a pox on your house.
Hell is too nice a place
         for you to burn.
You can spit in my face in disgust
for not leaving well enough alone
but "well enough" isn't good enough
when murdering by proxy is your choice.

This tension is my alibi.
I am not alone.
Retribution comes in many sizes
and mine is all of the above.
December 10, 2022 at 5:05pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:05pm
#1041663
1-24-22


The man had a claim on a fortune,
trapped in an iron lung fortress.
When he passed I passed on a lot;
never wanted a thing from the pisspot.
Culture is forever; family's a breeding spot.
Never means never means a lot, a lot.
Whenever we tried to make the feathers fit
the birds flew away forever and that's it.

Ain't nothin' left to eulogize.
Just another face for the archives.

Archenemy, namesake, false place.
No place left in the safe space.
You can turn a man into multiples
but you can't resurrect him into
          something close
to what he never was or wanted to be.
Trees don't grow the same
         from the same seeds.
If this is my "let it be", so let it be.
Another chapter closed on history.

Ain't nothin' left to eulogize.
Just another face for the archives.
You can't be alive when you're dead inside.
Thanks for not taking me along this tine.
December 10, 2022 at 4:56pm
December 10, 2022 at 4:56pm
#1041662
12-1-21


The rain pumps blood
like proof of existence
and I've been overthinkin'
         too much
to enable resistance.
There are pauses in the cracks
of what we lack
that let us go down
the rabbit holes
         where we drown
and I keep clownin' around
the same old towns.
To live is to forget or
forget not to remember
steps and traces,
misplaces
         of thoughts or intents
like, are we there yet?
And the answer is always no
when you don't know
         where else to go.
You haven't slept enough
to figure it out
when dreams dehydrate you
and strength is a myth
         dictating you.
It burns you to the ground
you're too nervous to stand on
but the ceiling is forever;
for never, not
         the most clever.
All that's left is
a train of thought
leaving the station
before you even have the equation
to solve salvation
         this instant
and that's how you end up
with mysterious regrets
you can't run to or from.
This is what you are now,
the present precedence
         'til you're overcome.
December 10, 2022 at 4:45pm
December 10, 2022 at 4:45pm
#1041660
11-6-21


You're the lump in my throat
when I can't speak;
I choke on the words
I can barely repeat.
This danger isn't new
but I thought I'd be used to
the damage by now
instead of flailing around
by my vocal chords,
filled with every word
about expressing my care
without fighting for air.

You're in my throat and can you
let yourself out so you
can see what I'm talking about
if you can hear me at all?
December 10, 2022 at 4:40pm
December 10, 2022 at 4:40pm
#1041659
11-27-21


Some day
you'll be
president
and I'll be right.
I'll be alright.
I'm not worried;
should I be,
with that which
doesn't concern me?
You have your rights.
And it's not you
keeping me
up all these nights.
So what?
So what am I doing wrong?
If you can hurt, then
so can I, even if
it's only a feeling
and it's
the only thing
we share.
October 25, 2021 at 3:07pm
October 25, 2021 at 3:07pm
#1020105
10-22-21


You're sitting in front of
the Courthouse Park fountain,
watching the water come
up and down
with every breath
you take in and out.
Imagine a tiny droplet,
and maybe it's the size
of a tear you've cried.
As that feeling rises,
your lungs expand and
your chest fills, ready
to see that teardrop fall
back into the pool.
You exhale, slowly,
as your tear washes
and blends into its
true surroundings.
You're one with the water
now, and no longer alone.
You're at peace.
You're at home.
October 25, 2021 at 3:02pm
October 25, 2021 at 3:02pm
#1020104
10-21-21


I keep my distance
and mind my own business.
You can't sanitize enough
and I won't apologize for it.

When you move right, I go left.
When you're side-to-side, I'm extinct.

lather
rinse
repeat

The second verse
is a curse as worse as the first.
October 25, 2021 at 2:46pm
October 25, 2021 at 2:46pm
#1020101
10-14-21


As my shoulders sunk
into the bottom pillow
and my head cocked
to the side,
I readied myself
for another shift
at the factory of sleep,
aware of the benefits
without pay.
October 25, 2021 at 2:44pm
October 25, 2021 at 2:44pm
#1020100
10-11-21


I hung us. I strung us.
The rope-a-dope stylist is
the real alchemist.
Did you think it gave you
         a new instinct?
I've knives made
from railroad ties
and seen things besides
the truth and its lies.
I tried to warn you before
but you wrote your life
         unsure
of its contents and missteps
and flagrant regrets.
The stylist is upset
by things she can't reset
while you sit knowing a youth
misspent that you won't accept
and we all have the proof.
I can cut you or cut you,
         or cut you and cut you,
but nothing will stop me from you
as I tell you I told you so.

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