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August 14, 2007
P.C.Preaching by ~bristoltheorange is more than just a slice of life - it lays on your tongue for a while, asking if you might counter its flavor.
Featured by StJoan
Suggested by PinkyMcCoversong
Literature Text
I just spent 30 minutes on a bus staring at a wall;
someone wrote in Japanese, English, French
“drift away.”
someone wrote in Japanese, English, French
“drift away.”
Literature
Our Issues
Your heart grew up in a black wooden box
and thought it fabulous,
its world of
right angles,
wood grain,
and eternal night.
It hated me when I bored the hole
that let the sun singe its eyes, cook its skin,
when rain collected the dirt on its skin
in a puddle beneath its feet and said:
"look how dirty you are, foul thing."
It hated and
hated and
still hates,
always crawling
under any
box it finds.
I kicked it
out of its hiding place.
It ran out howling, hating and being
ha
Literature
Reverie
I.
They say every woman is a piece of the moon,
but I want the sun.
Dear Apollo, explain to me why you gave up
clear mornings for the shadowy future.
And I'll make you wish you hadn't burned a time before.
Because he's still sleeping, turned towards the window,
the thick blinds cracking with sunlight in the early dawn.
The navy sheets his royal dress, the rays his glory crown.
I wake up next to a god on Sunday morning,
hands still dirty from the night before.
II.
But when I sleep, I dream of rhyming big words
Building them on top of each other, letting it touch the sky.
I rub up against them once in awhile to test their stren
Literature
antebirth
antebirth
I. the thump of my
blood began as a nervous twitch
flinching up one vein,
capped like a straw, and pressured
without an end, just a thimble of blood
beating on a string
II. my body hair comes next,
little buoys on a sea of skin,
struggling to build distance
III. from the embryo
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This is true.
(I editted out the last line after a few suggestions that it wasn't needed.)
(I editted out the last line after a few suggestions that it wasn't needed.)
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excuse my ingnorance..what's a DD?
i love this, it reminds me of past experiences with surprisingly insightful graffiti
i love this, it reminds me of past experiences with surprisingly insightful graffiti