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straw-stitched and hanging
off every word--
violated:
pressing my ears
against your brittle
hives
and
smoking
you
out
off every word--
violated:
pressing my ears
against your brittle
hives
and
smoking
you
out
Literature
I'm Just A Poet
I'm just a poet
Stringing together words
In a way that tries to force you to feel,
To understand what I feel.
I'm just a manipulator
Gaining recognition by
Warping what you understand
Trying to change your emotions
Till they fit my own.
I'm just an instigator
Using my words
To try and lead you along a path
That was created in anger
And fueling your passion to follow it
Until you can't even remember
Why you followed this way.
I'm just an interpreter
Translating your feelings into words
While ignoring the very fact
That in doing so
I'm ruining the very thing
That made these feelings so powerful
But I don't care
I'
Literature
Astrologically Challenged
“We need to ta- what are you looking at?”
"A horoscope."
"Oh...but I thought you didn't like them."
“Actually, I hate horoscopes. They lie every single damned time.”
“Not to me they don’t.”
“Sure. You were saying something.”
“We need to break up.”
“I agree.”
“Huh?”
“I fell in love with you before you were the boy who sang about my problems in your songs, and before you tried to evolve me into your version of a better me and before I saw how you treated your neighbour’s dog and before I knew how much you believed in horoscopes.”
Literature
Summers Lost
god died today. or maybe it was tomorrow. i can't remember.
"ask anything."
static skies;
grizzled blue
sketching down
to sewer lines:
like a wish
on a dead star.
the feeling of gritted teeth
and fingers crossed
until they break.
shame tasted
like a scalpel
and a brick wall
against my throat.
and i was
chewing concrete
when i said,
"it's okay."
swallowing cinder blocks;
stuffing steel under skin.
sugar-sweet
on my cheek,
like book pages:
"where have you been?"
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The first comment I owe you for placing third in *ssolaris's contest! Congratulations 
I love the way you've compared someone to a bee in this; it's a really interesting idea that I've not seen before. The alliteration in your very first line is also a great hook.
I will say I don't really think you need the word "and" all on it's own. It doesn't seem to be serving a purpose, although that is my own personal opinion which you are very free to ignore
I love the way you've compared someone to a bee in this; it's a really interesting idea that I've not seen before. The alliteration in your very first line is also a great hook.
I will say I don't really think you need the word "and" all on it's own. It doesn't seem to be serving a purpose, although that is my own personal opinion which you are very free to ignore