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pansyfemme

can you be utterly and madly in love with me for one second

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Cat

Moet

Bitches

Poetry

Poitry

Spellcheck

Glagolitic

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nobrashfestivity

Maren Hassinger Rivers

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Happy

Alive

Watching the wind

#poetry #spilled ink #creative writing

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senor-plume

Glue. Scissors. Old magazines. Cardboard.

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That Feeling Behind Your Forehead

Suggesting

Unfamiliar

Annoying

Above ground

Abandoned

Left to weather

Foreign

Aging

Old

Dry and gasping

Ghosted

Read aloud

Asked politely to leave

The night

Begging

Attached

Softly lit

Waved off

For good measure

The exterminator

Your parents

Hung in the doorway

Not welcome

Not here

Not now

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Boo:k of Longing, Leonard Cohen.

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huariqueje

The night rests against the balcony door - Leif Engström , 2023.

Swedish, b. 1992 -

Oil on canvas, 253 x 230 cm. frame.

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One Second Electric

One second fumes

Trying to impress you all

Short circuiting

Maybe not

But maybe

While the wind tells me how much I’m loved

The soil below me

Full of lead

And some local politician’s allegedly stolen my shoes

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garadinervi

Brice Marden, Aphrodite (Negril) with Green, (stick and black and colored inks, with white gouache, on ivory wove paper), 1991-1994 [Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Brice Marden / ARS, New York]

Source: artic.edu

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Poetry With A Dirty Pen

Old friends dancing around

On psychiatric drugs

Dressed up as Gram Parsons

Radio humming

Mocking standardized high school tests

Violent

Passive aggressive

Sweet

Unset ink

Accidentally smudging

Flicking rhinestones into oblivion

William Blake dissolving into modern concrete descriptions

Jack Kerouac kept in hell for not asking permission

Gregory Corso outliving both

Reading Shelley w/o reading Shelley

Slide guitars rambling in the distance

Stolen cars moaning in the background

Old trees croaking

Whispering, “I love you”

Candle lit

Shelves hung up with thumb tacks

Ceramic songbirds settled

Trying to keep up with the seasons

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Ladybugs

Freshly picked flowers

Framed paintings

Velvet

Lightly toasted pasta

Sequined pillows

Fresh lines

Pretty lights

All saying,

“Goodnight goodnight’

All saying,

“Tomorrow will better”

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#pedro pietri #poetry

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Universal Apology Letter

Dear (Insert Name Here),

Life’s weird I look at my hands and get freaked out I look at the clock and get freaked out A commercial’s playing in the background I love(d) you With all my heart

Whatever happened to us Whoever said what when I think about you more than I’d like to admit I care about what you think more than I’d like to admit Something’s blowing across the ground in the distance Humming a soft song

I don’t know why I did that thing that one time Maybe I was scared Confused Upset Maybe I was out of line But I didn’t do that other thing I don’t care what anyone else says I didn’t do it I was in the clouds Scattering down

Maybe I’ll never see you again Maybe I’ll die tomorrow in a freak accident Maybe I’ll explode and dance among the stars or whatever

I’m sorry I love(d) you (Insert Name Here) With all my heart Whatever’s easiest for you I genuinely wish you the best

-Steven

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Yaaaaa

#me

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Colorful options

Floating around

Like some pixie fairy

Down the road

To your house

All the way back

Dazzling options

Laying out

Like an over privileged swimsuit model

Up and down

The photographer said, “Up and Down”

Horrible options

Riding a haunted boardwalk roller coaster

Whipping past cardboard gravestones

Pouring stolen whiskey into a plastic cup

Telling some weird story that’s kind of funny

Pathetic options

Drooling over mysterious woman who don’t want anything to do with me

Blabbering

Lifeless options

Decomposing under the soil

Whispering one liners

Glorious options

Patting me on the back

Patting me on the back after a rough day

Sad with things being okay

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