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pillow.case canvas
By past tense
I tip-toe over cracks in the concrete
like glass hearts and chalk outilines.
when we were gripping
resolution. as if it were gold.
and my face went blank.
so this is what they call a breakdown.
half.words on fire for answers
and my hands were
tarnished.
some may call this falling apart
while these edges are
being ripped.
I can't stop cringing
over the sound of breaking vertebrae
fraying
nerves.
snapping vessels leaking
stray thoughts across my body.
it's no wonder my mind
feels empty.
yet. it's no wonder I still can't sleep at night.
bottles missing the message.
so I feel like spitting ink on the pages
I dream with.
It never quite. works.
and at the shattering of dawn
I have only
my ink-splattered cheeks
and a lost sense of
self-
explanatory
insomnia
to show
how much I miss you
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© 2008 past tense
Published on Wednesday, February 27, 2008.
Filed under:
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On Saturday, May 12, 2012, OLd SouL
(732)
wrote:
whoa.. this is some timely shit though I'm just now visiting. After reading your comment, I came to read something of yours and you managed to capture my feelings just last night. I kept waking up right before drifting and scribbling things down.. just needing it out of my head, with fingers crossed to sort it out. Though maybe I'm selfishly taking your words and making them pertain to me. Either way I wanted to share.
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On Tuesday, August 11, 2009, Believer
(48) wrote:
you need to post more.
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On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, Spiritus_Frumenti
(341) wrote:
You carry this language full of meaning and emotion. You're poetry is like raw and refined at the same time. -l-
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A former member wrote:
"self explanatory insomnia" you have a raw way with images and voodoo doll words. ..pinpricks of emotion. ... egads; some good stuff. welcome to DP. ness
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On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, Narcissa
(404) wrote:
"so I feel like spitting ink on the pages I dream with." Amazing. Great piece.
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On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, Fantecstasy
(122) wrote:
Didn't expect the ending, but it was an amazing ending so it was well taken. "Bottles missing the message" really loved that line, mind you there were some other great parts but good job! *tips hat*
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On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, Rachel
(213) wrote:
Crushing.
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A former member wrote:
In halves, eh? I like the title, the yolking together of the two realms one might say of spirituality another might say of art... the ink/tears metaphor is given new life here; it seems that if we aren't bleeding these words, then we're producing them through little salty trails down our cheeks... sleeping with the remnants of our emotional coping. This was a fun read, I like the half method and the trope was well developed with a few unique turns of thought. Welcome to dp!
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