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Stars

I gather fallen stars,

I keep them in a pile.

I tell myself I'll hang them

on the ceiling in a while.

The stars are falling steady

while I rest my head,

awaken, then, to find them

scattered 'cross my bed

Whatever holds them up there

has started to run dry;

with ev'ry glance, a few less stars

are hanging in the sky.

I gather fallen stars.

In the sky no more remain.

One day when I'm far less tired,

I'll stick them up again.

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Holy, holy storms

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trick or treat

(o^ ^o)/🧺

The Chase

Silent whispers beckoning, Of spirits seeking reckoning: revenants in hollow halls — screeching screams and shouts and calls.

Run, Love, Run! They're seeking flesh. They won't pass up your distress. Their ghoulish hunger-cravings To which each one a slave is.

Having risen from the dead, to force you to eternal rest.

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Trick or treat

When I die

When I die and am buried, Unearth my coffin, Exhume my body, Cleave flesh from bone and Discard the meat in the raw earth.

From wrists and ankles fashion dice, Challenge the Reaper to a game I will play.

From my ribs fashion a xylophone, Play me one last song and I will sing.

My skull leave intact Place it on my gravestone, Coat it in your arterial blood, Trace your fear on the coronal suture, Kiss my forehead one more time, I will wake.

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Not For Good

There's a feeling that's called melancholy And it isn't all that bad, And I promise I'll be seeing you, And that this is only au revoir.

These are not our last words. This is not adieu. This is just auf Wiedersehen. For you and I will meet again.

No, this is not farewell, But even if it was Time and space never could Take from us what we had.

I promise this is not adeus; This is até mais. And still I'd give up all the world. To not say it at all.

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Forcing Rhubarb

I Feel a Bit Like Rhubarb, Forced; buried alive pale and breaking my bones in an effort to grow tall enough fast enough to breach through soil or leaves or foliage into the light, but kept in the dark for my misshapen form growing taller and faster than ever I should so fast you can hear me cracking apart - Like Rhubarb, Forced.

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What scares me the most about us

My love is a wretched creature Curled up in my chest — A wicked thing all teeth and claws and a hunger — a yearning for tender flesh and bone and blood.

I've a vicious beast for a heart. It lies in wait — A hunter with eyes on its prey, Ill-starred and star-crossed And yet full of hope — hopelessly It's sunk its teeth into

you —

. it.

. won't.

. let.

. go.

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There's a beat to a ticking clock

A rhythm in my life

Neverending hours making long days

Months in blinks and flashes

The years drip by like a leaky faucet

That I had no time to fix

Whiling away the whiles

And mourning the loss of it all

With each passing day

As it drifts by me

Pieces of myself get left on the bank

And I'm swept along unwillingly

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The Ghost Giggling

I am the spirit that haunts the halls I’m the wicked whisper in the walls The giggle carried on the wind A soft but ever present din Of silent rooms with walls too thin

So carry on and hear my call Until at last my voice fills all The floors and halls of that old house To hear that mumbling in the air

And here a laugh and shouting there My ghostly dance throughout the halls That echoes on the floors and walls Unceasing, ever on it calls:

“Come, come dance on the edge of being, On the edge of dark and the edge of seeing, Be the spirit that roams the halls, And the airless whispering in the walls. As a giggle carried through the night, I promise you, it’ll be alright”

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Apparently I wrote this long ass poem while suuuuper drunk and did not remember doing it until I found it in my google docs titled FLOATING DEATH SKULL, SALT RIM which I think is very fun what a nice little surprise for sober me

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might not be fully no romo

might be demi

might be a little scared

might be happier than I've been in years

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Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

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I love a walk through a neighborhoods

i love a fog. i love a woods.

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Under Floorboards

Stay close to me, I beg, Even from a world away — A world of dust and dusk they say, When your flesh has fallen And your bones are white as sand.

Stay close to me and I will keep you forever With me in these walls

What remains of you lies reposed Deep under where I walk, So you may hear my footsteps heavy, now forever more and I may lie upon your ribcage like I did so oft' before and that I may stand upon your shoulders like as a child, so many years ago.

I know I will join you, once again Deep beneath our house and home To join in your eternal slumber And sleep as you now do.

hi did you know that ancient mesopotamians buried their dead under the floors of their own houses to always be close to them? i can't write a poem about this but by god i will write a master's thesis

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When I die

Bury me in an unmarked grave

None of you ever knew my name

None of you ever knew the truth of my body

The pillars of my shame

Bury me in an unmarked grave

In a pine box

With no viewing

Naked as I came

That I may be compost completely

That the worms eat my face

Unrecognizable

Leaving no trace

May I disappear forever

Grant me my dying grace

Bury me in an unmarked grave

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To the Confectioner’s Child

Those were the cotton candy years,

When the world was soft

And doubly sweet.

Each day another carnival,

Sugar spinning little dreams

Lifelike into clouds.

And amber was the fall,

Like maple syrup,

When cotton candy years

Lost their softness

And solidified: Crystal sugar,

Diamond-like.

The fateful day was caramel.

Glowing Golden hours

Stretching into endless shadows,

For below the sweetness,

Almost sickly as it was,

Began the bitter burns of loss.

Their words of comfort

Viscous, sticky, syrupy,

And those honeyed smiles,

Nothing but candied lies

And cutting whispers:

„ain’t fair, but that’s life“

So, meant to forgive and forget,

Under all that pressure,

Like sugar glass: you cracked

Into sharp shining shards

And biting down on them:

The metal taste of blood.

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   — Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems

[text ID: I confess I meant to grow/ wings and lose my mind/ I confess that I've/ forgotten what for/ Why wings and a lost mind]