Seek Ye Not the World of Worms,
your massive boots to tread,
to crush, to maim their bodies soft
or stamp upon a head!
They do not like a squishy state,
all lumpy and disjointed
and when their relatives are squashed,
they’re often disappointed!
Kith and kin are rendered flat
and decorate a path:
victims of the earthbound boot,
which vents its rubber wrath!
There’s worms who slither, slinky-sliding,
speeding to some wormy-cover,
mostly failing, often crying.
All are calling for their mother!
Whilst others brimmed with worm-defiance,
fight with might upon the land,
ending up on soles of boots,
till scraped off by some giant hand!
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Monster
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I have teeth, I have claws, and powerful jaws,
I crawl and I crouch and I creep.
I scare as a token, so don’t pass by the notion
That I’ll gnaw at your brain while you sleep.
With my eyes and my ears I’ll be in your fears,
In your dreams, in your life, in your death.
I’m skeletal bones living alone;
I’ll eat you with my every last breath.
With spikes on my toes and a stomach that groans
I’m the one little thing you should fear.
And though you don’t show it, I know that you know it
Every time I come creep-crawling near.
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a life you stupid shit
click back to vibrate, lock screen
as i resist the urge to answer
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Breathe my name to the stars and
watch the constellations play –
Cassiopeia dances and dines
with The Archer,
Cepheus points the way
to salvation in the words heard
with whispers from lips made of cosmos
and you
who witnesses world from conception,
my world – us.
Denote happiness, salvation, and truth
in the eyes that shine like the red dwarf
that burns brighter than our sun,
but seems mute from distance
that lags and drags on our souls
which cry
out softly yet violently
leaving you and I in its wake,
fearing nothing but a starless sky in return
for without my light (you)
I have no moon and you
are no universe alone.
Caress my spine,
spread me wide,
and fill your hands
with me. Follow
my pattern, trace my texture
with the tip
of your finger. I'm offering
you a story inked into
the planes
of my skin. I've laid
myself bare for you.
Here are all the secrets
of my folding places.
Read on me, revel in me,
listen, linger. This is me
at my most intimate.
I'm giving you my
softest parts.
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to the raccoon trapped in my chimney
look, I'm not really sure what you want me to say
you're the unwelcomed guest to my pay-per-view party, and I mean
I paid $6.99 for entertainment but I guess I was thinking of
something a little less live
some things are just better left to animal planet
and well, here we are
too close for comfort,
my body tells me
via the pleasantly warm fluid flowing down the inside of my leg
this is not to say that I'm uncomfortable
but from 1 to Vladimir Putin riding in on a radioactive bear, you're like
a 7 on the scale of how frightened I am that you're in my fucking house right now
I apologize for being a little crass but I guess it's a kind of
There will be boys whose
cigarette smoke fogs up your windows
boys who knock on doors
like wind-chimes
and see right through
your thread-bare heart
Please don't let him in.
There will be days that burn you;
leave you only ashes
on creaky bedroom floors
days that suck out the sweetness
like a Creator's mouth on a cigarette
and I promise you
the metaphors he spews
are not good enough for you
so please don't get addicted
'cause there should be
anonymous meetings for this
for the boys who tend the fires
in your wrists
make them itch for the days
the knife
You can get addicted
to many things.
I want to wake up and not be alone by dietcocaine, literature
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I want to wake up and not be alone
I closed my eyes while I drove home tonight
I wanted to see if I could remember the curve
of your spine, your lips, the jut of your hip.
(if these walls could speak,
they would scream your name.)