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“I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done.”-Henry Rollins

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy.

We stand as the manifested ( Read more... )

Words to live by:

( Amplified Stillness )

Wish people appreciated language and the written word more. But until then, I'll just quote more poetry.

"So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache."

"We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was ( Read more... )

"At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable."

"Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for."

"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?--I wish I knew. . . . Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can."

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have ( Read more... )

“Our hearts are just muscle fisted clocks.
Keeping their own time with this messy sentiment of drumming.
Even the broken ones. Even yours.”

All I have to say for myself

The last time you came to see me
there were anchors in your eyes,
hardback books in your posture.
You were the five star general of sureness,
a crisp white tuxedo of a man.

I was fiddling ( Read more... )

I know I'm transparent
but my insecurities are in all the right places
so go ahead,
have a look.

It is work to ride head up and holy here.
It is painters with slack in their brush,
painters all jacked up
on stampede dust
just tryin’ to get it right.
I’ve been trying to get it right.
I’ve been learning here how to grow larger
than the monsters alive in my ( Read more... )

"If my heart really broke every time I fell from love
I’d be able to offer you confetti by now,
but hearts don’t break, y’all,
they bruise and get better.
We were never tragedies.
We were emergencies.
You call 9 - 1 - 1.
Tell them I’m havin’ a fantastic time."
 -Buddy Wakefield

"If you’re going to break, shatter.
No explanations.
No limp-legged dog excuses.
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"You are Jeff" Richard Siken

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There are two twins on motorbikes but one is farther up the road, beyond the hairpin turn, or just before it, depending on which twin you are in love with at the time. Do not choose sides yet. It is still to your advantage to remain impartial. Both motorbikes are shiny red and both boys have perfect teeth, dark hair, ( Read more... )