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Poetry

Gouged Passion

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Gouged Passion

  It tempted me with its scent, Leading me by the nose, I grumbled But I went along to the tune that crazed my mind. A red, plump fruit Begging to be split open And its essence gouged, I took a sharp knife and spun The being in my hands- Strategizing the best way To [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful, thoughts

Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

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Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

  “Everyone has written about pain; what makes it unique to you?” My pain is early, unbeknownst to my psyche until I became misinformed and mislead through others ambivalence. My pain levitates in the middle of two races. My pain is centuries long, my pain is past skin, hair, features, curves. My pain flickers and [...]

Poetry

Lunch Time Rush

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Lunch Time Rush

  The press of hot bodies parts like a dead sea. 1:30 on the dot, and I step out of California Pizza Kitchen and step in the crisp Jersey air. I whistle as I walk along, my eyes scanning over frozen silhouettes swaddled in spindles of threads crafted by hurried, child-like hands. A leggy blonde [...]

Poetry

Stellification

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Stellification

  I declare war on the stars who continue to plague me with answers to questions without margins. Do the celestial beings way up above pity us mortals whose wings were clipped eons ago? downcast and reticent, I withdraw with each phase of the moon– my righteous anger boiling past boiling point. Does the moon [...]