cruelty
I'm Not Crying
Your single mother and cousins applauded you because they had faith I was the one.
It felt amazing to be this close to a family that I never met in the flesh.
Seeing them in the form of a discarded diary should have sounded an alarm in my head.
Your voice was so solemn and so soothing that it was like tasting a honeysuckle lollipop.
It was the best flavor I’ve ever had until I told you about the pauper I am providing for.
Then the flies showed up and I spent the next two months swatting them away.
One day, I licked the lollipop for the first time since then and tasted manure in the center.
I wondered why something so sweet could taste so repulsive.
But to my surprise, I was struck by the thought that I should have known.
You found yourself a guy you couldn’t wrap around your finger.
I didn’t see it until I was being bled dry and I could barely stay awake.
I had nothing to offer you when you claimed I did.
So why were you angry?
Why were you cranky?
I thought you were dandy
When you abstained from hanky panky.
All this time, you were still the hurt little boy that was raised in the Pope’s lyceum.
And turned into a lamprey the second I couldn’t give him anything to eat.
If you’re alone and free, I’ve already forgotten about you.
If you deserve better than me, you took the easy way out
By cheating on your test in life and got caught by the pauper.
You whimpered in fear of getting expelled and I was prepared for it.
The lamprey within broke free when I couldn’t look at you as the same person I loved before.
You fruitlessly faked your regret and pinned the blame on my ass to get out of jail free.
I’m not crying not because I didn’t care about you.
It was because I have the ending from that film memorized by heart.
It’s crazy, isn’t it? I know. I’ve watched it several times in French as a student.
I know my worth. I’m smiling in public while the sun is up
And brightening up the night when it goes down.
Thank you for putting words in my mouth when you were at your lowest.
Can you remind me again what major you’re pursuing?
Because you behaved like a patient in a case study at Arkham to me.
Wake up and smell the roses, my sweet summer child.
If you can’t stand to be where the bald eagles take flight,
Then park yourself on a bench and feed the pigeons.
Streets Governed Criminal
Can you grasp something that's invisible
In the streets governed by the streets driven criminal
In the sheets, painted up with a face that isn't yours
and your hands tainted with the blood of others, and unopened doors
The sun has gone down, and the homeless are freezing
Some dancing around, and with food appeasing
While you and some others are in the room all alone..
and the air smothers you, and anxiety brings life out of the zone
A hand comes out of your thumping heart, and suffocates you silly
It comes out screaming, and dumping the pain of the world, and you get chilly
You wish you could save the world, and cradle the ill in your hands
Bring, pave and stretch out the curled, lost, to comfort the bullied trans
What is the world, when you walk around to live with someone else's blood on your hands
To live when you ignore and talk happiness but can't give and end the flood to the disappearing lands?
Don't you ever wonder what the world means when there's a bunch of so called nobodies?
Acting like a blunder is a murder and people just have a hunch who you are, and lay on our tragedies?
What is morality?
When we are bathed in brutality?
Laugh it off like we don't know,
While people are screaming below
and someone has to pay and die
and all people say is "I'm sorry, I can't, goodbye."
This is humanity.
We all try to ignore the insanity.
and someone's on the floor crying for someone to be there
and others just seem to kick, scream and glare
but for their sisters and brothers they'd probably shed a tear
But for anyone else they say they can't be here
It's truly disgusting
Respect is forever rusting
Screaming "Equality!" yet fighting and burning homes in it's name, adding blood to the unnecessary sea of issues of gender and "race" and the others trivial differences we try to hold
Through actual frivolity of rewriting and turning around simple non-offensive words like its a game, yet somehow determining what you are by shape of your face, through privileged or how old
When we both share the same organs, the emotions, and planet
breathing the same air, through the grass and granite
and still we fight which status, and hands matter the most
Competing with our apparatus and plans, that catch the eye to bleed one of our fellow brothers as a host
What's the point if we stand on dead bodies to live?
To disjoint lives that are so much more meaningful and bite the hand that gives?
This must be the meaning of our lives
To bleed a poor soul and find the next one that arrives.
Dead Meat
Dead meat,
Is what you eat.
Nothing alive,
It is not wise.
I don't know the reason,
But I know the cause.
It is rotten, it is corrupted,
And will drive a man mad.
Madness comes from eating brains,
I ain't no cannibal at late.
But eating meat I have to do,
Or certain things I can't see.
Blood is very good,
I have no Vampire mood.
But cruel some call,
What I describe at all.
My mind going ways,
With meat these days.
Demons, Ghoulies and the rest,
Outsiders are a real pest!
thrown under the bus
nowadays all she does is whine about her bodily pains,
but when you were left alone,
she stayed drunk, prowling the bars
days on end,
oblivious to the emotional wreckage left
on your chest, like a hot iron
melted through the tender heart of a 10 year old,
the open wound to the
skin,
cauterized shut
too soon,
without even leaving any open flesh
for the pain to be released,
seared closed with the shame, pain, and false pride of generations,
sealed in for years like a safety box of magnets,
pulling you towards anything and everything self-destructive
in a desperate search for some morsel of hope,
that the next christmas dinner might be more than
knocking on the doors of neighbors, being lucky enough to be
asked in to share a holiday meal,
and an attempt to be noticed for something other than the burden
you were to her deep and fervent longing for
the escape, into smoke filled rooms,
that reeked with the heavy, putrid smell of week-old frying grease,
cigarettes, and hairspray, that became one of your main
reasons for going to live with your dad--
other than the day she up and left for california,
a 50 dollar bill to substitute her mac and cheese, dribbled with
one and a half inches of ashes off a pall mall,
only to be less than reluctantly welcomed by him,
and a stepbrother who most always was
notably more worthy of better dirtbikes, nicer clothes
and a much more frequent pat on the back
for a job well done,
that most often wasn't.
a dollar for him and quarter for you, along with the bottom bunk,
that smelled like pee from all the years he wet the bed,
only ever good enough for sloppy seconds--
and then there was brownie,
poor broken down swayback, with skin infections,
baldspots and degenertive bone disease,
in light of your brother's black stallion stud,
as if the 6 inch scar on the back of your leg wasn't enough
from your father's drunken rage with a 4 inch hunting knife,
and the glass from the window that left it's souvenir the night he threw you
across the room, all before the age of 14.
shit.
i may have shot that horse between the eyes too.
11:37 PM 6/26/2013
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the world that made me
Told and told a thousand lies
Held a thousand hands
Trusted a thousand tricks
Suffered a thousand spites
Dug my heels in
Pleaded my cases
Held my tongue
And doled out graces
And for what and where I've been
And what and where I've seen
I am a product of my environment
A survivor by my imagination
The world that I was given to
Tore my soul apart
The world I'm going to
Won't change a thing
This one has left its marks on me.
cheap wine ...
fuck the world?
fuck the pain?
fuck the sadness and lies this world creates?
nothing but cheap wine and stale cigarettes
to numb the pain this world generates
everything fair in love and war
what about the souls that get dabble with?
please explain to me were the fair is in ones' soul?
hate is a strong word
love is a strong word
yet we know nothing about love...in the end we give to feel a little bit satisfied
yet we hate all ...
oh petulant child don't sulk
in the end you always get your way...
fuck the world?
fuck the pain?
fuck the sadness and lies this world creates?
under the sycamore drinking cheap wine and dreaming of a world of no crime, death, or war...
dreaming of maybe one day becoming more than a cipher on a leaf...
smoking stale cigarettes dreaming of a tomorrow with no end
The Beaten Dog
They say a broken dog
can never be the same
when his faith has died,
so to does his name.
When pain and cruelty endured,
becomes an empty shell.
His tail will wag no more,
his eyes cry pain he cant tell.
He wants to please
He tries to wag his tail,
yet emotions go so deep
and his owner can only weep.
She holds him close
and strokes his face,
He feels happy, he purrs inside.
Yet fear is stronger than to too please,
and his bite is deep in another place.
In time the dog will learn to believe.
But the Demons never pass, they stay.
And blur his eyes with fear.
Warning you not to stand to near. c
Barbaric, Obsolete, Inaccurate, Expensive, Animal Research, General Booth
Barbaric, Obsolete, Inaccurate, Expensive, Timewasting Labor Intensive Lab Animal Research
Research on animals is
1. psychopathically cruel to powerless voiceless innocent animals
2. inaccurate
3. wasteful of time... takes years in comparison to alternatives taking minutes, hours, or days
4. much more expensive
5. labor intensive Animals must be fed, their cages cleaned, given poisonous
injections and brutal surgeries
6. obsolete
7 corruption engendering.. connections to big pharma, lobbyists, suppliers wanting to
maintain the status quo
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Oh General Booth
Oh General Booth
not ruthless but ruth
for in God's truth
no flesh uncouth
passed through his mouth
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