O locust spring, heavenly spring
In magic just is magic lust.
Expensing plots, dispensing wroughts
The trees that words are poured.
O burlesque house, rejoice from mouth
To morring love or mooring Dove.
Displacing homes, erasing loans
The skies that once have soared.
"For fuck's sake Caroline, you know I didn't sleep with him," I tried to explain as I had been doing so since I woke up yesterday morning.
"Don't give me that, Charles. You know just as well as I do that it was all over your face, black and white."
The thought hadn't occurred to me yet, but maybe she was right. I guess it didn't matter anymore. No matter what I said or tried to do, she was leaving and she was leaving tomorrow.
Her life was packed…along with half of mine: the brown boxes, the dresses, the make-up, the shoes, the pictures, the everything; and not that the dresses were mine, it's just that it was our life.
I didn't know
Subject: A/CF
sunrise and a turntable
a glass of milk and broken fish - porcelain
pass out on the stairs
it was as well be this way
pass out anywhere
it might as well be anyway
Setting: M/AN
he was a cardboard box last week
eaten by the coffee he once was - ceramic
(insert) RISING ACTION
make way on the train
it might as well be headin' this way
make way anywhere
it might as well be headin' anyway
(insert) CLIMAX
Plot: I/N
breath in helium - lighter than a cigarette
toss/turn - another drunk counts as lost
(insert) FALLING ACTION
here's the pacific ocean
and i'm heading west
(talk) RESOLUTION
ocean = o'clean
there was the poem
about a girl
AND SHE HATED YOU.
her name was misleading.
AND she left.
she went to the store.
to find everything she loved.
her heart, her mind,
her lost boyfriend
ALL in a bottle of YOU.
every cliche, every mistake
was profoud enough to say
I FUCKED UP AGAIN.
so she drank her life
down to her soul
and found out she
NEVER NEEDED YOU.
fuck off.
quiet is the night sung by losttoperfection, literature
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quiet is the night sung
he began to speak in music
and paint away his thoughts.
brushes on his canvas
drinks into his mind.
rain unto the sun
like freshly fallen snow.
he trades his recipes
for dreams.
he fades his colored eyes
to see all shades of gray.
like a ribbon on his
broken finger.
trees fall to the ground
and walls will be torn down.
he runs away
to sleep.
love, love, love.
faith into the sky.
haste and distance
quiet is the night sung.
he practiced in the sky
smoke rising from his tires.
she said, "you are not
all that alone."
red lights falling
and the mountains iced
he said, "i am going
to die tonight."
he waited til the morn
There he stood, six feet tall, watching the water flow off his head and onto his hand. The water bounced and jumped and fell to the floor, but his eyes stayed on his hand. His hand intrigued him and he wanted to know more about it. He questioned himself as to why his hand did the things it did.
Suddenly snapping back to reality, he quickly turned off the water, grabbed for his towel, and began drying himself off in one habitual motion. He ran out of the bathroom and into his small room; consisting of nothing more than a bed, and an old trunk used as what would be a coffee table, if he hadn't put it deep in the corner of the shadowy room.
february twenty-third by losttoperfection, literature
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february twenty-third
like a fish
on a stringer
or a hangman's noose
i flip, i flop
and slowly die.
a lone tombstone
in a sea
or a garden salad
i toss, i turn
and slowly fall.
like a cloud
in the sky
or a dead end street
i rise, i fall
and slowly end.
a piece of pie
in the trash
or a purfumed neck
i smell, i hide
and slowly rot.
greeting people during parade by losttoperfection, literature
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greeting people during parade
as the faces begin to change to shapeless blurs.
as their bodies become lost in a sea of design.
written and loved, practiced not preached.
her ideal husband became her lust.
her face become faint and tears became salt.
she gave up her life, for this room.
she gave up weather, she gave up the skies.
written and loved, fallen and forgotten.
green tea mixed with red, her blood.
as she lays in her chair at the lonely coffe shop.
her wrists bandaged, her face stale.
her eyes cut out, and placed in her hand.
for the day when she feels him, sees him.
she will give him her hand, and give him her faith.
forgive me
hold my penny
up for all to see
like a falling star
raining money in mexico
thinner than paper
your cuts on my skin
have began to bleed
the thread and a needle
is all you need
to sow my dreams
stitches like rainclouds
cover my wounded face
lye in my throat
and a penny
in my eye
The Barcode of Heaven by losttoperfection, literature
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The Barcode of Heaven
I had a dream
And tattooed on my arm
Was every love and conformation
In which I existed.
On my forehead was a crucifix
With a barcode on my neck
But in the mirror
The room was empty.
I had a dream
And placed in every room
Was a picture of love
And what love is.
The frame was broken
And the glass but shattered
Yet the still-frame showed
The room is not empty.
I had a dream
And the inside of my heart
Was filled with scars and blood
Mended and dried.
My soul was painted white
And the barcode removed
For in Heaven
The room is full.
Arousing interests
the dismay of intermediary stars
and The Delight
of mediocrity.
For riches are born
into, and
recovery; a burden.
The river of decency
Filled with a statement
"Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law."
Forgiven; common
as dreamt in sleep
but living
for this identity
means nothing.
Belief; a simple statement
analyzed with fear
but to live
alone
as if nothing matters
a new belief is formed.
An individual's mind
the way for it to work,
different
than mine, for certain.
Passed between time,
a lost north star
is falling out of reach.
Given circumstances
and pleasure abundances
a belief
to
The History of Man by losttoperfection, literature
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The History of Man
Love or something close
Vows to a dying rose
Blood, a morning star
Tears, a fallen rain
Precious illusions
Pretension
Dreams of nightmares
Holding thorns of the sun
Hands of a star
Secrets lie
They lay in a grassy knoll
With books and doctrine
Dreams and hopes
Lights melt a candle
Burn from inside
Like the history of man
Exactly
Like the history of man
Admiration - A Dream Realized by losttoperfection, literature
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Admiration - A Dream Realized
Alas, a dream worth dreaming
with cheeks red as a rose
and eyes as elegant as the summer day
But waking up kills me
for in this dream peace is found
and the relentless struggle with love
Concrete statues lay fallen in the park
the hillside remaining barren
and lights broken at the break of dawn
Drunken I find myself crying
in a church to an elderly priest
and I remove myself from this tragedy
Epistles accumulate in the streets
the elders seated on pillars of fire
and a halo of angels arises through the night
For I know not what to sow
as I
snow - a blanket of innocence by losttoperfection, literature
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snow - a blanket of innocence
As winter arrives, the temperature slowly decreases, the roads become slippery, and nature itself begins to hide. Hiding from an enemy that comes once each year, [lasting for several months], nature gives one last thought before retreating. This thought consists of isolation, freezing sorrow and tears fallen for the long winter.
With the temperature low, and the clouds in the air, I begin to fall and create a blanket for the world to see. I come slowly and gentle at first, with a light powdery feeling and texture. I do not reach the ground yet, but I am hinting that cold and weary times will be upon us soon. As the days pass, and th
Appearances Are Everything by losttoperfection, literature
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Appearances Are Everything
There is this clock
That keeps all time
And commits to memory
The dreams of its people.
Each sullen number
Represents secrecies
Only the hands of time
Can acquire.
For each unwritten space
A simple time left unnoticed
It appears as if
There is so much meaning
But in realization
It's just a fucking clock.
Time passes
Like an hourglass
Only to be lost
To the past
The only chance
To perhaps freeze time
Tip this hourglass
And safely die
For glass only shatters
When nestled like dreams
The sand pours out
And time flees
Time escapes
But to escape time
Is impossible
Unless to die
Tragedy Amidst Endings by losttoperfection, literature
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Tragedy Amidst Endings
This is the end I tried so hard to see?
This is the story that had true meaning?
Quicker than the morning's destiny
Slower than cars on this sad street
This story ends like it once began
Waves corrupting what became sand
And I know now
That everything lasts forever
Except this gun in my hand
And this story of you
Plastic smiles
For the pleasure of the same
Relapsing dreams
And the tears bleed the same
Crying seems so much easier
For it will solve these sorrowed thoughts
Hate begins with silence
And the experience of loss
To read a thousand letters
And to cry a million tears
Nothing will bring back
The life in you
Nothing
Will bring back you
Tragic Masterpieces by losttoperfection, literature
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Tragic Masterpieces
I missed you
while you were gone
but now that you are
back, I feel even
more alone. Your eyes
reveal no distance
and your lips quietly remain
untouched from the day
our love began to die.
Sadly I miss nothing
about you
except your external
conversation of a
translucent disoriented false
image of a masterpiece. And this
makes me truly love you.
As you become lost in a
fixated stare in a mirror
leaving only blindness
to overcome
your perception shifts
to this unwanted
hope of a certain
someone who you once lost
and now want back
so desperately again.
Passing on the street
making life seem like a blur
our eyes lock