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Full Time Job + Writer = Struggle
8 hour tokens Cash in for food and shelter No time for magic. --------------------------------- Previous:
By Jemma Jae4 days ago in Poets
Gaslighting the gaslighting the gaslighting
I’m beyond furious but I must pretend I have no mouth and I cannot speak I have chosen to stay with the person that ripped apart my heart, ripped up my face, ripped up my hair, torn through my skin
By Melissa Ingoldsby6 days ago in Poets
No Escape, No Return
I claw and scrape, sing and scream A siren drying Gasping in the noontime sun The tune of captivity gradually fades To a chant of liberation
By K.B. Silver 2 days ago in Poets
Limerence
Limerence. I watch two boys love, fall in love, make love. I watch and I yearn/regret/wish/hate. I want the strong jaw, like a coarse-cut diamond:
By Jennifer A. G.4 days ago in Poets
Something Is Not Right
I The Student knocked on the Poet’s door, hoping for entry. * As he waited, the faint sounds of old blues music wafted through
By David Muñoz3 days ago in Poets
Pizza Slice Sorrow
I remember the shape of your grief. Because I remember the pieces of your life As they were strewn across your lawn And shone through your windows like
By Silver Daux11 days ago in Poets
for the matriarch
susan will die soon. i can see it - her color is pale and mottled; her body shudders unconsciously. i can smell it - the sterility of the hospital masks the worst of the sour backdrop.
By kp4 days ago in Poets
Just Coffee Next Time
My keys were in my hand—Or did I imagine that? I check my pockets, then the counter, then there— the place I meant to put them. Anywhere.
By SUEDE the poet9 days ago in Poets

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