Submissions by Nix_Nancy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I mainly draw, but there are things and feelings that just can't be captured visually, and that's why I started writing... Mostly I try to explore the landscape of my mind, the subtleties of my emotions, and how I look at things.
SONG LYRICS
Published
21st Sep 2016 8:42pm
21st Sep 2016 8:42pm
Mr.Ordinary Man
You're a man of the city
With a penchant for satire
And as the world grows cold to you
So does the sweat on my neck
As you wish your pixelated mask back
We haven't heard from you in months
Mr.Ordinary Man
I'd cross the street if I saw you.
Your jokes now sound so grim
Everything was rewritten
How much have I never known ?
What tied your son's throat up onstage ?
You're a monster of a man,
You're human and so you're weak
Always cheerful, always restless
Who would've guessed, yes, who would think ?
I struggle to...
With a penchant for satire
And as the world grows cold to you
So does the sweat on my neck
As you wish your pixelated mask back
We haven't heard from you in months
Mr.Ordinary Man
I'd cross the street if I saw you.
Your jokes now sound so grim
Everything was rewritten
How much have I never known ?
What tied your son's throat up onstage ?
You're a monster of a man,
You're human and so you're weak
Always cheerful, always restless
Who would've guessed, yes, who would think ?
I struggle to...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Sep 2016 6:47pm
19th Sep 2016 6:47pm
This Place is Hell
This place is hell
In the summer, it's hot as hell
But we have AC to freeze it over
And keep it hellish all winter
This place is hell
It's pretty as hell
With not a rough edge, or asperity
Not a conflict, nor honesty.
The walls are ceiling-coloured
For homogeneity
Same faces, same tongue, same mind
I stick out sorely
Don't want to draw, or sew, or play
Read or study, or even sleep
This place is hell
Boring as a sinking ship
In the summer, it's hot as hell
But we have AC to freeze it over
And keep it hellish all winter
This place is hell
It's pretty as hell
With not a rough edge, or asperity
Not a conflict, nor honesty.
The walls are ceiling-coloured
For homogeneity
Same faces, same tongue, same mind
I stick out sorely
Don't want to draw, or sew, or play
Read or study, or even sleep
This place is hell
Boring as a sinking ship
450 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
19th Sep 2016 6:45pm
19th Sep 2016 6:45pm
Bad Honey
My brain feels all sluggish
and swollen
pictures of cat and can I count the holes in the wall ?
My eyes are sore
my ears are hung-over
stop shouting light in my eyes
and blinding the pores of my skin
Grossly underestimated
do you want something more gross ?
Stop stabbing me !
I'll take your neon knife
and crack my skull open
and inside will be
black goo
thick as rotten honey
full of dead bugs, stones and filth
I'll make it drip on your desk
drop by drop
until I feel light and okay again.
Rain falls off a green sky...
and swollen
pictures of cat and can I count the holes in the wall ?
My eyes are sore
my ears are hung-over
stop shouting light in my eyes
and blinding the pores of my skin
Grossly underestimated
do you want something more gross ?
Stop stabbing me !
I'll take your neon knife
and crack my skull open
and inside will be
black goo
thick as rotten honey
full of dead bugs, stones and filth
I'll make it drip on your desk
drop by drop
until I feel light and okay again.
Rain falls off a green sky...
449 reads
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SONG LYRICS
Published
14th Jul 2016 2:31pm
14th Jul 2016 2:31pm
Homesick Dream
Softly, softly
I can't remember
How my childhood house used to be
Softer, softer,
Let's go see the fireworks
Let's go hand in hand, brother
Explain what it's like
To love someone
Who's not sure if they can love back
I know, and I'm powerless
How shameful
But I can't be loved any less
I want to clean my room
But it's overgrown with memories
Too heavy to move
Too crowded to breathe
A forest, a forest
Where you live
Shrouded in firs and regrets
The hurt you wouldn't hear
Makes me seasick
My head...
I can't remember
How my childhood house used to be
Softer, softer,
Let's go see the fireworks
Let's go hand in hand, brother
Explain what it's like
To love someone
Who's not sure if they can love back
I know, and I'm powerless
How shameful
But I can't be loved any less
I want to clean my room
But it's overgrown with memories
Too heavy to move
Too crowded to breathe
A forest, a forest
Where you live
Shrouded in firs and regrets
The hurt you wouldn't hear
Makes me seasick
My head...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
1st Jul 2016 2:18pm
1st Jul 2016 2:18pm
Incubus
Come closer
Inches away
And breathe in me
One more affection
Stare at my neck
And claw at my chest
Where my heart would be
If I had a heart
I want to be loved
I don't know what is love
So I make do.
I suck up any affection
Without making any distinction
There's just too much wanting in me
I am a simple man,
Why does the world need complexity ?
Come closer
Sign my skin
In paths of blue
One more time, please
Alone at night
I read to myself...
Inches away
And breathe in me
One more affection
Stare at my neck
And claw at my chest
Where my heart would be
If I had a heart
I want to be loved
I don't know what is love
So I make do.
I suck up any affection
Without making any distinction
There's just too much wanting in me
I am a simple man,
Why does the world need complexity ?
Come closer
Sign my skin
In paths of blue
One more time, please
Alone at night
I read to myself...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
1st Jul 2016 2:17pm
1st Jul 2016 2:17pm
Anger Hands
Lying on my back
And the sound washes over me
And my eyes tear up endlessly
And I want to reach out
But my hands destroy everything they touch
I could write a hundred words
Philosophy and stupid puns
But my pens tremble and break
I've got anger hands
I could lay out colourful pictures
Of Good and Evil, by the thousand
But under my fingers, paper tears and rips
Under the fingers of my anger hands
I can't breathe, I can't breathe
« Give us something to hold
Something you hold dear
We need to...
And the sound washes over me
And my eyes tear up endlessly
And I want to reach out
But my hands destroy everything they touch
I could write a hundred words
Philosophy and stupid puns
But my pens tremble and break
I've got anger hands
I could lay out colourful pictures
Of Good and Evil, by the thousand
But under my fingers, paper tears and rips
Under the fingers of my anger hands
I can't breathe, I can't breathe
« Give us something to hold
Something you hold dear
We need to...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
16th Jun 2016 11:05am
16th Jun 2016 11:05am
Nix
My friend is not a man
My friend is not a girl
He smiles like a maniac
And it doesn't matter
No one ever told him
That he needed to choose
Or he didn't listen anyway
No one ever loved him
Quite as much as I do
He sticks to me since I'm awake
Eyes painted black
My personnal hero
The craziest of the pack
Bad habits, unmanageable libido
Eye of a gipsy
He's got all the wrong quirks
But he's mine, mine, mine, my Nix
Bad news in a London club
Screws loose, and pain for...
My friend is not a girl
He smiles like a maniac
And it doesn't matter
No one ever told him
That he needed to choose
Or he didn't listen anyway
No one ever loved him
Quite as much as I do
He sticks to me since I'm awake
Eyes painted black
My personnal hero
The craziest of the pack
Bad habits, unmanageable libido
Eye of a gipsy
He's got all the wrong quirks
But he's mine, mine, mine, my Nix
Bad news in a London club
Screws loose, and pain for...
534 reads
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SONG LYRICS
Published
16th Jun 2016 11:04am
16th Jun 2016 11:04am
Tango
Takes three for an applause
Takes one glass to feel blue
And two is a crowd
A crowd looking at me and you
Left, right, test the waters
Take me backwards and never stop
Chase my legs, faster and faster
Play me like a spinning top
I hat you, somewhat a little more each day
I hate to die each time I leave your arms
Hurt me more,
Hurt me more, the pain makes me fly
I wish I didn't know
That it takes two to tango.
Your hold is so gentle
Yet it's a firm...
Takes one glass to feel blue
And two is a crowd
A crowd looking at me and you
Left, right, test the waters
Take me backwards and never stop
Chase my legs, faster and faster
Play me like a spinning top
I hat you, somewhat a little more each day
I hate to die each time I leave your arms
Hurt me more,
Hurt me more, the pain makes me fly
I wish I didn't know
That it takes two to tango.
Your hold is so gentle
Yet it's a firm...
746 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
7th Jun 2016 3:33pm
7th Jun 2016 3:33pm
My Sweet Unlife
Lulled once again
I got on the wrong train.
I'll wake up in another country
Don't know which one, I never cared.
I ought to panic and flail around
Or at least out one of my feet on the ground
Do I really have to do it all again ?
I'll resurect, just give me five more minutes.
I find myself circling
Circling
Like conjoined twin birds
Like a crippling curse
Over the city
A need to purge the sludge
Left in my identity.
I finally got up and left
Was left in the middle of the desert....
I got on the wrong train.
I'll wake up in another country
Don't know which one, I never cared.
I ought to panic and flail around
Or at least out one of my feet on the ground
Do I really have to do it all again ?
I'll resurect, just give me five more minutes.
I find myself circling
Circling
Like conjoined twin birds
Like a crippling curse
Over the city
A need to purge the sludge
Left in my identity.
I finally got up and left
Was left in the middle of the desert....
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SONG LYRICS
Published
6th Jun 2016 2:45pm
6th Jun 2016 2:45pm
Punk Weed
My head hurts with all the shit they say on TV
Obnoxious and positively obscene
If I could get away with that
I'd tell some interesting lies
And burn all of « Elle » and « An An » magazines.
(and I'd do it live)
So I guess I'm happy now...
Riding on the train, not talking to each other
Reminds me of that time
When I made a friend on the schoolbus
And we never spoke again.
Her name must have been Jennifer
Like all the boring girls,
Can't remember a single face
But I guess I'm happy now
Until I know better....
Obnoxious and positively obscene
If I could get away with that
I'd tell some interesting lies
And burn all of « Elle » and « An An » magazines.
(and I'd do it live)
So I guess I'm happy now...
Riding on the train, not talking to each other
Reminds me of that time
When I made a friend on the schoolbus
And we never spoke again.
Her name must have been Jennifer
Like all the boring girls,
Can't remember a single face
But I guess I'm happy now
Until I know better....
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SONG LYRICS
Published
5th Jun 2016 3:16pm
5th Jun 2016 3:16pm
Not Important
There is so much light outside
So I stay locked in so my retinas won't burn.
I wish I was an astronomer,
I wish I could fly over the pitch black city,
But I get locked up every night.
And this is so unimportant,
Yes this is so unimportant.
I like to pull at my own stitches
Make my lips bleed with the words I don't say.
I don't want to be older or younger than I am,
And this is not so important, but
There's a few mistakes I would have liked to fix.
I haven't read since last year
I haven't drawn since last...
So I stay locked in so my retinas won't burn.
I wish I was an astronomer,
I wish I could fly over the pitch black city,
But I get locked up every night.
And this is so unimportant,
Yes this is so unimportant.
I like to pull at my own stitches
Make my lips bleed with the words I don't say.
I don't want to be older or younger than I am,
And this is not so important, but
There's a few mistakes I would have liked to fix.
I haven't read since last year
I haven't drawn since last...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
3rd Jun 2016 2:43pm
3rd Jun 2016 2:43pm
Sorry for this song
I hate people who apologize for being late
Either I'm pissed off and I'll want kick you in the gut
Or I'm okay and pissed of to have to spell it out.
If you could use that extra time to think of a punchline that'd be great !
Stop apologizing
You're not taking responsibility
And it's annoying
Overusing words
They loose all meaning
Stop saying you're sorry
Because I know you will be
When I screw pinecones down your windpipe.
I hate people who apologize for borrowing my stuff
If you don't ask...
Either I'm pissed off and I'll want kick you in the gut
Or I'm okay and pissed of to have to spell it out.
If you could use that extra time to think of a punchline that'd be great !
Stop apologizing
You're not taking responsibility
And it's annoying
Overusing words
They loose all meaning
Stop saying you're sorry
Because I know you will be
When I screw pinecones down your windpipe.
I hate people who apologize for borrowing my stuff
If you don't ask...
553 reads
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