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POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Tired Of Life
I'm so fucking tired I just want to sleep
Tired of living and being alone
I'm so tired of feeling like this hole is too deep
Nothing is worth the rate on this loan
Where are you my love, where are you tonight
I'm shaking with fear that you're not alone
I can't take the pain, I give up the fight
I'm afraid I may die from fear of the unknown
But I'd rather not know, I'd much rather die
Than to find out you're happy and smiling
While looking in the eyes of another guy
Now my eyes are closing from hours of crying
This may...
Tired of living and being alone
I'm so tired of feeling like this hole is too deep
Nothing is worth the rate on this loan
Where are you my love, where are you tonight
I'm shaking with fear that you're not alone
I can't take the pain, I give up the fight
I'm afraid I may die from fear of the unknown
But I'd rather not know, I'd much rather die
Than to find out you're happy and smiling
While looking in the eyes of another guy
Now my eyes are closing from hours of crying
This may...
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A Test
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Philosophy Therefore Poetry
I think, therefore I am
I am, therefore I feel
I feel, therefore I write poetry
I write poetry, therefore I get criticized
I get criticized, therefore I express my opinions
I express my opinions, therefore I offend those who disagree
I offend those who disagree because they know I am right
I know I am right, I think....
I am, therefore I feel
I feel, therefore I write poetry
I write poetry, therefore I get criticized
I get criticized, therefore I express my opinions
I express my opinions, therefore I offend those who disagree
I offend those who disagree because they know I am right
I know I am right, I think....
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Flicker
There's no point in writing another rhyme
Or convincing myself of all my empty lies
My life past and present is one big waste of time
I can't see any reason for a thirty ninth reprise
No one really wants to sing that unhappy song
They just want some cake, I can see it in their eyes
The match is struck, now it's time to make a wish
I wish the same wish every year, when will I realize?
That like the candle left burning for too long
It's wick turns to ashes and the flame flickers till it dies
Or convincing myself of all my empty lies
My life past and present is one big waste of time
I can't see any reason for a thirty ninth reprise
No one really wants to sing that unhappy song
They just want some cake, I can see it in their eyes
The match is struck, now it's time to make a wish
I wish the same wish every year, when will I realize?
That like the candle left burning for too long
It's wick turns to ashes and the flame flickers till it dies
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Not For Kings
If one could die of loneliness surely I'd be dead by now
Or from a broken heart, there'd be no beating in my chest
So why do happy know-it-alls insist on giving me false hope
That my afflictions could mercifully free me from this hole
The dream of rising up so high beyond the walls surrounding me
Free of my cage, free of the pain, free of their repetitious laugh
That haunts my fragile mind, making nightmares of the cold reality
That no love will ever requite all that my broken orb has shown
Must be a story made for human hearts much weaker than my own...
Or from a broken heart, there'd be no beating in my chest
So why do happy know-it-alls insist on giving me false hope
That my afflictions could mercifully free me from this hole
The dream of rising up so high beyond the walls surrounding me
Free of my cage, free of the pain, free of their repetitious laugh
That haunts my fragile mind, making nightmares of the cold reality
That no love will ever requite all that my broken orb has shown
Must be a story made for human hearts much weaker than my own...
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The Act No One Wants To See
Holding you as close as flesh can embrace felt three dimensions apart
Now I feel more than my empty hands have sensed when clenched in rage
I wasn’t satisfied with the rations that twenty years of hunger fed me
The overflow from your heart I devalued through one-dimensional desire
Evidently I am more lost than when you found me wandering naked and alone
Exposing the veil of darkness layered over hidden scars not meant to be seen
I showed them to you hoping to seem more human than the ghost of my past
Pride is a shadow sewn...
Now I feel more than my empty hands have sensed when clenched in rage
I wasn’t satisfied with the rations that twenty years of hunger fed me
The overflow from your heart I devalued through one-dimensional desire
Evidently I am more lost than when you found me wandering naked and alone
Exposing the veil of darkness layered over hidden scars not meant to be seen
I showed them to you hoping to seem more human than the ghost of my past
Pride is a shadow sewn...
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D-arckives
In the darkness where my naughty side thrives
You can hear a thud each time that one arrives
Hiding in the shadows like past forgotten lives
In the dusty corridors of the forbidden Poet's Archives
To go there with a weak heart would be most unwise
For in this hole of pain, the truth wears a disguise
You can hear a thud each time that one arrives
Hiding in the shadows like past forgotten lives
In the dusty corridors of the forbidden Poet's Archives
To go there with a weak heart would be most unwise
For in this hole of pain, the truth wears a disguise
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A Ray of Sun From A Heart of Gold
There's somethin' 'portant I hafta do
I'll be in for dinner as soon as I'm through
Goin' outside to turn on the hose
Gonna spray the whole sky and hope that it shows
Expressing love coloring art
Reflecting the hue of my heart
If only this hose could squirt up that high
And I had enough water, I'd paint the sky
Hey mom, did you see my rainbow?
I guess I must be your pot of gold
Every time I see a smile that I brought
I Bemember that I am your happy thought
I'll be in for dinner as soon as I'm through
Goin' outside to turn on the hose
Gonna spray the whole sky and hope that it shows
Expressing love coloring art
Reflecting the hue of my heart
If only this hose could squirt up that high
And I had enough water, I'd paint the sky
Hey mom, did you see my rainbow?
I guess I must be your pot of gold
Every time I see a smile that I brought
I Bemember that I am your happy thought
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NY City
"Come to the city, your poetry has style
If you don't move to New York I'll...."
What will you do? What will you do? !
I'd really like to know
I might pack up and go
Though I'm not sure what I'd be getting myself into
Nothing could hold me back if I was getting into you
If your emotions reflected mine
Instead of leaving them behind
I'd find a way to get away
But I don't own a car
And things the way they are
I'd be no closer to my desired destiny
Than I'd be if I remained here in Schenectady
Surely you...
If you don't move to New York I'll...."
What will you do? What will you do? !
I'd really like to know
I might pack up and go
Though I'm not sure what I'd be getting myself into
Nothing could hold me back if I was getting into you
If your emotions reflected mine
Instead of leaving them behind
I'd find a way to get away
But I don't own a car
And things the way they are
I'd be no closer to my desired destiny
Than I'd be if I remained here in Schenectady
Surely you...
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Bar Fly
You'd think it was heaven
The way you fly to the bar
To be with your boyfriend
He wants to be a rock star
When you're a woman (Barfly, barfly)
Watch out where you go
Men don't care why (Barfly, barfly)
It's what you can do
It ain't who you know
You look great in this light
And I have only had two
Someone started a fight
He saw them lookin' at you
I want to tell you (Barfly, barfly)
Fly over my way
You know what to do (Barfly, barfly)
Can I buy you a drink?
'Cos I want to play!
Do you...
The way you fly to the bar
To be with your boyfriend
He wants to be a rock star
When you're a woman (Barfly, barfly)
Watch out where you go
Men don't care why (Barfly, barfly)
It's what you can do
It ain't who you know
You look great in this light
And I have only had two
Someone started a fight
He saw them lookin' at you
I want to tell you (Barfly, barfly)
Fly over my way
You know what to do (Barfly, barfly)
Can I buy you a drink?
'Cos I want to play!
Do you...
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What Happened To Us?
Neither one of us cheated
Neither one of us lied
We both got what we wanted
But now we're both empty inside
Well honey I wanna know
What happened to us?
We thought our love would grow
Who could predict that it would bust?
Did we take it in to fast?
How could the well run dry?
Now our love is in the past
And neither one of us knows why
We shared all of our secrets
We shard our dreams and trust
Our passion's gone but owes no debts
Tell me now what happened to us?
Love and sex walked hand in hand
We loved it...
Neither one of us lied
We both got what we wanted
But now we're both empty inside
Well honey I wanna know
What happened to us?
We thought our love would grow
Who could predict that it would bust?
Did we take it in to fast?
How could the well run dry?
Now our love is in the past
And neither one of us knows why
We shared all of our secrets
We shard our dreams and trust
Our passion's gone but owes no debts
Tell me now what happened to us?
Love and sex walked hand in hand
We loved it...
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