canofdandelionnburdock

[canofdandelionnburdock]

while this town is busy sleeping

cradle my stuttered lines,

Hold my relentless wrath within your confines,

Because God have I ever felt so restless,

For a touch,

For a notice,

For anything,

Dont be a fool,

Turn yourself against the cards from which you play yourself.

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video obsession

I feel so foreign,

In this climate amongst uncharted territory,

Spasms of light flicker like baby's breath upon your face,

And the gentle breeze grazes my knees,

Subtle touches from the ground rock me,

Clasping me tightly to its chest and holding me,

For a while.

I can clench my fists and hold my eyes shut,

For a while I can pretend that I'm there again,

Stinging raspberry stains across my hands,

My cheeks stained an alternate rose.And I'll imagine the scorn,

The visceral reaction to my asking for a care,

My asking to be noticed,

And held.

As waves billow across my neck in streaming strands of sepia,

And a careful press to my arms,

This climate is uncharted,

Yet I don't feel in danger,

I am not lost here.

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rotten marrow

I don't deserve something this gentle,

I'm so rotten.

You've picked me and I'm beyond preservation

I'm not a pretty figure

Plucked from the rib of Adam

I lie there

Unknowing and unaware of myself

Because I've never know what being myself is like

I attempt to mould myself into a girl you would like

A girl-thing that would catch your attention To hide my rotten interior

The vines of wrath that burrow deep into my bones

Because my father never taught me how to let go of that anger

And so the rib of Adam exploded,

And I sat there unknowing .

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Bones and all

" I want you to eat me , bones and all"

And I hope that when you consume me ,

I won't be bitter,

Or rotten.

That when wrapped around your heart you can taste all the people I have been,

Places I have seen.

Where the sun has kissed my navel,

You too shall be kissed.

All the days intertwined into one.

So consume me,

Learn.

[canofdandelionnburdock]

simulation swarm

I'll braid my hair,

It feels like linen.

Melded with the salted water of the sands.

My freckles will bloom,

Like solitary maroon poppies,

Lopsided and scattered.

And I'll let out a crooked smile.

Because everything is more bearable,

Basked in the summer sun.

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I am a ghost of every person I could ever be,

So fill in the blanks,

Make up your mind and decide who I am,

Because today I cannot dress myself,

Look in the mirror and wear the clothes of this person I've become.

Because each day I stray further from the truth,

To become unrecognisable to myself.

And I have to hold myself down,

To stop the irrepressible notion,

That I am everything I will ever be.

[canofdandelionnburdock]

Beautiful poison tree,

I let this sickness within me fester,

Bubbling within the very chasm of my being ,

Because Lord knows I'm not a good person.

So condemn me ,

Spite me and place me upon this pedestal,

So you can watch as I writhe in pain and decay,

As my organs rot and fill the Chambers of my throat,

Rising until I can't speak,

Your godly hands wrapped around my throat,

To show me how much more I could be.

To show me the light.

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The party's over,

The jewels and glitter,

Her charade is over because underneath all of that beauty is dagger cold pain.

Glistening the dagger fumbles and falls,

And staggers to the next bar.

Standing tall and proud and yet at an instance broken.

Nothing is keeping together...

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I'm up and down your street,

Begging at the steps of your door,

Like a dog that's been kicked and pushed away,

I've been pushed beyond the point of content.

And now I find myself feeling dumbfounded amd confused,

Staring beyond my gazing eyes.

I'm not here, I'm anywhere but here.

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Playground love

Letting my thoughts mellow over cans of pineapple slices and thick, exuberant teas.

The more I let my thoughts dwell,

The more maturity I seldom find within myself,

I encompass so much space and I must not resound the voice from which I speak ,

Learning to spew the nonsense I often do in the face of love is hard,

To present myself to you is truly difficult.

I'm powerful and deeply rooted within insecurity,

I am everything all at once.

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Futile devices

Hold me as I feel alien in this skin of mine,

You sit on the porch and I reside to the residual seat of mine,

The slightly sunken in pillow and permanent coffee stains that are a reminder of only me,

And I hope some day when these memories are passed down to someone else,

That they will always linger with my spirit,

But for now there is nothing but presence in this moment,

I hear the slight fizzing of plucked guitar strings,

The buzzing sound played upon acoustic body,

I cherish these words you speak for I know this may be the first time I hear them aloud,

The arpeggios linger and so does my heart,

Subtly bouncing upon the body of the guitar.

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