#poetry

"i don't want to hate the presidenti don't want to go to harvardi don't want to win the pulitzer prizei just want to sit in my bathtuband think about relationships i will never havewith people i will never meetand then go lay in my bedwith a magnifying glassand count all the stiches in my sheetsuntil i fall asleepand wake upto repeat again."

"You may not be here with me now, but you've never left me, because I keep you close to my heart, and always on my mind. And I will sit under your shade forever, until I become a part of you, the way you are a part of me.-Jarod Kintz and Crystal Woods"

"Unruffled [10w] Nothing’s calmer than an unruffled duck eating a cool cucumber."

"Paranoid Realist Perspective [10w] "I've conquered all my enemies except for the real ones."

"What if you slept?What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?"

"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."

"Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you."

"A lot we have in our head,But things of heart are not yet dead,They have done none, but just fled,Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled.."

"Preparation [10w] Hope for the best, but prepare for your insufferable wife."

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

"Poetry in a Bottle [10w] If you could bottle poetry you'd have one addictive drink."

"Perfect Sex [10w] Perfects sex balances the conflicting pleasures of submission and mastery."

"Waking At NightThe blue river is grey at morningand evening. There is twilightat dawn and dusk. I lie in the darkwondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end."

"Posthumous {Couplet} The anonymous may claim their fame posthumous;But let my words be my stake, while I'm still awake."

"Optimists vs. Death [10w] Optimists are hopeful people who see a coffin as half-full."

"Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage."

"Evil Thoughts [10w] Believing 'You're either with us or against us' is evil."

"Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time."

"Q & A The illness of our time is not that we lack for answers;man's tragedy is that we've forgotten the important questions."

"ESL New immigrantswho've taken ESL (English as a Second Language),will always misunderstand sarcasm ~but those fuckers sure as shit enjoy the prices at Walmart."