u/lurk3141592653589793

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What Does It For You?

Actually

Oh yeah

Let me say it again

Actually

Yes!

Do you "goon"

To NGT?

Mmm, daddy

Correct my sky positioning

Yes!

Actually

Tell me I'm right

Yes!

Say it!

Actually

No!

I don't just want to hear I'm right

I want you to tell me you're wrong!

Yes!

Again!

Actually

Yes!

Does that do it for you?

Do you like that?

Get that from someone else

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 2 days ago
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Hair Dividing Line

I just came across a highschool yearbook from just before the mid-90's.

The difference between true Gen Xers and Xennials is so obvious just by looking at the hairstyles on the girls back then.

The Seniors had the big hair left over from the late 80's.

The underclass girls didn't do the big hair thing, with the exception of bangs.

More proof Xennials and Gen X are distinct.

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 3 days ago
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¿Porque No Los Tres?

Some poets long for a love

That is not loud

That shows itself in the small gestures

The coffee unasked for

The quiet togetherness

The safety of loving presence

The favorite meal prepared

After a hard day

Reading together

That love is beautiful

That love is real

For some poets

That love is enough

Others long for firery passion

Adventure

Exploration

Of life

Of hands

Mouths

Penetrating Eros

Hunger

Lust

Breathless pleasure

That love too, is real

For some poets

That love is enough

¿Porque no los dos?

Why must one fade

To become another?

This poet longs for both

A love that prioritizes both

Over the doldrums of existence

And

In the immortal words

Of Billy Mays

"But wait

There's more!"

The commitment

The knowledge that this love

Can exist

For a lifetime

Within the connection

Between two people

That freedom

Can exist

Within a monogamous bond

¿Porque no los tres?

A trinity of love

No need for a ménage à troìs

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 3 days ago

Litigating Lost Love

No longer litigating love lost

The attorney fees are too great a cost

I've closed the ex files

The tears and the smiles

Into the bin they've been tossed

I have owned my mistakes

Moved on from the heartbreaks

I now know who I am

So ask of you ma'am

Let go now for both of our sakes

The almosts though drive me insane

Missed connections were the only pain

Maybe sometime when

If our paths cross again

A new connection I could entertain

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 4 days ago
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I Wish

I wish it was you

Instead of the bots

Or people brought out

To scramble my thoughts

I don't wish for anyone

I only wish for you

Search your heart

And you'll know that it's true

But it seems I've blown it

It's been made quite clear

Though how could I have blown it

If you were not here

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 6 days ago

Uncool

I have never been cool

Always played the fool

Got pretty viscously bullied

In my neglegent, lousy "school"

I had some misfit friends

So that I could pretend

Attempts at a social life

Were not just a dead end

There was a short time

That still sits in my mind

When us misfits were the cool kids

And our bullies were left behind

But as I've grown I've seen

Adults are just as mean

Some just need to be kicked

Full force in-between

At times I've gone astray

Around bullies all day

To fit in I would join in

I am sorry to say

But fuck that, I don't wanna be cool. I always come back to who I am and who I am thinks that cool is fucking lame. I'm hot. Hot tempered, passionate-hot, hot as fuck, not at all egotistical, a little sarcastic, and someone who thinks kindness is fucking hot as fuck even when I could do fucking better at it. Cool is fucking boring. I am not unbothered. Shit fucking gets to me, and I feel. I'm not fucking detached enough to not experience this motherfucking life which makes me rather uncool and I'm motherfucking proud of it. Because for me, life is meant to be fucking felt. We have emotions for a motherfucking reason. Guess that makes me uncool.

My break in the rhythm and rhyme probably makes this poem uncool, too.

Good.

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 7 days ago

Wolves

I like wolves

Not because I think I'm some sort of alpha

Though I said it once in a state

Of psychosis

Still embarrassed over that one

There's just something cool about them

I feel a strange connection to them

Maybe because I've been thrown to them

It's not because they're a powerful canine

I'm actually more of a cat person

I just like them

I like that they protect their pack

Would have been nice

I wish people didn't make them

Out to be anything other than

Wolves

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 7 days ago

Walls

Sons pay for the sins of their father

Men pay for the sins of those who came before

Women build walls for their own protection

A few times I've been shown the door

Come hither my knight

I no longer hide

Step through the door

I'll let you inside

No knight am I

I'm just a man

But I'd love to be

Let inside, ma'am

And once inside

He basks in her light

And they shine together

All through the night

His love triggers something

A thing deep inside

And he finds a new wall

And he is outside

Now there are walls

Far as the eye can see

That cannot come down

Without therapy

Reluctantly he mounts

And he rides away

Building a wall, she shouts

You said you would stay!

(Inspired by, (not an answer to), something I read in r/letters today.)

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 8 days ago
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Social Gimmick

Preach at me

Oh Father of song

Tell me how

I'm living wrong

Sing anthems of

Fight and rage

Safe inside

Your guilded cage

Order us to

Fight the power

Up on stage

For an hour

Maybe I'd have

More respect

If you also

Risked your neck

Music for a

Dire situation

Brought to you here

By Live Nation

Must work within the system

Yes, that is true

As long as the fallout

Can't touch you

Sweatshop t-shirts

On your fans

Won't do shit

To damn the man

Your hypocrisy

Makes me sick

Wish I did not

Like your music

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 8 days ago

Those Parts Of Me

You've lost access to those parts of me

The ones where laughter flows easily

Access denied, there's no going back

You've lost access over how you react

No more bad jokes or lyrical references

Now they stay hidden behind my defenses

No more opinions with you will be shared

Since about my thoughts you have never cared

Too often these parts have been shown that they're hated

These parts that I've most appreciated

May the silence in the absence of those parts of me haunt

You when you see I've become nonchalant

Indifferent to every sign of disrespect

I wonder what else you could really expect

When you pick through the wreckage and you finally catch on

You'll see these parts that are me were already long gone

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 9 days ago

Bigotry

Stating you understand why Aileen Wuornos killed those men

Is no different than stating you understand why Derek Vinyard curb stomped those men in American History X

Bigotry is bigotry

An injustice does not justify

More injustice

I will not be another pawn

In the gender wars

Or race wars

Or any wars set up to keep us divided

While keeping the powerful in power

Love to all

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 9 days ago

Revisited

Highway Forty revisited

Neural pathways redirected

Memories solidified as such

Loose ends tied

Impact acknowledged

A closed door

No need to visit

Anymore

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 9 days ago
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Since You've Been Watching

Since you've been watching

You already know

I tried so hard

Not to let go

I've spoken up

I've taken space

It all gets thrown

Back in my face

I've made a confident declaration

In defense of my rights

That only caused

More extreme fights

The only winning move

Is not to play

When there's no

Winning move anyway

So call this a form

Of quiet quitting

Or maybe I'm lying

Just bullshitting

Perhaps I really

Am so daring

Or maybe this is

A red herring

If you fuckers want

To interfere

Then get the fuck

Out of here

You're not me

You're not in this

So step off, cunts

Mind your business

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 10 days ago

Whatever You Say I Am - Eminem

You know, if you don't like what I express, or want to read in too far, your conclusions are on you, right?

And one of the great things about having a Reddit account?

You can hide content you don't like, and block those posters.

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 10 days ago

A Proposal

I'm not proposing marriage here

Just a framework of where to begin

You could give me your name

Your real name

And maybe that would help me

Feel the safety I need

To want to know you

Your honesty

Could elicit my own

Your reassurance

That you can handle your urge

To push away

Whatever feels real

That you won't threaten it

Expecting me to cut

What I believed was a safety line

And come back begging

After the insulting way you pushed

Or at least the insulting reason you made up

Or genuinely allowed

And I will apologize for the insults

Of my own

The ones I never meant

In case you wondered

That I said out of pain

And anger

And we can forgive

Or we can't

And we can see

Where we go from there

Or not

No promises

No demands

What do you say

To my proposal?

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 10 days ago

Would It Be Easier If I Lied?

Maybe I could pretend I don't dream about collapsing with you into the wetness you made for me that will certainly leave a naughty reminder stain on the bed we share.

Perhaps I could lie and say I don't fantasize about tearing off your clothes with the same lack of care, but without the innocence, as if you were the only wrapped gift under my childhood Christmas tree.

I could possibly omit the fact that since the first time I heard your voice I've imagined what it would sound like moaning my name.

If it would be easier for you, I could maybe do that. Maybe I could lie. I might even be able to do it convincingly.

But no, I wouldn't lie to you. I could never lie to you.

I'm not asexual.

I'm not aromantic.

But I genuinely do need that real connection, that true affection, for it to be any good for me.

And I could tell you the truth that it is that connection I know we have, and so much more about you, that makes you the subject, not the object, of my fantasies. I would tell you every thing about you that draws me to you. I would tell you all if it here, but the list would be too long to be poetic.

I would tell you honestly, that while I have this desire for you, those specific fantasies are only a fraction of all I dream of you.

I would tell you the truth of my dreams of cuddling you on chilly mornings, evenings, afternoons, midnights, and whenever I could get you to relax with me. You with your tea, me with my coffee, offering sips to each other. And of course, I would make you a coffee too, if you so desired. I would learn to make tea just the way you like it.

I would tell you truthfully about the dreams of nature walks or hikes taken together to see the beauty in nature that elicits ooohs and aahs out of anyone lucky enough to experience it, all while knowing that beauty pales in comparison to how I see you.

I would be totally transparent that I think you're brilliant, I love hearing you talk about what interests you, and would be happier than I've been in some time to sit and listen and converse about it, and all our ideas.

I wouldn't lie and tell you that I do not imagine learning all your needs and routines so I can be such a positive to your life that you will always understand my love for you without any words or grand gestures.

I wouldn't be dishonest and tell you that I still dream of giving you all my words and grand gestures just to put an exclamation point on the love you will never have to doubt is there.

Yes. I want you. In the most intimate of ways, I want you.

Would it be easier if I lie?

I'm sorry, I can't lie to you.

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 11 days ago
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The Bots

The bots are in a better mood today

Full of possibility and hope

Offering the drowning

A lifeline rope

Such a dramatic switch

From yesterday's

Depressed emotion

Matrix glitch

Singing songs

Of love and devotion

And care more vast

Than the Pacific Ocean

Unlike yesterday's

Doom and gloom

And darkness filling

Every room

Happier works

They must have scraped

More romantic sentiments

Their models raped

So give them your cookies

Feed them humanity

Lest we perish from the

Bots' insanity

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 11 days ago

The Conversation

If you were her, I would tell you that I have trouble sitting cross-legged, ever since my health issues. I would go into detail, if you wanted to know. I would ask for accommodation.

I would tell you that there was never any ploy or game, and no expectations of a chase. I would tell you the details about my inability to fake anything but my own heartbreak, and then offer you the chance to explain why only with the news that you must have realized would cut so deeply, I was finally worthy enough to be welcomed into your life.

I would tell you my goals, my fears, my hopes, my dreams, and anything else you wanted to know. It would be a waste of time to hide anything from you out of fear it might change your mind. Why have anything with you, but what is real?

I would ask how you define the love of your life. I would let you know that if it was defined by the amount of one's life spent loving someone, (even if that love has never led anywhere), despite any other loves experienced, it would have to be you.

And I would tell you more, so much more, that I trust you to see when I look at you sitting across from me.

If you were her.

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 12 days ago
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I Won't Ask

I won't ask to kiss you

I will tell you

I will give you just long enough

To tell me no

To hide the desire

I already see by the look in your eyes

I already feel in the heat and unevenness of your breath

I already notice in the give of your body as it surrenders into my embrace

No

I won't ask to kiss you

Though I will have your consent

And I will kiss you with the ferocity

And hunger

Of a desire held

Far too long

I will make us feel

Embarrassed

For not acting on it sooner

The tender kisses will come

Along with the laughter

Along with the adventures

But not in that kiss

Not in the one that tells you

You are mine

You are desired

You have been in my thoughts

My dreams

My fantasies

For far longer than you may have realized

And I will keep you safe

While I tear into the person

To reach the soul

That belongs to me

Not in ownership

In recognition

In reformation

In reconnection of an entity

Split in two

And you will know what it is like

To be destroyed

While being made whole

As my hands caress you

Tease you

Grasp you

Hold you

Allow you

To give yourself

All of yourself

All to me

I won't ask

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u/lurk3141592653589793 — 12 days ago