Monster
...There is a monster in my bed and I let him in. I supplied the pillow to rest. His quiet wickedness I don't address. As he fondles my body while I lay still undressed. I don’t reciprocate his love ...
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Categories:
cortex, confusion, emotions, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sessions
...Regret has found me knocking at its door again. Shame answered immediately as if it had been waiting for its old friend. Opening its door where the comfy couch is that I turn my thoughts over in exch...
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Categories:
cortex, deep, inspirational, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Jasprit Boom Boom Hurrah
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Camera zoom...Boom - Boom shakes the room
All eyes on the prize
Rise & lies of franchise
Moolah the crueler ruler
Sparking doom and gloom
Marking Test cricket’s demise
If ther...
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Categories:
cortex, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Breathless in Silent Collapse
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Breathless,
words like cordyceps adhere to my throat,
Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords.
Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways,
Yet the more I str...
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Categories:
cortex, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Sexually explicit meme more real day
...Sexually explicit meme more real day
originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously,
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head
to gnarly nails of
(this ...
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Categories:
cortex, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse
The sharp snap of branches masked the bark of distant dogs
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A stolen life. A split-second decision.
Disorganised thoughts, jumbled—
Tangled around an anaesthetised cortex.
Clocks mockingly ticking,
Ticking down inevitability,
As a lone fly buzzes r...
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Categories:
cortex, dark, deep, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Waves in the Brain
...Waves in my brain
to your cliche songs they entrain
Background music in the store
It takes me over to my core
Others keep looking for merchandise
Or converse with each other to break the ice
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Categories:
cortex, art, character, dance, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Theory of God
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I. Of Circuits and Litanies
Somewhere between the limbic lobe
and the ache of late-night Eucharist,
you touched me—
not in flesh
but in the soft mutiny of neurons.
They do not teach us
t...
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Categories:
cortex, god, love,
Form: Free verse
The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly Dally
...Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue
Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine
Cause me to choke on putrid saliva.
Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison.
Distorted bir...
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Categories:
cortex, art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
cortex of the cosmos
...the sky h o m e s
what the sea
cannot confine
as clouds crawl and croon
carving contours
of compassion
to calm the chaos unseen
within
the <>
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Categories:
cortex, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Insignificant Monster No More
...Drained of opaque innocence
Perfected by your toxicity,
I was laid bare beneath the narcissistic sun,
Searing deep within dehydrated pupils,
Stripping my soul of all humanity,
until your siniste...
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Categories:
cortex, dark, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
Musings of a Diehard Behaviorist
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What’s on the old mind tonight
the good old frontal cortex
the ole gray matter
~ not that it does…
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Categories:
cortex, perspective, philosophy, prejudice, psychological,
Form: Free verse
My Mother Was Catatonic
...My mother was catatonic, symphonic chronic is what I smoke.
Livinin it bougie, choosin floosies no uzis and then I choke.
You can be me, insane cerebral cortex is
just what I feel.
Living pervy s...
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Categories:
cortex, abuse, mental health, racism,
Form: Rhyme
- Thinking Out Loud -
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prefrontal cortex
"thinking brain" - the unconscious
can become conscious...
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Categories:
cortex, philosophy,
Form: Senryu
Election Musings
...Between my thicker and thicker lobes
Lies a much less thick wick
Which reflects a dimmer and dimmer glimmer of what was once brimming with more than a shimmer of hope and optimism
Two parties bick...
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Categories:
cortex, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
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