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 Sep 2013 Carrie Wentzel
Emily
Peace
 Sep 2013 Carrie Wentzel
Emily
I'm not bitter
I've got nothing to say
I've said all I can
I'm spent out of words
My mind is clear
With thoughts
On the real
The sun outside
That's something I can feel
© Peyton 2013
That night with you,
the stars rolled in,
blanketing the night in icy fire.
That night with you amidst the flames, the hearts eye lived and saw through self inspired haze.
That night with you in that desert place,
closed the many miles between our unremembered dreams and passions.
There is a lady like a crayon and she's melting in the rain
She's moldy yellow, streaked and mellow,
drifting down the drain.

But as her fattened thigh hits tide,
she pulls up from the gutter
Out she gets a cigarette,
and a lighter that just sputters.

Standing sadly, dank and dreary,
she flicks her bic again,
a yellow candle without flame,
a waxy tower of chins.

With luck a tiny fire sprite
wakes up to light her smoke,
and there the crayon lady stands
like slimy, shaky yolk.

She covers up her cigarette and forgets about herself,
Her thin hair runs in gross grey lines
down her bosomed shelf.

Like a lemon with grey mold on top
she teeters to and fro,
disgusting people passing by,
with her extra citron growth.

But the lady takes no notice for
She's got a game to play;
to finish off her cigarette
before she melts away.
 Sep 2013 Carrie Wentzel
etran
Swept the last strands of

Fresh cut hair

Locked the door

And went down the stairs



Slight vibration

On my left rib

Pulled the phone out

From underneath my barber's bib



Heard your tone

The regret and shame

Said you would leave me

For what's-his-name



Pounded the end button

Went straight home

Settled in my bed

And put down my phone



Two hours later

Puffy eyes and stuffy nose

Looked in the mirror

Grabbed my skin hose



Five hours later

Sore arms and wet napkins

Moist from not just

My lacrymose chin



My salty reflection

Stares back at me

Shame and guilt

Guilt and glee
 Sep 2013 Carrie Wentzel
M Murray
‘Everything is good-’

the waffle house waitress said

‘Except for the things

that I don’t like’.
I feel bad for you
I can see it in your language
I can feel you in my veins
I can smell it in the air
My hatred and envy
In my eyes
In my heart
Why must tears flow faster than blood?
Dizzy now
Drunk on depression
 Sep 2013 Carrie Wentzel
Laura
My days are engulfed by ennui
that I cannot eradicate.
As though I were buried alive
and the undertakings of my
past,
my vices
my sins
my failures
enervate me.
Smother me. Weigh down on
me
like so much dirt.
It can be the best of times and the worst of times.
You have thirteen years to prove to everyone that you can do it.
You try and try your hardest to make sure you don't quit.
When you think back to the beginning you can't help but to tear up,
Thinking about how much you have grown up.
You meet a lot of new people along the way, it's like a water fall.
So beautiful and so peaceful.
Yet so ugly and horrifying.
Scared out of your mind, you feel like you are blind.
Afraid to be on your own.
Afraid to be out in the grown up world alone.
Happy you made it all this way by yourself.
A beautiful soul becoming a flower.
Like waves crashing
Down Down Down
until
SNAP
goes the branch your nest was
so safely set upon
SNAP
goes emotions that were once there,
they're gone
now all that's left is the
tide slowly receding
revealing the life underneath
unseen.
What was so full is now barren
until the
waves crash
again.
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