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 Nov 2019 sophie
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taptaptaptaptap goes your pen
"i'm about to punch you"
you continue, and i do
we're sent to the office, you click your pen while we walk
you smack your mouth when the pen is taken away
you drum your fingers against your chest once you're told to stop
i'm sent home for a week, you got to the nurse

i come back a week later
and you're sitting in the same seat, taptaptaptaptap
i almost wanna punch you, i do wanna punch you
and i don't

i call that character development
 Nov 2019 sophie
Joy
The Abbey
 Nov 2019 sophie
Joy
My body is sacred.
More sacred than the holiest
of the places
I've posed in front of
with my family
in photos.

My bones carry a structure
with a bad posture
from never having been
completely held up
in a proper position while reading.

My muscles are working
with the vitality of a young person
who does not enjoy working out
and keeping fit
unless the burden of pressure
is eased by the water
I enjoy to swim in.

The organs which keep me alive
are damaged somewhat
by my unhealthy habits
but are still
keeping the holy magic
of being so painfully alive
going.

The tissues that cover me
have been a curios decoration
for my life's entirety.
My skin has felt the eyes
of the people that tried
to turn it to a commodity,
the eyes who have tried
to call it obscene and cover it,
the eyes who have tried
to fetishize it,
the eyes who have never noticed it.

And my body's an abbey
where only my cells are allowed
to live in permanently.
And for as long as that's so
no one can shame it.
Or me.
 Nov 2019 sophie
Karan Sherwal
Rural
 Nov 2019 sophie
Karan Sherwal
Breezy mountain, muddy house
One can reside here in peace
With a child and a spouse
In calm or at Ease
That chilly wind gets you to freeze
That soft petals & bushes
In summers one can feel the air pushes
Out in the meadows,
Creatures and their shadow's
Waving at the end of the seasons
Nature doesn't require Reasons.
When I moved to the countryside,
I found the outside peace inside.
 Nov 2019 sophie
Tyler Lockwood
Wrote your name on another bridge today,
the second one since I left a month ago.
In another world, maybe,
I keep doing this until I die.
In another world, perhaps,
you do the same with mine.
grief hurts too much
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