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Fools will paint with broad strokes,
Throw large loops,
And apply utterly meaningless labels
To the wide swath of subjects
Which they will not even try to understand.
Common man & academic-
There will be many who approach you
With the guise of knowledge,
Some through the visage of an education,
But will speak and show
Their teaching was not adequate
Lacking and inappropriate.
Character defects? Poor teachers?
And, you ask, where do I fit?
What do I know?
Evidently more if you have the will to ask,
The strength to accept the honest answer.
Jeremy Betts Jun 2024
I hate me
You hate me
I hate the fact
That's the only
Place where we
Can find honesty

©2024
jocelynn Jun 2024
When through flooded roads we drove,
You passed over a lime green snake.
You missed the piercing glow
Of its body curled up safe.

When through flooded roads we drove,
We passed by the drowning trees.
I told you and I did not flinch,
I told you how you hurt me.

When through flooded roads we drove,
You wished my memories gave proof
Of what I'd seen those rainy nights,
But I held the curled up truth
Zywa Jun 2024
He whinges, but I

know he is lying, maybe --


that's rather funny.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango IV

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Bea Rae Jun 2024
Fate has decided

To make us nothing more than

A distant memory
Bea Rae Jun 2024
Loving you broken me
Yet I still find myself
Missing you
Bea Rae Jun 2024
Maybe, you are right.
Maybe, I am why you cannot love yourself.
Maybe, I am the problem.
Jeremy Betts Jun 2024
The words you spoke to me,
What feels like a century ago actually,
Still haunt me
Mocking me constantly
The rabid hostility
The unbridled brutality
Back then that's all I could see
At the time I was only capable of being angry
It took twenty plus years for me to finally
Recognize it for what it was, a difficult piece of honesty
From a friend I called family, and I'm not one to use that term lightly
But now you're no longer here to hear my apology
So I say my sorry
And hope it catches up with you eventually

©2024
Bea Rae Jun 2024
I pray that you get

Everything you want in life

And heal your toxic traits
Bea Rae May 2024
My wish for you

May you never have to hide

Your story from others
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