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 Nov 2024 Jill
King of Limericks
From an ego that can’t be surpassed
The star-spangled insults are cast
So vote for the hooligan
Make this place cool again
Just like it was in the past
 Nov 2024 Jill
Sia Harms
My hesitancy
Is a china cup, held
Aloft delicately, my
Pinky extended
As if it held
All the timorous
Hope of childhood
I've refused to
Keep with me.
 Nov 2024 Jill
Carlo C Gomez
What the birds overheard

From death to passwords

Migrated to tract housing

Became postage on a slow moving envelope

Somehow ended up as a flag on the moon
 Nov 2024 Jill
Nobody
...
 Nov 2024 Jill
Nobody
...
I sit at the table
While a different part of my brain
Tells me that I can't eat
Or i'll go through more pain

The bullies will come back
They'll hurt me more
I hate my life
I miss how it was before

Why is it so hard to eat
Why is it so hard to talk
Why is it so hard to run
instead of choosing to walk

I don't want to gain weight
I don't want to lose
I wish that whether I eat or not
Is something I can choose

My friends have started to notice
How little I eat….
I don't want to talk about it…
 Nov 2024 Jill
apricot
Infatuation
 Nov 2024 Jill
apricot
A longing, a desire that I cannot deny.
Your smile, your laugh, your every move,
I find myself lost, caught in your groove.

A whirlwind of emotions, a storm within,
I keep my feelings tucked away, hidden like a sin.
But every time our eyes meet, I feel my heart race,
Caught in this secret infatuation, lost in your grace.

I dare not speak of this love I hold so dear,
For I fear rejection, judgement, and the tears.
But in the silence, in the shadows of the night,
I dream of a world where our love takes flight.

So here I am, silently pining away,
In this secret infatuation, where my heart will stay.
Forever in love, forever in longing
I have a crush ****
 Nov 2024 Jill
South-by-Southwest
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Are not your eyes set on the truth

Or do they seek out the illusions
made up from the images of your youth

Have you catagorized the abstract from practical truth

Or elevated your opinions
to be the irreversible truth ?

Where is the lamp that Diogenes bequeathed to you ?

Do you now stumble over the light ,
over false accusations with fingers pointing at you ?

Are they not false prophets
full of wind ?

Whose breath blows out the candles of tomorow
leaving the shadows to strut within ?

Turn the words to fire and let them consume the wooden thoughts

From the dust to the ashes

Salt poured on the lashes

Burn the truth to create

light for the righteous
 Nov 2024 Jill
Casper Lake
Answers
 Nov 2024 Jill
Casper Lake
I need answers like I need air
Answers no one else can give me
No one but I should know the answers
Yet I don't
I scream into the void of my own soul
And nothing screams back

Why do I feel this way so quickly?
Is it just excitement?
Or the door to something more?

Please
Someone
Anyone
Just give me the answers
I so desperately need
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