(729.) Take Take Take 03/27/07
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Just because you like it
Doesn't mean I will
Just because you need it to live
Doesn't mean you should take it from me
I will gladly give all I have
if you only ask
But realize that what I have
is for everyone
You can have as much as you need
But please think of others

(730.) Such Heavy Hearts
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She spoke
Of pain unincumbered by thought
I felt her words
And buckled under their weight

(731.) Lucidity
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I want to close my eyes
Then bleed into your memories
Touch each finer to my thumb
Recounting every moment
Anchoring every thought
To an emotion
An emotion I no longer feel
But in my dreams

(732.) Cesspool  04/08/07 ? - 12:33 AM
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There's a disease inside of me
Correction
I am a walking cesspool of diseases
Not because I am frivolous in my partners
Because my father was
Probably becaue my mother was uncareful
But I finally,
don't blame them
I sit here and accept
that blaming them won't make it go away
oh I realized that long ago
but never accepted
I'm not going to heaven
I'm not going to hell
I will not cease to be
I will not be reborn
I will live forever
In every little thing I touch
In every word I scratch out
God damnit I will
but
but
my name
I will attach it to these works
And I will be vain
Accepting this praise
I wish I could use the excuse of being
merely human
but pinning blame
will do me no good
I forgive anyone
who earnestly asks for my forgiveness
A lot of good that will do them
My words are useless
my thoughts worth no more
than another man's
my pains no greater than any other's
For we are better than this
and we shall learn
and correct ourselves
work towards the future
Start taking responsibility
Accept the sins of those before us
Stand strong
Heads held high
We shall walk into the future
I am a walking cesspool of hope
Correction
I have hope in us.

(733.) The Wall 04/12/07 10:27 PM
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She
standing such as a rock
battered by the sea
Held her ground

He
Beating away at the wall
that imprisoned his people
Was cracking her defenses

I watched them debate
over trivial matters
That spawned more
more
more
personal attacks

The wall fell
and crushed all those that fought it

(734.) Grim Fate We Have Here, No?  04/12/07 10:29 PM - 10:35 PM
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Black empty eyes
Light red makeup spewing forth from the darkness
skin
or lack thereof
pale as bone
soft as wind
skinny fingers
grasped firmly
a scythe
edge curved
leading to
sharpness
accuracy
division
splitting even the atoms around it
long legs
to carry the weight of the world
as far as it need go
from
heaven
to
Earth
from
end
to
end
He reaped
Not souls
but will
men lost
in their own
self-defeatings
self-acctualizations
egos
he showed them
what lie
just beyond the door
then told them they'd never make it
out
in
anywhere
they were stuck in that quagmire
of life
patterns repeated
souls to free themselves
and the grim man
was not a reaper
but a preacher

(735.) Happiness is a Choice 04/16/07 1:31 AM
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"Happiness is a choice."
(A.) But
(B.) which
(C.) one
(D.) is
(E.) it?

(736.) I'm Too Young For This Shit  04/16/07 1:34 - 1:35 AM
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I broke it
I picked it up
and it crumbled between my fingers
it's ashes shifted through my palm
I just stared in disbelief
I have destroyed beauty
is there no greater crime?
I'm not ready for this
responsibility
she trusted me
I'm too young for love

(737.) Teacher's Bed 04/11/07
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He taught us of his ways
And he spoke in a gentle tone
His thirst for knowledge
Was beaten only by his love
of teaching
As if every new thought
Spawned seven more
That he had to share
It was like a virus
On his death bed
he spoke gently
as he asked us questions
"Teacher even when you are frail and dying
you thirst for more?"
There is always more to learn.
As teachers,
our ultimate hope
is that students will continue learning
Always.

(738.) This Poem Is Horrible 04/11/07
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The method of our teachers
Working towards the goal
They must treat some as equals
And others as superiors

The method of the students
Working towards the goal
They must treat some as equals
And others as superiors

Never look down your nose
For you'll see nothing but
a mirror

(739.) Believe in Yourself 04/11/07
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Your religion
It seems to be the natural law
Am I right?
It destroys your ego
I've seen it countless times
I climbed the mountain of Maslow's needs
And I held my hand out to you
I pulled up
But your religion dragged you down
You say you are worthless
Give your life unto the lord
Believe in what you want
But please,
Believe in yourself

(740.)  Statistics 04/16/07
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I've collected all the data
Found your Z*
Calculated the standard deviation
made clear the true population proportion
Alpha is at .01
And I can tell you with
a 99% confidence interval
You suck

(741.) Horse 04/16/07
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You say you're a stallion
Long mane like black beauty
Hung like a horse
Well,
I talked to your ex
You're a coward
Your beauty is weathered
and dissapears when you get close
And you're hung like
a pony

(742.) Crap 04/16/07
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You smell of it
You wreak of it
You open your mouth and excrete it
You are it
You live it
Breathe it
Fucking sleep in that shit
Yet you have a point
But I'll just be ignorant
Smell you
Instead of getting
To know you

(743.) Expectations 04/16/07
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If I don't dress nicely,
why should I expect you to?
You get back what you put in.
That's why I don't expect a goddess
I'm undeserving of beauty
But is it wrong of me to dream?

(744.) Tree 04/16/07
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it dropped a thousand acorns
that all rolled down the hill
not every one made it
but the few that did
hated their father
for leaving them at the bottom
of life

(745.) School 04/16/07
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Each day we came
Each day we prayed
To all the Gods
of the modern age
Hail logic!
Hail Science!
Trully God is here!
And we are studying in him
Nay
We are becoming him

(746.) Peanut 04/16/07
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she shriveled up
in the corner
scared
and ashamed
to see the outside world
when society boiled her for reality
she was too
small
and frail
She just hid in the corner

(747.) Truth 04/16/07
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You speak a thousand lies
But you know them as truths
I speak a thousand truths
But you know them as a lie
Who's the liar here?

(748.) I Give Up 04/16/07
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The flag has flown
The wounds fresh
Filled with salt
Morale is low
My head is lower than hell
The pain greater than God
And I'm done
So why the fuck do you keep attacking?

(749.) Calculate 04/16/07
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Cold
Scanning
This has all been done before
So he tries something
He tallies the choices
And pulls the trigger

(750.) Washing Feet 04/19/07 10:03 PM - 10:05 PM
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There's a river in my heart
And it's running dry
No one comes to drink of it
No one really cares
Trash lines the banks
Washed up from upstream
It all leads to the ocean
Where it's just lost
Lost on all those other hearts
Who could care less
But someone comes by every so often
Picks up the bottles
Dips in their feet
And thanks God for me being there
My rapids still go strong
Just so I can wash your feet

(751.) Wink Away 04/23/07 12:15 AM - 12:16 AM
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Ah, it would seem the heavens parted
lowered to us an angel
Who winked
And somehow melted away our worries
Push on

(752.) A Single Idea 04/23/07 12:15 AM - 12:37 AM
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He came
With an idea
He planted it firmly in fertile ground
He cut a piece of his heart
And wrapped it round the seed
Others came to water it
To mend it's leaves
To marvel in it's beauty
They hung their ornaments on it's branches
From the moment it was strong enough to bare them
They took comfort in it's shade
and ran their fingers along it's trunk
feeling every indention
Speaking of every carving they made
But who's tree was it?
The man's surely!
He provided it's womb
it's fetus
it's birth
no no no
The first people surely!
They made sure it grew right
protected it from the weather
shielded it from the axe of fate
guarded it from the world
no no no
It was those that came later!
Sure,
the others grew the idea
but they left it to be tended by those after
who swung from it's branches
long before those of the modern age
who first carved their names upon it's coat
who made sure the tree kept growing
But what about those now?
They helped the hope grow back
Because in their fighting
They never noticed the idea dying right next to them
It's everyones
Those
who guarded it
lost control of
those
who abused it
And did nothing better than blame the others
Let us band together
Work side by side
And bring springs gentle rays
To wash over
To drown out the apathy that poisons its' roots
To make better
What we all made worse
There will be an idea
Firmly rooted in the ground
To show those that came before
To shade all those that are here
And it's fruit shall feed those who come after
Now if you'll excuse me
I must tend to my obligations

(753.) Anyone?  Anyone At All? 04/25/07 3:27 PM  - 3:33 PM
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DOES ANYONE SEE WHAT I SEE?
Or am I truly blind to the facts around me?
I must be to have so many people disagree with me.
I want to help so much
I was called a hypocrite today.
Is that what I am?
What does it take to prove what I believe to be true?
I thought time would do that.
Does it truly require that I starve myself to near death?
That's how Buddha got his original disciples.
I can do that
I don't want to though
I want to enjoy my life
just as much as they do
But they have power in their numbers
All I have is my voice,
What my soul tells me is right,
And a mountain of work ahead of me
I don't want to harm anyone
I respect everyone's choices
They just won't respect mine
It's so sad
Man will not learn at times lest he is repramanded
I do not want to crack any whip
But you keep making the wrong choices
Am I really as mature as my elders say I am?
Or am I just as immature as everyone else
Too blinded by youth to see it
I hope I'm not mature
I hope I'm wrong
It would sadden me so greatly if so many are truly wrong

(754.) It Won't Make It Go Away 04/27/07 12:29 AM
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She looked in her reflection
And show someone else
She kept brushing her teeth
Ignoring the stranger she recognized.