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FillI fill your shoes with the words of souls so you might crush themFill
like tissue-paper
under your feet and you
walk
all over my mind the way I step into your mouth.
Your tongue is unwelcome here, and breathless lips waiting for silence breathe the words into the dark and deep.
Curls of thought trail over restless hands and lie between faded gums, Unfurls into my throat and hangs my head in shame with the soft pressure of a gun.
I fill your shoes with my heart beat like the fragil
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A Rose by Any Other NameIn a white hospital bed, pale as the lifeless bones of a decaying skeleton, with my flesh exposed through the backless dress of my hospital gown, I listen to nurses discuss my mental health. I can taste the quiet tap of a pen on paper and their tiny smiles of contempt.A Rose by Any Other Name
Shame comes in waves. It’s not like a scalpel or the cold touch of a surgeon’s hand. They never tell you that it can eat away at your insides like a virus. (That it eats you alive). Shame is not a symptom of the mentally ill. It’s just a side effect.
In my creased hospital dress, I wish for death. The sweetest sleep away from detached, g
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Trains and WineA sign in the window in soft words "Suicide is not the answer. Believe you are loved."Trains and Wine
On the train home I read Sappho and drink wine, her paper words dripping into my soul fluttering like birds. I breathe in the dark, underwater the silver spoon.
and here are well-known lips delicately drowned smooth bruised skeleton bones white across red-scarred hips. and slowly we emerge from the tunnels of shadow and into the light.
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- Current Residence: Canada
- Interests: photography, writing, and books. lots of books.
- Favourite movie: girl, interrupted; thirteen
- Favourite genre of music: bright eyes, death cab, goo goo dolls, sufjan stevens, hollywood undead, tokio hotel
- MP3 player of choice: iPod Chromatic
- Tools of the Trade: Nikon D60
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Don't let ignorance win; let love. -- Nancy Garden
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. -- Ayn Rand
To live is to fight. -- Peach-Pit
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Thank you so much, dear! (:
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