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Many lives you passed through
During the journey of your own
Touching each one (loving)
In each one leaving
A little of yourself
This work by Preston C. Edwards is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Stars made of glass crash
to the vast valley of valuable
conscience
is valuable
conscience
is valuable
conscience
is valuable

A man made of sand handles
the stars as he departs back
to the animal subconscious landscape

The electric ape dancing
the chances are the chants are
enhancing
prosperity
enhancing
prosperity
enhancing
prosperity

As the fire serpent hisses
the wishes of the kid is to
unconditional love
unconditional
love unconditional
love

Stone dragons drag and throw
rocks from within our bodies
to stop the sorries

A thought born tomorrow
is fed food thrown by moonbeam crows
singing songs of whispered wisdom
whispered wisdom
whispered wisdom

Celebrating townsfolk
cook a joke atop smoking
brooks writing books of the day
the glass stars came...
When reality is met we find our need to forget enlightenment,
We would rather run,
Then stay and battle our own resistance,
For some, survival is effortless,
Seeming so simple and serene,
But some are left to fight,
For if they do not they will fall,

The bottom you reach is empty,
A sad and lonesome place,
Yet the top is out of reach,
And could never hold your weight,

Beauty is in the eyes of every beholder,
But when the eyes meet yours,
Nothing feels colder than being incomplete,
Like an electronic gone obsolete,

Tis a shame how one must hold this weight,
The weight of your heart heavy with fear,
Useless and discouraged for no tangible reason,
The way you feel your mechanisms have been set,

You look in the mirror again,
Put on that face,
The strangers face,
The monster underneath that you cover for,
Secretly speaking in a tone that is dull,
    “Your nothing but baggage,
       A game that will never be won.”
For the happiness is on the out side,
Surrounding everyone but you,
In this sphere you stay encompassed,
With only one,

Consideration you must take,
For with your end all hearts would break,
Unannounced to you,
You matter,

Amidst this world of clutter,
Caring hearts are slow to say,
Appreciation not easily shown,
A thread barren heart that can not be sown,

Though your childhood was stolen,
Your future must we mend,
You must re discover,
Your Gods master piece,
Just waiting to be uncovered.
Dedicated to my dear friend Spencer
To your can't, I say won't,
and that's fine, love. That's fine.
To your try, I say don't,
and that's fine, love. That's fine.
To each failed attempt,
I say wasted ambition.
To your look of confusion,
I say you wouldn't listen.
To your heartfelt regret,
I say no need, it's fine.
I felt loved for a while
and that's mine, love. That's mine.
sometimes, mama would cut
willow spruces while summer blinked
and with each eyelash it torn,
i swear a piece of her apron
just disappeared, too.

then there were splitting ends
of cut-off stories, words in
snippets, laid in tragedy
with no sunset or
whatever the hell it is

i grimaced at books,
at glossy illustrations

and dawn's the vagrant tear,
evaporated into blisters.
I really feel like
This abandoned Mountain Dew bottle
On the side of the road
Perfectly captures where I am in
My life right now.
 Nov 2011 Der Ganzumsonst
Waverly
It's a cool place to meet.
25 cent wings.
Nice, tiny booths
Lit by tiny electric lamps
In the guise of candles,
That give everything a nice, golden glow.
It's a Corona light,
And Corona-colored light always makes me feel
at ease.

She pulls up in a silver acura.

Gets out of the car and I can
see her ***
from the front of her
as she syrups over.

She’s got on a Black tanktop;
black bra straps showing
against white-pink
puerto rican skin
all while holding up those veritable C's.

Her hips burst against
a
long, beige
d
r
e
s
s,                                                                                
and I'm wanting to slide my hands all the way up her shirt to that black bra, and snap it off.

We have conversations about feeling older than
eighteen
and twenty-one
respectively.

Our lips are saucy
and oily. Tiny chicken scraps
can be felt in our teeth.

"I just started reading Starship Troopers."

"Yea, I love that movie."

I've never seen the movie,
but it endears her to me

that she loves it.

"Do you have any plans?"

"Plans?"

"After college?"

I plan on finishing my wings
before you, then I'm hoping
you'll let me hold your ****.

"Not yet."

"You know I've read some of your poetry."

"What do you think?"

"I like it," She smirks,
uncomfortably.

She ladles a wing in a slick of sauce.

"Truthfully, it was too much for me,
you really shouldn't talk about things like that."

She brings the wing
to her lips
and smacks it down
with a loud ******* noise
of a working, pink tongue.

I’ve wanted to hold her **** ever since I met her.
Now I’m lost.
Because she’s got black eyes
and I’m not even thinking about her **** or her bra.


I start thinking about how white her teeth are,
and how much two people can never know about each other.
 Nov 2011 Der Ganzumsonst
Waverly
I actually tried that poetic
Rico suave **** with a girl.
We were both naked
Lying in bed, her messing with the hair
On my chest and me lying there
Trying to come up with an excuse
as to why she couldn't stay
or why I had to leave.

I like her enough,
but the way
she looks at me,
she's inviting something bad.
She's so lonely in her eyes.

She twirls one hair in a pink fingernail
and looks up at me.

She says to me:
"Give me some poetry."

I says to her:
"You've got green eyes like the Mediterranean, I think I could mine
something out of you, your eyes are just that full of something beautiful."

It sounded fake
and corny as **** coming out of my mouth.


I hated her for even asking me
To sell out like that.

But she smiled a hungry,
ravenous smile, because she hadn’t had love
or even flattery
In a while and she was
hungry for that kind of poetic
Hollywood *******.

I'm a sucker for
girls going weak for me,

and me going even weaker for them.

It's a form of humiliation
and a bad way to end something good
like we had.
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