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The neighborhood is gone
Familiar faces
No where to be seen
Portland cements hides
The dusty street below
Progress left its scars
Razed our shotgun house
And poured an interstate..,
The corner gang no more
So precious few
Can be accounted for
They are the ones
Who lie so still and cold
Beneath incongruous slabs of stone
With names of barefoot friends
I used to know

Copyright Louis Brown
 Mar 2015 Saul Makabim
mads
11:33pm
 Mar 2015 Saul Makabim
mads
Maybe I'm ready for the end of the world
Or maybe I'm just impatient.
Today was supposed to signify a magnitude of things;
Mostly our love.
But the suns dancing overshadows what should've been.
I'm waiting for it to be cold again
To once more reflect unshattering icicles
Replacing my heart.
I'm too tired and you're too far away.
This is a waiting game
And I am losing.
I waited 850 something days for this.
I would never
or would I
hard to tell
when it's you
easy to analyze someone on the outside
doesn't need all the facts
a proper conclusion
but from the inside
can't really say
how you feel about the day
or if it even matters
or if it should to you
difficult to know for sure
if the bugs bite for your blood
or because you're already decomposing
so what is it, exactly
which is more accurate
are you alive and thriving
or slowly rotting inside
each step closer
to a less than legendary hault
 Mar 2015 Saul Makabim
Isobel G
I'm clawing at your
skin; digging trenches
between your ribs.
We are destroying
each other. I am
gasping for air.
©Nicola-Isobel H.     09.03.2015
I deserve this
After clawing the earth with my bare fingers,
until ******
after laying down my walls
every bit turned to crumbling ruble
layers beneath my feet I think
I deserve this
after turn and tear and twist,
I think I deserve this.
this space where for once
if I work hard they notice
and I don't have to tote your body around
I'm no longer responsible for your baggage
no longer damaged
and while
i'm sorry for your sadness
i'm still so weary of your madness
and not once has this felt as tragic
as playing your statements in circuits
chafing psyche tell callous ,
I deserve to be softer now
after so many days of rain
I think I deserve to shine
like the kissing sun on my skin
these last few days.
I find it ironic how most dystopian novels are about a utopia
A world created to be perfect because ours failed
A world full of control, uniformity, perfection, no reflection
No identity, no war, no lust, maybe lust. Maybe just lust.
Broken, failed, oh how this brave new world derailed
It's a mishap, a hit and a miss, a world full of "ignorance is bliss"
Hidden from the view,
Or maybe just hidden from you
Oh yes it's quite ironic how the perfect world is ours,
Which we find so imperfect as we stare up at the stars
And wish for a world that we could just be one
Because everyone belongs to everyone
Threw in some Brave New World references. Sorry if it's hard to understand I haven't slept in a while
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