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December 3, 2013
Soldier by *imaginative-lioness
Featured by inknalcohol
Suggested by goddess-of-ravens
Literature Text
cigarette between his lips,
tar-induced lungs struggling to inflate –
a soldier
(a man)
struggling to make sense
of a war
where men are only equal
when they're dead.
tar-induced lungs struggling to inflate –
a soldier
(a man)
struggling to make sense
of a war
where men are only equal
when they're dead.
Literature
1945 in sepia
the boy called spineless has a backbone
lost in the rubble of hiroshima, his unfettered hands
pulling at maps and photographs.
with worn and radioactive identity, he knows
that the world is a veteran, sick of empathy
& can look massacre in the eye without blinking.
hastily, people will cleanse themselves
of alpha particles and corpses
they did not touch.
history classrooms will suck the marrow of tragedy
unafflicted, passing nagasaki
as another word in a textbook,
pointing at pictures, saying
that’s what you get
when you fuck with america.
he does not blame them.
they have not seen for themselves
the crimson cloud inhaling his o
Literature
autopsy
her spine was cracked down the middle,
her skin unraveled at the seams.
bloated lungs and an emaciated heart filled her no longer moving chest.
her eyes were still open
and her hands stretching for the last thing she ever saw,
though she'd never reached it.
no one knew the exact cause of death,
except the shadow of a boy who avoided her funeral
like it was a plague.
like she was the plague.
Literature
Paper-Thin Promises
the first time I caught sight of your
glistening, marble eyes,
I decided you disgust me.
I hate you the way I hate perfection:
merciless, like the snap of mantis jaws.
every fact of you is pretentious,
held high like you raise a middle finger.
You, the artist, always sculpting things,
tried to squeeze my malleable heart like white clay
and stash it in your pocket to rattle with stones.
paint me an unflinching self portrait, my dear:
this skyscraper of a boy shaking with anticipation
to build and destroy, build and destroy.
you sink in tooth and talon at first mention of beauty,
love-biting Aphrodite as though you were equals.
you're a statu
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Suggested by ~goddess-of-ravens and featured by `thetaoofchaos
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Awesome work!