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dialect (Free verse) by skaskowski what do you want from me,
sad, senseless, decrepit sentry?
you dangle from the moulding near
the ceiling like a soggy cobweb
and stare through the darkness.
rich, black velvet sheets slide apart
so that your gaze may fall upon me
while i sleep.
so what do you want from me,
museless monster, useless corner?
i'm afraid i've moved my bed too far away
to feel your saliva fall.
you try to spray it.
dangling smoke molecules coagulate
and block those drops from hitting home.
what did you say to me,
whisper of jibberish,
a strand of senseless syllables
worming through my ear canal?
was i supposed to find great joy
or great sorrow
in your meaningless and souless tirade?
did you expect my waist or hips to bend and pull
my torso toward your lips?
who would you forgive first?
the selfish or the selfless?
and who do you more accurately
resemble?
and could you place a pen to paper
selfishly or selflessly,
what dialect of english
would you ramble?
Up the ladder:
Dale
Down the ladder:
Summers Breath on my neck
Votes: (green: user, blue: anonymous)
Arithmetic Mean: 6.6666665
Posted: October 25, 2005 1:35 AM PDT; Last modified: October 25, 2005 1:35 AM PDTWeighted score: 5.4482355 Overall Rank: 2940 Comments:
Like a bad dream. But the next to last verse suggests God. That's a good verse.
You wanna talk about suggesting God, check this madness:
"U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq"
No, really, consider the question: Who would God forgive first - the selfish or the selfless? Ahd which does He more accurately resemble?
Boring. Okay, I'm bored.
God will more likely admit the selfish to heaven, because the selfish has at least secured the well-being of one person during his lifetime - himself - while the selfless has possibly not done so. For all we know, the selfless killed himself building movie theatres on small tropic islands to show Wes Anderson films to their mystified and disappointed inhabitants. God will most likely FORGIVE the selfless first, though, because the selfless is more likely to be stupid, and stupid people deserve forgiveness. I'm not saying selfless people are stupid, I'm saying if 5% of actually selfless people are stupid, 4% of actually selfish people are. It's all about probabilities. I predict the totally unproductive direction this conversation takes is going to hinge on whether we define selfishness as (1) working for one's own well-being before others' or (2) doing the drugs and raping everybody and stepping on kittens and never working for anyone's well-being ever - i.e., greediness to the point of self-destruction. I propose accepting definition (1) from the start. Definition (2) is for losers and Bushies and doesn't make any sense.
I'm bored too. Let's leave it there.
damn. you guys is crazy.
No, we're bored.
if being bored seems so crazy... damn i must really be bored.
I avoid saying things like 'I'm really crazy, I do some wack shit,' for fear that one day I really will be crazy and doing a shit will be the best and most logical part of my day. Being crazy is biting yourself and wetting your own and other people's pants and being very unhappy (to say nothing of ugly) most of the time, and nothing at all like on movies where all you do crazy is wear goggles in public and cut faces out of magazines and maybe break one window or mirror. My recommendation is that you try hard never to be that way.
Now, really, how can a crazy person become uncrazy by trying? Seems to me that someone so crazy that he thinks defecating is the most logical thing he has done today, (and maybe it is) should lie prostrate before God and plead for salvation.
I never said trying not to be crazy would make an actually crazy person not crazy; I said it's a good idea to try, crazy or not.
Neither did I say a crazy person will think defecating is the most logical thing he does that day. Defecating WILL be the most logical thing he does; but he'll likely THINK pulling out his own teeth (or, for that matter, lying prostate and pleading for salvation) is the most logical thing. That's the part of crazy pretend-crazies don't get.
mmm...1,000...1,500...1,999 soldiers lives...meaningless...now 2,000! That's a number we can get behind.
Of course. And if that doesn't work, there's always this:
"[The] total of Iraqi dead since the American-led invasion is 26,690 to 30,051... A recent analysis [shows] that more than 60 Iraqis were killed daily this year, up from 40 last year." -today's NY Times
If you really cared, you'd be out tramping the streets, finding the damn terrorists in that desert where you live, and going into their mud huts with dynamite taped to your chest.
I'll pass, thanks. I'm pretty sure that's what everybody involved, both sides, thinks he's doing.
What's your solution? "I don't care, so I'm under no obligation to do anything"? 237 view(s)
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PS-You should consider "Arabic".