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The sun hides under a blanket of crust as my brain picks apart what we cannot #fathom. Equations and anxiety replace the letter Z and phantom pain crowns itself everything. #poetry #vss365

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We were an #emporium of losses and loves. With fingers like vinyl, I traced the constellations in your shivering sky. They felt like strobe lights but tasted of cough syrup. The distance grows like God and I miss it less and less yet I still hope you're content, stars and all. #poetry #vss365

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America has congealed into one gigantic existential crisis. The elected elite treat us like plague rats so it's up to us to infect. Broke, we become rich by fighting back! #poetry

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I've always felt like an #outlier, sometimes tolerated but never accepted. I watch friends lay their hearts at my feet and I question if they're made of blood or atom bombs. I need to accept the love they give and not litter our ribcages with rusted question marks. I am home! #poetry #vss365

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I want to walk along the #contours of her spirit. Her voice is a songbird greeting spring mornings and if I could listen daily, I would see my future in the sunrise. I toss pennies into a supernova and wish for her laugh to echo eternally. #poetry #vss365

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I'm tapping at the window of the old trailer in which I lived. I hope they let me in. I hope they don't. The decay is too much for me but sometimes, it's nice to feel accepted in the #interim, rotted roots and all. #poetry #vss365

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Tap dancing on the #fringe of sleep, I ache in my bones, in my brain. The morning squeezes my eyes open and I see hours wasted lying awake, waiting for a mistress of sand to lie down next to me and love me like I could never do. #poetry #vss365

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They want to starve the most vulnerable while force feeding them verse in which they don't even believe. Dying theocracy devours its young but we're not powerless; we are the wave that will wash their filth away. #poetry

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Awash in #sonic blessing, the heart of song beats my sorrow away. #poetry #vss365 #haiku #senryu

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Like #thoroughbreds, we gallop to the horizon with galactic smiles. #poetry #vss365 #haiku #senryu

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crescent moon weaving its way through bare branches #WalesHaikuJournal

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We ate moonlight until we were full and then we ate more. Our blemishes shone in the aftermath of a bad idea. It was all a pinprick on a dragon's scale but it meant everything. We were the burning bush, we were infinity wrapped in the rags of zero. #poetry

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Her sick beds litter our home and yard. She denigrates me for caring, she denigrates me for not caring, she denigrates me... #poetry

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We are nothing but outcasts to those we've elected. Their #petulance drags us by our necks into the filthy womb of past failures. We become the anti-christ against which we rallied and we've done it with an autographed Bible and pockets that are still empty as yesterday. #poetry #vss365

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I'm trying to find that #unbridled happiness in a grain of air. #poetry #vss365 #haiku #senryu

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Wannabe führer drapes the clothes of dead men over his plastic skin. A congress of clones opens their mouths to accept his boot. The county crawls to dark days but we are the sun cracking through.

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Those that thought they cared too little have cared enough and those that thought they cared too much have cared too little. My body contorts into a granite ragdoll and the #reservoir of the universe dries to a barren nothing. #poetry #vss365

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🖋️ “Defend rule of law, reject President's claim of impunity” hit 2,000 signers!

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I wipe away the disdain and ache that fogs my reflection today. In its stead, I imagine a place in which I once sat and lived a thousand pixelated lives. I was a hero in each one and today I am my own, saving my life against the #onslaught one breath at a time. #poetry #vss365

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We took it for granted. Amid the tumult of life - decisions, uncertainty, change - chaos was always happening somewhere very far away. This place offered refuge. No, really, it did. As much as we yearned for ease and peace we were rooted in a safehaven. Once. #vss365 #prompt #safehaven #poetry

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Perhaps one day I'll find every light #displaced by the storms I've held within. My hope is a vagabond that comes and goes as she pleases. Today, she is holding a lantern and beckoning me to follow into the fingerprint of the melting snow. #poetry #vss365

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A pen glides on my blemished soul. Words, both dark and light, erupt in platonic passion. This life has been saved by drowning in ink. I am thankful, I am grateful. #poetry #amwriting

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I'm bored writing pain into the void but it's what I know right now. The world tears itself apart trying to find its meaning when it's been in the water, in the glass the whole time. My vessel follows suit, malfunctioning in subtle ways that add up and I'm so sorry for it all... #poetry

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I'm gonna start doing poetry commissions again! How this works is you'll give me a theme, topic, or prompt word and I'll write you a personalized piece! Here are the starting prices: Micro poem: $5 Longer poem: $8 I accept venmo (@robertjw4688) DM me for inquiries! Thank you! I love you all!

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Bile blooms from my wrist. I prune the damage, trying to mitigate my own armageddon. The #bloodline ends with either a laugh or a sigh. Absurdity grips the wounds and I live! #poetry #vss365

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I think her eyes are like grapevines and I imagine getting entangled therein. With splinted legs, I want to wade through her thoughts and find her pulse in the #complex infinity so I can coddle it in a kiss and tell her everything will be okay in the ignition of her smile. #poetry #vss365

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The world drinks my heart with a Rube Goldberg straw. I stumble towards a safe haven that no longer exists. Society is eating itself and I just want some candy. #poetry #vss365

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I am pestilence wrapped in blemishes. My soul is blind and my parents are glitched sleep. I weep #mercury into my own mouth. I swear it tastes of holy water. #poetry #vss365

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My eyelids drag against a gravel road in a perpetual #chase for peace. My vision is crimson and my rabid spit is yellow. These hands clench around the throat of a ghost before clasping in prayer to nothing for nothing. #poetry #vss365

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On a rusting playground, I imagine between mountains and magma. Cuts and bruises adorn the mind and I don't know if they'll heal into memory or fester into flashbacks. I sometimes daydream of a #liberation where I walk in a steady line but I'm sure I'm doomed to play forever. #poetry #vss365

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We oppress ourselves with every second we're #modest and do not push back. Let our eyes become molotovs and see we deserve better than to suffer under the billionaires' whim. If we spit their sludge from our mouths we can bite through their chain! #poetry #vss365

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I kneel before the universe #unarmed and accepting of the infinite equations equaling indifference. All I can do is try my best to be a rhythm to which kindness can dance. I am flawed, I am water becoming wine. #poetry #vss365

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What do you do when the coping skills cease to work? I've been flying against a #cyclone of my own neuroses for a long time and my wings are tired as grief. Let me flutter to where my screams make sense; my overthinking will run rampant on this world as I hide in a rubber idea. #poetry #vss365

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