tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39462690624121127582024-03-13T12:42:48.730-07:00Linguistic Play Area Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-21066432671475915032020-08-18T12:53:00.005-07:002020-08-18T12:58:11.716-07:00Please recycle<p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDzS8kjQ67g/XzwxQnw4r5I/AAAAAAAABGk/N_7F7Zr97lYzyrCxXD_-_uzUGjYpfrkYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s745/Plastic%2Bbag.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="745" height="344" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDzS8kjQ67g/XzwxQnw4r5I/AAAAAAAABGk/N_7F7Zr97lYzyrCxXD_-_uzUGjYpfrkYgCLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h344/Plastic%2Bbag.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Credit: Abrie Fourie</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Ever stared <p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Through a window </p><p style="text-align: left;">While it rains?</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">There’s always a plastic bag</p><p style="text-align: left;">Maybe it’s white, maybe it’s black</p><p style="text-align: left;">But it’s always battered</p><p style="text-align: left;">Ripped in places</p><p style="text-align: left;">Being tossed around </p><p style="text-align: left;">By a wind so indifferent</p><p style="text-align: left;">It seems angry.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">It doesn’t seem to care</p><p style="text-align: left;">That the bag was once useful</p><p style="text-align: left;">A thing of value</p><p style="text-align: left;">Maybe a quid, maybe less</p><p style="text-align: left;">…Something, at least</p><p style="text-align: left;">Something that made someone</p><p style="text-align: left;">Want to take care of it</p><p style="text-align: left;">Because that bag held</p><p style="text-align: left;">Tools or</p><p style="text-align: left;">Books or</p><p style="text-align: left;">Food or</p><p style="text-align: left;">Something invaluable</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like a man holds dreams</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like my mother held me</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Until that bag stopped</p><p style="text-align: left;">Being useful</p><p style="text-align: left;">And it needed to be ditched</p><p style="text-align: left;">Maybe someone even tried</p><p style="text-align: left;">To recycle it</p><p style="text-align: left;">But their aim was bad</p><p style="text-align: left;">So the bag landed </p><p style="text-align: left;">In the wrong bin</p><p style="text-align: left;">And it ended up </p><p style="text-align: left;">In landfill</p><p style="text-align: left;">That’s when the wind</p><p style="text-align: left;">Caught hold of it</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like fate grabs hold of a man</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like love grabbed hold of me</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Now it’s helpless</p><p style="text-align: left;">Doesn’t know where it’s going </p><p style="text-align: left;">Or how</p><p style="text-align: left;">Or why</p><p style="text-align: left;">It just is</p><p style="text-align: left;">Gulls peck at it</p><p style="text-align: left;">Debris pokes at it</p><p style="text-align: left;">Little by little </p><p style="text-align: left;">It loses bits of itself</p><p style="text-align: left;">For no good reason</p><p style="text-align: left;">Stretched till its torn</p><p style="text-align: left;">In all the wrong places</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like a man trying to hold it together</p><p style="text-align: left;">Like this fool, holding on to childish dreams</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Is this why bags are made? </p><p style="text-align: left;">To end up </p><p style="text-align: left;">Molested by the wind</p><p style="text-align: left;">And battered by the rain</p><p style="text-align: left;">Being watched </p><p style="text-align: left;">By a strange man</p><p style="text-align: left;">Projecting his sadness?</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Sometimes, I wonder if</p><p style="text-align: left;">The bag is staring back </p><p style="text-align: left;">Writing these words about me.</p>Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.127758323.197117063821153 -35.284008299999996 79.817584736178844 35.028491700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-36547071332566867852020-02-02T08:23:00.001-08:002020-03-01T12:31:42.870-08:00Sydney<style type="text/css">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They circle me like raptors circle prey</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They bark but never bite</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They swoop but never strike</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leaving me contemplating extreme escapes like</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sleeping and never waking</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or shedding my skin and leaving myself behind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like scavengers, they lie</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For my will to tire</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For my drugs to expire</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For my angels to retire</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They land (I see their silhouettes loom in the corner of my eye)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They creep (I feel their footsteps tingle up my spine)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They growl (I hear their sonic boom bounce around my skull)</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wanna play catch?” Their leader says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What?” I say. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Catch,” it says, “Wanna play it?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You wanna play catch?” </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Boy… you’re a slow one, aren’t you?” It replies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But… aren’t you a monster?” I reply.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We never called ourselves that—you did. We only look like monsters.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“OK… so you’re not monsters?” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nope.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What are you then?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We’re like you—we don’t know what we are. But we’re trying to find out.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I see.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We definitely like playing catch though—we don’t know why. It’s like a weird compulsion.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I get it—we like the smell of our own poop. We don’t know why. No one talks about it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Exactly. You get it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So... the swooping, the creeping, the growling… that was because you wanted to play catch?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yup.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“OK, I’ll play with you. But next time, just ask if I wanna play catch. OK?” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Sure thing, hombre!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stopped calling them monsters </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They stopped circling me like raptors</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We played catch, like happy black dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes, their faces catch me by surprise</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I remember that they look like monsters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I get scared all over again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it never lasts long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because now I know these monsters of mine</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are just like me— </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not good, not bad</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a cosmic accident, seeking an explanation for itself.</span></div>
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<br />Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-56596113794260564662016-12-19T17:58:00.000-08:002017-07-16T08:13:51.629-07:00Time travel is easy... (What we need is a machine that helps us stay put)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I travel through time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1999-2004-2011-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the best times. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s so easy, sometimes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do it b</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">y accident</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mint Royale's getting airtime, sending</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mint air</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waves through the radio</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the smell of halcyon years cuts through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like mint through 3650 sleeps’ worth of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bad breath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s almost like I’m back when...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>It's m</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>y </i>favourite song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back when...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I'm with</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> my favourite peeps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back when...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I am </i>my </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">favourite self. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a moment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favourite moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lasts forever –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m still in love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">With everything and everyone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Always have been. Always will be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Always has-beens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s always back then...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even the rainy days come back singing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nostalgia-drenched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saudade. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I even saw dad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But he's too far back in time to see me…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess it’s kind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of a one-dimensional trip (and I’m kind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of an addict)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The present drops 50 Cent </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the jukebox</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I'm back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking for tips on how to make</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favourite moments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of the hours I have today.</span></div>
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Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-754061832880121012016-05-24T12:30:00.000-07:002016-12-19T18:01:52.205-08:00Slow Down… No One Arrives Late (or “People on the Underground”)<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><b><u>Slow Down… No One Arrives Late (or “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">People on the Underground”</i>)</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I'll never get it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Why are people on the London Underground
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In such a rush to cram into <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A hot, smelly train?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Trying to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Zone out in the baking bowels of Zone 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Camping out next to a homeless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Man’s visibly hairy pits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Is 3 minutes too long to spend <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Waiting for the next train<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Not being agitated and not being <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In a hurry to arrive at death? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">That's where we're going after<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">All (your chances of getting there
earlier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Increase while you ride on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Underground)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Maybe I do get it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Maybe they're excited about dying. Maybe
they can’t <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Wait to hop on and dream about the sweet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535;">Release…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more meetings you have to arrive at
on time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more dead-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Lines for writing that report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more dinner dates you can’t afford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To be late to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more Tinder dates you’re dying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To impress with punctuality and a casual
lack of interest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more TV catch-ups to numb <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The pain (because there’s no pain to
numb)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No more getting to Asda before it shuts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">(Unless you end up in hell –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Because God didn’t give Asda planning
permission </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But Satan d</span><span style="color: #353535;">id)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">No need to keep up with all that </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">eatingmeetingsextingbreathing mess being dead inside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Is hard – being dead is easy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I guess that’s why people on the Underground
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Bad that petite women turn into Viking
pillagers and gentlemen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Turn into silverback gorillas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But everyone gets their turn <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">At death – it's not like we're gonna run<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">out (of time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">maybe. But not out of death)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Maybe if people on the Underground were
to chill out a bit, they’d find life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Becomes so sweet that there’s no hurry
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Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-44718274335206289892015-11-19T02:10:00.001-08:002020-09-13T13:04:15.428-07:00It's OK To Be Sensitive<div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Hey there,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">People will tell you it’s not OK</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">To be sensitive</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">But, it is.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">“Stop being so sensitive...”</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">They’ll tell you</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">To be like them.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">To be so cool that you’re frozen</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Numb</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">To the rocks and insults</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Hurled at you.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Cold, hard and dead to the</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Metal in your back. Full of</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Cold, hard and dead</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Mettle in your heart. Full of</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Cold, hard and dead</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Medals on your neck.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Roll around lifeless</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">As a stone.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Stroll around like the</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Cock of the walk.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Feelings are for wimps and</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Wimps are wimpy</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">(Don’t you know?)</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">But they forget to tell you</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">There’s no anaesthetic for only pain</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">When feeling goes away</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">It goes altogether—</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">You won’t feel the stab</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">But you won't feel the kisses either.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">You’ll still bleed</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">But won't remember</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">How to cry about it.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">It’s OK to be a mountain</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Of a human</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">(Huge, magnificent and impossible to move)</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">If you’re actually made of stone.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">But I’m not.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Are you?</span></div></div><div>
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Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-53465965870556153892015-08-31T12:18:00.000-07:002016-12-19T18:09:23.466-08:00How To Be Confident<br />
<br />
<b><u>How To Be Confident</u></b><br />
<br />
Be fascinating, be irresistible.<br />
Be so intelligent that people wonder<br />
When they’re with you<br />
Why you’re not somewhere else curing cancer.<br />
<br />
Be funny, be the soul<br />
Of the party.<br />
Make people laugh so much that when they think<br />
Of you<br />
They can’t tell whether they love you <br />
Or they’re in love with you.<br />
<br />
Be good-looking<br />
Be trim, be taut, be a tasty bit of crumpet.<br />
Magnetise people so forcefully that they crash<br />
Into you<br />
And all their defences, and all their walls<br />
And all their meaningless fronts shatter.<br />
<br />
Be a winner, be the person at the finish line<br />
Win so much that people around you can afford<br />
To be lazy.<br />
Let them know you’re reliable because<br />
Things always go right<br />
For the lucky folks in your life.<br />
<br />
Be the strong, spotless superhuman you know<br />
You should be <br />
Because if you’re not<br />
People will treat you differently<br />
And you’ll know it’s because they can see<br />
That you’re less than perfect.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-9040008196174588742015-03-09T09:21:00.000-07:002015-03-11T06:49:53.007-07:00Have you ever?<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><u>Have you ever?</u></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Have you ever killed an insect<br />
And felt guilty afterwards?<br />
(His name was Gary and he was a brave spider)<br />
<br />
Have you ever trusted yourself<br />
To go after the thing you want<br />
Instead of the thing you felt capable of getting?<br />
Have you ever done something people told you<br />
You couldn’t?<br />
(Don’t bother… you’ll fail)<br />
<br />
Have you ever decided to go on an adventure<br />
And then stayed put?<br />
(I’m not writing this from Fiji)<br />
<br />
Have you ever secretly thought you were a genius?<br />
(What’s this poem about, genius)<br />
<br />
Have you ever been in love<br />
With someone who didn’t love you back?<br />
Have you ever found true love?<br />
(Is it hiding in Jamaica)<br />
<br />
Have you ever listened to a song that made you cry<br />
And you didn’t know why?<br />
(Congratulations on being soft)<br />
<br />
Have you ever been lonely and told no one?<br />
(You can tell me)<br />
<br />
Have you ever gone to bed angry?<br />
(It’s an excellent strategy for staying awake)<br />
<br />
Have you ever wondered why people write poems<br />
That don’t even rhyme?<br />
(I too spend my time asking irrelevant questions)<br />
<br />
Have you ever been happy?<br />
(Why did you stop, silly)<br />
<br />
Have you ever wanted something too much?<br />
Have you ever held on to something so tightly<br />
That you accidentally crushed it?<br />
(His name was Gary and he was a brave spider)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-88490554012589942262014-11-09T06:26:00.000-08:002016-02-08T10:54:13.485-08:00Bluebird<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<h1>
Bluebird<o:p></o:p></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
there’s a Bluebird in my heart that<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
can’t get out.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
he used to sing songs that <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
only i could hear<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
because i locked him <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
in a cage<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and poured whisky on him<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and choked him with smoke <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and now he’s sick.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
there’s a Bluebird in my heart that<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
can’t get out. he’s<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
too weak to hop<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
too hoarse to sing <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and i’m afraid he’ll die. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
he always tried <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to get out of his cage<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but i would say, <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
have you gone cuckoo, Bluebird? <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
don’t you know <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
this isn’t the time for being pretty? <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
while we’re <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
downing pints<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
or having dinner<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
or at a party trying <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to make small talk with a pretty girl?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
don’t you know <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
normal people<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
don’t hide a Bluebird inside themselves?<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
whenever we were alone<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and i was down or lonely or not so manly<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
i would crawl<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
into his cage<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and Bluebird would sing<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and i would weep<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and feel so grateful that he was there.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
there’s a Bluebird in my heart that<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
can’t get out. he’s<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
sick and i’m worried<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
if he dies<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
no one but i will ever see<br />
that i had a pretty Bluebird living in me.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-67661490924262317522014-02-02T13:37:00.000-08:002014-02-15T02:58:30.101-08:00If Only I Waited<br />
<br />
<u>If Only I Waited</u><br />
<br />
Some things have to be done<br />
slowly<br />
Like watching the setting sun<br />
lowly<br />
<br />
It's the art<br />
Of wanting something so much<br />
You're willing to watch it<br />
disappear<br />
<br />
It's the art<br />
Of wanting something so much<br />
You'll wait to watch it<br />
reappear<br />
<br />
If you're not patient with a sunset<br />
<br />
The vista will exhale simmering breaths<br />
Waves of rising,throbbing heat swaying restlessly<br />
Blurring<br />
Everything along the outline of your skyline<br />
<br />
And your heart will hunger for heat<br />
<br />
The sun will sink beneath distant heaths<br />
Under a blanket of mountains and hills, carefully<br />
Colouring<br />
A margarine afterglow along every silhouetted incline and decline<br />
<br />
And you will not see beyond the despair you feel<br />
<br />
Nature will paint a masterpiece<br />
Of light and shadow<br />
On an endless canvas of radiant space<br />
Just for you, a beauty to know<br />
<br />
And you will walk away before it is revealed.Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-3544109369327195702014-01-07T13:14:00.002-08:002014-01-07T13:16:53.121-08:00If You Must Love<br />
<u>If You Must Love</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<br />
<div class="p1">
I've had a thousand epiphanies about her</div>
<div class="p2">
<br /></div>
<div class="p1">
She loves me, she loves me not</div>
<div class="p1">
She loves me but loves another too</div>
<div class="p1">
She loves me but doesn't know it</div>
<div class="p1">
She loves me but doesn't know how to say so...</div>
<div class="p2">
<br /></div>
<div class="p1">
Each wore the unmistakeable face of truth</div>
<div class="p1">
In the moment of its finding</div>
<div class="p1">
Until the finding of the next</div>
<div class="p1">
Which proved the former face of truth a lie</div>
<br />
<div class="p1">
If you must love, don’t be the first to do so.</div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-88497327560729758802014-01-07T13:02:00.001-08:002018-08-05T04:49:02.869-07:00About Living <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<u>About Living</u><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I think I’m dying<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now that I’ve found the secret to living<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The chiming reverberations
<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of an old, black,
dusty piano<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Travel from trembling
strings<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Struck by hammers <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Struck by fingers <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Struck by a heart<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aching with joy or
sadness <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And moved to speak<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Using notes sad and
blue<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or peaceful and green <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or bright and yellow<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or raging and red<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Because she wore a
dress<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of blue, green, yellow
and red <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That day at the beach
with white sand<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And deckchairs,
sunbathers with tanned skin and half-conquered sandcastles<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where she said she
loved him – but not enough<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or he said he loved
her – but not enough<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And they should have
been happy but weren’t<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And each wondered why
it was so hard to be happy<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In a world so full of
people wanting to be happy<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The grainy feeling of
hot sand between his toes <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As they curled inward<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Away from the anger
and disappointment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On that windy evening when
he was twelve<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And got sand in his
eyes while reading Romeo and Juliet<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On a patio by a dusty
Arabian street side<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Summer’s cool breath
creeping up his skin<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In a trail of
goosebumps and erect hairs<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When he decided that
dying for love was beautiful<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or that there was no
beauty in loving enough to die<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And set his heart
(which was later to ache)<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Towards finding a love
true enough to die for<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or a truth beyond
love, worth living for <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ignorant to the fact
that his heart commanded him and not he, his heart –<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The evening he had
haddock for dinner<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It smelled fishy but
he didn’t know what it was<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How could he when he
had only just learned to walk<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He stared at it,
trying to find the words <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Which best described
the stinging sensation at the ridge of his nose<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whenever he went near
and inhaled deeply<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But his vocabulary was
as limited as his mobility<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, he stretched a
fidgety finger<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attached to a fidgety
forearm<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And the fidgety frame<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of a fidgety infant<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scooped a dollop and
put it in his mouth<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And learned that he
didn’t enjoy the taste of cat faeces<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not unlike the taste
on his tongue<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The first time he breathed
– heard, saw, touched and smelled<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Untainted by the
membrane of his mother’s womb – <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And cried because he
felt everything at once and it was all too much<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When all he ate or
drank was the rich milk of his mother’s breast<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of which he never grew
tired<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Because he didn’t know
there was anything else to savour<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And came to it with
fresh enthusiasm<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Each time it was
presented to him<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As his sole reason for
and means to living<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hearing, seeing,
touching, smelling and tasting<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All too great an
adventure to decline<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Nowadays, I kill my adventures before they’ve begun<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For being too stupid, too dangerous or too childish <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I find my living shrinking<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To fewer and less momentous events<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And my dying, swelling<br />
With the emptiness of all the things I’ve learned not to do</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-8320946936474550702013-11-17T18:14:00.000-08:002014-01-07T13:03:40.948-08:00Parisian Flower<u><br /></u><u><br /></u>
<u>Parisian Flower</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
The Arc de Triomphe<br />
Is white with snow.<br />
The labyrinthine streets stretch into the city<br />
Carrying the footprints<br />
Of lovers finding their way –<br />
Like butterflies walking the long soft petals of a spider lily<br />
Finding nectar<br />
<br />
The steep steps rise<br />
To the Sacre-Coeur and the knights at its walls.<br />
The roads and their cobbled stones joined<br />
Where hearts have been smitten<br />
The roads and their cobbled stones cracked<br />
Where hearts have been broken<br />
The artists sweep their brushes –<br />
Bleeding colours, shadows and blushing cheeks –<br />
Across the canvas<br />
The wind weeps<br />
The singers sing<br />
And the mimes mime silent tragedies –<br />
Like the withering of a rose<br />
<br />
(Somewhere in this city)<br />
From the most saccharine nectar<br />
And Music's most selfless abandon to melody<br />
And Nature's most unrestrained display of beauty<br />
Came you.Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-54952665487284346122013-10-06T13:15:00.000-07:002013-10-06T13:15:38.136-07:00Sometimes, I Notice You're There All The Time<u><br /></u>
<u><br /></u>
<u><br /></u>
<u><br /></u>
<u>Sometimes, I Notice You're There All The Time</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<br />
I think about how the gin<br />
Has left me at the mercy of the night<br />
Bus.<br />
<br />
The kissing couples, crimping cuddles<br />
Pout-faced selfies, trout-faced uglies<br />
Garish giggles blunted<br />
To wispy whispers.<br />
Thank you, Gin.<br />
<br />
I think about how the haze<br />
Might make me forget all the things I should<br />
Remember.<br />
<br />
Someone giving me the eye<br />
A beauty, up for<br />
Killing free time.<br />
<br />
Someone giving me the eye<br />
A loony, up for<br />
Skinning me live.<br />
<br />
I drown in the fog<br />
Lost in Lethe<br />
Looking for questions like<br />
"Who am I? Where am I? What happened to my shoes?"<br />
<br />
I think about not thinking about her<br />
Out of reach but everywhere –<br />
Like the ubiquitous skies<br />
Against which my world is set.Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-6145044770703173492013-06-02T08:49:00.002-07:002013-06-02T08:49:35.726-07:00Something Missing<u>Something Missing</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<br />
The sky is blue<br />
But not blue enough<br />
A faded<br />
Washed out<br />
Almost azure<br />
Almost white<br />
Half-colour.<br />
The overeager sun burned too brightly<br />
And bleached its soft hues<br />
Harshly.<br />
<div style="text-decoration: underline;">
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-35650476730917806852013-05-14T11:55:00.000-07:002013-12-07T08:10:02.919-08:00Overdriven London<br />
<u>(While Being Driven Through) Overdriven London</u><br />
<br />
Neon burns white concrete blue<br />
Without consuming <br />
Glassy rising peaks racing towards<br />
Sheets of violet sky<br />
and sinking crescents hanging in the spaces<br />
Between skyscrapers<br />
Angles and curves<br />
Singing to the eyes<br />
Barren branches with pointed pincers<br />
Sparse but standing<br />
Between rushing street lights and magniloquent maisonettes<br />
Starless but twinkling<br />
Too modern for nature<br />
Historical but futuristic<br />
London sings to the eyes<br />
And trickles into golf courses<br />
Detached five bedroom houses and<br />
Empty<br />
50 centimetre pedestrian crossings.<br />
Reading calling<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-80864062757757333092013-03-17T08:21:00.000-07:002013-05-14T11:43:58.827-07:00A Dissection of Guilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<u><br /><br /><br />Sea Mosses and <em>A Dissection of Guilt</em></u><br />
<br />
<em><strong>[</strong>All he sees in himself is</em><br />
<em>Evil</em><br />
<em>And good can coexist in the same person</em><br />
<em><br /></em>
<em>He will lose his mind if he gives in to these</em><em></em><br />
<em>Obsessions</em><br />
<em>Which spring from remorse cannot be bad</em><br />
<em></em><br />
<em>His actions are the cause of other people's</em><br />
<em>Harm</em><br />
<em>That is self-inflicted is righteous<strong>]</strong></em><br />
<strong><em></em></strong><br />
<br />
They found a corpse <br />
Near the hit and run-on<br />
Lines of ink drawn to<br />
Trace the results of the<br />
Sin<br />
<br />
Autopsy – Cause of death?<br />
They cut him open and found<br />
A heart that was basically<br />
Good but full of pus and<br />
Decay.<br />
<br />
The felon and the victim<br />
Were the same person – one<br />
Living inside the other –<br />
Saint forced to harbour a<br />
Sinner<br />
<br />
Though non-biodegradable,<br />
His conscience had worms<br />
From parts of him that had<br />
Died living in it – alive but<br />
Dead.<br />
<br />
He was a man of the forces<br />
Who fought across waters<br />
To keep foreign vices at bay<br />
So they gave him a burial at<br />
Sea<br />
<br />
How unfair that oceans so<br />
clear and blue and clean<br />
Should be burdened by the<br />
Tiny weight of many little<br />
Mosses.<br />
<div style="text-decoration: underline;">
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-37148746077712792382012-12-16T13:38:00.000-08:002013-05-14T11:44:12.933-07:00He She (Like-God-I-Hate)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>He She</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<br />
She's happy –<br />
Laughing.<br />
<br />
He's watching –<br />
Quiet.<br />
<br />
Her smiling eyes squint.<br />
Deep gusts of air shoot in, then out<br />
As her nostrils flare and close.<br />
<br />
His brows converge<br />
Cramming skin above the ridge of his nose.<br />
He strokes his chin in disbelief.<br />
<br />
Her phone must have<br />
A good sense of humour.<br />
Her left hand grips tightly<br />
and her manly fingers curl over its rectangular edges.<br />
<br />
His phone is in his<br />
Pocket. Waiting to ring (as a phone should).<br />
His hands sit on his lap<br />
And his fingers claw into his thighs.<br />
<br />
She's sitting alone<br />
At a round table in a cafe.<br />
Rain drops stampede against high-tech glass<br />
As clouds drown the sun<br />
And twilight spills over the sky's edges.<br />
<br />
He's sitting alone<br />
At a round table (same cafe she's in).<br />
Angry thoughts rain against her high-tech appendages.<br />
'I should glass him,' he thinks<br />
Of drowning her in her own blood.Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-64564535352432705412012-12-04T16:18:00.001-08:002013-05-14T11:44:31.139-07:00Anticipation<u><br /></u>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<u><br /></u>
<u><br /></u>
<u>Anticipation</u><br />
<br />
<br />
Like the sea <br />
Each moment holds onto<br />
A molecule <br />
Of the next without<br />
Breaking<br />
Never becoming <br />
One <br />
Asymmetrical thing moving with symmetry<br />
<br />
A wave of inspiration rising –<br />
Fizzling with a memory or hope<br />
It carries you alive (though not itself living)<br />
Towards a shore full of things<br />
You can touch or hold – then it<br />
Breaks<br />
Under gravity's mighty pull below<br />
And you're submerged again<br />
Your lungs are clenching for air<br />
Until next time<br />
You anticipate the possibility of being alive<br />
<div style="text-decoration: underline;">
<br /></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-64166242052319036372012-10-17T11:37:00.000-07:002012-12-16T14:21:32.006-08:00Her Last Friend<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US">The sky was brimming with rich margerine
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<u><span lang="EN-US">Saudade<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Few things are as arresting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">As clouds and the shapes they make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Isn't it surreal how they hang<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In a lazy listless lull – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Moving still <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Like ponds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Moulding fancies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Like daydreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Visceral ephemera that almost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Look like things you wish were real –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">A familiar smile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Disguised as floating lather<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or pearly impressions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Of her afro hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Then you reach to touch the sky and realise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That the clouds are never really there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-34761699507641541512012-08-13T15:38:00.001-07:002012-12-16T14:18:43.803-08:00The Colourful Thing<br />
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<u><span lang="EN-US">The Colourful Thing<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The day is filtering by unnoticed, just like days tend to. Face by
face, smile by smile, nod by nod – each moment tiptoes by. The sun (tired of smiling) is slowly changing faces with the moon
(tired of hiding). I'm draining away (like light does with the hours) when I
see the most colourful thing I have ever seen. It is a supernova collage – a
white phosphorous explosion with a rainbow stain. It forces the spectrum of
visible light a little wider than possible and paints pictures the shade of
fantasy. It breathes (swelling to inhale, shrinking to exhale) a dangerously
delightful drug that, for a moment, forces euphoria. I sleep-sigh like I've
found the answer to it all and drool-smile like I don't care I'm an addict. It
feels great. I mean, it's pretty OK. It is a burning obsession – like a nucleus
of daylight eating, from the centre outwards, through thin sheets of night.
Soon night is consumed and all there is left is an unmysterious morning. I
guess this is it. Pretty fun. It's still the best thing I've ever seen. I
wonder what comes next? Is there something more interesting than the most
beautiful thing I have ever seen? What is that most beautiful thing again?
Why did I stop here? Oh shit, it's dark! And everyone’s gone… left me behind.
I've been standing here wasting my life away… Why? I think I saw
something, but I can't for the light of me remember what.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-27695806507470700412012-07-22T13:45:00.001-07:002012-12-17T04:05:20.227-08:00Making Plans<br />
<div class="p1">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u>Making Plans</u></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="background-color: white;">The weatherman forecasted rain</span></div>
<div class="p3">
But I didn't listen.</div>
<div class="p3">
Forecasts </div>
<div class="p3">
Are often wrong anyway </div>
<div class="p3">
(Rain clouds are so angry</div>
<div class="p3">
They never listen to anyone).</div>
<div class="p2">
<br /></div>
<div class="p3">
I'm strolling</div>
<div class="p3">
To a sunny rendezvous</div>
<div class="p1">
When I see them</div>
<div class="p1">
Rushing slowly towards me </div>
<div class="p1">
Like a spillage towards an edge;</div>
<div class="p1">
People usually catch them on umbrellas</div>
<div class="p1">
But today</div>
<div class="p1">
I didn't prepare for rain.</div>
<div class="p4">
<br /></div>
<div class="p1">
Soon the sky gets melodramatic</div>
<div class="p1">
Shouting, flashing and crying </div>
<div class="p1">
(Most likely at the ground)</div>
<div class="p1">
And I'm caught in the middle.</div>
<div class="p1">
</div>
<div class="p1">
Then I stop caring</div>
<div class="p1">
And let the spillage flow over</div>
<div class="p1">
(Like the blue of the sky</div>
<div class="p1">
Did with the grey).</div>
<div class="p4">
<br /></div>
<div class="p1">
It surprises me to learn</div>
<div class="p1">
That heavy rain can be refreshing too</div>
<div class="p1">
Once it has passed.</div>
Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946269062412112758.post-12546112633202326912012-06-24T15:17:00.000-07:002012-06-24T15:17:19.487-07:00Pretty Girls Have It The Hardest<br />
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<u><span lang="EN-US">Pretty Girls Have It The Hardest<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Pretty girls must find it pretty tough –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">You know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Being blind, deaf and dumb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Everywhere they look<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">They see nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Except smiles –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brilliantly blinding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Devilishly dark <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Like startling stars <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Floating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Side by side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(A million miles of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Inky evening skies between each) –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An optical illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Every time they listen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">They hear nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Except flattery –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Sensuously streaming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Deafeningly drowning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Like watery waves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Crashing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">One after another<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">(Sweetly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Submerging <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Terrestrial truths below sea level) –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Something fishy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Everything they say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Means nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Except sex –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Passion pure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Loveless lust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Like thirsty ticks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Biting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Host after host<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Simple slaves to nature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Always at your side) – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Friends with needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Who can tell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Lovers from liars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Being blind, deaf and dumb?<o:p></o:p></span></div>Anikulapohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10146421508524592334noreply@blogger.com0