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Lowercasemmmmmm

Lowercasemmmmmm

the sweat of my stupidity

they lied to me at school
I got told the world was my oyster,
upon leaving school I realised
I was allergic to shellfish.
 
they lied to me at school
they didn’t tell of rules and rotas,
and unemployed I theorised
Inane logic of the openly selfish.
 
they lied to me at school
and said I had a choice,
Its all the illusion of babble
a choice made without consent.
 
they lied to me at school
telling me grades mattered,
those grades now feed no one
sweat of my stupidity feeds my kids.

(2014)

Lies told by teachers

Altre opere di Lowercasemmmmmm...
loss

At the heart of loss Lives a gory malcontent Petulant and peevish Though, believes all is his to ven… Tardy and resilient
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tonight my mouth

Tonight I ran my mouth away Its rabid dogs, the leash strainin… Saliva rippled pools akin to acid,… Words with the lust of a vampires… Tonight I ran my mouth away
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too big a price to pay

down the dark hallway dull light through it glimmers, pure, an ebony smoke plumes fume into forms and shapes, a spinning mass of fear
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a hopeful death of your resurection

I didn’t want to feel that stabbin… that knee falling drag that suffocating wilt of isolation that wan face obscuring the door h… words of few need not a rehearsal
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the bully

must we play this game everyday dragged down to the floor with you… your lonely egos frail apparel is that cloak you’ve woven from yo… its like being back at school, I h…
frankenstein's wishbone

this love dies freely and it dies… two broken cadavers can never hold… when meaning is a carried cross be… there’s none but filigree around t… your monster was created in semaph…
the remnants of her linger still

a radio, a torch and a can of hair… some toothpaste, a naan bread and… an egg timer, an i-pod cover and s… the remnants of her disorganisatio… a scented candle, a full and empty…
blasted for a voice seldom heard

And I suppose its a lachrymose re… one where I’m on bended knee apolo… that funeral dirge still smarts my… from when the ground shook, though… And my head ached from your banshe…
the werewolf ballerina

spinning and spiraling eyes closed and nose towards the c… she can transform at will with her outstretched claws honed, catching and scraping the paper
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lay preacher

with a face full of intermittent b… your mouth resembled a piano keybo… like headstones in an old cemetery suffering terribly with subsidence… and as you stutter and stammer
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rage

recoiled from a verbal picnic acid tongue fatigue sets in gestures replace utterance easier to mouth words unsaid
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the heart of a peaceful warrior

Fists, feet, elbows and finger tip… Swords, pole and all weapons known The warriors arsenal an affront to… Knees, insteps and heels eat the s… Calm violence an explosive dichoto…
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the wind

If I run fast enough against the… Maybe my body will be lifted Turn me into a human kite And soar above the world, its desp… If I run fast enough against the…
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day by step

Each day, every step Takes more strength than my world… And I can’t cry, Seeds planted ne… A longer breath held as the leash… Accolades of ghosts ago
what dragon lies

this wooden mould of a decaying ma… this cloak of splinters encasing m… should be no reminder of a loyal c… of the boy to man I used to be, my eyes no more from daylight hide



Alto