I'm dodging phantoms in the waking world,
In dreams they seem more real, imbued with vital substance & consequence.
If I turn my head top fast my vision lags to catch up,
and everything slides back into dizzy focus - my eyes find your eyes,
and I sense an understanding.
I've walked with rubber legs on a paper sheet,
I've felt my jaw bone broken,
I've breathed in cringing tears,
and someone once told me I was nothing.
If you turn your dog-face grin up at me, I'll pull your choke-chain tighter
If you puff out your chest, I'll burn the air around you
If you catch my twisting hands I'll chew them off
If you deny me I will sacrifice myself to the gods of violence to destroy you.
:) there are so many
:) there are so many beautiful kline sin this yet I feel they are disjointed, lacking their connection to one another, but I cannot put my finger on why they read that way to me, maybe it is because they literally have spaces between them but i don't think thats it
anyways favs are
" If I turn my head top fast my vision lags to catch up"
"I've walked with rubber legs on a paper sheet"
Much Love
Ashley
yeah, a lot of my stuff feels
yeah, a lot of my stuff feels disjointed, even to me. guess i have to work on my flow, but at the same time I try to write my thoughts down as they happen, so I guess it has to do with the way I think lol.. thanks for your comment
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:) or maybe disjointed is
:) or maybe disjointed is yiur style and you don't need to work on flow
Much Love
Ashley
Where do you work? (I'll make
Where do you work? (I'll make sure I never apply!!)
j/k. i like it. It really goes crashing into a fast and furious end. certainly makes a point!
...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "
well, I work at a paper mill,
well, I work at a paper mill, but I guess I just had some pent up stuff swirling around. thanks for the comment :D
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I actually just got a kick
I actually just got a kick out of the fact that you work at a paper mill. I'm in the printing business. :)
Oh, and the poem... It made me laugh with the choke chain bit.
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haha yeah, I can't disclose
haha yeah, I can't disclose the company I work for, but their name rhymes with "georgia-pacific"
i worked in newsprint for a while as well, both in the pressroom & in pre-press
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Hahaha!! Awesome. I'm
Hahaha!! Awesome. I'm pre-press. It's fun, but I'm kinda over it. Welcome to PP! Nice to meet ya. :)
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hey thanks! yeah pre-press
hey thanks! yeah pre-press got old pretty fast, especially after the fourth or fifth thousandth editing mistake you catch ;P thanks for the welcome
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We still run 2 color presses.
We still run 2 color presses. Ha! Dinasours. We're old school. Still stripping film. LOL. What we do here is a dying art...
I lookforward to reading more of your work. :)
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