What My Father Never SaidAs a child You rely on adults to tell you how the world is run- And it’s good advice mostly- But just once I wish one had leaned down and murmured in my tiny ear:What My Father Never Said
Introduce your tongue to your teeth and let them make love until you taste the sweet water of a word, run the back trails behind the supermarket at night, scratch your name into the downstairs banister, lie on the carpet until three in the morning, trying to turn the ceiling to sky.
I always heard “be good”, “Be careful” and ”be fair
Meditations on AmericaFrom my birthMeditations on America
I have been steeped
In America, bathed In America, been told
To rise and pledge love to America
But no one ever told me- What is “America”? I cannot find it
in those seven letters
I have not seen it Have not heard or tasted Or touched it
I only know what it is not- It is not the quiet army
Of Coke bottles waiting at attention
On store shelves, nor The rousing advertisements
That promise a bright future To a boy who will drown in blood;
It is not men with hungry
EnoughI see your dress whisperEnough
with your thigh I see the quiet ache of waist
into hips, Your arms stretched
against your sides and I taste remorse.
You sing with your body, You move to the silent symphony Of the earth In dress, in hips, in arms that swing You hang from my mind Like an icicle From a rooftop.
You harmonize so sweetly with my coffee cup And so precisely match the melody of the railroad tracks in the backyard that for a moment I believe
you sing the song that I have heard drifting through my window
Hurrumph
Awestruck
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Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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The elixir is hidden in the poison. -Rumi
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"No matter what life brings your way, live with it, live through it, but most importantly .. live in it." - Missy ClarkAvatar made by ~chicledemelom
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You're the jester of this courtyard with a smile like a girl's
Noelle!!!
I got a new deviant
I found you Noelle<3
Can you guess who this is?
I'm tall, really tall.
And I'm from PAW.
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You're the jester of this courtyard with a smile like a girl's
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaha.... [/seizure]
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You're the jester of this courtyard with a smile like a girl's
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