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used wrote about the word foreign 2 years, 1 month ago
In a world of injustice, where nothing makes sense or works out as planned. My mind lives in logic, and when I wake up from my constructed dream, reality seems so
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used wrote about the word robot 2 years, 1 month ago
My blue plastic watch won’t stop…44 minutes, and I’ve answered two problems out of 8. This is the recurring nightmare, the panic. That does not compute. Helpless in my tin shell.
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used wrote about the word acoustic 2 years, 1 month ago
This is what I hear: the fog, the footsteps, the soggy grass hanging its head. We’re on the edge of something good, why won’t they believe me?
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used wrote about the word luxurious 2 years, 1 month ago
Sometimes I am simply not prepared for these words. I go in with something in mind to write about, something dark and brooding, and what do I get to go off of? Luxurious. How can I write about us cracking, breaking down, the pages and pages of dense, nonsensical reading, the tears and the broken [...]
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used wrote about the word gasoline 2 years, 1 month ago
My hair is wet. What better time to die than as I step out of this shower, dry and warm as I’ve ever been.
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used wrote about the word hysterical 2 years, 1 month ago
I can’t get hysterical anymore. My heart has been twisted and compressed, and now it is a hard little ball, and no more tears can be wrung out of it. I smile now, and you think that’s even worse.
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used wrote about the word severe 2 years, 1 month ago
The sharp edges of “acceptable”, the scars that never, ever fade or warp, but stay jagged and white on our souls.
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used wrote about the word thirst 2 years, 1 month ago
All the time, slightly unsatisfied, but is it really worth going and buying a bottle of water? Always drinking from the tap. It’s so much cheaper, but always leaves you slightly thirsty.
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used wrote about the word alumni 2 years, 1 month ago
What I thought was pretense, hubris, wrinkles, neck folds, wealth. What I met working at my dad’s office was energy, smiles, youth, intelligence…I wish he was still in school.
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used wrote about the word strength 2 years, 1 month ago
The bite of muffin I’m chewing is really the only place I’m getting any strength from. I’m a tree uprooted, groping for family, friends, love, affirmation, vindication, strength. The only thing keeping me grounded is this bite of muffin.
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used wrote about the word audience 2 years, 1 month ago
didn’t I just do this word yesterday? last night? it’s all blending together. no time for capital letters. no time for details. is this C+ work? audience…my professors? my lover? me? is everyone else an illusion, or am i just very very sleepy? am i really asking my dumb, deaf audience for these answers?
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used wrote about the word audience 2 years, 1 month ago
You were my audience. I sold myself to you. I acted.
Now we are one and the same, and it tortures me that I ever spoke to you as if you were Other. -
used wrote about the word approach 2 years, 2 months ago
I had a dream last night that I had gathered mice from Nepal to do experiments on. They were black mice, and I caught them and brought them back to my home. The experiments involved injecting their brains with virus that alters their response to low calorie metabolism. One day I woke up and realized [...]
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used wrote about the word whole 2 years, 2 months ago
With you, I am. Now. The price is that my past must be an empty whole.
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used wrote about the word shape 2 years, 2 months ago
Am I in shape? What bikini best flatters your shape? What fruit shape are you? I’m in some kind of shape. I don’t know if I could do it, knowing the shape I’m in. SHAPE UP
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used is in the house. 2 years, 2 months ago
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