your gear is nothing like mine.
your bottle of vodka is nothing like mine.
and neither is your heart.
michelle
Uphill. The battle is so easy when you can simply change gears on your bike and go. But the one-gears, the types that don’t shift, those are the battles that only the strong can take. The ones like the red bike with the horseback riding reins criss-crossed across the handlebars, Spartacus.
Cari
i gear you. yes, now you’re upgraded with mine.
d.s.
She stepped on the gas and changed gears.
She needed to go faster.
There was no way she was getting stuck here again.
She turned the radio up to drown out the old engine.
This piece of shit couldn’t go much faster.
Frustrated with the truck, this town… herself.
She sighed and grudgingly slowed down.
Getting out at a snails speed would still be
better than killing the engine and being stranded.
Morgan
A haiku
My mind keeps racing,
The gears in my head will turn,
Even when broken.
alexis (better this time)
gear is like what you wear. or maybe it’s like a gear on a machine. you know, the big round ones that turn alot? well, they can be like gadgets. or clothes. or like medical gear. ok, it’s like somtething you wear or need.
alexis
I put on my gear and dived into the water.
I blinked, and fish rushed by me.
An amazing experience I only had one chance to do before my time in this world was up.
I was dying of cancer.
I would be gone so very soon.
I dived deeper into the water and looked around.
So beautiful.
So lively.
Meg Storer
gear is something that spins in my head
gear is something I dont want to stop
gear is something that pushes me …
the gear is something that has to be lubed with coffee .. coffee … coffee
well ia want coffee
Tom
in and out of trandmision, so it always gooes with my an my direktion. I follow and am an follower, to keep up with me
per
I am the gear that turns this glorious morning.
Turning, turning not grinding, for I am well-lubed, but flowing with the precision of a Swiss clock.
Alex Baranosky
Machines clicker and clack while the cogs and wheels turn. Oil drips all over the place and dust grinds through the exhaust. Nothing is silent. No life, no peace. Nothing but noise and movement. Mechanics of an era before.
Dax
I am geared towards incentive. Geared towards change of myself, my awareness, my attitude but still something follows me. His voice in every step and him in every place i turn i can’t escape. he will hold me back from everything that is suddenly going right and i don’t know how to stop a memory.
S
We had just gotten done with our 15 mile hike in, we took off our gear and started making camp. That night we went to sleep and when we woke up all off our gear was gone!
avery stanton
We strapped on our gear and prepped ourselves for the journey. I checked my bag for extra ammo: no one knew what lived in those hills, and I wasn’t about to learn the hard way.
“You ready?” Pete asked.
“Always,” I responded.
What a cheesy response. Whatever. Let’s go.
We head out.
Timmy
It is partially cut off, it is also in black print. In bold letters, all lower cases.
Crippling rotation. Infatuation with a consistent duration of complacent displacement.
nightshine
i packed up all my gear and started my trek across america. knife, jacket, and the prayer card my best friend got me in israel. here i was a modern day character in a jack kerouac novel except, i am not a character and its not a novel and my mom misses me and my friends miss me and i am in mississippi with a mennonite family basting turkeys for fun.
elvira
bicycles are fun and are turning its gears richard gear is a classmate and is an actor from the movie “titanic” gears of war the video game!
tara
gear gear gear.
I think hiking and adventures i think mountains and good fun. camping traveling the world. just living life. all from a simple word. haha gear.
courtney brown
Gear. G-e-a-r. Rhymes with hear, deer, fear, near, pier, leer, steer. I’d say it’s a pretty unexciting word. ‘Gear makes me think of bikes and camping trips.’ Get in gear!- they tell me. How does one do that, exactly?
Kari
he took his gear to the mountains
which gear? what was he doing?
Mountain bike gear, the gear in the wheel, he was wearing his gear, which included his helmet and his shoes.
The rest of his gear was in the car, his repair gear in case it broke down
Danielle VanSuchtelen
geared towards another night of the virtue that is idulgence that I am…
R. Will Hektor
I used to clean so many gears on bicycles I could do it with my eyes closed. Hell for the most part I only road a single speed, and yet somehow I was always able to beat them. Maybe it was the bike and chooseing hte right gears…
Peter
camping in the woods smoking and eating too much the beach so close so far want to pet the dog but it’s so far away I have no idea where I will sleep but it is going to be cold
monkey
I seriously did not understand this.
Gokul Anand K
This thing turns in me and I don’t know where it came from. It turns yet, won’t stop, and I hate it. It keeps me going, keeps me moving, even when–nay–especially because I don’t want it to. You move me.
Jason M
Oh dear,
you said your gears hummed and shattered in abuse
at the lack of me
myself
and
I
But honestly,
sometimes,
I think that I hate to be in love
Because my heart no longer flutters at the thought of you
It just pulses,
Inflamed and sore
no one important
i’m put into gear for the holidays…then i’ll gear back down from overdrive when school starts back up…set on the cruise and let the semester fly by…
tia
I love to gearshift. THe feeling of the friction point as i gently downshift or upshift is the best, like eating honey on a saturday afternoon while watching ol d reruns of the power rangers. Who knew that Drew carrey would be such a hit in japan? They love him over there and his gears. Oh shit im running out of time i don-.
Raisotar
Gear, like gears of war, that video game, which is not something I’d like to talk about, or maybe the gear that you’d need to climb Mount Everest, which is something I should maybe do instead of playing video games like Gears of War. I think I’d rather try to get out and do something with my life, something important and grand I can brag about at three-course dinners that I can afford only because of my sponsorships from Nike and Exxon for climbing Mount Everest.
Andrew
I picked up all of my hiking gear and got back on the trail. I had to leave my friend behind, and get back to the life that I had waiting for me at home. My husband would start to worry if I wasn’t home to make his dinner. As I left, I looked back at Abigail, with her leg cut off. I kept walking.
Emily
you stink like athletic gear
karen
We are all gears, aren’t we? Working with each other, influencing each other, rubbing against each other? When one of us breaks, we all break. Since some of us are always broken, we can never work perfectly together, the way we were meant. We can only go on spinning our own gears the best we are able, hoping for the best and praying for our counterparts to be fixed.
Leah
I settled into the gear box, small and indiscreet, listening. The handle next to me loomed like a silent god. I watched the metal around me tick efficiently, the quiet clicking, the voice of the box. The machine speaks. But you do not. Why?
Sarah
click-click-click
clock work turns in my head.
I can feel the gears turning,
but no one’s loaded the ammo yet.
mckayla
The gears turn as i pump my legs as hard as i can. They started to make this noise, it’s just not right but i push through anyway. I’m in my highest gear and I am ripping along mass ave. Davis square is ahead, porter is behind and i’m going nowhere fast. I just need you by my side and you are gone. YOur gears have taken you father then mine will ever go.
clare
the gear she used to knit her wonderful scarves and beanies were simple chopsticks. choptsticks that she took form the store because she couldn’t afford real knitting needles. she needed to knit to be able to live, she needed to sell her wares.
gertie
Something that keeps something else moving or going. Like oxygen to a living creature or oil to a car.
Jasmine Henry
I grabbed my backpack gear and headed out the door. It was heavy on my back and I felt like I needed to get rid of some of it. I took it off of my back and began to pull things out of it. The flap to the top was a blur of blue. I removed my blanket, my pillow, a goldfish, and my tennis shoes. Who would need those? I snapped it back shut and hoisted it up onto my back. I was ready to go. I had my gear.
your gear is nothing like mine.
your bottle of vodka is nothing like mine.
and neither is your heart.
Uphill. The battle is so easy when you can simply change gears on your bike and go. But the one-gears, the types that don’t shift, those are the battles that only the strong can take. The ones like the red bike with the horseback riding reins criss-crossed across the handlebars, Spartacus.
i gear you. yes, now you’re upgraded with mine.
She stepped on the gas and changed gears.
She needed to go faster.
There was no way she was getting stuck here again.
She turned the radio up to drown out the old engine.
This piece of shit couldn’t go much faster.
Frustrated with the truck, this town… herself.
She sighed and grudgingly slowed down.
Getting out at a snails speed would still be
better than killing the engine and being stranded.
A haiku
My mind keeps racing,
The gears in my head will turn,
Even when broken.
gear is like what you wear. or maybe it’s like a gear on a machine. you know, the big round ones that turn alot? well, they can be like gadgets. or clothes. or like medical gear. ok, it’s like somtething you wear or need.
I put on my gear and dived into the water.
I blinked, and fish rushed by me.
An amazing experience I only had one chance to do before my time in this world was up.
I was dying of cancer.
I would be gone so very soon.
I dived deeper into the water and looked around.
So beautiful.
So lively.
gear is something that spins in my head
gear is something I dont want to stop
gear is something that pushes me …
the gear is something that has to be lubed with coffee .. coffee … coffee
well ia want coffee
in and out of trandmision, so it always gooes with my an my direktion. I follow and am an follower, to keep up with me
I am the gear that turns this glorious morning.
Turning, turning not grinding, for I am well-lubed, but flowing with the precision of a Swiss clock.
Machines clicker and clack while the cogs and wheels turn. Oil drips all over the place and dust grinds through the exhaust. Nothing is silent. No life, no peace. Nothing but noise and movement. Mechanics of an era before.
I am geared towards incentive. Geared towards change of myself, my awareness, my attitude but still something follows me. His voice in every step and him in every place i turn i can’t escape. he will hold me back from everything that is suddenly going right and i don’t know how to stop a memory.
We had just gotten done with our 15 mile hike in, we took off our gear and started making camp. That night we went to sleep and when we woke up all off our gear was gone!
We strapped on our gear and prepped ourselves for the journey. I checked my bag for extra ammo: no one knew what lived in those hills, and I wasn’t about to learn the hard way.
“You ready?” Pete asked.
“Always,” I responded.
What a cheesy response. Whatever. Let’s go.
We head out.
It is partially cut off, it is also in black print. In bold letters, all lower cases.
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Crippling rotation. Infatuation with a consistent duration of complacent displacement.
i packed up all my gear and started my trek across america. knife, jacket, and the prayer card my best friend got me in israel. here i was a modern day character in a jack kerouac novel except, i am not a character and its not a novel and my mom misses me and my friends miss me and i am in mississippi with a mennonite family basting turkeys for fun.
bicycles are fun and are turning its gears richard gear is a classmate and is an actor from the movie “titanic” gears of war the video game!
gear gear gear.
I think hiking and adventures i think mountains and good fun. camping traveling the world. just living life. all from a simple word. haha gear.
Gear. G-e-a-r. Rhymes with hear, deer, fear, near, pier, leer, steer. I’d say it’s a pretty unexciting word. ‘Gear makes me think of bikes and camping trips.’ Get in gear!- they tell me. How does one do that, exactly?
he took his gear to the mountains
which gear? what was he doing?
Mountain bike gear, the gear in the wheel, he was wearing his gear, which included his helmet and his shoes.
The rest of his gear was in the car, his repair gear in case it broke down
geared towards another night of the virtue that is idulgence that I am…
I used to clean so many gears on bicycles I could do it with my eyes closed. Hell for the most part I only road a single speed, and yet somehow I was always able to beat them. Maybe it was the bike and chooseing hte right gears…
camping in the woods smoking and eating too much the beach so close so far want to pet the dog but it’s so far away I have no idea where I will sleep but it is going to be cold
I seriously did not understand this.
This thing turns in me and I don’t know where it came from. It turns yet, won’t stop, and I hate it. It keeps me going, keeps me moving, even when–nay–especially because I don’t want it to. You move me.
Oh dear,
you said your gears hummed and shattered in abuse
at the lack of me
myself
and
I
But honestly,
sometimes,
I think that I hate to be in love
Because my heart no longer flutters at the thought of you
It just pulses,
Inflamed and sore
i’m put into gear for the holidays…then i’ll gear back down from overdrive when school starts back up…set on the cruise and let the semester fly by…
I love to gearshift. THe feeling of the friction point as i gently downshift or upshift is the best, like eating honey on a saturday afternoon while watching ol d reruns of the power rangers. Who knew that Drew carrey would be such a hit in japan? They love him over there and his gears. Oh shit im running out of time i don-.
Gear, like gears of war, that video game, which is not something I’d like to talk about, or maybe the gear that you’d need to climb Mount Everest, which is something I should maybe do instead of playing video games like Gears of War. I think I’d rather try to get out and do something with my life, something important and grand I can brag about at three-course dinners that I can afford only because of my sponsorships from Nike and Exxon for climbing Mount Everest.
I picked up all of my hiking gear and got back on the trail. I had to leave my friend behind, and get back to the life that I had waiting for me at home. My husband would start to worry if I wasn’t home to make his dinner. As I left, I looked back at Abigail, with her leg cut off. I kept walking.
you stink like athletic gear
We are all gears, aren’t we? Working with each other, influencing each other, rubbing against each other? When one of us breaks, we all break. Since some of us are always broken, we can never work perfectly together, the way we were meant. We can only go on spinning our own gears the best we are able, hoping for the best and praying for our counterparts to be fixed.
I settled into the gear box, small and indiscreet, listening. The handle next to me loomed like a silent god. I watched the metal around me tick efficiently, the quiet clicking, the voice of the box. The machine speaks. But you do not. Why?
click-click-click
clock work turns in my head.
I can feel the gears turning,
but no one’s loaded the ammo yet.
The gears turn as i pump my legs as hard as i can. They started to make this noise, it’s just not right but i push through anyway. I’m in my highest gear and I am ripping along mass ave. Davis square is ahead, porter is behind and i’m going nowhere fast. I just need you by my side and you are gone. YOur gears have taken you father then mine will ever go.
the gear she used to knit her wonderful scarves and beanies were simple chopsticks. choptsticks that she took form the store because she couldn’t afford real knitting needles. she needed to knit to be able to live, she needed to sell her wares.
Something that keeps something else moving or going. Like oxygen to a living creature or oil to a car.
I grabbed my backpack gear and headed out the door. It was heavy on my back and I felt like I needed to get rid of some of it. I took it off of my back and began to pull things out of it. The flap to the top was a blur of blue. I removed my blanket, my pillow, a goldfish, and my tennis shoes. Who would need those? I snapped it back shut and hoisted it up onto my back. I was ready to go. I had my gear.