| These 2 poems were inspired by the movie "Girl" |
| He shrugs off reality like its a jacket he hits the concrete like an elemental racket he's stoned up doped out crashed and killed he knows he's nothing He's the truest lie you'll ever hear its his eyes you long to be near so you take his promises and store them up your heart is filled with the falsehoods he spills You want to be swept up into his world to live on his island of dreams and forget about how life always seems its the nonsensical feel which encaptures you most his words sending you coast to coast you could lay in his eyes and drown in his tears knocked down shivering spears He's the truest lie you'll ever hear its his eyes you long to be near so you take his promises and store them up your heart is filled with the falsehoods he spills He's a disconnection junkie a drug-induced party he's the universe of ritalin drowning his sorrows in another bottle of gin love him as you will he's destined to leave you lonely still. |
| The words of others just echo in her ears never really meaning anything words lost on deaf ears of an orphan who had parents even siblings she walked the world alone she endured the pain of ten men her bravery only a speck to her for she will never know how beautiful she is tie her down beat her through she screams for help and oh my god they all say goodbye the closets of her youth and cupboards of her memory she knows what cruelty is and so continues on her days with the delicacy and grace of a childhood goddess. |
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| "It's all right, everything is all right." --Todd Sparrow |
| "At that moment I knew god had to be a woman. I knew that a guy like that could not have been created by accident." --Andrea Marr |
| "And then god created man, and I wanted to thank her, right then and there, for the snake, the apple, and the free will to mess up the entire world." -- Andrea Marr |