fuck this light
inside my skull
flying out my eyes
painting blue
brushing, blushing
the first kind of paint
dipping in
the language you
taught me how to use
emotion (is)
motivation
but without control
emotion
takes our lives
but through submission
emotion
paints the world
but from the inside
out
the abyss of above
sailing stars out of sight
narrows wide on the nights
where the time falls apart
where the hours are dead
and the stragglers are said
to be warped, bright as lead, out of sync
but the stars move along
and we keep walking on
with the streetlights as dead as my cat
I'll tell you a secret
(you don't need to keep it)
my cat is alive as the night
I didn't know what I wanted to become when I grew up, before I biked past the Montefiore Hospital in 1925. What got me were the lines of people, friends and strangers, extending half a mile down the road, lock-jawed and waiting. I remember seeing my friend Andrew waiting there with his parents, with a bowed back he got from a run-in with barbed wire, climbing the Walstein's fence.
They told us that anyone who had it had less than a 50% chance of living. To cheer my little sister up, I told her that it was also the odds of the Yankees losing - and the Yankees never lost.
But my sister and my mom died from Tetanus in '26, just like half the c
August the third, 2122.
First impressions are very important in a project like this. From the first day of operation, both subjects have given us enough information to make me feel like i'm not doing my job right. There are, of course, things which have obvious suggestions about the character of the subject in the most broad and specific sense (which is of certain use to the HFSP), but there are also things which I just can't understand yet. For [illegible] in which they will not cooperate.
The neuroscientists did their job wonderfully, however. For this first day, we've run a trial of sorts, and locked all the doors on their living space
there are these things that I see
when i'm anywhere, doing anything
and it seems so certain to me
that these things are part of something greater
these things are like the backgrounds
of a game I played when I was young
or a fragment of a familiar sound
that puts me to sleep when it's sung
and I don't know what these things are
but I do know that they're beyond me -
these things which are just slightly too far
these things which are just out of reach
one day I wish that I'll understand
all of these things which make crowds in my head
but now, on this sea, I make voyage to land;
to coasts of not feeling, but knowing instead
'ti
I was sad as light appear'd
and bowing, left the moon
though I drown in sun for now
my friend, I'll see you soon
but daylight does as devils do
in greeneries of light
the flower, but instead of food
I chose, still, the night
the tides of time, they waxed and waned,
and wished a wave to lend
and fell, I felt, that still in wait
my waning would not end
and wane, I must, for minutes more
or stretch out will my soul
'til in parts of me, pulled far apart
will burn a blazing hole
however
i'm told that the night will come again
blazing, brazen, weathered and wizen'd
and with it will come the cavalry
of a thousand stars over the h
I don't know if I will trust you
and the most important thing
is that I don't know if I should
You are a woman
and also a filter
and I still can't tell
whether I will be sieve'd
or saved
whether
I will end up flowing
through drains underneath your house
or picked out of a crowd
to a place where I will matter
to you
and inversely
I don't know if you will trust me
and to be honest
I don't know if you should
because
I am a function
and also a man
and I will not tell you
whether I will feel still
or any kind of will
to create something
that I can refuse to censor
because I am in love
with that little black bar
I am the fuel,
temporary
so,
I will combust to a vapour
once I have served my purpose
I will join the atmosphere-
your by-product of consumption
but one day you will rust
and I will float on
there may be an ideal sequence of words
that will set off the synapse
so that you can feel like I do
but I think you won't
I killed a dog today
a dog that loved me
the kind that gave you faith
in the animal kingdom
the eyes
and the gifts that she gave
when I came home
these were the things that said
"feeling is first"
and that it is better to just love
than to question what it is
and how it works
but I am a scientist
so how can I, with all the
exactness of measurements
and the accuracy of taxonomy
love an animal that
by all science
I shouldn't
it's a pleasure in particles
nothing more than
a complex example of entrop
fuck this light
inside my skull
flying out my eyes
painting blue
brushing, blushing
the first kind of paint
dipping in
the language you
taught me how to use
emotion (is)
motivation
but without control
emotion
takes our lives
but through submission
emotion
paints the world
but from the inside
out
the abyss of above
sailing stars out of sight
narrows wide on the nights
where the time falls apart
where the hours are dead
and the stragglers are said
to be warped, bright as lead, out of sync
but the stars move along
and we keep walking on
with the streetlights as dead as my cat
I'll tell you a secret
(you don't need to keep it)
my cat is alive as the night
I didn't know what I wanted to become when I grew up, before I biked past the Montefiore Hospital in 1925. What got me were the lines of people, friends and strangers, extending half a mile down the road, lock-jawed and waiting. I remember seeing my friend Andrew waiting there with his parents, with a bowed back he got from a run-in with barbed wire, climbing the Walstein's fence.
They told us that anyone who had it had less than a 50% chance of living. To cheer my little sister up, I told her that it was also the odds of the Yankees losing - and the Yankees never lost.
But my sister and my mom died from Tetanus in '26, just like half the c
August the third, 2122.
First impressions are very important in a project like this. From the first day of operation, both subjects have given us enough information to make me feel like i'm not doing my job right. There are, of course, things which have obvious suggestions about the character of the subject in the most broad and specific sense (which is of certain use to the HFSP), but there are also things which I just can't understand yet. For [illegible] in which they will not cooperate.
The neuroscientists did their job wonderfully, however. For this first day, we've run a trial of sorts, and locked all the doors on their living space
there are these things that I see
when i'm anywhere, doing anything
and it seems so certain to me
that these things are part of something greater
these things are like the backgrounds
of a game I played when I was young
or a fragment of a familiar sound
that puts me to sleep when it's sung
and I don't know what these things are
but I do know that they're beyond me -
these things which are just slightly too far
these things which are just out of reach
one day I wish that I'll understand
all of these things which make crowds in my head
but now, on this sea, I make voyage to land;
to coasts of not feeling, but knowing instead
'ti
I was sad as light appear'd
and bowing, left the moon
though I drown in sun for now
my friend, I'll see you soon
but daylight does as devils do
in greeneries of light
the flower, but instead of food
I chose, still, the night
the tides of time, they waxed and waned,
and wished a wave to lend
and fell, I felt, that still in wait
my waning would not end
and wane, I must, for minutes more
or stretch out will my soul
'til in parts of me, pulled far apart
will burn a blazing hole
however
i'm told that the night will come again
blazing, brazen, weathered and wizen'd
and with it will come the cavalry
of a thousand stars over the h
I don't know if I will trust you
and the most important thing
is that I don't know if I should
You are a woman
and also a filter
and I still can't tell
whether I will be sieve'd
or saved
whether
I will end up flowing
through drains underneath your house
or picked out of a crowd
to a place where I will matter
to you
and inversely
I don't know if you will trust me
and to be honest
I don't know if you should
because
I am a function
and also a man
and I will not tell you
whether I will feel still
or any kind of will
to create something
that I can refuse to censor
because I am in love
with that little black bar
I am the fuel,
temporary
so,
I will combust to a vapour
once I have served my purpose
I will join the atmosphere-
your by-product of consumption
but one day you will rust
and I will float on
there may be an ideal sequence of words
that will set off the synapse
so that you can feel like I do
but I think you won't
I killed a dog today
a dog that loved me
the kind that gave you faith
in the animal kingdom
the eyes
and the gifts that she gave
when I came home
these were the things that said
"feeling is first"
and that it is better to just love
than to question what it is
and how it works
but I am a scientist
so how can I, with all the
exactness of measurements
and the accuracy of taxonomy
love an animal that
by all science
I shouldn't
it's a pleasure in particles
nothing more than
a complex example of entrop
Every child ages:
This has been proven by the world's greatest sages.
Well, except one, special case:
Peter Pan, by name, whose wishes I truly embrace.
Never to grow old, never to mature,
Of this, he wished to be sure.
I myself am a toymaker by trade,
And with every toy I make, I have played.
But although I wish to be young at heart,
Peter Pan was certainly a master at this art.
And without delay, I begin my tale,
And maybe this theme shall prevail.
It begins in a certain house,
Of Mr. Darling, and his spouse.
And Wendy too, a splendid lass,
Around her children did amass.
To hear this tale, as I relate.
But alas, it soon was
A gasp, a splash. The cold tendrils of water running across a body and the shock of fresh-flowing blood. This was how I found the Herald, his flesh stripped in bands of desiccated flesh. The dark spots around his body, his limbs limp on the riverside with his eyes rolled back into his head were all I could see as I dropped the bucket and ran to his side. He was half-submerged into the water; his skin either pruned from the moisture or dried out beyond the natural limits of any human skin. For how long he laid there before I came upon him I could not guess, but no man should be able to keep babbling and cursing the horrible things that he was
Jacelyn Who Never Smiles by shayerahol22, literature
Literature
Jacelyn Who Never Smiles
Jacelyn who never smiles
Suffers through the endless trials
Of a rotting candyland
Crumbling to collapse like sand.
Jacelyn with skin so pale,
Never slips the slightest wail
As she watches dreams so bright
Mottle, rust, and lose their light.
Jacelyn with eyes so dim,
Who did cause your world to spin?
Who brought down their mighty hand:
A father, mother, or a friend?
Jacelyn who sheds no tears,
Why don't you vocalize your fears?
Anything just to forget
The wailing echo of regret.
Jacelyn with heart so bruised,
It hurts to know that you've been used,
Beaten, thrown upon the floor,
Broken, down into the core.
Jacelyn no soul
We're all looking for that Freudian excuse, aren't we?
It's not my fault I'm the way I am. It's all because of my mother, my father, my little baby sister.
I was bullied and tormented.
I was a bully and tormentor.
Maybe your family didn't have enough money. Maybe they had too much.
Did they push you aside? Were you unloved? Were you beaten? Do you still carry those scars?
You tell yourself, it's because I'm a man. It's because I'm a woman. I'm too fat, too thin, too weak, too strong. Nobody understands, everybody understands. It's their fault they're too ignorant, too smart.
Well, now you have your pick of excuses. Take your pick of th
I am the fuel,
temporary
so,
I will combust to a vapour
once I have served my purpose
I will join the atmosphere-
your by-product of consumption
but one day you will rust
and I will float on