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ChloroformBoy

Published: Jul 29, 2010

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read my lips--lift the kiss print.
come a little closer, perfect fit.
read my heart's aortic charts,
literature for the broken arts.

read my skin cells,
sex cells, jail cells.
Carcinogenic,
or bibliophilic.
the bookstore sells
cancer cells. i read
this one already; it
sucks.  the ending
sucks.  all endings
suck. but this one
swallows.

read my mind--you're on it.
inside you'll find
a boy in a closet,
carving bones from his
skeleton safety deposit

read my bone structure:
i'm invertebrate
not a chordate.
cut off my patella: loves me;
break my tibia: loves me not
(i put the 'fib' in 'fibula' & the
'boy' in 'boycott' & i boycott
conversation in my situation)
of pathetic rhetoric. quickwit
logic, a magician's arithmetic.

Read a textbook called How to Unhinge
a Megalomaniac--snap my achille's heel
and shatter my back. Watch me fall like
dominos and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Watch me fall head-over-achille's-heels
for you.  Watch me trip like an ego. Oh!
Spoiler Alert: I don't know how to read.

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a pretentious sadist, without
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BDJean

Nov 30, 2013

Hey, I'd really like someone's opinion on something I wrote, critique would be very helpful!!
You can check it out in my journal down below.
It is translated from dutch, so that might make it a little weird?
btw: I commented here because this post is great and it is sort of relevant with my fragment!

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