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  Bitter Honey

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I held a closed beehive in my left hand. My mom would never let me hold things as a child, but that never deterred me from taking manual initiative. But of course, as only she would expect, I dropped the beehive and unleashed the thousands of stingers unto the world. While I wish pain were c...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Chess

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Check. You messaged me and I didn't respond. Check. I called you and it went straight to voicemail. Check. I texted you and you responded right away. Check. I reached for your hand. Check. You leaned in for a kiss. Mate....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Layers

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Though I was once much thicker than my current self, my layers once condensed, and I've withheld all of them. Most externally, I reveal the face of passion and intimacy, but perhaps I wasn't always that way and I'm not all that. Under my skin is faint evidence of those ni...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dear Mom

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Dear Mom, As your youngest son, it brings me great pleasure to write you this letter. It seems that medical school has thrown a big obstacle into our relationship, so I'm glad that you still love me, despite me being across the country. Now, onto the big news. I'm getting married...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Monetary Struggles

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  When I was born, my parents invested their money in a trust fund that would mature as soon as puberty hit. I withdrew the assets slowly but surely, and by the time I turned 13, my finances were set in stone for the rest of my life. Like all wealthy children, I made a humble effort to h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dear World

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Dear world, every single f**king time I look into your eyes, I see my reflection in 2/3's of you. Funny thing is, I am even waterier than you. But when I look into the mirror, I just see straight through my self. Dear Hannah, go to the bathroom....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Extrinsic Motivation

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I walk down the hallways in the place that my friends affectionately refer to as Jewish Private High School. But I call it the palace on Mulholland. It's the only place when I see tear drop stains on the page that reads "A f*cking minus". If Jesus were here, he would ha...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Confessions

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  It's late on a weekday morning and I'm in bed waking up to the strength of Kelly Clarkson and Adele who lift burdens rather than sob through them. But I'm not the king of the breakup song, nor breakup poem for that matter. I'm not emerging from the ashes with inspiration...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Bad Date Hangover

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Underneath my ribs on a pedestal, sits my pride and joy, and my yearning for your hand. So, like an electrical impulse, I reach for it. And then it's my lips, but you retreat. You slept in on Christmas morning, and now your gift is hardly there. It's looking for a better recipie...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Numbers

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  1 was nice. 2 didn't ever call me back. 3 of them were older than 18. 4 of them were just annoying a**holes. 5 weeks 5 dates 5 men 5 kisses 5 broken hearts....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Chain Reactions

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I asked for sex and you asked for a kiss goodnight. When it was time for the kiss goodnight, I got a hi-5. And after the hi-5, I became addicted to it. So I slapped my car, and my car slapped another, and the other car slapped a passenger and he died with his hands raised for a hi-5....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Irony

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I'm taller than you. My hair is longer. My clothes are bigger. My teeth are whiter. I'm taller than you. My grades are better. My brain is larger. My SAT score is higher. I'm taller than you. I'm older than you. I'm better than you. You're hotter than me....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  11:11

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  It was 11:11 and I made a wish for your car to crash. And the airbag popped in your face and exploded your tiny brain. Amen....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Gay Math

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I'm not really sure if I was born 180 degrees and bent over time, or if I was born as a malleable strip of magnesium. Fear came full circle, and it's pretty easy to take out a protractor and measure my very apparent angles. I wasn't run over or anything traumatic like ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Three Small Words

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Kindergarten taught us that speaking up would get us somewhere in this world. So, we're quite the talkers. Our ears may hurt when we're through, but at least I'll take in what you have to say no matter how much I couldn't care less about quantum physics and little fun the...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Marco Polo

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I played Russian roulette with a Mexican princess, and she won. I find myself naked on the floor, a victim of my own poor suicide. I travelled to the Phillipines, and I met the Datu royalty. I very much enjoyed my dream vacation in the South Pacific, but I soon found myself in the shadow...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Leap Day

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Through the caves, I found him, the prince of Persia. He was a hairy, ignorant bastard. He exploited me, and I slept alone in the back seat of my car next to the scenic outlook where we had once lain together. Through the rainbows, I found him, the king of Ireland. On this very leap da...
• Opinion > School / College
  Lessons in Pseudo-Pluralism

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  My homework is fairly routine, with one exception. Every time I open up my planner to cross off an assignment and move one step closer to freedom, I must roll my eyes. I’m fortunate enough to attend a school that provides its students with detailed planners, but every time I open mine, I find myse...
• Opinion > Spirituality / Religion
  Covenant: The Human Evolutionary Relic

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  "It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-i-m," sung Lady Gaga regarding her ambivalence towards religious restrictions on homosexuality in her hit single "Born This Way" (Germanotta). This kind of radical thought is portrayed as unpractical and futilely iconoclastic ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Enthalpy of Vaporization

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Lather, rinse, repeat; it's how most things in our new world seem to work nowadays. The future is in the hands of my shampoo bottle, and I may or may not inscribe my diary on the walls of my shower. Naked, I'm all God's ever wanted: a mind slave to a non-existent Divine agend...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Spontaneity

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  You wanted to be the sidekick in my big plans, the ketchup on my burger, or the Philoctetes to all of my Herculean tasks. But no. You became the Iced Tea to my Lemonade, the Adam to my Adam, or the sodium to my chloride in just a matter of minutes. I rushed the reaction, and we combined in...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Hand Dichotomy

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  From dark caves, you emerge with a bright flashlight in your left hand, and your right extends for mine. We hold on tightly, even though you're hardly nervous yourself. I rise from ashes, you fall from grace just to clean me up. So I must thank you. I'll be waiting by the phone...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  where to start?

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  I put money in the vending machine, and my chips get stuck. I pay Him with all of my time and money, but nothing fulfills me. It's time to stick it like Elmer's glue. Stick it to lower-case god. Stick it to lower-case mom. Stick it to lower-case life....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Opaque Window

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  Inside your restaurant, all that I can see is the "out to lunch" sign that's been up since last night. Inside your house, all I can hear is your answering machine that's been full since New Years. Inside your kitchen, all that I can smell is the leftover lasagna from our...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Lessons in Mononucleosis

  

  By Dweathermankort, Encino, CA

  There are only a few places where one can wake up at 2 am to watch the Super Bowl. Israel is one of them. Unfortunately, an exciting semester abroad there became an uneventful "sick-mester" in bed. By halftime of Super Bowl XLIV, as tension rose between the Colts and the Saints, the mercur...