limbs like human limbs
and an intelligence that
surpasses our own
but within that frame
of oxidizing metal
no heart palpitates
mechanically
you toil trudge toil but you won’t
know what love can be...
you have seen
these broken bits of me
you have seen me at
my weakest point
when I was most
vulnerable and
no one would
try to help me up
you have seen
these broken bits of me
you have witnessed
me uncovered—
naked brown—
lying on the hopeless streets,
hungry and helpless,
d...
I. Yesterday
Regrets I cannot
erase; mistakes that branded
my life…forever.
II. Today
Choices I wish I
didn’t have to make are branding
my life…forever.
III. Tomorrow
The Great unknown and
the Great Perhaps that will brand
my life forever…...
One of the most beloved and notable novels of the 1920s is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hailed as one America’s Great Novels, The Great Gatsby is a look at the lifestyle everyone secretly wishes to live but cannot afford. F. Scott Fitzgerald opens this exclusive vain world for everyon...
You are paralyzed
forever—but your friend and
the other driver
are both dead: it’s your
fault all this happened; your fault
they’re dead—yet you live.
Careless—selfish—were
you! Shouldn’t have been drinking and
texting, while driving....
your thoughts push me past
—the breaking point—
—the point of no return
to the start of the labyrinth
with no exit—
no man’s land—
I try to return in reverse
but I cannot:
I am chained to the arid ground,
fruitless and unfertile
of what I tried to escape
all these years
yet s...
One of the most beloved and notable novels of the 1920s is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hailed as one America’s Great Novels, The Great Gatsby is a look at the lifestyle everyone secretly wishes to live but cannot afford. F. Scott Fitzgerald opens this exclusive vain world for everyon...
Your lips are hungry
for my labios:
they are wet with thirst
and warm with hunger;
your labios drip of
ravenous passion,
uncontrollable and
unsatisfied until
I am yours
and become part of you
—un cuerpo—
one body unified
by an untamed force
that neither one of us
can easily explain...
it takes one to
stand against
the mass—one
revolutionist
to prevent
further oppression
—one with valor
unlike the rest,
all craven
against the
tyranny of the
oppressors,
coward just like
them as well,
hurting victims
in their hearts,
although they
feign a certain
bravery ...
It was the time of great ruin. Money
Was worth nothing: everyone became poor
And lost his job. It was due to the War—
War was the cause—War was the enemy
Of Peace that failed. The economy
Crashed. All wealth was lost. No man—no nation—nor
Any other mortal being could alter
The Ruinâ€...
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