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Hive minds

The lair is set

The mouths are wet

Dripping from an acid tounge

While whipping bile from a mile

 

Down the corridor

Words are whispered and murmuered

Plotting, scheming, stoking the fire

Such dangerous tounges should not be hired

 

Far away, in the Hive is where they thrive

Eloping from the danger of what's to come

Team splitting is a speciality

If only they ...

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Metamorphous

You’re right

3 years ago, I viewed frogs as aliens

Now I wonder whether they’re angels

Months ago, I hated the sound of songbirds

Now I write their songs

I tweet along

Everything I did, I did do

It still was

Even if it no longer is

Whatever I am

I still am what I was

Even if I no longer am

You’re right

I was right and now I’m left

But the person I was hasn...

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See Her

When she folded into herself

You all looked away

When she unraveled

You all watched

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Our Nation's Rock Bottom

Our Nation's Rock Bottom

There comes a point in a person’s life where things must change.
They have hurt themselves, and others.
They have lost everything they had.
They have even lost their way.
It’s a point,
 where the failures and the terrible things of their past rise up to haunt them.
They must change or perish.

Because of what they have allowed to happen,
 they find themselves i...

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Outside of Herself

"Find yourself"

You can misplace your mind

But

You can't forfeit your mind

When you've built a fort for your mind

Mine is bulletproof,

Double-glazed,

Soundproof,

In here

I can stay outside of myself

I can step outside of the world

Oops

Yesterday,

I watched us having a conversation

From my window panes

Through the heavy glaze

It made me feel some type...

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Buddhism 101

The root of all suffering.

Being and non being.

Body constantly at odds with the mind.

Do i choose body or mind. 

A paradox, a kunundrum, enantiodromia.

Dysphoria is real.

How can I be so sick and at the same time be so well. 

Disease, a state of being at Ill ease with a state of being. 

The binary code runs deep. Greater than a social construct. 

Male to Female, Yin/ Ya...

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Dumped on the street

At a glance a heap of rubbish

dumped in front of the house

detritus from indoors

strewn across the footpath

 

On closer look someone's life

their stuff moved out onto the street

destined for a refuse container

on grey, impersonal council land

 

A new owner with new stuff

will give the house new life

while the old life peters out

in socially isolated circumsta...

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Login and share your life upload pics of your husband or wife Share your kids with an unknown stranger putting yourself and them in danger. update your status and press post Show them off and boast. You need those likes otherwise what's the point? Sit back and roll a joint. it's sad that you feel the need to compete with your own friends who'm you deceit. A generation full of narcisists who know n...

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Social Media

Press the button, take the picture, put it in an album

Cut it, file it, edit the picture, post it online

 

Electronic images made for you

Pictures made for me

 

Blog it, post it, make it on line

Let us see it live

 

Instant one click online viewing

Upload, download, overload

 

Information all around, save it in a folder

Load the picture, load ...

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