What do I do with this suicidal lust?
How can I live with this festering greed? …

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Eventually, the scratching and pounding ceased. She waited for a few seconds in case of a surprise attack, but she heard none. Fear evaporating, she let go of the knob. All the pain and fatigue flooded through her body, making her collapse on the floor which didn’t offer much comfort. …

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I have to celebrate, devour, and create
So many things in the longest but shortest period of calendar-time—
Decide, plan, purchase, and make my Halloween costume; …

Continue readingOctober Is A Busy Month For Me

Counselors is a poem written by Dana Trick and shared via The Ugly Writers under the theme Just Barely for the month of October …

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Our honks and hiss transform
Rebellious riots into pride parades,
Peer-pressure shame into defiant love,
Fragile weakness into gorgeous strength. …

Continue readingWe Are Queer Geese

Due to being created by and inhabited by
Dirty, corrupted, sick humans,
The world is covered with
Muddy contradictions and romantics. …

Continue readingAll That’s Left Is Mud

“Please do come to my home,”
Whispered the lonely spider
To anyone who came by. …

Continue readingCome To My Parlor

Under the weight of a free and wild world
That I could run away to.
But that day could never come sooner. …

Continue readingA Minotaur Life