these triumphs are failures in disguise

Beware of the pretentious!

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Also, I like tildes.

4/1/11

We proposed with lollipop sticks in our teeth.
chewed down to bleeding stubs between our lips
as time moves backwards and we see how we were.

The things that haunt us stay
because we chain them to our hearts;
wooden stakes and chains as delicate as cobwebs.

We'll spread our wings and fly
but our feathers are layered tissue and wax
and like Icarus we'll burn before we're free.

These triumphs are only failures in disguise
and in the end we'll rip the skin from our bones
and scrub the silt from our eyes in our desperation to be clean,
so that only once we might breathe the truth.

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Pretentiousness! I have it.

4/2/11

these symphonies drip
like so many lights on glass
I only see you

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Bad haiku is bad. But whatevski.

Not too shabby haiku is not too shabby.

"These triumphs are only failures in disguise
and in the end we'll rip the skin from our bones
and scrub the silt from our eyes in our desperation to be clean"

I really like those lines. Likereally.