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I do not like you poets

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September 23, 2013

I do not like you poets by ~tubefed

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insomniaplague

Published: Sep 15, 2013

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I do not like you poets

breathing into my sorry head
like the air hasn't been wasted a half-a-million times
folding up my lungs
to place them neatly into a wastebasket

how can you make me stop hurting
& then just leave me
a limp lettuce leaf
on the backside of some dirty napkin verse

I am not the jealous type
but I'm going to call up Melpomene & ask her where she's been
send her drunk texts
all night

because I'm too tired of filling up my skull
with cicada skins instead of led
while you make it all too easy
to sleep through a heartattack or two

my pygmalion, my god, my thing of legends
tell me
when you were being taught the siren's song
was I writing myself a migraine?

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