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smellyfingers
smellyfingers

Sheeple People

It's like counting sheep. Longing to dream in unconscious scenes. Counting on the sheeple to wake.

22 10 210 words
SeanDoFosho
SeanDoFosho

Enlightened Sorrow

My heart burst when I first entered into the google imaged skyline The one that proudly screams we are the city the one that goes the most go green Walking down the streets I get this tragic feeling...

2 0 586 words
yowwa
yowwa

An Opinion

We meddle in affairs that do not concern us.

4 0 147 words
aleishagayle20
aleishagayle20

The Decay Of Society

& @smellyfingers. A joint effort :-) Bottom of the heap, the escapism beginning to creep, The infecting depression casts a shadow everywhere, The stench of death and blood, but what do you care.

20 5 89 words
Cris
Cris

Demonstration To The Nation

Yeah, I could die now, rebirth. Hop up in my spaceship and leave earth. I'm gone. I refuse to do as you tell me. I won't abide by the rules and accept what I'm told at school.

2 0 157 words
ceruleus
ceruleus

Generations

Fifty somethings in 2012.

8 0 130 words
stevethomo
stevethomo

Saviour

Stuck in this hole you put me in Can't find the light in my eyes Maybe it's a test that we all are in But is'nt that a waste if our my time Do us a favour, throw us a saviour Do us a turn, before...

6 0 118 words
poetess
poetess

The Last Sandwich

It's always hardest to write about what is most dear to you. Or what is most close.

0 0 1556 words
krstp
krstp

Cry Your Eyes Out

Jump, jump, jump down Jump from the cosmos above From the black, the silver dust From the imagination of God The endless, limitless bounds Come and stand with us Stand with your chest puffed out Lock...

2 0 307 words
AlterEgo
AlterEgo

No Better

It's when you realise you're nothing. Vague, pointless, indistinct, grey and empty. No better than the man arranging melons in a supermarket into neat rows, 4x4.

8 7 155 words
bowlch
bowlch

What Happened to All the Nice Guys?

I see this question posted with some regularity in the personals section, so I thought I'd take a minute to explain things to the ladies out there that haven't figured it out.

2 2 742 words
Carl
Carl

Society

It is impossible to rest The nuclear energy of society stops for no-one. If we attempt to take our foot off the gas, our internal flywheel thunders on Preventing our engine from stopping.

8 7 101 words
maibrit
maibrit

Motherland

Before I start telling you about myself, I want to describe what sort of place I was born into. It'll help you understand. In the middle of the North Atlantic there is a cluster of 18 little islands.

2 2 427 words
AlterEgo
AlterEgo

Untitled

It's when you realise you're nothing. Vague, pointless, indistinct, grey and empty. No better than the man arranging melons in a supermarket into neat rows, 4x4.

6 0 154 words
seablue73
seablue73

Chief The Second

They bought him back from the dead Minton socks we need they said Were running out of plastic things And shiny coloured plastic rings To sell to people every day They need the plastic so they say...

8 2 149 words
Honor13
Honor13

The Truth

Blood,sweat, & tears run down his face along with dirt, shaken up by the bullets wising by, the grenades exploding making rocks jump high, save me, I'm afraid of this war I am to face for my country,...

12 0 121 words
sheriffof0
sheriffof0

Diet Of Riot

A steady diet of shit You think don't hurt a bit 'Til all those tv calories Have turned your brain into cheese Just a neat commercial wheeze To keep you on your knees So when the rioters turn up You...

22 1 380 words