The Core I Orbit - (a poem an...

By ihatelifeandsodoyou

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❝ I'm a man of an overthinker, but an overdoer have I been seldom So when the pulsars spin no more, the warmt... More

The Rain Outside Patters Again
Bloodshot Eyes
Bright Man
Tonight, the World's Going Dark Again
Soliloquy of an Eternal Fiend
An Unwise Man
Dot............
Do Not Litter or I Will Haunt Your Soul
The Core I Orbit
As Simple As That
Albacore
Overlooked or Not, I'm a Lot Like You
The Honest Fool
Dirty Dishes (song)

Artistic Expression

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By ihatelifeandsodoyou

'That's one good fucking poem'

Yet, my visage remains forlorn.

I agree. They are true. I have to.

If not, I'll drown too deep in the blue.


'Write more,' or 'You should publish them.'

Done that, done that. I swear, they're my anthem.

My artistic expression; of symbols and rhymes.

But I'm afraid I was never a poet; only a mime.


One who doesn't know when to stop.

One who jams with the joykilling bop.

One who rids the 'joy' in a 'joyride'

One who can only nod and abide.


I once Googled; it's a coping mechanism.

At this point, it's my own emotional sadism.

A schadenfraude of my existentialist knowledge

in the midst of this ongoing Russian roulette.


But the barrel of this gun, it's empty. I think.

So when I shoot myself, I will die of nothing.

A life wasted, a death meaningless. I think.

At least, I think, it is enough; it's something.


It should be something.

It has to be something.

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