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To Be Proud

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Catastrophe Jones

I have been hollow for years; why has it taken you so long to notice? I have been mute for lifetimes; did you only just now stop talking long enough to realize the silence around you? You thought you were … Continue reading →

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Transmorphosis (He knows)

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Catastrophe Jones

He knows. He knows somewhere inside himself, he is alive. He knows if he cuts deep enough, someday he will find himself and pull himself out of her. He knows it will be like being born again, coming out of … Continue reading →

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Cyanide

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Catastrophe Jones

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow eventually comes and you are grey haired and knot-knuckled. You have measured out your last cigarette-stained peachpit and teaspoon and where once you scuttled under a dark oppressive ocean, sideways, hands grapp-grapping at nothing, snapping … Continue reading →

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But Once, Years Ago

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Catastrophe Jones

You are the taste of vomit on the back of my tongue; the peculiar sour sting I must gag upon as I go through life, choked to be constantly reminded that I am all of nauseousness, that I make you … Continue reading →

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Put Me

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Catastrophe Jones

Put me in the ground if you must; my body is already rotten. Put me in the furnace if you like, and then put my ashes on the mantle. I was already at eye-height, but now you will never look … Continue reading →

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