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  What These Pills Do

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  I lie awake and know the things I've done my bed's a scaffold beneath the burning sun backwards hands but when I close my eyes the numbers run like cars in the night don't cry, don't cry don't cry tonight I've succumbed to restless minds don't cry ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  drunken resolution

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  blaring sirens assault my unabashed follies in which I can be as happy as I choose my mind feels underwater, still unaware that it is awake when the rest of me is dead what happened? as my concrete dreams melt into misty puddles the world I created is nothing more than a trance I barely ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  we are a deformity

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  if love is so damn fragile then its absence must be strong and if holding you is breaking me i’m only whole when you’re gone but your love is something poison your love is so deformed I didn’t know it’d kill me I just wanted something warm it filled the cracks within me and hard...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  you're not depressed, you're just bored

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  calling your sadness miscellaneous does not make it real pretending that it’s too deep to reach the bottom that it’s too broken up to understand that people can be sad without having concrete problems you’re simply bored of being content this is what real sadness looks like and you d...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  what my mind is like

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  what is the meaning of this pain it is a dark room filled with water empty but full of the absence of hope me in a fold out chair I am made of this stuff sinking through the floor but somehow not moving an inch just floating and screaming tiny bubbles that dance around each other and no ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Rum and Rain and Michael

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  We took the rum behind the bleachers and we took turns sipping from the bottle and then wincing. We were sitting on his coat on the blacktop, listening to the rain make deep percussive strokes at the metal stairs directly above us, keeping the storm from our heads. This was his first time drinking, ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A String's Descent

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  She’s empty like the ocean’s depth Where lonely travelers died and slept Where darkest hours lurked unseen And Time took midnights in extremes A string to gaze the fiery light Would never dare reverse its sight But if it did, for goals unclear Rejected homely atmosphere And plung...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Paper Love

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  I have only seen the kind That exists inside my mind I’ve learned that love is far too fragile To try and live inside its walls I bundled up and faced the cold Frosty winters as I get old The Sun’s too damn far away To turn my night back into day Don’t make a path through this snow...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Poison in Our Sun

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  And so she starts She is the star of our lives, a burning flame Engulfing us like oxygen Burning our skin and melting our flesh She is Ana And she is brighter than any of us could ever be She swells like the sun Capturing the volatile chunks of our thighs Our stomachs, our wrists Our neck...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Speech

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  And the speech was not wind And it was not water And it was not stars. The speech is a train Black and fire and built With bars of tarred steel, oily pumping levers And it spouts sparks and the trees catch fire Black weeping smoke and now, They are just clouds. And the train growls into i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Askings in the Dusk

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Scorched edges sealed-- so quick, with a ribbon tied-- That one can't help but wonder: Where landed the seeds The storm scattered? Seething pools inhabited The wells we dug with our hands Sparked, spattered, cracked The steam rises, Vapor entangled in the web of muted stars If sw...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  The New Year’s Song

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Oh, sweet symphony Won't you please suffocate me At the passing of the hands Yes, my fragile grace And carefully papier-mached Dignity is lost in the grandstands And oh, don't you know Love is always on the run From the one who chases her down And oh, ain't it clear That the reason we...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Don't Cry

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  I don't cry It's a waste of good water Does that make me cold? A horrible daughter? But when I first read The letter you wrote I felt the tears I started to choke... You said that you loved him With all of your heart Twenty years past And your world ripped apart You tol...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Brother and Sister

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Cold brisk yet calm wind. Snaking its way under our countless layers. Leaves fallen. Sky bleak. Whispered promises of winter. Waiting waiting waiting for newborn snowflakes. Feeling feeling feeling the grassy bottoms of our feet turn to snow. But not yet. Autumn is now, despite inauspicious temperat...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  In a Matter of Eight Minutes

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  There's a boy sitting in front of me. One table up, two chairs to the right. I use my pencil to help me squint. He's got nice hair. If only his stupid hand would quit blocking his face. I think he's doing homework. Looks like math. I hate math. It's too quiet in here. He's texti...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Who Needs a Bed? I've Got a Buick.

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  I am losing my house (And my mind) (Probably) A violation of the law of mortgage That clearly states: “All transactions, please In the form of your entity (Your sanity, too)” Indignation bestowed graciously upon the Signer of my checks (thank you for that, Universe) Now, ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Church Basement

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Muted melodies Raining from the ceiling Promises of hope and bliss In the form of C Major I can trace the shadows of the voices Like vaporous whispers of the dark Harmonies, swelling as angelic waves I wish... Stirring a sweet comfort inside of me Only a flight of stairs ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Your Twisted Parade

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  You hold the years I gave to you In your aggressive hand And with the other, stroke the unknown Gleaming trophy stand A treasure put before me For the best of this charade As you carry on, like nothing’s wrong In your twisted, fake parade Leaving me behind like dust Collected in...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Broken Lover's Ballad

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  “What is it you want from me? A paycheck, full and deep? And if I can’t produce it, Will you send me to the streets?” “What I want from you is not An object anymore I long for you to send all of Your soldiers to my door,” “But what if all my soldiers, Stiff and...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  You've Got Me

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  You can see it in the air Breathe it in like oxygen You're just trying to be fair Like it's not written on my skin Snowflakes burning in my hands From trying so hard to keep my cool But it's like I'm standing naked In a glass swimming pool I'd say you could read ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Paint

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Picking flowers out of the trash Don't ask me where I've been I can't tell you that Run your fingers down my spine Can you feel all the places That have slipped out of line? --- Paint a picture of today I've come to know that it'll never be the same Paint a p...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Mr. Hurricane

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  I’ve got four corners and a roof The fact that I’m sturdy makes up For my lack of room My door is locked most of the time My window’s open, but it’s one Hell of a climb I built me with my bare hands I used the pieces broken off from my heart Paper and glue, now I stand I won’t ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Raavah's Story

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Cold. That's how she felt. That's how she always felt. Growing up in the Alaskan tundra her entire life, Raavah was accustomed to the seemingly everlasting subzero temperatures that consumed nine months of the year. But that didn't change the raw, paralyzing zap of the October wind...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Unspoken

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  She dreams inside the lines But scribbles in the spaces left She builds a sturdy wall Protecting her from heartbreak theft She knows that with a chance The smallest thing could build her up And break her down So she sings without a sound In the back of her mind She's playing for a mill...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crooked Symphony

  

  By MiscellanyCrop, Middlefield, OH

  Ink runs like a river Carving a steady rhyme Like blood pierced from a lover past In a forgotten time Secrets are like venom Shallow in our veins Yet masked in ink lay secrets veiled Drenched in presaged pain My heartache forms a plot line An off-tune melody Scribbled in a five-line...