the three little pigs: a deconstruction. by chezdispenser, literature
Literature
the three little pigs: a deconstruction.
somedays you're the first pig
doing the best you can with
what little you've managed to
scrape together and though
you're up at night, worried about
what your poor life choices
might mean for the future of
you and your meager little
corner of the universe, at
least you have a (straw)
roof to stare at
for now, your mind whispers,
giggling hideously, and you turn
over and try to sleep again
somedays you're the second pig
vaguely aware that you've settled
for mediocrity; all those dreams you
had of a bigger, better life are buried
beneath your pillow and every night
you experience them again, only to
have them flee in the morning right
bef
For the Boatman by SomethingOnceSacred, literature
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For the Boatman
Charon, I still keep the constellations in jars. You will not take me across the Acheron, so I wait on the river bank, trying to steal pennies from other passengers. I hear them clinking in your hull, ferryman, forgotten and oxidized. You call me by my name, even now.
"Persephone is dead, and her king never heard you crying out as I have."
I sang a hymn for you, Charon, but you only smiled and turned away.
Charon, have you met the slighted king? When he called, I answered, but his memory was just as rotten as mine. I had loved him with my own shadow, once. Ferryman, have you ever been in love?
"Stay on the shore. There are those who would
slowly, and then all at once by A-Lovely-Anxiety, literature
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slowly, and then all at once
and for once, he slips on his wedding ring, to cure the monotony. it slides over his knuckle, a perfect fit, and in the morning release of sunlight the silver gleams at him. it glares, calling him a liar: she is not a whorehouse and you are too broke to own her, you harlot, you. he buttons up, tucks in his shirt tail, and buckles his belt. the clinking of metal parts is the only sound in the room besides the dusting of her breathing beside him. and when he's gone, the only thing he leaves behind are the bruises on her collarbone.
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you find him because you're lonely, (well, it's actually the opposite.) he finds you because his wardrob
Les prémices d'une décomposition
Du rêve de l'ange qui ne saute pas
En délices et troubles émanations
D'un enfer qui ne brûlerait pas.
Tout est scindé, coupé, friable
Mis dans de petites cases, si sécable,
Et pourtant le monde, qui se veut un,
S'effrite lentement, Oh pauvre Diable.
Est-ce un rêve qui n'en finirait pas,
Si hermétique, indéchiffrable
Où l'arraison des indécents
Brise la pudeur des faibles âmes,
Ou bien un cauchemar de limbes boueuses
Si épaisses qu'on y verrait trop bien
Les fils de fer qui lient les vives marionnettes
Firewood sparks crackle in your irises,
glowing like a pretty little swearword.
And I ask where you came from, lover;
from the aging spring moon or the shipyards outside of town
where we found each other, that first night,
when your hands were cold around my waist
and our breaths were coming out hot in impatient gasps of poetic escapism,
as you kissed me under the lamppost pretense of wanting to head on home..
Are we just a little too far gone,
lost in a swirl of colorful smoke in some Wonderland type of game,
where we're both so young and stupid,
thinking we can make anything erupt in flames, in dried out candle wicks,
life, and each oth
Love as an Asthmatic by UntamedUnwanted, literature
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Love as an Asthmatic
I snatch my breath after we kiss
because I want to feel you
contract
in my wheezing, useless lungs
not just a craving
but
a desperate need
within
in the physical urge
to breathe you in,
and
make your mystical secrets
a part of my body.
they had said,
long before i met you
that the truth is known for its
characteristic
punch in the gut;
it picks at the skin
on your forehead till it
peels off like the zest
of a pregnant orange,
bitter on your fingers
but so sweet
on your tongue.
pain
is a typical symptom
of truth but
no one ever said
that you would exhaust
the sweetness
by the time it was
my turn to listen.
she tells me that they stole her words
marked them in red and wrung them out dry
leaving her shockingly [bare]
so she took up her -sharpest- pen
and she c a r v e d out her words
[close to her heart they'll be safe]