props

i wrote this a while back, and thought i'd share it here since i used the phrase 'so happily unsatisfied' in it. and for your reference, eldila are little invisible god-bird-like creatures that exist in c.s. lewis's books about space travel. not narnia. so there you are.
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black pavement pricked by lover's fingertips

icy cold with its rain and its glitter sundae


if you walk out into it, dark all at once


your heart gets ripped into pieces


and you'll never read the manual on why.


your brain processes scenery to draw a blank


and your lips fall dead on what you meant to say


you can't write it down, paradoxes don't translate


and your pencil dissolves in acid


the paper bursts into flames when you cry.


that one miniscule raindrop erasing your mind


and you'll never look the same on the time of day


every eon takes another fibre from your being


and each raindrop another neuron from your tale


every truth you write down is another lie.


so happily unsatisfied with what you'll never find


and blasphemy's rainbow is your color, in a way


you paint your story and emotion with water


and there's nothing you can say to make it true


until eldila take you when in travel you die.
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I used to be a superhero
no one could touch me, not even myself
you were like a phonebooth that i somehow stumbled into
now look at me, i'm just like everybody else.

good stuff, catt

good stuff

-Mike





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thank you, mike. you're still my favorite.
catt



I used to be a superhero
no one could touch me, not even myself
you were like a phonebooth that i somehow stumbled into
now look at me, i'm just like everybody else.