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i just want to be like Icarus by ~thexhystericxeskimo:iconthexhystericxeskimo:

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I could stand here, gnawing on toothaches
for several afternoons in a row
but tearing the cover off your exercise book,
tearing it into strips and then tying it around
my vertibrae surely isn't enough to smother
a case of unconditional stupidity that bares
quite a striking resemblance to last time.

Valentines Day should change date every year,
adjust itself to be placed on a Saturday
because, rhetorical questions sit in my chest cavity
tearing bones strips off of my sternum to make me realize
that the little origami heart I gave her, with her name
inside cut out of magazines, was the only one
out of 14 that was really meant.

The bones strips are then used to slaughter February
but keep the memories in alive in my heart and my mind;
and the photographs I took that I'll regret are just her fingerprints
on my camera screen that I can't bring myself to wipe away.
And the photo I plan to stick on my corkboard just sits
in my computer memory. Just another piece
of procrastination to pin to this week.

But when I put my foot in it in a week, a month or several
and slam the door for the last time, I'll need to come home
and tear these photos off my corkboard,
make sure they're crumpled then hide them between my veins.
You'll forget me, but i'll never let myself forget you.
I'll use them next time I need them,
as scalpels to cut open my chest and tear my own heart out,
impale my lungs on the peaks of my ribs and grind
memories down clavicles, pushing off grains of my
bone structure that'll cut into appendixes
and make prefixes for all my organs.

Starry-eyed suffixes are all I'll need to complete
a transformation, and after that I'll never fall again.
I'll fly and melt my wings when I fly too close to the sun...
I just want to be like Icarus
but I don't think that'd suit me either
because the simple glitch is
I'm so sick
of drowning.




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©2007-2009 ~thexhystericxeskimo
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Submitted: February 15, 2007
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maybe i needed to say something after more than a month of nothing.

inspired by the song 'all i wanna do' by sheryl crow
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~xMuRdErXScEnEx:iconxMuRdErXScEnEx: Feb 20, 2007, 7:31:37 PM
:3 ILU, geniusllama. <3

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~thexshinehxpirate:iconthexshinehxpirate: Feb 28, 2007, 12:59:15 AM
This made me sad. Wowash.

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