i never wanted it to be this
i never wanted this
to be forever
but it wasn’t forever
until we made it so
these things never last
don’t we know that
better than anyone else does
or should
know
so do i
some forevers seem short
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outmoded coexistence
makes room for gospel
centurion idols
abandon posts
turn hostile
sun-scratched plains
preemptive offal
plastic prefecture
consumed by the models
ours is the sun
melts hemispheres
burns holes
invisible
preens
disfigures
corrodes
recycles dreams
with ease of augur
endorphins sing
to cadence offered
slaughtered
en masse
deserves to be landfill
our mother is burning
remains at a standstill
of·fal- noun
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i never learned my lessons
life trammels
bound in shackles
lost every battle
i had to higher standards
without mine
each hurdle is for me
curdles
feigns free
soul is not vessel
i am not end all
let hands clasp
together
no better
we run in circles
to make tracks significant
cover
our tracks
and then we’re not us again
i lost all my love again
not the same man i am
i am never vessel
solely not
souls are bought
so highest bidder
catch my back light
stay tailgate
left lane
my failsafe
pass everyone
don’t catch up
catch bad
here’s nothing
still remains for pluck grease
only need luck to steer
everywhere
i’d rather be
anywhere but here today
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midnight in a blue world
in the highest glass castle
far beyond the rabble
wind drowns out the battles
we fight between our headphones
piece by piece
ashes drip
embers wisp to endlessness
cigarette pressed to trembling lips
moonlight diamonds
chain link fists
howling traffic
halfhearted kisses
makes me pine for neon bugs
far below
on the road is where this heart yearns to be
but i’ve wasted all my wishes
on empty days
and better things
3AM is when the city sleeps
and i can breathe
the clouds are gone
finally
stars above
i’ll never reach
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impetus precedes me
encumbered by the lashings;
i’ve been acquitted
but so too have i been paltry
i’m off me
talking of things far beyond me
so far off
i’m osprey
skimming water for the bodies
offering:
my personality—advent calendar
novelty set me free
(probably)
logically
i’m listerine in your third eye
dimethyltryptamine
the lifeline you allotted me
now you’re on my time
you little skunk
give me the crystals
or your battleship is sunk
call me dubya bae yeets
can’t defeat me
clowning on dowry is a hobby
deflowers dumb brain
with ease of a train wreck
splits heads
slithers in
so as to sever this nape
vapes rings
says things that make it onto pinterest
i’m defected
embedded with selfish
i keep at ebb
and flow over headless
i keep my age on
and pine for the magic
had it
tragic
people call that aesthetic
jd jurado-I’m defected is about doing things to attract attention and interest instead of doing what you want.
im·pe·tus \ ˈim-pə-təs
noun
(1): a driving force : impulse
(2): incentive, stimulus
stimulation or encouragement resulting in increased activity
2: the property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its mass and its motion —used of bodies moving suddenly or violently to indicate the origin and intensity of the motion
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i got what i wanted
now i wish i didn’t have it
raised to be rotten
risqué mister maverick
opaque sadist
samey when sedated
taken with the lumps
inside of gilded cages
quick and painless
prairie dog princess
aegis was a fake
so all your bark is forfeit
torque spit
cork it
make a body worthless
fork it over
so i can snap its halo
lay low
ankle biters stick to pay-phones
stake more
hate me
i’ll blow up if you say so
jd-jurado – Empath Fatigue is about someone pretending to have empathy for other people
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Verbalchemy 