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i.
Before I met you, I was a 100 piece puzzle still in its plastic covering. Now I'm down to 84 pieces and 2 corners are missing and I'm scared the next girl will give me one look and decide I'm not worth it.
ii.
You took out a 6 month warranty on me and I should have taken that as a hint but i never was good at the game Clue or reading bet thelines ween. You traded me in with 6 days left on your investment but they wouldn't give you a full refund because they realized I was no longer in mint condition. Truth is, I never was. You just have a knack for making my faults stick out more than my emaciated ribcage.
iii.
Tomorrow I think I might go and take out a life insurance policy on myself just to see how much I'm worth these days. I have a feeling it will be somewhere in between a couple Alexander Hamilton's and a handful of Benjamin Franklin's, but I always liked Einstein more than Franklin anyways. Franklin gave you the ability to see my imperfections more clearly and Einstein gave you the ability to use my words against me like an atomic bomb. I'm no Hiroshima or Nagasaki but the aftermath still ain't very pretty and leaves me even more transparent than before.
iv.
I swear to you that I'm fading away and I need to find a way to patch up the leaks you've sprung but the tears spilling from my eyelids are all that's keeping me afloat. I never was a good swimmer but I've learned to breathe underwater because your looks full of disgust pushed me under one too many times. But instead of drowning, my lungs threw up pieces of splintered ribcage, from the time I went three weeks straight without eating so my lungs started picking themselves apart in protest, to make room for a gallon of water filled with the lies you were trying to shove down my throat to let fester in my stomach.
v.
The doctors tell me that I have stomach ulcers due to a buildup of hydrochloric acid destroying the lining of my stomach but I know the real reason for my upset stomachs are due to the couple lies that managed to trickle their way down my esophagus to my stomach. Thanks to you, now my main source of protein is your once infectious, now cancerous words and my body fat has dropped to less than 3%, the one piece of decency you managed to leave me with when you left me without you.
vi.
I've lost my ability to make sense and my self-worth has dropped to less than 83 cents and my liver has been threatening to quit on me ever since you left. I'm one shot of Jack Daniel's away from another drunken night and I've still got your number on speed dial so please bear with me and just listen to me for a while. All I ever needed was for you to listen to the words that I spilled from my lips laced with liquor and a hint of longing for yours. I never expected you to find the time to mutter a reply and now that we're apart and you're left with all the time in the world, all you can manage to say is, "You're better off without me."
vii.
Maybe you're right or maybe you're wrong but you're no longer on the phone and there's no more dial tone. Not even the phone lines can handle our Technicolor romance anymore because telephone lines can't send colored images, only hellos and goodbyes. Except you hung up before I could ever say goodbye.
Before I met you, I was a 100 piece puzzle still in its plastic covering. Now I'm down to 84 pieces and 2 corners are missing and I'm scared the next girl will give me one look and decide I'm not worth it.
ii.
You took out a 6 month warranty on me and I should have taken that as a hint but i never was good at the game Clue or reading bet thelines ween. You traded me in with 6 days left on your investment but they wouldn't give you a full refund because they realized I was no longer in mint condition. Truth is, I never was. You just have a knack for making my faults stick out more than my emaciated ribcage.
iii.
Tomorrow I think I might go and take out a life insurance policy on myself just to see how much I'm worth these days. I have a feeling it will be somewhere in between a couple Alexander Hamilton's and a handful of Benjamin Franklin's, but I always liked Einstein more than Franklin anyways. Franklin gave you the ability to see my imperfections more clearly and Einstein gave you the ability to use my words against me like an atomic bomb. I'm no Hiroshima or Nagasaki but the aftermath still ain't very pretty and leaves me even more transparent than before.
iv.
I swear to you that I'm fading away and I need to find a way to patch up the leaks you've sprung but the tears spilling from my eyelids are all that's keeping me afloat. I never was a good swimmer but I've learned to breathe underwater because your looks full of disgust pushed me under one too many times. But instead of drowning, my lungs threw up pieces of splintered ribcage, from the time I went three weeks straight without eating so my lungs started picking themselves apart in protest, to make room for a gallon of water filled with the lies you were trying to shove down my throat to let fester in my stomach.
v.
The doctors tell me that I have stomach ulcers due to a buildup of hydrochloric acid destroying the lining of my stomach but I know the real reason for my upset stomachs are due to the couple lies that managed to trickle their way down my esophagus to my stomach. Thanks to you, now my main source of protein is your once infectious, now cancerous words and my body fat has dropped to less than 3%, the one piece of decency you managed to leave me with when you left me without you.
vi.
I've lost my ability to make sense and my self-worth has dropped to less than 83 cents and my liver has been threatening to quit on me ever since you left. I'm one shot of Jack Daniel's away from another drunken night and I've still got your number on speed dial so please bear with me and just listen to me for a while. All I ever needed was for you to listen to the words that I spilled from my lips laced with liquor and a hint of longing for yours. I never expected you to find the time to mutter a reply and now that we're apart and you're left with all the time in the world, all you can manage to say is, "You're better off without me."
vii.
Maybe you're right or maybe you're wrong but you're no longer on the phone and there's no more dial tone. Not even the phone lines can handle our Technicolor romance anymore because telephone lines can't send colored images, only hellos and goodbyes. Except you hung up before I could ever say goodbye.
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Just Hear Me Out? Click.
i.
Before I met you, I was a 100 piece puzzle still in its plastic covering. Now I'm down to 84 pieces and 2 corners are missing and I'm scared the next girl will give me one look and decide I'm not worth it.
ii.
You took out a 6 month warranty on me and I should have taken that as a hint but i never was good at the game Clue or reading bet thelines ween. You traded me in with 6 days left on your investment but they wouldn't give you a full refund because they realized I was no longer in mint condition. Truth is, I never was. You just have a knack for making my faults stick out more than my emaciated ribcage.
iii.
Tomorrow I think I migh
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Today, I Am
I am bitter today
There's no way she loved me like she said
She wouldn't have left me if she did
I am sorry today
I know she loved me all along
And I hate that I thought otherwise yesterday
I am longing today
I saw two lovers walking down the street
And I wished she and I could take their places
I am content today
I dreamed about her
And in my dream, she was happy
I am frightened today
I wished I were dead
I've never wished that before
I am empty today
I cried about her until my friends dropped by
And I had to hide my tears because they've never seen me cry
And I think it would scare them
I am angry today
I saw a USMC recr
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listen:
If you let me --if you listened-- I would paint the sky orange just for you.
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Today, you are a dreamer with your broken eyes and the heady ecstasy of your smile. I don't know myself from the paper on the wall. I could fall for you. [the way you hold your words to your chest is beautiful.] I could fall for you and you would only look away.
If you knew --if you understood-- baby, I would make these words beautiful like you. Like your dark hair and how it flicks into your eyes. Like the callused poetry of your hands. I would will the sky with my romantic dreams. I would fill my world with glory. I would fill my life with you.
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these words are my heart. my decrepit heart.
hiatus over. hopefully this is the start of a new beginning. yes i've been gone. yes i created a side account where i will slowly move over to. it can be found here
this piece will be found there as well. it is going to be the account for my longer writings and my attempt at a novel. ive never really attempted one before so we shall see.
anyways ive been gone mainly due to personal reasons, the main one being an internal battle with myself. i'm currently losing.
comments and critiques are welcome. favorites are lovely as well. i've missed writing more than i ever thought possible. i hope i can write more often now.
feedback on imagery, metaphors, impact, and the ending. and what your favorite part was =]
these words are my heart. my decrepit heart.
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This is really really good. It's so bitter that you just know it's from experience. In the best way, of course. 
The only thing I can think of to change is to just reincorporate the puzzle/children's game idea towards the end. That could be a really interesting motif for a longer project, too. Again, great piece.
The only thing I can think of to change is to just reincorporate the puzzle/children's game idea towards the end. That could be a really interesting motif for a longer project, too. Again, great piece.