Poetry
This is the general category of fuckery that goes on and on and doesn’t seem interested in stopping.
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How do you want to retire?
I’ve been laughing at this prompt all day
I was already partially forced to “retire”
By my body
I wanted to retire after a fulfilling life
What a joke that was
I feel like I will leave this world thinking “was this it?”
No reward for having worked hard for most of my living life
My working hard doesn’t scale to their working hard
My exhaustion is just part of it
Retire to a small cabin in the forest with a beautiful clearing nearby
Have the ability to have food delivered
Maybe live with my cook and cleaner
Have some fun
And that’s where it gets funny because I don’t get to have fun
So it’s just sort of a funny little fantasy
It’s just sort of been mocking me all day
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I could almost hear Hermes’ crooked laughter when I discovered that Vega, the boy and his dagger, as I call him and his companion in the sky, were part of the lyre
Hell,
I almost did
Oh you just so happened to be looking up at the lyre
Oh the lyre
It’s the boy and his dagger now
Painting my own beliefs into the sky
My own constellations
Patterns that I can see from where I am
How I wish to go somewhere entirely uncivilized and look up for hours
It just blows my mind that all of that is just out there
During the day you could deny it
We’re obviously going in a circle the stars say so
Well
“circle”
Anyways
All your dancing and up and down and what I’ve watched the moon do
She wobbles
Beautiful Earth
Thank you for being an anchor in space for living things to thrive
The Moon for her protection of this place
It is raining as soon as I want to go out
Of course
I afterall have no hat nor rain coat
I have a beanie
It will get gross and wet quickly but it will work possibly
This is not weather for my hand made cardigans
I will have to wear one of my others
It’s been cloudy at night recently
And the Sun
I love him so
I need him to go away again so I can see the stars
I miss night at 8pm
That would be perfect
6am sunrise
8pm sunset
Ah, time
So fabricated
Ah, Time
So undeniable
I think this dance in space is beautiful
This orchestra of movement
Time to you
Must be like the pidgeon
Seeing in higher frame rates than us
We see the car missed them by inches
They knew exactly when that hit would come and when to get out of the way
Well usually
But that difference of instances
Is a moment to me but a second to you?
Or do we exist on the same time scale, but your consciousness is longer than mine?
How long have the stars been waiting for someone to see them?
Did they know we’d get too intelligent and self destructive, in their image, and destroy our only home?
Oh, but to see them?
I am grateful for every life given that made me possible to see them
This chain of humans
I’m sorry I’m breaking that chain but this is not an acceptable world to bring a child into
Not unless you’re one of the nobles and can pay their every living expense
I just want to live in a world where I can see the stars well at night. I know things have to be lit and safety… But
My purpose is to look out into the stars and see them
See the Universe
See this space
I have none other that I am allowed to claim as mine
And the Sun being up later makes it worse
It’s interesting to think about time and Time
Whose is what
We are lost in Time
And I don’t know what time it is
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Meme: this is a fabricated condition, used to legitimize abnormal behaviour and because otherwise, no one notices you. In other words, you are an attention seeking pussy with no life or friends
I mean they got the no life or friends part
But where’s my fucking attention?
If I was actually non-binary for attention, it failed
Miserably
That’s just ignoring the part where we think looking for attention is a problem in a fucking pack animal
But let’s just entertain the idea that a creature that evolved within tight knit communities it no longer has that seeking attention from other creatures is wrong
Just for shits and giggles
If I was seeking attention
I’m doing a piss poor job of it
All my many friends
All my attention
Where exactly is that at?
Assuming I should just sit here and rot because seeking attention is wrong
What more can I do to ensure I’m never seeking attention?
I suppose you’d think wearing bright colours is seeking attention
And because I’m fat I should probably just wear ugly outfits all the time because if I don’t I’m “attention seeking”
Never does it cross their minds that we “do this” because it makes us feel most at home in our skin
It never even tries to
Because they’re playing on default settings and they don’t feel anything.
I wish I felt at home in my body
I wish there was a way to make people feel how I feel when they misgender me
That like drop in my stomach that is both disappointment that they didn’t get it right, and disappointment in me for not coming through in my own body
My theyness is not obvious enough
It’s both the punishment for not being seen and not making myself seen enough
Yet all this stuff
I want people to see me
That’s all
I want people to see the me that I feel like
I wish I didn’t have to see all this hate
It’s so poisonous
Why is it so important for them to control other people?
Like I’m not trying to control people, I’m asking for respect, that’s different
But they’re seeking out people they don’t know to try to herd them into tiny boxes
Why?
It escapes me
We are so much more than just humans in our bodies
Each of us a Universe
Who knows why I’ve always hated the shape I ended up being?
The point is we’re just shapes and I want to be seen as beyond my shape
But, again, I’m clearly failing epically at that.
Seriously where’s the attention I’ve apparently been trying so hard to get?
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The only way my life is getting better
Is if someone comes to save me
Someone notices me
Someone sees me
And I have dreamt of that person
Someone who wants to take care of me
But that person never comes
And I sing all these songs
Believing in the miracle of our meeting
Feeling closer the farther you are from me
Singing of meeting by coincidence
And fate
And none of these things are possible
I’ve tried so hard to believe
You, whoever you is, and me
That we could meet
I thought I had to find you
Misfire
Directly into the Sun
Where am I supposed to look?
Am I supposed to go to places and just sit there and hope someone notices me?
They say you find it when you least expect it
So I can’t go places looking for it, right?
Our meeting
I don’t meet him do I?
It’s just me
I’m some poster child for poverty, disablity, and isolation for some person to use when I die
You couldn’t even let me have him as like
A texting buddy
Something
No
I’m so sick of texting buddies
My mum
My friends
We’re practically pen pals
Can’t I have something real?
I can control how I feel about how shitty my life is?
Sometimes you’re a complete dong
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why this is happening to me
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Chaotic
Definitely chaotic
But with a trying to be good soul?
I always wanted to be good
I started as just chaos
But then the idea of goodness and righteousness was introduced
No
Not by Christianity
By Sailor Moon
The idea that there could be an evil that needed to be stopped to keep the world a beautiful place
Naoko Takeuchi planted those seeds in me
We only started going to church when I started elementary school
I was absorbed by this idea of loving every living thing
This idea of supporting one another
The idea that Christians are good people was just about as quickly destroyed as it was built up
Good people don’t touch younger humans
Good people don’t walk in on it and then never say a word
I think it was the fact that there was a witness and that witness acted like we both were doing something
Vaguely annoying
I digress
Goodness, once suggested
This idea that you should give your all for it
Chaotic, tries hard to be good, exhaustedian
There needs to be a word for that
I don’t think I have the innate goodness that some people have
I don’t have that darkness that some people have
I’m trying
Alignments are hard
My exhaustion is what feels innate
It has been with me for so very long
My chaos feels innate
My connection to the chaos around me
Feels innate
Not the chaos that humans create
The chaos of the weather and the wild
Water
As uniform but so strange as it is
Will the water within me remember sitting here writing this?
Will it remember having been a part of me?
Too many unknown questions
Trying to figure out who I am
What I am
If pixies, angels, demons, and some chaos sprinkled on created some chimera
Of all their parts
That’s me
And some Moon Princess crap joined the party
Sometimes I wish there was a word for what I am
The clouds looked like Hermes’ face last night
Or, well, that god I consider connected to the wind and Mercury that melded with Hermes
That was a wonder to see
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What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
Probably my tamagotchi
But I acquired it secondhand
And it’s not even that old
But there are very few things I use daily
Maybe my dishes?
My ancient TV broke, my phone broke, my vapes all break or get lost
And I don’t know how old anything I have is
So let’s just say the tama
I like the way they get happy when you do things
And this one lets you marry the adults to other adults and keep the baby who looks like a mix of or exactly like one of the two
It’s fascinating
It’s been doing a good job of keeping me awake
Nothing like depression to just
Yeah
Actually the TV is also second hand
It could be older
It’s the using daily part that’s tripping me up
I own a dresser and vanity set that belonged to my Nana and is from like 1920
But they’re just furniture
I suppose the oldest thing could also be my chair
Inherited from what once was a family I called mine
I now don’t know if they gifted it with actual thought or they just wanted to get rid of it
I do sit in that daily
It’s impossible to know what is older
I think it’s probably the chair
I do love that chair
It was Grandma’s
Though I don’t know if I’m allowed to call her that anymore