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Alaska; a poem/rant about censorship
Topic Started: Jun 2 2008, 03:55 PM (309 Views)
D. Black
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I'm not breathing, I must be in heaven
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Black tape clogs my throat
Like ashes that I vomit
Whenever I try to speak,
Scream,
And sing.
They cut the cord on the microphone
And now, it is nothing more than a cold,
Dead piece of metal in my hand
Something that a promiscuous young girl would use to pleasure herself with
Because now,
It has been deemed “un-patriotic”
By men wearing black suits,
Gasmasks,
Who let their bullets do the talking,
Even though speaking is against the law in this town

Children bash their skulls in and let their thoughts pour out
Along with their cranium
Because they hope that now,
Something will get through
A broken telegraph
With some bits of bone mixed in

Let’s play pretend for a minute.
You’ll be the writer,
And I’ll be the man in the black suit.
“Rip,
Rip,
Rip. There go your teeth!
Sing now, little prick!
Speak your mind now!
Oops, look like I sewed your eyelids shut.
Are you gonna cry, little boy? Are you gonna?
Stop crying, little boy
STOP CRYING, LITTLE BOY!!!
GROW UP AND BE A MAN!!!”

Okay
I don’t want to play anymore.
So by the time you’re old enough to realize how badly you’ve been screwed over
For the past 18 years of your life
They clean you up,
Shine your shoes,
Give you a shitty suit from JC Penney
And say,
“You’re an adult now. Go off and enjoy the land of your forefathers. You’re free.”

WRONG

Still,
They cut up every word you say,
Every note you play,
And every minute of every day I watch the lab rats
Shuffle past my window
And out into the gray, lifeless buildings of the city
While the long lost music goes cycling through my inner ear
And at the same time,
My pen carves out words onto paper,
As fast as a rock,
Skipping across the ponds in our minds
That we call our imagination
Where all that is true,
And pure,
And passionate reside,
Unlocked only in our dreams,
Where we simply touch ink to page and we glide
Across unknown oceans
Out, beyond the shores and horizons
Until we reach the edge of the world and go,
In our downward spiral over the waterfall
That sends us plummeting,
Until hit the soft cushion of outer space
And it feels like we’ve been here before, and we know we have
And it feels amazing…

…until our eyes open.

Or at least, we try to open them.
Because while we were asleep,
Someone sewed them shut.
They don’t want you to see the entire world that has been raped,
With napalm and the blood of the unholy
And a world whose books are filled with little bits of black over the words
That no one will ever read

And by the time you tore your eyes open
And wiped the blood away,
You took notice of the darkness around you
And that your mutilated body was lying,
Freezing half to death,
In the snow.
And as you lay there, crying
You prayed for the sun to come up.
You begged,
You pleaded,
Almost demanded
That the sun would greet your frail eyes
And warm your charred body

But it never did.

“HAHA! Joke’s on you, asshole!”
The cold voice screamed into your ear
Until finally, the sense of freezing washed into your heart,
Like a flood
And your eyes closed
Forever…

So my friends, I leave you with these words…

NEVER SHUT YOUR MOUTH

NEVER CLOSE YOUR EYES
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** Death's servant
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O.O My eyes are wide open. Nice piece, crazy stuff...I love it.
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CrestfallenNights
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Wow.

o.o

Seriously crazy.

I like it....
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ChipChamp
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Oh! I really liked that one! Very crazy :D

9/10

~ ChipChamp
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God of The Congo
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Dude, that was amazing. I love your style, the way your words flow together, yet are just a little a-rythmic. Very good. the rhyming was artfully done. You obviously believe in what you write, and that gives it power. I stand with you.
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