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Misery Chick

Misery Chick

Hello. I write stuff.

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Misery Chick

Misery Chick

Hello. I write stuff.

139
Writings
165
Followers
1
Following
Screaming

Misery Chick

1 min read

The world is screaming


Can’t you hear?


A guy-wrenching cry


That grows worse every year



The birds have all migrated


Each to their own stars


That are scared away by cities


That are overrun with cars



Overpriced, and cranky cars


That yell and speed and stall


Unnecessarily necessary cars


I wish I could bury them all



Bury? How could we?


There’s nowhere to dig


For we’ve downsized our w...

Poetry

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The Worm

Misery Chick

1 min read

In a far away land


That lived in Boy’s head


Was an invisible worm


That was thin as a thread


It tunneled through thoughts


And weaved side to side


Like a slippery snake,


The worm grew in size


And nobody noticed


For how could they find


An invisible worm


That lived in Boy’s mind


So it wriggled and waggled


And ate at Boy’s brains


Til the words in Boy’s head


Pelted him like cold rain


So...

Poetry

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Silent Boy

Misery Chick

1 min read

“Why don't you talk?”


They asked ritualistically


While prating characteristically


Filling the air with echoes


That ricocheted down the halls


Losing meaning


Incoherent screaming


He listened to it all


Until the final bell


In his logorrheic hell


“Why don’t you talk?”


They probed, devoid of care


So he’d return their stares


Curious and violent


The truth just as quiet


He always knew wha...

Poetry

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Crossroads

Misery Chick

1 min read

But he gave me daffodils


I argue for the second time


Sitting a bed, half empty


After days of sleepless nights



He left them on my old doorstep


And I kissed the old him on the cheek


And we danced in our old parlor


To songs too old now to repeat



And what about those letters


That he used to leave by my bed


He used words like pulchritudinous





Just so they'd stay in my head



And h...

Poetry

1
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Growing Old

Misery Chick

1 min read

She was in a way


Akin to the oak she rest upon


Lending it’s shaded branch

Unwavering, Cradling


the age she wore on her hands


The inescapable matter of age


Growing venations


To decorate her skin


To trace where her endings begin


Neither perfect nor flawed


To remind her time hadn’t forgot


And she does not protest


As the aging tree does not fight


For the looting of her youth


Could ne...

Poetry

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Passing Storm

Misery Chick

1 min read

Cloudy days,


Unwarranted grays,


That swarm the skies


And the hair in my braid


Too young to complain


About growing older [with you]


Too old to retain


The coldness you shoulder



I see droplets in storms


Your heart through your faults


Our palpable love


That I bear like a cross


But nothing hurts so much


As your little hollow words


Now wet, and growing rust



Words, I once kept inside...

Poetry

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Dead Squirrel

Misery Chick

1 min read

We found him


On our way to school


A sidewalk curiosity


A sight of animosity


A tale as old as time


Creature dies,


Enter the flies


Dregs of eggs


That nest in his eyes


His head, just the skull


Detached from his neck


Resting in the grass


Witnessing the silent mess


Writhing, wriggling maggots


Feeding on his flesh


Decaying, consuming


Feasting, reusing


Nature on display


We carry o...

Poetry

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Oh, Baby

Misery Chick

1 min read

Dip her hands in yellow paint


And press them on the wall


So we’ll always remember


That her hands were once this small...

Poetry

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Wasted Weather

Misery Chick

1 min read

The weekend drags its feet


As I spend my day indoors


Note-taking, Sunbathing


When the sun slips past the door



Five days of cloudless skies


As blue as I feel trapped in here


Working slow to save some time


Under a fluorescent atmosphere



Friday tucks me in at last


And soon I rise from my bed


I open up my curtains and


Rain, rain again...

Poetry

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A Midnight Soirée

Misery Chick

1 min read

Under the lunar disco ball


We moonlight as the eldritch


Insatiable, untamable


A kaleidoscope of the bewitched



Find us in our dance


Parallel to gravity


Bodies swaying, decaying


In a carnal rhapsody



The fire mimics our movements


In the moonshine’s reflection


Swirling, pouring


Pleading for our attention



Dripping down icy lips


Seeping into the dirt


Sinking, drinking


Us for all...

Poetry

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