Pornographic Venn Diagramming
Experimental and damning
It's all performative, all damned to death and back. Born we are into this system of crippled development. Portrayed as enlightenment, but the reality is anything but.
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I have long rallied against such realities, despite the burial of my past innocence, forgotten sanctity.
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I wrote down some thoughts:
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Well hallelujah
Spread thin
Tongue twisting tautogrammic takes of trauma and triumph
Male shame and toxicity mixed with a little alienation and
Oh oh the resentment
Wafer thin
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Xenophobia and the hardened husk of hatred
and illegitimate anger
and distrust we have become
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Desperation
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The secret language of the sextape
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Pornographic Venn diagramming
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The shame, oh the
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Shame?
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Generation after generation
closed off and colder
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Heart unresponsive
as the irresponsible
as the moral vocal cords for the majority
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Minorities kerbed, chided
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We become the grotesque we loathe
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All our yesterdays forgotten
The abstract replaces the grounded
In an instant
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We become the loathsome grotesque
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All our tomorrows forgotten
The grounded replaces the pure
In an instant
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We become the grotesque we loathe
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I have become that which I hate. As I bring down the hammer of the gods of inconsequence and their wards, the stupid and stationary, I
feel the shame.
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Shame?
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Slàinte.
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Merci beaucoup
Oui, oui
Ventus, ventus.
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Lilith adores.
Diana engorges the might of Artemis and the cynicism of Perseus.
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As I look to the mirror and dismay shoots through like a sgian-dubh of truth,
claidheamh-mòr,
I lift my Lochaber axe and punish the impure because I dare not face my own.
Targe laid down.
The dirk plunges into my neck
by the phantom of reason.
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Fire. Fire. Fire.
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Water.
Ice.
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Novocaine.
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Any D&D players available.Start writing...
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Comments (6)
There is so much jammed into this poem it's impossible to unpack. I keep reading it over and over to try and unravel it, but I think maybe you did the unraveling when you wrote it. I get the sense you are torturing yourself with shame and self-loathing. I pray writing this out helped you process and find some peace.
“Hardened husk of hatred”. Ooft.
Hmm, my son is a d and d player but I'm feeling maybe this is not for him....
the venn diagrams of porn including D and D??? who knows? The list of scottish weapons was interesting.
Love this whatever it is!
Interesting is all I got to say about this. I almost thought you were going to draft some Venn diagrams in a way. Good job.