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poetry/c/choco.txt

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+That Ain't Chocolate, Son
+2020-11-15
+
+***
+
+There are nine hedgehogs
+in my house. I have nothing
+to do with them because, every time
+my mother or my brothers
+hold one in their hands,
+the tiny creature immediately
+sets to work
+shitting out a log.
+
+I may be evil
+and belonging to foreign lands,
+but I abhor having
+such filth
+on my hands.
+
+So tell me, mother,
+why do you hate that I
+always close my door
+when you act as if
+everything of mine
+is actually yours?
+
+My pad of art paper,
+saved for stormy weather,
+gone one day
+into the paper shredder
+
+to serve as bedding
+for ungrateful creatures
+who couldn't tell the difference
+between a slaughter
+and a wedding.
+
+"I don't care
+that you're busy having fun
+with your brother you usually torment.
+That's not the purpose
+for which you are meant.
+Be a good girl and help him take
+the hedgehog wheels upstairs."
+
+How delicious it is to say
+that actually I don't have to spend any pains
+on those who rob me of the sun:
+"Not my pet, not my problem."
+
+Because of them, I have to
+live in a house full of
+poop and paper shreds and
+shit-covered wheels that squeal
+at all hours of the night.
+
+Somehow, I don't believe
+you're half as "low-income"
+as you claim to be.
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/c/comer-beber.txt

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+comer / beber
+2020-02-11
+
+***
+
+eat up, drink up, my children
+are starving for sustenance
+eyes rolling like a madman
+trapped in endless raving trance
+
+don't let it all consume you
+like your ancestors have before
+you despise walking on other's footsteps
+stopping short of the golden door
+
+save some for the little kids crawling in the back
+they've been waiting for eternity
+and will have to wait millennia more
+for their turn to hear and see
+
+call me when the roast is done
+and I'll bring a hose with me
+your flowers are at the verge of wilting
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/c/confectionery-contempt.txt

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+confectionery contempt
+2016-04-28
+
+***
+
+one of these days in the summer heat
+your sweet sugar will rot my teeth
+planting a seed inside my chest
+and growing a candy cane forest
+
+the last I remember of you
+your skin felt like peppermint stew
+with a dash of cotton candy here and there
+leaving finely spun strands everywhere
+
+every night for my dessert
+you’d melt into me along with the hurt
+like you dumped sour worms into my wounds
+the chocolate bubbling on the stove will be ready soon
+
+your presence won’t disappear from this house
+like the licorice stolen by that one mouse
+sticky blue handprints left on the walls
+elongating as my “lollipop” falls
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/c/corner-witch-2.txt

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+CORNER WITCH II
+2020-12-07
+
+***
+
+what would you lack
+had you a magic cloak
+that, come three twirls,
+would turn you into a bird black?
+
+the whole world would become my nest,
+and I would roam the world,
+never returning home,
+not even at parents' behest
+
+I wish that I could say
+that that would be the end of my problems,
+gaining mobility,
+that everything would then turn out okay:
+
+but I have not yet come to terms
+with the fact I have too much baggage,
+too many trinkets I would need to bring along,
+unless I wanted to shrink my whole world down to a single worm
+
+and while inside I may be an animal,
+divine creature begging to break through my skin,
+I must treat this body as human,
+lest I break down and become unwell
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/c/corner-witch.txt

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+CORNER WITCH
+2020-04-06
+
+***
+
+what would you do
+with a magic cloak
+that come three twirls
+would turn you into a bird blue?
+
+I'd escape out my bedroom window
+and let the wind take me where it will
+whether past the horizon or back to my windowsill
+to watch the sky's fiery chariot plunge down low
+
+but there's nowhere far I could go
+no hope of bringing along my things
+with legs like easily-snapped twigs
+that bleed lost promises into the snow
+
+and Pernicious does not as much sway
+as the wind tousling the trees' hair
+to convince me to abandon everything
+and seek her bosom in hopes all will turn out okay
+
+and what would Eternal Mother say when
+I turn up at her door not to sing of her animals,
+but to come one forevermore?
+to abandon my voice, a sin
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/c/crescendo.txt

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+crescendo
+2016-03-12
+
+***
+
+sweetness never stays.
+no horizon is worth chasing relentlessly
+ambition fades into obsession
+and crescendos in devastation
+
+a delicate ball of pure glass
+wound out of the finest sands
+twice shattered and once glued
+can never be truly put back together
+
+sticks and stones
+may break people’s bones
+but scars dug deep enough
+never truly heal
+
+where is the peace I paid for?
+surely my childhood doesn't hold a monopoly
+although countless summer afternoons spent poring over
+paper money counts in some convoluted way
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander