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Lxnnnie Rutledzh

Lxnnnie Rutledzh

Hurricane Smile

I pay no attention to the forecast,
 I just blend into the weather.
 
Was it not clever
 to attempt to tether
   our pleasures together
     to the feathers of forever?
 
I knew you were a dream
 when I was going through you.

(2014)

#FeatherHurricane #Love #Splitting #Weather

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Swaying within the context of mad-made slime, Like a pendulum bound to the sky with time.
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Desangrarse

They say that time heals all wounds and I will be fine, But they don’t know I’ll bleed to death—
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defied by hell beside myself i tried to tell this lie so well. if only my skill
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Don’t You Dare Bury Me

Let me molder on the surface of the Earth. Leave me on dirt with dross and peace. Let the four seasons sweep over my husk. In blood crush dust and petrified grease…. A feast for my inse...
Little Miss Giving

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Flibbertigibbet

In the spirit of dire news he’s holed his old souls! Walking so hard and so long through the coals. But you cannot master fire
45 Bayberry Drive

Set inside a suburban puzzle Of which I solved 2 years prior. It’s a plain house. One point two. But not that I know of….
Lying In Man's Broken Own

Someday the Earth will open with… To eat its own and save itself fro… This murk we shape from life is va… We bow our heads to the shame we e… You see—you know—and yet you drive…
Racing Chainbows

Amazed and confused. My aura is bruised. God knows what? We are not amused. It’s almost all of a sudden.
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Antipledge

I pledge allegiance to nothing. This rag couldn’t keep me warm, I’ll rip it in strips Make thick knuckle grips, Be the truest truant in the storm.
Eliminationship

As you brandish your corrosive clo… And cannons of musty dystopian dus… I’ve eyed the serpents that tangle… Determined to render my shine to r… Their sly malevolence and curious…
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Will

I will walk into this hurricane an… I will travel in peace with that g… I will ground your lightning again… I will mull my scarred skin into s… I will outlive this native curse.
The Cannot Be Known

(Mother, Don’t Read This.) On days overcast when the rain is… And the queen doesn’t growl in her… I’m so here in the now—so here in… Like when I was young, just first…
Driving

like an electron ricocheting out of orbit straight ahead— SO STRAIGHT! The horizon before me
The Poisoned Chalice

Pitch-black flashback Immaculate hallucination. As I wring the sweat from my memo… Into this laceration. The only love I’ve ever had,



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