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Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back MAG

By Anonymous

     We are pirates of the
cruelest kind.
We plunder emotions
pillage intimacy
and rape the mind.
The world is our ocean
and we build our ship of
pretty words that lack substance.
We knock back bottles of
pocket distillation
brewed from weakness and
sweetened with lies.
We answer to all and to none.
So trust nothing visceral
for there’s no honor amongst thieves
like you and me,
with you selling me your
bootleg affection
and me, for all my talk
of a cutlass for a heart
buying it nonetheless.
And while I’m still not sure
what it was I stole from you,
I guess it’s nothing important,
nothing you’d miss.




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i love this so much!

on Dec. 31 2016 at 6:28 am
Black_Pool BRONZE, Al Sharjah, Other
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Everything is beautiful but beautiful isn't everything.

Awesome poem

Calum SILVER said...
on Aug. 16 2015 at 2:58 pm
Calum SILVER, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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What does this represent?

noir-e BRONZE said...
on Feb. 12 2014 at 10:47 pm
noir-e BRONZE, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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amazing from start to finish

on Nov. 30 2013 at 7:35 pm
bahannahpeel PLATINUM, Bloomington, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
"Schools corrupt the mind." The Loco Focos

I'm not even sure what to say... I want to ask you about it but I also don't want to know... Wow. WOW. Poignant. 

on Feb. 15 2013 at 10:29 pm
Maggie99 SILVER, Versailles, Kentucky
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Favorite Quote:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost

Agreed.   

kmcn33 BRONZE said...
on Dec. 21 2012 at 1:57 pm
kmcn33 BRONZE, Needham, Massachusetts
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I was much too far out all my life / And not waving but drowning

Incredible........

on Feb. 8 2011 at 10:05 am
BlueInk94 PLATINUM, Valley Park, Missouri
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....speechless.....

Pillow BRONZE said...
on Jan. 14 2010 at 9:47 pm
Pillow BRONZE, Spokane, Washington
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Nothing says oops like a wall of flame.

Whoa and wow at the same time.