Happy

By HarmonicDiscordance

'happy' is an exploration of identity, isolation, and detachment in the contemporary world. It traverses such themes through an alternating sequence of free-verse poems and tweets, covering a period of eight months of the author's life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarmonicDiscordance
• Release date: Feb 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465816979

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to everyone who has ever loved me

I’m sorry

My Plan for the Future

Poetry festers inside of me like a tumescent growth, so I will tear it out and hold it aloft as a pulsating trophy

Millions will stare and clap and admire me, as I wander through the grimy streets, fist thrust far into the air

But even as this great procession spreads I begin to feel a pain spearing through my distorted organs

So I cringe, and gaze across a million vacant faces, and try to find one that will tell me that it will be alright

They all watch intently, as I curl and writhe and gasp, tears welling and subsiding in a grotesque rhythm

The crowd begins to leave, I shake and twitch, spilling words across the streets, a flood of unintelligible sound

My eyes blink rapidly, still searching for something to cling to, but there are only a thousand bodies twisted towards the exit.

My chest heaves, and I begin to reach inside myself, grasping another poem, gritting my teeth as I pull outwards again.

Ravage your body such that no disease can exist in it.

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