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[sid] => 16342
[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => We Are A Walking Contradiction
[time] => 2003-04-21 13:35:00
[hometext] => unabashed self truth. funny/sad. happy/mad. clowns, puppies, talking trees. it's all here folks, step right up...
[bodytext] => like some burnt out jesus
i spout all these philosphies at you i preach to stand up and fight (while i cower and lick old wounds) i command you to not be average (while i, for all my prattlings, am nothing special) i scream out that you might as well die though i just told you to stand up and fight (while i sit and whine about life yet never find the courage to end my own) i have grown so violently sick that i have become the disease, the affliction divided, i fight against myself i am the walking contradiction i tell you that you could be a god then i inform you that you are nothing i preach that nothing really matters but as long as you're here, you might as well do something i come off like a ***** "know-it-all" when i really know nothing, my brain is dead i bellow that you should just be yourself while i slip into another mask becoming everything i hate crucifying myself for attention i'm only pretending to be a poseur confused, a walking contradiction like the bible, i betray myself with every word i say tomorrow i'll deny all of this i'm just feeling honest today in the mirror, i see myself yet, he doesn't seem quite like me so, let's see, there's me, the other me and mirror me makes three in truth, everything is a lie, so, i guess that too is a lie if you're wondering why we're telling you this don't ask us, we don't know why i share this body with my twin and it makes for strange self-conversation don't ask him, he'd just lie to you truth is, we're a walking contradiction [comments] => 4 [counter] => 168 [topic] => 13 [informant] => Cancer [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )
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