Ryan Madrigal (Poetry)
the edge of the earth
I was told to stand at the edge of the earth.
I fell forward and began my descent.
I turned to him and asked for his assistance.
"Who am I to determine your fate?" he inquired.
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The truth is that I never needed his help.
I severed my head so that I could see the world for what it really is.
I'm not a believer.
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I hit the ground; exploded.
My flesh ripped itself away from my body and proceeded to gather my entrails from the power-lines.
I stood and turned to audience.
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I carried her to safety, and she returned the favor.
I was asked to hit her, and I obliged.
I was rewarded.
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It's time to make a life for the two of us.
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"Have you ever heard anything like this before?"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
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He swooped; his wings engulfed me in the flames that I had always been so wary of.
I only ever know what not to say... or at least I think so.
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I decided to take my beer-goggles off.
It's hard to believe that at that particular time in my life I actually cared for you.
white noise
Diet Coke and Resin for breakfast.
Every cricket shall succumb to the sprays of my aerosol gun.
"Life isn't fair when you're breathing underwater,
And I wasn't prepared to prepare the bathtub for the Martyr."
I've been swimming and dreaming and grinning and scheming.
You've been having trouble with your daily life.
I was crazy when I mentioned to you that I was capable of establishing any form of self-realization.
You called me crazy when I held your hand.
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Sliding up my leg; you'll find which way to go.
Any eel with a feel for a real banana peel could tell the difference
between a rapist and a president; a canvas and a garbage can;
a lighter and a cigarette; the 'past,' the 'present,' and what hasn't even happened yet.
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Cash-in your tickets for the grand prize:
A well-placed piece of lead between the eyes.
I've been throwing out Sunday's news to keep away the Monday Blues.
I'm Teal by Tuesday.
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One false move and down you go.
The binding's breaking, crawl back into the empty shit-filled hole that knows you by name.
So busy swimming up-current that I forgot to come back home.
The buzzer rings out. The tires flatten. My stomach empties. My mind implodes. I still feel the same.
Hum me to sleep.
Don't leave me here to lie awake.
Rip the teeth right out of my fucking mouth,
so that I may speak.
I was always careful not to spend too much time in cold weather.
As light as a feather; As long as forever; Come on Baby, I want to play BEAR-Pong together.
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Getting back to 'You and I' keeps my future busy.
You were too good for definitions. You embody 'Misery.'
A mispronunciation could land you in jail for life.
It's a good thing that God is cutting everyone's tongue out tonight.
Didn't you believe me when I said that I would stay here?
Is it difficult to take your clothes off every night and call it your career?
By all means, take back all of the shit that I used to pretend to care about.
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White noise makes good boys into more white noise that destroys and employs
more small boys to make more white noise that deploys death droids and more and more and more white noise.
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I'm a genius that doesn't know much. I'm an endless abyss with a modern-touch.
I'm drinking liquids with the air inside.
My lips are happy, but my stomach is in for a big surprise.
No more lies. I just want to get high and eat fries and lie about my life.
Take off my blindfold to find no eyes. When I am alone; that's when I realize exactly that.
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A parking lot holds all of the empty urns that I've come across in my travels.
Wood binds to paper and it's smashed all together; tall tales for short-order cooks.
I've missed licking your teeth for months, but now I think I'll go to sleep.
Let's make all the same choices, live out the same lives, dream the same dreams.
My brainwaves are destroying cities with every heartbeat, but for now, they're on repeat.
... on repeat.
... on repeat.
... on repeat.
... on rerererererererererererererererererererererererererererererererererererepeat.
i don't know many things
I'll travel down the coastline.
I decided to leave it alone, and you're all about marriage plans.
Something I can't stand, something that I won't be havin'
Keep grabbin', Keep grabbin' me where it hurts the most.
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I saw a shooting star and blinked at the same time.
I told you that I could do this on my own.
An agnostic anaconda makes his own way through the dripping slime,
But I don't have the time, I'll take whats mine, and to your surprise,
I'm leaving.
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I met my maker when I was 8 years old.
I asked him if he meant all of the things that he never said.
He had nothing to say, I asked him to make haste, and I hoped that he could get rid of the bitter taste that I had always left in his mouth.
"You're a disappointment, an annoyance, and my worst enemy."
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I've seen pigs fly, I've seen hundreds die.
The salty sea-air is calling me. Fly baby, fly!
I've seen a drunk man pass a sobriety test.
You're the best; at least I thought that you were the best.
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A noose in a tree. "That just isn't me."
Give me liberty or give me weed.
A bowl a day keeps the tummy aches away.
I'll go to court, I'll lose the case, and I'll die alone.
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A match called disease engulfed me in isolation.
A snap of the fingers, and tilt of the head. I'm dead.
I saw you in my hospital, I fucked you once.
Please let me know, let me know when the nurse is done.
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Our hands intertwined, I loved you.
I stumbled over my own two feet, out of the blue.
"Want to shove this in the my chest? It is all for the best...."
I have the power to save the ones you love.
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Grizzly bears don't comb their hair.
You're exactly as I thought you'd be.
I hope that your brother has learned to share.
A chop to the neck, where's the respect?
I've known you way too long.
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My wrists are interesting in the sense that they don't exist.
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I caught myself at the edge and asked the simplest of questions...
'Where am I going?'
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Its been difficult, trying to dispose of you.
Stick around, I'll be in town..
i'm dead, 100% serious
Fifteen Hundred.
Six Minutes and Thirty Seconds.
The microwave meets the snowstorm.
The naive meet the misinformed.
Delicately, I make my case.
Decadence, I shall know your taste.
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Relationship via satellite.
To try too hard is to prescribe the end of it all.
I've broken hearts and I've broken vows,
but this mental montage just screams too loud
for me to go without practicing patience.
"Your absence was the reason for my past dismay."
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Your heart; our start.
States; plane-flights; oceans apart.
Stay up tonight, I want to know you, again.
The bay area, no gray areas.
I'm dead, 100% serious.
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Time will decide
if uncertainty will subside.
It's all just a matter of time.
Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.
mountains
I popped a Vicky and took a shot of Pepto to curb the nausea.
My mind is in the gutter.
A blue football to keep the trembling away.
I drifted down a river running North.
I don't believe in any of you.
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I struggled with the sunlight.
I struggled with the breeze.
This head, this spine, these fucking knees of mine.
I'll keep heading down as long as I end up at the top.
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My reflection sends me the same message every time that we visit.
"You're DYING."
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I shower, but I don't quite feel clean.
I eat, but the inflammation and the food can never quite agree.
I hope to hear your voice in this crowd, in this sweat-drenched, bloody-nosed, shit-faced crowd.
Cigarette Smokers are arsonists, all the same.
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I'm so trapped.
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Home is where the heart is.
I swear that I didn't start this.
"Get off the fucking phone man, have a beer, take a shot!"
I'll take a shot all right...
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He'll turn his life around.
He'll be just like everyone else.
He'll be just fine.
He'll be all right.
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Party, it's your birthday.
Watch the news. The right to choose. A game of Sorry; You always lose.
What more is a dollar bill than a small sample of greed?
I KNOW that you're in need. I just might not be there soon, or ever.
"When are you going to fucking WAKE UP?! PLEASE FUCKING WAKE UP!"
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There's a house of brilliant white.
It's where he rehearses his lines each night.
There is no wrong or right. Freedom is about choices, not OPTIONS.
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Throw a football accurately... receive 78 million dollars.
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I sit in silence, wondering.
300 dollars for a piece of plastic?
Fill.
Push.
Shove.
Blood.
'Thank you so much!'
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I can't remember falling asleep.
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Through the smog I can see the ocean.
Through the fog I can see my mountains.
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Can you see your mountains?
hollywood
As the spotlight falls upon center stage,
Broken bodies find new life; new age.
It's all relative to your newfound state of mind.
Take everything; take all remorse, take all of the time in the world.
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And the light can still burn all you've ever known;
Destroy what you've thought, show that you've never grown.
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The TelePrompTer's purging ignorance
Your smile has never looked so picturesque
But it could be all for none
"And the award goes to..."
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The audience is on the silver screen.
Disappointment befalls the mainstream
Independence meets a scapegoat.
Dreamers and draftsmen, take notice.
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And the light shys away from you; broken.
"We've got full coverage of tonight's events.
More at Eleven."