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PEMDAS
Unequivocally I need your touch Your love Your lust Inhale me In burning lungs Soaring eyes Let me be lost Layered up Break my bones...

Paul Clive
Jan 51 min read
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A New Creation
Out of that cryogenic sleep The first sentient thought was one of hunger Gnawing and unnerving in its depth An untraceable urge The thick...

Paul Clive
Jul 14, 20241 min read
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The Bootstrap
I have built this place to get to her. Projected her like a shadow on my wall. A memory, a ghast, a shade, a thought. And from the fire...

Paul Clive
May 20, 20242 min read
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Squirm
Let the crickets dance and chirp They rise and writhe and squirm And click and kick In the depths of the pit When from the depths I...

Paul Clive
May 3, 20242 min read
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Vermilion
Bring it down Like fire on my tongue In places deeper Oblivion Vermilion In velvet flames Dancing darkness Invading veins Colors running...

Paul Clive
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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a devil and a crone
set for liftoff get these machine parts moving right these wrongs reset these bones somehow eldritch someone silent something wicked this...

Paul Clive
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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Tempest's Edge
Pulling at the cosmic roots I find the river calling I fall into the Heaven's wrath I hunger for a ruling Setting fire to discipline I...

Paul Clive
Jul 12, 20231 min read
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Pummeling Apocalypses
A transitive resistance Rubber-banding there and back again With dangerous business Put on back burners lit Burning these eternities...

Paul Clive
Jun 22, 20231 min read
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Wholehearted
Wholehearted You are a star forever blooming A galaxy unfurling Super nova looming A glowing cosmic rarity Your beauty incalculable With...

Paul Clive
May 14, 20231 min read
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Lash or Leash
Self-control asleep at the wheel Buried in the kind of task That carries only a sick appeal Back to sleep At arms length Never withheld...

Paul Clive
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Fail to Hate
Fail to Hate Devoured in vines Skies clad in iron Roses like wires Rusted but still bolted down Neglected aches Still stitches for days...

Paul Clive
Oct 11, 20221 min read
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Loam Behold
LOAM Minutes run backward Scatter and skedaddle Straddling midnight hell bent Back way far past the one My eyes have been kept open Past...

Paul Clive
Sep 3, 20221 min read
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Upside
Life is full of ups and downs, whether you are struggling or not, whether you are healthy or not. Even when things are going well it can...

Paul Clive
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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Worthier
Trying to focus on dreams worthy of pursuing and keep yourself from getting discouraged. It can be hard to find that balance between hope...

Paul Clive
Apr 15, 20222 min read
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Carbohydrates
First fool day of April. Admittedly unsure of what to make of this. Written under the influence. No average joes allowed. Broken pieces...

Paul Clive
Apr 2, 20222 min read
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Captive
Communication can be difficult, even more so when there is physical and emotional distance between people. It can often feel like we are...

Paul Clive
Mar 29, 20221 min read
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Manufactured Heart
What happens in a world where love is a commodity and we are forced to sell ourselves like products? Cut out the vulnerability, brush...

Paul Clive
Mar 18, 20222 min read
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Monsters in Margins
We're off the edge of the map, Jack Of Monsters and Margins Off the edge of the map Where monsters are in the margins The devils in the...

Paul Clive
Feb 19, 20222 min read
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Constellations
Holding our emotions inside can be difficult, especially when we are caught in a swirling sea. As the storm of life tosses us we run out...

Paul Clive
Jan 16, 20222 min read
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The Rock
The Rock Echoes of this piecemeal thunder Crushing clanking gears of stone Unwieldy chains like words unspoken The ungodly strong...

Paul Clive
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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