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Artist's Name: Jeff Webster
Artist's Elftown User Name: [wildCARD]
Poem Category: Realistic
Poem's Title: Because This Is What We Teach
Poem:

The red line rises
The red line falls
The eyes watch over
The politics of it all

The TV says you're worthless
The TV says you're wrong
The TV wants your money
The TV sings the song
The melody's contagious
The spending doesn't cease
The pretty one's the loved one
Because this is what we teach

The paycheck is your God
The paycheck needn't learn
The paycheck doesn't know
You are judged by what you earn
So apply for second mortgage
Buy your kids the jeans
All the pretty ones wear
Because this is what we teach.

The public is the ruler
The public owns the mind
The public controls me,
And the truths I find
The crowd is facing sunrise
So must you face the east
Conform and be enraptured
Because this is what we teach.

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Artist's Name: Katie Baker
Artist's Elftown User Name:[cowsgomoo14245]
Poem Category: dark
Poem's Title: Nothing
Poem:

i'm feeling nothing
i'm not sad
because i feel no emotion
i don't feel bad
because i feel nothing
i don't miss you
because if i did i would cry
i know what to do
because if i didn't i would die

i want to be away from you
and my decision is so true
if i have to have you
then the world will be screwed
because i can't love you
because i feel nothing for you.

and i wanna cry
or feel something
but i can't
so hurry up and die
and leave nothing
to chance

with you gone
maybe i can feel
and if i can't
i'll do something more unreal

you decided not leave
so i'll make you
and you won't live another day
i warned you.

i know it's my chance
i don't have a reason why
i wanna feel something
at least let me cry

so i raised knife
and made us seem more apart
and then you cried
and seemed to tear out my heart

but i still felt nothing
so i carved your name in my arm
and i still feel nothing
not even bodily harm.

i feel nothing
not even the blood beneath my fingertips
i feel nothing
not even remorse at what i have done
i feel nothing
not even the pounding of your heart
i feel nothing
not even shock at wat i've become
i feel nothing
not even the wound in my arm
i feel nothing
not even sadness that you're leaving me
i feel nothing
not even the pain caused from my harm
i feel nothing
because that's the way i have to be.

and i wish
i could feel
but that'd make life
seem more real

but i know
that no matter what
that i can feel only one thing
which is the empty feeling in my gut.

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Artist's Name: Andrew
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Starna]
Poem Category: Love
Poem's Title: Anniversary
Poem:
To show my love for thee I give this ring.
I care not what the others ‘round will say
Of what it means; I'll tell Thee if I may:
I've never given someone such a thing;

Thy presence lifts me on ethereal wings.
Such words are absent with which to convey
That I wish to be with Thee, and there stay
For I, with only Thee, am like a king.

But all those rich possessions I need not,
Because this new life gives a different view
Of times before when I had not been shot
With Love's sweet arrow, yet how straight it flew…
I only hope I've found what I have sought:
To make it known my love Thee is true.

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Artist's Name:Frédéric Adam
Artist's Elftown User Name:[herrschneemann]
Poem Category: Sci-fi
Poem's Title: Welcome to the future
Poem:
Welcome to 3024
Please dump all emotional distress
In the appropriate emotional trash disposer
Don't bother wipping your feet
Our new CleanyFeety 500 takes care of that for you
Don't bother hanging up your hat
Let our automated arm hang it up for you
Too tired to walk up to your chair?
That's all right, if you install the new
Getaround system you won't ever have to walk in your house again.
Too exhausted to make yourself supper?
That's ok, push the button to your right
And an intravenous injection will give your all the nutrients your body needs
Welcome to 3024
Where everything is so perfectly automated
Who needs a free will?

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Artist's Name: Tara
Artist's Elftown User Name:[MissTricky]
Poem Category: Dark
Poem's Title: A beastly Evolution
Poem:

tie my heart, to this stake
impale my love, for your sake
murder my body, mind, and soul
yank my reins, forever to pull
draw me under, suffocate my being
strangle my life, while holding me tender
capture my essence, rapture my body
tear me open, implant your seed
watch it grow, devouring me whole
laugh as it turns me, into a beastly existence
let me plunge my bloody hands, wrapping them into the darkness of its existence
castarate the evilness, binding it as my own
mockery comes from my belly, twisting pain wrenching my body
of my own, it's evil spread
holding my body, capturing my mind
insanity driving me mad, deep pleasure ripping holes
scorning me, as i begin to fall

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Artist's Name: Andrew
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Starna]
Poem Category: Deep Thoughts
Poem's Title: The Bravest Hero
Poem:

Think about the point of view
From which tales are told to you;
Winners often shoved askew
Stories that you thought you knew.

Mindless monster born in dreams,
Apparition making schemes,
Hailed fore'er with naught but screams,
He's not always what he seems.

He was helpless all along;
He was weak, the hero strong.
Was his death a bit too long?
For a hero, that seems wrong.

He's the only one who knows,
Hoping someone will expose
What it is your hero shows:
Strength ‘gainst naught but weaker foes.

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