There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.


Hubert Selby Jr.

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I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
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All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
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It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
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You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
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I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
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My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
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She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
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And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
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I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
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He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
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Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
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She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
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When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
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Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
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My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
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Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
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She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
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She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
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That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
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I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
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She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
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He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
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These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
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In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
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She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
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As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
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That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
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I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
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Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
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She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
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She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the pag...
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And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke ...
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The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.
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Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.
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I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh....
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They flew to avoid the horrors of land and sea, Daedalus and Icarus were for few moments free. Thoug...
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With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the not...
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He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could t...
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He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretc...
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Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops,...
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Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
And you a woman o...
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An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
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Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
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...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
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It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer...
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Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've ...
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