Can't Do Anything Right by FacepalmToMe, literature
Literature
Can't Do Anything Right
I drove a friend to work in
The middle of a snow day;
As a reward for being a Good Samaritan
(I had tons of schoolwork to do
But I still came over to help)
I got into an accident.
What happened?
I was blamed, yelled at,
Given a ticket for trying to stop
The car and slipping on ice instead.
A need to pass my classes sent me
Into a flurry of alarms, taking notes
Of everything that happened so
I can remember how not to fuck up --
And what do I do?
I don't get the alarms to notify me
And I end up missing assignments;
It doesn't sound like a big deal but
I need to make sure I get the
Best grade possible --
What's a good grade if I fucking
Missed
"You think you're so edgy
Writing 'deep' poems
And pretending you're a great poet;
All you're doing is seeking attention,
Acting like you know how grammar works
When you clearly don't (which isn't cute), and
Pressing Enter after every unpoetic line
To make it look like free verse when
All it is, is shitty Tumblr imitations
Of what those dumbasses think are
Free verse and deep poems.
You're a fucking joke and I,
Knowing so much more than you,
Can tell you this much:
You're a sham,
You're ignorant to the arts,
And you need a less-stupid hobby
To pour your poorly-built energy into."
You stop talking,
Having rest your case with a
Smug look on
No on has a genuine nice side
As I've come to notice;
Every compliment is buffed with a negative
Hidden in the dark,
Every promise with a potential back stab,
Every Downer behind the mask of Happy.
A boss will be nice to her employee
And then talk shit about him,
Behind his back,
To his coworkers;
A person will pretend to
Be happy for their friend
When in reality they're hoping
Their friend doesn't achieve more
Success than them;
A crush will pretend it's fine to be
Someone's reason to live
While in reality secretly loathes them
And wishes they don't exist.
There is no person with both
A good and bad side --
There's a being that,
Day by da
I have a voice but people hate it,
And they show their hatred
With always interrupting me
Whenever I got something to say --
They can't just cut off and say their shit,
They have to push their thoughts down
My throat as hard as they can
And when I'm sputtering and lost
They're chuckling, feeling smug with themselves.
Sometimes I get the rare occurrence
To speak my mind, put some of
What I think makes sense out in the open;
And what do I get?
I get mocked, insulted, bashed in the head
All because I decided to open my mouth
And put what they didn't think of in perspective.
Interruptions,
Insults,
What a shitty strategy, but fuck
What an eff
I consider myself a loyal friend;
I'll keep your secrets,
Help you get through rough times,
Make you laugh when you need it,
Listen when you want to be understood --
I might not be a good friend
Sometimes, but I'll try to be
The best kind of friend
Anyone can rely on.
I'm chill if you want to do
Something that I don't agree on,
I'll go through the lengths to make
Sure I have freedom for some us time,
I'll do anything to keep you
Smiling after a bad day, even if
It means breaking a couple of rules.
What I can't do is have you use me.
It may not be much, but our visits
Are getting fewer and fewer
As you're getting yourself busy
With your n
I don't drink to fit in
Nor to look cool to
The people looking in my life.
I drink to get out my
Improved self,
The one who's mellow.
Happy.
Proud of others.
The one who acts like
How a human being should
Fucking act.
I'm worthless sober.
A computer glitch.
A human error.
Sober me wonders why
I'm still single.
Why I'm not worth
Being loved.
Tipsy me knows the truth:
I'm worse than trailer trash.
It's better if I stay single;
No one deserves to be touched
By my toxicity, my hatred.
But tipsy me is okay with it;
I'm too busy being proud
Like a father would, for
Those who create to make themselves happy,
Who share the little thing
I'm getting hand me downs
From everyone around me who
No longer needs it and thought
It'd be a good idea to give
Them to me.
I'm playing both siblings for
Mom so she won't be lonely;
Sister left for Cali and won't be back.
Dad checked out, so I'm
The one driving her to places both
Dad and Sister would expect me to
Drive her to - after all,
They gave me their places in the family.
I was recommended a job of a friend's
And given his old apron and hat;
After the first shift he decided out of the blue,
To give me his single status,
And a mutual friend's, too.
"We're together," he says with a smile,
Not bothering to think why I would
Want to
There’s something wrong with me -
Too much unhappiness around me
And almost all my thoughts are
Violent, invading, and bitter;
I mar the skin on my arms
To make those thoughts and feelings
Disappear for the time being,
Only to repeat the cycle
After a brief time;
There are times I try
Not to cry because if I do,
Then that’s one more
Unforgivable mess
For me to deal with;
I’m not too suicidal,
But I have a habit of just
Wondering why I’m still alive -
Am I at all important in the world?
Would anyone outside of
The family I was given to
Realize I wouldn’t be there anymore?
“Kids these days are too sens
Safe Place In a Fictional Land by FacepalmToMe, literature
Literature
Safe Place In a Fictional Land
One of the most painful things about
Falling in love with books
Is not having the ability to
Literally go into the world and
Communicate with your favorite characters,
And knowing that there's no
Way for this option to ever open up.
Another painful thing
Is to only find a safe place
In a fictional land, with comfortable
Conversations and warm laughter,
Not in the world you live in,
With verbal beatdowns, invasive thoughts
And in a constant state of worry.
But perhaps the biggest tragedy
Of it all is avoiding the books
You fell in love with because
They offer this safe place you
Want to be in, all locked up with
A key you'll never have acces
Can't Do Anything Right by FacepalmToMe, literature
Literature
Can't Do Anything Right
I drove a friend to work in
The middle of a snow day;
As a reward for being a Good Samaritan
(I had tons of schoolwork to do
But I still came over to help)
I got into an accident.
What happened?
I was blamed, yelled at,
Given a ticket for trying to stop
The car and slipping on ice instead.
A need to pass my classes sent me
Into a flurry of alarms, taking notes
Of everything that happened so
I can remember how not to fuck up --
And what do I do?
I don't get the alarms to notify me
And I end up missing assignments;
It doesn't sound like a big deal but
I need to make sure I get the
Best grade possible --
What's a good grade if I fucking
Missed
"You think you're so edgy
Writing 'deep' poems
And pretending you're a great poet;
All you're doing is seeking attention,
Acting like you know how grammar works
When you clearly don't (which isn't cute), and
Pressing Enter after every unpoetic line
To make it look like free verse when
All it is, is shitty Tumblr imitations
Of what those dumbasses think are
Free verse and deep poems.
You're a fucking joke and I,
Knowing so much more than you,
Can tell you this much:
You're a sham,
You're ignorant to the arts,
And you need a less-stupid hobby
To pour your poorly-built energy into."
You stop talking,
Having rest your case with a
Smug look on
No on has a genuine nice side
As I've come to notice;
Every compliment is buffed with a negative
Hidden in the dark,
Every promise with a potential back stab,
Every Downer behind the mask of Happy.
A boss will be nice to her employee
And then talk shit about him,
Behind his back,
To his coworkers;
A person will pretend to
Be happy for their friend
When in reality they're hoping
Their friend doesn't achieve more
Success than them;
A crush will pretend it's fine to be
Someone's reason to live
While in reality secretly loathes them
And wishes they don't exist.
There is no person with both
A good and bad side --
There's a being that,
Day by da
I have a voice but people hate it,
And they show their hatred
With always interrupting me
Whenever I got something to say --
They can't just cut off and say their shit,
They have to push their thoughts down
My throat as hard as they can
And when I'm sputtering and lost
They're chuckling, feeling smug with themselves.
Sometimes I get the rare occurrence
To speak my mind, put some of
What I think makes sense out in the open;
And what do I get?
I get mocked, insulted, bashed in the head
All because I decided to open my mouth
And put what they didn't think of in perspective.
Interruptions,
Insults,
What a shitty strategy, but fuck
What an eff
I consider myself a loyal friend;
I'll keep your secrets,
Help you get through rough times,
Make you laugh when you need it,
Listen when you want to be understood --
I might not be a good friend
Sometimes, but I'll try to be
The best kind of friend
Anyone can rely on.
I'm chill if you want to do
Something that I don't agree on,
I'll go through the lengths to make
Sure I have freedom for some us time,
I'll do anything to keep you
Smiling after a bad day, even if
It means breaking a couple of rules.
What I can't do is have you use me.
It may not be much, but our visits
Are getting fewer and fewer
As you're getting yourself busy
With your n
I don't drink to fit in
Nor to look cool to
The people looking in my life.
I drink to get out my
Improved self,
The one who's mellow.
Happy.
Proud of others.
The one who acts like
How a human being should
Fucking act.
I'm worthless sober.
A computer glitch.
A human error.
Sober me wonders why
I'm still single.
Why I'm not worth
Being loved.
Tipsy me knows the truth:
I'm worse than trailer trash.
It's better if I stay single;
No one deserves to be touched
By my toxicity, my hatred.
But tipsy me is okay with it;
I'm too busy being proud
Like a father would, for
Those who create to make themselves happy,
Who share the little thing
I'm getting hand me downs
From everyone around me who
No longer needs it and thought
It'd be a good idea to give
Them to me.
I'm playing both siblings for
Mom so she won't be lonely;
Sister left for Cali and won't be back.
Dad checked out, so I'm
The one driving her to places both
Dad and Sister would expect me to
Drive her to - after all,
They gave me their places in the family.
I was recommended a job of a friend's
And given his old apron and hat;
After the first shift he decided out of the blue,
To give me his single status,
And a mutual friend's, too.
"We're together," he says with a smile,
Not bothering to think why I would
Want to
There’s something wrong with me -
Too much unhappiness around me
And almost all my thoughts are
Violent, invading, and bitter;
I mar the skin on my arms
To make those thoughts and feelings
Disappear for the time being,
Only to repeat the cycle
After a brief time;
There are times I try
Not to cry because if I do,
Then that’s one more
Unforgivable mess
For me to deal with;
I’m not too suicidal,
But I have a habit of just
Wondering why I’m still alive -
Am I at all important in the world?
Would anyone outside of
The family I was given to
Realize I wouldn’t be there anymore?
“Kids these days are too sens
Safe Place In a Fictional Land by FacepalmToMe, literature
Literature
Safe Place In a Fictional Land
One of the most painful things about
Falling in love with books
Is not having the ability to
Literally go into the world and
Communicate with your favorite characters,
And knowing that there's no
Way for this option to ever open up.
Another painful thing
Is to only find a safe place
In a fictional land, with comfortable
Conversations and warm laughter,
Not in the world you live in,
With verbal beatdowns, invasive thoughts
And in a constant state of worry.
But perhaps the biggest tragedy
Of it all is avoiding the books
You fell in love with because
They offer this safe place you
Want to be in, all locked up with
A key you'll never have acces
gathering thoughts by librarian-of-hell, literature
Literature
gathering thoughts
I don't feel like discourse today
and that's okay -
let's leave politics to those who have a future -
I used to thrive on academia:
looking at things from a distance makes them pretty
but now their ugly has caught up with me -
is this what happens when you know too much?
because I still feel like I know nothing...
three pounds is about one and a half kilogram
and that is what I think of as my full weight
because the rest is just an excuse for the world
to encourage self-induced malnourishment -
but you call me a chemical imbalance
simply for crying out for what I need
and painting snapshots of the world I want
and it makes me feel cold -
y
Twas the Night before Net Neutrality was lost by Charlemagne1, literature
Literature
Twas the Night before Net Neutrality was lost
Twas’ the night before the net neutrality vote, and all through the net'
Not a blogger was frightened, nor had reason to fret.
The memes were posted across the message boards with care
In hopes that new users would soon like and share.
The children were Skyping all snug in their beds
While thanks for speedy service danced through their heads.
Yet the internet’s websites, and I a humble user
Had just got a tweet from some sort of accuser?
Then out of Reddit their exploded such an outcry
I sprang to Hot Topic to see what was awry!
Away to the servers, I researched and gasped
When I found out the laws the FCC had just passed!
The sha
Poetry,
yeah, I write poetry
Why tough?
I don’t even want to
Whenever I sit down I just write some poems
Then I put ’em online and show ’em
to people I don’t know
Why? Just so?
They’re not even special
don’t follow any traditional
rules were never my thing
just put simple rhymes at the end of my lines
well, at least most of the times
But all my characters, they’re lost without me
Just as I am without their company
Even when I do work on my little trilogy
I am always stuck working out the backstory
It’s just so much work
to create a whole world
from only your fantasy
A feasible concept for ti
Depression isn’t true, my dear
Depression isn’t real.
It’s just a silly tragedy
You’ve forced yourself to feel.
Anxiety is fake, my friend
You wonder why it’s there.
But others have it worse than you!
Stop forming false despair.
Cutting is dramatic, love,
It’s ugly, and it’s dumb.
Why not just get over it?
Is the attention fun?
Suicide is stupid, dear,
And selfish, if I may.
Get over yourself, darling,
Can you hear these things I say?
Why aren’t you replying, love?
Oh, where could you have gone?
I never meant to hurt you, love,
Did I say something wrong?
Why aren’t you replying, dear
I find myself
to be the odd one
out of the group
but merely shrug
I am used to it
not fitting into
one clique or
the other
I wander by myself
no longer caring anymore
They had all formed long
before I joined anyway
Dear Self I Hate You More Than by LittleCloudNana, literature
Literature
Dear Self I Hate You More Than
Dear Self,
I realize today that I hate you more today than I did yesterday.
Dear Self,
I learned today the extent of how much you can't do anything right and how incompetent you are.
Dear Self,
I feel you should know I hope you die.
Dear Self,
It's taking all the restraint in the world not to drown you in the bath tub.
Dear Self,
Just the fact that I know you're happy even for a second makes me sick.
I also know that the happiness you're feeling is my fault. I'll fix that.
Dear Self,
Get a grip.
Dear Self,
No one cares.
Dear Self,
Are you seriously disappointed? What did you expect? Have you ever MET me?
Dear Self,
Please.
I'm on here posting poetry to vent. I usually write stories and post them elsewhere. This year I decided to make a website of short stories I've written called MidniteTales. It's a fun little project that I hope gets to some people.
You know what's worse than characters that won't shut up in your head while you're sleeping? Characters that won't shut up while you're sleeping AND somehow managed to 'break' your hands so you can't write. (You have no idea where to start or how to write it out.)
I bet you if you search for any writer online, you'll have a big chance of finding out their reason for writing is something close to, "My characters needed to be heard." Do I have characters that say they need to be heard? Yep, but they'd rather just show me with hilarious acts than just tell me.
There was this story I wrote when I was eight. If you read it now (I
Now that I'm rethinking the title over, that sounds wrong. Let me explain.
I don't call him Dad anymore, which I've already made clear. Yeah, you're probably thinking, "If you're calling him Sperm Donor, that must mean he took your credit cards and gave you a flip phone instead of an iPhone, you ungrateful brat." Actually, the credit card thing was one time, but I deserved it. And I don't have a flip phone; it's on of those prepaid ones, which I'm fine with.
That's not the point. The (better) reasons I call him that is because of the many stupid-ass things he's done. How so? Okay, Listy Time:
He's made tactless efforts in ma
So, here are the basics of me, besides what I've mentioned in the other entry:
I'm a female-to-male transgender (Got a problem? Fuck off. There, problem solved.)
I have a sense of humor. What kind? If I think it's funny, I'll laugh.I have problems. Who doesn't? How do I deal with them? That's something different.I've been described as 'chill' by people who are not me. In other words, if you feel like you're offending me in some way, don't worry. I generally don't give a crap about most things; if I am, I'll let you know.I have abandonment issues. I don't know why.I'm passionate with writing.
Alright, now that I have the list crap
Thanks for looking at my screenplay. Let me know what you think when you get a chance to read it. And I can handle it if you didn't like it too. Just looking for an honest opinion on it.