February 2012
4 posts
this has nothing to do with derrick brown but i just wanted to say that support pants are the best things in the world
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After the soft coals of sleep
the scratching at my bedroom door returns
and...
– No Walls, No Go
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You are silent with your head to his breast
searching for the heartbeat.
You...
– The Declaration of Interdependence
January 2012
18 posts
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When did we become a library of children,
shelved like great novels
no one had...
– Come Alive
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The kids grab the rails and run this carousel into momentum
set it spinning...
– The Declaration of Interdependence
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Your name is a melody that might not last long,
but listen…
Some...
– Million Dollar Bum
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I cannot cuddle with someone’s history.
It takes the anonymity away....
– Amazing Jim Number Nine and Seven
I am the kinda guy who will call too much,
make mistakes on the suave scale,...
– Excerpt from Unsent, Derrick Brown (via human-thedeathdance)
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How terrifying, that a play about my life is a short play…with bad actors.
– The Rise and Fall of Julius Walker
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Trying to let go of you
is like trying to spit out my teeth
before the...
– The Return of Christ
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Motorcycle with me across the skulls of nurses
who could not lobotomize our...
– Cupcake
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how silly i get.
how lost and silly i get
unravelling my fingers
to where...
– Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lustblaster
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Listen—
the mathematical equivalent of a woman’s beauty
is directly relational...
– The Kurosawa Champagne
Pretend I no longer dwell in you.
I told you I’d return.
I am in his...
– Medusa Oblongata
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Love is truth
and truth comes easy
like a drill bit in the larynx.
– Trigger and Happy Belong Together
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I think of how I’d feel without you
and I am ripped into freeway trash.
– Unsent
December 2011
7 posts
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I went to get my stomach pumped at the hospital d’resistance.
They found...
– Completing a Dumb Puzzle
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I don’t care if you made that dress,
hippie.
I will shred it until you...
– Cotton in the Air
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Kiss fast, slick and dead-on, like new machine guns.
Kiss like you...
– New Machines
The red washing
down the bathtub
can’t change the color of the sea
at all.
– Derrick Brown - ‘Instead Of Killing Yourself’ (via facheux)