that pretty little beast, a poem

words and such like jamie | they/any | 23

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apparently tumblr's also getting into dactyls??? anyway a couple weeks ago i wrote like five dactylic poems in quick succession in a moment of poetic fervor here are the two that are just me going woah this shit slaps

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"please frank o'hara won't you help me"

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"Because Death would not stop for me—"

after Emily Dickinson

(tw for suicidality, very abstract but thematically important!)

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untitled

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"things to write about instead of love"

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sometimes you gotta write a villanelle

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"judas"

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"february calcification"

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"beg"

this is what happens when i watch a movie about a priest

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1/27/26: "Cuckoo's Song"

idk i was in the mood to write about birds today

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1/26/26: "DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED"

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1/21/26: "flinch"

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1/17/26: "RABBIT"

a poem about running, and instinct

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1/13/26: "BE BRAVE BE WILD BE HAPPY WANT THINGS"

something i can't always live but want to

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1/12/26: "uneasy"

a poem abt anxiety

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1/4/26: "vampire asks a favor"

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1/3/26: "the only song i've listened to today is twin size mattress by the front bottoms"