
Summer Lake part 1 Warm cicadas and crickets hummed on that last summer afternoon. The Frederickson’s lake house stood on the outskirts of a wooded copse that overlooked a lake, their other fellow neighbors granting them such a day of peace by their much convenient absence.Summer Lake part 1 by ~YokoSC
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Through the empty halls after school, janitors slowly crawling out of hiding, leashing their trusted garbage cans and carts around to each room for the daily hull, Gilbert and Caroline walked aimlessly and slowly without hurry towards the stairs bringing them down to the lobby, cutting through a side exit to reach Gilbert’s car.
After four year

Nightly poem IOpen doors and harried locksNightly poem I by ~YokoSC
The morning begs for glory
With tempered smiles and tempered hearts
It sickens me to worry
Drenched in lies and glances sharp This-
Moment stretches by
Why cry so openly
When cared not for very long?
I saw the signs of fools and rocks
Too dull and dry to feel
These merry men with married fingers
Wives with looks of steel
Hard to approach, Harder to pray
That tinge for strong desire
Yet cross the threshold, lock the door
You’re left upon this pyre
Winding keys to dusty doors
A childhood left unfelt
You wonder why you feel this void
that time of yours unbuilt
And finally you stop at two
To wonder where to

Depressing Untitled SongI feel it turningDepressing Untitled Song by ~YokoSC
something inside
like an unfamiliar taste
burning my pride
it mocks us, i feel
to those who are looking
this aching squeeze
of what we hate losing
I can't go to sleep
my mind keeps a light
on the things I had held
that once had burned bright
what saddened me more
was how its gleam faded
until it turned gray,
forgotten, and jaded

Cigarette As Carrie entered her room, she wasn’t the least surprised to find Gilbert splayed across her bed, another incessant worksheet he so mysteriously brings each visit. She came in without a word, so much as a sigh, and began shucking her wool coat. Gilbert looked up at the uncharacteristically omitted greeting of a ‘Hello’ he receives each time they see each other, whether it be at the mudroom of their apartment or in the bathroom. But as he waited for her to regale her day’s events, he could tell she was still in one by the way she languorously took off her coat. Patiently, he circled his answer, finishing his woCigarette by ~YokoSC

Homosexuality BitesThey found me slumped over in the school showersHomosexuality Bites by *Rifle1980
With a towel loosely wrapped around my waist
Scalding hot water was blistering my skin
As I bled from an unspeakable place
A hard-handed teacher dragged me to my feet
With little or no sign of sympathy
For the bruising to my feeble framed ribcage
And the fractures to my identity
I think they all thought that I had it coming
As no one was willing to testify
That the sodomy inflicted upon me
Was something to which I hadn’t complied
Boisterous boys laughing in the corridors
As I shamefully limped throughout the day
Not a thought for the pain that was inflicted
Just worried for what my pa
