Haiku

It Stresses Me Out

I Wish It Would Stop Breaking

Man, Fuck My Cell Phone.

I Am An Artist

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I am an artist
A poet, a musician
I am a sister, a daughter, a wife
A teacher and a student
A dreamer and a friend
A lover and an enemy
I am a liar and I am a loser
I am a leader and and I am a learner
I am fun, I am boring
I am a writer, a photographer, a painter
I am an artist

I Am

By Komitas



I am your love,
I am the heat of your love,
Yet lonely...

I am your woman,
You, you are my soul
That I depend on...

Your voice sounded as sudden
thunder of love
My soul breathed as an elating
lightning of spring...

I breathed your breath deep
down my chest
And by your fire I became the
poet of flames...

Legalizing Marijuana

The prohibition of marijuana has done little help to the economy. It has not stopped people from using it, and it is very expensive to keep it illegal. Cannabis is currently one of the largest cash crops in the U.S. with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone. Legalizing marijuana would provide great financial opportunities for the government, and would be beneficial in many economical and medical ways.
Keeping marijuana prohibited is very expensive; the economy would greatly benefit financially by legalizing and taxing it. A great deal of taxpayer’s money goes into catching those who buy and sell marijuana, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail. The money used for these things should be used for much more important things. By legalizing and taxing marijuana not only would the government make money, but they would also save a great deal of money by not having to pay for the cost of prohibition. The prohibition hasn’t stopped many people from buying marijuana so its illegality makes foreign cultivation and smuggling to the United States extremely profitable, sending billions of dollars overseas in an underground economy while diverting funds from productive economic development. This can all be avoided by taxing and selling marijuana legally.
Marijuana also has many medical benefits such as stimulating appetite and preventing nausea and vomiting which are common symptoms found in chemotherapy patients. It can also
limit muscle pain and spasticity caused by multiple sclerosis and prevents epileptic seizures in many patients. Marijuana is not a lethal drug, and it is safer and much less addictive than legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco.
It is unfair and unjust to treat marijuana users more harshly under the law than the users of alcohol or tobacco. Unlike cigarettes, most marijuana does not contain any harmful and unnatural chemicals such as nicotine and lead 210. In fact, the active compound and marijuana known as THC actually decreases a person’s chance of getting cancer. Each year there are about 82,000 deaths in America caused by alcohol and 434,000 deaths caused by tobacco. There have never been any reported deaths caused specifically by marijuana yet it is still illegal. Clearly, the false accusations and poorly supported statistics that have caused the prohibition of marijuana can be overruled by the real facts and benefits that legalization can provide.

A Loss

I did not know you were coming
But losing you has hurt me.
They announced your presence
The same time they announced our loss.

I never saw your beautiful eyes
I never heard your cute little laugh
I never held your tiny hands
But knowing what could have been,
I'll miss you.

Invictus

By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

I Carry Your Heart With Me

By E.E. Cummings

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the sould can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)