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>tfw my uncle died recently
>never married and was real quiet
>worked as a ticket collector on the trains
>always known as the "strange" family member
>I liked him and he looked after me as a kid when my parents divorced
>visited his house with my mum to sort his things out
>I ask if I can have his book collection rather than giving it to charity or throwing it out
>nobody minds
>go through his collection in my room
>find a bunch of loose sheets with poems written on them
>google some lines and find nothing
>figure they're his
>find several revisions of the same poems with tons of notes and edits
>a lot of them are about loneliness and failure
>mfw reading this shit and trying not to tear up

RIP in peace Laurence.

>> No.10601819

Well, can you post a couple?

>> No.10601821

>>10601800
Post some

>> No.10601829

>>10601800
Sorry for your loss man

>> No.10601831

>>10601819
>>10601821
I'm not sure if he'd want that. I feel guilty enough reading them. It's lucky I they didn't end up in a charity shop I guess but I feel bad because he was so private.

>> No.10601834

>>10601800
I beg you to share one of his poems.

>> No.10601849

>>10601831
just post them. I know for a fact that he'd feel good knowing that someone enjoyed his work

>> No.10601860

>>10601800
Don’t post them. What is put on the internet can never be removed, just keep them to yourself. They’re personal

>> No.10601864

>>10601831
just post them
it's your uncle's legacy

>> No.10601881 [DELETED] 

>>10601849
OK I'll post one of the shorter poems but it doesn't look like he gave it a title for some reason:

>There are many tempting paths in life,
>Who knows which one of them may lead
>To the solid home, the child, the wife,
>The fulfilment of all human needs.

>I’ve travelled many routes myself,
>Walked for several years down some,
>Yet failed to discover the immeasurable wealth
>Of not having to live one’s life alone.

>> No.10601886

>>10601831
Yeah, don’t post them. There’s the risk that someone steals it or tries to turn it into a copy pasta. May your uncle rip in pieces

>> No.10601893

>>10601881
lol what a pseud

>> No.10601894

>>10601886
>>10601860
You're probably right. I just teared up when I read through his stuff and thought about him writing them with nobody to show them to.

>> No.10601896

>>10601860
>>10601886
don't listen to these cunts
please post them OP

>> No.10601901

I will dedicate my life to be the next henry darger

>> No.10601903

>>10601894
Try to get them published in some paper then. The one you posted was quite sweet.

>> No.10601911

This sort of shit isn't "xD so romantic and mysterious" anymore. This isn't 1918. Your family members and 99.99999 % of society think "Oi what a sadcase innit!"

Even people who work at publishing companies think that. And they are all life on easy mode rich people eager to publish people like themselves or the latest non-white trendy inner city Londoner

>> No.10601923

>>10601911
What are you on about mate

>> No.10601933

>>10601831
this might be the most elaborate b8 I've ever seen

>> No.10601966

RIP Laurence

>> No.10601987

Damn I saw it for a second and hit refresh only to see it being deleted it started with "There are many tempting paths in life.."

>> No.10601992

>>10601800
Do him good, Kimbote.

>> No.10601996

>>10601800
Can you post at least one? Just choose one that doesn't seem so personal

>> No.10602015

>>10601996
he already posted on but deleted it.

>There are many tempting paths in life,
>Who knows which one of them may lead
>To the solid home, the child, the wife,
>The fulfilment of all human needs.

>I’ve travelled many routes myself,
>Walked for several years down some,
>Yet failed to discover the immeasurable wealth
>Of not having to live one’s life alone.

>> No.10602017

The written words are meant to be shared. That's why they are written.

>> No.10602019

>>10602015
goddamn right in the feels

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>>10601800

This is the kind of thread I want to believe it's true even if it may not.
Post some, anons. Spread the feels.
He'll be alive again, in those feels.

>> No.10602033

>>10602017
Say that when someone spams it in a peterson thread but rewritten to be about farts

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>>10602015
If I haven't found a wife by 35 I'm killing myself

>> No.10602053

>>10601911
???????

>> No.10602054

>>10601800
how old was your uncle when he died?

>> No.10602062

>>10602015
damn

>> No.10602068

>>10602015
This feels... genuine. I can feel Laurence in it. RIP, anon's uncle Laurence.

>> No.10602073

>>10602043
don't worry, you'll be able to find someone to fuck in the nursing home.

>> No.10602075

One of us.

>> No.10602085

>>10602015

Rest in peace, Laurence.

>> No.10602108

>>10602073
Fucking people ain't the problem
There's something about my personality that is unattractive to women

>> No.10602118

>>10601800
Rip.

>> No.10602138

>>10601800
I'm so sorry for your loss. I imagine you loved him.
He's fine now.

>> No.10602154

>>10601800
You should've showed him /lit/.
RIPIP

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10602160

>>10602108
change your personality then bud, or more accurately, your outlook... which dictates your personality.

>> No.10602192

>>10602015
F

>> No.10602202
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>>10602015
I really didn't came here to feel.

>> No.10602203

>>10602160
the only problem is I don't know what is wrong with my personality
I'm fairly sure it's my self-esteem/low social status

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>>10602015

>> No.10602216

>>10602203
I've see this happen a lot right before my eyes.
Some ppl just miss the timing on everything they say.
I was just like that, I just got lucky desu

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>>10602203
Introspect more and find out why. Funnily enough, great literature helps with this. Go read!

>> No.10602229

>>10601800
Hope your uncle rests in peace.
F

>> No.10602230

>>10602203
you need to put in a lot of time. far more time than you even realize.

the problem with being a smarty pants is that you never spend most of your life socializing like 'normies' do. that's what it takes. you start to take on characteristics and personality traits, learn how to be a 'part' of society, and not make a girl scared for her life.

people with low self-esteem and social status have sex all the time. but someone who spends their time away from the 'crowd' becomes weirder and weirder the more time they stay away. this is why throughout our history, 'disconnecting' yourself from society or becoming a monk was a way to clear your thinking and let you focus on things without the distraction of other people.

however, because of the internet, societal disconnect is becoming the norm.

>> No.10602242

>>10602015
F

>> No.10602246

>>10602230
>ignores inborn nature
>says the low status ugly people fuck other repulsive ugly people sometimes meme
>shames invrovertion
>shames reclusiveness for being forcibly social
cut off a finger for me sweetie

>> No.10602260

>>10602246
golly you sound like such a kind person i cant imagine you having trouble interacting with others

>> No.10602266

>>10602054
He was 63.

>> No.10602267

>>10602015
RIP Lawrence
Soon I will join you in the special circle of hell reserved for anti-social pseuds.

>> No.10602273

>>10602246
he's not wrong.
I wouldn't say I'm ugly by any stretch. And I know If I went clubbing I could get laid often. Getting in a relationship is different, however. I've had girls want to date me before. They weren't the prettiest, but I never felt love for them. I've never been able to successfully hold down a relationship with a girl I legitimately loved. I'll probably just go see a female therapist and see whats wrong instead of ruminating all the time

>> No.10602275

>>10602015
damn... F

>> No.10602279

>>10602266
jesus what did he die from?
I fear dying of loneliness

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10602284

>>10602043
I-i'm 36...

>>10601800
F

>>10602015
not bad Lawrence. godspeed to you, gentle soul.

>> No.10602293

>>10602279
heartbreak, dummy.

i don't want to speculate but a single man with no family obligations might have allowed himself richer foods and more frequent tipples than the next man, as well.

>> No.10602294

>>10602279
He died from cancer. Actually don't know which, I'll have to ask. I know he refused to go back into hospital recently.

>> No.10602325

>>10602294
The loneliness probably helped a lot
Any idea why he was so isolated?
you mentioned he was quiet

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>>10601800

Are they worth publishing in his name?

I wonder how many closeted geniuses there are out there living loser or blue-collar lives, or at least decent artists who will forever go unrecognized.

>>10602075

Seconded.

>> No.10602341 [DELETED] 

>tfw laurence has probably posted here and I probably called a faggot before he killed himself

>> No.10602353

>>10602015
op should just sell his uncles shit
the old man was worthless but his writing should be plundered and used for money making

>> No.10602359

>>10602246
>>10602260
lmao rekt.

>> No.10602363

>>10602325
No idea really. I regret not asking him more about his life. I admit in my youth I figured he was just a boring guy and didn't think about him much, and when he looked after me as a kid he only ever asked about me but never told me anything about himself but he was fun to be around and was like a kid himself when I stayed at his house. I'm impressed by his book collection, and most of it is stuff I don't see on /lit/ often or at all. A lot of older British writers I never heard of.

>> No.10602368

Fuck it, here's another one. I doubt it's autobiographical - he definitely wasn't transgender or anything.

I was born a boy but now I'm a girl
I've done some things that would make your toes curl
Called me a car crash, called me a fool
Called me a freak threw me out of school
So I changed the rules

I stand alone, survivor on a battlefield
Surveying the damage been done through the years you and I
Wanting and hoping and wishing and praying
For more in my life
Not quite prepared to be scared and repaired
Like a good little wife

Like a vampire I cannot be uninvited
Like a bridesmaid my love remains unrequited
Like a goddess when you see just who I am
Cause I am a woman and you are just a man

They made me cry but they can't disempower me
The phoenix will rise through the flames to return you and I
Laughing and joking and faking bravado it's all just a game
Left here all bruised and confused and abused
By the glamour and fame

I was a boy, now I'm a girl
Give me a chance if you change your mind
We can change the world

>> No.10602393

>>10602368

i didn't know your uncle was a 15 year old girl

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10602399

>>10602015
RIP

>> No.10602406

Publish them, with his "sad story" as a preface.
All who write, do so to be, eventually, read.

>> No.10602408

>>10602368
LOL nice troll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMu_Z4j-4xs

>> No.10602415

>>10602408
Just a jape my friend. I'm glad you posted it though, it's absolutely hilariously awful.

>> No.10602424

>>10602353
You're a dick

>>10602368
Maybe he was and you just didn't know. Trans people aren't like 4chan thinks they are. Older people especially may have had a hard time coming to terms with that part of themselves and felt a need to keep that part of themselves secret from everyone, worried what their loved ones would think of them if they found out. It can cause them to isolate themselves from relationships.

My uncle died a few years ago and my mom and her siblings found out he was transgender when going through his stuff (found correspondence with endocrinologists and surgeons exploring different parts of transitioning). My mom was devastated that he never felt he could share who he was with family and give her a chance to accept him.

Or maybe he wasn't. Loneliness is crushing no matter the cause.

RIP Lawrence

>> No.10602433

>>10602408
>>10602415
>>10602424
Hah, I'm an idiot

>> No.10602462

>>10602424
>>10602433
kek

I didn't use the song lyrics to trans bash. I just think they're awful.

>> No.10602463

>>10602368
>>10602393
>>10602408
>10602408
>>10602424
OP here. I didn't post that. I only posted one but deleted it.

>> No.10602468

>>10602406
If op posts a bunch of them I can format them into a little digital chapbook if he wants.

>> No.10602471

>>10602463
We know, the first poem was wonderful.

>> No.10602486

>>10601911
>when 2017 4chan replaces your brain

>> No.10602495

>>10602015
Sad but beautiful
Rip hard Laurence

>> No.10602530

>>10602353
The other option would be to just a compile a small collection for family members. If there is interest beyond that it will probably happen.

>> No.10602538

>>10602015
Anyone who actually believes some sad uncle wrote this r9k bullshit and not anon is an actual moron

>> No.10602541

>>10602015
Any more desu?

>> No.10602545

>>10602538
What evidence do you have to the contrary that his uncle did write it? Fucking hypocrite pleb.

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10602554

>>10602545
Because I actually wrote it. This entire thread is an attempt to steal my genius.

>> No.10602558

>>10602545
Intuitive reasoning. Same way I know you suck dick through a hole in the wall.

>> No.10602564

>>10601831
/thread

>> No.10602567

>>10602160
>change your personality

implying character is malleable

>> No.10602572

>>10602558
pure projection

>> No.10602588

>>10602572
Op probably did write it

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10602593

>>10602567
It sure is!

>> No.10602601

>>10602558
Your intuitive reasoning sucks dick.

>> No.10602647

>>10602593

ITT optimists who read self-help books and believe everyone else can and should become optimists who read self-help books

>> No.10602653

>>10602015
Not good desu, but it's genuine at least.

>> No.10602660

>>10602647
>implying God isn't inherently optimistic, and love is to

>> No.10602722

>>10602647
I'm far from an optimist, but I don't think people can't change their ways. Look around you.

>> No.10602758

>>10602722
FUCK A SPIDER

>> No.10602768

>>10602424
your uncle was a freak. it deserved to die. dont weep for a nonhuman, just sell its things for your profit and burn its identity.
trannies are an alternate reproduction strategy, because they cannot breed they try to corrupt others to create more of themselves
having a nonhuman trannies works connected to its identity is the literary version of an aids virus

>> No.10602774

>>10602722
All I see is suffering

>> No.10602839

>>10601800
OP please upload them somewhere!

>> No.10602850

>>10602567
You can change your habits. If you keep them with discipline for many times they become part of your personality. The bad part is that this can be used against you.

>> No.10602856

>>10601800
Rest in peace, Laurence.
I'm sorry for your loss and thankful for the poem of his you shared with us.

>> No.10602863

>>10601800
RIP

>> No.10602871

don't post any more anon, instead try to get them published.

how many poems are there? enough to fill a book?

>> No.10602918

>>10602545
>i found my deads uncle poetry
>i dont want to post it thom he wouldnt want it
please post one thats not so personal
>posts this
>>10602015
this is some anon wanting people to pay attention to his new poem, i liked the poem by the way and the thread

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10603037

>>10602774
Then perhaps it's time for a change in locale.

>> No.10603052

>>10601831
>I'm not sure if this dead guy with no interests would want that even though he cant want anything being dead and all.

post it fagola

>> No.10603055

>>10602758
that spider's your boy killing houseflies n shit. Don't smoosh him.

>> No.10603127

>>10601911
Oi, ya daft cunt! I swear on me mum, ya gobby fookin' bastid. I'll rape ya arse and lick ya sister's strawberry creams. ya hear? Shut ya fuckin gabba before I rip ya todga roit off tha berries, m8!

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>>10601800
>be anon's uncle
>proto-robot for most of life
>have comfy wageslave job punching tickets on trains
>it's cool, i get to wear a neat hat
>people think I'm weird cause I dodged the roastie meme
>life is unfulfilling but could be worse
>write poems in my spare time, why not? Don't plan on publishing them but it's comfy
>die
>my virgin nephew goes through all my stuff and finds the poems
>his first instinct is to post them on a Rhodesian Memorial and Historical Reenactment Society forum
>little shit exposes my heart and soul for (you)s
>reeee from the place in heaven that I received for not succumbing to the roasties and their machinations
>mfw

>> No.10603199

>>10602850

habits are not temperament

where are you getting this shit? no amount of CBT will change an introvert into an extrovert -- it may make him more able to function in an extrovert's world, but he will still prefer to be alone

>> No.10603210

>>10603159

Thanks for the laff anon's dead uncle. Have a (you) of your own. Hope it helps.

>> No.10603214

>>10603159
rip uncle laurence

>> No.10603251

>>10602015
Oh Christ even if this turns out to not be real I'm tearing up in the fucking library

>> No.10603369

OP if you read this please post more poems or get this Anon >>10602468 to make a chapbook out of them.

>> No.10603456

>>10603159
(you)

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>>10603159
kek one of the best posts on 4chan in a long time, im ded

>> No.10603509

>>10603159
F

We need a sticky for Uncle Lawerence

>> No.10603712

>>10603055
Your pal died like a bitch

>> No.10603756

OP here. Have been away for a bit and didn't expect so many replies.

I don't really know what you guys want to read. I've gone through three small boxes of his books I brought back so far and I imagine there's more up the attic where my dad put the other boxes.

The poems (completed ones) I've found so far are:

>[NO NAME #1] "There are many tempting paths in life..."
>[NO NAME #2] "Calming down is best I've learned...."
>[NO NAME #3] "I've never known quite what I feel..."
>[NO NAME #4] "If it weren't for love I'd be long dead..."
>[NO NAME #5] "I hope you dream of me some nights..."
>[NO NAME #6] "There's a strength in stoicism..."
>[NO NAME #7] "Anticipated like an unwrapped gift..."
>[NO NAME #8] "They're at it again a second night..."
>[NO NAME #9] "I've earned this solitude of mine..."
>[NO NAME #10] "I have started to count in years..."
>Inheritance
>Yuletide Over Time
>The Picture Show
>Slices of Life
>Strangers All
>The Long Lives of Good Men
>Job Centre Plus
>For Emily
>What I Insist Is Love

I don't know what is worth posting really from the above. Maybe I'll just go through the rest of the boxes when I can and see if there's any more. Some of them seem more personal than others so I probably won't post those.

There are also a bunch of unfinished ones with FINISH written on them or just left obviously half-done or with lines crossed out but nothing replacing them. Here's an unfinished one I found funny and thought you guys might like:

>This life is a load bother
>I'll be glad when it's all over,
>Of the few men I've admired
>Barely any screwed or sired.

>> No.10603768

>>10603756
>What I Insist is Love
>For Emily
>Yuletide Over Time
They all sound interesting but start with those

>> No.10603771

>>10602015
This one is pretty shit

>> No.10603777

>>10603768
I will post more tomorrow, I have to sleep now sorry since it's late here and I have to be up early. Also For Emily is one of the ones I'm concerned about since it seems more personal than the others and maybe more embarrassing as a result. I'll try and type them up all anyway tomorrow so I have an extra copy of each if I lose anything.

>> No.10603787

>>10603777
I don't know how good his handwriting is, but you could also try taking pictures just to speed up the process

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>>10602015
RIP Laurence

>> No.10603802

>>10603777
>For Emily
any idea who emily is?

>> No.10603811

>>10601800
just post the good ones and hide the embarrassing ones. Be a good nephew and give your uncle some posthumous redemption.

>> No.10603828

I don't really know good poetry from bad poetry, but I can only imagine that people on here would have a lot in common with a lonely guy like him
How did he die?

>> No.10603838

>>10601800
Nothing like this is ever going to top Henry Darger though

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10603915

I want to compile a book of poems Anons post here. This would be in chapter one.

>> No.10603941

>>10603756
You are so full of shit. Fuck you.

>> No.10603962

i feel like youre my future nephew

post some? or just feel them, if he was there in ur family youll sure find some value in them

>> No.10604018

>>10602015
damn near made me tear up. i think i see my future self as a Laurence-type figure. RIP big guy.

>> No.10604137

I decided to post another one. Thanks for your interest, I know it would mean a lot to him.

I've given often anxious thought to how
The lonely life I've led has led me now
To sadness. Tearful, I endure alone --
Would that perhaps have changed if I had known
My father better when I was a boy?
Or is it just a joke, a lie, that joy
I see on faces playing in the park
While I must walk alone, and in the dark?
I'll never know, I'll never have a reason
To freeze, to thaw, no budding hope in season
So I will lock myself in paper cages
Wrought by my writing hand: these very pages.

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10604158

>Plot twist
Anon is actually the uncle. There is no nephew.

>> No.10604161

>>10604137
fuck

>> No.10604180

>>10604137
call it paper cages! great even if bait

>> No.10604219

>>10604137
This is fantastic. You need to publish this. I'm sure deep down your uncle would have loved being discovered after his death. All artist think of that. I know some people who could pass the poems around. They have serious literary merit. OP do you think you would ever be interested in publishing so people could hear your uncle's voice?

>> No.10604250

>>10604137
You lying faggot this is all yours and it is shit.

>> No.10604254

i'm gonna feel so betrayed if i find out op invented uncle laurie and it's actually op's poetry. im grieving for uncle laurence here

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10604267

>>10603838
>top Henry Darger
I will, faggot.

>> No.10604277

>>10604137
very immature sentiment, I find it hard to believe a grown man living the life you described would write this

much more believable that it was written by an 18 year old virgin who thinks he's a genius but is also insecure because he knows it's actually shit

if it is genuine, your uncle had the emotional depth of a sixth grader and you should keep his embarrassment private

>> No.10604303

>>10603756
post pics of the papers or you're full of shit

>> No.10604416

>>10604277
this post was likely written by a 17 year old trying to prove his maturity

>> No.10604457

>>10601800
I really really hope that's not me in 40 years. Fuck im 27 and im unemployed and have really fucking bad social anxiety. At least im going to school amd graduate this year. Fuck i had so much potential anons.

>> No.10604471

>>10602015
Dammit. Fucking dammit. I dont wanna be alone all my life anons. I wanna find someone to love.

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>>10604416

>> No.10604488

>>10604457
>Fuck i had so much potential anons.
I could have been someone
"Well so could anyone"

>> No.10604496

Maybe try to get one or two of them published, OP. Even if only in something small.

Or just have them done up nicely somehow.

I don't know. I'm weird about that kind of thing. On the one hand there's his privacy and his wishes, but on the other hand there's letting something special to him and deeply unique to him live on.

>> No.10604508

>>10604488
You right. You right.

>> No.10604509
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>>10601800
>>10602015
Pics as proof.

if not, OP baited you gullible motherfuckers hard. If he simply posted this in the poetry critique thread you all would've laughed at his ass, but since he set it up to sound like a grown man wrote it suddenly it's a great poem with astonishing deep meaning.

>> No.10604534

>>10602246
this

>> No.10604792

>>10604416
THIS post was likely written by a 19 year old trying to prove his maturity

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>>10603159
>little shit exposes my heart and soul for (you)s

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>>10603159
>Rhodesian Memorial and Historical Reenactment Society forum

>> No.10605745

>>10601800
what books did you take? what else did he read? was he patrician?

>> No.10605749

>>10601849
maybe but definitely not on 4chan, i dont think an audience of attention deficit teenage holocaust deniers is anyones ideal audience

>> No.10605755

>>10602015
F

>> No.10605883

>>10603159
people don't write poems so they can be destroyed.

Let's say op is true, what is motivating people to say "nooooo don't publish them" is it some kind of jealously?

>> No.10605886

>>10605883
people don't send nudes just for them to be destroyed either but I'd be pretty mad if someone published a book of all my dick pics after I died.

>> No.10605891

>>10603052
L O N D O N

>> No.10605901

>>10602015
Not great but pretty consistent.
You were a good pen Uncle Laurence

>> No.10605907

>>10601800
>lonely ticket collector
he handed out fines to people. couldn't get a gf. fuck him

>> No.10605916

I found a couple of poems that he wrote in French as well, but I don't speak it very well, could someone translate this one?

Le gars qu'on croise et qu'on n' regarde pas
Pour Invalides changer à Opéra
Y a pas de soleil sous la terre
Drôle de croisière
Pour tuer l'ennui j'ai dans ma veste
Les extraits du Reader Digest
Et dans ce bouquin y a écrit
Que des gars se la coulent douce à Miami
Pendant ce temps que je fais le zouave
Au fond de la cave
Paraît que y a pas de sot métier
Moi je fais des trous dans des billets

>> No.10606018

>>10604137
>>10604161
>>10604180
>>10604219
>>10604250
>>10604277
This obviously wasn't OP.

>> No.10606023

>>10606018
oh shit I think you're right. how did you know?

>> No.10606113

>>10605916
bro foh

>> No.10606394

>>10602015
RIP Laurence

>> No.10606463

I'm having a hard time believing this shit. I think we are all getting lied to, and it just goes to show that people will think someone is great if a sappy story is attached to it. But if you stop and actually read those poems with any criticism, you will notice it poor.

I think OP is just reading from his diary.

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>>10602015
F

>> No.10606554

>>10606463
I agree

>> No.10607720

>>10602015
Lovely

>> No.10607731

OP here, I'm back. Here's one more. Thanks for all your kind words.

Above the lakes, above the vales,
The mountains and the woods, the clouds, the seas,
Beyond the sun, beyond the ether,
Beyond the confines of the starry spheres,
My soul, you move with ease,
And like a strong swimmer in rapture in the wave
You wing your way blithely through boundless space
With virile joy unspeakable.
Fly far, far away from this baneful miasma
And purify yourself in the celestial air,
Drink the ethereal fire of those limpid regions
As you would the purest of heavenly nectars.
Beyond the vast sorrows and all the vexations
That weigh upon our lives and obscure our vision,
Happy is he who can with his vigorous wing
Soar up towards those fields luminous and serene,
He whose thoughts, like skylarks,
Toward the morning sky take flight
— Who hovers over life and understands with ease
The language of flowers and silent things!

>> No.10607762

>>10607731
Fuck off impostor.

We're waiting for OP to post more of the poems he's already listed.

>> No.10607858

>>10607762
OP here, which one would you like? pick any of them.

>> No.10607906

>>10605916
The guy we meet and do not look at
For Invalides change at Opéra
There is no sun under the earth
Funny cruise
To kill the boredom I have in my jacket
Extracts from Reader Digest
And in this book there wrote
That some guys are doing it in Miami
Meanwhile I'm doing the zouave
At the bottom of the cellar
Seems that there is no business foolishness
I'm making holes in tickets

>> No.10608005

>>10601800
Register the poems and try to publish. If the last fails you can just post them on the internet.

>> No.10608019

>>10608005
yeah make sure no one can steal them

>> No.10608025

>>10608019
definitely don't post them on a Moravian vegan recipe board

>> No.10608727

Is there any way we could get a picture of the poems? Also, you may want to make a trip op.

>> No.10608753

>>10603756
>This life is a load bother
>I'll be glad when it's all over,
>Of the few men I've admired
>Barely any screwed or sired.

This is fucking funny my dude.

>> No.10608772

OP here, just found another one and it was too good not to share

It starts with one thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin' to hold on, they didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory
Of a time when I tried so hard

>> No.10608800

>>10602015
So Long Laurence

>> No.10608820

>>10608772
kek

>> No.10608866

>>10603159
This shit is gold

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>>10603159
Que?

>> No.10609078

>>10602015
RIP Uncle Laurence.

>> No.10609896

>>10601800
It's possible he's in purgatory; pray for him anon

>> No.10610754

>>10602768
Amazing world we live in,no?

Write a poem about a female's perspective in order to explore the mindset,and suddenly everyone assumes you want to jam your dick in a meat grinder. How silly. I wrote one myself about a nameless office drone opining over her meaningless existence. I did not identity with such a woman,but could understand her.

It's why we call this Literature and not Literalature.

>> No.10610899

>>10603159

>> No.10610916

>>10601831
Best line in one of them at least?

>> No.10610952

>>10601800
saved for posterity, thank you for sharing OP this thread was touching

>> No.10611258

>>10605916
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkWCFzkOvU

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>>10603159
>>10603159

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>>10601800
> tfw my older brother is about to have a son
> I'll be the eccentric uncle - OCD, gentle misanthropy quietly reads, produces music, creates experimental films, unemployed
> when I die he might get my old laptops and go through the files
> he's going to see all of the annotated and re-drafted written work that never was produced
> he might stifle a cry at how beautiful this work is
> his uncle never amounted to much but always tried
> he'll need comforting by his parents
> a moment passes
> he finds an untitled folder full of anime tiddies

You're welcome, nephew.

>> No.10611684

>>10602015
RIP Laurence ;_;
Hope you're in a happier place

>> No.10612299

Bumping so this doesn't die

>> No.10612308

>>10602216
how did you get lucky?