/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19276840]

>She's a Latter Day Saint
>But she's a Saturday sinner
>Suicide Sunday desserts for weekends drinking her dinner
>The worry keeps her slender
>The pills keep her awake
>Her man can't make her happy, but he helps to still the shakes
>Met her boyfriend at the bar, said he'd stick to beer
>Said I could keep the cocktails, martinis taste like tears
>I asked if he would leave her
>What with all the grief
>He passed the pitcher back to me and asked what I believe
>And I said virginity is a childhood disease
>And these days it seems have interest in the addict thief
>Patience for the epigrammatic, the brief
>There's only four ways to acquire
>Anyone says different is a salesman or a liar
>You can find it, earn it, make it or steal it
>I haven't found a single way to keep it
>Cause you can leash it, it'll leave
>You can teach it to stay and it'll leave
>You can case and display it, decay and waste it away
>And day by day it leaves you by degrees
>He put his hand on my knee, sometimes that's what it takes
>He doesn't make me happy, but he helps to still the shakes

[Anonymous No.19276846]

>>19276840
terrible, reads like lyrics from a shitty 90's English rock band

[Anonymous No.19276850]

>>19276846
ogey, well what about this
>What fine design
>What hands
>What minds
>The envy of Eden
>Our tools and our reason
>It's clear in the animals' eyes
>We stand
>Upright
>Build fires
>At night
>Made on the sixth day
>To rest on the seventh
>And now we just try to survive

[Anonymous No.19276915]

>Boys, sound the bells
>The sun rose from the west today
>I doubt we'll see it set
>Oh and boys, bear it well
>Put all your paper maps away
>Mercator here can't help
>Looks like our writing on the wall
>Is lorem ipsum after all
>A higher tide will wash it all
>Wash it all away
>The lighthouse keeper's last relay:
>Hand shadows and a final wave
>Now's the time to rouse yourself
>Spend the strength you've saved