Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 2, 2019

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different

when i was a teenager
i’ve got weird wild dreams
like me walking in the middle 
of the road
highway
dancing or performing
and the camera reels nearby 
taking pictures of everything 
that happens
and i would be half-naked
or half-dressed
reciting a poem
which i chose not to reveal to anyone
for fear they’d…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 6, 2019

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thank you

your sentences are too long
the pisspoor of word vomit
that’s what you are
are you new to writing?
is this your first gig?
tell me English 
is not your first language
a stranger says to me
expecting some obscenities in return
some fuck yous and fuck offs
offensive words defending me
like i am some spineless…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 25, 2019

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male vs female

male vs female
fundamental dichotomy
taking giving
forgiving forgetting
deep human struggle 
and fascination with 
something yet to happen
fatigue exhaustion
submission possession
a soul trapped in
a four-walled obsession
with voices talking 
shouting back at you
manic depression
male vs female
mars…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 16, 2019

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falling

falling
falling through the time 
distorted by nothing
but your imagination
when the sky above
swallows your whole being
disrupts your undeserving self
full of that love
that’s often written about
in books you never finished
because they are all too 
bittersweet
to finish anyway
you are a mourning dove
the one…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 12, 2019

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my type

there’s this certain type of men
men who are 
so attractive
you can’t do anything about it
so charismatic:
the way they talk
the way they dress
the way they turn their heads
or smile smartly
so full of themselves
well-bread and -read
a little skeptical and stagy
a little this and that
a little slutty even maybe…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 22, 2019

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you are

you are a son
and a lover
a pervert
a dad
and a man
you are a torture
and a bliss
semi-detached
and attached
completely
gloomy
and sunny
you are the struggle
and the ease
the joy of freedom
and the prison on its own
you are embarrassing
offensive drunken stag party
you are the best waltz ever 
danced
the best…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 30, 2019

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she

she enters the room 
with another she 
sprawled over the crimson bed
limbs drawings personalities
on walls and there
in the brains
of those who made them up
and contemplated them
de-segregation
arrangements
invisible designs
she lays
across the bed
waiting patiently to 
say half-phrase
half-way
amazed
i love 
but …
not…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 11, 2019

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above everything

above everything
and below nothing
is the feeling 
you can’t hide away
like you walk in the street 
and accidentally drop a smile
and someone passes by
and picks your smile up
and smiles in return
you can drop smiles easily
just like that
and they would wait for their next
host, keeper, parent…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 9, 2019

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there’s smth i wanted to tell you

there’s something i wanted 
to tell you
nothing of importance though
just gratitude
the silent stare
the rupture
immense gratitude
for your being
for nothing has solaced me
eased the perplexity of life
miraculously raised its burden
but your sublime power
of a word
a…

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Marina Vorontsova in maryvorontsov

Dec 11, 2019

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you

you’re good at building tension, 
aren’t you?
at the spoken and written word
at everything prominent
even naming your kids with grace
making everything symbolical
representative
metaphorical
become — became — become
questions you ask
are almost rhetorical
in no need of a definitive answer
because you know all the…

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