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Published: 2010-12-10 19:58:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 1247; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 11
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If l'appel du videis the urge to drown
all sense of self - to split
and accumulate bruises -
then to fabricate fables, to
forge fictions as I do
is nothing more than
poor impulse control.
I do not mean to confuse
or abuse the truth. My lies
are like thalidomide -
junkyard art shoved into being,
or the shards of
gasping hearts breaking
out of code. Making mundane myths
a la mort, a la mode; I'm caught
in distortion, pretty as drugs.
Junkie; addict. Liar, liar,
I require a fix of fiction -
the lies I tell and spin to sell.
(Some tears, a loose tooth,
the unravellings of truth.
The sum of myself out of
all that's left to give).
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Why do you constantly accuse me of lying? Hypocrite. When were you planning on sseing me again?
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Liar or not, if your compulsive lying inspires poems like this then I'd say lie away!
You know, I'm glad I found you. Talent is hard to find these days and I'd say that I enjoy creative writing much more than visual art. Words are expressive after all~
Am I making sense? I suppose not, I babble quite a lot. Anyway, what I really mean is that consider me as a new watcher
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Haha, any excuse to justify my lying is good enough for me!
Aww, thank you so much! I'm really glad you like my writing~
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It is always profitable to write about meaningful struggle... Clarifying.
Congratulations on your DLD.
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I think writing about struggles helps to clarify them and give them meaning in your own mind, as well. It helps me, at any rate. (:
Thank you very much!
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A meaningful struggle is always one worthy of penning.
Congratulations on your DLD.
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Keep writing and keep creating.
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Eeep, thank you so very much! 
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You know it is not uncommon and the start is becoming concious of when you do it? It is not strange to ask for help (i.e. psychologist or councelor) it is not that might not beabel to tackle it on your own it is simply that they will be able to hand you ways and ideas to get a grip on it easier
And if nothing else I think it made fora pretty cool poem.
Was there a particular reson for the french ordid the expression simply work well? because I was expecting some more french to balance it out aspecially as this is not a common one to be used in Enlgish. (take that back I read it again but now conciously and realised it was balanced. sometimes words are too recognisable to categorise in a language if you know whet I mean)
I like the thalidomide reference and the : junyard art shoved into being.. you have a nice way with rhythm and the first letters of words..
I guess eveyone will be tempted to a little a little lie sometimes.
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Thank you very much!
I used the French expression because there's no real translation of it. French is apparently the only language they have a concise term for 'silly compulsive actions', even though it's something I know lots of people can relate to.
I didn't realise quite how common it was until a couple of other people commented on this saying they could relate! I am going to see a counsellor about it - I'm now three months into an epically long waiting list. But I'm determined to get it sorted somehow! Thanks for your understanding
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I know what you mean in your AC. I lie a lot too. For no reason.
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It gets addictive, doesn't it? And soon enough you don't even realise you're lying and it just gets impossible to stop...
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yeah. it's like, i lie about things i don't need to lie about. it just rolls off my tongue. urgh. >(
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Same here! And they're often really long, elaborate stories as well. Sometimes I'll realise half-way through that I'm lying, but by then it's too late to stop. Urgh indeed! D<
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yeah! mine are all sorts of lies. it's like it's stuck to my tongue or something. is there something wrong with my mind. )<
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If there is, there's something wrong with mine too (if that's any consolation...)
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internet sources blame it on insecurity.
... whatever.
i see it as the capability to tell good/realistic stories~
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I much prefer your interpretation.
Therefore it must be true ;D
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...something tells me that i wouldn't make a good mother, lying away like that 
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I understand. I have had this experience...maybe even still have this constructed image.
I think it's hard to know what's true.
I like your poem.
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Thank you
That's what I find most unsettling about it - not knowing what's true and what's not anymore.
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That's the one good thing about having many confessions to make
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I love the composition here, startling, excellent.
"Liar, liar,
I require a fix of fiction -
the lies I tell and spin to sell."
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No throwing yourselves under any passing vehicles!
This is so interesting... like are you flat out saying lies or saying things to make interesting? I've find myself lying to try and improve myself and end up making a fool of myself later.
But what if all you are spewing is poetry in motion? Can you really be blamed for being artistic... even in speech?
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I don't really understand it myself. They're never meaningful lies, I just tell stories. Often completely randomly. And at the time, I think of them as anecdotes that have actually happened to me - it's only later that I realise I was just lying.
There are several incidents in my life that I'm not sure actually happened or not because I think I may have just lied about them often enough so they seem real.
Maybe it is just me subconsciously trying to make myself more interesting? In some respects, it's not a bad thing: I've never said anything that could hurt anyone and I've never even been caught out. It's just a slightly unnerving habit to find yourself with.
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Well if they make people smile... or laugh... or wonder their inner workings for awhile, more power to them. As long as you aren't coming up with creative alibis for a murder you may or may not have created, then I don't see it as being quite a bad thing. Everyone lies. Most of our memories of our childhood are lies... we usually latch onto a feeling of our childhood and grow our memories around that. So people who felt lonely or depressed will create or have select memories of those times but they may or may not have even happened that way.
Just by your poetry that I have read, I know you're interesting and creative. I guess you are just overflowing with creativeness that is gets swept up in conversation
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Haha, they're never that serious, so fortunately there are no make-believe murders for me.
It makes me feel a lot better to think about it that way (:
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Just don't set your pants on fire.
(or, indeed, chuck yourself under a car).
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I'm not planning on doing either of those things in the near future, never fear!
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