I Don't Believe In Strangers

[rowens]

People seem not to want to talk to me
when they think I'm being too personal.
I said, "What, you're not a person?
I had a feeling you weren't."

What makes me think they'll talk to me
when they don't even talk to the people they know?
Sure, they tell me everything about them,
but that doesn't give me the right to say anything in return.

I hear you been telling people I'm stalking you.
And as long as you keep coming to my house asking
for money,
I'm going to keep stalking you.

How will you explain the message
sent from your phone to mine
with a picture of yourself
sitting naked on your bed,
with a text caption reading:
"Rape Me"?

That's even the song
you have as my ringtone
when I call your phone.

Though I can't say
with the way you dress, you're asking for it,
since the last time you came over
you weren't wearing anything under your coat.

Now people say I have
a bad attitude,
even you say I'm no fun to be around.
It's just that whenever I get excited
about anything,
no one shies away from telling me
how much I get on their nerves.

That's why I keep a glum expression,
—out of fear of being unloved.

If I could only keep my feelings to myself,
things would be better for everyone else.

[Heartafire]

I love the conversational style that I usually find in your writing.. I feel as though the N may be talking directly to me about his deepest thoughts, and I am stunned at times. I like your writing very much, especially when it is a tad disturbing :-). Just want to say I enjoyed this, no real critique to offer, I apologize for that.
My best,
Heart

[rowens]

I rarely suppress anything, or fail to notice when others are suppressing things. I'd be the healthiest man in the world if the people around me weren't so unhealthy. Though society would quickly crumble.

[bogpan]

People seem not to want to talk to me
when they think I'm being too personal.
I said, "What, you're not a person?
I had a feeling you weren't."

What makes me think they'll talk to me
when they don't even talk to the people they know?
Sure, they tell me everything about them,
but that doesn't give me the right to say anything in return.

I hear you been telling people I'm stalking you.
And as long as you keep coming to my house asking
for money,
I'm going to keep stalking you.

How will you explain the message
sent from your phone to mine
with a picture of yourself
sitting naked on your bed,
with a text caption reading:
"Rape Me"?

That's even the song
you have as my ringtone
when I call your phone.

Though I can't say
with the way you dress, you're asking for it,
since the last time you came over
you weren't wearing anything under your coat.

Now people say I have
a bad attitude,
even you say I'm no fun to be around.
It's just that whenever I get excited
about anything,
no one shies away from telling me
how much I get on their nerves.

That's why I keep a glum expression,
—out of fear of being unloved.

If I could only keep my feelings to myself,
things would be better for everyone else.

"Rape Me" is a song by Nirvana. This is an interesting reference, although I do not like it when a claim prose poetry. It is certain that I do not like aggression in both directions.

[rowens]

You mean you don't like prose poems? And you don't like aggression.

This isn't a prose poem. But I made a book of prose poems one time. It was called Black Dogs and White Rabbits.

And I have some sketches or brief descriptions of scenes, one of them is posted on this site. But it's not one of my prose poems either.

Some people don't believe in prose poems. They don't believe in the Wampus Cat either, but those things often serve my purposes.

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This site keeps posting stuff twice. It won't stop. But I delete them.