The Dark Mind of Poetry
Beautifully Ugly
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Toothache More. Give me more. I got money the money if that's what you're asking for. Take it all in until my skin gets sore. Aware that it's burning, aware that it's bad, but give me more. Craving the taste, the feeling of calm. I know it doesn't last long, that's why you get more when it's gone! Aaah! Toothache...I gotta get more. On my way to the corner store. You don't make purchases inside, you make it on the side. Then you walk inside if the cops drive by. Blurry vision, magic juice in my hands. "Y...you know...I never wanted to...be like this, man." Wander streets. Asking for money. Meet up with my favorite girls to get some "Hunnie". Letting the warm liquids take over my body. Pleasure as I lay on the holey bed in a busted building. Surrounded by folks who made the same mistake as I did. Suzanne was fifteen, Mike was eleven. Nicole was seventeen, and her cousin Rochelle was only seven. As for me, myself, and I...I was only nine. This is really me. I should've never went to East Malcom Bay. I should've never tried that street candy. Now I have a toothache. Time to go to the corner store.
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The Dark Mind of Poetry is simply that—poetry’s dark side of thinking. It’s the forbidden conversation at the dinner table, the closet’s skeletons, the act of sin. The world has two sides: beauty and pain. Everything ugly has pain involved in some way. However, all the painful events are beautifully ugly in The Dark Mind of Poetry. Whether you take on a negative or positive effect after entering this world is your decision. Still, I suggest you choose carefully. You don't want to become a chapter in this book...
About the Author
India Iman Holder has been creating poetry and short stories since she was six years old. Even though she could not read or write properly (until reaching the third grade), India still managed to express her creativity by saying her thoughts aloud. After experiening trauma from a home invasion and dealing with obesity and bullying, she has decided to write "The Dark Mind of Poetry" to inspire others to turn their pain into art. To express themselves in a nonviolent way. While keeping in mind that their situation could be much worse than it is currently. Internal toture can become inner peace just from drawing, writing, even planting. Everyone can be an artist, because everyone has experienced some type of pain. India lives in Florida with her mother and her 5 siblings, and is on the path of becoming a well known poet and writer.