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    Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    Schizophrenic voice
    Pacing around in my mind
    I’m never lonely


    Chewing at my straps, screaming;
    The walls are closing in, slowly
    Killing what little sanity I have left
    Lingering inside of my mind as I…
    Sit on the edge of sanity ready to jump
    Into the abyss; the nothingness
    Inside of my heart; no feelings
    Of regret nor love will fill me
    Just a sense of someone’s eyes
    Peering into my soul; seeing me
    For whom I really am inside.
    I sit in my own silent schizophrenic
    Existence; rocking back and forth
    Uttering in coherently:


    “I was crazy once, yes I remember
    It’s all coming back to me now
    I was placed in a room, a dark room
    I died in that room; maggots feasted
    On my brain in that room
    I was crazy once, yes I remember”


    Bashing the back of my head into the wall
    As I rock; my eyes open from my own
    Self-induced sleep deprivation; I can’t sleep
    I must watch for the people attempting
    To destroy my fortress of solitude
    And derail my train of thought; killing
    My plans of escape; electro shock
    Vibrating through out every inch of me
    I actually enjoy it; the feeling
    Reminds me of my mother shaking me
    As a baby for not being stillborn
    I love my mommy; she loved me
    The burns from her cigarettes still
    Loiter on my arms and legs,
    And I really miss those days
    Being thrown against walls; and...
    Traded as a slave for a eight ball
    My mommy always came back for me.
    Blood gushing from my head; eyes
    Glazing over, but I am still awake
    Waiting for my time to strike, but
    I can’t move; the straps on my jacket
    Restrain me physically; mentally
    I am unstoppable; except from myself
    Fires of rage and panicking deep inside
    Rises slowly to its boiling point;
    Biting off my fingertips; eating the flesh
    Down to the bare, brittle bone; pain
    Doesn’t hurt me; it only proves I’m alive
    Blood trickles covering my dirty jacket
    In a shade of crimson; I rock harder
    Putting cracks in the wall leaving a stamp
    Of scarlet trailing down the brick path
    Curling around the corners and into
    Every nook and cranny flowing down
    Until it finds the end; I lay lifeless
    My breath is shallow; my heart
    Doesn’t beat; fear lifts off my chest
    All feeling exits my withering corpse


    Fading slowly out;
    Of my mind; I gave myself
    A lobotomy.

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    Re: Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    pretty detailed on crazyness... which for this piece, is what it required. I thought the way you wrote was really original and I especially liked the first bolded stanza... that was a pretty solid set of lines there, it was nice... there were some dope lines here and there and a lot of good ones. a lot of detail on self inflicted gore and head bashings, which made the read more entertaining... solid piece. stay up...



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    Re: Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    Reserved for feed.

    Off to school now, I'll do it later.

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    Re: Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/show...gh-366057.html
    hit that collab with LedgenZ up will ya?



    Like cry say, this was a real solid piece and the first bolded stanza did a lot. Wording was pretty straight forward and each line was really well written. your imagery was pretty good, some nice visuals in here. Emotion was crazy, overall a real good read. Keep writing.

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    Re: Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    First things first. I really wanted to read this after reading the title lol, first impressions really hit me.

    Now onto the poem itself...

    I think this was told real nice. Honestly. From simple techniques such as the repetition of the word room in the quote gave us a really nice insight into the personality of the guy in the poem.

    Some really harsh imagery in there lol, the thought of a man actually enjoying the shock because it reminded them of being shook as a baby? Lol. fitted nicely into the poem though... Again just reinforcing a strong sense of character into it. Yes, I see that as the reason this poem was so good lol, character building. not always an easy thing to do to the standard that you did it.

    Only criticisms I can really give are some grammatical errors. I think you went a bit overboard with the semi-colons, and I think there should have been some more full stops/ commas implemented in certain parts of the poem where this was nothing. If you want, PM me and I'll point out a couple of places that I think these should be. Unless of course you were doing it on purpose to reinforce the persons insanity...

    Ok, nice piece. Well done. Now if you could feed on Eye Am, that would be pretty dope. Pz.

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    Re: Straight Jacket Chronicals.

    Word...this was just one psycho thrill ride of a read...the emotion in this piece was great..but even better was the imagery...you had a lot of nice lines as well as good ones like Cry stated..but that part about the mother..really sunk the emotion into the reader..Although there were a few grammatical errors they didn't really take anything away from the reader, this was just a well executed drop.overall this was a great read..on a creative topic..with a dope take..so props on that and thanks for the read..
    Last edited by Ntalek; April 24th, 2008 at 02:44 PM

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