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The Synesthete
Published: 2010-09-29 19:01:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 22539; Favourites: 344; Downloads: 412
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Red is red.Firetruck red. P
is purple.
Purple is purple.
Yellow is lemon yellow
& deep blue & plums.
Green is brown.
It's complicated.
Rape is red, & then bruised,
pulsating purple.
Rape feels like a rape. Quandary
tastes like guacamole,
not for any reason,
but she really likes guacamole.
A buzzing in her room burns
in her hand. Like a metal object
taken out of a microwave.
She can't sleep
in her room. No one else
can hear the sound. No one else
is able to feel
the sound she feels.
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reminds me of all those years, people used to think i was crazy. i thought i was crazy. beautifully written
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I completely understand about the buzzing noise you mention. I always keep the light off in my room because the noise it makes smells sharp, pointy-edged, and sort of acrid--like chemicals.
It's a lovely poem. Most people don't explore the potentially annoying side of synesthesia.
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Wow, this is quite brilliant. The progression and dark undertones are very powerful.
Synesthesia sounds fun though. Well, actually, my numbers have personalities--but nothing other than that.
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Ah, thank you. That is a form of Synesthesia you described.
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This is truly amazing. Explains synesthesia, how it's amazing and isolating at the same time.
I thought everyone saw words in colors until I talked to my brother about how his name was yellow and he just looked at me funny. I started asking my friends about this and they said they hadn't experienced anything like it. It's strange and fun at the same time.
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is very well done, indeed one confuses things. when I saw the colors I was told that "this" was the purple .... and for me the word PURPLE IS A SOFT PINK CAKE. In short, it is sometimes beautiful to be synesthetic .... there are times when you cry because you do not understand when you say, do not shout! The color of your voice is not like me!
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This is amazing. I love the tone and the pulsing from childish to sinister. Awesome.
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Yes. I am also left handed.
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I've lived with this all my life, and I've never realised how interesting it is 
It's mainly colours and numbers- never smells (which I feel were sadly overlooked). I'm mainly either in a science or maths in school now. H and 4 both have the same colour yellow (It's blistering and horrible) And I hate putting them together, so I have real problems with some compounds and algebra 
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Also I think I might have Synesthesia.
While growing up I would always say that tastes like say bleach.
Or vice versa.
In other words I could always taste things or smell or hear things and say they were like another one of my senses.
Idk how to explain it, sorry. xD
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Nothing to explain. Sounds like synesthesia.
Do you still get it or was it just something that happened when you were growing up?
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Still sometimes.
Like I can be walking down the street and be like
that tastes like bleach
and my friend will be like 'uhm..what?!'
And i'll be like it tastes like the smell of bleach D;
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This actually made me cry.
Maybe because I can relate a little, however this is just beautiful.
Thank you For creating such wonderful art.
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Wow, this piece is so intricate yet so simple. I love it.
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this speaks to me in several ways.
oh and i have synesthesia too.
loved this <3
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Thank you. What kind of synesthesia?
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the one where i associate letters and numbers with colors... which is annoying when i have to design posters because i have to resist the urge to color each letter in a particular way... and each word is like a mismatched mini rainbow with certain colors being the more dominant ones.
i get it mildly with music / sound too but it's mostly letters and numbers.
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I love this! Music is always pictures and swirls to me
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I'd never f*ck about with "rape" like that. Too sensitive for me, just like the U.S. is with child p**n.
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I sincerely apologize if the words in this poem upset or triggered you. Rape is also very sensitive to the person whom this poem is about. I put it in there because it is the word which most effects her when she hears it, a word sometimes she can't bear to hear. We have spent a lot of time together talking about the very topics you have raised, how people are insensitive to those topics, and this poem was trying to address that, not take part in those problems.
I was myself sexually molested as a teenager by a janitor in my high school. But I would never compare that to an actual rape. Nevertheless, I assure you that I wouldn't "fuck about" with that word or its connotations. Rather, I wanted to point out how that word is too powerful to be joked about for some people, how for some people hearing about rape can "feel like a rape."
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oh yeah about that. did you mean "feels like a grape" or as is? and you know you didn't have to share so much.
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You, as you are presenting yourself in this context, really aren't worth talking to.
So fuck off.
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How is he fucking about with rape?
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Please don't start a fight.
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"Please don't start a fight" pacifist?
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Just get tired of people on the internet calling each other Hitler
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At first, I was trying to consider whether or not to read this piece because of its DD status --I know, I know. Not really a fair assessment of a piece of art, but a DD almost reeks of some sort of arrogant belief that the gods of Deviation know anything about poetry.
But I looked deeper because I always want to give poets a chance (got a soft spot, what can I say). I don't know if people are understanding the actual palpable mastery of this work. At first the work seems elementary, but the level of maturity in this piece to give the senses form and shape is something that is sorely missing on this site.
So, congratulations for giving me hope that there is actually a mature understanding of craft on this website that plays house and babysitter to a bunch of adolescents.
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Hah, well, yes. Among the comments I've received are a small number of people who appreciate the poem as a poem and a much larger number of people interested in the piece because its about synesthesia and largely accurate about it.
And I like those people, and have enjoyed talking to them, but that isn't really what I was gong for in this piece. I tried to make it a work of art first, and about synesthesia only in a very secondary and obvious way.
So thank you for noticing that. I also get pretty annoyed with the caliber of most of the poetry and even the featured poetry on this site. The "Daily Lit Deviations" group, for instance, mostly features bland, awful poetry. So why do I stick around? Oh, I don't know. I've been here a long time. I like it.
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I started here in high school --you can imagine the pretentious teen-age mierde d'vaca that I tried to pass off as actual art. However, after realising that perhaps I wasn't getting out of DA what I should've (namely, inspiration and education), I left for four or five years. This is my "resurrection" of sorts in the form of someone who's attempting to be more serious, whatever that means.
Good to see that someone's stuck in there for the long haul and has managed something truly poetic 
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You'll see my experience with dA on your journal post. I have a similar experience with writing bad poetry and posting it on dA in high school, and ironically that was when I was most "popular" on this site, mainly because I read a lot of other people's stuff, when it was, largely, the same caliber as my own work.
I dealt with that by recently putting almost all of my old work in storage. Its there for me to see and remember, but I don't need other people digging it up.
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Ahhh I obsessed on this awesome thing for awhile. Spent a couple weeks wishing I was one and then gave up. A few weeks later I had a dream I was one, woke up and was saddened when I realized it was just a dream. D; Was not fun....So jealous of people that have it.
Contgratz on the DD!
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Well thank you. I feel ripped off too. I'm creative! Where's my synesthesia???
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lol My same thought!
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This is so fantastic! I love how descriptive it is. Makes me want to write a book.
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Thank you
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I don't know.^.^' But I've been thinking about an idea for a while; a book about friendship, since all I ever read about is loneliness and hate these days. Maybe I could snuggle that idea in there, it's hard to tell.
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Well I'm glad. You should let me know how it turns out.
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Cool! Car engines bur my figner tips >.<
Nicely done. Are you the synesthete in the poem?
And pictures of violins smell like lavender. I have like 9 variations lol.
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Very cool. You mean the sound of car engines burn your finger tips? That must be really annoying! At first I just thought you were saying that touching a car engine would burn your finger tips
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