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    Outta My Mind: Poems from the Other Side of Sanity
    Outta My Mind: Poems from the Other Side of Sanity
    Outta My Mind: Poems from the Other Side of Sanity
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    Outta My Mind: Poems from the Other Side of Sanity

    By Armando DeMarchi

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    Outta My Mind offers a strongly opinionated view of the world from the perspective of a twenty-year-old poet. Author Armando DeMarchi explores the electric chair, ants, death, and a large number of other lively, unexpected topics. Each of his poems is a literary reminder that we should not take life too seriously and that it is okay to remember the way we feel before it is too late. From Aggression to Hidden, his poems travel a wide emotional spectrum, guiding us to the truth through his thoughts and emotions.

    Relax, let your central processing unit take a field trip, and indulge in some of the witty cynicism, playful banter, and touching themes DeMarchi conjures up in Outta My Mind.

    Affection

    Do you know exactly, how to measure affection?
    I myself have conjured theories.
    At first, I measured it in units of smiles per second,
    Then laughs per day, squared.
    But finally, I realized it was simple.
    It is a ratio,
    Of me, to you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 13, 2013
    ISBN9781491717615
    Outta My Mind: Poems from the Other Side of Sanity
    Author

    Armando DeMarchi

    Armando DeMarchi is a poet, musician, and a dreamer. He is a two-time Tough Mudder and president of his local IEEE chapter. He studied electrical engineering at the County College of Morris and currently resides at home in New Jersey.

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      Outta My Mind - Armando DeMarchi

      Copyright © 2013 Armando DeMarchi.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1760-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1762-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1761-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013922565

      iUniverse rev. date: 12/11/2013

      Contents

      Crush

      Affection

      Different

      Aggression

      Alone

      Angel

      Anomaly

      Appreciation

      As Time Presses On

      Assurance

      Be Calm

      Bluesy

      Burred

      But Who Would Care

      Cat

      Cherry Tree

      Courtly Judgment

      Cryptonite

      Disease

      Do Over

      Don’t

      Doorway

      Drunkard

      Elevator

      Expectations

      Father

      Fear

      Feel

      Final Testimony

      Fluidity Line

      Goodbye, For Now

      Hatton

      Hidden

      Home

      I (Verb) You!

      Just Whoreable

      Keep On Rollin’

      Lake

      Leaves!

      Liar

      Mental Warfare

      Fucking Mike

      Misery

      Mother’s Candle

      My Beloved

      My soul is not beautiful

      One

      Outta My Mind

      Paper Airplanes

      Perfect

      Pete the Cow

      Rest in Peace

      Sandwich

      Scars

      Science

      Seeking

      Shower

      Sister

      Snowman

      Sorry

      Spittin’ Truth

      Spoken Word

      Talk

      Teacher

      The Chair

      The Engineer

      The girl and the other

      The Hill

      The Soldier

      They

      This Poem

      Try Again

      Wake up

      Walk

      Wanted

      Weights

      What comes next?

      Winter.

      You and I

      This one’s for you

      Your own demise

      Alexithyma

      Always

      Ants

      Bed

      Don’t love the world

      Happy?

      Have Faith

      I am so frightened

      Learn

      No

      Numb3rs

      There He Goes

      Unimpressed

      When I Breathe

      Applause

      Thanks

      Regroup

      Syntax Error

      Vex

      For Mama Tina, and for you

      Crush

      You are my crush.

      I know, it’s childish.

      But I want to crush you so hard.

      I want you work as a butcher all day and on your way home fall in piranha infested waters.

      I want to fill your cars gas tank with melted crayons

      I want to tie you to a wall and play dodge ball with porcupines.

      I would love for you to stub your toe on a rusted garden hoe.

      I hope you make a wish on a wish bone and when you win, the other person gets your wish.

      I want to make you eat an entire bag of pretzels and give you nothing to drink.

      You’re my crush.

      It’s childish, I know.

      Affection

      Do you know exactly, how to measure affection?

      I myself have conjured theories.

      At first, I measured it in units of smiles per second,

      Then laughs per day, squared.

      But finally, I realized it was simple.

      It is a ratio,

      Of me, to you.

      Different

      If you have the audacity,

      Tenacity,

      To be different-

      The mental capacity,

      To inspire monumental rhapsody,

      Then go out now and

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