>tfw my uncle died recently >never married and was real quiet >worked as a ticket collector on the trains >always known as the "strange" family member >I liked him and he looked after me as a kid when my parents divorced >visited his house with my mum to sort his things out >I ask if I can have his book collection rather than giving it to charity or throwing it out >nobody minds >go through his collection in my room >find a bunch of loose sheets with poems written on them >google some lines and find nothing >figure they're his >find several revisions of the same poems with tons of notes and edits >a lot of them are about loneliness and failure >mfw reading this shit and trying not to tear up
I'm not sure if he'd want that. I feel guilty enough reading them. It's lucky I they didn't end up in a charity shop I guess but I feel bad because he was so private.
Tyler Nguyen
I beg you to share one of his poems.
Christian Richardson
just post them. I know for a fact that he'd feel good knowing that someone enjoyed his work
Oliver Moore
Don’t post them. What is put on the internet can never be removed, just keep them to yourself. They’re personal
Wyatt Scott
just post them it's your uncle's legacy
Robert Baker
Yeah, don’t post them. There’s the risk that someone steals it or tries to turn it into a copy pasta. May your uncle rip in pieces
Landon Murphy
lol what a pseud
Daniel Jackson
You're probably right. I just teared up when I read through his stuff and thought about him writing them with nobody to show them to.
David Jones
don't listen to these cunts please post them OP
Noah Anderson
I will dedicate my life to be the next henry darger
Nolan Reed
Try to get them published in some paper then. The one you posted was quite sweet.
Brayden Ross
This sort of shit isn't "xD so romantic and mysterious" anymore. This isn't 1918. Your family members and 99.99999 % of society think "Oi what a sadcase innit!"
Even people who work at publishing companies think that. And they are all life on easy mode rich people eager to publish people like themselves or the latest non-white trendy inner city Londoner
Carson Phillips
What are you on about mate
Blake Kelly
this might be the most elaborate b8 I've ever seen
Austin Bell
RIP Laurence
Ethan Morris
Damn I saw it for a second and hit refresh only to see it being deleted it started with "There are many tempting paths in life.."
Gavin Ortiz
Do him good, Kimbote.
Carter Sullivan
Can you post at least one? Just choose one that doesn't seem so personal
Evan Anderson
he already posted on but deleted it.
>There are many tempting paths in life, >Who knows which one of them may lead >To the solid home, the child, the wife, >The fulfilment of all human needs.
>I’ve travelled many routes myself, >Walked for several years down some, >Yet failed to discover the immeasurable wealth >Of not having to live one’s life alone.
Ayden Green
The written words are meant to be shared. That's why they are written.
Caleb Anderson
goddamn right in the feels
Adrian Cooper
This is the kind of thread I want to believe it's true even if it may not. Post some, anons. Spread the feels. He'll be alive again, in those feels.
Michael Gomez
Say that when someone spams it in a peterson thread but rewritten to be about farts
Ayden Cooper
If I haven't found a wife by 35 I'm killing myself
Anthony Hill
???????
Camden Torres
how old was your uncle when he died?
Aiden Howard
damn
Jonathan Miller
This feels... genuine. I can feel Laurence in it. RIP, user's uncle Laurence.
Mason Lewis
don't worry, you'll be able to find someone to fuck in the nursing home.
Joseph Martin
One of us.
Ian Myers
Rest in peace, Laurence.
Jayden Turner
Fucking people ain't the problem There's something about my personality that is unattractive to women
Jacob Evans
Rip.
Austin Price
I'm so sorry for your loss. I imagine you loved him. He's fine now.
Leo Reed
You should've showed him Veeky Forums. RIPIP
Lucas Rivera
change your personality then bud, or more accurately, your outlook... which dictates your personality.
Christian Green
F
Kevin Lee
I really didn't came here to feel.
Camden Garcia
the only problem is I don't know what is wrong with my personality I'm fairly sure it's my self-esteem/low social status
James Morris
...
Juan Martin
I've see this happen a lot right before my eyes. Some ppl just miss the timing on everything they say. I was just like that, I just got lucky desu
John Martinez
Introspect more and find out why. Funnily enough, great literature helps with this. Go read!
Xavier Garcia
Hope your uncle rests in peace. F
Luis Richardson
you need to put in a lot of time. far more time than you even realize.
the problem with being a smarty pants is that you never spend most of your life socializing like 'normies' do. that's what it takes. you start to take on characteristics and personality traits, learn how to be a 'part' of society, and not make a girl scared for her life.
people with low self-esteem and social status have sex all the time. but someone who spends their time away from the 'crowd' becomes weirder and weirder the more time they stay away. this is why throughout our history, 'disconnecting' yourself from society or becoming a monk was a way to clear your thinking and let you focus on things without the distraction of other people.
however, because of the internet, societal disconnect is becoming the norm.
Austin Harris
F
Logan Wood
>ignores inborn nature >says the low status ugly people fuck other repulsive ugly people sometimes meme >shames invrovertion >shames reclusiveness for being forcibly social cut off a finger for me sweetie
Oliver Stewart
golly you sound like such a kind person i cant imagine you having trouble interacting with others
Ryder Hughes
He was 63.
Henry Roberts
RIP Lawrence Soon I will join you in the special circle of hell reserved for anti-social pseuds.
Henry Williams
he's not wrong. I wouldn't say I'm ugly by any stretch. And I know If I went clubbing I could get laid often. Getting in a relationship is different, however. I've had girls want to date me before. They weren't the prettiest, but I never felt love for them. I've never been able to successfully hold down a relationship with a girl I legitimately loved. I'll probably just go see a female therapist and see whats wrong instead of ruminating all the time
Ethan Wood
damn... F
Samuel Clark
jesus what did he die from? I fear dying of loneliness
Dominic Rogers
I-i'm 36...
F
not bad Lawrence. godspeed to you, gentle soul.
Elijah Anderson
heartbreak, dummy.
i don't want to speculate but a single man with no family obligations might have allowed himself richer foods and more frequent tipples than the next man, as well.
Sebastian Stewart
He died from cancer. Actually don't know which, I'll have to ask. I know he refused to go back into hospital recently.
Jace Cox
The loneliness probably helped a lot Any idea why he was so isolated? you mentioned he was quiet
Ethan Wood
Are they worth publishing in his name?
I wonder how many closeted geniuses there are out there living loser or blue-collar lives, or at least decent artists who will forever go unrecognized.
Seconded.
Christopher Russell
op should just sell his uncles shit the old man was worthless but his writing should be plundered and used for money making
Xavier Evans
lmao rekt.
Adam Green
No idea really. I regret not asking him more about his life. I admit in my youth I figured he was just a boring guy and didn't think about him much, and when he looked after me as a kid he only ever asked about me but never told me anything about himself but he was fun to be around and was like a kid himself when I stayed at his house. I'm impressed by his book collection, and most of it is stuff I don't see on Veeky Forums often or at all. A lot of older British writers I never heard of.
Carson Garcia
Fuck it, here's another one. I doubt it's autobiographical - he definitely wasn't transgender or anything.
I was born a boy but now I'm a girl I've done some things that would make your toes curl Called me a car crash, called me a fool Called me a freak threw me out of school So I changed the rules
I stand alone, survivor on a battlefield Surveying the damage been done through the years you and I Wanting and hoping and wishing and praying For more in my life Not quite prepared to be scared and repaired Like a good little wife
Like a vampire I cannot be uninvited Like a bridesmaid my love remains unrequited Like a goddess when you see just who I am Cause I am a woman and you are just a man
They made me cry but they can't disempower me The phoenix will rise through the flames to return you and I Laughing and joking and faking bravado it's all just a game Left here all bruised and confused and abused By the glamour and fame
I was a boy, now I'm a girl Give me a chance if you change your mind We can change the world
Aiden Baker
i didn't know your uncle was a 15 year old girl
Benjamin Thomas
RIP
Mason Nguyen
Publish them, with his "sad story" as a preface. All who write, do so to be, eventually, read.
Just a jape my friend. I'm glad you posted it though, it's absolutely hilariously awful.
Noah Collins
You're a dick
Maybe he was and you just didn't know. Trans people aren't like Veeky Forums thinks they are. Older people especially may have had a hard time coming to terms with that part of themselves and felt a need to keep that part of themselves secret from everyone, worried what their loved ones would think of them if they found out. It can cause them to isolate themselves from relationships.
My uncle died a few years ago and my mom and her siblings found out he was transgender when going through his stuff (found correspondence with endocrinologists and surgeons exploring different parts of transitioning). My mom was devastated that he never felt he could share who he was with family and give her a chance to accept him.
Or maybe he wasn't. Loneliness is crushing no matter the cause.
RIP Lawrence
Carter Ortiz
Hah, I'm an idiot
Nathan Adams
kek
I didn't use the song lyrics to trans bash. I just think they're awful.
Matthew Moore
>10602408 OP here. I didn't post that. I only posted one but deleted it.
Brody Young
If op posts a bunch of them I can format them into a little digital chapbook if he wants.
Elijah Gutierrez
We know, the first poem was wonderful.
Luis Powell
>when 2017 Veeky Forums replaces your brain
Kevin Brown
Sad but beautiful Rip hard Laurence
Gabriel Cook
The other option would be to just a compile a small collection for family members. If there is interest beyond that it will probably happen.
Nathaniel Baker
Anyone who actually believes some sad uncle wrote this r9k bullshit and not user is an actual moron
Mason Smith
Any more desu?
Jacob Gray
What evidence do you have to the contrary that his uncle did write it? Fucking hypocrite pleb.
Levi Lopez
Because I actually wrote it. This entire thread is an attempt to steal my genius.
Hunter Diaz
Intuitive reasoning. Same way I know you suck dick through a hole in the wall.
Isaiah Rodriguez
/thread
Ethan Lopez
>change your personality
implying character is malleable
Oliver Harris
pure projection
Brandon Hall
Op probably did write it
Jose King
It sure is!
Joseph Cook
Your intuitive reasoning sucks dick.
Jayden Ross
ITT optimists who read self-help books and believe everyone else can and should become optimists who read self-help books
Samuel Diaz
Not good desu, but it's genuine at least.
Hunter Gonzalez
>implying God isn't inherently optimistic, and love is to
Eli Martin
I'm far from an optimist, but I don't think people can't change their ways. Look around you.
Zachary Barnes
FUCK A SPIDER
Landon Brooks
your uncle was a freak. it deserved to die. dont weep for a nonhuman, just sell its things for your profit and burn its identity. trannies are an alternate reproduction strategy, because they cannot breed they try to corrupt others to create more of themselves having a nonhuman trannies works connected to its identity is the literary version of an aids virus
Henry Rodriguez
All I see is suffering
Robert King
OP please upload them somewhere!
Grayson Young
You can change your habits. If you keep them with discipline for many times they become part of your personality. The bad part is that this can be used against you.
Jeremiah Watson
Rest in peace, Laurence. I'm sorry for your loss and thankful for the poem of his you shared with us.