Words By Dominic Riccitello


A collection of conversations between friends, flings, acquaintances, lost souls and people of my past. I write to understand why things happened the way they did. Original quotes and poetry by Dominic Riccitello.


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i’m lying on ends of night
twisting turns on beds that once felt nice
kissed the hands of many like wet malachite
and i twirl in and out
taking photos with my mind
i’m lying in a coma and it seems all but right
making lefts to take edges
words and rhythm, wealth seems to be nothing
to tango in the thought of everything
it’s so tempting to be on flight
to twirl in power, but feel no emotion
talk in tongues because they can’t feel the feeling of this
to understand what this is
and i take no bliss to bed
feels like a coma, so dark in here
and i bare the thought to speak
rather rhyme in pure poetry
to die like this would be my heaven
to take the feeling of flying
to touch the air would be something
the clock ticks and the corners keep pulling
have you ever fallen asleep in pure hostility?
to break in edges
to break beds
to smash plates at walls
the power to feel it all
yet say nothing
i dance in my emotions
a drug to feel something
hidden sentences in paragraphs
the humming is all but haunting
words said came crashing
yet it was far too long, far too fast
a million miles too stretched
the oceans once spoke
and i listened to everything

to have everything yet nothing
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i waver in question
broken transitions
a wild hesitation
we echo in our moments
longing for something worth living
two seconds and a speak
words, how you believe they have meaning
we frolic in our divided rooms
burning fumes on our desires
the damaged conversations
couch of chaos
two and a beat
words thrown at the ceiling
i die to live in moments
to be broken by division
transcend in echoes worth having
we die in time
everyone does
its up to you to find the beat
it’s up to you to find meaning

to find meaning in your living room
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i turn to key
your words against my knees
i bend in motion
to create ocean within thoughts
your eyes behind mine
i frolic between fine lines
white noise of your cries
echoes in thoughts transcend
we’re wavering on bumps
calluses of our skin
your door awakens
i can finally breathe
it feels like
just between you and i
tangos in screams
your neck is what killed me
little white lies
little fine lines
we make movement in time
pauses between chaos and rhyme
we work in thought
two and a head
spinning in question
to be or to break
to think or to ache
it was always orange
the color of
things that never made sense
hell which we questioned

i was tired
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i lie before myself
standing on fine lines and bright lights
how i used to hold myself
we stand at edge right
bouncing from rhyme to rhyme
you were my wine
my late nights, ambien and cries
my ambient light

we bent in thought
i danced without cause
it was all but a was
we take chances in fire
to feel less than holy in our iron
a deadly lighter
man stuck between dividers
hell bent on reflection
we bend to go deeper
twisting bodies to remain that all remains
remnant in cause of
to be one with sanity
vibrations of you
touch of your hand
the alchemy of our horizon
mountains in the distance only remind me
shades of blue
the patchouli, your scent
two necks in a coil
three sheets to the wind
broken wine glasses at roosterfish

we mend in moments
little things said and we reflect
nostalgia sometimes kills
yet i like the pain of remembrance
history of
are our only memories
to be one with or to be without
lips on a forehead
little things are sometimes
everything

roosterfish
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i lie into you in a dark lit room
hands across, tangled beside
i hold to weep, strings you keep
we tangle in thought beside two hearts
to be in motion without hesitation
i die for you in summer
on cold nights i remember
you beside me, us as we
overshadowed by versions of me
i move in motions
lost translations
we break the mold of what could be
to form a reality of what is
and i say without indecision
to create something worth forming
thoughts and desire
mixed with a loss of friction
words make sense if you let them
your lips made sense if i had let them

tongues twist and so do necks
on dark summer nights
i used to love you
yet
only around midnight

tangled threads
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i touch you in echoes
in broken pieces
to stand before myself in our darkest evening
or break or fall or to stand in place of it all
mirrors seem to crack
seams begin to unravel

i lie in our moment
wondering if wandering goes too far
we eclipse into memories
i always get lost in here
always seem to stray
from where we should be

and i’m skipping on cracks
breaking bricks
in mix of thoughts and this
broken grips can only take you so far
lungs without breath
never make sense
and i’m burning in this
desire like tires of ’74

thoughts occur on occasion
persuasion is a deadly fire
words can tango
between fingers like follicles of your hair
things said only fall deeper
words can break
things can bend
we can extend
yet i’ll pretend that all good things truly end

fires of 1974
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i follow the steps you left
on a summer side midnight
i caress
you’re shaken and i’m shallow
in depth with waves i can’t pull through

we’re diving and i’m 32
do you know what this feels like?
to be everywhere but with you
i shake to feel sullen blues
shades of 22
your mind and i
contested in bright lights
twists between then and this

you dive like midnight
shadows of corners
from the break of daylight
i can still smell the coffee beans from tuesday morning
we revel in a type of madness
one with twists
another with bittersweet bliss

we reminisce in moments to feel something
thoughts of becoming
i can’t tell you why
yet i recall your mind
those tired eyes
deep fires of our midnight

we turn in our desires
switching between haywire and gunfire
to feel a sort of bliss
we become stuck in abyss
to taste fuel of what was
that is no longer what is

how it felt to be 22
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i transcend in bits
in dire twists
in fragments
we attach ourselves
in the slightest
details of our desires
forming fires and liars
relationships always expire

in death we kiss
swaying in bliss
two bits and a tease
words against my knees
i paint you darkened poetry
slicing your tongue so you can breathe

we sleep in oasis
dreaming of mauritius
we break knees to twist
shift gears to drift
away from nights
on top of mountains
screaming names we can hardly remember
have you ever sent roses
and had them retuned to sender?

embers sleep
like you and we
words against a chest
pressed upon a beat
we make moments out of memories
scream names for sense
all things eventually end
as does our heartbeat

return to sender
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