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I write in the morning when the world is bendy.

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Poetry is my rebellion/ against being what I’m not.

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the Great Way itself is very smooth and straight,/but folks take to the challenge of rough, wild roads.

Glad the Moon Worked the Night Shift

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Something Else

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A Sometimes Niggling Notion

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If I had a daughter, this it how it would be. It would be all, Stand up straight, missy, shoulders back, no slouching, and she'd be sulky, sullen, pouting, wilful, and I'd see in her eyes, which would be my eyes, that she was starting to hate me, and I'd

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Revocable Love It was easy lying there with My head on her left breast Listening to the strong Business-like beating of Her heart. She looked down and said Quietly, I told you my love Was revocable. I give it To many men and then I take It back. …

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I watch my brother carry her into the hospital, and I love him with parts of myself I didn’t know were capable of love. I love my brother with the space behind my eyes, the skin between my fingers, the ends of my hair, the crease in my neck. I love him wi

From The Island Of Final Regrets

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the two become one where/ all things end,