570 9 6
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Through feeling her life story,
I understood mine, more,
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553 10 6
|
I lack the intellect, discipline,
and faith in anything
but our ultimate erasure.
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646 16 9
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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710 8 4
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I remember having a beer once
And feeling like a minor god
And I know in some lie you told
Your life began making sense
And I also know that the mind likes logic
But the heart loves chaos
I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul
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183 12 7
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Despite our stern and stone appearance,
we have not existed forever
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613 1 1
|
My grief is made up of
Demons fighting to
Claw their way first
Out of my eyes
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600 13 5
|
The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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420 5 2
|
The moon once rose on its own
Now it takes a series of
Ropes and pulleys to get it up
Because it’s so old
And you can hear these audible groans
Coming from its craters
As it’s forced to listen to forgotten lovers
Obsessing over old lov
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302 16 10
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My head has become the place/
where unborn poems come to die in utero.
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565 11 4
|
the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…
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611 8 8
|
He bought his zillion-dollar megaphone,
|
709 9 6
|
It’s good to have some,
Extra weight -
Something they can
Grab on to,
In the sheets,
When it’s late-
|
533 10 6
|
The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle.
Fall was near, a rotten apple.
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476 7 5
|
For a man with a poor command of English, he managed
to describe his recent redundancy with aplomb.
“One week, everything perfect; the next week –”
He mimicked a noose being fixed around his neck and
I sat and watched his eyes bulge.
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471 5 3
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and light bleeds into the darkness
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