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				stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)
eyes lock in a gaze
glimpses of my future spark
then you walk away 
					
				 
				
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				The gates going up 
and down like 
gigantic windshield wipers 
to let the existent 
boxcars 
pass. We 
went across these real 
bumpy railroad tracks into 
a town so 
small there 
wasn’t enough room 
for the car 
so we got out and went ahea 
					
				 
				
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				You never knew  How to express  What you didn't know  You felt     With your words  You picked on  You taunted  You destroyed     Did it help   To feel yourself  Did it work  To disparage     Those who were  Innocent and young  Blameless  For living    … 
					
				 
				
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				It is a dark and stormy night, naturally 
We’re trying to get some sleep 
at a Travelodge in Eureka 
when I get up at 3 a.m. to write 
“Hard motel pillow receives snoring from neighboring room” 
O Thesaurus, we need another word 
Maybe it sh 
					
				 
				
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				I linger and pretend that I’m not there,
you find me in the end but I’ll not dare
to speak the words I only know to write. 
					
				 
				
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				She’ll get a dog 
a Weimaraner 
I know 
She’ll call him Alfie 
after her first 
two dogs 
He’ll try to get up 
on the bed 
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no 
But in the night 
she will let him 
so as not to be lonely 
 
					
				 
				
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				Enough with the bitter pills and pregnant conversations all in a row. 
					
				 
				
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				To get there we had to fly up on a United Airlines crop duster 
with two cocktails and a basket of desiccated crickets for snacks 
Instead of landing they pushed us off the wingtips 
strapped to parachutes, but it wasn’t so bad 
since we were go 
					
				 
				
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				Until millennia have passed and the world is dug up
For future historians to ponder
And through their meticulous disassembling of dirt
They will find my book. 
					
				 
				
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				Exile 
Evil 
Stabbed 
in the back 
by 
its 
strange need 
and 
naïve! 
without face 
or 
value 
Who needs 
that? 
I’d rather 
walk on the 
loathsome 
moon 
with my 
own 
rapacity 
*	*	* 
Chess pieces 
walk 
					
				 
				
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				If I was a bum 
I’d risk everything 
for a drink or a smoke 
I would beg and curse and steal 
if I was a bum 
If I was a bum 
I would cuss out the Pope 
I would not vote for anyone 
because I would know truly 
they’d be telling gross lies 
					
				 
				
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				the white moon is dangling 
by a thread tonight 
you close your eyes 
and listen to it undress 
and suppress, suppress 
you listen to it undress 
while you yourself hang lifeless 
in your own arms 
not meaning to do yourself any 
harm, not  
					
				 
				
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				Twenty-two sugars ripped side to side, crystal treasures mostly emptied;
white gift wrap littering the table. 
					
				 
				
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				The Bike Messenger on Lexington Avenue 
Comes to rest 
taking a moment 
in the falling rain 
slowly massaging the 
veins at the top 
of his bald head 
Cracking his neck 
while the yellow cabs start 
honking behind him 
Unwilling to mov 
					
				 
				
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				If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled… 
					
				 
				
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