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break up

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is it is

i am starting to see you in places we never visited but where you still leave me first at a subway that closes as an oyster with the smell of an ocean wafting though i am miles away which is to say i do not know where i am only where i am going which … Continue reading

too soft

the following is repeated but unrepeatable. * the hardest thing you must learn is that you will not always be hard and then wrecked ruined and runny you will find you have learned nothing but still lost too much * the most difficult thing to learn will be that they will not love and you … Continue reading

i know now now

i am afraid all the poetry has left with you and now, the remains of empty space broken and misaligned reigns * she said she was cheating on me and after a few moments spent trying to remember myself reflected in her eyes i said i was doing it too for i told her that … Continue reading

wrecked wild wretched witch

we are hideous but we have art   we are fiends but there are still songs   we are human but we can find buts in all even in the artless and songless * everyone is tired from everyone being tired so sleep in my arms and retire * everything is a metaphor for death … Continue reading

a tornado with a name

the following is an attempt to make up for the fact that hurricanes have names, while tornadoes do not, even though i have blown a few kisses for a while, watched the wind whirl, and saw what devastation would wreck from a spin of a dress. * one day the answers you seek will have been … Continue reading

cement airy

all of this is out of love because all of this is out of love * i am sorry but you are going to need to know that you must never apologize for being i which is you which is reflected in sorry little me * i suppose you don’t really want to be alone … Continue reading

when hen new h

  when there is nothing left you will be when all has gone you still are and when there is no more there there you remain yours and not theirs * i understand it all now because unknown and alone i realize i tried to give you what i could not give myself and what … Continue reading

com(e)pass

forgive not because they deserve it but because you do because you need the quiet to become because you need to not need to be forgiven and in the absence of them is the fumbling fullness of you holed and holing into yourself like a seed into a garden that held other seeds who didn’t … Continue reading

came came

i want to tell you that at the end of all of this there will be happiness but i cannot for you do not want this to end for here well there there is no happiness and wanting untold * come come burn for soon the trees will make breaths out of you who will … Continue reading

allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

how is it that after it all which wasn’t it after all i am more sorry than you that it happened with mouthfuls of how than that it didn’t * my hands were too soft because she was tired sleepy in them dreaming of another day and person who would roughen her up a little … Continue reading