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The

the following is the but not The * am i only all of it or none a happiness or disappointment the one and only i or just another one * so many nights still and yet your heart is in darkness filling in the space with light things that will never sink stay drown in … Continue reading

lightning strike

today it was a woman with a limp newspaper above her head reading the headlines slipping down her face   she wept into her seat blue dress unfit for any season red heels stuck balancing sunsets   meanwhile the subway poured on the city filled with reflections of her a story played on the comic … Continue reading

650 bce

no one knew the exact years she died nor could anyone pin when she was born so you must understand that i did not believe it either when with dried onions for earrings and a black and white vertically stripped summer dress there she was still not still sappho the poet the undead reading with … Continue reading

would

he was a great writer embedded into the mill a voice gurgling over the radio that all there was to writing was to write but my hands were busy scalping trees with words at the wood cut from lovers long lost and a drunk who pissed his name into the roots hoping it would flower … Continue reading

the dead sea

making love like a dull guillotine with unshaven mollusks fumbling about in the sea   her whining to whatever was still a child in her like love taught by the lightness of parents who showed her life was her life to ask and demand and want more more more give it give it come on … Continue reading

act(ion) positively

every time i drink i am reminded of why i hate drinking which makes me drink more and become hate re-minded: an every time drunk * fiction creates a universe poetry is one * let it be known that your existence is a revolutionary act of resistance for to change it all all of it … Continue reading

planet b

she left me with whatever was left of me like night that needs morning to make it whole   rise baby it’s time to get up and get going down town with the day that has had a head start and thousands of years to prepare to make you   show it that it wasn’t … Continue reading

carnival prize isn’t fair

there is something to be said about not having the words yet i just don’t know how to say it at the moment * without god i am left to believe that what i believe leaves me as i and that is a bit unfortunate because i am told there is so much more than … Continue reading