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i don’t know where to put my feet because these are ancestral lands and the colonial system privileges happiness over real issues and clapping is a distraction and the clap is a real issue too that is as old as i don’t know

a good poet try but you better be the better you instead of talking about politics love loss oppression insecurity refugees brutality unforgiving wait, await listen wind up dance a little for both meanings are true here: nothing lasts no matter how badly i tried to go to the place where things are forgot to … Continue reading

take it to take it

after all the good i have done for you we are done for good for the good after you * It meant nothing at all which i am sure was true for i see it now in front of me nothing nowhere with no one stretching incomprehensibly like a flower that isn’t trying to absorb … Continue reading

where where went

fear the human who doesn’t want a job fear the mother who doesn’t have children fear the money that has no end fear the need to fear fear the the millions of people who do not fear but live for the money or the children or job which they start describing as what they do … Continue reading

wind up car

car tire breathing an empty language we don’t know we drive long hours to nowhere so that it takes me a lifetime to remember those little sandcastles we built for no other reason then they’d go away against the wind which is shared between heaven and hell carrying us even as it is against the … Continue reading

the age of men

it is not sad because you moved on but because i didn’t from it was * don’t stop on a hill my grandfather used to say before we put him in one and stopped to try to remember all the sayings that climbed into us and what we were doing * we had history at … Continue reading

each night is suicide to day

love gave me the worst love of my life and i suppose i still loved it best of all * there is no winning because the world requires relationships to go on but when they’ve gone the world dresses destruction in crumbles though it still turns easily not feeling the lost * he was forty … Continue reading

date of the date

we tell the words of the dead who in our breath expire meanings that no longer matter but do to you who tries to remember memories before remembering but find nothing except for the thanks that is shared after a burning in a neighborhood where you say well at least i survived   but did … Continue reading

an m. (e) d.

leave the pockets of day untouched that blush the private collections of your hands drifting deep in me to find bits to repair yourself though i make it difficult by wanting to hold your heavy head and tell you that it is okay it is okay it is okay you are you are you are … Continue reading

faster than sound but still sluggish

none on no one yet still hoping for you so i can write to the girl who fears oblivion to tell her that this fear is oblivion itself and though there will be nobody who escapes everyday apocalypses at least you can recreate daily * it is the comfort of you that makes you talk … Continue reading

looking both ways

if your only defense is that it meant nothing you show you do not care again for it left me defenseless by meaning too much * there is no way forward i say   how could there be no way she says   because there is no way backwards i reply   wishing to recollect … Continue reading