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a helicopter pilot, for example

it is said that i am half a whole but also a whole half which leaves me wondering why i am filled with hopes and dreams of what i am not having * as you grow you learn that drinking is bad for you because it eats away at you and your comprehension of bad … Continue reading

on point without points

got bones bragging about failed attempts cracking up about the spills that left me embarrassed to be me and embarrassed but the bones keep on saying i i i as though i’m supposed to hear it over the o o o and the people who watch and laugh that i’ve spilled my drink and will … Continue reading

the last lighthouse

what went wrong when there was so much right before he says smoking haze blocking his eyes tumbling in his lungs lips lit red like a stop light until the night goes on door flapping open making wind and wishes of summer him drinking green liquid because it’s the cheapest thing at the bar where people … Continue reading

here

where do all the things go that were never said   where do all those dreams die that were never accomplished   where do all those people pass that we never turned into   where do all those endings close that didn’t end   the beginnings that never began   the middles that never middled … Continue reading

kneel arms weak

you are the moon against the night not quite seen and never understood until i land in the reflection as a small feat of human ingenuity and careless poems that look for softness in the empty spots and after finding them reading some of lines i’ve bounced around to and listening to you bounce back i realize … Continue reading

floaty

i am looking back at my life like a bather on a beach hopping from sand spot to sand spot to avoid the heat and the pain of staying around for too long even if i’ll get used to it because there is water ahead cool water that waves back to me and my bouncing … Continue reading

global worming

the world has no ambition and for this reason most people blend in the background as stones and weeds you have to climb or cut   ditch them look to the sun its goal is to burn the world alive do the same by living in heat and trying to freeze the sun if only … Continue reading

neige

i’ve been thinking of the silent winter that buries and brings quiet and darkness with enough gray weight that even my closed eyes cannot match for they are too warm while around all freezes into goodbyes until i open like hands holding hands missing the one that made them fall in love with flesh softer … Continue reading

ties around our necks

we were told a man killed himself here and we asked what kind of man and were told a man who would kill himself here so we looked for the kind of man for a while coming back playing here building forts out of rope we found having battles that never transpired but if did … Continue reading

chores

broken and breaking he bleeds he onto me through transparent blood that hasn’t yet breathed his life and that blocks his breath now in sobs of i could’ve done better you see i could’ve been someone if i only did see and you hadn’t been and i want to tell him that i barely feel … Continue reading