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after ever

the pages are always blank even when there is there   it is never finished for to finish would be to admit that it does not go on and every story always does * there is only one story ever told: nothing is never happening * mean as it is writing is meant to make … Continue reading

what remains

god grant me the belief to not need belief in a god * he wanted to prove that he was sorry so he dangled there like an exclamation which left most with a question mark and silent remark of how all could be improved * there is no redemption only redefinition on there is * … Continue reading

morning, morning

goodnight night and the cars that cough the many moving and those that sleep longer than i hope to by sleeping now   goodnight the streetlights that sting the sky the honeys kissing strangers in search of a deflower and the bees that no longer buzz for i have received a text message from a … Continue reading

sweet (cavities)

get up why are you sleeping when you only wake with the arresting thought that you are tired of feeling like you are sleeping through a life that is getting you down * summer behind me like a dog on a leash pissing on the tree it sprouts breathing acid from a mouth and a … Continue reading

brief bang

in the penitentiary i freed my mind with the time to think without the body bowing down to slaves of schedule and the whip of a blanket at night that offers rest from the mined mind racing doing horrible things to horrible people horribly all to sleep in peace and do it all again in … Continue reading

awarding punishment

on ward going no where with the bars singing like tuning forks though i am not hungry and tone deaf listening to the steady step of feet outside always outside even in these walls there is an outside where we need not sling sunshine and good nights but can sit for days unmoving out of … Continue reading

canine circle

i used to think poetry was a suicide where the author always reached the end of a line   but now i think it a rope connecting all to all where there is no end just movement across in a circle a knot sometimes around a neck but often times around a belt to keep … Continue reading

a lie

if you have reached the end hanging know that there is no answers in life and worse that death is no answer to reach like a baby to the sky * after all i have had i have only learned that life is senseless because it is incensed with death that often makes a lot … Continue reading

hope-sick

i thought i could fix this but i was crazy the missing nut a part * drunks and the maimed require other limbs to bring them home and healthy * we will collapse soon like a star onto itself white to black hands folding onto hands mouths onto mouths where no light can escape * … Continue reading

blue and yellow make green

let us meet let us daze let us love let us us knowing each other now with the meat and days behind us lovely sunsets we do not look upon for it is a single organism consuming the sky while we have each other in small steps that let us fall more and more into … Continue reading