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light swallowed

to go on on to go one must realize one isn’t one but many together and tied trying to do the best for the them in themselves * darkness is the loneliness of others projected   and light is the projection of love * what does it say when an old lover who has seen … Continue reading →

kite cut

there must be wind in my bones for they move me to the branches that bring me up to the top and let me hang there broken and rattling   a failed chime which no one listened to * after everything i have learned there isn’t everything in after and even less in i * … Continue reading →

grapes left in the sun smell like oranges

if i wear vines will i grow or will they climb to my neck with a hug that’ll keep me warm forever * never forget that you have forgotten some of the worst times and so this too will be never evermore * the problem with writing is that it takes a reader and i … Continue reading →

iiit

i got it though it isn’t much but at least it’s better than it getting me and me watching i become too much to watch * when we feel that we feel no more we know that there is still when ahead whenever you’re ready and even if you’re not it goes on with us … Continue reading →

in the future there will be less of me

it is a pain not feeling much of anything but still not being still and without the pain of it is * i would tell you my opinion about politics but i’m told that this wouldn’t be very political * i am looking for the line that makes me stop looking and finally looks back … Continue reading →

look at me look at me look at me

all there is is doing it done   everything else is noise   know that this too is a distraction * and then it was the revolution him with his pistol at your door saying you better come out to make it right and if you won’t know that charity begins at home and there’s … Continue reading →

fun, err all

there are days when we all feel like gutters     but know that even then we are needed to clean the city * lungs like lightning short bursts of a spark i used to know on days like today sunny and steeped parent’s telling us not to do it anyways and us saying anyways … Continue reading →

welled worth

took me 25 years to learn how to speak well another 50 to write better and 75 to realize that no one gives a damn what is said * damned if i do damned if i don’t damned if i do i and damn if i don’t which is something i would do in my … Continue reading →

work out

there is hope that you will not need hope only will * i have gotten into short poetry for it lasts long and gets me * all people want all people to want all people but few will ever be wanted   * freud says a mother is a woman a son can’t have because … Continue reading →

scrubbing skin with a coal, or oneself

all life comes from water which is why when wet we wrinkle and prune for we are the stuff of the ancients * there’s a way to believe oneself i just believe that i believed it away * what you need to know about what you need is all you need to know about all … Continue reading →

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