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smoke can be rekindled

the following is a following of emotion and disbelief. eat away. * with the candles on sidewalks the city is too warm but too cold too for they have gone elsewhere and we have stayed to light the way * i am convinced that there is no peace on this earth for even at its center … Continue reading

where the apple core was thrown

from space with time the world is breathless like a punch in the gut where there is pain daily and the undigested chunks of land bruise against a bleeding sun and disappearing clouds * it is done they are dead is it enough yet or should i stop too * it is true that among hungry … Continue reading

mirrors mirroring mirrors

when i see you seeing me i am narcissus drowning and clawing at anything which includes your hands holding mine together and stopping them from making the shadow of a butterfly against the sun that will leave me as icarus father of the fallen charmer of snakes a man in heaven without wings and you … Continue reading

shooting blanks

i can’t believe so many people are so content to be so old when i am so discontent with my youth and how quickly it goes and how slow i am to notice that i quickly will notice slower * if there is nothing to hold onto in heaven i imagine hugs will be quite … Continue reading

rules of structure

i remember not knowing what to say when you said something i wished to forget and thinking that if you shift the i that i am we either become untied or united a simple mistake of order and time spent as a token of depreciation * there was once a time when there wasn’t a … Continue reading

fuel for fossils

car like a fish hook with later worms and a small mountain i’m drinking the jungle juice of humankind and the last breath of dinosaurs who will never know my thanks for such a life driven to such ends * i’m trying to find the words to say i don’t want to try to find … Continue reading

dread full

dread is waking up each morning wishing you were dead going to sleep each night wishing you didn’t wake up and dreaming about nothing at all except haze that accompanies you always like dew that won’t evaporate but sticks around full and hungry waiting to pool and drown the world like it will if there … Continue reading

poker chips with poked chips

they tell you not to gamble which is good advice they’re gambling with but also bad because look you’ve gotten this far by taking a chance that i’ll say something worth your time sadly you lost and they won without even playing * if i were god the first thing i would do is prove … Continue reading

men go out to feed the family

what you heard is true: this is my body met and meated on a saturday when your clothes fell away like after a hunt in which you only found the woods and yourself a taste of you tipped on your tongue salivating what you heard is true: this is my body years of the same … Continue reading

old love

the most difficult thing will be to find love when there is no love and then remembering that love before love is different than love after love even more so than love during love which is always difficult for sometimes there is no love though love is said the most of any time * the … Continue reading