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He was it

We were kids playing hide and seek and he was it but not for long because he knew where I was for I always slinked underneath the lamp with a canopy of cloth and cookies that may distract others but not him because he was it and I could hear him humming some song about … Continue reading

Okay

I am filth I am sadness but I dress up superbly and shake hands firmly and smile on occasions that leave me filthy * Under the metal canopy of rain and dirt you read a Thai author who died when death didn’t have a medical definition and you realize you are older than you are old … Continue reading

Hit and run

Does a man who does not run from rain have nowhere to be or is here where there is no one else that can see that even shadows have tears in the peace and rejuvenation of self? * Sinking city with a car for a lighthouse I rock on the road holding on to the … Continue reading

Middlemen march

We are unified by suffering and separated from those we make suffer and widening this gap with status and money and me who looks for status and money and me in things other than status and money is humanity’s progress up to date * I am always in the middle where the endings are nowhere … Continue reading

Something said

The room was empty while I sat in it waiting for the future to come with my letters still in my pen and my pen still in me as I busied myself with the dog barks and the domestic savagery of letting it out because it was a wolf anyways and I sat back down saw … Continue reading

Man lit with lit

Burn those expanding circles and the edges that you’ll never see again where the chance to jump has faded through life   Burn for you’ll never amount to anything and most of the time you’ll amount to less   Burn hotter than the fires that consume you so that when they overcome they do not … Continue reading

The disappeared

Winter is carried on the wind of carnage and caught in the leaves left ruined and falling onto me as I sit alone wishing for better company than the snow that’ll bury me if I sit here watching the summer sun soak one more time in a season that is too long and another that … Continue reading

The religion of all

I heard you wanted to be someone when you were older but age is a testament to becoming someone else than you planned and then when it is all over becoming something else entirely * All those people so sure and solid in their opinions are dead now, I’m sure of it * She shared … Continue reading

I

I is a single sliver of many mes and one of the many yous shared by the all of wes * We’re sitting across from each other and there’s nothing to say except trying to make my interests more interesting my life more lively and my me more meaningful by including her and reminding her … Continue reading

Keeping an abandoned fort

She said I can’t keep keeping your keep and I didn’t know my sadness was tarnishing her like her sadness was tarnishing me and that we were stuck trying to see who is the most ruined by each other even as our eyes worsened by looking at us and so we hurt ourselves more by … Continue reading