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two lips

i am a little fire burping back against the sun to show it how i can consume the world even as i am forgotten and left alone to die as a shadow untethered from the body that burns being into not * does not my smile require an anchor beyond my mouth perhaps unmooring into … Continue reading

sign off

the bird in its cage is envious of the cat’s freedom but knows the consequences of it singing thanks for the metal that once used to be a riverbed weeping a sky suspended and caught * my mother died giving birth though she lived for some thirty years afterwards like an animal to be sacrificed … Continue reading

potential energy

whimper to the earth i can be tell the formless sky i can be more let night hide you under stars that have gone away but still echo to people who are crying next door under drowning whispers to someone or something or just it all that they are they are they are while day … Continue reading

i don’t know where to put my feet because these are ancestral lands and the colonial system privileges happiness over real issues and clapping is a distraction and the clap is a real issue too that is as old as i don’t know

a good poet try but you better be the better you instead of talking about politics love loss oppression insecurity refugees brutality unforgiving wait, await listen wind up dance a little for both meanings are true here: nothing lasts no matter how badly i tried to go to the place where things are forgot to … Continue reading

take it to take it

after all the good i have done for you we are done for good for the good after you * It meant nothing at all which i am sure was true for i see it now in front of me nothing nowhere with no one stretching incomprehensibly like a flower that isn’t trying to absorb … Continue reading

where where went

fear the human who doesn’t want a job fear the mother who doesn’t have children fear the money that has no end fear the need to fear fear the the millions of people who do not fear but live for the money or the children or job which they start describing as what they do … Continue reading

wind up car

car tire breathing an empty language we don’t know we drive long hours to nowhere so that it takes me a lifetime to remember those little sandcastles we built for no other reason then they’d go away against the wind which is shared between heaven and hell carrying us even as it is against the … Continue reading

the age of men

it is not sad because you moved on but because i didn’t from it was * don’t stop on a hill my grandfather used to say before we put him in one and stopped to try to remember all the sayings that climbed into us and what we were doing * we had history at … Continue reading

weary

sometimes i am not enough kacper for kacper which is unfortunate for he is the only person i trust to know what is enough for a guy like me for there are days when i see him laying still and helpless like a star imploding away buckling pain outwards with stretched fingers to the ceiling … Continue reading

each night is suicide to day

love gave me the worst love of my life and i suppose i still loved it best of all * there is no winning because the world requires relationships to go on but when they’ve gone the world dresses destruction in crumbles though it still turns easily not feeling the lost * he was forty … Continue reading