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twenty three and a half

i have seen flashlights afraid of the dark flowers who hate the sun and ice that prefers it so as to see fully beyond into me now who knows that it will get the better of you as it has gotten better others before there slipping on the ice they could not see for the … Continue reading

doggone

you will ask yourself where everything went wrong and i will answer that it is the moment where you began to ask instead of doing something else to make it right * the dog chases its own tail and i laugh how stupid it is not to know itself     later i limp a … Continue reading

gods are afraid of heights

the gods may be immortal but they need brief you to feel as though you must be needed in the world for there is so much pain and suffering despite the gods who in their silence show sacrifice sulks greatness and that they big as the universe are cut down to cheese-cube you whose height … Continue reading

new fish burgers

Dry in Wendy’s being told she never existed by a man who didn’t till now when he needed a few dollars to get a fish burger that slapped around into his mouth where he said any path is home to ghosts because they pull at you, the millions of people you couldda met and couldda … Continue reading

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