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Utopia of choice

There are steps that go nowhere though they lead to my house and a front door that has extra locks and that opens with a push and strength I rarely have * A woman jumped off my condominium while I was dreaming about falling into an abyss that does not end but goes and goes until … Continue reading

The swell of all

I’ve sometimes marveled how there are so many people that don’t know my name because I wrote that pretty great poem that included them in a swell of all but I suppose I didn’t know their name either or the poems they wrote * I made lunch for two but you are no longer here … Continue reading

By Kacper

There is an unnamed grave close to where I work in an office doing that and this that has my name on it * The last thing she wanted was me and the last thing I wanted was her * Write, write, write and when it’s gone see where it goes where it’s going and … Continue reading

Murder the killers

Kill the world and the people in it who doubt you can make change by killing them Kill the wars and the fighting and the divisions between us like race and wealth and who likes what show or another because of the race and wealth shown Kill the insecurities of what is good and right … Continue reading

Postage was hell

I mailed a dead guy asking how he was doing and I got a message back that he was okay and I shouldn’t worry about him because he had the dying thing handled but he was worried how I was getting on and told me to focus on living because that decided how you die … Continue reading

Keep positive thoughts, son

where was summer when it is already winter and I can barely remember fall; only shadows of pale mornings and twilights that crackled with frost on the outside of my window blocking everything from my view and my view from everything * As I’m growing up I’m learning from the people who taught me how … Continue reading

My masterpiece

I’m at the Venus de Milo though I could be anywhere with eyes fixed to the girls around who make a good name for design and creation and who see me seeing them so maybe later after we talk about art and I finangle fact after fact and I tell them about the smooth back … Continue reading

The fantasy of a mosquito becoming an anteater

No stories end happily ever after; they all go on to an unexpected, depraved, wiggling end * The stars are jealous of our light that can wake the mosquitoes who wake the spiders with a buzz and our flesh forming a larger mass of toes entwined and mouths entangled so more mosquitoes migrate to us … Continue reading

Strip, prosetitute

Looking at where I used to live, I’m reminded of the fact that I’m dead and new moving along like sheered sheep fur in a suit that doesn’t fit like it used to and hair slicked and proper and eyes faded, hungry, looking at where I used to live but not seeing much life. * … Continue reading

The weight of weightlessness

Did we die before or after we were killed like a seed that is made to flower but instead stumps in cement and footprints and voices talking about the plants of spring that haven’t sprung even though it is late in the season and each morning, the dew drowns the world in life * She … Continue reading