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Apollyon
I: / Modern parlance, / It says disease; it says illness,
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Jun 19, 2015
setter.
Oh, cynic- / All those years of abridging the files left for you- / And whittling away at your own tusks-
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Dec 14, 2011
A request-
I was asked to write about a girl I’d never had at all- / It was an easy enough task. / I haven’t written about anything else since I can remember.
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Dec 12, 2011
Hopkins.
Old blue is snorting bath salt- / In the same bathroom where he nursed the only battle wound I’ve ever had- / I had swung on the prince of Hopkins county-
16
Nov 30, 2011
Seattle.
the defense of your legacy manifested into strings of saccharin / and phrases like ‘Come on in from the rain. We all need a torrent to own the storm, just- take off your clothes, don’t mind Kierkegaard.’ / your sincerity is a cipher
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Oct 17, 2011
Houston.
it wasn't me that you spoke to / it was a poor copy- / i'm sorry I didn't hold your hand
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Oct 11, 2011
23.
faked botulism / and Beulah reds / Abyssinian horses
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Sep 28, 2011
Low.
I escaped the irons blowing kisses to future fathers- / I escaped the bronx cheers and lack of filligre, / I escaped the
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Aug 23, 2011
eliphalet
empyrean heart, / *soft-pedal and sway* / we don't answer their call
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Feb 9, 2011
Jackie
a quantum of soul and cherry vodka in the backseat of a ford- / **we were going to eighty-six the world** / the sinews of our unattainable hands
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Jan 30, 2011
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