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how many poems are written about
love and hate
living life and welcoming death
happiness and sadness
the fearful and fearless
sanity and madness?

how many poems are written about
darkness and light
the sun and the moon
the stars and the galaxy
the universe and our planet?

how many poems are written about
the trees and the rivers
the mountains and the valleys
the animals and sea creatures
the oceans and the land
the sky and the clouds
nature and everything it provides?

how many poems are written about
anxiety and depression
suicide and living life to the fullest
music and silence
philosophy and art
incarceration and liberation
coffee and tea
***** and drugs
war and peace
politics and religion
*** and celibacy
******* and addiction
and those who use it
for recreation and those who
believe it’s an abomination?

how people are drunk?
drunk on alcohol
drunk on love
drunk on books
drunk on ideas
drunk with magic
happening all around them

how many poems does it take
to sing?

how many words do you need to
piece together to end this poem?

as many as it takes
until everything is
swallowed into the
abyss of nothing
 Jun 2017 Andje
Poetic T
Even in death,
          your last words
were cremated within you.

Like a whispers
                    in a jar
rotting in your lungs.

Words were maggots
             eating away within
                         yearning for release.
 Oct 2016 Andje
sweetrevoirs
she will be naive for you
so when your soul has dragged itself through the mud she'll
hug you close and says it's been a long time since she has been that ***** and happy
 Oct 2016 Andje
Akemi
sifting through black rubble
i find pieces of myself
old chokes with
fractured bodies
and little burnt fingers.

the sky is a holy grey box
downpour
spiral fragments
but mostly crying children.

when will i die?
wisconsin two penny sue weathertop tock tock

slow bombs fall on syrian children. they lift their hands in time to see their flesh fall, torn from bone, pieces of skull, shrapnel, chemical rot. support the troops, support the troops, support the--

eagle flies over itself, why do we exist

feet through the door, forgot my pen, ** i am so forgetful and original, let us share a coffee and socialise, yes i do like canadian indie music, bjork is my favourite

empty signifier slipping through the gaps in speech THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE

i keep falling through the earth, my feet, my ******* feet

where is the core? mother's grave circling itself. ouroboros looped through time, folded space

pi pi pills; swollen liver, kidneys, brain, it's a painful way to die, most are. your friends are awful

i can't ******* write poetry. these objects of cathexis are simply old memories of distance reified into absence. all presence collapses into the memory of absence. this is what i have been trying to say for weeks.

ANNIHILATION IS EVERYWHERE. I CAN'T GET IT OUT.

i am so clever, choking god. i am so clever. nobody is here
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