aaron-kerman
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The Dodo Birds verdict (some advice)
“Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.”- Alice in Wonderland / “Everyone knows it’s a race, but no one’s sure of the finish line.” / -Dean Young, “Whale Watch”
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1st Movement in A major. (for piano)
We met in the Red Square at Midnight. Sitting on the austere steps of the Kremlin We drank Stolichnaya in silence; listened to St. Basil’s Bells stoic ringing until Our sun rose pale over Moscow / Beauty is created when I press your mulatto skin to mine. / We shift. You move, and as you’re moved you move me.
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Michael Stipes (losing our religion)
Life is bigger- than you; me- / you treading mire / choosing these heavy eyed tragedies over religion
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Colors and Shapes
Crimson comes to those that wait but gold / it never does / Nights in neon hazes on ***** bar stools
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Love... the way I lie.
I lie- / Not from a beating heart, bleeding and breaking always / for the cynic in all of us, for the human spirit's relentless wane between birth and death,
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Found
Each night, which engulfs the day,- like the ocean's tide / Rolls over sand, like death envelops life, both timely and blessed- / Washes us away to reveal who we are. From him we can not hide.
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felled.
The summer's day sun died; drenched, drowned, felled / beneath golden water of a past fall's horizon; / set. The trees' ephemeral amber leaves. To flames as it expired
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8 am
Grey sky morning’s twilight enters cold, rouses him, / through icy windows, behind locked doors. It’s 8 am. / She sleeps- like no-rain covers his world, turns bright greens to brown,
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Sticks and Stones
These words break backs / (I love you no more) / Make bones shudder.
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an addicts winter
He held radical light / to moon’s somber stare; / Night’s bright
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