benjamin-adelaar
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War Honor
I will not attribute honor / to the bloodiest of games / to cold, condoned killings
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Air Freshener
water was showering over me / warm steam with coffee scented molecules / quenching the dry air.
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Beard: Blackout, Pt. II
The footprint of this place / is a freshly razored face. / Mother Earth’s been ‘beautified.’
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Yarrow Root
His wrinkles went somehow deeper / than those of a national will do. / And his eyes were somehow darker -
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All Hands on Deck
Despite the wind that’s cold / no gloves nor winter hat / for the ten-year-old.
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CH
i think i have written this before / i know i will think it again, again / when...
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clockwork
the square clockwork of the heart / clicks and turns, moving the soul, / gnashing and biting, blinding eyes,
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brown cords
sitting in brown cords / in a little red car, / rain dropping from the
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Oak
I’m finally taking Dad to see the world, / He’s been before, but not this far, / Not with his boy. He’s so excited!
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biography
alone and stolen, preserved for the night, / nothing renewed, nothing done right. / pensioned and planned, the road the way,
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