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ACCIDENTAL INSPIRATION
You were a Rembrandt on the subway train.
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Critiques of art would surely say
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The canvas of your w
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Dec 29, 2017
DEFINITIONS
Strong.
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Perhaps a knot of muscle or
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a face to wear.
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Or the bartender's hand slipped.
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Fragile
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Dec 29, 2017
EARLY HOUR TRANCE
I swear the star-lit hours are thieves.
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Deep navy our depressant
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in those free hours of the nigh
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Dec 29, 2017
EPITAPH
A quarter-life is twenty years,
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Forty marks a half,
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In forty years you’ll be a stone,
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With a s
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Dec 29, 2017
Memories from On High
You were uncomfortable in the car. Mentally, and then physically. Your thoughts and stomach churning
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Nov 24, 2020
NIGHT LIFE
Oh this twinkling city.
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“Come on over --
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We have the night life.”
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My car is two blocks away, j
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Dec 29, 2017
OPIATE OF THE MASSES
Those turned-up, star-burned eyes,
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those believers -- they mistook
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truths for long-told lies, /
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Dec 29, 2017
PARTICULATES
I’ve learned that
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nothing
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truly touches.
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“Likes repel,”
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explains the unbreachable
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absence
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Dec 29, 2017
PHARISEE NATION
Must we ask an unpayable fee?
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Saying “wait” just to later decline?
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It now seems that the land of
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Dec 29, 2017
RIVER DELTA
It began like this
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A dulcet little stream,
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a secret winding path, and
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two sole salty-scaled tr
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Dec 29, 2017
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