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Baku SalatI miss the call to prayer of my heroes town / The slow, mournful, writhing rings / that reach toward the black-cloaked beauties with
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Jun 23, 2013
Colors of a painter's wordThe paint-splattered teardrops of yesterday's surrender left me lying here alone, / shattered and lonely, / alone with my colors as they seep slowly, mixing across the floor.
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Jun 15, 2013
Days like todayIt's days like today / when the sun is shining and the wind blows just a little / that I can't seem to get you out of my head.
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Aug 22, 2013
Geoghegan and AdickesLonesome misty Monday mornings / watch me gaze upon the swells / where the divers reach for rescue
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Jul 2, 2013
I can't rememberI can't remember how I did it the last time / How I told myself it would be ok if you didn't call / - and it was.
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Aug 19, 2013
I come to forgetIt's vicious. / He spits honey-coated excuses / Just as I misplace forgiveness
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Jan 25, 2015
Instant gratificationSagging verses of the dead man's past drift aimlessly over / the peaks and valleys of her soul. / "Break my bones but not my mind,"
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Jun 30, 2013
Interracial Pride and PrejudiceExistential cruelty of a long abandoned Friday / Remembered once, twice / then forgotten by 8 pm.
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Jul 12, 2013
I stare because I'm dyingYou hate when I stare-- / Those long, unwavering looks that let me feel like I’m touching your soul, / they’re my favorites.
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Jan 31, 2015
It's a war goin' on outside...Philadelphia warlords slip sideways in a cantankerous bed of grout. / The mind denies what the body acknowledges / in its treacherous games of hope and wait.
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Aug 17, 2013
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