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To console.We console one another, or at least try to do so, / and feel sad that we can't, / so then the person being consoled-

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A Swine Vendetta.Next to me, you're tiny / so small / Compared with me? weak,

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The Monsters of the Intimate Self.Being on your own / being intimate with oneself / in silence

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The Hard and The Soft.I. The Hard / I want so badly / to be your finger puppet.

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A moment of reflective narcissism is always healthy.I have been named Darkness, as a term of endearment. / I have been said to be an itch that one cannot scratch. / I go to extremes in no direction,

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Poem Sans Title.the famous windmills of... wherever / sitting hollow in a photgraph / standing tall, dark, anonymous

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A Bitter Taste (To Match My Bitter Spirit)My fingers are powdered with vitamin C residue / as I place the smal pill on my tongue / and taste the bitter thing

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Posthumous Lips.rough, flush, posthumous lips. / exposed, crisp imperfections. / rough, barbed fingernails.

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I'm Not Done.Listen to these whispers / you're going to find a terror you haven't encountered / in your peaceable years in your masculine form

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Torn skin starts to heal.(Excerpts from my thought process of today.) / I've been implored by conversation and my own pieces I've taken from it / to find comfort in the absence of perfection.

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