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Hips Don't Help
Hips don't help / when I'm hightailing home / hurrying...
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Natural Selection(Dissection)?
It’s night. Deepest darkest blackest night. / I feel the pinch and fear of one hunted, / the prey run out of options.
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If Janus Could Talk, He Would Sound Like...Us
Mouths are not used for communication. / Rather they add to all frustrations, / Allowing lies, guile, and machinations.
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The L Word and Other Loathsome Lyrics
Losing a lot in leaving here. / Letting go each time at liftoff, / Learning loving you is the longest lane I let myself allow.
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Spend Some Time In San Francisco
When the snake-fog rolls in from the east, / It’s unlike any other. / It slides, slithers, slinks seaward
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Shroud
*“Remember thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.” Genesis 3:19* / The air has a texture / thick and hot in my nose
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Ifs, Ands, Buts
A gash in my brow from side to side, / You split my skin nine stitches wide. / I don’t even have the cogency to cry.
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Hollowed Out
A black hole looms / and my worst fears are realized. / I don't have
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Word Play
It's interesting how "I love you," can sound like a curse, / not wrapped up in the honeyed interior of love sonnet's verse. / Spat out like a viper, ready to feed:
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I Couldn't Write. And Then Suddenly I Could Again.
Can you see the heaviness in my eyes? / Is that why you go? / Too far gone to be saved.
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