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I may have taken you for granted but you took me too soon / Adulthood, / What about you makes me feel the need to embellish this rune?
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Apr 21, 2012
Adam and Evening
“Leave little to the imagination / and more to unbiased opinion” / Said Adam, to the Evening
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Mar 25, 2012
A Few Grams of Things
And then there was three / And an ember of speed / With a pat on the back
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Jun 1, 2012
After I Yawned
After I yawned / And my face relocked into its fixed position / And my eyes reglued into their sockets
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May 17, 2012
A lunatic in Love
She calls my eyes mysterious / My therapist calls them depressed / I say she’s schizophrenic
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Mar 5, 2012
Amnesty
Please don’t wait / Reveal to me / Your empty space
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May 15, 2012
An American Haiku
They lost Ohio / We remembered they forgot / They lost our sparrow
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Mar 30, 2012
Anna
Hell holds a place / Where I pace in a space / And through glass, I look at you.
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Nov 10, 2014
An Outtake from the Journal of Striker Gutwrench
(The page is torn on the left alignment) / ...And then they would place their pistols beneath their chins and pull the trigger. I would see it as some cylindrical spatter of blood escaping from the tops of their heads, like over exaggerated gore from the adult movies. So what would happen next for them exactly? Blackness? No. That is still something. Perhaps just empty. No. Can't be. *Empty* has potential to be filled, rendering it not quite *nothing*. I suppose it would be like before you were born. Do you remember it?
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Jun 27, 2015
A Passing Phase
Wake up in the sunlight hour / You sense the warm and feel the power / And know that when you want to leave
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Mar 5, 2012
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