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BlackbirdImaginary blackbirds flitting to and fro / In my mind, the only place for my made up blackbirds to go. / Imaginary blackbird wings flutt’ring in my brain
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Dec 5, 2011
CautionGather round me, cursed patrons, I present to you a plague / Fare best served with murky water and descriptions best left vague / As a danger to ye all- I proffer cowards to depart-
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Dec 5, 2011
Feral SoupCyclical desires baking, swelling in the swelter / Rotisserie ambition put to test by push and sway / Greasy golden goslings cooked a-wadd’ling from the shelter
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Dec 5, 2011
Final ProductStop writing poems about words / In darkness, scrawling notes that can’t wait till morning / Aspiring for perfection in seconds, in thirds
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Dec 5, 2011
Forty SwordsAnd I’ll swear by forty swords / If a sword is what will appease you / “**SWORDS!**” I’ll shout with mock obscenity, “Oh, *swords*!”
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Dec 5, 2011
HangoverHung up on a Sunday with a strung-up savior / Hanging from a cross across the hall / Pleading that a deity annul her misbehavior-
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Dec 5, 2011
High Hopes and Happy ExpectationsSwift, teach us that a modest child will leisurely be milled / Eschewed from aid, withdrawn from conscious need / A child’s mind an empty bucket, waiting to be filled
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Dec 5, 2011
PausesLonger than a person is typically comfortable with / Into another non sequitorial passage that leaves you bumbling / Words stumbling awkwardly off of the tip of your tongue clumsily
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Dec 5, 2011
Strictly Platonic“Looking for a walking buddy” / The invitation looms as I scroll through pages of personal ads / Filled with sensitive insight, too intimate for idle voyeurs browsing.
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Dec 5, 2011
Twilight QueenOnce upon a lazing eve, there laid a twilight Queen / Whose every thought, with languor ease, on window ledge did glean. / Dreams soft with muted color, dreams of cloudy and opaque
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Dec 5, 2011
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