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7 of 30 - SelfieStand close to me / I want to remember us / right here

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The Street 8/30I locked eyes with the street last night / and it dared me to turn away / turn from the injustice

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26 of 30 - Until Your Galaxy (Villanelle)I thought that stars were for the sky / Muted lights beyond my reach / Until your galaxy flew by

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6 of 30 - The Life of an Electric Blue Fat Penguin Before It Became My PoemIf this poem had a life before I wrote it, / this poem was a penguin. / This poem waddled,

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Stolen DreamsOn April 26th, 372 B.C. Plato was the first man to inflict injury upon his own dreams. / Not the forms casting shadows in his cave, his literal dreams. / At 6:35 a.m. the impish snarl of a water organ crept into his Utopia of an

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StripperA stripper does not command the same feelings / when there is no music / when there is rain

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Avocados 24/30weighing options like avocados / firm in the palm of my hand / is the moment just ripe?

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Ode to the Radish 14/30It takes courage to be born in a grave / where the earthworms caress / and the night is like day.

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The Brink 9/30The air is charged with eminence. / Red-bellied birds lose their song in the wind. / Just when will the sky crack open?

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Shake MeFor each word that never made it past my teeth / -harsh critics- / I am sorry

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