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 May 2020 Bailey
Whit Howland
In a dream
I see

your tears dry up
the ones

that watered the flowers
in the window box

and happiness now
grows

on you like another
appendage

although I don't
think

your mind is the same
as it forms

yet a thicker
armor

so to speak

Whit Howland © 2020
An abstract word painting.
 May 2020 Bailey
neth jones
withdrawn from our colour
retreat to the basement
with unillustrated lives fled
reflush our pallor
and flesh out lily liveried
astray from the light
scarce
bottled mighty in our culture dish
and reinvent
look ** ;
to the silverfish !
 May 2020 Bailey
tiredkoalahugs
Why do all the bad things,
The self harm, denial, and everything else,
End up helping the most?
Edit: Ah Im almost crying becuase of how much love this poem has gotten and all of that in one day and this has never happened and thank you to everyonr.
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Shadow
Sleepless
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Shadow
The clock is ticking
My body is sweating
I toss and turn
It is impossible to sleep.
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Beatrice
Ocean
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Beatrice
Millions of drops
Filling up a deep hole
I couldn't find the bottom of it
Even if I drank it all

It's calming
But it's dangerous
Some get lucky
Some perish

Ocean's an escape
But it's also a trap
Sounds somewhat familier
Yes ,I meant loneliness.
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Empire
Just me
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Empire
It’s just me.

They’re all fine on their own
Maybe better off
They all have each other
Loved ones
People who care
But they can’t care for me
Because they don’t know me
And if they did
They’d finally know
I’m not one of them
 Mar 2020 Bailey
Andrew Rueter
The world is a waiting room
where we wait for the end
there is no ending to all the endings
the reception desk is located near the exit
in case of a fire
while the doctors sit in the back
arched over their notepads.

The waiting room is getting crowded
as the mosh pit inside
infects one another
jockeying for position
like horses racing to their stall.

The waiting room is getting hotter
from clients with essential oils
and patients with black lung
the air conditioning works overtime
eventually breaking
leaving us overheating—suffocating.

Sitting, staring into space
waiting in the flatline
watching decay repay
our waiting room ways
the building starts crumbling like a glacier
while we wait for its weight to fall upon us.
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