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Dennis Willis Jun 2020
Arriving now  
upon the back-lit tarmac
broken sticks
and wire

remnants talking
unceasingly
settling down moments
misread

into alliteration
assonance
consonance
just sound slipping

the moors of meaning
cavorting 'cause
an' circumstance 'nta
something akin to flavor

even more things
to swallow
to fallow
to follow down
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
62
No you don't need me
No you don't read me
When I'm sixty blue
if you are of a certain age and/or have a certain melody in your head
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
Let's call it
Egotistical Anxious ***** Redux
the whole "clouds in your coffee"
ego in charge meme
"all that and a bag of chips"
worthy of worship nutbag
of little-girl-gotten-away-with-smile
not fair universe
unnhh no words
help this strain
on goodbye

i'm not answering
the phone
her texts
and still
it's a conversation
ev'where else
an here an here an here
while there is not there
to even talk with

just a nuclear reactor
i wish would pull up
and walk in apology
on those lips i'd rush
to accept forgive embrace
'sted here ah am
wresting love from lyric

and margarita and...
numbing things in
three flavors plus
chocolate
and i find this joy
at not being under
that knife of a voice

free of the crushing reality
of 10 minutes listening
to ego caterwauling
dark enough to wish you gone
forever or two days apparently
where'en i'm fully prepared to
renounce my principles
'gain
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
This particular empty
defies me

the fit and finish
of this emptiness

wherein i hang
a tv head high

encircle it
on a leash

outside of which
uninhabitable

and i know better
than to pull

is refined to a single
serving of what

decision tonight
is delicious oh yeah

i tell myself
that's really good

and I smile
back and nod
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
So there's this
conversation
we have

Where you are
working
so hard

to learn how
that
happened to you

vexed *****
used
badly

and i
just try
not to sigh

whilst your ego
gits its
high

keeping you
away
from

here and now
as you're too busy
fixing then

which can't be
and isn't
to be fixed
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
There's nothing
here
to read
to see
to notice
pay no attention
to that country
convulsing in
shame
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
I have no lines
tonight
to lay down before you

that matter
that take up something
hot

I have no lines
now
lying fallow

I have none
to snag
your trolling hook

the tongue
you stick
in life forward

you taste
like a battery
half charged

hoping to light
one last
******

I have want
left over
for you

I know that
look that
deprecation

I just let this
fantasy
pass
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