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Dennis Willis Mar 2022
Abstergasm again
you know how
that feels
No pretending
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
This looks
too poignant
I thought
and that
too pithy
we don't need help

Why you always

are you scared
are you sure

you can't take
a breath
here

so stop breathing
as if
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
To land this one
requires you
to be earth

Not an imagination
masquerading
saltily

And I
must be lettered
as an inkling

Foundered in type
meant to be
something clever

an escarpment
of all the same
to you and me

now take your leave
the beckoning
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
Is there a crack
in your wind
shield
I often ask
of fellow
motorists
tooling down
my time
to the beach
where its fixed
by sand
sun hot
have to dance
hot

and the melt
pulling
like beauty
has you

go ahead
rub your face

trace yourself
here quiet
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
I've pre-applied
for my misery
aim to be
hollowed out
on time
this way
this way

I've lumbered up
these steps to this
penultimate one
asking if I'm here

And I am not here
again on my way
steps I have taken
follow me loudly

If I am accepted
if I get to say
well, anything
am I gone away
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
Let's lie to the wind
and the sun
let's tell them
all the work
is done
Let's invite in
all of your sins
do you have
them within
you now
In a sentence
what **** of
what would
you join
and why
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
There is this
dissonance some
confusion over
innocence an
inhuman
diffusion
begging for
resist dance
and I comply
mashed potato
pie in your eye
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