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Jun 2020 · 74
You Never Get
Dennis Willis Jun 2020
Cratering on Thursday
Cray
ter
ing

impact rubble thrown

behind my ears
aches

shakes

I din't know
how sore

my head could be
from lying to you
May 2020 · 38
Whosgrin
Dennis Willis May 2020
We can be so thin
to each other

As if we will
eat the skin

of each other
as if we will

suddenly be kin
to each other

I'm deciding next
I'm declaring wrecked

is it win or sin
pulling at your grin cha
May 2020 · 29
tighten
Dennis Willis May 2020
We are all lying to you
this isn't ink

these aren't rhymes
or (you know) reason

parenthetical poetry
antithetical blow at me

any line taken deep
i grab the pole

what bites this
syllable raw

embarrassed sound
ducks from frilly

meaning expands
to fill the space

i afford fear
and tighten
May 2020 · 67
No Thing
Dennis Willis May 2020
I have a hollow gesture
for you
it is
my life

cavernous in
understanding
cantankerous
in all else

currently it sits
pecking letters
sipping crushings
spilling sentiment

i've nothing
to clean this up
i've nothing
to offer up
May 2020 · 45
No
Dennis Willis May 2020
No
None of this
The lying part of me
Has decided
Is for you

I just need a place
To put this
That is outside
Of me

How a perfect thing
behaves so badly
Confounds all
My cleverness

My gasps past
became distant
and my need
Overcomes
May 2020 · 42
The Imaginary Cared
Dennis Willis May 2020
I'm sinking
through the floor
is vaporous
theatrically disappearing
arms raised

i am the phoenix
immo
late
agin

sorry though
now that I have you here
are you interested
in a discount soul

i'll throw in
carefully created grief
misery and doldrums
misshapen nights
hands off guilt

you needn't do
or don't or won't
shan't all over
tomorrow as if
the imaginary cared

just read to here
i lie i lie i lie
into time
elaborately inventing you
May 2020 · 58
Almost Eyes
Dennis Willis May 2020
It's the almost eyes
seeing

What i'm hiding
don't look

is the skin
in a panic

carrying its salt water
out of here

i've almost eyes
to almost

it's this lesson
sandwiched

'tween breath
and death

i've scurried
along
May 2020 · 34
Had a Line
Dennis Willis May 2020
I had a line
and lost it

on the way
to here
May 2020 · 51
Your Damn Sneer
Dennis Willis May 2020
Is of no matter
disingenuous of you
opining

gaps 'tween **** ahm
hearin' dave mathews
space

if u had teeth n lips
'sted of aged what
no
May 2020 · 40
F HP
Dennis Willis May 2020
You make yourself
impossible to love

you find yourself
impossible to love

this gets in the way
as i love you impossibly

impossibly lovely
impossibly ricocheting

careening calamitously
stop and be silent you say

incessantly again serving
this cloud coalescing
May 2020 · 64
Still Hating HP
Dennis Willis May 2020
Let's snap a line
on a new keyboard
cheap as ****
plastic and lights
someone said fit me
*****

Snap from inside
your neck twang
like bridge line
snap
ping
crotches that were
cabled

Snap from now smalled
like Thursday or day
before last
fallen-in knowin'
after my cereal
no resurrection
comin'
Apr 2020 · 41
On Being Human
Dennis Willis Apr 2020
Step 1:Grow toes
Step 2:Acquire Weapon
Step 3:Shoot toes off
Step 4:Repeat when unnecessary
I hate this site. Much fear.
Nov 2019 · 194
Dumbassity
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
If i can accept
and love the *******
in the mirror

I can accept
and love
your ******* too
My new philosophy
Nov 2019 · 153
For Life
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I have pulled out of battle
I have stopped punching
they are still at it though
those certainties fighting
Nov 2019 · 188
Palm Up Staring
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
When do you notice
your hands

under a lens
typing for you

golden or some
color i can't name

fretting or
doing my bidding
Nov 2019 · 260
Cat Suit
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I've glommed on
to the skin's erie plahn
grow bones and brains
to carry me around and
rub me up aghainst
everiedamnthingahh
Nov 2019 · 149
Feels
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I get a sensuousness
from certain molecules
taken in
another week
is ink
and skin
skin is the thing
that is in
do you have
any
oh the need
for skin is great
Nov 2019 · 123
Perhaps Affirmation
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Perhaps affirmation
is what  you lack

Or you are
too ...
Nov 2019 · 116
B
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
B
We will make a life
from anything
around us

What do you
have your hands
on now
Nov 2019 · 143
Namdation
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I spill all over this in darkness
perp
petual
dark
****
ness

I feel all over this in darknesss
per fuken
ceptual
blangst
dangst
rankst

excessive spangkst
that i drangst

an opening
to celebrate

bottled lines

empirical fines

and the suddden urge to apologize
for this lark
in lines
Nov 2019 · 117
Duh 1
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Love and mercy
are
heavily advertised

I think they
might
be very good
Nov 2019 · 60
Makeup
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Everything about us
is *******
except our ******
they are the tools
of life
we
are the decor
Nov 2019 · 121
Faiku
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
The fork finds its place
In the rack
To be cleaned
Nov 2019 · 118
Bruise
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
When u don't exist
and can no longer
be offended
I look forward
to meeting u
Bloom
should i say boom
Nov 2019 · 99
I Do
Nov 2019 · 113
Get To
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
You could be
beginning to dance
now
Nov 2019 · 141
The Formula
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
We live in a glut ov pent up
luv starvin' for it

You got yurs right?
I got mine

pro fuken tected
against yurs

protected against
mine

safe
behind

a
lone

gene
yus
is
all
Nov 2019 · 89
Inventory
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I am unsettled
as this enables
that

and this
is miss
ing

and that
is a mess
ing
Nov 2019 · 83
Phonon
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
In this frame of iron and light
bent time and thick gravity
turgid things curl and twirl
find tastiness and bright sparks
with which to entwine and bind
imprint themselves on smeared time
in black light on white light
Nov 2019 · 152
Of Time
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
The legend goes
the old poet
blind and frail
recites a verse
and something
coalesces wet
on my face
a knowing
flowing down
to a curse
Nov 2019 · 96
Reel
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Nic's and cuts
Obtained
in my own head
I should stop
not scramble
about to heal
Nov 2019 · 97
Wake
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Want want want
Run
Do do do
Stop
Mashup
Want want want
Sleep
Nov 2019 · 91
Only Knuckles
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
This is a magnet
pulling keys
from my keyboard
into order
as if it were  grooves
filled in with twang
of nerves finding
dousing for
clenching upon
Nov 2019 · 77
You
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
You
Many of them
are

quietly living
new

in the shell of
old

waiting for the
sound

that says you can
loud be
Nov 2019 · 99
Wrongk
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Yoour opiiinion is wooorth discuuuuusing
doncha thank
Nov 2019 · 105
Entranced
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I have no idea
no fuken idea
not a clue
do you

I hunch
and shudder
is this what is
is this true

this thing this fling
winging ing
really really
tiresomesly

'cept when 'snot
when it's  'n
electric sizzle
fryn' your socks

ya mostly needs
other *******
to really f-ully
find entrenchment
Nov 2019 · 101
Jelenvy
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
Do you know which one
*** no I'm in two states
neither of them conducive
to answering you sincerely
Nov 2019 · 234
Too State
Dennis Willis Nov 2019
I am a quantum
a large quantum
i have an effect
a large effect
don't be jealous
it isn't funny
when there are
entanglements
that just go on
where are the fizzysists when i need um
Oct 2019 · 92
I Feel U
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
This old skin laments
nothing
as it becomes younger
askew
the time's coarse saddle
riding
playfully up the universe's
laughing
cacophony of quarks
Oct 2019 · 100
Less Than Air
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
I've had people take offense
to my face
Been dismissed instantly
on a glance

Rendered in that view
not even
Felt the dearly the assessment of
no value

My eyes know to pass it on
overlook you
Separate you into category
Nothing there

It appears communicable
nose in air
Stemming from simplicity of u
don't luv u
Oct 2019 · 109
On Now
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
A commitment of skin
and bone
A tethering of time
not alone
Knots of Distance
the past and fearsome next
opening their endless arms
scrawling their fading text
on every instance
during every song an' dance
We'll take our elegant chance
Oct 2019 · 183
Better Silence
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
Oh the voices
I have quieted
That have stopped
That I've stopped
That have left
I hear them
reconnoiter
from inside
observing their
Non-existentence
and gasping well thought
Ideas of air
Oct 2019 · 95
Snacks Only Flight
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
What if this angst mine
this sometimes beautiful
crangst list of syllabic
****** and flowerings
wailings and whimsy
this double illusory
shell of opinions
has just gone hungry

and the beast feasts
Oct 2019 · 71
Conferred Upon
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
Score one for the universe
it asked me a question tonight
and an impossible fantasy
came true right here in my home

I said yes

Agreed to somethings

The agents of the universe arrived

My dogs loved them

It is looking for a way out
or maybe that is a way in
past the wheel of know
spinning and even spanning

Crack the skin

of sorrow swirling

see confetti flying

in every direction

This clever operating system
of a background noise rooted
in us that bears us as fruit
likes to be beautiful for us

i have a shocking

smile full of time

lifting my face

of its own accord
Oct 2019 · 88
Night
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
Want this
and
fidgiting

Phantom
skin
and delight

Clear wins
of
distraction

I have
a
list of things

undone
by
Oct 2019 · 195
Lemonade
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
I'm aching
To make sense
This binge-ing
on now here
Day after day
Oxygen fueled
Cooked atp 'n me
I'm just spent
not even sure
wisely matters
as life wins
from every
direction
Not saying
I lose
Sayin' life
Makes relentless
look weak
Oct 2019 · 75
Sorry
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
Passing a poem
Oo ah oo oh ahh
Oct 2019 · 107
Writing
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
it's dark it's quiet
and there is ache
forcing shifting

i've a cotton swab
and two crayons
colors i can't see

smeared probably
indeterminate
like ankles sweeping by

my mind is in two places
at once the feel of that skin
against my face vibrato

back here typing words
i think with electrons and pixels
a density pleasing to the eye

and something is owed here
let from always guarded
a minimum a glimpse

my name is uncertain
i'm sure your hunger
is concerned with scent

the zigs and zags of the rest
clever beautiful intricate
non-existent experience
Oct 2019 · 160
Found Poetry
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
"He left behind a harpist
which was a particular surprise"
flipping channels, thrilling
Oct 2019 · 72
Poetry Thing
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
I can't talk to all of you
honestly

You've something in
your head

I neither agree with
nor wish to offend

I truly respect you
my human equal

I truly suspect you
your head muscles

Handed to you as true
wherever you grew

I know they are strong
can't be wrong

Yet your heart hurts
to some degree

At the dissonance
heartfelt

And leading to this
poetry thing
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