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  Feb 23 Carlo C Gomez
irinia
this blood
an unseen weeping
pour me into the palm
of your hands
I wanna
flow
It was fun watching
my toy ship and squeezy duck

succumb
to the soap-bubble undertow

made
by raging bathwater


from the faucet
into the tub

days gone by

or shall we say
submerged
I searched for my extra teeth and eyes,
Frantically I looked in my drawers,
Nothing,
I searched under the pillows,
Naw!
Under the bedcovers,
Naw!
The teeth cup was empty,
May be I left them in the bathroom,
No, wait a minute,
I had just cleaned my teeth and returned them on the drawer,
Together with my specs.
Where did they go?
That sly old dad has taken them again,
There he was at the table
Happily reading a newspaper and munching breakfast with my props.
23/2/2025
  Feb 23 Carlo C Gomez
Malia
the flower has eyes
and she watches
as her pale petals curl and
turn brown on the edges, she
watches as she wilts, as her leaves
start to dry, she watches
as the parts of her she used
to admire start to fall, piece by
piece, and she watches as she
disintegrates,
becoming the dirt and she watches as
the housekeeper sees her and frowns and
then throws her away into the
trash.
she watches as she becomes
trash.
and she cannot save herself.
not having the best day
  Feb 23 Carlo C Gomez
ymmiJ
walking old ghost towns
tumbleweeds tumble around
only stories now
Carlo C Gomez Feb 23
Tar-dark world. The defining color is black, the inky night of her nocturnal hunts and the deep, bottomless dark of her alien retreat.

A watcher of men, she is everything and nothing. She might be too much of something, or too little of something else. Time will sort out the particulars.

There are no simple entry points – she demands engagement, and to be taken as a whole. Her discomfort is over her own allure, her undisturbed surface. It’s more about intuition and gesture than dialogue. They remain as echoes. They’ve made her beautiful in a real way, with hips and blemishes and dimples in her skin.

The imprint of the lives she begins to grapple with as her time on Earth extends, leads her to stop seeing herself as a mere conduit for her mission, and to start developing a sense of subjectivity.

Her life force is overlapping, shaping itself into a pattern of rings that simultaneously suggests a birth canal dilating, the stages of a rocket separating, and a lunar eclipse as seen through a telescope’s lens.

She's a life-form you can’t quite understand, but it’s carrying on relentlessly, like a beehive, moving backward through the constellations at first approach.
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