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  Sep 10 Carlo C Gomez
irinia
50 ways to wreck, get in line
Need to grow, have to push
Flicking through vinyl and feeding the rush
Kovacs

let's decenter love
crush it and mix it with pepper
let's put it in boxes and send them
to an uknown destination
let's caress our defeated hands
til they willingly remember
skin's magnetic charge, the magma of darkness

let's asphixiate the air till no longer tolerates words
excavate the emptiness, two fossils washed by rain our hearts
unbearable the silence hidden in the middle of teeth

let's not do impossible things like two acrobats of the invisible
certainties implode like stars' collapse into the ***** of space
your confetti smile, this brutal beauty of longing
let's stop counting days, stay resonant instead
we are a fleeting sorcery in a dyzzing endless pace
the night whispers the black water fall of ashes
that bloom into the sparrows of sorrow...


the sorrow sparrows are back again
sitting in the tangled woods of twisted trees.

Van Gogh heard their voices
bouncing off love's walls.

the sorrow sparrows are leaning into me.
my sad eyes, dream of you brother.

I lean into the soft lit room
searching for love's quiet hours,
with sunlight flickering through willow trees.

"don't cry, darlin," my wife whispers.
  Sep 9 Carlo C Gomez
nivek
in the darkling hours
songs of light and shadows

the guttering candles
uncountable flames

dancing shards
blackness deep
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8:38 AM
People erase mistakes
Dogs barking on the horizon

Time races
No mistakes allowed
17 towers

12:38 AM
Legal gray zones
Tax carousel

Time is pressing
Lion-faced players
AIs know the sound of breath

4:38 PM
In the night-colored Escalade
Heading toward concrete

Nasir crouched in a launch pit of scars
Eat, drink, sleep, and dress in riches!
Jealousy — let it go

8:38 PM
Streets renamed
New shops in splash-of-gossip colors

12:38 AM
Who’s got the clocks?
Who’s got the time?


4:38 AM
Stay alert for the oppers!
Shabba Ranks knows already

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A beautiful quiet night,
the moon was shining bright,
stars twinkling all around
in a cloudless sky.

Moonlight fell upon your face,
it too began to shine—
like the brightest of stars.

I stared at your moonlit face all night,
from afar,
wishing someday you might be mine.

Though I know all too well
your heart longs for another,
I will not stand in your way of love.

Yet I will keep on loving you,
for my heart
will always belong to you.
Happy or sad,
That's all there is
in a country song --
Can all life experiences
be filtered down to this?

We can get too complex
sometimes, in claiming our condition,
We are masters, yes, of our own destiny
And of course, retribution --
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