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Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
What if?

Plague of thought,
those words are.

Love is everything,
the only thing
that's ever mattered.

Yet I'm still fascinated
on whether
love's ever been
real or
not.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
Another shirt sacrificed
to the grease-stain God.

Metal shavings glistening
in my beard,
danger tinsel.

Sparks emanating
from my aching grip,
I'm abrasive.

Eyes a-squint,
in lieu of
safety glasses.

Blood blister.

Hands rended
with numerous
nicks and cuts
all in various
states of healing.

Torn jeans,
blackened knees.

Another shirt
marked with grease.

Old Carolina Loggers
with run-down heels.

This outfit speaks,
I needn't say a thing.

Just a glance and
you know exactly
what makes me,
me.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
This is the last time
I ever mistake tail lights
for the sunset.

Take a minute,
a breather,
a respite.

You lead me
quite well,
my friend,

but

I'll never be caught dead
treading water
in your wake again.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
If I try hard enough
the words will come,
won't they?


Won't they?


If I could just...
focus.

Perhaps persistence
will guide the way
toward profundity.

Perhaps even more
importantly, it will
guide me toward
simplicity.  

I'll force my hands
until they produce
something,
anything.
Everything.

Everything for someone,
something for everyone.

Something for you,
and you, and you,
and you, too.

Dearest reader,
with kindred eyes.
My hands shall slave for you
for the rest of my time.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
Blue and chartreuse.

Painted true.

Doused in epinephrine.

Ignited by you.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
Ochre on her fair skin.
The twilight sun paints her smile in idealistic hues
as we walk away from the music, from the grass,
from our spot in the shadow of a tree.
Hands held, still swinging and swaying
with the receding bassline.

I get caught up sometimes,
I get busy
over thinking.
I don't like that part of myself.

There's times where
I can't provide
a passionate
hard ****
for her,
and
I feel
like a
lesser man
in those moments.
Trapped in my mind,
hoping that she'll still like me
even though I can't seem to get it up.

There's also times where
I know it doesn't matter,
where all that matters
is falling asleep all
tangled up together.

Times where
all that matters
is a setting sun
after a day
of laughter.
A day of dancing,
and music,
and loved ones.

Beautiful days, dappled with love yet
not always bookended with
glorious raw ***.

Those days count too,
don't they?

I hope so.


I like her.
Justin S Wampler Jul 2022
My phone's charging port broke,
maybe.... jeez, I don't know.
Maybe, five or six months ago?
Since then I've been restricted
to only using wireless chargers.
At work I need my GPS often,
and so my phone doesn't die
I keep a wireless charger
rubber banded
to the back of my phone...

...anyway...

I took Emily's headband
and threw it out,
it was hanging in the bathroom
for awhile.

I took Alyssa's painting
off the wall.

I threw that out too.


Found a hairtie
on the closet doorknob
and I went to go toss it,
but my phone was dead
and I didn't have a
rubber band
to keep my wireless charger
on the back of my phone
during my car trip to work.

So I used the hair tie.

I don't remember who's it was, but
Sara got in my car and saw it sitting there.

Stupid. Inconsiderate.
I try clearing all the leftover ****
out of my life,
and only end up
drawing attention to it.
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