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 Jan 2023 MeanAileen
Aimée
Smile
 Jan 2023 MeanAileen
Aimée
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The world is a better place
With your smile in it.
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Maybe you're not ready
to believe that yet,
But remember, at least, that mine is
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The cold wind gently blowing
The Autumn leaves
There bronze and orange colour as they
Gently touch the ground
Falling leaves yes there falling
From the old oak trees,

And they touch the ground softly
And gently and I'm watching them blow
All around and the little birds are
Singing so passionately
Up in the old oak tree,

And I'm sitting watching
The world go by as the
Autumn leaves fly by and there
Leaving the old oak tree
Flying high up in the
Clear blue sky there whispering goodbye.
Autumn 🍁🍁🥮 Leaves
as Mr. Magoo, just a Joey
hiding in her kangaroo pouch. It's warm
inside. So, I don't venture out. I couldn't
see the lion coming. I danced to

the sound of a hummingbird humming.
Danger dressed in an Armani suit
and vest. Rode in a black satin
stallion, drinking his posse up

from a gallon. So near-sighted
I tripped over a cloud looking like
a castle from the ground. But my feet were
not in my shoes. My feet were dangling
in a sky of blues. Sweeping me up

in gale, tossing me in a garbage
pail full of rain, that today I lie in. Drinking
the pain. And in this darkness, I see the lion.
But I don't run. And I'm not hiding in the sun.
 Jan 2023 MeanAileen
Jamison Bell
I got grass all over my lil white rug. So I rolled it up like you would a body. Then I set it on fire and took a deep breath.
I lifted the eyelids of my house to see if the world had changed. I saw the coyote that killed my friend and not much else.
Another Saturday Night.
Two flames aloft in the darkness dance to a song I used to love and I need more ice if I'm to ever see through this amber haze.
I've been cold for so long you'd think I'd be laughing by now.
It's a solidifying existence here.
I made us each a plate. One has cyanide, the other morphine. It's a win win.
but when it's mine
it's pungent as turpentine.
I grow restless for more.
But more is less yesterday and

bigger tomorrow when dreams
are all you have to follow. And dreams
are like the weather. They change
once they come together.
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