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Maria Hernandez

I wasn't expecting to be broken
All I wanted was to be loved
but all I ever got was short-spoken.

It didn't matter what I said
It didn't matter what I wanted
To you, it only matters what I spread.

Didn't you hear me say NO the first time?
Why did I ever think you would hear me the third one?
The way I felt inside was a crime
I wasn't expecting to be broken
Spiky sleepless wreck
With a head full of stories
And empty pockets
 Jun 2020 Rich Hues
Ethel Osas
Smile
 Jun 2020 Rich Hues
Ethel Osas
Smile, and never mind the flaws
Reveal the broke, serrate egdes
Of your finely buttered teeth
You don't need a perfect sphere
Before you can truly smile

What is perfect but curved lips
That bears down on tongue divide
And the glow in star-spangled eyes
The issue is not in the defects
But that many forget to smile
 Jun 2020 Rich Hues
annh
I
may
play the
joker, *****
the knave, covet
the queen, and tuck
the ace of spades under my
pillow on a ringed moon night,
but I am forever shuffling the same
deck of cards. Marked cards, imprinted
with loss and patterned with misfortune. Co
urt cards dressed in ill-fitting suits, each face as
familiar as my own. Four seasons, four pips; twelve
months, twelve crowns. One card for each week of the
year. Sequentially pred  ictable, and as underwhelming
as a rigged roulette wheel. U ntil, unable to distinguish
between the red and the    b    lack, the picture and the
plain, I fold. Void of      co     ntracts, and bleeding
widowe                            d blanks.
.....So.....
deal­ me in,
but deal me unpainted
and unmastered. Deal me clean.

‘If I can just have one last cut.
Do you have a plan for the new?‘
- Alice Notley, In the Pines
 Jun 2020 Rich Hues
ConnectHook
You’re so stupid you think it’s sincere :
Urban violence designed to spread fear.
It’s a crisis they use
When they win, we all lose;
Civil chaos. The methods are clear.

Angry rent-a-mobs, looting and burning,
Destroy other’s livelihoods, earning
A good rioter’s wage
For destruction and rage
(As the locals, too late, are now learning).

The democrat leaders in Minn.
Are uncertain just where to begin
Cleaning egg off their faces.
They egg on the races . . .
The narrative’s starting to spin.
Yuri Bezmenov, Georges Sorel, Cloward-Piven, Soros...wait--

You are too dumb to Google those?
Oh. OK. Sorry.
 May 2020 Rich Hues
Styles
Eclipse
 May 2020 Rich Hues
Styles
The eclipse
of her lips
into my lips
Taught me
Magic exist
Within a kiss
the lesson you missed
because oblivious
you were earning
is that while you were feathering your nest
your tree was burning
having suffered the shoah
you should be ashamed
national socialist
in all but name
a fascist dictatorship
eugenically made
and educated in Germany
antisemitic if i dare to say
youre the same
the way you treat the Palestinians
reminds me of the ghetto tales
you told to help pave the way
to the gilded land of Israel
shalom to all but the zionists
 May 2020 Rich Hues
The Wonderess
I wish someone
Would give me
That Look...

You know the one
Where they read
You, like
You’re their
Favorite book.
This was random, and not at all an indication of my literary competence but I think I’m done showing off my vocabulary for the day. I want my last piece for today to showcase my feelings, to which I hope you all can relate. If I ever meet the love of my life I want him to admire me and be intrigued by my every detail, the way a person is mesmerized by their favorite piece of literature.
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