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maybe you didn’t feel it
when i licked myself
off of your lips.

maybe you didn’t feel it
when i traced the back of
your knees with my fingertips.

maybe you didn’t feel it
when you rolled over in the
morning and saw how well we fit.

i knew it when you
picked the eyelash off my  
cheek because it felt like a kiss.

i knew it when you
took the long way home so there’d
be a few less seconds to miss.

i knew it when you
would wake up and leave me because
my heart would contort into a fist-

all so i’d never have to let you go.
but you would never know.
to worry is wasted, I confess I am not immune,
worry of empty board deceives me so: I see through empty cupboards
and night without anything but the bellow of my empty belly.
I see a clear view through  leaded ornamental sacred windows,
see nothing but a pulse, a beating. I hear a beat once muted.
My graciousness bows down.
I hide as does the hungry dog until the quarry is near.
I will spring one day, alight,
into my meadow and seize the cow udder and nurse my being from
vast ****** fields I feed, of words paving my path into,
where I will stand and see me now. As weak and low. See from my arising into what I dream, me, in pity as I was.
To this mount I climb, up around all obstacles. Into the meadow alone.
One great Oak standing, his limbs reaching up.
away above into

     float if float is possible

with pretty nice people

talking like angels
                                   in prose
into a mystic vision                 where steeples
climb   true   heights
                 where stars are

light and dark is
     a palace

of golden streams
             honey flowing  from

every tongue

free
            money is not needed

All is beautiful.
She kissed me and her lips tasted like my French grade:
somewhat romantic, but still mediocre.
The driver
she wears mascara
the
last remnant of her humaness
she's always been a
little blessed
she's met her death
many times.

You can hear
her coming on
the winds
freight train sounds
through the Jeffrey Pines
this train isn't
Bound for Glory
this train's bound
for eternity
a one way
ticket with
no return.

Though I've always
rooted for reincarnation.

This train
stops for gamblers
midnight ramblers
**** addled ******
addicts caught between
nodding out and cleaning
the refrigerator with a tooth brush.
Even saints on board will stay.

The oblivion express
your going to hop
on board when your
ticket is punched,
the ticket taker
laughs and smiles
his last glimpse
of humaness.

She's the driver
he's the turnstile
they were once
an item
before they were delivered
to their
new careers
never to see each
other again
except through the
glass of her engine.

The fire is stoked
the express becomes
a local
stopping for each
and every
daily passenger
you can hear that
whistle blow.

You don't know where you're
headed
you just know
you gotta go.
Her mascara drips down
her face
you and she
the ticket taker
too
there is no escape
the oblivion express
just around the corner
and
on its way.
Oblivion Express was the back up band for a guitarist, Robin Trower.
We give in, we give out
We run but, can't go far
We fight for whats right
For the world is full of sadness
But star's can't shine without darkness
I was going to tell you the story of my life
but then I realized I don't have one..
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