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 Aug 2015 Jason
strawberry fields
******* conversations;
splattering, sparkling words dripping down
your porcelain chin
 Aug 2015 Jason
strawberry fields
slender, pale moonlight;
a fine evening for imperceptibly
amiable rogues
 Aug 2015 Jason
strawberry fields
the narthex; with its shattered stained glass
a beautiful epicenter
 Aug 2015 Jason
Mike Hauser
I've got enough food in the pantry
Enough water in the tub
Enough gas in the generator
Hope I've got enough of enough

I've got enough color in the T.V's
Enough batteries in the remotes
I've got enough Cheetos in the stairwell
Enough to make a blind mouse choke

Enough crosswords to keep me puzzled
Enough coloring books to spread my art
Enough soap and shampoo samples
I'll stay clean enough through 2024

I've got enough Reynolds aluminum foil
To cover every square inch of wall
Enough ammunition if there's trouble
And enough guns to shoot it all

I've got enough jelly beans and peanut butter
To span across the state
Now I only need to find the money
Enough to pay for all the freight

I've got the radio for transmitting
Bee Gee albums for talking jive
When I get that Saturday night zombie fever
They also help with staying alive

I've got enough ice cream in the freezer
Vanilla Chocolate Swirl
Pretty sure that I'm now ready
For the end of the world...
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
Alone
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
Staring at a blank screen,
television oddly silent,
even though the silence kills.

People never talk about
how lonely alone time is
and yet I'm sinking into the
night sky, all alone.

I wonder if I'll
ever learn to love myself.
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
Your first impression
Was exactly what it needed to be,
But it wasn't me.

We learned to love
While writing poems of ninjas
And better days.
The kind of love
That only best friends can have,
That only we
Could share.

In a different world,
Maybe things would have been different,
But I wouldn't change today
For the world.
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
In private,
thoughts creep up
and tell me I am
    inadequate
    unequal
    undeserving
they tell me I am
    worthless
    useless
    fake
and I grin,
I bare it
because I
    think
    hope
    wish
they are wrong
but they're so persistent,
so very convincing,
    maybe they're right
if I can't even be alone
with the thoughts in my own head,
how do I convince myself
otherwise?
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
She Left
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
She left
long before she ended.
Her legacy lives on
and on and on.
She'll never meet you,
but she lived.
She was loved
and she lives on
in all of us.
 Aug 2015 Jason
Stephanie
We'll tell you stories,
but you'll never
hear her laugh
or see her strength
or watch her turn frail
or see her lifeless
or know this pain
you'll never know her
at all.
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