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If I was a bigot,
Or xenophobic,
Or prejudiced,
Or sexist,
Or racist,
Or even Evangelical,
I would argue
The Wrath of God
Has enveloped America,
Like a plague.
But I'm not, I'm a non-believer.
 Jul 2020 a m a n d a
Ken Pepiton
Ask a crow why he flies, and you answer
yourself,
You know,
same reason you wish you could.
An interlude, in real life my Samsung phone began to play Over the Horizon, and the barking ground squirrel is keeping time
 Jul 2020 a m a n d a
jude rigor
i had these dreams for a while
after that night.

you said my eyes were pretty
while we laid in bed
just staring
sharing
secrets
under my
softest blanket.

you whisper
an insecurity
and i tell you
that i have
three
toothbrushes
and somehow
slowly
we're
kissing.

we pause
to keep
looking
at each
other's
eyes.

"you're so beautiful"

i'm not
used to
feeling so
special -
we're naked
but suddenly
i'm so very shy.

you leave in the
morning and i
drift away to
you in my
mind.

the next night
i dreamed we
were holding
each other. your
form eventually
begun to twist
and turn beside
me. you morphed
into trauma and
shadows, black
shades running
up my arms
and i can't
breathe
icantbreathe
icantbreathe
i
can't
breathe.

when i wake up
my chest hurts
i curse my brain
and i miss
you.

it went on like that
for a few weeks.

looking back,
i guess this is
healing.
this is super rough, didn't proof read it a ton but i want to post it
exactly,

for if not to mystify and to demystify,
why do we write, opine large, secretly confessing,
what is know to all soto voce in the chamber of secrets,
that lies between the brains four chambered ventricles,
that leads to a Grand Canal through which flow riddles,
all these thoughts, yours, mine, and overlapping crazy


solitary, they merge within the river of combination,
then known to all, colloquially named Ours, then too,
answers arrive in the scrivening, when each plain to see,
once the riddle posed, the answer is freed to exposure,
like veins blue to red, when oxygenated,all our mysteries,

becoming all colors, untied, there is but one color, reddened blood
 Jul 2020 a m a n d a
Isaac
time
 Jul 2020 a m a n d a
Isaac
final breath in silence,
a rushed collision of fate
for eternity
give and take
 Jul 2020 a m a n d a
nivek
tumble ****, dead cactus
a dry sour watercourse
lost and bitter in the desert.
 May 2020 a m a n d a
Rj
Untitled
 May 2020 a m a n d a
Rj
I don’t want to be alive anymore
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