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 Dec 2021 Chloe
Carlo C Gomez
No power in the 'verse
can stop her,
her name is a channel
in all directions,
it's just an object,
it doesn't mean what you think.

"Two-by-two, hands of blue."

Simon says safe passage
is such a slender thread,
a watered-down exchange,
it streams into
the substance of things:
objects in space.

"Two-by-two, hands of blue."

A life of Serenity,
it’s not applicable…
cold and naked,
dipping her feet
into a pond of impossibilities
—what she sees is seldom what she gets.

"Two-by-two, hands of blue."
~
 Dec 2021 Chloe
Kurt Philip Behm
Before the writing,
collecting memories
silent endowments
pages without lines

Before the writing,
I traveled a dreamer
imagining truant
what tomorrow defines

Before the writing,
the words clouded over
passing in bunches
like birds on the wing

Before the writing,
the wind was my compass
direction e’er changing
intention to sing

Before the writing,
my spirit a bachelor
no phrases to husband
no verses to wed

Before the writing,
immersed in tomorrow
my freedom untethered
—to go where it led

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)
 Dec 2021 Chloe
Bogdan Dragos
To work at the peak
of the desert heat

The adults told him he’d need
an injection for that
and the man dressed in white
grabbed his arm and lifted it
and stung him with the needle in the shoulder
and injected the serum

It took away all doubt
from his mind
and all weariness from his heart
and limbs

He was ready

“Good boy,” the adults said
and patted him on the back

They gave him an assault riffle,
one he’d held and used
before for practice,
and sent him out of camp
and towards the enemy soldiers

It’ll be fine
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 Dec 2021 Chloe
Bogdan Dragos
she hadn’t been his wife
because her religious family would never
allow their sweet treasure
to marry a lowlife like him

But she had been his girlfriend because
she needed to rebel
against her family somehow

But very little of that mattered now
She was no longer among
the living

and it was her own choice

Enforced by two fistfuls of pills
and half a bottle of 65% proof *****

Her family was beginning
to forget her
now
Suicide was something not even Jesus could
forgive

“I’m stronger than Jesus himself then!”
he shouted in the
hand mirror she left behind
at his place. “I forgive you! And I
still love you.”

He smashed the hand mirror against the wall
and knelt amongst the
shards

They watched him from below
with crimson eyes

Eyes that reminded him of hers when she was
crying in his arms,
talking endlessly about her stupid family who
won’t take mental issues like depression
and anxiety seriously. They said
it was but a phase
and she just needed to grow up
and pray some more. Also, her lowlife
boyfriend needed to go

If only that last
rule wouldn’t have been in place…
She would’ve been here now,
he knew

He reached for the
largest shard,
not breaking contact with the crimson eyes,
and stabbed it deep into
the wrist of his left hand

“Haha,” he said, still looking
at the eyes. “Just like when you took
bathroom breaks from the sermon to video-call me. I… still love you, babe…”
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 Dec 2021 Chloe
Michael John
a robin appeared
appeared at my window
unbidden
it´s eye bright
fluttered a sweet
wing-sat on the
cacti for low
and high and flew
into the morning
chill but returned
some time on..
 Dec 2021 Chloe
sandra wyllie
Why
 Dec 2021 Chloe
sandra wyllie
Why
is the sun shining
and children laughing
this is happening
as I cry

Why
are the stars blinking
lover’s eyes twinkling
what are they thinking?
as I’m all alone

Why
is the day
rolling as a stone
as I stand still
I’d had my fill of lies
disguised as dreams
I despise these foolish things
 Dec 2021 Chloe
Bvaishnavi
Just ...
 Dec 2021 Chloe
Bvaishnavi
I'll eat what I like,
I'll do what I want,
I don't give a ****,
I'll let me snore,
I'll let me roar,
If you don't like it,
Just. ...ignore
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