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1.3k · Feb 2022
beatnik
Tired but awake,
Oh Ginsberg and Kerouac -
I am beat
1.2k · May 2019
on reciting the kaddish
Though I know I’m just
Pleading with my palms -
I say a prayer anyway
927 · Apr 2019
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Love culminates with
Delicacy between our
Shaking fingertips
780 · Apr 2019
missing you on laundry day
The warmth of fresh clothes
from the dryer hugs me
like you used to, Mama
770 · Apr 2020
on the liberties of molting
Naked and raw  
I bear my soul to the sea
Freed from a shell outgrown
763 · Apr 2019
You and Sashi(mi)
Caught from that rich jade
Sea, you slice me thin, bearing
My raw abundance
631 · May 2019
Orchids (10w)
Orchids plie in fifth position following the cadence of spring
587 · Apr 2019
Heartburn
I don't know if it's
you or the Heineken but
My heart's on fire
545 · Apr 2019
misaligned
My chiropractor
And therapist agree -
I’m out of alignment
530 · May 2019
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See the world through Van Gogh
Soften your focus and
look out your window
Haiku, daily
492 · Nov 2019
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I sink my teeth
Into cotton candy clouds
Lick the sweet crystals of sunset
Off my fingertips

Lips dusted with light
I savor this day
408 · Apr 2019
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I held two flags
Both  red white and blue
You said I could only choose one
346 · Apr 2019
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I long for that sweet,
Ephemeral moment of ecstasy:
Your kiss
334 · Jul 2019
wasted days
Memories
Blank like an unwritten checkbook
Try to recall
Days unspent
320 · Jun 2022
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Main Street clairvoyant
With her $5 revelation -
We’re all going to die
306 · Apr 2019
unsolicited advice
From the undone dishes
rotting in the sink
a maggot crawls
to me and says
“Get  your life together”
298 · Apr 2019
congris
Like rice and beans
On U.S soil - mis idiomas
Se mezclan
288 · Apr 2019
laugh lines
there are countless stories
tucked in the creases of your skin -
read to me
266 · May 2019
may showers
Drunken clouds stumble
Across the sky ******* on
Hope of sun in spring
266 · Apr 2019
spring fling
Your honeysuckle cheeks
Leave the saccharine taste
Of spring on my lips
262 · Nov 2019
Feral
With eyes the embers
Of wildfires
She approaches
Igniting the night
With raw curiosity
248 · Apr 2019
The Rat Race
I scaled the wall of
Your maze - to hell with your cheese
I will churn my own
242 · Apr 2019
writer's block
My pen sputters and stalls -
Check engine light flashing
Behind my eyelids
210 · Nov 2019
Prepare for landing
I look down at the buildings below
Twinkling with celestial grace
And map the constellations
Of journeys to be
195 · May 2019
falling (10w)
Seems as though I'm always falling
short,
back,
or behind
194 · Jun 2020
on approaching 5 o'clock
The clock  ticks
ticks
ticks

Pounds on the inside
Of my skull -

Need an aspirin
Hurry up and kiss me -
Our love’s fleeting like snow
On the street we met
190 · Apr 2019
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My chest and spirits
Rise in tandem as I breathe
The essence of you
181 · Apr 2019
demons
Unleash my demons -
Animalistic fiends who
Prey on purity
178 · Apr 2019
running out of ink
This stupid, *******
good-for-nothing pen is
always running out of --
155 · Mar 2020
quarantine - day six
the streets are quiet
the world is still
i finally notice
the birds chirping
on my windowsill
153 · May 2019
North Star
You were my North Star -
With your light now gone
How will I find my way home?
140 · Aug 2020
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florescent buzz
of the streetlight fleeting against
the infinity of night
139 · Jul 2020
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“To Hell with Descartes!”
          Scream anxious knots in my back
Tangled like body and mind
134 · Mar 2020
the key (10w)
the key that opens also locks - choose your actions carefully
131 · Mar 2020
the chinese virus
He washed his hands until they bled
And then a little more

He bolted every window
And he locked every door

Through the cracks he peered out at his neighbors
And said “oh for heaven’s sake!

Those bat-eating chinks
We outta burn them at the stake”

Like that no-good ****** Yang
They’re infecting our country

UBI’s for lazy *****!”
Though he could really use the money…

Cause he’s been out of work for days
And has not received a raise

For the last 10 years
Amid corporate fears
of the left’s socialist craze

Yet he still angrily paces
Says “I don't mean to be racist

But they’ve gotta go - all of ‘em!”
As his face turns pale and fever runs

Poor sick thing, he doesn't know
That the hate is just for show

A trick, a guise, a twisted rouse
To turn me against you

Amidst  our misguided attacks
They extort and contort the facts -  

Our communities decay
We rot and waste away

You think it’d gone undetected?
We were always infected
125 · Jun 2020
A Hound's Inhalation
Wet nose twitching
Against summer air
Interpreting the breeze

In her eyes
A profound understanding

Of June
121 · Aug 2020
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soggy cherrios
left on the slide - forgotten
in mid-imagination
118 · Jun 2020
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The blind old dog keeps watch
On those same porch steps
- Lucky squirrels scurry past
115 · Jul 2020
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sun bleeds red
through closed eyelids
can’t escape the day
113 · Aug 2020
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liver spots
on the streets
we grew up in
100 · Mar 2020
on the persistence of will
It pants, tugs, strains, yearns
Wrestles with its collar
Tags clink and chime
Songs of persistence
93 · Jul 2020
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duck bobbing merrily
feet fluttering in the summer air
another quaint death
88 · Jul 2020
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the languid bee
sulks on parking lot weeds
soon we all will rest
87 · Jul 2020
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injured bird
in my shoebox
**** Darwin
87 · Jul 2020
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grumble of the semi’s
greedy gut, gobbling my ancestors
wheels turning like time
85 · Jul 2020
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the swatted fly bursts
      like the Big Bang
I am God
84 · Jul 2020
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hairy patches
below painted toes
am I less of a woman now?
82 · Jul 2020
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jaybird shrieking
cursing God or Gravity
- her egg still falls
79 · Jul 2020
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footprints in the sand
       confirmation I exist
washed away
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