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  Sep 2016 Doug Potter
Dwarde Ozadal
Death is an amusing mistress
We need only remember her presence
To fully enjoy her absence
Wrap your failures around my throat
Use my body to keep yours afloat
Take my eyes so that you may see,
That I'd do anything you'd ask of me
  Sep 2016 Doug Potter
Styles
As the pain recedes;
       The marks remain,
       fresh on my flesh,
       forever.
Doug Potter Sep 2016
The broken limb missed my uncle’s rose trellis
landed not far from his turquoise bungalow

two feet from a Plymouth Valiant
flush atop his domestic

rabbit cage.  Four rabbits
crushed, another

greasy-eyed,  still
alive—uncle popped

its head against a bur
oak, the sixth

limped out in
concentric circles

far away, never
looked back.
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