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 Dec 2023 Fig
Serendipity
Between.
 Dec 2023 Fig
Serendipity
Her smile sits
on the curb of a road
between Summer
and Fall.
 Dec 2023 Fig
Qualyxian Quest
3733
 Dec 2023 Fig
Qualyxian Quest
I don't believe in American
Success stories
What they want is money
I read Moby ****

Beauty Baltic Sea
Asian destiny
3733
Come quick! Come quick!

              Often sick
 Oct 2023 Fig
Odd Odyssey Poet
In your eyes, a delicate pink hue danced,
Like a flower's tender blush, I had never seen,
Yet, I dared to kiss you, craving to understand,
To feel the enchantment that your lips could bring.

As time passed, you blossomed beyond that flowerpot,
Rooting yourself deep within the garden of my heart,
I nourished you with words of admiration and praise,
Expressing the immeasurable value you held, my art.

Your memory, a seed, lay dormant in my mind,
Buried in the depths of darkness, patiently awaiting,
Until the moment it would sprout and bloom,
Unveiling the love that within me was awakening.

I wasn't prepared to fall so deeply, so intensely,
A solitary florist, learning to tend to his own soul,
But with you, my love, I discovered a newfound purpose,
A garden of emotions, where our love would forever grow.
 Jul 2023 Fig
Bo Burnham
No to Drugs
 Jul 2023 Fig
Bo Burnham
I said no to drugs once.
I looked a bag of **** right in the face
and, like a loving but firm father,
I said, "No."
I was really high.
 Jul 2023 Fig
Qualyxian Quest
In my secret life
She holds me
I whisper in her ear
We bathe for hours together
We speak of Buddhist deer

I talk about her father
She talks about my mom
Trinity Episcopal
Hotel room after prom

In my actual life
I sleep again alone
Obsessively write poems
Rarely answer the phone

Probably born too late for God
Mountain in the mist
Embers, burning embers
Genuflection. Kiss.

                      Miss
 May 2023 Fig
Bobby Copeland
Karl
 May 2023 Fig
Bobby Copeland
Karl's been drinking since yesterday,
when she came back for her clothes
and the dog he bought her
five or six years ago,
an Irish sitter
that never seemed to trust him,
even though he'd fed it well
and brushed its coat
for the two weeks she'd been gone,
suspecting perhaps
that the whole affair
was more his fault
than the other man's
and surely more than hers.
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