jack-jenkins
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repentance and the coming kingdom
thursday evening i walk through a marketplace
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that smells of warm bread and something
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i have no
4m
May 3
there is no view from nowhere
i keep telling myself it was a mountain
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how it rose up in me
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and it blotted out the sky
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how i
3m
Apr 24
halls
i have been hung up
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like something that belongs
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on a wall // like something that requires
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a na
6m
Mar 23
twinkle, twinkle, get out of my head
the familiar orbit
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a constellation
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circling it
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old gravity
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a quieter poison
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i trade
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one
1m
Mar 15
rock-a-bye republic
hush little country dont choke on your name
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the syllables glitter with manifest light
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sweet land
3m
Mar 3
old coyote
i saw an old coyote today
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or what was left of one
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biggest id ever seen
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or maybe i only say tha
4m
Feb 13
petulant child
the tantrum of a child
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who learned big words before learning no
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i want the world to kneel
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and
3m
Feb 5
the way turquoise fades
there is a room in my chest
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and the monster smiles with my mouth
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it wears my face
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so no one be
2m
Feb 1
audit of flesh
the candles are lit with borrowed breath
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and the house pretends to be clean
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you call your guests
4m
Jan 20
dwell
america says
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look how honest we have become
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we do our sins outside now
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in daylight
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with name
4m
Jan 10
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