does genuine

passion

      have a place

amongst our

   artificial
existences
(⸮)
            and does it

no longer

      have  a

  place in our  minds, beneath the skin, or

amongst our
                     underd/eveloped

biological

double-stranded

                    structures
(⸮)

brace yourself for the new day as

it twists
you around and

  breaks
your
   bones.



Life can nearly **** a man

  but

so far we’ve survived.




                             - j. lauren

it’s
   not always
easy
  keeping love
for
   company
when
misery

   has
    always
   held on
best

approach

the flames like  a meddlesome, open-
mouthed,

        potential
love.

Un-fast rhythms and
low-lit lights,
every-
body
comes to e s c a p e
their low-
          lit
          lives.
Men  
who
have
seen
life
    ­  Fifty
    or
seventy times over

And me,
                  I
sit
  amongst the
men
who have seen life
50
or
Seventy times over.

When two different
states
               of
                       reality
collidewiththeinitialstateofreality
creating some sort of
strange i m a g i n a t i o n
imitations|snoitatimi
and, of course,
more infatuations with what isn't than
what is.