Haikus are cop-outs;

no real substance and/or thought,

just numb excuse poems.

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Your anger is hot,

pooled, frozen acid on flesh

galvanized like steel.

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You believe you were

told somewhere along the line

that you do exist.

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You can’t forget that

demons need exercise too;

let them run again tonight.

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Rules are meant to break:

glass and bones and laws and down.

Rabbit holes feather.

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Within your soul’s soul

rabbit spiral quiet dark

machete falling.

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Psychic doubt is back.

...to back to back to back to...

business booming low.

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Underground moisture,

creeping into bones like mold,

your rabbit decays.

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Spring, flowers and dance;

sun warmth, on fly’s beating wings.

Live and die too fast.

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Hungry olives growl,

soft, and panther black, like oil

except the sky's blue.

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Bright over raw sand

sea shifting low dunes drift by

your mother's  closed eyes.

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Warm, dirt-tangle roots

an eyelash in your right eye--

you are not crying.

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LOUD crash of hubris;

wave goodbye, then charge the surf.

Defy its silence.

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Gasp: breathe deep rabbit.

Beat your heart where the home is.

Do you have a home?

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Raise your right hand and

repeat after me: be free.

Just don't disobey.

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Twitch at dissonance;

run, tunnel faster, blink now

thump, devil quiet.

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Pure distilled instinct;

not fang, or fear, but laughter...

nervous in the dark.

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Shadow to the wall

around the corner slow down

don't want them to hear.

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You listen to that

(no tremors follow your fear),

that pulsing faint glow.

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Desperate your hope,

though diamond venom quickens,

drips the need to move.

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Iced creep in white veins

soft. Fur on frozen roses;

a beautiful death?

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No. Run. Now. RUN!

You can't  live, but die ******* trying;

hope is full of spite.

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Heart pounds, the door drips

blood and limps away ignored.

Listen to them grin.

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Leap rift, run without

thinking; forget crisp sunlight

draped across water.

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This is your movie

and you sound like your parents

you want, you blink now.

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She's ******* someone

and she likes it a lot more;

they **** like rabbits.

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Boots erupt water

around town, yellow ankles;

youth just felt so long.

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Plastic bag covers

your bike seat, and then your face

swimming in the sink.

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Broken dreams wither,

yet still you remember just

reflecting on fear.

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Do you exist yet?

You just can't count on some things,

like words, tricking you.

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Lost in these tunnels,

the walls of your house collapse,

memory in heaps.

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Soft surf wets your socks;

your legs ache with reckoning

but can't run their course.

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Fenceposts in the snow,

stark the wind, howling, all rage,

biting your hot flesh.

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The hate is back now

you can't breathe, all your

hope has expired.

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Chin water sun eyes

wine glass fragments of concrete

dry throat, blood, scream, moon.

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Waiting now, behind

within meaning, without hope;

fresh red footprints air.

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Waiting, still, to die

as always, poorly informed

you don't see an end