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Marie Jan 2022
Gilded in gold
but binding all the same,
A contract made with rings
and fine print no one reads.
Local government has to agree
how to dissolve the terms
of all those promised dreams,
reduced now to only physical things.

It is hereby ordered and adjudged:
No longer love.
Signed on a new date to remember you by,
our divorce decreed.
  Jan 2022 Marie
Penelope Winter
He looks at me
Only to see
The lover I
Could never be.

- p. winter
Marie Jan 2022
Kiss me in the east
So I can set in the west
To wish sweet dreams
For your eyes every night
"Maybe
I can be kissed sunset pink
And colored across the sky?
Lets try before you leave this time."
Marie Jan 2022
he had drowned
on solid ground
and
she breathed in
to resuscitate him again

it was
no longer novel
to be
lovewrecked and left
picking up
his sea of empty bottles.
Marie Jan 2022
he cursed her
without words
his fists
a blaspheme
against his girl
Marie Jan 2022
the concrete ate
at their soles
while they looked
for the ones
they had lost
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