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 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
everything ive ever lost
without a heartbeat
i dismiss.
everything else
was someone i loved.
theres nothing else i can say
to explain the passing
through my heart.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
the fruits of life are poison.
a cherry is a nightmare.
a nightmare wakes you up.
you wake up into hunger.
hunger is a pestilence.
the pestilence releases you,
but not before the pestilence
fills the belly of the locust.
the locust breeds love.
and love is the fruit.

the world is constantly
raining red love.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
constantly getting better
at being worse.
my ineptitude is rotund.
i enable it with
all the fats.
i skeletalize myself
towards a very sad suicide.
alone in the woods
ignored by the trees.
lying & waiting
for the ants
to cover me.
until i blend into
the surroundings.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
i fell through the
aesthetically pleasing crack
in the face of beauty
and everything lost its hue.
which means nothing.
its eyes were poorly painted blue
and i used them to see you.
now i notice
everything is a shape
taking up space.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
chariot
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
a chariot made from
the bones of the horse
who pulls it.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
i act as a regular person would.
doing useless things
portraying a useless person.

and i do my best
to seem content
in my role.

thats the joke,

but no one
in the audience
gets it.

but they still clap
when the clap sign lights up
and they seem to enjoy
the sound of the laugh track.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
wearing the skin of the bear
who made you his meal
with the heart of a horse
and the eyes of an eel.
its not our bodies
which make us real
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
mike
tomorrow when i wake up
ill be dead.
the bread-box must be larger
than the bread.
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
Sumsar Romer
Alone and lost; nothing but silhouettes
Endless doubt, persistent search for answer
In ***** floods and buds of cigarettes
To life, solitude is scourge and cancer

I who live where isolation’s culture
I who await the happier morrows
I who live where the people are vultures
I who search for exit from my sorrows

I who have nothing but fears of my sin
I who’ve never felt the joy of a friend
I who have nothing but tears on my skin
I who only have comfort of the end

Nothing but the hope of variation
Nothing but the rope of suffocation
 Apr 2015 Ryan Clark
EJ Aghassi
Thank you for the time

& thanks for the epiphany

keep up whatever it is

you feel like you're doing
perhaps "hiatus poetry" is a better title

I'll be back, eventually
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