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The vibration of the tracks on the
tired railroad
Begging the heavy train for a vacation.
Bringing me closer. Taking me
Home.

The aches in my shoulders let go.
The warmth in my cheeks returns with such intensity
Making it impossible to hide the smile.

The familiar feeling from our first date,
The moment our eyes met and we both realized we had no longer any control of the outcome of this.
We had already lost.

Or the seconds,
the lifetime,
right before I demanded ownership of
your lips.

I'm on my way,
My love.
Soon our wait is over
And we will
Melt.
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
Mary-Eliz
Time doesn't change everything
as people sometimes say
time changes the seasons
from warm to cold
and
back again

the dark of night
to
light of day

as it changes a child's height
so does it often alter
a grownup's girth

time may change one's hair
to white
or
silver-gray

and carve wrinkles in the skin
steps may slow
and
memory wane

but most are who they are
and
will remain

"after changes upon changes
we are more or less the same."
* Quote from "The Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
Mary-Eliz
They don't go down easy
these words meant to soothe
they'll come back up later
with bile
churning and roiling

"asleep"?
"peaceful"?
platitudes!

"time heals"?
banality!

like the hapless frog
suspended in his jar
awaiting the curious blade
of the laboratory scholar

this unnatural heap of flesh
****** dry
then
pumped with chemicals
smeared with freakish makeup
collects the gawking stares

or the brief furtive glances

"Look!"
my mind shrieks
you came to look
but
you don't see

Memories
you say

This memory
this scene
this awkward scene
will play in my mind
like the test pattern
on old TV's

fixed there
humming its eerie monotone
in
black and white
I have always hated the idea of trying to make a dead body look "good".
I remember when my dad died people saying "he looks good" ...I wanted to scream "He doesn't look good! He looks dead!"
I plan to be cremated.
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
nivek
trade off
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
nivek
you can trade for almost all
bucks for forests
buy an ocean of fish

you can get gold fever
trade your lovers
burn your friends

you can fall in love
and hide behind
the truth.
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
The Dedpoet
Black soul
      Scattered night
Tearing the pain apart,
The reality awakens
Into the dream and asks,
"Who am I?"
A shadow forms.

Asleep in a bed or rain
Life sings melancholic bliss,
The sparks surrounding dark,
A flicker of moments.

Many handed thoughts
Interrogate the clarity,
Entering by manipulation,
Only the pain is real.

I soak in the ethereal
And speak in a mist,
The emptiness understands,
I return in a blood language.
Dedpoet
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
nivek
someone I know talks of death
coming close to an end
when they are looking for a beginning
  and I cannot give that
I am not a God, my name is not Jesus.
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
欣快
We're in the sun and I'm moving from your mouth
to your jeans, we're watching the stars and we're moving
We're going down the green boulevard and we're cruising
you speak Romanian, I speak you, we're going to far
and moving to the beat as one and the wind blows the hair
in my face and I got news for you, I can see you just clearly
as I could before, carefully, barely hanging on and catching movies

I can't keep away from your kiss, back and forth want to feel
the rest of you and all of you can't wait to catch you all alone
we're in the sun and I'm moving from your mouth
to the hole in your heart, tell me how you feel and who you are
you speak barely, your rhythmic breaths tell me all I need to know
waste the day and spend all the time in your pockets, all alone
floating around your head and hanging midair in your palms like
a red balloon
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
nivek
desert
 Apr 2017 SG Holter
nivek
they love to wallow
like Hippos

***** waters
splattered

Dung beetles
are hard pressed

lizards make love
in dunes

while desert
eats pastureland

and white bones
mark graves.
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