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 Mar 2020 SS
Peter Balkus
Love isn't blind,
blind are those,
who never loved.
 Feb 2017 SS
Joshua Haines
My country is full of people
too violent and dumb to be anything else.
We value money, bodies, and your stuff
because it is not ours yet.

My flag is wrapped around some
white-trash hick's *******.
You look different than us and
that is ******* terrifying;
please leave while we stay
in your country,
'protecting you'.

My country is home to
religious freedom, as long
as the religion is Christianity.

My country is the world's
greatest melting ***, but
we'd prefer all ingredients
to be the same or die.

My country is a joke,
thinking it's the standard
the world desires to achieve.

My country is the world police,
creating tension, harassing you,
hating you, taking from you.
 Feb 2017 SS
Joshua Haines
When our bones rub softly,
I can take my teeth out and
shine them like skin cutters.
A yellow-bird dress you wear;
the same matchbox socks
that you wouldn't bother.

Sometimes, all the time, I
shiver in the gelatin lake
and what a faux-shake
it would only take
to make you care.

Baby, maybe, you
could love your child
like the sultry sandman;
place them on pinkish pillows,
and pretend your stories are
as real as your lashes.

And what a lamb,
kneeling in the Irish grass,
drinking all that is in her glass,
before breaking it over a wet stone,
and holding it to her throat, singing,
"I've always been surrounded, but
have always felt alone."
S h e is playful vibrance
Struck by lightning
On a church steeple
In the eye of a storm
S h e laughs and cries and laughs again
H o l d i n g the crystal ball
But not looking in
The Sadhu dreams
Fire is a dandelion root
Being woken by songbirds in springtime
 Jan 2017 SS
Max Vale
Silence
 Jan 2017 SS
Max Vale
...
The music of silence,
Is one you'll never forget.
Not even the power of science,
Can explain why we never get enough,
Of this wondrous sound.
...
 Jan 2017 SS
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On Love -
 Jan 2017 SS
-
I hope you find the love you deserve -
The kind of love that makes every atom in your body feel adored, the kind of love that makes life worth living, the kind of love that greets you good morning and always awake; and kisses you good night but never sleeps, the kind of love that makes you enjoy the rain and dance under the stars never worrying about catching a cold because this kind of love also provides you warmth. I hope you find love, and if it's taking too long... I hope it finds you.
 Jan 2017 SS
tl b
ghost town
 Jan 2017 SS
tl b
there's a tumbleweed ricocheting off the barren walls of my heart.
there's a tumbleweed rustling within the bleak walls of my brain.
I am breaking apart,
I am going insane,
No,
I simply am going.
I am going,
I am gone.
 Nov 2016 SS
Lhezca Garcia
Dilemma
 Nov 2016 SS
Lhezca Garcia
on’t fall in love with me
I will write about you
In all tenses
Don’t fall in love with me
Once I touched your heart,
You can never unlearn me
Don’t fall in love with me
Unless you plan on staying with me
Don’t fall in love with me
If you will only walk away
But please do
Fall in love with me
And tell me you love me
Write me long letters
With your sloppy handwriting
Drink coffee with me
Read my favorite books
Just love me
 Nov 2016 SS
Tom Blake
I love...
 Nov 2016 SS
Daisy C
Mom I miss you.
 Nov 2016 SS
Daisy C
I miss the old days.
Me and you against the world.
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