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The FoxTracks in the frost behind the shed / my rabbits quiet in their wired sleep / Four paws stitched the

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You Survived YourselfI read a quote somewhere that said, / "I don't know how many times I have survived myself, without t

@Thingsillneversay2m

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Superhero*I always wanted to be a superhero when I was a kid! / Always had a childish craving for it. / ◆ / ◆

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MoonbirdYour life is made of distant springs and falls, / a straight route is not / what you own / for hurri

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Haiku ( garbage )Dumpsters rain on lots, / Seagulls fly over asphalt, / . . . Ocean food waiting.

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Blackbird PieStepping out into the yard, / my curvéd bow strung tight. / Thereupon my driveway, / three blackbird

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four seasons of loveit wasn’t chaotic. / it was calm and serene, / like the ocean. / the soft pitter patter / of the rai

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Ophelia, RewrittenThey said I drowned, / but the truth is softer: / I laid myself down like an offering. / I spit rive

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hierarchyWhere does hierarchy begin? / Is it where the strong is on top, / and the weak step upon? / Where do

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The Last TimeAnd right before your eyes I'm dying / and breaking, / falling to pieces. / You try to pick them up

@morganmercury2m

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Missing Instructionsno one prepares you for the middle of things, the long stretch of just paying rent and the strange f

@William-A-Gibson3m

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MorphologyExpanding flesh, / bending genetics / diluting time, / blurring natural order. / A slowed pressure,

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Into the stormy VortexUpward I swirl / into the swirl of death shrills / Discontented about absolutism; the lies of war /

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Don't look backAWAKE. / Buried alive, / tearing free, / slipping through / death’s hold on me. / Uphill with the ho

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When you love someone so muchWhen you love someone so much, / you will do anything for them. / You will forget the meaning of sel

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Queen of the Surface Streets~ / *Lipstick to void. She is a race against time. The beveled past a disruption in her lines of inf

@Carlo-C-Gomez1m

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Last to SunriseJust to last to a brand-new sunrise / That’s all I ask of me / Just to last to another sunrise / Fin

@fennecampersand2m

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Desert Survival!The desert is a killer / An unforgiving foe / Be careful how you handle her / Take things very slow

@SoulSurvivor5m

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This City's Crazy, Child - Hanoi, Vietnamalways take your shoes off before you cross a threshold / you've been carrying your dirt around with

@geminiiiiiidk2m

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Crucify The WormWorm eats through to penetrate. / Trespasses, what dirty deeds? / What ichor is this to venerate? /

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The Train--- / Will somebody please / Slow down the train / It's going through hills / And rough terrain / I

@SoulSurvivor3m

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Stray Cats StrutTwo kittens too young showed up on my porch. The flood light was their saving torch. / The girl, (So

@cj-sutherland3m

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too hot to candlea candle sat in an open field / with nothing but darkness up and round / a thousand cubic miles of n

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A Love PoemI grip the barbed wire that I use a rein, / For this beast of a world that I cannot yet tame, / I gr

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