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 Oct 2022 Chuck Kean
Enzo
Dreams
 Oct 2022 Chuck Kean
Enzo
The weirdest dream
I ever had
was you
not being in it
You hid pieces of yourself,
In places you would never look.
Hidden within those inner landscapes;
Unable to remember their names.
Finality
is a reality
there is no endless love
no forever
even in the beauty of the stars above
all will end
we cannot transcend our allotted span
so live and laugh and dance while you can
 Oct 2022 Chuck Kean
emily
UNSTABLE
 Oct 2022 Chuck Kean
emily
I take my prescribed pills with an energy drink
Monster energy if your wondering
And it's always the zero-sugar version
Because the sugar will rot my teeth.
I’m constantly on the verge of healing and destroying myself
Like a seesaw that's perfectly balanced
I am fed up with breaking my hand
And then bandaging it up myself.
I am my own executioner and doctor all in one body
The healing in the midst my own self destruction
I am the silence before an explosion
The calm before the storm.
maybe i'm just sensitive
We are all shattered pieces of 
someone else's wrecked dream, each unrecognizable from the other.
To be my friend you need a sense of humor,
  my lover also needs a tolerance for tears.
  I have friends and lovers who laugh
  for hours orbiting my odd but special sun.
  I give everything to orbit theirs as well.
  Kindred spirits, my own kind, I get them.
  We're slightly bent and drunk a little off.
  I live loud, laugh louder but I'll die quiet.
 Oct 2022 Chuck Kean
Anais Vionet
I think we all love kisses, like flowers love the sun.
They can be meaningful, deep and scandalous or fun.

You might briefly, sneakily, steal a kiss,
you can blow a kiss or condone a kiss,
emblazon every girl or boy you know with a kiss,
postpone a kiss, or bemoan a kiss as hormones,
but you can’t keep a kiss or own a kiss,
because they’re never more than half your own kiss -
sadly, as we’ve all learned, you just can’t kiss alone.

Every kiss is a puzzle, an experiment requiring a team
you may not even understand a kiss, or exactly what it means.
As far as kisses go, I’ve only had a few. I blame that dam
pandemic, they certainly weren’t something I eschewed.

I wish I had specific tips for girls with quick, impulsive lips
which somehow never can resist a flirty, kissing apocalypse.
Your roommates will support you, with only a few quips
but you really can’t keep doing this, you’ve got to get a grip.
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: emblazon: decorate a surface with something.
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