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Laughing Wolf Dec 2015
When I draw from the inkwell
I do not use a quill…too flighty.
I do not want my words to soar beyond tangible reach.
I fear they may congregate for crumbs,
sing from cages or
commemorate feasts of trifle holidays.
This is all too red light-green light:
predictably pedestrian.

When I draw from the inkwell
I prefer to use a dorsal…
I want Roy Scheider & Steve Zissou to shudder.
I want my words to sink to the deep of you,
or hover just beneath the surface ominous.
I want them to explode grandiose
grabbing hold with the evolved efficacy
of 300 million years…

**I want my words to have a week devoted to them
on the Discovery channel.
Elsie Greek Jun 14
Alliteration
of your name
is like
a poem.
It coos and cranes,
it makes me
feel sated
with cheeky bells on.
It makes my soul
feel quenched
when I sing it out
when you don’t show up.
I want to slide down
the lines
of your name
like it’s
a poem.
Give me a Zaza,
not a Zizi;
almost a Zissou,
never a Vossy.
For somebody, those are
the lines of truth,
but yours is a love oath
and the breeze
to me.
And I feel so jazzy!
It takes all of me
to give it away
back to you
for free.
All it took was a few listens to Mark Ronson and Raye's Suzanne.

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