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Dirt
Tasteless,
as peeking around corners,
gripping at the straws
in a strangers
scotch and water.
Being thoroughly dissolved
in the wrong ..
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Novelty Act
It seems that
the novelty
has worn off,
or at least
worn thin;
formative
as a common bell.
No more questions
or adequate loo..
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Brothers
Always in the process
of uprooting,
I have everything to gain
but acceptance.
And in my right hand
I hold my two sons,
in the le..
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Awkward
It’s the pose
that is awkward,
pressed against the door jamb
every night
always makes my back hurt,
and my feelings.
The soun..
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I.E.
Is it often
satisfactory,
to think it natural
that I comes before E,
and that words grow as plants,
some filled with poison.
Then it m..
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Excess
Older in person
then the photographs
I am portrayed in,
a bit of silver
in my hair,
not unlike
Superman’s mother.
My rubbing..
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Statue
An uneasy
moving target,
the only psychopath
in the room.
It’s the blood
on the fingertips
that gives him away,
ominous real..
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Sweat
It was the first
of many nightmares,
the sweet sweat
in the corners
of someone else’s eyes.
A beggar in the bathroom,
the paper..
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Gia
Applauded for her convictions,
she named her children
after characters
from black and white westerns,
the good ones
of course.
She si..
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Movement
How long
shall we stand here,
still?
As bitter as
the buttercup,
bound by the morals
buried in tobacco pipes
of bureaucrats and doc..
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