A Glow in the Pit of My Soul
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we all play the xylo-bone in this closet, BarbaraA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..It’s time to wake up the skeletons sleeping in your closetYou’re all free cigarettes and secondhand beersTo mask your bleary eyesI know yo.. |
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compassion fatigueA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..I feel splitlike a log, and lifewields the axe.One half happilywarms the hands ofthe cold andlonely huddled aroundThe other threatensto catcha spark a.. |
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when old flames should have been spat on the first..A Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..I never wantedto be a solid matterrather stay a wisp of smokedrift on inwhisper encouragement,“we made it out alive”fade away againNo trou.. |
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Hoofbeats, heartbeatsA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..3 a.m. streets lit by headlights, ghosts of memories reaching out, the sweet sadness of nostalgia screaming out -the fight that happened around this b.. |
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SurfacingA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..I am beach sweaty and sleepy sadHeavy heart full of tender thingsBody bursting with nerve endingsI am sun dizzy and lit like a matchTugged under by th.. |
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Late Nights + Lizard BrainsA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..My left hand pulses from a late night bleach submersionskin pulled taut like cling wrap on someone’s forgotten leftoversI woke up with a stalled.. |
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DSM VA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..“Not doing” is not enough.It doesn’t reflect the turmoil raging withinDoesn’t mirror the cracked ribsshredded lungs like vinta.. |
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Self MadeA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..Again and again.Always missing GhostsTime is a thiefAnd Nostalgia is a dirty liar,But these memories, so sanguine sweetLike honey at the center of a s.. |
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rewoundA Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..there is a sadnessthat seeps and stingsset upon my bonesan infection in the marrowof my self perceptionan exhaustionthat snakes it’s waythat bin.. |
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12.4.15A Poem by A Glow in the Pit of My S..‘We hum because we evolved from insects’but my vibration is a pitch all its’ own.-Like the fake tooth that doesn’t glow under .. |
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