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I don’t use words
like mercy,
or love, or death.
I use hate only
on special occasions,
never when I feel it,
that’s eas..
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Invincibility.
Nobody can hurt me.
The lines on my face trace
experience,
they won’t tell you what roads
lead back home.
And ..
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Small hands, big words
Strong willed blue birds.
Life is for sharing.
Everything we do
We bring in communion
To the dinner table.
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Though my body tires and I have far to go,
I know
I’m going home.
I’d nearly forgot the cold..
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Have you ever
heard a mouse scream?
Who cut off his
tail with a carving knife and left it
like a root on
the cutting board,
sliced neat..
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The Marginalized
Mermaid
spends her afternoons
close to land
in the company of mud crabs
like altar boys
in the Vatican
she ..
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Protect the secret flowers of chance, they
bloom but once in a thousand years. Once in
a thousand peaked heads of pastel petals.
Once in a th..
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Float down river with me baby, I’ve got
several beers on ice and a dog named
Denver. Good boy’s got
a coat like Fredericksburg,
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Big Baby Blue Ball
Hurtling through space
At thirty kilometers per second.
This existence is bigger than our
single threaded orbits.
We ..
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Ma’s
been bleeding a lot
lately,
enough to fill
a
bathtub,
a
blender,
and fourteen
shot glasses.
Every
night she soaks..
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