![Mercy](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/edf35af91c521b0a83f77b8ebeaf044e.gif) |
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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![/GOD Mode](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/6a4910d50211ed4260dc5806644c2fc3.jpg) |
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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![Poem my Mother would like](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/035b3b9d6f278e4bf1e568ac110263ac.jpg) |
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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![In the Park at 3:30am](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/569a5680be1d0b7e1899ca0e4b9f8b7a.jpg) |
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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![No World for Blind Mice](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/b6122cc16c16317c50de334dcad5d94f.jpg) |
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](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/0813cebb185d39242650f41f564fd404.jpg) |
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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![Flowers of Chance](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/9ee8ecc6c0536f8686fe4b2c10513d0c.jpg) |
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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![A Proposal](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/6fc8ffd7714770f81c19d2bcf77771d9.jpg) |
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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![Worldbuilding](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/7617366c61911cc71fe30712fe71fda7.jpg) |
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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![Get Over Times](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/980eaea425ae78d862e94f218db66be3.jpg) |
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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