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CONTENTION
Mimicry, pausing to copy dance moves, phrases,
Attraction to the sound and the language.  The green
Cloak, no it is usually red or black, you have to choose
Honeymoon or no honeymoon?  You breathe through
Lungs.  Each minute no one can tell me what to do; an
Oaf and a lout, alive off oats and stout, the life I fear.
Cloak-and-dagger intelligences skating around the park,
Hooliganism for the masses, magicians for pretenders,
Exponents raise us power after power as though it were
Thursday that made people more real or interesting. 

CONTENTIOUS
Miniskirts’ hemlines several inches above the knee,
Explosive reactions from mothers or fathers worried,
Oafish, I am a fool of nonexistence, sometimes a blur,
Repressed and directionless, drifting like an atom,
En route to one point, I am reminded of my feminity,
Requital of sexes, the contrast of men, of anatomy.

Minnows kiss our feet in the fountain, pretty, silvery.
Assiduous cleaning of tanks and algae, no end to death,
Clockwise wound minutes are not treasured without
Hookah bars and falafel, original sin, debased incense.
Letterheads make a job, it’s so nice to have authority,
Oak planks are strong and also make beautiful floors.
Cologne realizes its maker, alcohol and fragrant oils,
Homesteads keeping women and men contained,
Ensembles of dancers and feeling, of singing, paint.
Thus we tumble like towels in the washer, in the dryer.

CONTENTMENT
Colander’s gone missing, I don’t care, I drain the water,
Oasis of a quiet house, life is clean and not too simple,
Resin makes a nice ink, a nice finish, even medicine.
An hour ago I realized I need people to be interested,
Ti is just the half-step before do, which is the tonic.
 
Residue can be used to good purpose, the Jews know.
Unction became his function coming to a new value. 
Artillery of sticks and stones was what David grasped.
Cold turkey could be good or bad but we need to run,
Home stretches were less than miles in adolescence.

CONTENTS
Thyself, is more than your leg or thy rather, just your
Colossal body able to think about things in relation to it.
Homing pigeons making a break for outstretched hands,
Uncovered heads, the woman or man who wore cloaks.
Lunge for 90 reps, you’ve done it before, push yourself,
Aptitude for building muscles, I tell myself afraid of fat.
 
Thwarting one man’s course or the whole team,
Oars keep us moving some way, there is no war.
Crutches kept us on our feet, we need resistance.
Hopeless in love, companionship or solvency.
Emeritus is not necessarily continued, if there is a rank,
Nonproliferation of arms, refs call the puck offsides.

CONTEST
Thy hand shall not be handicapped, but will fashion.
Attribution will be the reward for the author, a name.
Clockwork, famed mechanisms measuring the moon.
Hold out hope for the result of the work punched in,
Assertive rush of direction, a calling a need to evade
Reruns, yet to run again, each day what that industry
Unnoticed will begin again and you can go on, but you
Thwack the hard packed ground unsure how sound it is.

Mincemeat was nothing to laugh at, the way she made
Atheism look like that pie, raisins and currants, see?
Attainment did not amount to metal or anything but
Vibrant clicks of a keyboard. I’m tired of this.
Assorted candy for Halloween is on the shelf, I wonder
Collusion is expendable perhaps completely needless.
Homage to history, today let’s throw off this tapestry.

TO BATTLE
Loose-fitting blouses they wore and used the saddles,
Emancipation a thing of the day, hour, or month, the
Home front not truly home, maybe for a week, then
Interpolation of a line becomes a bird on a wire, we’ve
Thyme to walk on in this garden, but it could be fried.
Miscegenation has been going on a long time and what
Oarlocks keep that crew team even.  She said she was
Depraved, I said I might be, we might be all, so buckling
Egyptology down to the Sanskrit we had to take a little
Deportation for a walk so we could see outside the box.

TO CONTEST: TO QUESTION

Loose-leaf books get lost, or wait to be found in a box. 
Elbows all she was, she was a person, we have a right,
Arches so elegant, so ornate but we didn’t build them,
Resilient architecture we feel important walking under.
Elation at finding our company this day, each person fair
Resistance, up for grabs, for conversation, or friendship.

CONTESTANT
Misconstruing who she was, not available for sense,
Intercontinental concerns, the minute was too short,
The day not tall enough for eternity just for the day,
Create a little second, then I go for a walk again.
Here I have myself and my heartbeat and I’m ok;
Allocation of the essay, what did we work for,
Rise earlier or not but spend some time sleeping,
Elders are there knowing what it is to be in the world.

Reviews

[The Nude Writer]

Wow.. When you get going.. You really go for it :) I love your writing

[Laura Lynn]

Thanks, I hope I have time to finish the task, this goal, but like most of my goals they seem to diminish in importance over time. I question their importance constantly. (Sometimes my priorities get "whacked.")

[The Nude Writer]

Me too.. I'll start writing something and I am so into it.. A day later I have no idea what I was thinking :)