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  • Fall, I Did

    Fall, I did today saw the Inbox, one message from a name of a person who’s no longer a person hasn’t been for years because he’s gone on, on Billy Billy who died of an aneurism or a catastrophic stroke I can’t remember which brain stem is a bad place for a bleed Fell, he…

  • Probable Cause

    How I’d like to be a Republican doing God’s work fighting for the cause in love I’d like to be George W. transparent intelligence make the course, stay the course the exit strategy is there is no exit only submission is possible I could be leader of the free and righteous world Women as Christians…

  • Chickenshit

    he can’t let go either because he needs it as much as you do he’s just a bigger chickenshit than you I mean that as a compliment we’re all chickenshits at least you have the decency to admit it at least you can admit it he can’t let go because he knows he needs you…

  • Come close

    I still picture it in my mind Pretending to be surprised that I see him out someplace Me and my new man Me and my pretty face Me and my rockin bod Me actually looking happy or even Me actually happy Seeing him knowing he sees me and the highlights he wanted me to get…

  • Pony-Boy Puddin’

    I always thought I was better than you. I am going to get thinner to get back at you. It doesn’t even out but comes close meaning I came close meaning I almost came close but not quite once. You are not a stallion, pony-boy. A hard body with a soft little puddin’ mind. Punishment.…

  • Happy Home

    We’ve built a happy home created the life we wanted the bubble that won’t pop the reality blissfully skewed to our liking With adopted children from the midsection cousins in far away places uncles and aunts and mothers and fathers from all those places we’ve never been Our family medicatedpoeticladygrin writers, conspirators, sympathizers, antagonists all…

  • Look Again

    Look again ornamental resolution is absurd Keep in mind again yen is not zen Tell me again Against the grain is so passé You know this lesson. you know this omen Resurrection

  • Naming

    Jonesing it isn’t the best way to go he thinks solemnly while testing the tap for cold, not hot finds himself enveloped in tepid which wouldn’t be so bad if he’d had the time to spare Joshing it works by virtue of virtue and for some reason he likes the thought but it fades as…

  • Missing

    The ache is always there but it gets better It becomes bearable It becomes livable She meant the pain she felt for the loss of her son Still her words come back to me Because I remembered her today I remembered when we breathed in the same room Together I remembered her pain and my…

  • A Relationship Death Poem

    A Relationship Death Poem because in times of stress one has to fall back on what one knows and everyone could use a little death now and again. A Relationship Death Poem that’s not really a poem at all but an exercise in self-soothing behavior. A Relationship Death Poem because I like it dark and…