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they fixed your liver but broke my heart equal switch in the eyes of science and my inner scars are deeper than your outer memories of pain I used to love you and still do but you killed me and us slowly as you healed and shrank and stopped watching me as I [...]
Filed Under: Poetry
No one can tell you when to grieve Anymore than when to Love Both rush in without the asking Or creep upon you slowly with a dagger and a smile The blade slides in smooth long cold and slowly turns Giggle Moan Weep like a child Vanity sports
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Whiskey. Willie. Your god damned hanging on. You look at empty spaces just as you look at me. Nothing. Then Someth … No. Nothing. Go on. Go. Please. For your loving wife. For your daughter. On the edge of a cliff. For you. Most of all. For you. To death, Father. To death. I love [...]
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No affliction is so great As the twisting tight Of a bed without your lover. Her slippers by the door A strand of her hair resting on the empty pillow The nest of blankets often put to the side now wrap me in my solitude. ——— Lurching, suspended over chill depths, I ponder my monolith. [...]
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Passing East to West to East Side We’re always East or West of Somewhere Delineations, small bits and digits to give us comfort. I’m East. I’m West. I’m I. Comfort. Here, I say, take this finger. It’s a digit, too. No thanks, you say, it’s shriveled and smells funny. That’s true, I say. But that [...]
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Perfect moments. Quiet walks through parks, Central and Hyde. Remembrances and visions of ghosts. The void was plain in those spaces and I embraced it as though it was the time of my death. Death. Embrace of the void. Acceptance most plain and final and joyous. We are nothing. We are everything. We are all [...]
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Shield and Armour – Mask of Order peeling away, blistered failing paint And beneath, the rust and essence, hairy-naked-madness, lusty passion and lonesome Honesty Broken, mumbling, solitary Honesty smiling with broken teeth, arrestingly beautiful and stinking I pray to my God – bent low, prostrate before It, pleading, laughing Crying for audience – Please God! [...]
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Taking off Solo Trip Mission? Find. Query Unknown Meeting dawn Speeding East London town First impressions Wandering Thames Riding Tube Pub pints English fare Cured trout Irish breakfast Double espresso Short muscato Hyde Park Perfect Moment
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Reconcile all suffering And temper it with Hope This is the effort of all people Both Awake and asleep …
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A late night journey home Flashes of poetry and regret The latest obsession blasting in my ears Looping repeat one Musing on the evening’s events I rub my tired aching head My hands hold the odor of end-of-summer sweat, five cigarette’s smoke and whiskey I shouldn’t have drank The street’s occupants craven, bizarre, some beautiful [...]
they fixed your liver but broke my heart equal switch in the eyes of science and my inner scars are deeper than your outer memories of pain I used to love you and still do but you killed me and us slowly as you healed and shrank and stopped watching me as I [...]
No one can tell you when to grieve Anymore than when to Love Both rush in without the asking Or creep upon you slowly with a dagger and a smile The blade slides in smooth long cold and slowly turns Giggle Moan Weep like a child Vanity sports
Whiskey. Willie. Your god damned hanging on. You look at empty spaces just as you look at me. Nothing. Then Someth … No. Nothing. Go on. Go. Please. For your loving wife. For your daughter. On the edge of a cliff. For you. Most of all. For you. To death, Father. To death. I love [...]