6:66 a.m.
Igot up at 6:66 in the morning,
6 minutes after the alarm,
I put on my mostdespondent skin,
Thousand-mile eyes and no pulse,
That's the state I'malways in ...
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Beautiful in Tie-Dyed Pink
Thursdayafternoon, 3:30,
already in my oversized
faded purple pajama shirt,
andplaid aquamarine and yellow
flannel pants. ...
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Broken
angerheating
betrayal brimming
with a taste of
jealousy threatening
toexplode ...
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Fire
Theflame of a fire dances freely;
Frolicking in all directions,
Reaching forthe sky,
But cursed to the wick of its candle.
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Heralded Earth
Iseek the red of evening
The silky scarlet pillows rolled
The brush soakedin cumulous
Painting fire's gilded gold.
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It’s Like Singing In The Shower
Anxiety.
Trembling hands fumble the microphone.
Just pretend everyone is naked, they say.
Step into a sprinkle ...
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Leaving
Blowingdust off the past
Reveals a familiar setting.
Bringing back immenseemotions,
I travel back
To corners of my mind ...
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Purple Mirage
Ihold in my hand
a GI Joe
American hero
he don't care about
two-cargarages ...
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Roach Injustice
LastWednesday I killed a roach with my bare knuckles
I didn't know what else I wassupposed to do
That thing was just parading around my feet,
waiting to befed by fallen crumbs of muffin
Oh how gruesome, how much I wanted to heave atthat ...
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Sawdust
I'dsmell it when my parents
Brought me from ballet lessons,
That warm, burntsmell of sweat, love
Hard work, devotion and a small trace
Of pine needlesinterlaced with the aroma ...
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Spectrum
Isaw red once.
It was early and cloudy
but there was that one break in theclouds
that you knew the sun
would find sooner or later. ...
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That Push
(AfterJoyce Carol Oates)
That push I gave you
never meant to hurt.
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then, while I slept
my brain
swirled around in my head like
cigarettesmoke
and then dissolved
my thoughts ...
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Through My Father’s Eyes
Aglass of depression,
chilled with ice made
of addiction. Twenty
yearswasted loving
a liquid more then myself,
or family.
And it willstop
only when I do.
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Youwere never Casanova,
But that never bothered you,
And that's what remindsme most of kissing in the rain.
And I've got soaking-wet hair above myshoulders
To prove I was there - and I got my souvenir ...
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The sparks were flowing through the air of an
Italian restaurant. The place wasfilled with an
Aroma that made me shiver. You
Always found a way tosurprise me. Just thinking about the day
Reminds me of you. But not just you,you and ...
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Theslope of this equation
is the long stretch of sand
at sunset
whereorange light
catches ...
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Spring brings out her baseball bat,swings it
through the air
Pitching bulbs and apple blossoms, throwsthem
where it's bare
Catches dogtooth violets, slides tomeadow
sweet,
Bunts a breeze and tags the trees with green
buds
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Youth
IfI could hold back
the inevitable
and push the
unpredictable out
intothe open ... ...
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