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driving with my mother
She said 37 words in fifteen seconds on the start of the drive home. 37 words in fifteen seconds. I don’t know what she said. I was too busy counting. She says I live inside my head. I don’t think she understands the irony. 37 words, she wasn’t even breathless. I don’t know if it was an attempt to fill the silence or if it was her way of closing the distance between us by opening it, or she was si...
Monday 17th June 2024 7:36 am
No Answer
No Answer
Either .. or, Neither .. nor.
Your answer, is one of four
Always "NO" or "I don't know"
But in general "I'm not sure"
Keeping silent is an answer
Complicates the issues more
Gaps grow in hearts faster
To close mainly our main door
Hiding always simple things
That I'm really pleased to know
Same as birds lost the wings
How to f...
Saturday 2nd February 2019 12:55 pm
bait and switch
mistaken for prosody
this mere flesh and bone
scrawled down from
amid lines that strafe
the subconscience
flipped to trip
a triggered trap.
reel it in and
it spits you out..
for my hunger
I'll wear this scar
carefully placed
and for theirs,
they will never forget
their faces as
they stare back at
them from the water.
Wednesday 18th May 2016 11:47 pm
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