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The Haze

I imagine living in the haze

          Between waking and dreaming--

The soft noise on the telephone

          Just before she speaks

 

The blank paper beneath the last words of a book

          The snow visible by streetlamps

The world sleeping under the cosmic shroud

          Where starlight leaks

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The Roaring Rain Outside

the

roaring rain

                    outside--

          the distant duckpond

          gloom

 

the

angry clouds

                    sit low

          inexorable--

          blue.

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The Movies

your friends go to the movies and don't invite you

and you've never kissed a girl

never gone to a party

or drank beer

and you begin to wonder

why you lie awake

awash in hopes and dreams

when you could simply disappear

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Walking Backwards

We don't walk backwards

Except through time

The future is a hill we climb

blind

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Drinking In October

It occurred to me
While drinking one night in October--
Sometimes I am happy
And sometimes I am sober

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Ill Desire

I am made of ill desire

As the sun is made of fire

And the flames are getting higher

One day I will burn

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Some Call It Depression

Some call it 'depression' but

It doesn't help to name it;

I always knew I had it

But at some point I became it

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Going

You are going soon

Going far away

 

Your bags are in the car

Your plane leaves at dawn

 

But you tell me 'don't be sad'

You are still here today

 

And that's the thing about going--

It means you're not yet gone

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Once I Had a Frog

Once I had a frog

Whom I accidentally dropped

And to this very day

I don't know where the hell he hopped

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The Nomad

I met a man once

Who lived out in nowhere

He had two horses and a dog

And a rifle and a tent

But not much else

 

I asked him,

'Where is your home?'

And he answered,

'Home is wherever the sun goes down'

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In the Same Way

In the same way

That falling is not flying

Life is not living--

It is dying

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