come on down

on crushed spirits

bring me your

broken promises

I’ll take all 

secret wishes

and any

last chances

join me on the lost crusade

gone tomorrow here today

roll up for that passion play

staring you and me and everyone else

we don’t need

reservations

leave behind

hesitations

I’ll bring enough 

skepticism

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I saved you from that guy 

from talking suicide 

I don’t think he was worth 

the Netflix renewal

you saved me from myself 

tinder girls as well 

who kept me out well past my 

middle school curfew

we spent our savings on each other 

although we weren’t lovers

comrades in a life

without a fast forward

we blew it on vacations

wine and overnight sh...

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all life is movement

all movement’s not life

I found this out recently

as my past few decades would testify

that impatience I took as dedication

revealed itself to me

as just another neuroses 

one in a series of many

I try to work slowly now 

I openly imitate those trees

you find swaying in a storm 

on most days still standing

with ...

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I feel so rich

don’t touch anything

anything you wish

I’ll order immediately

everything you see

is here for now

you could be the queen

of credit cards

as everything falls through our hands

I’m a billionaire of unseen plans

spend a day in my invisible museum

right next to the sex planetarium 

let’s celebrate the time we have now

I...

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you can go to the 

supermarket 

for the bright lights 

and cashiers

they cheer you up 

not judging what you buy 

why there’s no 

fresh vegetables 

and a lot of ice-cream 

when you’re feeling lonely

taking it out on your body 

for getting in the way 

of all that 

sexiness

you can even 

overspend your cards

as long as you have 

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I find myself in one of her stories

she finds it all a bit too boring

how it takes pages to get the setting

while she’s moved on to television

we’re compelled to act

nothing’s a distraction

then when the language hits

it creates shifts in perception

here we go again

another transformation

something we can just 

barely understand

as ...

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ahh that taste that comes

from your mouth

there’s no struggle

sweeter than the pressure

we put on ourselves

driven from above and below

latitudes, attitudes never match

dragging in the undertow

you change the sweater in the middle of the mess

could I interest you in

some East meets West

heading for the mountains and the beach

we need the contrast 

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all I ask when 

we take a bath 

when we relax 

feel each other close 

I will know then 

what makes sense

what feels 

like something else 

I wanna share then 

some human-ness 

there are people 

that we meet 

work for

owe money to 

see on the street

go home make love to 

they make us feel 

synthetic 

I...

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under her careful watch

behind her waking thoughts

when she’s had too much

feeling it’s never enough

after a day in the mud

fighting everyone 

sometimes just to save that soul 

she reaches for my gun 

where the logic breaks 

meet you in two shakes 

you don’t have to wait 

I’m already on the train 

where the logic breaks 

calculation’s delicate 

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so you’re an optimist 

that’s some cult

ignoring science,

advice of the young 

an optimist 

how transgressive 

obvious, annoying 

how retarded 

you cling to things 

you don’t understand 

put faith in people 

without plans 

believe in love 

like beatles songs 

keep on working 

after time’s run out 

like an insect 

on a flower 

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I spent a youth in libraries 
quiet in stacks 
running fingers over centuries 
things compelling and useless

I developed these habits 
that’ll see me to my grave 
lost in a thousand adventures 
this imagination can’t be saved 

she’s quiet and strict 
sweater, glasses, lipstick 
bothering her on the clock 
taking volumes checking her out 

now I’m grown and I’ve built 
my collecti...

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doesn’t have his pen

makes noises with his desk

breaks every mask

wants bathroom every period

refuses to read along

pretends he can’t write

if you text his mom

puts his head down and cries 

kids say shutthefuckup 

every time he speaks

you think the same thing

professionally

can’t stop listening 

to gangsta rap 

ex-student...

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To understand what you are 
might take a lifetime 

and art and music and love 
and you might just find 

that you sell yourself short 
have yourself a bit wrong 

and maybe then
there’ll be some action-time left, 

unless…

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Flowers
Trees
Sunset
Books
Terrible sudden pain in my calf
Children
Music 
Oppressive directives from admin
Love
Coughing

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Have I got an 

ideology for you 

for every age 

and interest 

every level

of development 

every childhood

disappointment  

every fear

and resentment 

it makes perfect 

sense 

and you’ll never 

have to

think for yourself 

again

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I’d like to invite you to my undoing 

at a time and place of your choosing 

I’m always meeting you for the first time

with an energy that’s really not mine

how easily you’d become the best part of me 

what we don’t admit  lies in wait to see

behind calories memories and stress 

conspiring with what we’ve always dreamt 

to turn us into 

something else

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muscle and bone and alcohol 

three in the morning siren call

haunted by the shape of a body 

echoing thoughts; the city’s empty 

panther haunches move across 

a day burned out by what you’ve done

it can’t be shared with god

you can’t be absolved 

holding a promise as wide as America 

by the time they tore you down 

you were exiled  

inspiration hits with ...

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every relationship 

is a relationship 

we spend time with

doing terrible things to 

dreaming of them 

never telling one thing though 

showing up 

just doing what counts 

in the end there’s only that feeling of love

all physical traces

disappear 

while the memories  

linger

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you want to 

engage my trauma

and play with it

use it in a story

make love to it

make it dinner

wrap it in theory

promise you’ll never mention it

take it to the party

go back in time

gratify it orally

build a center on it

print it three-d

acknowledge it 

in a painful speech

be recognized 

for your bravery

advocate for...

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It’s your own rockn’roll 

blaring from your phones

no one else can hear 

a tiny crowd’s roar 

your choreography’s lost 

on your arthritic boss 

lighting show gets 

packed up in the smoke 

but you killed it 

left them stupid 

hit after hit 

ringing in their ears 

you killed it 

you’ll do it again 

after the weekend 

opening for the bus 

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these arms trees 
those roots deep
what you feel reverberates 
over centuries 

these lips political 
those hips spiritual
a neck a totem 
dreams hanging on 

feet machines 
ears tuned in 
hands calloused 
half-tender now

teaching body 
reaches for sky 
teaching body 
diving into sheets 

teaching body 
drinking oceans 
forgets to breathe 
as she swims 
 

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The way the clock works 

is tricky

because lines look evenly spaced 

they’re not; 

counted in milliseconds 

between five AM and six 

stretching days 

from eight to four

and then out to infinity 

before I see you again

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Stories tell me stories
Lay them on top of me

Pile them high as I sleep
They become memories

Pounded into me 
Oh the bloody ink

I see a life ahead of me 
A life behind outlined

In words and thoughts
That are maybe mine

They follow a line 
Weaved together
 
With the hard work
Of discerning meaning

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odds against me

fifty-fifty

but don’t bet against

come from behind victories

bunch of late bloomers

in a table vase

shakers and movers

glued to our seats

with a past kicking my ass

every chance is the last

thinking very slow

moving very fast

what I could do for you

what you could do for me

points that conclude

without even touching

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I’ve paced the width and length of the cage 

creating waffles on my feet

memorized the paths of stars

names of all monsters of the deep

but when I see you in the evening 

I know you’ve saved a bit of the mystery for me

boss goes on droning

targets needing to be reached

the drones fly below

the radar’s tiny sweeps

you remove your dress

my de...

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Deep in the plastiosphere

Desires mix with air 

Merging with us

On a molecular level

Dreaming strange things

That seem compelling

You don’t know what they mean

As they hijack your destiny

You want someone remote

Who never takes off their clothes

Who recites obscure quotes

While breaking your bones 

You buy appliances

That run on the afterlife

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I still believe

Still have these dreams

Little naive

Late in the game

Others succeed

Adding fortune

I stare into the night

With my delusions

You wouldn’t recognize me

I haven’t changed

Nothing I’ve seen

Has shaken my faith

Every day

Gives me strength

To this feeling I’ll repay

Everything I have

As long as I breathe

As much as I...

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Click Me

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it was all for you 

even when it wasn’t 

those unmade beds

lying by the dozens

I adjust the calendar 

gain perspective 

every new entrance

a learning experience 

the ministry 

will have its way 

photos airbrushed

names changed

but you can count on me

on the fingers I have

from the nape of your neck

to the small of your back

c...

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In 1982

American men

discover the clitoris 

responses range 

from shock to fear

to suspicion 

yet none are brave enough

to claim

they invented it

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don’t do this to me

not now, not here

I need this come

from behind victory

get me later

I won’t care

there were too many 

humiliations

too many loses 

unaddressed

not looking for vindication

not out for revenge

just need that accounting

alone with myself

don’t do this to me

not with something so crude

I am a pe...

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keep your inferences

under your suspicions

tamper with the evidence

she’s got witnesses

you match the description

as well do hundreds

devil’s in the details

so’s god

the story checks out

the chronology stuck

testimonies recorded

it must’ve been love

(there might be a more

prosaic explanation-

alien visitation?)

but it probably was

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I can’t look back 
It’s a trap 
that gorgon’s head
taped to my hat

I move forward 
tearing plans
filling grab’n’go bags
with a free hand

what I need 
I don’t exactly know
when I see her
I’ll suspect she’ll know

until that time
I change on a dime
that track record’s now
embarrassingly long

can’t look back 
not my crack
nothing’s stopped me
it’s gotten close

health rema...

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as a kid I always pretended 

to escape any situation 

attacks from monsters 

sudden impacts, super-villianesses 

now that I’m grown I’ve never known 

clean escapes without consequences

dragging my body through a zone 

lit by memories and burning questions 

situations, complications 

degrees of humiiation

strength of weapons, nerve damage

he...

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Its image on the flag 

and currency

It’s cry in many

folkloric stories

you hear a sad voice 

in its chirping melodies

adding an order fries 

with a cup of chipotle 

satiety you feel

chewing and swallowing

happy faces

on all of the marketing

as you move on to dessert

filing feelings away 

in box marked “scary”

to be ope...

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there was a woman I loved 

in another country

a thought that haunts 

while doing laundry 

feelings I found 

inside a recording 

us here right now 

doing nothing but worrying

I spend my weekends 

staring at the ceiling

making connections 

repairing dreams

and memories into 

intersecting designs

not many straight lines 

sort of charming 

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Well Done

I’ll just shoot you 

gently at first then all at once

you said it yourself 

you’re so done

prayers unanswered 

help’s hung up

what did we do to deserve this

losing the refund 

suspecting it was 

that stupid all along

remaining hopeful-

thats our job

counting on cupidity

to smooth things out 

decades speed by 

without a s...

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there’s a resemblance

harmony more sympathetic

than complementary

it standing out from the rest

not sure what to do with it

fuck it eat it

kill it

love it would be hardest yet

when you almost feel your

synapses firing you admit

you never had a say in

your response to it

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Your minutiae’s given wing 

flown away 

landing in someone else’s ear

for tomorrow, today 

no more conversations 

about your mother the job  

no more tiny victories 

that got me excited about…

I miss the details 

sand in my hair 

the traction provided 

in a life sliding unchecked 

I try to capture a second 

of what I felt 

not enough for a s...

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When everything feels poisoned 

and nothing seems true 

I pull in your signal 

it scatters my blues 

swimming towards you 

you're flying over me 

in mid-air we're

collided and steady 

forever chemicals 

mutating it seems 

I can’t understand you 

they keep me going 

tension unfolds 

in an exquisite dance 

choreographed folklore 

from a fut...

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it’s your turn to be 

that crazy person

the role has recently

been vacated 

you’ll have to face 

their cruelty directly 

stomaching the looks

of incomprehension 

it’ll cost a pretty penny 

thank god for insurance 

getting those thoughts out

at any price will surely be worth it

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teimosa

ganko 

têtue

tvrdohlavý

hartnäckig

obstinada

mkaidi

koppig

pakeke

עַקשָׁן

لجوج

*Portuguese/Japanese/French/Slovak/German/Spanish/Swahili/Dutch/Maori/Hebrew/Farsi

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We’re not deep enough

we risk nothing

tip-toeing around what we want

never knowing

We’ve a fear of death

as if it could be avoided

we won’t be hurt

not if we can help it

Voyeurs of the world

we could never hold it

thinking we can control it

we’re left alone as a result

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the fascists had great style 

were very witty 

their women were charming

they had sympathizers 

and for time 

seemed to be winning 

there was something appealing 

about a logic everyone could 

understand 

not like our lives

messy and imperfect 

full of obvious errors 

we reenact these struggles 

every night 

the outcome's always in ques...

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If you just sidled up next to it

took it unawares

starting in your pajamas

I don’t think it’d care

It knows you’ve been contemplating

It for hours

It complains about how you stare

Maybe after the shower

Or refrigerated chocolate bar

You’ll sliding tackle it

Stabbing it

With a pen in the guts

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are we still in a lull

how long does it last

you seem depressed

why do you ask

I'd give you a call

if you’d respond

you might not be up

preferring down

my friend Carl

used to savor one

paired with a wine

writing dead stars

I use the time

to be unproductive

putting existential goals in order

working seductions

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darker times than these

have crossed minds over centuries

wondering how you’ve missed

the wherewithal-they haven’t shared any

looking at your wrists

scarred wrens on a velvet painting

ok if they insist

getting on with doings

even if it’s for naught

even if it’s in vain

for just being caught by vesuvius

with your fingers in your pants

we’re built f...

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When we held it

We really felt it

You let me keep it

Then wanted to see it

I let you break it

Does that make me negligent?

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the goddess of irony 

drowns the city with her laughter

then she offers assistance

after every disaster

you tell her you're leaving

she says, "not so soon."

she's busy using your heart

to clean up her room

you swear you'll miss her 

this she doesn't believe

you hide those pictures of her sister 

in the folder on your screen

everyone...

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the heart wants

what the heart wants

screams your inner child in a mall

in a world of desires you’re lost

this restlessness which you

mistake for ambition

this discomfort

defines your position

pushing you into areas

you don’t recognize

changing you in ways

you’ve always desired

there must be something here for you

that you can’t live without

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I just watch everything and think

What the fuck is going on

I’m fine in my apartment

I see no reason to step out

I miss the city I miss the buzz

I just miss being young

But could you imagine stepping

Back into yesterday with what you know now

So I’m exiled in the suburbs

I’m that old crazy woman now

I won’t post more than a few pieces of art

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don’t make me look at the past

i just can’t

i prefer to be in the future

when i’m no longer here

i once tried to relax

it was a disaster

so i keep myself busy

documenting these frustrations

of course i think of you

too much

mixed with the porn

i just bought

reliving the scenes again

where I let you win

everything is tenuous

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The end of one thing
Meets the beginning 
Of something else

A scorched mouth
Chews on itself
Open eyes search an exit 

Let’s go to the end
Who knows what will happen
We might be relieved to find 
Absolutely nothing

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they made sense most of the time 

and when they didn’t 

we chalked it up to enthusiasm 

and secret ambitions 

their lives were credible enough

did they believe them 

what we hide from the world 

is enough to fill several closets 

coming from rich families 

the entitlement was difficult to parse 

this world produces winners 

sometimes they won 

she...

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I meet a lot of people 

coming out of trauma 

they make it sound thrilling 

connecting with something 

that gives them 

so much meaning 

before I can wish it 

could happen to me 

they’ve got me up to 

my bare sleeves

I breathe them in 

over my skin 

before I can tell 

what’s happening 

I’m feeling horrific visions 

ble...

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it doesn’t end with one chance

these questions burn out the stars

to find you again in another time

another name that same thought

only you could stop me

pushed to the edge

pulled back

rocking that monotony

crowd moves forward

pushed back

leaving enough blood left

to start it over again

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perhaps I missed something

along the way

who are these little people

I work for all day

what do they want from me

why are they yelling

do they think they can

get away with everything

I like to see you

I like to be with you

your cats and plants

they’re ok

but you keep talking

accidents and being lonely

and you remind me

it’s getting late

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humanities

why do we have to write poetry

why do we have to watch this

do I have to write about about my feelings

I’m playing Roblox instead

yes because yes because

we have to live before we die

we have to try to kiss the sky

to discover what’s inside you

more than you can see touch taste

measure dissect or calculate

we have to try to find our humani...

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simplify the concepts

lie about yourself 

reference recent events

use big pictures

film your lips

add poppin’ beats

remind them of the test

At the end of the week

shame them

text their mothers

Insist on dessert

kiss them in an intersection

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Ufos

I become so lonely, baby 

that I don’t even have a baby

I’ve become obsessed

with UFOs

me and a bunch 

of ugly men

need to know 

about the universe

and want those distant 

awesome beings to know

they’ve got a friend in us 

even if we don’t have one in them

(we’re sort of used to 

that sort of treatment) 

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Their only sin

They weren’t rich

What a brilliant kid

He became a teacher

With a disturbing 

Record collection

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didn’t finish the story 
didn’t get to the ending
never found out what happened 
to the monster or the princess 

you were called away
by stupid adult things 
I’m sleeping on my own
it’s gotten scary 

need you to come back
right away
don’t need anybody else
to feel safe

I wonder why 
you ran away
in stories for kids 
of all ages

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freaks and fuck ups

that’s what we’re about

calculations wrong

everybody’s gone

just when

the night comes on

dream of apartments

cities yet bombed

what’s disappearing

you fear It’s now

promised

it’d be calm

promised

dignity

but even now

how fitting

it’s a last thing

to get wrong

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we lived in your head

most of the year

not paying rent

living off your fears

it was hard to end

as we grew restless

breaking the bed

sailing the mattress

I fell overboard

currents carried you home

another world to explore

you could say I drowned

and you think of me

as a tragedy

I keep pearl diving

in the mud

you try to forget

your regrets

I dou...

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Is it the way I look 

or what I say 

they’re going by the book 

that’s what they said 

eyes start to move 

searching the exit 

they’ll stay for dessert 

then make their break 

I scare them all away 

back to their little caves 

they bolt their doors and pray 

for a return to boring 

I get lonely 

like everyone else 

it’s more about disappoint...

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Doublage 

one’s not enough

you need more stuff

someone to carry it home

maybe support/reinforcement

multiplication for what

who needs more

you want a double

maybe a triple

one’s not enough

something could happen

you could easily snap

then be completely lost

she senses something

completing sentences

so much for individuality, gon...

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Metaphor Shortages

can’t wear those pants no more

i don’t dance for anyone

can’t drink more than soda

no more chili dog runs

don’t deal with Frank at all

haven’t called cousins in ages

they supported that fraud

i cancelled the engagement

one door opens another closes

dream dies another’s born

riding these waves like a leaf

floating ...

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If I can’t take me at my best
you don’t serve me at your worst

or something like that
I can’t argue and make sense

at the same time
who does that

Brancusi 
Pollack
Mondrian 

I don’t wanna fight
Let’s make art tonight 

we need a canvas as big 
as the city

supplies we 
don’t have any 

there are too many stories 
turn off the tv

I just wanna sculpt you 
With potatoes...

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As we live in our heads
Unconvinced by the world

We come to regret 
Times acted the fool

Making excuses 
For truths ugly to chew

We’re vulgar little monsters
Sometimes beautiful

We break our own hearts
Out of morbid curiosity

Picking a scab
Needing to see what we feel

Stepping on an ant 
Knowing which forms bleed 

Analyzing our partners 
With rounds of expensive drinks

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In Trouble

I meet people in trouble
we go for a walk have a talk

I fall in love with people in trouble 
must be something magical about it

Your problems turn me on
I get stirred up 

Then I’m running 
Into your burning building 

Flaming desire
Burn us both down 

There’ll be an investigation
Without definitive conclusions

It might take the shape
Of this poem

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the unnamable are brought out in chains 

amidst all the pomp and circumstance 

tiny-minded people 

can think of 

and some highly religious 

person in her diamonds 

using a highly-developed 

intonation style

reads off a list of the 

transgressions in question

the unnameable have their 

digits removed one by one

with an industria...

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search every impulse

set of keys lost

can’t trust the thought 

enslaved to a slime-mold boss

tear up the canvas 

attack the critics

fear the latest experiment 

seen as a predictable plot

she wanted a home with a garden

he felt it was time to be an adult

up at three am with chocolate 

sketching out the novel

specialization specialist...

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the world heard me

and misunderstood

as I owed nothing to it

I felt compelled to a silence

I could only watch

as I was torn apart

by sworn enemies

I never knew

overwhelmed

by a sadness

protected only

by palace walls

built to withstand

such attacks

put up during a time

when I felt

I’d never need them

again

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drawn to the wrong things

in and out of curiosity

peering over the ledge

late to dates with death

dreaming of the wrong things

embracing my body

I want this experience

as days lose meaning

we’re pleasantly shocked

by all we see

as once again 

we learn how to feel

we’re pleasantly shocked

as we read 

someone else’s

life unraveling

...

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our agendas 

meet in the dark

yours is hidden 

I take mine out 

you find things 

you can embrace

several you 

immediately cross out

marking exes 

with a pink pen

drawing squiggles 

over bank information 

rewriting my most 

secret fantasies

making corrections 

with red ink

I reach for yours 

you slap my hand away

this is the ...

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Momentous 

everything feels momentous

one of those happy to be alive times

can you imagine a fast-cut trailer 

laundry, lunch, and smiles

another day ‘round the sun 

without being six feet under 

maybe worries will come 

right now I’m singing this song 

times it’s overwhelming

and everything makes me cry

but with enough sleep 

and you beside me we...

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whether we 

fuck or not 

get married 

or rot 

work a year 

together 

spend time 

in a shelter

regardless 

if we love 

turn over 

like bugs 

scream at things 

we’ve done 

and haven’t 

done 

or never talk 

to 

each other 

again 

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erectus

denisova

floresiensis

habilis

luzonensis

naiedi

neanderthalensis

rhodesiensis

(not forgetting

red deer cave people)

evidence suggests sapiens

eliminated all of them

when searching for a mate

proper criterion should be

“how deadly is she?"

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eyes bigger than stomach 

heart bigger than bank

desires spill out of my life

splashing everywhere

i like to visit 

a primitive state

where it’s nerves

against fate

i listen to 

clocks wind down

and improvise 

with what i’ve found

sometimes 

I imagine you there 

fighting some 

same war

and we share 

a pregnant moment

unsure 

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maybe you 

shouldn’t be

asking yourself

anything at the moment

perhaps 

you meant

just what 

you said

you can’t be held

responsible

if they can’t

read directions

warning’s 

printed

on the front 

of the package

it’d be great if

we all got along

and everyone’s favorite

color was orange

but we can’t ignore 

reason...

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your bed keeps texting 

it misses our warmth 

now sleep is complaining 

we’ve done enough 

reading and writing 

for one day 

it’s past time 

to put those ambitions away

cold at first 

partially out of spite 

it then wraps us

in its arms warm and tight 

we move one way 

turning our heads 

whispering to its pillow 

deepe...

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Time reduced to a style
Pressed between pages

Revived in decades 
Studied in another present 

In and out of the wild
There are questions 

About your authenticity
Animated by the debate 

Your silence is deafening  

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Say something stupid
That flies over millions
That can’t be misheard
Chanted in a stadium 

Can’t be interpreted 
Confirming suspicions
You’re alone in a world
With little intelligence 

Makes everything sweeter
Those small exceptions
Giving rendezvous the quality
Of blows against empire

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drive me to where

point meets edge

half-excited 

half-scared

mind traces 

conversation

following the trail

to exactly how we get here

recording every moment

for later release

for those times

we lose intimacy

voice mouthing a script

from somewhere else

that only sounds 

half like ourselves

keeping ourselves safe

most of our live...

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You were one of the lucky ones
Who didn’t get caught

Got out alive with only
Some deep scars

You don’t know what to make of it
Or where you belong

Knocking on doors all night
For who knows what

Echoes of that terrifying
Sensation that’s what you want

To confront it again
As if you could change the odds

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