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WARNING: This is very long, very strange, and "under construction".
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I have hung wretched,
strung among unutterable truths,
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As Eliot wrote, poets toss out
their chunks-of-meat meanings
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The feral hens frequently laid their eggs
in concealed places on my Grandma’s farm –
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I had a dream and, in that dream,
I saw what was true - more clearly
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All this frit of worry
and woe, that glazes my soul
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What I love most about you
isn’t what you’d think;
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I want to thank Whatever it is
that rules such things,
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Every once and a while, I
run across a land mine of
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I will not look back timid,
like a child climbing stairs in the dark.
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Seeking salvation in a chalice of words;
sipping this absinthe brew
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All had gone wrong that day
and I was blue.
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My heart is as heavy as
a cross carried to Jerusalem.
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He whispers my essence
in extinct exotic tongues,
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As with a banana –
I have discovered –
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Sing a song of sycophants,
tongues slavishly laving.
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I wish I could ensnare the great
clawing sorrow that aches at our hearts –
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Insomnia has worked its cruel
sleight of hand upon my poor
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What is in a kiss –
that brief press of lips,
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Once he fell in love with her,
he ceased to see her anymore.
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he said he’d been a
successful fugitive.
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Sixty-four degrees has coaxed
the froggies forth from their tadpole
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I awoke last night
from a nightmare I
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She was one smooth continuous curve.
He should have fallen into
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At every second’s crossroads,
you must choose what to do;
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She was a piano teacher.
I was fifteen and about to become
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My favorite thing is
a china dish,
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Despite what you may have been told,
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Only thirty-eight degrees outside my van,
while inside, the heater’s fan stirred tropic breezes.
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past geese on their pointed pilgrimages
and crows calling invectives at their heels;
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I used to watch my grandpa as
he sat beside a pond for hours –
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The shadowed profiles of snow-draped pines
rimmed the iced ribbon of road I was driving.
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The chameleon leaves outside my door
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They say you can’t step into
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His face smiled and smiled,
but his eyes darted like wrens
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