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In your living room, a box marked “never.” I search transparencies
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I have found vagabond connoisseurs crawling over box-top cut-outs,
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The only evil in this world is suffering. The trouble with our conception, so ingrained universally in the myth of moral causality, is the idea that suffering is the effect of sin--but suffering is not the effect. If you wan
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What Flies Know
by davidbetzer
37 lines,
on Nov 14 4:33 PM. In Life, Love, Nature, Other, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Angst, Contemporary
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That gleam
upon your almond iris
did not descend by selection
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(to quiet my voices)
Upon the opaque notes
by davidbetzer
40 lines, 6 comments,
on Jan 24 11:32 PM. In Sad, Pain, Dark, Weird, Lost in thought, Longing, Sadness, Depression, Abstra
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I will not again
be the one
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This room is vacant,
echoing silence
trapped in empty
by davidbetzer
38 lines, 6 comments,
on Jan 24 10:34 PM. In Love, Life, Sad, Dark, Pain, Hope, Spiritual, Longing, Sadness, Depression
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For most good or evil is a slumbering complacency
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I
Lest my knobbed fingers
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Your teeth are like the stars...
they come out at night.
by davidbetzer
0 lines, 18 comments,
on Jul 17 1:49 AM 2008
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If G-d, sullen,
had painted us all grey,
by davidbetzer
34 lines, 15 comments,
on Jul 17 1:18 AM 2008
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Should we count the names
of 3 a.m. come Saturday
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How the seed when planted
Finds platitudes
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Hush, that I may speak of sacrilege
Who G-d co-created upon this rolling sphere
by davidbetzer
20 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 4 9:52 PM 2008
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Cry out, cry out bold
dramas unfolding
by davidbetzer
33 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 4 9:13 PM 2008
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The wind does not whistle
Through the barren trees
by davidbetzer
35 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 4 8:58 PM 2008
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Where men die,
small pockets of meaning collect like dew
by davidbetzer
27 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 4 8:40 PM 2008
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Your cat did not like me
this morning,
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I do not fear the silence,
or the quiet interstellar-ness
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Swaying Friday’s pilpul
to build a pit
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The potters sure hands
Intermingle with
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Some moment filled my mind
when you told me you were leaving
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It is the sway
of her walk
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In twilight
when mother round
by davidbetzer
39 lines, 2 comments,
on Jan 18 7:29 PM 2008
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A flip of the wrist says “Frivolous”
and Nietzsche’s strangled blue
by davidbetzer
20 lines, 1 comment,
on Jan 18 7:29 PM 2008
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this sunset is a thief
who has stolen our life
by davidbetzer
17 lines, 3 comments,
on Jan 18 7:28 PM 2008
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She, gently,
The cool wind calls
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By power unfathomed
He stirs the deep
by davidbetzer
48 lines, 1 comment,
on Jan 17 5:48 PM 2008
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Like a Worthy Mystic
Smiling
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Wait, moveless, I am coming
Through myriad expectation, thwarted
by davidbetzer
36 lines, 2 comments,
on Jan 17 8:25 AM 2008
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The flame does hold
its colors
by davidbetzer
42 lines, 1 comment,
on Jan 17 6:47 AM 2008
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by davidbetzer
33 lines, 3 comments,
on Jan 17 6:39 AM 2008. In Abuse, Adult, Angst, Contemporary, Contest, Hope, Humor, Love, Lyrics, Nature, Other
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Feed the Soul
This primeval swelling
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Men speak of roads
as if they were travelers
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