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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
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dress a man with a woman; break them both at breath. proffer gold cards with parting words: i'll miss you and our theft. she's very tired and pretty in her den of tongues. saturday night just ruined me; it broke the fall and the fun. she was a fancy dreamer, waiting for the world in pieces -- snap. so you could fit the continents in your mouth like a lollipop crushed in its wrap. there's an odd beauty to the disintegration: a careful danger, and non-tragic kill. i was pulling arrows and exit signs off the doorways, whole windowpanes right out their sills. i was like a stone wet by a million mouths. but who can count that high? who can understand hearts & flowers stopped? the unending hunger to fly? her hair looked like mustard seed. she carefully brushed away the greens. you're in love with these songs, she said. no, just your lips; that's all i need. pain and longing has become my fortress and furnace. my furniture and future. i gave you poetry. you gave me an empty bed and new sutures. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
there's an odd beauty to the disintegration: a careful danger, and non-tragic kill. i was pulling arrows and exit signs off the doorways, whole windowpanes right out their sills. i was like a stone wet by a million mouths. but who can count that high? who can understand hearts & flowers stopped? the unending hunger to fly? ================== you're in love with these songs, she said. no, just your lips; that's all i need. pain and longing has become my fortress and furnace. my furniture and future. i gave you poetry. you gave me an empty bed and new sutures. ============= you bleed with such poetic grace have missed your words and rhymes and your metaphores as well.. >i was like a stone wet by a million mouths.< this is awesome poetry Mike .... jm |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Mike~ I don't knw how you do it, but wow......this is amazing.  -SEA |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Butterfly Slippers, How's it hangin'? I've missed you, too. Glad you enjoyed, and all that. SEA, I just had a bunch of random phrases written over pages of a notebook that I jotted down when I heard them. This morning, after writing "it's been a while," I decided to piece them together. Thanks for always reading these things. Mike |
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