Category: Poetry
One word at a time.
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Knock tap knock Tick the clock tockI listen close to the watch that still seems to workat the flea market with actual tiny flecks that fly aroundbut don’t seen to have any wings. . Turning the camera on me, I seewell, let’s see where I walk with a scalding cup of Lipton teait wasn’t a…
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Loud voice, closed lipsIf my chords work right nowthey would say ‘absolutely incorrect’. Someone might believe I haveHardly a conscious thought;She’s not fond to ponder without a point, Is she even understanding what I’m saying? My nail nubs have a hard time opening the new face cream. I puncture the think layer of iridescent plastic…
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I wait for you, patiently, to transform me into letterforms.It’s easier in a way, I can adapt to your unfolding expression. I blink when you stop signaling me. Before, you had that rectangle flatgestures flow with determinationsoftness of matter absorbing inkstretching the guile of the neural environs. You’d look at those rectangles and tap away.…
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What’s that slice in the gumThe one that shows so definitively when I press hard. So soft, the imprint noticeable 3 minutes later, though fading. I mean no shade when I say this is another stint Of proving my doctor right that I have a high pain toleranceBy chance, no evidence of it when I…
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A stick in the sky,shy, I try to pry. It stays, firm, with a tussle in the leavesnothing perceptible falls. Hey, smalls!no one would ever call me. my american thighs squish wide on the seat, full flat. Legs, double the hand-drawn sticksI try to draw. Thicken here, share there, look at that line so static,…
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I get goose bumps most times when
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Bustle my loves, I’m a friend to allWho doesn’t make it about them / Disorderly you, how can I help?!I ask, as if expecting an answer / Stir you nothing, can you speak? If I can, YOU can too! / Wait no, no, not that tone, Stop, although I can’t say why / Stay positive,…
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Your hair is so long. It didn’t get so long when you were a kid. Wait, you lived in DC, right? Are you still a vegetarian? It must have been hard to be the older sister of someone more charming. What is this big deal about The Alphabet? JUST TELL ME You were always so…
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