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18/30
Thoughts on a Palliative Visit The little blue beartraps the heatof your bare skinon its fursitting at your sidecradled in your armby accidenta small gestureof comfort the machines clickand gasp andyour eyes are stilllike hisyour chest is stillrising and fallingshifting little bearI forget you do notexpand on your ownI forget whatis keeping you alive I
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16/30
Gentle I cannot picture the boy you werewithout your set of squared shoulders.As if you entered the world already braced against it. You lovethe linearity of logic, pride yourselfon the weight of your brow. Your edges are rigid, smooth – I wonder what kniveshave sharpened themselves upon you.I wonder what other shapes you might have
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15/30
Post-Explosion In the technological storm that followsany tragedy – the hails of textsand calls please tell me you’re safe andstatuses my heart goes out to and newssegments on televisions at the gym,the mall, blood-soakedstreets played on repeat,all carnage and no causation on repeat,repeat, repeat –you should know – You can look away.You can turn off
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14/30
is called A Categorized To-Do List for Broken Hearts. It is still evolving and it is just for me right now. I will post it when it feels ready.
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13/30
Why Most of My Poems are Not Happy Because inner peace sounds like the stillness of airwhen you shout it into a canyon. Because a smiledoesn’t need further explanation. Because youare much more you in metaphor and I need to feelclose and you are empty space. Because every lineneeds to feel like a punchline. Because