recognition

it’s a small enough town that I’d seen her before broken down, Broken down I just need a little more. So I wound up with police everywhere; a new face, she’d never recognize even the dancing Can we stay like this forever? No, I said, No I’ve a face to change, and you a world. … Read morerecognition

parallel

We don’t sing those songs, not anymore. How I have missed her voice. How I have dreamed. And for not, nothing: dreams. I wonder who hears the songbird now, I wonder if there’s a place to trade. I know there’s a different world.

For Geneva

Hover, high above the seas of love. Watch the clouds feed it below. The darkness comes because we go backwards against the sun, into the moon. He is always welcoming, that moon. And tonight, he is full and to my right. I wonder to whom should I offer my gracious thanks, for with him I … Read moreFor Geneva

overwhelmed

overwhelmed by loneliness, i overdosed on humanity: it’s easier without it, easier to live dead than try to be alive. Did you see where I put my concern? that’s all that’s left now; the slow rotting of acceptance the way each death accepts itself once its concern has been lost to the awkward atrocities of … Read moreoverwhelmed

learning to love

Line the masses up against the wall – separate those you love from those you can not. Throw stones the size of your thumb at those you love. When you run out of stones cut off your hands and throw those. Make sure they’re dead, then weep until you love those you could not.

Failed States

When your failed states state clearly your failures, what then can you say? That it was all them? You did all that you could? No – No, you can not counter the accusations of the dead when they have thrown themselves at your feet, speaking the only language you ever taught them, The Bomb.

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