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pain
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pain
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The Bells
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Another one gone! Brothers left without brothers and mother's with hands so wrung they become the bell that tolls for grief. Rare and...
Wasted April
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Wandering this wasteland weaponised with witty lines lifted directly to remind us April is the cruelest month as if we didn't understan...
Pedestals
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Heed the mob with scythe and sickle, Burning torches, glassy eyes. Adoration false and fickle. Come to cut her down to size. They inves...
Chance Encounter
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She came in breathless, restless, shaking looking for something calming to take in light of the heartless news he’d broken. Miles fr...
Magpie
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All week long I saw them. Those portents gleaming, squawking, hopping, cocked head, taunting, “Sorrow! Sorrow!”; giving warning. ...
Hiding
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Long sleeves. Long legs. These lines are too telling. I wish I could explain how this pain helps that pain. But language is limited.
Speaker Celebrity
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Three years of ridding myself of my rage left me bellaputrescent and old for my age. I appear to you now as a mere wizened spectre; A wr...
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Life as a Legal Drug Dealer
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Daily I hunch as a pensive Paolo Upon the stool of derailed dreams. Bathing in burning garlic fumes and the stench of chip fat long sinc...
Affirmation
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Even in the midst of night the distant wail of T-Rex's cousins reach me. And even when I am not right and fall and fail I let the le...
Love: All
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To err is human, to forgive divine What course of action will be thine? Heroic vengeance, stoic acceptance. How sincere if any repentance? A...
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So Spoke My Lover's Ghost
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Kiss me love and let me die, No backward glance, no tearful eye No longing or lingering last embrace No staring blankly into space Forg...
Constant Companion
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Let me with thoughts just silent be And smoke this rollie; 43. I have no urgent place to go, I’m not alone. I have my Woe. She dances o...
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