Poems: 210620 - June 21st, 2020

140620A
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Stiffed times 
of stiff people 
doing stiff things 
along rigid lines
of questioning.

The up against it 
held in silent 
interrogated self 
loathed into loathing 
beat flat out. 

To break down 
flutter lashes 
across blind eyed 
back stab looks
given strangers. 

Once reasonable 
made sense 
until reached short 
of expectation ends 
deep in the futile. 

The never freed 
linger at dream 
simulated flavors 
emphasis of bland 
chore dumped. 

Wearing away 
the casual stain 
leaked collisions
into the empty 
nothings exchange. 

Not met tea
time iced sugar
amusements sifted 
dead white bits
of dirty screen. 

Time fritters 
into vast equations 
calculating endless 
strung out strings  
of loss variables. 

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140620B
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Never never ever
get past the gone 
over to believe not 
side of it all 
turned fluster rush 
toss about waved
flags and feathers 
embattled territory. 

Piss line fenced 
demarcation zone
forms of attack 
along the ever suffer
each dead venture
no answers start
at mismatch points
dulled down chance.  

Serious candidate 
of the fast tilt 
hard shuffle heart
broken Nothings
found in the don't 
know of gone out
hard times pressed
into the lonely.   

Pieces of not want
left scatter places 
impressions in dust
swept bowl of ever
reflects bits of sad 
gather long past 
wishful star gaze  
into a stricken dark. 

Wander lost 
seems forever
Never Find all
but bad luck 
once seemed lucky 
make believe do 
loose ends 
pretend joined. 

Scramble of memory
fall away 
into Disregard 
face down dealt
disinterest blank
loop fixed sort
travelogue void
given run around.  

Repeat routine 
suicide missions
dying in a pretense 
time rot of get   
go cringe shocked 
costs of it all 
brought hard down
into rat shit bilge.
 
Think popularity 
plus rating plays 
out slides 
pay scaled 
razor slices of life 
thin cut away view
organizations charted 
into soft kill.

Open up wide  
window screams 
self into unheard 
lone wolf howl
under moonlight 
bleeds silver streak
corporate bullets 
into big gun stains.  

Drifting outlaw 
holed up cubicle 
box canyon look
out lynch mob
lock up tedious 
routine grind any
attentions found 
only on the inside. 
 
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 200620A
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We live as ghosts 
in the never met
zone of wish 
you were here 
genre of ravings 
getting painted out 
from another scene. 

Crowds of whitewash 
white out moments
of looks too blue 
until only the lonely
street is saved 
from the happy talk  
big sell outs. 

Gave up the never
ever yes do style
along the empty ask 
long stretch eaten 
pay off spanned 
dues to no one
ever did or would. 

Strung out lonely
on a for ever 
shadings of blue 
wish you were here
from way out on 
the never  met side 
of don't know.  

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200620B
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Sometimes it feels 
too turned all around 
wrong way back 
and inside out 
gone bitter lemon twist 
tied up tight 
nothing is ever over 
easy and done.

Breaking our shells
spilling empty 
insides on a gut 
type feeling 
hunched into sore 
beats of want 
what we imagined  
everyone else had. 

Never get far
into dreamy arms 
of dreaming before
broken down 
into interrogations
of who did what 
to when until 
it all turned pain. 

A gentler time
hidden away behind 
syllables and vowels
in a never know 
hard  sort of place 
where we escape 
common fictions  
and casual lies. 

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200620C
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Sun stroked piano 
keys strum 
the earth tones 
of deep as skin 
surfacing fingers. 

Story fleshed out 
along the curve 
of bone lines 
pushes soft edge 
of the never tell.

More thought 
comes to less 
so stop it
spoiling the soft 
successive scenes.

We are wanting
incongruous love 
peeled fresh 
from the markets
of packaging. 

Crossing spaced 
surrender onto
cloud cushions
of come together 
past the nothing say. 

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210620A
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Attrition of the new
undercuts the frontier 
along age lines 
well guarded from all
pursuits of any real
senses of happiness. 

Bad bargains 
taunt the drift past 
ruined view 
marred with the dead 
decay bloats stench
of the fished in. 

A cosmos rendered
made up incomplete 
prisoner of contrived 
circumstance moored
at birth year cruel
details of formation.

Lone toss drop 
kicked about planet 
circles today's
bad option orbit
buy or sell 
hostile markets. 

Nowhere to go 
in the now 
of any never 
know up close 
the price range 
gets the attention.

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I pulled these in the manner that one pulls teeth with rusty pliers, from an unwilling mouth.