Poems: 080221 - February 8th, 2021

300121A
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Drifter=20
in the wake=20
of love
a little bubble=20
carried off=20
past gaze=20
into distance
and swell.=20

Froth of life=20
blown across=20
strayed lip=20
and over=20
speechless=20
molten rim drip=20
across edge
of glass.=20

The eye=20
a prisoner=20
orb collects=20
random images
of you=20
and of I=20
reflected stray=20
configurations.=20

So rich=20
in our poverty=20
dwelling=20
amid ghosted=20
each other=20
seeking lost
small drops
in rainy oceans.

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050221A
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Always another=20
instance of Cain=20
for every Abel
in the wake.=20

Skin bag=20
of troubles=20
rattles down=20
snakeskin.=20

Sheds this life
a thin skin=20
look through=20
coiled strike.=20

Venom=20
and piss=20
stains night=20
lily and yellow.=20

Blood=20
mixed smoke
resonates=20
devil pacts.=20

Comes down=20
to nothing=20
but death
sprinkled lies.=20

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060121A
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Lost something=20
in the gut wrench=20
repeat as ever=20
misdirected=20
wilderness wide
opened pain.=20

What use=20
make believe=20
never land=20
and collected=20
volumes=20
of dream.

Screams=20
the wind=20
brushing=20
wildflowers=20
onto the green=20
forbidden lands.=20

Places of out=20
past faceless all=20
crowded in long=20
infinite never=20
any sense=20
but loss.

Lonelier=20
than loneliest=20
heart is break=20
memory scrap=20
lost loves=20
teen times spent.=20

Expanse=20
kings of death=20
presiding=20
land of  lost=20
ever fleshless=20
rattle bones.

Gamble=20
loss buried
under heaven=20
cloud spills=20
last laughs=20
at small times.=20

Rock a bye=20
lullaby baby=20
cradle falls=20
and it falls=20
on the up way=20
to down.=20

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070121B
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The sun=20
is very=20
cold today=20
and my lady=20
she must=20
be very=20
warm and I=20
don't know=20
any of=20
along a bare=20
her strand=20
of not=20
yet ways=20
being always=20
so away
far away=20
at going=20
somewhere=20
in the don't=20
know all=20
those places=20
I never went.

We kept=20
at it=20
down under=20
orders
from above=20
it was
all wrong=20
spirit of=20
layer scrape=20
on layer
of commands
decked out=20
any style=20
was uniform=20
part of time=20
torn off=20
victim clocks
cripple hands
clutched at=20
the whisper=20
thin straws=20
of shore. =20

Sadness=20
spills=20
turned over=20
running deep=20
down side=20
loose ended
kept at
worn making=20
sake of=20
filling in=20
nothing into=20
some more=20
the same=20
blanks=20
to hold=20
spaces=20
for someone=20
who is=20
not coming
and left=20
waiting=20
for next time.=20

Glitter ice
wet melt=20
diamonds on=20
high top=20
roof black=20
boot lick=20
war dogs=20
and others=20
form sordid=20
turn isolate=20
take up raw
vapours under
the gob spit=20
polish off=20
onto ropes=20
broad side=20
the rail=20
swinging out=20
a word sling=20
forever edge
the prize fight=20
without a prize.=20

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080221A
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Frozen times=20
spent stored=20
in the away=20
of the renewed=20
forms of exile.=20

Giving up=20
on ghosts=20
being reliable=20
couriers across=20
the uncertain.=20

Run around=20
that one moment=20
in the midst=20
of too many
and push back.=20

We linger on=20
vague commerce
transit beams=20
along borders=20
plain and white.=20

Not everyone=20
or even many=20
really want
past pretending=20
everyone does.=20

Been working it
down the mine=20
thirty odd years=20
and longer=20
to coming up.=20

It isn't gold=20
to anyone yet=20
digging in=20
to that dirt=20
bringing it up.=20

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080221B
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We thought we=20
once upon a time=20
thought knowing=20
and want for =20
all those sorts=20
of whatever it is
that is passing=20
as being love=20
before a hunt=20
turned word kill.=20

Games played out
that others play
in safety zones=20
between the yellow=20
safety markers
shallow sides=20
from deep ends=20
going on similar
patterned media
repeats the news.=20

Sleeping hard=20
in the narrow=20
twitch of space=20
timed out=20
sounding alarm
past the stardust=20
collapse=20
into singular=20
lines of program=20
errors into print.=20

The absolute=20
stands its divide=20
held in restraints=20
forbidding all=20
the feelings=20
feeling drained=20
away down
nerve paths
into emptied=20
on a bucket day. =20

It all leads=20
into the nowhere=20
comes brain shock=20
hemisphere separation=20
bad night=20
rare edition gone
past drunk =20
seems to be windows
were cleaned=20
middle of the night.=20

Sounded all clear=20
to closing time=20
and did not say=20
in the walk away=20
traffic lights blink
a new blitz at all
maybes of=20
the never wishes=20
melted away dark
in a damp sweat.=20

Separate ways=20
in the sometimes=20
imaginary meet=20
someday comes=20
when little losses=20
appear cosmic=20
higher level=20
might have been=20
never had=20
but always wanted.=20

We dream=20
of being magic=20
in someone's night=20
and someone magic=20
being in our own=20
calling that=20
what it really means=20
as to going=20
then coming down
to never land.=20
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Nagging sense=20
that always wants=20
going back=20
to going down
crazy roads
to Crazy Town
someone seemed
something better
than ever knew=20
any meaning of.=20

Look away=20
and it is gone=20
fractal remains=20
speak of almost=20
finding good times
along the way=20
no one knows=20
who it really is=20
and no one knows
anything of why.=20

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Ok, as is, I suppose. Never really contented or happy with anything that I =
call "completed", but it eventually becomes something similar to beating a =
dead horse as to trying to get it back up, to take one to some other town. =
That other town where, for some illusionary moment, it seemed that there wa=
s perhaps someone that one ought to really get to know, at least for one ni=
ght.