Poems: 070720 - July 7th, 2020

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Languor licks=20
of wilt droop=20
drip melt heat=20
dodgy afternoon.=20

Clock tick=20
bites of time=20
infecting minutes=20
noted melancholy.=20

Cruel absence
mocks the senses=20
with bland=20
and tasteless.=20

Misfit reveries=20
of a good time
before Death=20
comes calling. =20

Wasteland stretch
boneyard living
in perimeter dread=20
along subject lists.=20

The barbed wire=20
tongued phrase=20
turns slash syllable=20
thin cuts of alphabet.=20

Served cold=20
pan drippings=20
from stale date=20
leftover romance.=20

Coffee grounds=20
dumped bitter=20
side stain juju =20
black out mystery.=20

Not know of say=20
simulates pleasure
imprints of crowd=20
gone all same.=20

Sitting it out=20
long stretch=20
nothing special
too many losses
on bad bets.=20

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That never say=20
expression=20
is an emptiness=20
too large to fill.=20

Clay shatter=20
shards of meant=20
larger dream bits=20
of stray recollect.=20

The wanting more
is wanted less=20
packets of intent=20
and information.=20

Cross purposed=20
smaller talked=20
around carnival tent=20
do nothings.=20

Polite gestures=20
doled as inclusive=20
to the unwanted=20
gone to bug out.=20

Feeling lost=20
in contemporary=20
brain bash ties
up the terms.=20

Conditions flood
reservoir strain=20
spillway bursts =20
tear ducts.=20

Inclusive fictions=20
forbidding every=20
what belongs=20
to fictional characters.=20

What did they leave=20
out of catalogued=20
compliance gesture
adult sections.=20

Reading list=20
selected offerings=20
slow wipe of any
shades of relevance.=20

Lapsed into talk =20
late night news=20
anchored pancake=20
makeup facts. =20

Taffy pull=20
sticky finger=20
flavours of artificial =20
in flag colours.=20

Social drama
ripped scenes
definitions splayed=20
concrete as border. =20

Hard time runs
down being
carried out=20
on rivers of fail.=20

Generic weeping=20
undocumented=20
and always without=20
actual particulars.=20

Forbidden specific=20
taxonomy=20
and nomenclature
concerning love.=20

Pressed between=20
was anything real
and not really=20
margins of us. =20

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Psychiatrist parrot
on  pirate shoulder
blurts out pieces=20
of eight times
the wretched cock
a doodle do.

Marshall music=20
loud speakers=20
maintain rhythm=20
invasions cramped
into space between
shifting headlines.=20

Lick wounds=20
of tongue freeze=20
tested metal=20
burst calls=20
deliver frag luck
stretched tease.=20

Gooned dream time=20
rubbed grit eyes=20
sandpaper gaze=20
into cataclysm blots
broken out any
cling hopes.=20

Ask nothing
tell nothing whirl
wraps up neat=20
painkiller dosed
terminal portion
of stray self.=20

Gone over=20
the line drawn
life map offers
crazed journey=20
promises treasured=20
in burial mounds. =20

Dead before starting
to live ghosted
imagining what
rumour based=20
spills aliens=20
into tabloids.

Advertising wants
and avoids
winding up with
life hacks
and supplements=20
in uptight places.=20

Winners display
their full measures
of possess=20
carry off spoils
into a glitter=20
of silent night.=20

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Dwelling caught up
in the never call=20
of  I miss you jive
gets dropped in
to the never say.=20

Pointless pen stains=20
a white flag life
gives up in surrender=20
to the regularity=20
of scheduled conflicts.=20

Opens the unhappy=20
requiems compile=20
emergence of would
have loved to
before long distanced.=20

Being moved=20
to parted emotions=20
numbed down flail=20
against graffiti truth
walls of loss.=20

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We were there=20
in an assumption=20
of someone else=20
creating our crowd=20
particular waves=20
of never know.=20

Signal noise=20
distorted the radio
cosmic chatter=20
background radiation
cradled dark=20
distanced origins.=20

Now we never know
what was meant=20
never thinking=20
same and never=20
any that often past
nameless faces. =20

Would have tasted
candy sweet=20
miracle coming=20
close to let go=20
worlds and called
each other love.=20

Not known to made
believe pretend=20
being ever freed=20
to trap the other in
innocence arms
of trippy guilt.=20

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070720A
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Hunger crave=20
gone over other=20
side of us=20
to touch
past ghost reach=20
of perfect=20
body minds.=20

Answers echoed=20
wanting our
imperfections love
nested kiss
far country wild=20
abandons dwelt=20
as sated sense.=20

Take us away=20
to more than eyes=20
wander lust fail
at glanced into
passing over=20
history streams=20
floods of forget.=20

Melt of broken=20
fantasy sense
receptor linger
flower flesh
layers reveal
from seek thicket
to hiding words.=20

Lose ourselves
totally in us=20
gone entirely over
edge of matters=20
melting alien=20
every spaced=20
strand of time.=20

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A bit of psychedelic romance in there. I assure you no drugs, licit or illi=
cit, were harmed or utilized in any way, in the making of these poems. That=
 is not a disclaimer as to any altered states of consciousness as might be =
implied or perceived within the referred to writings.