Poems: 260720 - July 26th, 2020

220720A
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Crave of forever 
as no one does 
for the linger on 
at unmet longings 
breaking open 
night skies 
into late sizzle 
shelled fracture
lines of approach.

We break something 
down along each
time of precious 
keep the pain 
as all we ever got 
in the remembering 
basket of was 
almost taken sides 
of the never. 

Gather bits of all
the intercede any
could like her
dropped short 
wherever fell
into each mess up 
slipped between 
coming or going 
spaces of abandon.

Make believe 
in fairy tales of free 
along the same river 
of never chanced 
watching the go by 
parade of lies 
drumming the ears 
with someday 
welcomed happenings. 

We never know 
in the say so 
what it really is 
gone on about 
takes us round 
the no one meetings 
sprinkle on sweet 
taken small doses 
of bitter ends. 

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250720A
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Deprecate 
flagellate 
debilitate 
the third into 
stuck middle 
of the ever 
gauntlet.  

Down centre 
extreme streamed
nearly being 
into the don't 
of know any 
intimate side
of the free. 

Phased out
variants of try 
at legacy selves  
renovated
ritual tear out
gutted feel
comes close. 

Playing regular 
one way run 
on the no way 
routed travel 
illusion 
of someone  
waits. 

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250720B
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Was headed 
somewhere once 
into the never 
lands of lost 
a trying ghost 
something of 
a could be 
into yours 
of dreaming. 

Imagined 
finds of secret
treasured 
sorts of place
at almost home 
harbouring 
past roped 
to pull apart 
forms of pain. 

Careless moves 
of ever care 
in the no matter 
gone serious  
at casual jest 
turns neon 
on a derelict 
knowing no one 
never stops. 

Ghost towns
and mountains 
blind never
of get to see 
braille landscape 
text massages 
for touch typed 
stick figure
characters. 

Romance 
was an inclination 
with borders 
at cross over 
into fancies 
wrong side 
of notions
tripped down 
consumer aisle. 

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250720C
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Every borrowed
and time too
got nothing new 
to try some 
never again 
final analysis
why we
lose the always  
in the ways 
that we do. 

Conversed scraps 
of the would be
foot shifting 
nerve racks 
shuffled eyes 
on forage subjects
nibbled at lives 
done dirty up 
the not wanted 
of dangle on. 

Made no more 
in the any use 
under vague   
rant bosses 
who looked down
at lower life 
forms filled in 
personal filed 
departments 
of seedy detailed. 

Inner unrest 
held in temporary 
incommunicado 
pay clocked
custody doled 
tight budget 
on life support 
plug pull
raked hot coal
footed markets. 

No one really 
came close
to wanted that 
flame flutter 
moth guts 
of phoenix rises 
into proverbial light 
of burnt wings 
sizzle started 
updraft ash. 

Time passed 
away those days
of way fared 
traffic streams
into doldrums
cut adrift 
between voyages
to lash scourged 
by the alone 
in a mind thrash. 

You never 
ever could 
save me
and I never 
ever could 
save you 
from losing 
every maybe 
on the lips 
of us. 

Thinking 
is punishable 
for the we 
of do not know
and do not have 
creates specific 
and generic sorts
of an emptiness 
out stretched 
into nothing. 

You were once 
and while I am 
you are forever 
nothing more 
than the absent 
stepping in \
to the breach 
of a long shot 
at something. 

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250720D
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Heard say 
that you married 
someone better 
among the varied 
stories and lies 
of pretty things 
and perfect burials. 

I was always 
more dead 
than the alive 
as to my standing 
along the walls 
in sanctuaries 
of the all cherish. 

You obeyed 
orders that came
from above 
a true belief 
of cast adrift 
mutinies not yet
committed. 

Left me hanging 
on the barrens 
an exposed soul 
disaster symbol 
of frozen out  
passages penned  
into forgotten. 

Fairy tales 
people tell 
talking winners 
in losers games 
where ugly turns 
into beautiful 
pleasure machines.

Our world 
only a dream 
of never live in 
any such place 
where my wanting 
is that much 
for one like you. 

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Don't you simply hate it. Some more romantic poetry. 
Something that you can then twist, turn, and break, in various horrible ways.