Category: poems
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wraps and chains/
gallons of ink have been spilled etching razor blade words into arms wrapped in the rags of our stains little changed in the years between youth and age still gagged still chained
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tik-tock/
tik-tock the time slipstreams caught inside the maelstrom two ravens whispering present and past but never tomorrow because — tomorrow never knows old grim, one-eyed drinks to you health and hearth knowing you’ll dance on air in the forever night singing songs only shadows know if only to escape the storm tik-tock midnight’s kiss growing […]
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monster/
sitting in the abyssal void need not be a nightmare though the world pricks the edges with pitchforks and torches hunting the profane
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quiet before/
from furnace to tempest even the morning birds’ gossip has grown quiet before the storm
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thief/
‘watch out,’ i said under covers, ‘i’m a thief.’ she laughed tousled my hair and kissed me — ‘it’s not stealing if i give it away.’
sceadugenga 