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3 March 2010
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Silent Revenge

Tears.
Through sewn shut slits
I watch them file past.
In no particular order.
Reverent.
As never before.
Ears pinned back
Reveal their whispers of
How peaceful I look
In my waxy pallor,
Underneath the clown mask hue.
Coiffed and sprayed hair
Covers those ears.
Taking in all
those things they wish
They’d said before.
Through pasty, painted lips
I laugh an echoed chamber laugh
knowing I now …

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18 November 2009
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Death Rattle

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Say something. Please
Long winded, with verve.
With dedication, with depth, and feeling.
Something evangelistic.
I need to hear you now,
to be rid of what I thought I heard before.
Death rattle, gasping, as the last breath of hope flees.
Escaping the way you wish to escape.
Silence sought, gasping too loud for goodbyes.
There is a …

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22 October 2009
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This Is A Test

This is a test of your emergency long lasting net worth.
For the next thirty days or so, your loyalty will be questioned.
Your honesty and integrity will be examined, and all the kindness,
generosity, compassion and romance you have offered will be reviewed
for sincerity and trustworthiness.
An inspection will be done,and recommendations made …

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14 October 2009
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Pretend You Are Dead

I must pretend you are dead to get away from your memory.
Your beauty burned its image into my brain.
Your power and your presence has marked me.
I obsess over them until I am insane.
I take trips and change jobs to get away from you.
I cant even listen to the music I …

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14 October 2009
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So Much Potential

Best Selling Book.
Great Film.
Tragic Accident.
Flamboyant demise.
Suicide.
Murder.
Accident.
Overdose.
Long and painful.
Short and sweet.
No one knows or really cares.
I have so  much potential
no matter what happens,
you will read about it in the newspapers.
I am writing the story.
The obituary.
Now.
But there is always more to the story.
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12 October 2009
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walled communion

complexity-bad memory
weave a spider’s web
whirlpool of repetition drags downward
swirling us to our doom
the binding force is love
beautifully brought, then undone
resentments,reparations,repetitions,
redrawn, reworked.
staying this path is not
easy, there’s no surgical
cut to suture nicely, no numbers
tell us what colors to use.
imbalanced, no easy
answers to render powerless
unwanted tears
that equate disbelief.
due to their strength,
convictions create …

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7 October 2009
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7 October 2009
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Silkscreen Reality

You build a Silkscreen Reality
To create a Kodachrome Memory
About a Celluloid Hero who died.
But a Silkscreen Reality
Only discolors false memories
There are no more Heroes-Hollywood lied.
Celluloid is so passe
Ultra rich colors fade away
And a silkscreen when it’s wet is sure to run.
Run…
I suppose that’s what you’ve done.
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5 October 2009
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It Takes Pictures To Remember The Good Times

It Takes Pictures To Remember The Good Times-
I lay there each night and I can’t sleep-
darkness is where my memories live.
I see the faces of all the loves lost.
I feel each and every pain I ever caused.
I freely give myself the blame.
Each mistake I’ve made, even trying to do right,
comes …

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27 August 2009
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Silver Bullet Waiting

She was born with a quirk
That makes her love to hate.
Without a part of her brain she says she needs.
What is normal anyway? Who needs it?
Who is keeping score?
She names her notebook and pen Eros and Cupid.
She writes in it wearing rubber gloves,
Wearing a suit of armor claimed as a …

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