fucked up text at 5:05pm

 

fucked up text at 5:05pm

 

i’m going on a date tonight.

i just wanted to be honest with you.

 

staring at her words

the irony struck him

squarely between the eyes

that the days preceding her message

consisted only of lies.

 

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urinal

 

urinal

 

greatest fucking mysteries of life:

 

why can’t we love one another

 

why can’t anyone ask how i’m feeling

 

why my piss sometimes flows

in two separate streams.

 

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still art

 

still art

 

why do we

tolerate the tart tongue

but not the lemons

in the bowl?

 

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left with nothing but whys

 

left with nothing but whys

 

desperate to write closure

in what they shared

he discovers that the ink

in his pen has run dry.

 

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boxcars

 

boxcars

 

throw your favorite tee on

the one with that band

i never paid attention who

but i can hum all their songs

let’s jump boxcars

head to the north side

maybe we’ll hit the coast

work on that cottage

you always wanted to own

we’ll use the flocks overhead

to measure the changing of the seasons

conversation to keep clarity

inside our heads

we’re both a bit insane, aren’t we

travelling rails

dreaming of cottages and

birds with wings outstretched

me humming tunes

i could never remember to forget.

 

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wake up, girl

 

wake up, girl

 

a sin

she keeps

the ugly

bottled inside

while butterflies

flit outside

her window.

 

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conundrum #tbt

 

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conundrum

 

the conundrum is not my place in this world,

you say

but my standing—

 

so tired of the vacuum between myself and

anyone the universe delivers to me,

so tired of the ships that have sailed

their port.

 

the world spun round us;

the air no less muddled than before.

 

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i’m entitled

 

i’m entitled

 

the man asked

why do you look so worn?

 

money

my daughter’s future

my never-ending pain

my existence taken with a grain of salt

and i am so overlooked.

 

the man shrugged

your problems are no different from anyone else.

 

you motherfucker

can’t my worries be mine?

can’t even my grief

stand out in a crowd?

 

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catholic upbringings

 

catholic upbringings

 

lift your gaze to the steeple

your guilt lasts only long enough

until you run once more

from the reach of your almighty.

 

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november in chicago

 

november in chicago

(thru the thick and thin)

 

and like the boughs we are stripped

of our flesh in a hurry of colors;

the north wind does not tolerate secrets

nor does it allow the preservation

of our dna under layers;

we have lost daylight savings losing

that savior of selves while our

own feet trample veins of what once we were—

born to seasons our deaths come by hours

and without interlocked fingers we are prey

to the gust and conditions

 

left cold

so cold.

 

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