‘cougar’
she’s hitting 50
hem of her shorts
hitting her chin
keeping with the times
unaware her moment
passed her 30 years ago.
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‘café’
let’s meet in a café
i’ll draw your portrait
if i could do justice to myth.
i’ll lick latte from your tongue
then write your name in my cup
let’s sing poetry
and confuse the patrons:
they don’t understand cobblestoned meter.
you sway to jazz
and i’ll grind to blues
juju to my gris-gris
risen spirit to my blood.
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‘comic’
after awhile it all becomes nonsense
her at the top of her lungs calling him so prick
—ish
him firing back how did things get so fucked up
—ish
if they didn’t crush each other
time and time again
they might actually find it funny.
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‘and here i’m worried of my pimple’
1, 2, 3
he drains the beers
down his throat
no apologies for
the belches or
his thinning hair.
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‘fourth grade homework sucks’
her eyes swell with tears
no one her age should hold
and i realize all at once
her soul is far older
than the tender skin
that contains it.
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‘afloat’
we’re afloat in the same ocean, baby
tossed by the same storms
yet we have no sign
of one another’s horizon.
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‘ruse’
fear not the man
who declares his hand;
fear the man
who plays ignorant
to all.
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