March 2021
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Twitch
finding clear water isn’t too easyin city streets determined to be harshfinger tips reach out in half-desirethey retract in disappointment with guitar strings brokenand skins worn down to the boneI fear my friends may have already given upwhere there used to be songsfull of glittering insolenceI hear my idols beating a retreat But now do…
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TORCH
stick to your skinand hold on tightand tell me we’ll make it homealright tonightthat firelight it could’ve been ussome nights I wish it were stick to your teethyour guns and your bonesand are you in Love?or are you just young?because I’m not all that special you seeand there’s not that much left of me oil…
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The Feast of Thick and Thin
So I’ve got these things that eat me up insideI’ve got these things that chewI lied when I said that all of this helpsthe words just concrete all the lies in my head I saw a man you knewhe said that he might die todaytake a leap off the Howard Street Bridgesaid it might be…
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the CAZOO.
I always knew that California would die screamingI always knew that California – she would fightI always dreamed that our captors – they’d die slowlyOh my Sweet Bai Yun – I dreamed you’d fight by my side But I’d assumed with how bored I beenhow thick my skin done gothow rarified my pleasure’s beenand just…
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Spine
Some days I wish I smoked for imagefor release of this stress some days I wish I drank got drunkrelieve this stress somedays I wish I could lose myself in passionor “Love” as they call it some days I just I with that I had moreI’d drown myself some days I want to drive so…
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Playground.
The mud stains denimand we slipped upon the slidesteel seemed so innocent those days a stain now marks where the swings used to standwhere a man once stood there stands a stainwhere the swings once stood once stood a manthere was a man you can’t draw chalk on sandthe stain is all there isbut no-one…
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March 30th, 2021. I told me so.
A picture from wandering around Baltimore this weekend. Sums it all up pretty well. I’m watching vaccine availability. I’ve got the FOMO. I hate the term “Fauci ouchie” but would Love to get in line for one and just realized that because I’m technically ordained I could TECHNICALLY check the box that says “clergy” and…
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Coal Boulder.
Coal Boulder red hot & black burning none too cleanly Coal Boulder roll on back crushed a new Life today and no he won’t look back I was standing simple I was standing proud I was hand in hand I was head in clouds there were men here shoveling me long before us giving heat…
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You Never Answer.
I can’t sleep in my own bedno one to tell me a good nightso I crash out on my couch insteadweeks now with the tv on quiet You were the author, I never sawthe outline locked in a bedroom drawerthey say write then ending, then work backwardshow long ago did you write our never-after? My…
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Will.
the rain came down back washing alley ways drowning men out of holes… the water ran red as people lost skin and a frightened young man looked down upon his toes… he¹s in danger of getting his feet so wet ships are tossing down in the harbour the wind is raising, the rain came pounding…