As if his wounds are
family members, he’s become
kinder since his accident. Sun’s
 
heat against her back, she gazes
down into that curtain

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praying hands
deploy hidden marigolds in the air
for the finches singing
the death of plastic
outside my skull

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I wish to meet my son, who was unborn when I decided to
openly condemn the dictator and consequently
missed the chance to witness his birth and growth
​I had thought, naively, that my action was for a better future of his life

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Amerikkka has built a system of status where standing together is impossible . The dominant caste of every confrontation , an ectopic thru/space between the right to stand and what is really police brutality

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Except for rape or trickery
you choose your child’s other parent.
at the moment of conception.
This decision can be neither
​reversed nor erased.

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I don’t want to burn
in our everlasting sun
or drown in the endless
ocean of our truth I have
​traveled wide in the waves

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resident mantis, thin and green
rises at the first drops of water
 
i greet him and ask how his day is going
tell him of my pain for the newest war

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I don't want to have anyone in my life whose soul can't burn
            black with hatred bright remembering
                        the swollen void where our future was
                                    removed from us

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Uselessly donned glacial sphere
functions as a topographical error
             [INCOGNITO], as a
              drunken cobblestone
              underneath shapeless

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We are the endangered souls bound for hell —
living off alms from the table of our Master,
begging for survival because we are scared
to live and unwilling to die for paradise.

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today at 17:52 the planet Mars ceased to exist,
the sleeping war machines that rest
beneath the surface, rust no more,
the breeze that soughs across the dead sea bottoms
no longer blows between the towers

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They requested that I proof-read
Some poetry that they were
Planning on publishing and
As a poet I always write by
The rule that one should never
​Edit, let alone re-write,

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twice
the man’s body is strapped to the gurney
 
twice
his last words are documented for eternity

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but a Greyhound will still abandon
Jesus in Tucson, then
reboard him in molecular Cincinnati,
reuniting him with his dark luggage
and old world remains

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“you won’t feel a thing” 
no I feel
every slow stitch and pull
on the landscape of sliced cheek

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witness
under pressure
not always debriefable,
clamming up
​could be transformative,

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The Presenters interviewed the excluded boy.
Their stated aim was to understand,
to see what could be improved,
​how it could be made better for everyone.

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thirsty goldminers
nourishing on 
mercury-filled water

sweet tooth fills 
with gold amalgam

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In the beginning,
all my little poems
were suicide notes.
Five thousand pages,
one long suicide note.

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They fly into the sea
like a ghost's imagination
and its bewildered dream.
Upon the shore for a brief time
their songs echo, skip

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Poetry workshops
trauma and abuse
A room of fourteen teens
about to age out of foster care

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It is evening all afternoon. Winter all spring and summer. There are nights when Mr. Mallard looks up from his desk and swears he sees the shadow of his missing wife brush to and fro before the panes.

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None of this may make the slightest difference
in how the earth and the sun and universe revolve.
But we are human and addicted to action,
​the probable less attractive than the possible.

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for I know this world will break her too
the way it broke me, the way it broke my ancestors, so I have to 
​help her long before she begins believing she's irreparable like pearls that know they can never go back to their celestial shells

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Also, one of the dangers of reading
is when it’s cold and people need heat
you will get into trouble for reading
anything earmarked for fuel.

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         Whispering scissors.
   One skeletal
 raconteur breeds
     a wooden mood. Metallic puddles

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A toxic hue fans out across the globe,
infecting the hills and herds of people,
the various populous, causing pangs 
of endless delusion to rage
across the spacetime 
​of a planet already faltering. 

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This old blood. Old-fashioned in its
primary colors. Then shaved ice
came along in digital billboards
of blue raspberry; and we softened
on progress, and our teeth ached

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We’re the ones that remember words like buggery
and deviant, fairy and fudge packer and pansy
 
Words we traded and collected
​like bubble gum cards.

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Another august handful of peace explodes
in a minister’s hand as a ritual of freedom
while the battalion of nation’s pride marches

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you can tear down a house
but its crumbled soul will infest what’s built upon
cross-bred into apartments and inconsistent utilities
​the rain curious about where it’s never been

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