'immortal'

wine washes

her tongue

as hips

create music

heard only

by gods.

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'chicory'

into his cup

he pours her

chicory kisses

to savor.

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'heart crushing truth'

i do not want to die.

i thought i was a man

but when my father spoke those words

i did not feel a man at all.

i became again a wide-eyed six-year-old

who believed god was magic and

life remained the same waking in the morn

as the night before closing lids to it.

i wonder to this day

if only i had stayed asleep

might my father still be alive.

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'you all have no place with me'

everyone has something to say

except when the time comes

to say it. 

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'need'

you believed me gone

gone

relic; forlorn by lords of depravity

keepsake plucked from dregs of gutter whores and 

impoverished mimes

gone

raped; whisper of promise

possession, tarnished and forgotten atop

your bureau

fool—

i have bred within you all the while

gratifying your need

sucking you dry

you sang of me maggot's lament

begged of me torturer's divine

so i ask you now

who is your molester of truths

your addict of lies?

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'truths, all tell truths'

the greatest advisors

i have ever had

in my life

have been god

a bottle of scotch

and my psychic. 

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'confessional'

sometimes

when the bar is at its loudest

i shift in my chair

and fart.

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'your object of affection'

oh the snide curl

across his lips

as he patronizes that girl

i watch you

watching him

suddenly the stars

have gone from your eyes.

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'put me in the donation bin'

you treat me like a doll

you’ve owned for years

worn, stained, lifeless

until you decide to hold it. 

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'false hope'

we search for something 

a shining something 

a splendid something

that is found in only

the darkest something

the most despondent something

within us all. 

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