I hear pointe shoes
like they're hooves.
I feel open as a hymn book.
No one sings the praises. Voiceless as the saints 'cause
the bravest ones always took
out their own tongues.

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Captive to the sip, wine in both cruets.
Captain of a ship, no one to crew it.
Cashing my slip right when I accrue it.

Joan of no arc, strayed from the long course.
Alone in the dark shade of the pronged horns.
Bone thin in the park, paid for the wrong horse.

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(x) There's no advantage I didn't take.
I'm not of your flock. I talk
wrong as a fanged drake.
The culling is now.
Drown me or drown me out.

Leave it to me
to sneak in the stretch
of caution tape
that needs tugging taut,
to look for the breach,
the weakness, the bend,
the pause on the page
and shrug it off.

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A god sized hole. I believed
the future was a stippled screen,
a faulty aerial, early burial.
But I'm clean.
All I have's a plain blue T
and three pairs of the same black jeans,
a pack of cigarettes and two Timberlands,
but I'm clean.

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I got a mouth full of lotus bodies.
I got a pocket full of teeth. I received
all of my dinners at this table
and the graces of a good man,
and the graces of a good man.
He held the lord inside his heart,
and the lord held him inside his.
Their chests somehow would tunnel deep
into each other forever like this.

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Freckles
like pointilist ink now,
spectacles
left staring at the sink now.
Your ears
redden with earnestness.
What did I do
to earn this (now)?

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I can't help it,
darling. You know me
through a shot glass,
darkly. We're laughing in the
street, sharing a cigarette,
swaying a little bit, wondering
what it
means,
if anything.
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Greener than grapevine.
What a fool was I to rule what wasn't mine,
caching gossip like it was cash.

Then came a tea leaf compassing the belief
that you were never treasure or some secret stash.

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