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orchestral heartbeat
wearing headphones
padded with flesh

see that boy, that mirror

outfitted in veins
pierced fingertips, healed over.
an aneurysm in my palm--
superfluous is just enough.

badged with vulnerability
on a carousel horse.

in sum:

received my first speeding ticket on the way to the bowling alley
received heart burn from denny's
it is 3 am -- i have to meet jesse at the flea market at 8 am, i have four hours to sleep. i'm not tired.
i'm going to write unsendable letters.

everyeverysecond hour
is back to the atomic moment;
at 79 mph her mouth gaped.

i haven't worn that shirt since

"l"'s fell : swam and
collapsed in the clavicle.

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i saw beck last night at the lincoln theater. really really beautiful venue -- apparently ella fitzgerald and duke ellington have both played there. this show was two and a half hours of moments to be reckoned with. he played piano, acoustic guitar, and keyboard. there was a short bout with a synthesizer he introduced as "roland". he joked on ( Read more... )

aurora pink in a bottle with an eye-dropper lid
thin
smear across lips: pool in the parting
leave stains on the tip of your nose
and the height of your cheekbones
where those eyelashes play dead for the night
and leave my mark. there.there.there. :

if the moment is ever thick
for reasons other than resuscitation.

i had bought a pack of camel reds two thursdays ago because people in their cars look at least content pressing their lips to something rather than nothing. i had felt like picking at a scab or being somehow detrimental to myself, so i wasted money that i have little of on the hope that the fucking cigarette between my little-girl fingers would ( Read more... )