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Composting With a Hammer
Christian, consider the wilted rose as a sign ( Read more... ) -
"Trenchcoat"
I.
critical for a young
skinny white male
slogging through his own
earthly gaping wounds
underfire it's like a
fist raised to stop every
fricative mouth
forming the word
faggot
II.
He wore it the first cold day at work
where they scan you for firearms
whenever you leave
and the manager laughed when he saw it donned
and said dang, Columbine
I am amused to think
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"The Failure of Our Social Norms"
The two ugliest people at my school fell in love ( Read more... ) -
untitled piece
Six weeks, four
chords, three callouses
more,
and I find I have as little
to say
as the spider I evicted
the day I picked up the guitar.
He crept like drumming
fingers unhurried over the polish
and disappeared into the carpet.
At night, watching headlights play
over the corners of my room
, I envy his strange web.
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Introductory Post
Welcome to my poetry journal ( Read more... )