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Cut down At the beginning By the strike of a hammer By a flash of anger By a piercing thunder – Sharp and shallow breaths, Cold through and through Splayed apart In denial “I must fight; I must fight” – What remains unfinished Circles high above Impossible Out of reach For tomorrow to attain –…
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A railway quakes Through the calm of dreamland’s plains Ahead the columns of smoke From a sweltering machine – Georgia steams and wails On a westward line Charging over my body And its quiet frame of mind – It barrels forward enraged To clear the slate and rearrange, To obliterate every deed I have fastened…
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My songs are just weightless luxuries From the crater-pocked ground, Flying high and hollow On a perfumed breeze – I’m drunk on sweet-nothings Two seconds from midnight So shameless and sunken In a paradise’s run off – A new troop is on the march And I have dulled my conscience My outrage, my ire Fall…
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Scarce is the driving rhythm, The eyes lost in a trance, The nagging hunger To repair and replenish – It’s a luxury to roam The inner worlds of another, To know the warmth of their sun To know the depths of their winters – These delights are in hiding From our violence and vices In…
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Outliving a lie Is sweet revenge, When the machinery collapses And breathes its last – Outliving a lie Keeps a memory alight Long after the shadows Of its killers have fled – Outliving a lie Supplants the despot Of some far away dawn Filling the streets with fanfare – Outliving a lie Is a tried-and-true…
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Separation is the quietest desire Locked inside of my psyche, Barred behind kind eyes And pleasant conversation – It’s an unspoken urge In the daily crossfire Of colorless greetings Of well-worn smiles – It’s an insult to yearn For turf to call my own, To sow my old bones Beneath a slaver’s regrets –…
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In a clearing I can catch my breath Among the sun-washed stones Called to their side by a vacant heart – Never mind the beating sun The June bugs and the wasps, The streams of fire ants Across a shared last name – There is wholeness here In these soulful hours, For this I…
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Kindling a weary flame In the pit of my stomach For the voyage across, Reeling backwards through time – On the back of a wave To a cluster of light, Quieting the stars With its siren song – Here I’ll wear out my welcome Here I’ll overindulge, Beached and oversweet Rooted firm in the soil…
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A collision rattles the mind, A trapdoor falls open And a year-worth of sparks Fade the whole way down – A beaten vessel splits apart A phantom floats from the wreckage And the span of his days Weighs him down with regret – A fever dream is uncorked A long draft kills the sorrow And…
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It’s crowded inside of my skull Its walls pulse with ire, Holding back the rhythms Of a ceaseless war – Of the good and worthy struggle Outside of my skin That seeps back into my psyche When screens fade to black – I’m short of breath and overrun With foul rumors and whispers With the…
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