Flash

It is just about the coffee. I mean the art. I mean the graff. It is just about it.

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Phrases, words and questions I neither heard, uttered, nor invested in, before this...

Phrases, words and questions I neither heard, uttered, nor invested in, before this…

Furlough. Presser. Exposure sites. SloMo. Iso. Infectious in the community. Incursion. Border closure. Work permit. Iso Hair. Lockdown. Lockdown 6.3. What are the numbers? Anti-vaxxers. I forgot my mask. Have you got your mask? Face penis. Only one of us can go. Pandemic fatigue. Quarantine. I’m quarantining. You’ll need to self isolate. Have you had your second…

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A thousand lies

I’d lie to you A thousand times over and still Seek your trust with My grand gestures and Pretences – you’d be drowning in them And I would dive in Deep to pull you to The edge of rough seas and I then I’d Kiss your cold wet lips While you shivered underneath me And I’d whisper that everything Will be okay – And feverishly needy You’d hear me lie And trust me A thousand times over.

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In your moment

I wanna live in your pocket And hear your muffled conversations And sense your subtle ideations In those moments of hesitancy When I can feel your muscles flex With the weight of momentum, knowing That every step is inching forward.

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Kodachrome

I sit cross leggedMy small hands rummage through aCaedboard box full ofImages of you flush with youth and loveand kodachrome.

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Want

I never want to End our transactions – each time I’m riding high and Side saddle to your gracious Repartee and I want you.

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Around the edges Bias: a margin For error that autofills A name suggestion That’s either right or wrong so We press enter and move on.

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Superlative

When being kind is The act of being human And giving over Is as natural as breathing We will never want for more.

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Not Yours...

Not Yours…

I am not your sweetheart Even when I am the sweetest I can be And you need salt to balance me.

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Unknown.

I could write a poem about you Writing poetry for a stranger And me, another stranger Laughing with glee And playfully toying With the innocent joy Of being appreciated And unknown.

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Batting above average

Don’t wanna seem neurotic and so I Flounder in your presence Drowning in awe inspired desire For betterment, you are better meant for A doer and a sayer – a life slayer Than a self effacing (over)thinker like me.

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Wanton

Looking for a moral compass in this haystack and all I see are needles. Needless. Waste for wanting, and more than I can take. Taking what I need. No seed of irony I press on, flying high above clouds of smoke and the dust is in my eyes as I crash head first into our demise.

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A special kinda poison

Oh shiny crypto: You mesmerize – tantalise Me with your high highs I am drip fed from lower Fruit – and grasping your fools Gold.

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Authenticity

I’m looking for my honesty Not every day just sometimes When I remember That I don’t know what it is Or if it’s where I left it.

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Every Body

Everyone needs a Mickey in their life, like mine who lights up dark and Shades me from the harshest of days Her beating heart my life blood.

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Body Memory

This getting older It feels like confidence and Competence and clarity And yet it looks like Mechanical wear and tear – betrayal by the body.

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Democracy

Does (or can) it exist… … if it waves lily white flags And supremicists raging in defeat…(deceit?)… lose their delusional minds?

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Youth is over before you know it.

It’s been a long time Since fluoro lights and retail Tunes marked time between Makeup and music and smoke From cigarettes in nightclubs

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