in haiku form

This is my life in haiku form.

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The barrister

All the subsurface blue flame heartsick you carry. A beast of burden, pulling a chest of drawers bursting - books, lines, scrawls, questions muttered to the moon.

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Mulholland Drive

The sound of trombones, deepwater bassline, singing, look, there is no band.

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Monogamy

Small matter of the lobotomy, but there is safety in numbers.

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Still, I look for you in big rooms, small streets, bed sheets, and the quiet hours.

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It eats me, consumes, urgent gaping hunger, all - soft mouth and round eyes,  fingers drawing circles - it  hits me, stretches out for me. 

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Halloween

You come back as snow on rooftops, shadows on walls, insidious grief, which flutters, strobes. I think of moths and metamorphosis.

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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His love words

The way your ass, like, should not exist. Round and soft, hard at the same time.

That’s your favourite thing about me?

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Art gallery

This white conjunction texture with ghosts, deep blue of my father's ocean? Oh. I just thought it looked cool. It doesn't mean anything.

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The Black Triptychs

What death did not take seeps incontinent, looks back, then washes away.

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Minotaur

What happens if I solve the maze, but the answer is that I am wrong?

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Franglais

J’aime tes mains sur moi, he says, coquine, stay with me, leave this mouth on me.

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Cat

Did someone hurt, starve, maim you, or were you born bad?

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A relationship where I am part-time soulmate, part-time detective.

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The gods I have made of men - who were just boys, waiting, to be understood.

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Therapy (14)

Are you avoidant- fearful-anxious, or simply profoundly damaged?

Can you just ask my mom?

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Explosive device sealed in human skin, designed to look like a girl.