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Waiting for puree with a doll in hand.

The septic lowlands

The gentle cooing of birds as the drinking water is turned to sewage

Each gnawing at the ground picking at maggots and grubs

Raids come, dropping their dying off by the pool

Wafting like an outhouse, but in war it all smells like decomposition.

Two weeks notice, pipes bursting above the nursery, late-stage non-aggressive dementia. (The kind that keeps you in limbo, a mere inconvenience to your kids and grandchildren.)

Soil your britches, feeble bodied or not, the waste still causes sores.

Yellow Decay

Gates, rusty by acid-rain swing and sway in the heat

Prodding at your eyeballs with cloth

Sagging

Unhinged

Unkilned

The Lone Star State; Muerto

The searing pain of identification

Why does it matter if we're photocopied anyway

Minced up by the day-laborers

Molten slag runs off the iron

Hot to the touch, excruciating if I'm honest

October was hot, an aggressive indian-summer

Your daughters quinceranera went off without a hitch

Too bad you stayed back

Another summer in the Texan heat

Your life steered by steer

Mangling flesh

Free range sent to the pits for your steak and beans

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C'est La Vie

Broken French by the spoonful

Much to my chagrin I'll attest

But you did look beautiful sitting there, alone

I dont write these kinds of poems often

Sufficed to say, you'd better appreciate my effort

Cornering the market like a wolf tracking lost sheep

Flippantly measuring out the ingrediants

A dash of this

A sprinkle of that

We're all densely packaged bread flour waiting

Waiting to be destroyed

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Predation

a warm sick it spread.

The heatwave was immense in the early fall

Untrimmed, cement hedgeways ran the panorama

A crush? Like a debilitation?

Or a looming similar to a house-cat's?

Bed time was earlier.

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I'm embarrassed about my appreciation towards romantic stories

An endearing quality, you could say

Pouring like a drizzle

Or moreso like a drenching

But it's shakey, undeveloped

A red room pulsates, leaking a slow drip.

Can you cut the cake evenly?

Or will you give me the big slice?

I'll scrape off the sweetness

Defiling the batter

Austere

But pilfered

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Burning Allspice

Dumb it down, your perpendicular words spill like jaundice.

"You, in your fancy white jacket ..."

They rush the door

"Who gave you the right to say I'm ..."

Unfit.

Walking away like a villian

Eating cafeteria salad alone.

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Tightening the Corset

It's rarified deep in these cascaded treetops

Between the rumor mill and the squelching stomp of truth.

The moor, like caressing, is fruitless. Prepared for the victims it takes.

Killing to kill again

Rotten branches loom in their nightgowns

Prepared to scratch with foul and infectious palms.

Glaives brush trespasser's knees as they fall

Whether in love or in grime, they rot

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Sapless: Nightmares

It hangs around floating just above my head

Like rancid morning breath

The shuffling of shadows in a hexagonal shift

I'm worried that I've tossed out too many journals

Lots of starts, but seldom the follow-through to make the pain count

Will we begin to see patterns?

Am I paranoid about losing you, or being seduced by slag?

Or is it the leftover pizza that allows me to peer

Deep into the emptiness.

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Sapless: Bitter Root

Always, other experiments exist

The sparkling of foil in the microwave

Fireworks, but for private display

Litters of inbred cats

"Your land isn't in our jurisdiction."

Toss them out like kindling

"Compromising the infrastructure"

Buying rat traps for a quarter.

Funny how you can afford a weapon on pocket change.

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Sapless: Uninsured

Awaiting the burn, snuffed or choked.

The batteries like balm, smoothing out the chaff

My limbs flippant in healing

The corsage was beautiful there, it reminded me that the injury didn't happen. That you aren't stuck a permanent spectator. You smile with your bag full of candy. Handing out sweets.

But that's over now, can you blame me for joining the traveling team?

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Sapless: The Solstace

The north wind

Your room shimmers to life after I’ve dialed

The moth colony in your buckler

They just flutter into the light

Updrafts dull in their coiling

Gasp like a sailors knot

Masting for their trepid wings

The north wind

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Self Post

I am going to be doing a poem series the next few days (read: posts/weeks/I’m not sure) If you have any questions for me I’d love to hear them. Thank you!

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15 hour shifts in a Call Center

They don't sing this close to fall

It'll be a long day, the start is a bargain

A line down, but running laterally stopped it from hitting my gutters

Silent and pulsing

"Please hold while I transfer you to someone in accounting"

An F sharp hits the brakes

Busting up a robin's nest

Chopped like stale bran for a sickly sweet lunch

Bile rising, grab the phone

And You're Off

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Varnum, Grand Rapids

The bustling and bright blue

Electric stars pop out of the metal horse parade

Fight for your bread, wheat and rye crushed like croutons

A building, isolated in it's endeavors.

Filled to the brim with the only clean drinking water.

I asked you to follow me, passed the business district.

But you said "No."

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Undiagnosed TMJ

I feel fuzzy as I lay down before a short night. The ugly in the front of my skull, near my jaws that circle.

Sleeping feels drowned, maybe an allergy in my consciousness. Can we process out the oils?

U-grooves and knick-knacks in my cheeks enflame. These words pour out like a saltwater rinse and stomach bile.

The tide will comes, a maverick coasts it's seaweed orchard. I'm diluted in the ocean, my words shine in the refraction. But ultimately

They dissolve.

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All-American Lawn Chairs

Squalls danced north past the garden, the cicadas stopped grinding.

The Texas-Style sweet tea fermented, a blackened mold formed at the brim. Celebrating rebellion. Chanting in spite.

Star Spangled lines of Chinese made ‘mota homes’ sit in homogeneity. Equally run down. Piss yellow.

Do you preach in the dugout? Does Christ run in these circles? I bet he sits in right field, pulling up dandelions and making mounds of grass. Wishing he was anywhere else.

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