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SNACK

Pits protruding just like teeth

from the flesh I had yet to eat. 

Sour cherries from a shriveled palm 

I oblige and lay in comfort

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Loosened

Loosened by red juices

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Upright, filled with these clanking stones

lapping up cherries whole

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LATE NIGHT

I lie awake within 

My tomb of hematite.

 

My eyes carve out 

An alcove in this black rock

With air 

Enough to feed

A candle.

 

And I imagine

Who to invite here

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RUPTURE ABOVE GROUND

Here is a place where

People and things 

especially money 

Disappear without a trace 

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I am not anyone else

On this subway car

Their glory 

I cannot reinvent 

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I am only

someone experiencing

aneurismic joy!

of relief,

Of re-emergence 

from silk spun

membraneous isolation

 

Drop me off

On a train above ground.

And I will sit emotional

at the small sign of a reverse

in my luck.

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DAY OFF IN DECEMBER

You and I

and our pact of pastoral peace

A floating vision within our minds

Summoned while skipping steps

And catching separate subway lines

 

Part Time

The ugly orphan 

Of the continuous work week

 

Reached the end of my line

Easy as done

All in sleep

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Telephonic Telepathy

Your voice

Is the voice in my head

And it is telling me

Of the advent

Between today 

and sixteen days from now

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Shift-less

A miracle of a calendar 

corporeal.

 

Little doors holding the warmth 

of melting chocolate 

above a hearth 

With little door knobs 

For fingers smaller than ours. 

It is December 

and you will celebrate

In sixteen days

 

I hope you go ice skating

I imagine it will have snowed

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