Heavy Socks
How heavy is a SOCK I wonder? I’ll use the bathroom scales. The needle doesn’t move a bit And I worry why that fails. So I weigh myself in just one sock And then with both socks on.
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THE CLICHÉ OF LIFE AND DEATH
Death stalked along the beach, kicking moodily at shells and polished pebbles and letting his long black robes trail wetly in the surf.
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Work Horses
Sparrows cant, chirrup along the rooftops, the morning moans, jolted back from night, forcibly the world's machine moves, cogs climb into cars, engines groan into action,
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Me and me
The warmth was already overbearing so early in the morning. The sun had scarcely made its presence felt and yet I was already breaking into a sweat.
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Camoflage
You lose yourself a little more each time you swallow those pills, each time you drink your wine, blunting each treasured memory, and any unique thought your mind conjures is drowned.
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THE KISS
THE BATTLE WON, THE HONOUR LOST THE PLEASURE GONE IN NIGHTS OF FROST. HE STOPS TO REST, HIS HEAD BENT DOWN, THE BLOOD OF SOLDIERS STAINS HIS GOWN. THE EVIL GOAT, EYES FIXED ON HIM,
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This Thought
I have kept this thought for you, whose mind I adored, whose life I was part of, whose love I have lost. I have kept this thought, wondering when I would see you
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All the things I'm not
why is it that i sleep when i should wake? do i shut out the world and go to the closest thing i have to a safe place one without responsibility, a place without pain or fear or love or loss?
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