This life
thrown me
would ride
looking out
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Murder-Suicide in Loveland (words strewn upon the state highway like litter, to be picked up by men in orange jumpsuits)
Even the smoke spreads limbs slow today. Dead
were afraid the smoke would kill me--the smoke, if not a finger
twitching against the darkness,
I devote myself to ruins
That first night, I opened my chest to you like prison doors,
offered you the pomegranate, and you promised you would not leave,
would
But this is not about us. A far more tragic romance. Written in the roadside garbage,
among Camels, Monsters, King Cobras,
a Wild Irish Rose blooms like bruises
Reconstruct the scene:
Out here,
cooks of crystal from cold
medicine,
steel factory-painted the sky blue of her eye
lids, of your dreams of leaving. Even here,
rotted teeth suffer language, suffer love
to crawl from under the shadows, [where every
grandmother's face hides a wolf,] ---not quite satisfied w/this ... what to do? every
human breast a beast.
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