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I started a poem“I am a windstorm”It was hard
Nature bores meThe way a thing I don’t understand bores meLike when I looked at an article about plagiarismSometimes I just can’t think about somethingI can only describe it with words
A wind that is fussing the windowsillIs “Words”
The man on the other couchIt’s obvious that I don’t wish him harmBut I can’t talk very wellBecause very squalidly built Is the slum of my words
I eat it all And invert And sink back into the couch like a monsterI will become longerThan my terror eventually
NATURE POEM
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In the thunder, in the thunder covering the waterAnd the lightning fingering down from the skyAm I
A shadeYour face is growing familiarI have seen it before somewhere
The sky glares greenOn the wet road the swish of tire pulls to a stop
Something comes here to die
It’s always like thisLights firstThen noise
DEAD HORSE
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Facing the pathless darknessDarkening moreDon’t talk
It feels like noiseFrom headphones, in the airIn my hand, static
We stand still as coinsSilent
The apocalypse I feelIs turning itself up like snowOn a dead channel
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A breeze inflates itself from the waterRotten in the noseBut dear in the skeleton
DearAs a bone saw
As bits of bone that angle up from the groundWhere they were buried Are bits of mine and bits of yours
A faraway plane flies over their everlasting shards like a birdLike the atmosphere, pieced with three-dimensional gulls
Having become familiar
They have seen me before somewhere as they have seen youAs I have seen you
The pieces of birds will stand in for something And if now you have to leave, you knowI will lay down in the rotten roadAnd wait for you until you come
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My friendI am lonely
Without youThe killing night comes downLike a horse from heaven
I am sitting on it like a divan
The night is a ghost crackingIts long unhinged jaw in my ear
Your voiceIn the rotten air
If you say you love meI will open my mouth and you can live in it
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