Black and White
Itis supposed to be in black and white
Except the white is yellow and the
black is faded.
The girl is tall,
With dark hair, her dress
Might havebeen blue, or green,
Or as the picture shows it in its own
colorlessway;
Gray.
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Cabin Sweet Cabin
Therush of life
Slows
To a trickle
Here.
Remnant carpet
Rusty showerfaucets
Insects exerting a last
Breath of energy
Before droppingdead
Upon the floor.
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Dear ...
It's been a long time
Seems like yesterday
You played basketball withme
&
Showed me the cool foam that cleaned off your tires
Yousmoked
Too much
Your hands always smelled
Like Camels
Your fingerslooked like you
Pressed the tips against
Something ...
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Fake is the Fashion
Tight black squeezed againstflesh.
White and pink rhinestones glued to cheap shirts.
It's just fortonight anyway.
You suit it too.
You're easily bought and too-earlysold.
Strands of white and gold spun through darker pieces I wish you'dkept.
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Her Disguise
She sees the way we look ather
With sympathy in our eyes
Looking through strained smiles
Andunveiling her disguise
Everyone treats her like a porcelain doll
Sofragile and so rare
We wrap her in strong tin foil
And handle her withcare
I shower her with ...
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Hope
Isuppose we hope eternally
that something will last
that something worthknowing,
doing, would endure.
The heart repels the truth,
and willnot let it in.
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Just Because
Just because I don't pay attention,
Doesn't mean I don't knowwhat you're talking about,
Doesn't mean I am a bad student.
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Leaving Home
Lifewas comfortable - cozy at worst -
I was 16 and he was leaving first.
Inever saw it coming,
'Til one day he was gone.
I told myself different'til
It finally hit me I was wrong.
I kept saying to myself,
"Hewon't be gone long.
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Lying in my own Skin
Itpushes me off my balance beam
and fractures my heart into pieces
of sharpglass, every time I think
of what I did.
I tried to fit these piecesback together
but they cut deep into my shaky hands.
Maybe if I tell you, Ican lift this weight off my neck.
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Particular
I never forgot to dress you,
it's just that you were particular
about thefeel of the cloth.
You always stated the simple annoyances.
You blamed mefor decorating your
simple words.
The hat you wore was not as easy to pulloff
as it said on the shiny label ...
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Sesquipedalian Incubus
Iwas amidst a dream
When I used the word "implement"
In its verbform
In a speech to myself
Immediately afterwards, I awoke
Andrealized my superfluously fancy wording
Which deducted from my energypotential
I was consequently angry
Still awake, voices ...
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
There is an oldadage,
"Let sleeping dogs lie."
But sometimes I don't
Wantto.
Sometimes I want
To shake that
Wretched mutt
Until itattacks,
And feel its teeth
Tear
Into my flesh.
I want to shakethings up.
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The Dungeon of Torture
Math class is a torture chamber.
I lie there on a stretching rackof times tables.
Being impaled by triangles and rays, no, not rays of
hope,but rays of pain and seemingly meaningless symbols thatare
arrowhead-sharp.
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Biologyclass,
chattering like many tiny gray mice
incredible attentiondeficit
poor sub,
like a vulnerable animal
trying to find a way to gaincontrol
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I saw you through the smoke
The harbor brought in to rest,
Dark nights, latenights left their
Mark of worry carved on a face
Full of loneliness. Yetthrough it
All you called to me, a voice
Carried by woe, ushered by care.
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Voices of a Steel Town
Themills were too busy. There was too much pollution
The world needed the steel.Carnegie did what he had to.
There was no safety equipment. It was toodangerous.
There was no time for precautions. Steel was more important.
Menworked too hard, too long.
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When the Shadows Dance
It is on nights such as these
When shadows are carved
intocorners by the dance of
a lone flame
And the wind wanders throughheavy
boughs
When the silver keeper of the sky
is ...
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