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  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  I want to know myself To clear away the fog, Ignite lucidity; Strike a match on this body of oil And send my lies burning their way to stars As they burn out of me And drift off into more capable hands....
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  You Bury Me

  

  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  You saved me From myself, From the beehive Parading my thoughts In their mad little circles 'Round my mad little head. You ruined me For anyone else Who might wish to ruin me - Forever I am branded By an invisible hand upon my shoulder, Guiding me and claiming me. You'll...
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  Tea Leaves and Barbed Wisdom

  

  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  For the mysterious And the comely, We carry tea leaves and barbed wisdom. The link between what is known And what cannot be known - The secret of ethnicity Basking unobtrusively And jarringly in our veins Underneath eyelids And noses and brows, Digging deep In the crevices on ...
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  Of Fiction

  

  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  Of bundles of bones Of rods and fire Some semblance of a soul Ghosting along wires Lay out your nights The hours lost between light And tell me of dreams, Clipped memories, Stitched seams Where unthinkables happen Until they shake loose Delivered unkemptly From reality's noose ...
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  Lady Gazing

  

  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  Lady gazing Down one flight One hand on the rail And one clenched tight Lady gazing In the evening light To view a man new Who's blossomed this night....
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  Concrete

  

  By Firlie, Deer Park, OH

  I dreamt I walked through the city Where I lived off Benadryl And a week's paycheck – Just biding my time Until the smog thickened And coated my lungs In a thick, oily paste That drove me out of London...