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Literature
finding your lullaby.
this is for you.
for all of you.
for those who are but are not.
for those who believe love is just a chemical reaction.
for those who are nothing but static on the mainstream radio.
for those who will never know forever.
for those who live in the highs and lows of the roller-coaster ocean breeze.
for those who hurt themselves because they're afraid of hurting anyone else.
for those whose cries have been drowned by the summer rain.
for those who have been mistaken for God.
for those who battle a thousand soldiers of themselves just to find who they really are.
for those who are nothing
Literature
He doesn't write poetry anymore.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore,
even if he still collects it, reads it, saves it, treasures
faded verses from his wife the way connoisseurs
savor vinyl over metallic rainbows on disc.
I don’t mind not knowing, but I can’t stand not asking.
The record needle hits the groove wrong;
he stumbles over words that aren’t there,
rummaging for an answer he doesn’t really have.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore
and his confusion is strangely endearing.
But there’s a lyricism to his words that I love,
poetic lines inserted between the daily grind
of character names and who said what;
voiceless boys in white a
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waiting on 50
let me
perform
delicate surgery
sing songs of chain-
saw love
along
your supple
summer spine
place the pieces
of your
struggling
jigsaw
map
which match
with mine...
is it safe
to say
that I've
talked
you
to bed
for several
weeks?
would it be
wise
for me
to sew
your proper name
into my
sheets?
or play
your
memory
like a
melody
arranged
in bits
between heart-
beats?
well
my heart's
refrain
repeats
'til my mouth
stutters
what it
speaks
and though
the
syllables
get jumbled
sentiments emerge
complete
has anyone
else
ever told
you
you're
the good
kind
of
cannot sleep?
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