Modern Evil v5 : Poetry

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February 5, 2007

Slow and Steady

I am the tortoise
I will not speed past you
I will not pass you at all
             on your best day.
            but I'll do today
         what I did yesterday
      and tomorrow, again:
Work steadily
     carefully
     methodically
     consistently
     without interruption
     until the day is done
              and on most days
You will find you have fallen behind
                I have come out ahead.
              (without coming out of my shell)

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October 10, 2006

deep penicillin

deep penicillin -
I am disease and diseased -
my thoughts are poison

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October 9, 2006

cruel words

the dif'rence between
suicide and homicide
is in your cruel words

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September 6, 2006

Static, acid, inside

I have been disintegrating.
  Gradually,
       internally,
            losing my signal
within the noise.

This world destroys me.
  I drink it in,
       refreshed,
           the acidic coldness
swallows me entirely.

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August 1, 2006

admissions

If you could be honest with me
       would you admit

   you want me
              to break
    everything
              apart,

   you want
           me
         no
           matter
       what?

       would you admit
             you don't care about your
       better
             judgement
   as much as
             you care about
                       love?

       would you admit love?
   you could be honest
   you could be
                       with me

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March 29, 2006

I need hugs.

I need hugs. Contact;
reassuring, physical.
You, all around me.

One has never been enough.
I'm incomplete without you.

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August 10, 2005

i used to be ahead, now i'm behind and i can't keep up

new breath, black eyes, tiny life,
     (
      best friend
one step
      removed by wife
two steps
      removed by son
infinitely
      separated by a gulf I cannot cross
alone)
a beautiful thing, now peaceful.
Both of us unable to survive
     without
     human touch,
     community,
     love
only I know how to fake it,
so my
slow death
     (sped a step by his arrival)
goes unnoticed
     (as birth is announced broadly)
I am become my own failure:
alone-
      separated from the community
     -because I am
alone.
my dying breath, my black tears, my tiny life.

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July 27, 2005

i'm not too tired to feel this

failure is like
   a flavour
   of ice cream
it's always just intense enough
     so you can taste it
        even as it numbs

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June 11, 2005

... away.

Sometimes the diff'rence
between round-trip and one-way
is the strength to stay ...

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March 2, 2005

and then what?

suddenly simple?
everything works out?

that ... seems unlikely.
seems untrue.

but maybe "friends"
  or maybe nothing
               ever
               again

only one has ever
               disappeared
completely
               gone;
can she too              ?

I wish someone would
   tell me
   what it is
   I'm supposed to have done
                              wrong.

or how to do
right
right now.

and then what?

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