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A Writer's Words
I write about the death of kings, of peasants, of a soldier
I form the meter to make the final trek of a soldierDo not assume the writing is the writer
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You play electric guitar
I play acoustic
Neither of us are very good.
I know a few chords,
I played the chorus of 505 for you
You told me to "get Weezered"
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Much Ado About the Willow Tree
Come climb the willow tree,
up the weeping branches,
Claudio, from that play we read
years ago in school,
he climbed the willow tree
to make a garland for himself,
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An Ode to My Sanity
Something I inherited but will not pass on
is knowing there is an absence of affliction;
the madness of the wife of Agamemnon.
An assumption that is long overdue eviction -
Bad Breath
She is not really gone
She is right here
She is not really lost
She's only at college
becoming a
a sister that I do not know
a girl beyond creation
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Name Game
I don’t like my name
not this one, the one I stole
from a great grandmother
I never met
the one I stole from
an Irish goddess
Loves
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New American Elegy
Long live the dead we prop ourselves up on,
The cane we pass off as our leg.
Long live the gods that money trickles down from,
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the american dream
i toured six different colleges over the past week
& i didn't care about the clubs
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last snow (again)
it's snowing,
again,
and through the endless endless white and the soft ticking of the grandfather clock
on the wall i halfheartedly wonder what the cardinal
in the bird feeder thinks of this.
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3 : 0 0 A M
solar-soft night because i stayed up whispering non-existent melodies to the dreaming clouds,
pierced the veil of daybreak with needle-sharp notes-