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Icarus

Icarus

Solitary

Staring down
Into my own
Oblivion
 
Self destruction
Impossible to escape
The extermination
 
No one else
Could damage my soul
The way I do
 
Not afraid
Ready to suffer
Ostracism
 
I deserve
No better
I hurt my
only love

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Banquet

I want to have it all A full meal with all the flavors Of the single morsel You fed me
The Picinic

The two of them sat face to face by the banks of the narrow stream smoking cigarettes, throwing stone… and dismantling
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Over the hill

When I got over the hill the girls hooted and I skated down the fun side of the arched bridge over the river. Carving hard
A prayer to my murdered muse

I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
Fit for hell; saved by grace

Does it really matter Whose fault it was What’s been done Can’t be undone Anyways
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Vanilla Milkshake

All the spaces between. All the things left unsaid. They are like the air packed into a vanilla milkshake
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Unrequited

If anyone but you Had told me not to talk to you They would never have succeeded I let you go Because you asked me to.
Scrap Metal

Driven too long with out coolant With out lubricant, my wife Blew the head gasket on the old Buick century. Now lifeless on the flatbed. Wait…
inequality

Take care In how you engage the battle of who can care less. though it may
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Self loathing

A powerful master Frequently cloaked Obscured by half truths Demands masked as duty Though there is nothing lovely in…
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Today

Today is the last day I am going to do this to myself The last day I will hold on to any hope Today is the last day
Fear actualized

2015-01-21-21-07-36_poetryx Wondering Wandering Quagmire My own creation
I have been proud

I have been proud I have considered myself wise I have thought that I was Far above The failures of others
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A day in August

There was a day. it was in August we visited your mother in the hospital. Afterwards we wen… to a beach side burger joint.
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Burning

Passions pit perfervid. Smoking cinders, and coals endure petulantly past their prime. Blisters and puss



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