Spirals in the / Sky spray out eight billion cassette tapes / So anyone on any other planet might wit / Just how thin earthly love has withered.
I have developed an awareness / Of my need to perform this fervor / And what I thought was fear / Turned out to be excitement.
She was meditating with me / And eventually she was gone licked up by the surf / On a personal level, expressed in a fiction / That was the breadth of my loving and no thing more
These untamed wild horses galloping inside these Trojan hearts / Like that beach that one summer / This one summer, it is all we get
/ Slipping through our fingers like the sands of Ios where Homer lay in dust
I loved you better as a vague notion. Better / as an uncountable thing. Better /
as an assembly of dog treats.
I grass-skied down the camp hill in my non-specialist shoes, drifted into the icy endzone with the kids,
I'll say the metformin must be working. You'll tell me to message my doctor, ask about upping the dose.
ration the rest of the smoke, / spend hours tracing maps / to find the pub marquee
But there, hand gripping faucet / It spoke in a language held only in the body
I am motion-sick with / a divination-death glimpse / of a carnival Earth
Fearless, sweet boy, / your courage is not lost. / I am uncontainable / by nature too.
good afternoon, passengers. this is your captain speaking. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to my midlife crisis.
The knife turns, but blood in your teeth isn't poetic, even when I almost enjoy it
He’s dreaming. I can touch him softly when he sleeps. I can watch his body heave and rest. We need this.
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
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