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'irony of a friend's love' timothy r g, for Kim & Paul, 2/22/2008

yesterday i wept
not knowing what bridge to jump from
i jumped
here i found your arms
you didn't scold me
you didn't curse me
you didn't inform me
you simply asked me,
'so, when would you like to jump, again?'

'two words start with the same letter' timothy r gates, 7/22/2008

shadows
not lurking,
same name
mirror like
vocal timbre,
uncanny
the same first letter
if together, they sing
Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats and Billie
no need for
a hotel
motel
bed
or, spread
love erupts
lust interrupts
shadows
in the mirror we see
our two-step relaxes
a hippie sway celebrates
no need for explanation
just...
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'She laughs some days' timothy r gates, 4/22/2008

out of the deluge
darkness gave way to light
she sang into the morning
evening's sleepy eyes wiped away the dust
clay's baked,
brown, hues open for the painter
us and them, El-ohim
she'll share her time, now
once the stroll was theirs
they invite us to walk
it's cool, the breeze sweeps around our ankles
up...
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'unspeakable' timothy r gates 4/2001, and first completion 7/22/2008

unspeakable
but spoken
forgiven, told to
forget
but haven't
boys don't
girls do
boys dare not say they were
'courage, courage,' my people
Gaia sings of a dance,
free to join, if we dare
boys and girls know this choreography
xenophobia, i pray,
becomes xenophilia.
at sixteen was told,
but i don't,
every step, this dance...
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'love and romantics' trg, 7/20/2008 for s

loves
friends
sing
dance
fart, then chuckle with a,
'sorry.?'
lovers are friends
friends are not, yet are, lovers
time
space
continuum
exponential
synergy
no merely a dialectic
falling into love
cessation unknown
save for the shit,
this is worth burying:
it's dead.
fuck it.
so, let's
dance
sing
skip
laugh.
yeah!

sometimes people fall
in love
sometimes...
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'irony of a friend's love' timothy r g, for Kim & Paul, 2/22/2008

yesterday i wept
not knowing what bridge to jump from
i jumped
here i found your arms
you didn't scold me
you didn't curse me
you didn't inform me
you simply asked me,
'so, when would you like to jump, again?'

'true love' timothy r gates, 7/22/2008

true love?
i was told,
the first time i recall hearing this refrain
is at four years of age,
'True love lasts forever!'
(only lovers, who are friends
argue and make up;
we take the time for the healing,
the fear of each other's breaking,
the tears shared with each other's aching.
Why don't married folks
give each other...
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love and romantics' trg, 7/20/2008 for s

loves
friends
sing
dance
fart, then chuckle with a,
'sorry.?'
lovers are friends
friends are not, yet are, lovers
time
space
continuum
exponential
synergy
no merely a dialectic
falling into love
cessation unknown
save for the shit,
this is worth burying:
it's dead.
fuck it.
so, let's
dance
sing
skip
laugh.
yeah!

'Juxtaposition' timothy r gates, 7/15/2008

blessing
cursing
one, two, three
give a dog a bone
or, not
give you tone,
or bone
give me cone,
or zone.
magic
magick
g-d works in mysterious ways,
wonders to perform
life happens
so does shit.
cast a spell
more ephemeral bullshit,
but why not?
it's just a notion,
so what?
consider:
a blind person now is able to...
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'a fairy in checkerboard delight' timothy r gates, 7/6/2008

butterflies
not flies
still fly
glide alongside
fairies slide
my delight
their ornery horniness, but not
yet so
prompts my attempt to
fly, too
two
i don't mind falling on my face,
fairies come to my rescue
chuckling at my ridiculousness
at me
with me
their fire i feel
time to fly, again.