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Green Tea and Cigarettes

she drinks green tea
for her health
no fake sweetener, of course
'cause that stuff
pickles your insides

she smokes Marlboro Reds
the native tobacco
doesn't taste right, she says
but she knows full well
she's kidding herself

she does yoga on Tuesdays
drinks Hefeweisen all weekend
marches on Washington
to end conflict overseas
but there's a Ruger
in her bedside...
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ladygrey88:
I do. Although I haven't finished a horror piece yet. All my finished short stories and such are much tamer material.
deceptiviewfilm:
ah I c.
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Mandy, My Dear

haunting keys
tap across my chest
invade my thoughts
disrupt my dreams
a river rock, tossed
across my psyche

a broken note
makes my heart skip
my impatience still
my fingers twitch

she enthralls me
with white hot cinders
she appalls me
with her sincerity

her words are harsh
her words are loving
I love her for being so blunt
I hate...
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A Plea

please,

don't hurt me like the others
they would break my back,
bend my spine in ways
it was never meant to turn

they would leave me
to swelter in hot cars
for hours
in closets, under piles of debris
for months
they would pass me around like a whore
from hand to hand like a disease

now here I lie
slumped over...
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A Poem Lost

I wrote a poem
it wasn't long
but it said so much
contained wisdom
far beyond its word count

I wrote it quickly
stopping only to
dot my i's
cross my t's
never breathing
all the while

I wrote it heatedly
with vigor
and reckless abandon
gave my heart up
to the ink and paper

I wrote it once
and handed it...
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Cafe Zarathustra

we loved to argue
He and I
over lunch
about the eternal questions:

who am I really?
why are we here?
why is gas so expensive?

we discussed the great works
the Vedas
the Testaments
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

we made good sport of it
or so I thought

a debate got heated
we traded insults
I ended up
face...
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