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JDK Oct 2020
Mysterious poet with the obscene pun as a name, what is your game?

Sensitive artist at odds with her own sense of shame, are you doing okay?

Drop me a line or remind me that sometimes a stranger can be less than strange.

I'm struggling with change.

Or just hold it down and reach out to the void of your favorite stage.

I'm willing to pay.

These days are so crazy but we're getting too lazy to process the pain.

It's only making it worse.

Gonzo girl with her absurdly relatable way of reading the world,
let's hear a new verse.
I never see new posts from my favorite poets anymore. It's disconcerting.
JDK Sep 2020
Then I'd say that there's way too many Mustangs on this godforsaken base.
and also that this evening's political debate was a ******* disgrace.
Sep 2020 · 977
Weird World
JDK Sep 2020
Life is so friggin' weird, I'll tell ya.
The older you get, the weirder it gets,
and it just keeps on getting weirderer.

Grossly weird.
Wrongly and disturbingly weird.
Upsettingly weird.

But then, now and again,
pleasantly weird.
Delightfully, excitingly weird.
Weirdly endearingly weird.

Then weirder still.
Off-puttingly weirder.
Over-sweetly weirdly weirder.
Understatedly, low-key weirder to the highest degree contradictory weird.

Maybe weird isn't so weird after all.
When it's the only constant in life,
then weirdness becomes the only reliably normal thing, oddly enough.
Weird way of seeing it.
Jul 2020 · 106
Standout
JDK Jul 2020
You're like a unicorn in a world full of mules.
You are a treasure in a room full of tools.
A patch of bright color in a washout of gray.
Whatever "it" is, you've got it in spades.
Things to say to that special someone
Jul 2020 · 129
Ring
JDK Jul 2020
Poked and prodded
'til brokenhearted.
Now the game's *******.
The stomachs knotted.

Pushed and pulled;
Together, alone.
The game's not over . . .

(Pick up the phone.)
You have one unheard voice message. New message: *click*
Jul 2020 · 98
Family Curse
JDK Jul 2020
I always expect the worst from people.
Thanks mom
Jun 2020 · 147
Ingredients for an Omelette
JDK Jun 2020
You can't rebuild schemas without breaking them first.
Get out of your comfort zone!
Jun 2020 · 117
Annoying
JDK Jun 2020
I don't want to annoy the few people who don't annoy me.

But at what cost?
Holding back.
Biting tongue.
Sitting out when I could be having more fun.

Oh right, fun. That became a problem. Having too much fun makes things fray at the edges.

So here I am, all proper hemmed,
and a bit lonely for refusing to annoy a friend.
Just tell me to shut up and leave you alone already.
Jun 2020 · 111
Unspoken
JDK Jun 2020
People can't read minds,
even if it seems like they can sometimes,
but at least a few can read between lines;
what do they find?

Surprises.

(I doubt it.)

People can feel all kinds of things
without saying a word about it.
poets, for better or worse, are not that kind of people.
Jun 2020 · 161
Piano Weather
JDK Jun 2020
This reminds me of home.
The smell of wet pavement and damp grass,
the sound of a chirping toad mixed with rain dripping off the rooftops and echoing down storm gutters.

If I close my eyes and take a deep breath, I can almost believe that I'm back in the swamps.
but Florida is a long way off
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