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I've never written a limerick.
Thinking of it makes me sick.
Better a sonnet
or a woman upon it.
Maybe, I'll just play with my ****.
lol.  Just having fun.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICWIGqf62Kw
poetry reading on you tube by Thomas W. Case
 Apr 1 Jack Turner
alison
you cannot just walk in and out of my life.
I am not a door.
I am not a robot, so do not treat me as if my feelings don't matter, because I'm human, not anything else.
what else is new
 Apr 1 Jack Turner
Mia
I don’t dream of you often,
anymore.

But the notes in my coffee
taste like your morning lips,
evermore.

And though your mug sits
on the top shelf, collecting dust,
my vase sits on yours—
collecting more.
Some objects outlive their meaning. Some collect it.
 Apr 1 Jack Turner
hannah
I,
 Apr 1 Jack Turner
hannah
I,
I
I am
I am me
I am the collective
I am my mother’s laugh
I am my father’s forgiveness
I am my brother’s wish
I am my sister’s soul
I am my pride
I am my ego
I am me
I am
I
Many of our cells
are not long-lived,
or lasting or permanent
in any way

(although some are there
for a lifetime)

Consequently, sometimes
cells self-destruct
and die
in a controlled and orderly way
preventing the spread
of damaged (or unwanted, or abnormal) cells

(this is a normal part
of an organism’s growth
or development)

It is essential, in fact
(this programmed cell death)
to an organism’s health

And it is natural
but it is not a complete
or total death
(which is also
a natural process)

This is called
apoptosis.
inspired by The Conjugation of the Paramecium by Muriel Rukeyser
 Apr 1 Jack Turner
nivek
sweet love, sweet lover
welling up to eternity
- Holy Spirit forever.
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