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The joker
in the deck
The jester
holding court
The witness
at my trial
The voice
— of time itself

(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
robotic heart
keeps us going

robotic love
unrelenting
Twilight blue rebounds behind
A great ridge of color
Calling for man
To stand before the night

From a distance
Quiet but restless
The brazen foliage always falls
Darkness follows every time
Thinking, I fell off the edge of the lantern
wondering
did I even put my pants on

waking
is getting to be
a bit of a hindrance
and too much for me.

But
I do it on a daily basis
sometimes
more than once.

It's 6am on a Saturday
Billy Joel in my ears
telling me all about the
piano man
but I've already
known him for years.
today i disappointed everyone i love.
i was quiet when i should’ve smiled,
tired when i should’ve tried,
somewhere else when i was supposed to be here.
An orange flower
sways in the wind,
like the curl that falls across your forehead.
I am reminded of the shape
of your eyes,
the curve of your hips,
your smile in the sun.

One day,
I‘ll hold your hand
while you carry a little version of you
and my life will be absolute.
It’ll be all of you,
all of me,
cradled in your arms,
always.
When time was hard

you pulled me through.

Now that death has taken you away

who do I look to?

Gone too far

Gone too soon

You are always missed.
Time is running up

To me

And greeting me

Like an old friend

Like a friend of everyone who's ever really been

Time is us running up

And telling me

Do it all now

Or never

Because time is running up

And time doesn't want to run down no more
No one else ever will

Because I can tell you one thing

No one else is

No one else is thinking for you

Now

Or ever

Your as unique as a snowflake

Falling on the surface of a planet that became uninhabitable by life 2.4 million human years ago

Now how would you like that?

Not very much

But as for me

I turn my sights on forever and fire my light that way

I reach to sky and see everything

That will ever be
We are
Living life
Old
And young.
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