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Birdie
my mother might have cancer
now, before i get all dramatic on you and fire shots of poetry
let me remind you of the keyword you should hold close to your heart
might.

might is scary
might makes you reflect on everything you've done in your life that
might
have affected the second most important word in that sentence
mother.
the one that comes to mind after you got done thinking about yourself and about
how this might affect your life
pause
little girl i don't think you quite understand the value of family
i'm not a little girl
anymore
you have no excuse
i have been carefully nurtured like that delicate plant you tried to grow in a miniature *** in the third grade
the nurturing that came from might
the strength of her
she poured out into you
your water
you grew
only to look back at you
i understand i can be selfish
but i'm hoping this scare won't be the only reason i truly question it enough to change
with time
in time
questions I meant to ask
and things I meant to say;

I forgot all the words until it was too late

you are a tidal wave

and my mistake was taking you seriously.
Apollo illuminates Dionysus with a cutting laser edge carving meringue mosaics
into the nebulae.  
I'm enslaved by the concept of the interstellar
on the edge of the bed, my feet tapping into nothing as willful seizures
bring ****** sensations to my center, now nothing but a distorted face endowed by contrast
of shadow on black and white 35 mm film.
What a wonderful, heinous thrill it is to be so utterly and completely lost in the transcendence from the heart of darkness to the glow of a thousand suns, humming the beat of a million drums, attempting to attain some kind of summary, even though you know all too well where the stellar direction of man's folly has lead to before.
Wicked...yes.
Someone, somewhere
Anyone, anywhere
No one, Nowhere.

I run around in circles
like a stray dog.
Kicking a ball down Cedar Hill road.
Classes clash and collapse in collective implosion

The lower estates plant their insignia
ostentatiously on heaps of men
after storming the Bastille
to make way for the malady of the mitrailleuse
and celebration of Entente supremacy.

Clemenceau rise in rank as the
bodies of Flers-Courcelette stank.
Villains of the Devil's backwash
Slap you lightly on the hand
before commanding your neck
to the narrow stand
of the Guillotine.

Blood alone drives
the infinite rolling barrage of atrocious folly.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

**Keep calm
and
carry
on
Gotta get away, from depression and decay
Too stubborn to admit that I've been led astray.

A world behind windows and white picket fences,
swimming in the drool of suburban pretenses.

Get a job
Get a life
Cut your hair
Hit your wife
Get a car
Get a gun
We'll go out and have some fun.
Alkira was an Aboriginal girl
with perfect oceanic
blue eyes.

Cast out and picked up
by an even more savage and unforgiving world.
The world
of modelling.
Strange strings of thought.
Thoughts of loyalty and love,
thoughts of friendship and of ambition
and my condition;
thoughts of submission of subtraction and addition.

Unravel the secret of the continent,
oh how you are persistent.
The road uncoils and I uncoil down the pavement.
Off i go.
Twisted days of golden glow.
Off I go, into the black hole
of the road.
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Molly
which came first,
the atom
or the adam?

Am I 6 thousand years
young?
Am I
a dinosaur?

9th grade philosophy.
Venn Diagrams
and the eggman.
There is no good,
nor bad,
there only is
what is.
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