I am not a vampire, but I endlessly sleep in a coffin
Bloodless. I scare little girls
without even speaking. Stale swaths
of dirty hair are stuck inside my mouth

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I choose a rigid self-denial
from bourbon and curbside service.
Walking out for a drinks,
my doctor confessed to a taste for
​chain mail fetish and other men’s wives.

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We no longer need the Bill of Rights -
that was for the short guys,
we need a Patriot’s Act, and the fear of
terrorists who hate us for our superior characteristics, immigrants looking for a home.

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      just another voice
                 in Plato’s head
          screaming from the rafters
                           while the rest
               of the mad choir
      screws around in the cheap seats

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Where they are used, misused and abused,
Evan as they never fail
To kindle pleasures
And satiate base desires
Of their lords and masters

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Like a bomb hit it.  Controlled destruction
For want of a better word, for choice information
Raised above censure, published at will
​Blurring boundaries between now and otherwise.

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the name of the beast
or the number of his name
 
what’s at the center
but a big hole

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Polyps spawn on the lawns of
the State Capitol in Sacramento.
An annual event; but nobody
​bothers to count. Lots of guesses,

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each man given a sequence
that must be followed
until the meaning 
becomes obvious
and the light is found

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Ryōkan sd he never worked retail, but if he had
 
​— being a beggar is easier. 

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Wouldn’t it be awful were you to chance upon a fishbowl
in which your only daughter morphs into some mermaid?
How would you go about rescuing her? Would rescue be
​worth the pursuit? She would swim there freely in denial

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But those were empty meanderings, the
Solace of ruined moments and
Beatific outcomes, captured in thoriated
Aluminum cages, bound to the page with cheap tape

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under a bridge, under cardboard, or here at the limit exposed at one of the crossings around Hastings & Main, on pavement never ceded

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As if his wounds are
family members, he’s become
kinder since his accident. Sun’s
 
heat against her back, she gazes
down into that curtain

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praying hands
deploy hidden marigolds in the air
for the finches singing
the death of plastic
outside my skull

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I wish to meet my son, who was unborn when I decided to
openly condemn the dictator and consequently
missed the chance to witness his birth and growth
​I had thought, naively, that my action was for a better future of his life

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Amerikkka has built a system of status where standing together is impossible . The dominant caste of every confrontation , an ectopic thru/space between the right to stand and what is really police brutality

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Except for rape or trickery
you choose your child’s other parent.
at the moment of conception.
This decision can be neither
​reversed nor erased.

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I don’t want to burn
in our everlasting sun
or drown in the endless
ocean of our truth I have
​traveled wide in the waves

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resident mantis, thin and green
rises at the first drops of water
 
i greet him and ask how his day is going
tell him of my pain for the newest war

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I don't want to have anyone in my life whose soul can't burn
            black with hatred bright remembering
                        the swollen void where our future was
                                    removed from us

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Uselessly donned glacial sphere
functions as a topographical error
             [INCOGNITO], as a
              drunken cobblestone
              underneath shapeless

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We are the endangered souls bound for hell —
living off alms from the table of our Master,
begging for survival because we are scared
to live and unwilling to die for paradise.

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today at 17:52 the planet Mars ceased to exist,
the sleeping war machines that rest
beneath the surface, rust no more,
the breeze that soughs across the dead sea bottoms
no longer blows between the towers

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They requested that I proof-read
Some poetry that they were
Planning on publishing and
As a poet I always write by
The rule that one should never
​Edit, let alone re-write,

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twice
the man’s body is strapped to the gurney
 
twice
his last words are documented for eternity

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but a Greyhound will still abandon
Jesus in Tucson, then
reboard him in molecular Cincinnati,
reuniting him with his dark luggage
and old world remains

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“you won’t feel a thing” 
no I feel
every slow stitch and pull
on the landscape of sliced cheek

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witness
under pressure
not always debriefable,
clamming up
​could be transformative,

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The Presenters interviewed the excluded boy.
Their stated aim was to understand,
to see what could be improved,
​how it could be made better for everyone.

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thirsty goldminers
nourishing on 
mercury-filled water

sweet tooth fills 
with gold amalgam

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In the beginning,
all my little poems
were suicide notes.
Five thousand pages,
one long suicide note.

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They fly into the sea
like a ghost's imagination
and its bewildered dream.
Upon the shore for a brief time
their songs echo, skip

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