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Moon moth flutters
opalescent cloud antennae
across a dust-speckled sky.
opalescent cloud antennae
across a dust-speckled sky.
Literature
Jaded
I wear my anger on my sleeve...
my heart fell off somewhere down the road-
it wasn't worth going back to look for.
Literature
We're Not The Ringlings
We're Not The Ringlings
Please, please say you’ll never let me go.
We’re performers (not sure if that’s good though),
Swinging high, flying low,
Dancing around static love.
Double-talking with multiple meanings in one language.
On the trapeze of a
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courtship.
You climb the ladder of my spine
with fingers stuck in mid-pirouette
and then expect
Literature
tutorial
take an evening -
reclassify emotions as chemical compounds.
remove one atom,
see what changes.
take your field notes, transcribe them
back to front.
add line breaks.
be scientific. be too scientific.
replace the word 'entropy'
with the word 'god'.
be so full of want that you can feel it
scraping its numb jaws against your insides.
write about flowers instead.
make your first line provocative.
follow it, let it unfurl -
ctrl a.
del.
inauthentic, try again.
ctrl z.
who the fuck
wants authenticity
?
read, find inspiration.
find new ways to plagiarize old ideas.
stop reading.
hash and rehash,
slash and burn.
look at the mess you've mad
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August 13th, 2014
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