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If I could pick a part of you
that I could touch tonight,
it wouldn't be your soul,
it wouldn't be your mind.

It wouldn't be your skin
or the locks that frame your face;
it wouldn't be your fingers,
or any such a place.

If I could touch you once tonight,
and pick one single part,
above all other regions,
I'd want to break your heart.

7.27.01

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Left Below

Dominance is such a foreign feeling.
I can't comprehend it.
How does one go about
throwing away their humanity
to live the joy of crushing those below?

I can crush and feel regret.
I can push and feel the guilt.
How do I experience the joy?

Or,
is there
any at all?

8.3.01

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Choosing Sides

I want to be you right now.
I don't want to be me.
I don't want your possessions
or the people that love you,
or your aspirations,
goals, and dreams.

I don't want your accomplishments
or your depression or fear,
or your happy little image,
transparent and fake as it is.
I don't want your hair,
your face, your nails,
the roof of your mouth
or your palm.

It's not you that I want to be.
I just don't want to be me.

8.15.01

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Plug Me In


Plug me in.
Into the warm summer night.
Into dull consciousness
and a numb sensation
of being suspended in midair
until you open your eyes.
Plug me into a period of life
void of all responsibility,
where a child's hands glow
of a firefly gem.

Into a world soft as warm cotton.
Can you feel it against your face?
Plug me into an ocean
of velvet with silvery slits,
where the slippery carpet
pricking my bare feet
cannot distract me from that sea.

Plug me into the hot forest.
Into a wet dream.
Into the beat of a heart
beneath thick layers of sweating flesh.
Lay me in the wild, in the dark.
Lay with me.
Plug me into your warm summer night.

8.15.01

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Heimlich

Do I enjoy your company?
Yes I do.
Do you need your heart in me?
Yes you do.
But I don't.

I don't understand you.
I don't understand me.
I don't know what I want
your need of "us" to be.

I love you.
But not the way you want me to.
I need you.
But not every effort
you put through.

I just need you
to be you
so we
can be ourselves -
and not just us.

8.15.01

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Severe Tranquility

Contentment is rare
while holed up in this room.
But there's no place else
I'd rather be;
I've got myself,
and you're not with me.
What else do I really need?

8.15.01

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Contempt

Why is it that I miss her
if I hate her so?
Her levels of depth
are easily tossed aside
for that of a wading pool.
She doesn't question
and she doesn't listen.
She's a nuisance
in every degree,
and I loathe her
with every fiber
of my being.
So why do I miss her
just when I'm rid of her?
Do I merely need something to loathe?
Do I need my memory of her hopeless
mall-centered antics refreshed?
Must I be reminded of her
opinions on the taste
of semen and her shrill
squeal of each hourly anniversary
with her pint-sized cat toy of a lover?
Does some sick, pain-hungry part of me
perhaps enjoy the torture?

8.15.01

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A Poll

What do you when you feel as if
your womb wants to break itself free?
When your stomach is wrenched
from something you said
and you can't regain
a state of normalcy?
Do you curl up and die?
Do you cry out your eyes?
Do you milk all your friends for sympathy?
Or do you stare into air
awaiting sweet self repair
or ignorance to the holes you feel, but cannot see?

8.20.01

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Sticks And Stones May Break My Heart

I need my words,
but I can't stand yours.
They pierce me.
They cut me.
They rip me apart from within
and clean up the nicely stinging hole.
And in my naive thirst for empathy,
I accuse you of a lack of caring.

Am I a child?
Probably so.
I don't really understand you,
even though you're close to me.
It's rare to find ourselves at odds,
long as our hearts and minds have co-existed.

People think I should love you.
But I don't.
I don't think I could.

Reaching for sympathy,
I'm a hungry crococile.
I'm a sensitive chameleon.
I hate being a chameleon.

You never stay with me as long as I want you to.
You never talk to me as long as I'd like.
You don't affirm your caring for me
when Insecurity makes me her feast.
It's a selfish thing, it's true,
to always ask for a melodramatic life
and unending love from everyone.

You think I ask for it.
I don't.
I don't think I could.

So I'm a child?
I can live with that.
So what?

8.20.01

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Styll Able

Tight
Wrenching
Sick
Clenching
Thick
Hollow
Hot
Swallow
Kept
Hidden
Not
Ridden
Help
Need you
Can't
Feed you
Help
Sinking
No
Drinking
You
Love me
You
Shove me
From
Your heart
And

We part.

8.20.01