causal connections
Ceding the head trauma filled lesions
That once were seeds planted in my head
Struck by a riot’s kisses
The violent idealist was telling me
Over a meal at his favorite place.
I shrugged and nodded with a half grin
Struggling to keep the food in my mouth.
“At least someone out there understood”
I thought as my smile stretched
From crooked sides
As his blank expression grew
Setting out lines across his face
Reminiscent of tree roots
In symmetry and rhythm.
"Repression grew out of adolescence"
He continued after another gulp of fine wine,
Wiping off his nose
When such behavior
Was out of season.
I was drawn to his confidence
Like a painting that sucks you in.
Caught off guard by words
Reinforced by self-taught thinking.
Taking to me kindly,
I continued to keep sipping
My glass of wine as he poured
Both he and I another.
Deeply impressed
By this rare trust in humanity
He ordered another bottle.
He then said with a grin
"It’s gonna take a little more
To make the pain go away."
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home pollution
The open water catches fire.
Dark secrets flickering in open, night
Lurking behind closed doors anonymous
Ambivalent airplanes that have taken flight
Unaware over the decay in endless fights
As pressing tires rumble along the crumbling
Streets, bumbling motors spitting stagnant
Running eternally adrift over open air
I can not breathe
Another thought.
Whether to return
Back over there.
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underground back-and-forths
Riding alone on subways
In the rip roaring calm
Roaming the constant city.
Playing that song out loud
For too long while pretending
There’s nothing wrong with it.
As nothing and nobody quits
Each time I sit in a metal box
Twist, and turning as iron burns
Stainless steel tracks squealing
In tunnels painted black
As there’s no looking back
And yet, you can’t stop staring.
In cracked mirrors
Reflection
When doors slide open,
You’re taken aback.
You step off
Return
You’ve arrived
On a platform,
You’ll always be back
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sleep made useless
Night terror
Stricken scared
Worn out and up
Creaking stairs
The careless bind
Constant toward
Spinning Forwards
Out of reach
You move again
Under worn out sheets
Scraping the floor
The bed still speaks
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time diminished by now
Descending back to fetal positions
The ocean of time turns from tie dye
To black and white through the eye
Of the needle fantasizing commotions
Needlessly devolving back and forth
Beyond the highs up greedy outposts
Designed to extinguish hope for most
As a future ghost dystopically dissolves
Some dreams aren’t designed to leave in
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small talk actualizing nonsense
Combating contemplation
Erasing all inner debating
Conflated by my last mistakes
With nothing left to take
Away from this last day
Tracing fading tracks
Along a roadway forgetting
A continuous lifetime’s worth
Of rusting road blocks erected
Long wandering a way’s trek
Till I find that appropriate sign
Saying it’s alright to fall in love again
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hashtag the madness
Too busy tearing myself apart
I can’t stand the insider glance
Can’t stand such passing chance
Can’t stand the rough rough dance
Refined condolences lasts in lost romance
Who, what, where, why
What do they mean?
I’m cashed out clean
In my dreaming schemes
Rendered foils of toiling
Around to blank sounds
Dropped while raining.
After fighting for that spot
Given to restraints infinite refrain
Continuously taming lost loose shock
Before returning to cheap comforts
Found in precarious self-containment
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cause your meaning
Subjects spewed held back words
In sequence, all at once.
Where a frame of mind
That's unable to discern
Whether anything is good or not.
But it's just so raw and honest
Despite it seeming like nonsense
Upon an immediate first read or two
But only to leave yourself
With a smirking grin breathing
Through the smoking gun
Of your mouth just a few hours later
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casual down pours
Probability in hostility’s leisure
Caring as cultured ordinance
Seethed supplies’ moving
Slow hauling conceit’s wave.
The monsoon of exuberance
Took pride in consumed particulars
Responding to exact amounts
In solemn predicaments
Song-schooled toiling roots
Of the movement’s responsibility
Grabbed as toast morose
Corroded gaps in reasoning
Seasoning to numb senses
Overwhelmed by the offensive
Decrying permanent diseases
As far as the ocean can see
Arguing tropes with hopes
Spun solemn marks spoken
With a mess of messages
To continue poking holes
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conventional senses
Different languages grossed confusion
Teetering off crossroad yield for masses.
Signage titles confused antagonism
Towards simplifying hourly drag races.
In old cruisers painted with angular rays
Reviling for clarification’s point of view.
Purposed while resorting to the abstract
Painterly signs to decorate chipped rooms.
Honoring the muse before a sunset cruise
With lilac hues glossed over dreaming.
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caught nodding (off)
Glamorized retribution
Readily achieved hope
With transpiring ghosts
From the past's fortitude
With an expiration date
Crossed out to continue
While spoiling audiences
Retelling old stories hints
Shutting down glorified doubt
Singling out instilled habits
Settling into institutionalized
Sprouts of living situations
Mocking harems to monarchs
Driven as masculinity whores
The good luck bolstering an ego
Selling out castles of vanity
Rather than contracted leasing
Madhouse conundrums
Spinning to motionless living
Popping tablets for madcaps
Passing tragic lifestyles off
As valid means of blind living
Took a toll hanging off tragic polls
Caught soliciting nuanced sincerity
Before falling back out of bed
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catch the traffic
Surreal sarcasm settled dream sequences
Built from humiliation screenings
Conducive to illusion’s task force
Growing a knack for finding meaning
To fit in a suitcase cradling around
With broken handles stained hope
Multiplied recessive blue jeans
Spawning discomfort giving ethereal
Coordinates down desert highways
Seeking pyramids on another continent
Looking at directions, can you see it yet?
Double dip that chip for wet sensations
Sensuality’s sin crumbled in silence
Resembling rejection easier to make
More than uncomfortable confessions
Saving your receipts of the adulation
You paid for separate from a hotel bill
Colonizing town-to-town a willful self-obsessive
Remarked to the deaf talk radio show host
Forgetting the vehicle he was driving in
Was last year’s model reminding him
Of the long road trip complete and ahead
In vast landscapes surrounded by nothingness
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cobwebbed trap doors
Black dogged fog fills the empty stage
Set with a lone spotlight slowly adrift
For an imagined gaze you try to ignore
That self-consciousness tries to control
While leaving shadows nobody noticed
Jagged movements of a pacing neurotic
Leaving behind a pleased the audience
With pointed fingers and howls seeing
Seen from a freak show's standing room
As rhythmic footwork never mattered
Entertaining such pointless honesty
While a stage floor illuminates illusions
Revealing all that was left of the remnants
Where performers and freaks had no place
Left to return that's drifting in the dead zone
Devoid of passing lights in worn out wood
With nostalgia's trapdoor left for the outcasts
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