Tagged: awake
maybe symmetry
maybe symmetry
is overrated, we lie
awake at night,
counting the minutes
up and down the
hours, dreaming
of a balanced diet
.
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between the walls of
between the walls of
our unit, the pipes are heating
up tonight, scatting
a rhythm familiar
only to the oldest tenants
.
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at the edge of sleep,
at the edge of sleep,
i am waiting for one of
your memories to
pull me down deeper, or is it
one of my memories, dead weight
.
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at four fifty-six
at four fifty-six
a.m., the sparrow starts its
daily chirps, calling
us away from sleep, we are all
the planet’s uninvited guests
.
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six-forty-five and
six-forty-five and
snoring – you are like clockwork, a
rude awakening
.
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at the end of the
at the end of the
night, i store all of these pinpricks
in my heart, absorbed,
melted down into coarser,
even coarser elements, pray
.
20220421:0147
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the people we know
the people we know
and love, loved, still love are quite
easily the same
people who shoot to kill – warning:
not-an-intruder alert
.
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no data for this
no data for this
period is a salve, a
sign, a red flag, an
opening, an invitation,
an absence, a veiled presence
.
20220421:0128
y
at the end of the
at the end of the
day, you will be left with no
choice but to play the
white card – neighbor, friend, lover,
in-law, student, colleague, stranger
.
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