Tagged: awake
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
.
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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
.
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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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quarter keeping score,
quarter keeping score,
the neighbor and i wake each
other up in the
night, toilet flushing, floorboards
creaking, a simmering silence
.
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in mama’s garden,
in mama’s garden,
the camellias wake up before
anyone else, stretch
towards the sun in their winter
layers, waiting to go out
.
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between the old man
between the old man
snoring and the younger man
pacing the wooden
floorboards from above, we learn to
coexist, one night at a time
.
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our neighbor who gets
our neighbor who gets
up at four a.m. to take
calls with a global
workforce is most likely a
baritone, reaching for our sleep
.
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it is looking more and
it is looking more and
more likely that
we have been weighing
the wrong things, counting
and measuring
that which is
not easily
quantifiable, things we
can’t wrap our heads
around. we have
disassociated, splintered,
fractured ourselves for
too long to contain
so much, we can’t
be reliable data
within these set
values, even words
are no longer
enough, nor
meaningful
.
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