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a shelf of hollowed books
like a forest of rotten trees
filling the heartwood with pretty rocks
paper stars, old guitar strings
fortunes from Chinese cookies
love letters, bent nails, and stripped screws
I don't know how to silence a songbird
only how to kill a finch
but I think it might start here
like a forest of rotten trees
filling the heartwood with pretty rocks
paper stars, old guitar strings
fortunes from Chinese cookies
love letters, bent nails, and stripped screws
I don't know how to silence a songbird
only how to kill a finch
but I think it might start here
Literature
chaos theory
I soaked your butterflies in vodka
and buried them alive.
I planted yellow daisies in the 20-proof dirt
and waited for the sunshine
to make us all
golden.
Sometimes when the winds are angry where you are,
I think of your butterflies and wonder
if we're all still fighting to get out.
If they ever named a hurricane after me
I would call you up just to say
I told you so.
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martini
In five years,
I will sit at an
oaken bar in a
little black dress
with my legs crossed,
watching my reflection
in the aged whiskey bottles
receive drinks with
small swords stabbed
through olive hearts.
I will cup my chin
in my palm and
not break the stare
of my reflection
because these drinks
are not love or from
men I could love.
They are crude boys
with jackal grins and
hands that only know
how to destroy.
I will not trust them,
but I will know how
to catch their eye
with posture and
grace, and scorn
them with a sneer
and a sharp tongue
so I may drink
their money away
in peace.
Literature
we were sketches when he began,
- and god painted
us with
almond-shaped eyes so that
we could see the edge
of the horizon,
see the way the
sea meets
the shore and learn
how to smile like the world does -
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they say Christopher Robin was delusional
but you cannot so easily dethrone a hero
but you cannot so easily dethrone a hero
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Was the last stanza influenced by TKAM?