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xii.Frightening to be like a tulip surrounded by milk bottlesxii.
but also frightening to be surrounded by porches, memories,
and signatures of scars. Here is a trail made blue by confused artists
and there is a student returning backwards with a smile of petals.
God brings me down to the second floor where all murals begin.
With such innocent ideals, we blindly cartwheel, yearn
for pages, and ask someone to hold us.
by ~tsrandall
xi.Somewhere in America the sun goes down.xi.
I’m no sailor—no open mouth waiting to steal books wrapped in old brown paper; still not drunk, not reading poetry.
Blue-chip moments at home wracked by ideas and savage gods. I drank my milk. “Believe me now?”
Sure adventure counts; I’m making love or waking you at six o’clock to morning tears (brighter than hate).
Beneath the city’s white streets the subway sounds are rewriting our history.
“Oh Love,” which is easy to say off the telephone
by ~tsrandall
x.I felt younger my hair was rumpled almost sevenx.
memory is not a friend
he teaches acrobatics and it is forming her into the wallpaper
this never happened before
now that I’m older when you are with a lover it looks like everyone is underwater
by ~tsrandall
ix.Hands never felt rougher than after knotting nine hundred yards of store-bought satisfaction around a pair of inherited needles comfortable as a vintage song.ix.
Reality shudders in ghost stories, tangible and testable in the most extreme cases. Forced air pushing against everything but the exhilaration of white noise’s bastard brother outweighs any regrets.
No one goes out because of the angry tortoise, who is empty evenings and cold bare ground. She lumbers away like sap down winter branches. She won’t wear shoes.
Meanwhile,
by ~tsrandall
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