Butchering

It doesn't make it any easier
The dusky hues flickering on the screen
There is no payoff

Verbatim

Designing a bridge
Not with giant bolts
Steel cable
Rather in conversation

Billions of islands
Marbles in a jar
Bubbles in sparkling flute

Noise cancelling
Trench coating
Peacock strutting

Nothing helps the slow bleed
Being somewhere
On a fringe
Of where you should be
Hanging upside down
On a swinging hook
Draining

In the same shape
A mishap draws closer
Making average seem average

Pictures in color
On a screen
Or a polaroid
For that matter
Isn't living
It's bee hiving
Nesting
Sacrificing
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1/22/09