great viral chains all drawn and stretched out anchored to some undiscovered point past the clouds cosmic and leering leaving whorls and eddies of cotton in their wake as meandering fingers doused in white drag across the bone dry blue one day the boy will look at the ...
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Walmart Weirdos
In the local Walmart with Bianca, I noticed I’d become my own shopping cart. She pushed me up and down the aisles as we looked around and picked up the things we needed, each item accumulating on my lap. At that time, I was still getting used to life in a wheelchair ...
In
my room
until inculcated echoes
memories
of self-care elixirs
unbottled
assuring depression excision
via exercise goad me
finally
out
to
roads
where I run by others
humans
at least 6 feet apart
and we make space
for each other
...
1. PRECIPICES [2]
i. Today, 7 April 20, fittingly,
marks anniversary
#26 of the Congo’s dreadful Ebola
fight/flight.
Now embrace
full monte* to assault, naked,
COVID mountain
or hangdog,*
our lax attitude maintenance
could drop Us
...
Night is a devilish harbinger, bringing
dreams and fears that infiltrate
your sleeping mind,
where they feed until
either your heart screams
for release or the dawn arrives,
a stake in the vampire thoughts that
drain the soul and foretell a doom
you perceive is always ...
I hate the word.
“I.”
“I,” what a hollow, selfish word to speak as the crowned lady takes prisoners. “I,” the vastness of an empty apartment, walls naked . “I,” a cell phone without messages.
“Darling.” “Sweetheart.” These are but ghosts of names, ...
I am not
–
yet
–
what I am:
a memory lost:
self-consumer
in wire lightning
rise and vanish
ship wrec k
nothing ness of scorn & NO
ise stranger than the rest i long
for screams smiled with my
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