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love, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, the State

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broken-hearted
because I
loved the
State

but the State
never loved
me

so let’s not
talk forgiveness,
transcendence or
redemption

because the State
never loved me

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COLD COMFORT

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bale, Humanity, love, meaning, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, postmodern, poststructuralist

COLD COMFORT

post-truth
post-shame
post-love

the red stuff
that made us
true to
ourselves
bleached out
of our cells

the colors run
into each other
giving each other cold
comfort
as if with infection

like the spread of
a virus

gross parody, mimicry
of love
(making
the rehearsed
moves
but
no
conviction

unless conviction is a
box to
contain

drum to
be beaten

sky to fill
with abysmal cloud

FUNNY

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Desire, love, poem, satire, time, Universe

FUNNY

funny
can’t last
five minutes
without you

and the Universe lasted
billions of years
without me

READER

Tags

eternity, love, poem, poetry, Reader

READER

no one reads me
like she does

cracks my code
like an
enigma machine

knows that
there is something
more substantial
than the words

will
survive this

a time when
the Universe will
make of the
stuff we
we were
we are

a completeness
that must come to be

LEARN

Tags

digital, poem, poetry, Sexual, virtual, writing

LEARN

hard to
show not tell

when you
talking virtual lover

hard for words to
replace the look, the smell,
the touch

but they
can do
their best
their very best

and they
can learn

BITS

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Alien, cannibalism, Desire, Humanity, hunger, identity, loneliness, love, poem, poetry, science fiction, transformation, Twist in the tail, Universe, woman

BITS

So long on
the planet

have begun to

think
like the planet

look
like the planet

mountains of alien
thrusting up
through my
flesh as
new landscape
takes place

which brings me to
my humanity, species
that needs company

and thought of
my hunger, my loneliness

whether I need partner
for love or
just
to
chop into bits.

GAP IN THE POLICY

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death, Humanity, loss, love, migrant children, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, wall

GAP IN THE POLICY

there is a
gap
in the
policy

there is
a chink
in the fence

a hole in
the wall
that lets
hope
through

and death

and death

BEAUTIFUL

Tags

death, Ending, loss, love, poem, poetry

BEAUTIFUL

we do not find
redemption

it is never
our call to make

I wander across the snow and ice
so few breaths left and
the wounds love gave me
beginning to tear

and yet
where is the blood you
were expecting: a desultory few
warm drops against
this expanse of white

the darkness at least
falling, promising to
make this last moment beautiful

NEITHER

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erotic, identity, love, Other, poem, poetry, power, Race, Sexual

NEITHER

either
neither

neither
either

trying to chip my paint off
but it’s difficult — no,
impossible!

the logic of binary
imprinted on my skin
creased into my brain

and yet
I am what
I am (forgive
my antique French)

no archetype me
I do not encapsulate
embody either

and so
I look into your otherness
to escape dilemma, dichotomy
of dead alternatives

your body
different beyond different

and yet
my fingers enter you, these
aforementioned, paint-stripping, absolving fingers,
find you
— as far as it goes — the almost
perfect mirror to
my touch

ON HOLD

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love, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, sexual symbolism

ON HOLD

I have put my desire on hold
all those needs to
squeeze you tightly up against me
whisper sweet and crazy stories
before it gets time
for lullabies

no today I am putting myself
totally at your service
will feed you, heal you,
make you so very well
so better than well
I had convinced myself that
this was within
my range, no
limit here to my capacity

could tend to you emotionally,
physically, spiritually
like a Saint

but then the word
“physical” got my
brain fuming, head spinning
for then, of
course that would imply
careful, tender washing

each and
every
part

so many
too many

lines here

of least resistance.