1 post from March 2008

I dreamed last night that I was kissing her belly, and I told her how much I used to love her.
"Now I remember," she said.

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whispered hymn,  12-28-2007
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I hope the years have worn you to the bone,
I know you're just as lovely,
I hope you're sitting, cold and all alone,
Of course you're with somebody,
And if you think of me,
The crystal moments in my memory,
Are blurred, anonymous and dim,
Still, you linger in me like a whispered hymn.
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chorus falling back, 1-3-2008
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in the heel of life,
where consequences bunch and burn and itch,
staring into nothing, some distraction,
drinking something warm and almost soothing,
radiating, slow and soft and desolate,
chorus falling back behind the curtain,
and in the haunted echo, just to whistle,
just to not look back
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wave the rabbit, feb/march 2008
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shuffle, try to find a place to stand,
amid uncomfortable answers,
mutter in an awkward sleight-of-hand,
wave the rabbit, hide the cancer,

& in the traffic in the living rooms & cubicles,
you shudder imperceptibly,
your cheeks are burning & your spinal cord's an icicle,
& tunnel vision's all you see,

power through, though, knowing everything passes,
any avalanche could uncover a vein,
you know the crawling time will very soon be far too fast,
on this relentless train.