

collapse for youCollapse Over the smoke rises the broken and pale Live the end from the start where it fell Looks as if I am built up toe to finger tip Able stretched bones collapse but never rip Pleading lungs breathe thick air through the movement of sound Slowly my embers hit the ground Every fold is my breakdowncollapse for you


polarpolar The orb looks out of my mind into the ink of your pen Eloquent tongue taking leaps off the page and sets in Speaking glass cuts the roof of your mouth One headed north the other south Swaying cursive covered in milk Words uttered doused in oil Find the hand moving among silk Breath betrayed by English soiled Once sweet with sugar Now grained with sour salt Could I kiss you and make you clean The person behind the art Fill the middle betweenpolar


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A junkie for words on a page The pen spills out beautiful pharmaceuticals Out of habit she reaches for more The constant itch demands a letter fix Cursive pours from the papered bottle She reads the correct dosage as the ink sets in Opiate speaking spews from the mouth Lighting up ideas from a deluded brain Words in a shot glass kill the pain When pages stop turning so does the beating


U and iU and i Have some things in common both vowels, both one of a kind u dares I to dream of all kinds of sound I and u share Many words, All Sweet—like Potpourri All Soft—comforting And therapeutic Together U and i Are connoisseurs Of intelligent thought Or perhaps, more Simply, understanding Of the universe but what is most interesting and Wholly remarkable— u and I are so many things when all the letters surrounding Collide, but When together alone, [phonetically] &nU and i
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