Category Archives: Poetry

100 Words: Deserves

An electrical cord around the throat will not kill you if you cannot find a way to tighten the noose. It is hard to make the cord make knots when your hands are shaking. Misery makes your hands shake. Life … Continue reading

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This Heart

This heart that beats and bleeds is but a little pump; it cycles blood around in the closed shell of this ridiculous flesh. It is a thing of meat that the rest of this meat requires. This heart that sings … Continue reading

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Passion

Sweetness on the tongue can help you to destroy the very thing you think you love; the sugar’s just a ploy to deepen every kiss into a savage cry of joy that sings in every language known to man. So … Continue reading

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Enough

What are these cuts in me these slashes leaving me bloodless, leaving me thirsty, leaving me alone and naked and cold? Who am I with these scars I don’t recognize? I’m not at all the man I thought I would … Continue reading

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I will be

What is it we are running from if not the hatred we see in one another’s eyes? What is it we are dying from if not the weapons we wield against one another? Save me, sell me, make me into … Continue reading

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