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A Hard Woman To Love
I hate the fucking fairy tales and what they’ve done and how they’ve separated you from me and me from you and me from me and you from you. Glamorous poverty, fashionable drama. I fucking hate it. Blechhhh But such is life, no? There is only 1 best hand to play and you won’t know…
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You can’t go
I can’t bear the thought of losing you Now that the possibility is so real There’s darkness there, underneath it all That I just don’t want to feel With you I’m sane, and safe and held, No matter if we fight Fighting, now, is just our language To try to do what’s right. But you’re…
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This is a big day
It is a pain that is endless and I have been taught that it is the enemy, So I am unfamiliar and thus afraid and in a denying way. Which gives me great hope Which gives me great hope The nature of this world and of raising children is to teach unfamiliar as fear and…
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True Love:Enemy Combatant
We are enemy combatants Men and Women And the only revolutionary thing Enemy combatants can do Is to make true love. If there are people out there staking their claim to one side or the other Holding up their flag or holding the flag of the other, unless they have made true love They are…
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Happy Birthday
Trust yourself because there’s no one else and no one inside of you and the because the weight from the outside, the opinions, the chaos, the directions they are meaningless in the face of your own truth And most likely it will be a wisp to start with a tendril of smoke indicating the still…
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All I See Is Me
I look at you and all I see is me And I disagree with myself And can’t understand why. The act of prying my perception From your personhood Is like pulling on Velcro until You realize it doesn’t come apart Am I stuck to this perception Am I one piece of fabric How the hell…
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A Mountain’s Winter Call
My heart yearns For the call of the winter bird As spring awakens On the earth It awakens in me. And the mess of a natural field And a respectful human Who works, grateful Full of reverence for what the natural mess Provides. Winters cover Melts into spring grasses The land losing its hardness The…
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I will do better
When there is no light to find friends or see foes I will do better. When fear rules the day and righteousness is an answer I will do better. When hate is rationalized to conquer hate. I will do better. When questions are judged and then hidden away. I will do better. When we can’t…
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Are you sure?
I love the truth. I have no idea what it is other than the feeling I get in my depth when I hear it or see it Actually there is one way to know it, beyond feeling If it leads to further questions, it is the truth. And, at my best, the truth is…
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Inventing Joy
I woke up to joy today But I didn’t know it was there Mostly I was tired Mostly I didn’t care. But mostly’s not everything its only 95%. The other little piece is where my money’s spent. This is what I want to build this small and potent 5% I’m finished willing it to happen…
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Fatherhood: Carrying Fire in the Darkness
Who knows the tremondosity of a young boys’ fear? I do. I do. I do. Little body, waif like knees – askance in the darkness New fingers rubbing tired eyes, alone, having given up Waiting beyond hope, to be rescued and taken in. I fly from my bed, beyond my shape and sedentary style I…
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