Where I come from
blood and names mean nothing
and sworn oaths even less.
But prized most of all
is that old art
of playing dirty -
so dirty
no one else
can even see the game.
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He was the only one of us
who still followed the sea.
He was a wanderer,
who could abide
no stay-at-home
order
'til the sea
became his country.
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The future is yours
and the present is mine,
but it isn't all it might be.
Things go wrong.
I talk to myself.
I can't explain it at all -
whether I guess
right or wrong,
I can't be the first to speak -
or the last.
In the end,
there is nothing I desire
so much
as to become nothing.
marble eye
bulging
out of its socket
stiff neck
coiling
thick as marine rope
dizzy nausea
swooning
drags me to the bed
hated pain
blazing
throws me into hell
again and again and again
and again and again and
again and again and again
and again and again and
The dead don't rise
like yeast
or dough
oh no
the dead rise
like a grumpy
yeti
with nails clawing
and voice squalling
from the icy
pits of hell.
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Kindred spirits
unconscious of any
existential separation -
twine together
like the layers
of a friendship
bracelet,
never to unravel
or fray,
no matter
how often
they are worn.