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By the Wire to the Contagious HouseholdIt is spring. / that is to say / another season tries to begin

The Things I Am NotI am not the things that have happened to me. / Let those words stand like a cup on the table, / plain, chipped, steadfast ...

LIFE SENTENCESometimes, / you are brought back to life / only to serve

@Blue-Sapphire4

ThoughtsThey drag themselves with a feeble gait, / none like the other, each its own. / In a corner of the skull, wet from the rain,

Did I die or did I recover?I freak out, / pop my top, / and

@EtherealWoman15

Rights in AmericaOur rights have been taken away / Only our lefts remain / We've been suckered punched from the Belt

@South-by-Southwest18

Helter SkelterCharles (Charlie) Manson 1969 / was in the Local News mostly The Times / when he committed the crimes.

@cj-sutherland90

Fur and fangEach time I ventured out / into the wood, / I came back with less.

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****** for a Jar of Red *** (Palindrome Poem Attempt)I am the hunter / He is the hunted / He is the hunter

@Snaring-Snowshoes22

INSIDE MAUSOLEUM DOORSA matrimony inside mausoleum doors / I feel the draft come seething in waves / All God's memories of me are fleeting

@blackcatpoetry14

VisitationAn unfamiliar sound disturbed my sleep— / And as I drew the curtains from my brain, / I there beheld a sight to make one weep:

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*****TW: mention of bulimia / I’ve spent so many hours, days / hunched over a toilet, kneeling on bruised knees,

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ADHDe-clutteringFolded, filed, neatly piled. / Found some things, and then I lost them. / This body teeters towards exhaustion.

A Woman In My YardThere’s a woman in my yard, / settled like she belongs there, / refusing to leave.

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running in the darkThere’s something truly enlivening. / about running in the dark, / running free-form, with the cold trying

AcupunctureMusical hands of yours, / precise and delicate; / Place another needle

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