you’re a very dangerous candidate 
in fact they voted you most likely 
to bite my head off we went thick as thieves or lovers 

what’s the difference these days?
it’s a wash how much of you in me
me in you and the threat of 

skincloseness
is always more lethal 
than it actually is
ola wave hello hola wave hello ola 

i waltzed in to disposition 
i never listened to what he said 
it took a while without clinician 
i never saw the light turn red

i danced away from supposition 
the table cluttered buttered bread
toast and deals and inquisition
had made the tide turn sickly red

so what the deal was intuition 
the bonds between the left unsaid
bugs and worms gift us fruition
of things we thought we once were dead

perhaps the need is complication
of settled stories told unfrayed
or better yet a small vacation 
shoulda gone or shoulda stayed?

My heart rests, by the cold fountain.
               (Fill it with threads,
               spider of silence.)
— Read on hellopoetry.com/poem/623223/dream/

I want to sleep the sleep of the apples,
I want to get far away from the busyness of the cemeteries.
I want to sleep the sleep of that child
who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea.
— Read on poets.org/poem/gacela-dark-death

you should be so gleeful 
your face, the one you put on
can drop even for a minute 
is enough to know the feeling
freeing you up on makin new 
    things possible again
and again and again and 
i love this fact, again 
i represented the vested 
interested of the vested few
who still scrape diamonds 
from humanity into private
hands are soft but quick
i gift you the lilac
no subtext
just flowers and giggles
i gift you the lily
it’s biblical and rolls off
tongue lilting, slyly 
shy and angry all the time
rightly so i think 
but placed where?

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