October 2011
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Youth Lagoon- “17”
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How The Jellyfish Wishes
Have you heard of turtles wishing to live longer so they can nap with their children, just a few hundred more years? The jellyfish wish their hearts to become luminescent, The eight-armed writers wish to shoot ink at their enemies, Some bland fish only wish for the skin of a rainbow. Have you heard of the hump-backs wish for the ability to sing for ten hours straight, to serenade their families...
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A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me
Take your time and don’t worry about getting lost. You’ll find me. Up there, a finger and two dots away. If you’re wondering if I’ll still be able to hold you …I honestly don’t know
But I do know that I could still fall for a swish of light that comes barreling and cascading towards me.
It will resemble your sweet definite hands. The universe will bend. The planets will bow. And I will say “Oh,...
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I say,
In the ghost town of our love
there is a player piano
trying to prove...
– — andrea gibson
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i like my body when it is with your
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur,...
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A WHALE OF A PROBLEM
Dear Oregon State Highway Division, i have a whale in my chest i think it used to be alive used to glide between my organs used to find my loneliest spaces used to fill me with its ocean front but now it’s washed up, the tide bumping it against my shoulders as i lie in bed…
…where i can get some of that whale TNT because i have a whale in my chest and its death balloons faster...