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some people fly airplanes

there are those born into this life
and can not crack the jawbone
that snaps their body tightly
held in it's mouth
where you keep fighting
or you just learn the softest way
to give up

you may meet a child,
son of a doctor,
when you're 5 years old

you marvel
at their creature comforts
their bedroom shelf stuffed
with the dreams of 
television commercials
you never thought you'd see
on the other side of the screen

you may feel a stubborn sting
your hardly tuned in to
to recognize
your face still fresh from the awe
as you pass their gardener on  leaving

he says to you:
some men are born to sweep floors
some people fly airplanes
and you never fully know what he means
as you crack open the rusted door
of your mother's chevy nova
and you don't know what he means
until just now
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i forgot what i was going to say

i

forgot

what
i

was

going

to

say.
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Half A Haze

a minipops that desires dusting 
text messages that pile in
without answering
a thumbs emoji...
maybe?

listen to the new tame impala song
feel blah
headphones on
a coffee cup 
that doesn't kick in
wont do its trick

a day that doesn't start
a lopsided numb
half a haze

email to deleted 
groupons, bernie sanders
healthfirst and 
the universe's 
secrets whispered 
via the mouth of astrology
wait.
 that one's worth keeping
... for the time being at least

a day that doesn't start
an uneven, growing numb
who's only remarkable remarks
are
half a haze
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Jupiter Ice Blue


you could 
walk the rings of saturn
i'd be sadder 
but for you

jupiter ice blue
it's like your eyes 
i feel it too 

you could be distant 
a galaxy unseeable 
from my telescope
yeah there's no hope
i'll ever reach you

you could scatter 
amongst the stars
scavenger that you are
what the Universe 
    is expanding into 
makes you more far today 
    than i ever knew 

you're more far away today 
    than you ever were 
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Looking Into Extinction

Where in the ice age are we?
are we about to go extinct?
have opposing civilizations
shared their bombs with us
and they have yet to land?

Should we be sleeping still,
in the similar stillness as
we've been sleeping?
when missiles have given birth
& humankind
is looking into extinction

as we eat our own flesh to survive
the taste in humanity's mouth sours
from licking rancid salt off the bone



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a distant faucet

a distant faucet 
steams shower water
an unremarkable hum
constant white static

pipe bursts startles
transitory clanging
a furnace breathing fire
hammering in the
 neighboring room

a tinnitus high frequency   
the background noise
of podcasts 
of roommates grooming
of house cats purring

the added distraction-
      subtraction 
from the whole of living life 
      at its highest 
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Xmas Lights


one day
these xmas lights 
wont be here

the trees will be 
stripped bare
this electric blue 
that performs for me now
will be no longer dancing 

on my walks home
there will be 
no reason to look up
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Capricorn Stellium

so many aligning planets
Capricorn blood 
don't fail me now 
while my pay grade 
may go retrograde 
i'm the kind that could still 
sink on solid ground

major shifts in the stars
still strike my stomach like 
a bowling bowl
in the alley 

rolling endless gutter balls
into the gutter
align with the clutter 
of needs unfed 
and the swift demands 
of promise not met 

i've got so much potential 
and expectations
to not live up to
it's a surprise i'm even living 
like this 

cramped in a Capricorn corner
i've ambitiously painted 
myself into
just days after the 
embarrassing anniversary 
of my birth
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to skip a stone

there's many ways 
to skip a stone 
across water:

some leap frog gleeful
others oscillate as if a UFO
some make the rings of Saturn 
others make a sign of the cross
before they're fed 
to the watery bottom 

ive been that pebble before
plucked from the shore
to frolic against gravity 
tap dance glass surface   
tearing temporarily from the fabric of space 
before the inevitable plunge  

i send my prayers
to both the stones
that sink to the bottom of the pond
and those that make it across
to the opposite shore 

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