

Desert IconsDiscreetly placed outside an art gallery in Upstate New York, A placard informs curious patrons that the works Within are specifically meant for American consumption. Ignorant innocence breeds affinity and a careless reading Of the message to that extent brings some visitors to believe The paintings are a gift to the American people, Doubtlessly given in the spirit of cultural exchange and enlightenment.Desert Icons
But this is not the case.
The placard instead serves as a warning for the potential diasapora,
The kinspeople of the artists, which abstractly depicted the most Sacred


Campus LifeThrough composite glances, I've started to notice, That I look more gaunt Than in previous months.Campus Life
Maybe I haven't been... Eating well, perhaps. Yet, I have the same money for food And stand in line at supermarkets With everyone else. There, the thin faces of celebrity Stare at me from glossy dimensions. I try to avoid eye contact. Confrontation makes me uneasy-- It's not as if they don't Get enough attention, anyway. I wonder
If they might have something to do with it.
I've started exercising, too.
Work has been v


AutopoesisSome people claim writing poetry Is difficult. I respectfully disagree. In fact, I am writing as we speak, So to speak, Although, in truth, for you, It is finished, already written. Alas, I digress And now my exposition Is clipping to a close. So, before we're through,Autopoesis
I will leave to you A single parting thought: The writing is simple in its way-- Results are open for interpretion. Just remember, if you find that tough to take, Many things can pass as chicken, But good eggs are hard to fake.


RecoveryI wander in light bleeding through a drab sea Hung with moth-eaten sidewalk rapport Amidst the annihilations of November, Contemplating, trying to remember, Beneath steel clouds and branches empty, How the world used to be...before.Recovery
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Your last thought Was of a reflection caught In bedside mirrors Where, on a thin metal table, You were crucified, died, But not buried, Carried back in linen shrouds To an alcove, curtains drawn, That opening sealed, then unsealed An hour later, When you rose from the shallows of the dead  
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... and to some God, is hope and nothing more.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria notare!
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
--
Dulce et decorum est pro patria notare!
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria notare!
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"The greatest purpose in a human life is not to love - but to persist in love."
-- August Boatwright (The Secret Life of Bees)
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