a_tightening_of_the_jaw
raze do you destroy your work
or does the work devour you?
it begs a different question
when the begging fails to draw
an answer from the lusty lips of anyone
too pure to be unbroken by
the words that do the breaking
when the breaking gets done
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...
raze you return to these things
because there's comfort in them
the way you sag into
the arms of an old bed
the phantom limbs of
that dimpled box
holding you where
growth is not an option

and everything
is everything
to everyone else
and nothing is resolved
when you barter with yourself

the music was better
than the movie deserved

now slow fade
dark space
roll credits

cut the quick kiss
from the long tooth
and carry it home

repeat the phrase until
it loses all meaning
and language will learn
to attend to its own needs
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
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