half_asleep_poem_fifty_two
raze i don't know why we do this.

you stand up stories unsuspended
and ask them to break the promises
you've stitched into their spines.

what_makes_us_human
is that we give in
to the stray impulses
that arrive like blankets
before dawn.

(this insight welded shut
by the woman who wants
nothing to do with it.)

we can create a world
separate from this
a dark but eventful dream
difficult to write about.

your desire to feel safe
outweighs mine,
so we remain divided.

i know what kind
of storytellers we are.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from