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half_asleep_poems
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raze
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i see courage
diving into wildfires
with you
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220415
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raze
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practice
the sand you've written
there are always
other eyes
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220423
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raze
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each piece of me
you understand
is misted into memory
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220502
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raze
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once to make it honest
twice to make it true
three times in my arms
shivering you
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220514
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raze
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he's always got
these words
in his mouth:
meeting
time
away
joy
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220612
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raze
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there are so many hands
that want to hold you
every night
like a tadpole
being born
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220709
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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A bit of one from my notebook, from England:
The lovely waters drive,
the nether shores arrive.
...It was supposed to be a lyric from Phantom of the Opera, which I saw in London. The rhythm sounded lulling, but "nether" struck me as potentially and goofily dirty.
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220710
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e_o_i
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(And raze, I love your last one!)
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220710
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raze
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(my half-asleep brain thanks you! they're all really half_asleep_thoughts, but every once in a while something tumbles out that feels more like a baby poem.)
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220711
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raze
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the curling bar divides
what isn't mine
from what belongs
to someone else's mind
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220712
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raze
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imagine what it makes me
to know you this way
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220714
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raze
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coarse material
verge veneer
lonely
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220721
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raze
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the park
the path
the pendulum
the pear
the white water
la belle
et la belle
et la belle
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220729
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raze
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i wonder
if it ever strikes you
the strangeness
of the human being
who grew for nine months
inside of you
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220803
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raze
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if this skinny storm
and your skin of name
spent their lives hanging
together
who would blink first?
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220810
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raze
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the breath
in the film
never stiffened
was just a little dipped out
and never dropped
below freezing
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220817
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raze
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the longer i'm here
the shorter the distance grows
between where i am
and where i need to be
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220819
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raze
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naturally
not everything i think
is what should be thought
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220827
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raze
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what i'm governed by
is the idea
that everything must die
without ever knowing why
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220829
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raze
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the sun so high
it's never seen
so far
from where we started
this unlovable
carpet of grass
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220904
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raze
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i only smile
when it gets too tired
for sky
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220905
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raze
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all you can say
as you take your paws
off the showcase
is okay
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221009
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raze
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illness
after moonlight
drenched parasites
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221016
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raze
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tide
or time
always gets
dark enough
to admire
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221022
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raze
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eyesight
gets us naked
where we can move
through each other
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221028
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raze
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lost
and broken
with no one
to tattoo
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221029
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raze
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i carried your kiss
in my mouth
for a year
or three
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221118
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raze
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it's not
through evidence
life wants to be
weighted
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230319
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past
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i have un rhume
so je suis dans mon room
il me fait cough
mais ne pas a lot
je bois le tea
til j'ai besoin de pee
mais je suis tired
and it makes me wired
so i me couche
on my tush
and dream aux choses
avec plusieurs toes
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230425
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raze
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nothing but net
nothing but crime
i had to get high
now i am all the time
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230503
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raze
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user clarity
is recommended
get to notice your lease
you just checked out
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230803
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raze
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love writs —
more of a diva
in the sense of loss.
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231009
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e_o_i
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Yesterday, I took a nap after the last of the craft show. I couldn't fall asleep right away, so read from my Ogden Nash book until my eyes were tired.
My sleeping brain concocted two lines in his style. I forget them, but I remember "ragamuffin" rhymed with "wagawumpus."
(Both seem like words Nash might use, but not rhyming with each other! He played slow and loose with rhythm, but his rhymes were generally the complete kind.)
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what's it to you?
who
go
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blather
from
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