half_asleep_poems
raze i see courage
diving into wildfires
with you 		220415
...
raze practice
the sand you've written
there are always
other eyes 		220423
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raze each piece of me
you understand
is misted into memory 		220502
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raze once to make it honest
twice to make it true
three times in my arms
shivering you 		220514
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raze he's always got
these words
in his mouth:
meeting
time
away
joy 		220612
...
raze there are so many hands
that want to hold you
every night
like a tadpole
being born 		220709
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epitome of incomprehensibility 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. 		220710
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e_o_i (And raze, I love your last one!) 220710
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raze (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.) 220711
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raze the curling bar divides
what isn't mine
from what belongs
to someone else's mind 		220712
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raze imagine what it makes me
to know you this way 		220714
...
raze coarse material
verge veneer
lonely 		220721
...
raze the park
the path
the pendulum
the pear
the white water

la belle
et la belle
et la belle 		220729
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raze i wonder
if it ever strikes you
the strangeness
of the human being
who grew for nine months
inside of you 		220803
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raze if this skinny storm
and your skin of name
spent their lives hanging
together
who would blink first? 		220810
...
raze the breath
in the film
never stiffened
was just a little dipped out
and never dropped
below freezing 		220817
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raze the longer i'm here
the shorter the distance grows
between where i am
and where i need to be 		220819
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raze naturally
not everything i think
is what should be thought 		220827
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raze what i'm governed by
is the idea
that everything must die
without ever knowing why 		220829
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raze the sun so high
it's never seen
so far
from where we started
this unlovable
carpet of grass 		220904
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raze i only smile
when it gets too tired
for sky 		220905
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raze all you can say
as you take your paws
off the showcase
is okay 		221009
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raze illness
after moonlight
drenched parasites 		221016
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raze tide
or time
always gets
dark enough
to admire 		221022
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raze eyesight
gets us naked
where we can move
through each other 		221028
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raze lost
and broken
with no one
to tattoo 		221029
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raze i carried your kiss
in my mouth
for a year
or three 		221118
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raze it's not
through evidence
life wants to be
weighted 		230319
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past 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 		230425
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raze nothing but net
nothing but crime
i had to get high
now i am all the time 		230503
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raze user clarity
is recommended
get to notice your lease
you just checked out 		230803
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raze love writs —
more of a diva
in the sense of loss. 		231009
what's it to you?
who go 		blather
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