i_searched_my_notes_for_the_word_walk
warmthofrelease she had hair that would never stop talking
smooth jump in every step of her walking

(January 2024)



I never meant to trample any flowers
but I always meant to carve a path

never meant to trample those flowers
I just wanted to walk along the path

(March 2020)



not trying to step on toes
sure don't want to get stepped on
but I don't care if I get slept on
not a kleptomaniac trying to steal away the races
I patiently set a walking pace
soloing a marathon
there is no bandwagon to jump on
just a few bleacher seats
where you can listen to the monologue
before I roll out like a pinball
faster than you could turn a camera on
there_are_many_ghosts out there
that you don't ever hear about
because they keep to themselves
I'm one of them
I will not fit beneath an umbrella
I am not interested in shelter
or culture
birds_of_a_feather
breath of a vulture

(December 2018)



would you lean on me for a while
would_you_let_me carry you until you can walk

(June 2021)



I was told
there are seven deadly sins
(gluttony and lust both sound like
subcategories of greed to me but)
in any case my sin is sloth

if only the loneliness wasn't so crippling
then connection wouldn't seem so challenging
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to keep one's footing while still ascending
to work through by feel

if the loneliness wasn't so crippling
then love wouldn't be so receiving
it needs us
but life will persist in the wake of its ruin
as if it was better to have never loved at all

three children walk blind into a love triangle
this happens forever the end

I only ever dance with death,
who's to say
that she wasn't the father this time, who's to say
that he wasn't the mother

(February 2018)



so as
I walk
the fine line
between life
and death
what's yours
is mine

(October 2016)



I'll walk away with what I can
whether delicacy or indeterminacy
I refuse to believe
that it could be both
because I need
to find a reason for
the next thing I need and I couldn't
understand myself if it was true
do you know what Amy told me?

that the word collaborate
also means to betray

(February 2015) 		250831
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