dove swept;

I haven’t slept.

And after the fact, I’m spinning and regretful,

like the tube sock & soap bar—wielded, wove

and struck down to surface, landing like the

little dove.  Gets you numb after a minute.

And here we are right now—

she employs the cigarette with the pink stem.

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Little beauty, off her jazzercise and yogic

quotes—isn’t this a chore?  Blow out and into

my fugue state;

you’ll be a fellow to the culling soon, too.

Lest you drop like the jackhammer,

swallow that familiar motif, & fill yourself with its rarity.

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And while you, ooh, spill out all of that rose water,

release that smoke, let me pine over your utterances.

Figure I’d place my love here extemporaneously;

I’ll find the nook to place it in, nearer God: soon, too.

Locale is liminal when it comes to the heart,

stretched in everyone’s mind.

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You do this and the thinking’s below you.

But I know your wonder.

You always said the pain was compulsory.

The suffering, though, that’s optional,

my little dove.