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Neurons flicker like fireflies for
the lithium lickers downstairs, but
I don't know if that's quite right.
Gold dust liquor triggers
...

In the wind Cupid's engraving
sections off the heart in advance
with a lead-pipe arrow, but in
the center a chink blocks their
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My chameleon soul andchammomile brain
tease out the bile, and the camel's back
tries to correct the callous posture
I've come to know, to loathe, to pity.
...

his lungs fly into the forest of frost,
into that empty air on wings.
no dust, no pollen, just cold air.
it's not the wind that cuts into him
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An eskimo kiss
Means a lot more
Than a night together
On my stranger’s couch.
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6.

Draw a few straight lines
Connecting them around
The bends that they should
Make. Do you have an ant?
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Amazing, how ants know
Exactly where to bite,
Inflicting enough pain
To make me forget.
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That person loves me, loves me not,
Loves me, loves me not. I drop the
Petals one by one like crayons.
I am the crayon and the crayon drawing,
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The evanescent bird pecks at my eyes,
Spinning and spinning till I follow,
As a gauche boy, just a boy once
Wanting toys. I may just be a boy,
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I wasn’t whacked
With the lucky stick.
I do not have
A silver tongue.
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Heart of hearts and life of lives,
Flowing through the trees and sky,
You who leave me under hanging knives,
With knots unknotted and the unlied lie,
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12.

Hush this Minute.

Listen to it,
The furious reeking
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Change your pants every day,
Off with your shirt too, the socks,
The shoes; lose it all.
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The lamps go dim, the lamps go dim,
Drawing light from every limb,
Till the skin draws tight and limp, and
The bones begin to creak.
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Just once every year,
I split my mouth
From ear to ear
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I pull it from my hat,
A magician’s white bunny.

The years are like rabbits, but
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I would breath water,
Coughing up marbles
To float up top like
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Insanam uatem aspicies, quae rupe sub ima
Fata canit foliisque notas et nomina mandat
Quaecumque in foliis descripsit carmina uirgo
Digerit in numerum atque antro seclusa relinquit:
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The Best Poem Of Justin Houseman

Psychosomatic Itch

Neurons flicker like fireflies for
the lithium lickers downstairs, but
I don't know if that's quite right.
Gold dust liquor triggers
my allergies and tickles my throat like
dander and feathers, but the Heathers
still have their moat-and I get no gander.
I cast out my fishing pole lines,
Hook and sinker stuck in the thinker.
Not a bite to be gotten, not a fish in sight.
Just sticks and stones like water
under the bridge with bones in the
concrete blocks. But we've all seen how the
knoll takes a toll on the brain, and there's
a lot more sense in trying, so much more
left to gain instead of dying.

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