Rachael Swiss Poems

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1.
The Lion And The Unicorn

Real men don't cry
Or write poetry
But you did, and I made you
I stood frozen as an ice sculpture
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2.
Poem For A Non-Religious Gospel Speaking Choir Of One

the last thing i want to hear
late at night,
before i close my eyes,
is your voice.
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3.
Harlem At 125th Street

Live corpses wander littered sidewalks
Shoeless, legless, toothless and tired
The refuse of a city built on broken promises.
Pregnancy runs rampant - a self-perpetuating disease
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4.
Pools

They say that eyes are the windows to the soul
And so I paint yours pale
And vast
And blue as tiny slivers of beach glass
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5.
Causalgia

Even though the connection was severed
I still feel the pain
In the phantom limbs that make up the
Giving Tree that is my
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6.
Villain Elle

“The girl is wicked”, so they say,
“A succubus, she’ll cause you pain -
She doesn’t love you anyway.”
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7.
I Pick At Scabs

There are fragments of your flesh
Trapped
Underneath my fingernails
Crusted blood in frozen coils
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8.
Regret: A Loathsome Lonely Torture

I pretend to sleep beside you -
Lying awake with heightened awareness
Attempting to preserve this moment,
Encapsulate it in a memory,
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9.
Spoon

whenever i sleep i sprawl.
i cover my bed with the
entirety of my entity
to make up for the loss
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10.
The Dog And Pony Show

Ballerina in a music box
Red smile painted on,
I twirl for you till the music stops
And frown when you are gone.
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