Lauren Michaels

This is Fact!
If a quadratic equation
With real coefficients
Has complex roots
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A dichotomy
My skin, pale like my mother
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We Are not used to the heat.
It weighs on us. Heavily.
Faces sheened in sweat.
And red with the slightest exertion.
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Meek now, the night subsiding
We hunch our shoulders against the cold
And troop more than traipse home.
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I found myself alone.
Feet aching, head spinning
Taking a moment to rest.
Suddenly and sadly
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Cowards write poems.
Anyone with half a gram of merit.
Speaks.
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You were just a chubby bundle.
Just a shivering lump.
Of feather scratched skin.
Soft and peach wrinkled.
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Oh please.
Take care of me.
Let me put aside
Resentment and Vitriol
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The pre-morning dew.
Has seeped through our clothes
to the skin.
Aiming steadily towards
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On the waves and the swells of an ocean
Of movement and irrepressible time,
We are carried, carried away.
And holding on,
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I burst out of the stillness of sleep.
Pollute the night with a cacophony of sound.
My hard heartbeat roaring
My heavy chest heaving.
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I've tasted disappointment before,
In fact I was raised
On a fairly stready diet of it.
With the occasional splash of humility
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And if the frost makes the flower
Then it blooms unbidden
And spills out
All terrible colour
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Sun dappled faces move within
Illuminated streams of living in,
Summer out and winter in
yearly movement without, within.
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I'd think it a sign from the gods I think
If I were a little bit less of a cynic.
Tonight something broke in the back of my mind
And in the noise of the shower I cried and
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In autumn. The wind whipping
Dead leaves down a grey street.
Wondering if you could just walk
Backwards. Could this be undone.
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The moon is perfect tonight.
A low golden slit
Obscured By shadow.
An eigth of itself
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My motives are often questioned
Seems I'm not renowned
For my altruism.
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So assess;
The things you know about you.
Find every flighty belief
and every niggling doubt.
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Five particularly stormy days.
As though to welcome me home.
Abandon calm
If you want to have hope
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