she is on autopilot
Misplacing
her phone
her words.
It's hard to write a poem when
Read moreme and my (12/30)
when even my shadow is foreign...
when she speaks too quickly
in bright colors and pitch
nuance and rhythm which
i don't recognize.
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you know,
you can squeeze that
damn fruit so hard--
use the blender's power and skill
and perhaps still...
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I don't understand
the phrase: A STRONG BLACK WOMAN.
Damn redundancy.
press (9/10)
match (8/30)
dying girl,
you are not a match.
you get more than one strike
before you are out--
extinguished
discarded
Read moreUp (7/30)
They say that the trees
are like lungs--
the branches reaching up
like the interstitial rungs
Read moreInterrogration (6/30)
is there a cure?
wait, are you sure?
what is it called again?
can I catch it too?
and you're positive
there's no more doing
for the doctors to do?
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