BLOOD NOTES, currently 7 entries

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blood notes

God still doesn’t know how long dying takes.

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Red
says to blue: Every mirror is a door if you have an apple.

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I’ve never been the first creature to eat my young.

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I’d keep you alive
but miss
your ghost.

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blood notes

I no longer sleep on my right side because it feels as if I’m too far from the earth that stopped my heart.

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God
will do it

but you’ve got to give him a bone from the body of an angel.

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I pretend to be sick because I believe that I am.

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blood notes

I can tell by my arm that I am not always there when they burn my cigarette.

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Abortion. Tire Swing.

I don’t know all seven stages of staying warm in Ohio.

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Loneliness changes often the name of its creator.

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there is no earlier dream
no slipping
from the past

of every beast we haven’t eaten

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god has two sticks
dog
and echo

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all snow was born in a cigarette

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I worry that God is not nostalgic.

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I forget
near bathwater

my son’s
body.

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Name a movie missed by a ghost.

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blood notes

at the longest
party
thrown
for god, does water

dream it’s found

the spot
where ghost
went in

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blood notes

Loss isn’t the only child of death,
but is the most spoiled.

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Disappearance has its limits.

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Animals
don’t waste
their pain.

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