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  • our mothers poke holes in things that don’t breathe
  • my life went pretty quickly from collecting jump scares for melancholy to knowing one thing about the suicide of an unusual person
  • off and on crying beside small ambulances of dog worry, I cannot sleep like a baby
  • I’m not gentle, I’m not you
  • lightswitch
  • genitalia,
  • cause worry
  • the tongue rolls time into the cigarette of a puzzled ghost
  • the eye at least knows its emptiness
  • a number of my sadnesses have disappeared
  • what we see of a star is star’s regret for dying once
  • babies doing nothing
  • longevity
  • the loneliness museum runs out of money before the suicide museum can afford advertising
  • poet Darren C. Demaree, all things Ohio, no thing Ohio, Ohio book award finalist, words toward and away from work, from works, and addiction

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  • 5 poems at Cultural Daily
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  • interview on The Collidescope Podcast, George Salis, 2024
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