kingsoftrain

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.

Ohio handcuffs:

two poor people
trading facts
about circles

perhaps you know
it already
that when jesus
got to heaven
he was still
part human

to preserve
our obsession
with longing

this mark
death makes
on god

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.

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.

A swimmer doing a handstand. A wrist from the world of dolls. An Ohio squirrel sharpening a baby’s tooth. Doom as it strokes thunder’s hair. Vandals protecting the dreams of one beached whale. The earaches that learn of my son whenever my knees touch. The suicide recorded by the longest god.