Guidelines for Priests

Avoid the cost of a stable
Identity; look for apples.

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end of the line

The world I

no longer

belonged to

kept going

while I consulted

with the depths in a

dream I visited

but couldn't break out

of in the end.

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Mind Your Manners

Crowded conversations
in transit launched
your reputation.

Now you
excitedly drone on without the bedlam
that colored your old poetry.

You have retired
to the common
horror of yesterday.

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Moving Day

It's hard knowing well
the old done away

But reality
was moving

And endless horns I had already held dreaming
Planned the day I had already begun to hate

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old

Mirrors taunting children,
recreating beautiful remnants
before time and numbers arrested them.

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lighthouse wanted

Housing a romantic notion
of gray grass stoically sloping
after more than a century of darkness,
the lightkeepers ward off heroines
trying to fill the picturesque
with brick and granite views
painted white, automated.

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no coast for the taking

A soft-shell pushover
punched back.
He was the best.

clearly missed the inside
cutting into my friend
contributed mightily
to (their) own demise.

"Tape everything for posterity":
right away we were talking Deja Vu,
Youthful Aggressiveness.

"But those things are to be expected."
Now you can add the name.

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