October 2011
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You tighten the leash You steady your voice as you Issue another demand Your iron confidence is paper-thin And your leash is a Cheap masquerade, a ruse A thrown voice, a paper tiger You are fractures and sighs and slumped shoulders You are the tightened edge of a forced smile And you hate that I see through you
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Glass barrier locks you out And locks me out So we burn down our evenings Watching and longing and aching
I could wait a thousand years It’s too sweet having each other But itches need scratched And I can’t get younger Let’s feel without feeling for another night
Use what you’ve got Don’t waste what you’ve got Don’t wait for permission And miss...
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You were a whisper. You were breathed into my life and gone almost as quickly as you arrived. You imprinted yourself onto my skin, a scar, so that I couldn’t forget you after you had dissipated into nothingness. I gladly absorbed you and let you cling like cigarette smoke. You burned me from the inside out with your recklessness and asked that I proceed with equal abandon. On cold...
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One by one, the old icons fall. The old gods, objects of faith and endless trust, dedication and devotion. They are torn down by the piercing laser light of insight as the tools provided are used as weapons against ages-old institutions that are failing. It’s an effort to snuff out the lies, to weed away life’s falseness, to pierce the cheap plastic veneer, to tear away the...