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April 2013

The Lady Bird

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When That First Bird Hatched “InT.O.” That Egg That Egg Became A Lonely Bird Knew How To Fly Before A Bird Never Stopped until Destination Reached #MissionCompleted Always Got The Best Bread Crumbs A Bird Can Taste The Freshest Cleanest Water Not Even Man Could Get This Water The Best Bird Bath Ever Was Taken They Called Him #BIRDUP When He Landed She Always Told All The Other Birds & All The Other People “I Shit Accident Money” I Call Em Blessings Was All White With 2 Colors From The Rainbow Beak Gey ThunderStorm & Eyes Red With Headphones On Jammin “I’ll Fly Away” By Kanye West Screaming Wesssstside!!! Lol 🙂 “The Miracle” The Illest Shit Known To Man #BIRDUP True Story

Interest on an Inheritance of Silver

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The silver pieces from my father’s leather purse
never run out
while I pump them into the empty vending machine
for longer than I can remember
and though each coin I insert
makes my flesh grow thinner
like rain on paper
my skeleton stands eternal
condemned to an infinite glowing
like that stale light
from the droning vending machine
at the end of this dark hallway
where deactivated bulbs emit alternating currents
of dis orieNt AT ION
through this hotel
in the common cold after a blackout
where from haunted balconies
flashes of lightening in the night
look tangibly present and deeply frightening.
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