Blue is the new Green, And You are the new Food (Draft 1)

I have tasted your chicken,
But it needs improvement.
It needs a little salt, a crispier shell
It needs to be a little bigger.
I have tasted your oranges
plucked from the trees
of the rolling hills that know you.
I have gone sick from their citrus,
The acid dancing in my chest, but
still I say they are not as fine
as they [...]

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When Chocolate Rules

It is unfortunate but true
I have been kidnapped by the gods
Of chocolate.
First they gave it to me with caramel
then they covered it with whip cream,
and I was hooked.
They say the world is green, black.
Whatever.
It is brown.
It dominates my thoughts
It is the sex I’m not having,
And the soul I long for
In the cold in the bitter [...]

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The ‘Necessary’ Hours (Draft 2)

07/09/08
The ‘Necessary’ Hours
I swear the air is fine in here
these cool castings do not bite
the hapless creature inside of them.
Reckless soul found unwinding only in dreams.
The sweet soft sexuality of an automatic stapler.
The shock that shocks the accounting manager
in her puffy suit with the tag sticking out.
Endlessly there is an answer blotted out
by the comfort [...]

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The ‘Necessary’ Hours (Draft 1)

I swear the air is fine in here
these cool castings do not bite
the hapless creature inside of them.
Reckless soul found unwinding only in dreams.
The sweet soft sexuality of an automatic stapler.
The shock that shocks the accounting manager
in her puffy suit with the tag sticking out.
Endlessly there is an answer blotted out
by the comfort of a [...]

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And in the End

And in the end
And in the end there was the sin of wanting too much and not enough
Prostrated ethanol
Like candied walnuts
In Haiti the appetite
Biting like a fish on a hook
Happy to eat but afraid
Of unforgivingness of pain
That means more
Hunger.

And in the end there was that face who never seemed to see all I see.
A stream [...]

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