acronymic

smh at the sot
potus, scotus, all of us
 gac if the charge is negligence.

blm, alm, you tell me there's
no difference but have you
ever been stopped for wwb?
i mean really, wwjd? get into the shoes
of the oppressed man, give em some fish.

i been reading r/reddit. everything shorthand
beauty = porn, tl, dr? synopsis at the bottom.
i mean we know you have mittd. a ticket
in your box, a core to unlock.

how's it gonna be
when you don't know me anymore
higbwudkma? right?


drifting down the river
a leaf that fell from your fingers
a flower petal, traces of oil
swirl out from its edges, like
galaxies colliding.

atm they tear into each other
 you are no longer
 who you are,   soldier,
banker, artist, mp. changed
by awesome,stretched and careless
as time-you are the curl
reduced to pieces signifying a whole.
rip and roll and gop.












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you wrote to escape
but when they found you
inside the poem your fingers
went on strike, your tongue cleaved
to the roof of your mouth, thoughts
evaporated to salt. you don't
want to know how stupid you look
or the way you have to hold
your eyes when that part of the song
comes around. at least there's chocklate
in the cellar. and you found out
you weren't unrecordable after all.

write this down, they said.
you look for your book
tear out the images
remember that poetry
only lives if someone reads it.
so you read it. then send it to jack
who ceremoniously burns it
in his backyard on the full moon
and buries the ashes in the trash can
where you know you will at last be safe.






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tonght the sun was down when i left the building   rain made the day dull, so we couldn't gloat over nice weather but it wasn't cold so there's that. afterglow  hung in clouds to the east while the western sky
was a  grey blanket burning under its edges. .i wondered if satellites saw the fire and who they could notify to put it out. but then the world turned a few seconds and the fire died. i thought about how your brother died on the plane,flying into the sunrise and no one in the family knew what happened because dying on a plane that didn't crash is not something you think about when your brother goes missing on the way home from another country. you think about kidnapping, or lostness or injury not