At best, all we choose
Is what our bodies can bear:
As the towers fall, do you
Jump from your window
Or stay in these orange flames?

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Have you ever gone
back to a place you once loved
and it wasn’t the same place?
Fancy people on your old
stoop, no place to breathe

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My foot, your ankle
tangled in your morning sheets
lines of gray light fall across
your lashes; I slip
away before she returns.

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I am no longer
beautiful in that glossy
Lipstick catwalk way; I
Am beautiful like
An old rowboat. Like a knife.

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Morning, by the pond
a sticker on a bridge: « Do
you hear the death rattle of
Capitalism? »
(Not yet, but the day is young)

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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

Roses explode off
their branches, so alive in
this burning world. I want
to slow my busy thinking,
sit here, and name each blossom.

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