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Poems i wrote recently


Bright lights
against the
Black highway
speeding by so
Fast i can hardly
tell if i'm moving or
Is it you that's
flying by so quickly
Even as i speak i know
You're drifting away
From my fingertips trailing
Against the window pane
Rivulets of rain
running along the glass

Escaping

But i'm forever trapped

Right here

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Happy Faces

Beneath these shiny faces
I sense all that glitters
Is stone cold malice:
A sheen of lies, sinister
Underneath the surface
Of the stretched skin,
Pulled so taut across nose and
Cheek bones, in
These laughing eyes
I see some happiness that dies.
In these dancing hands and feet
I know of lovers that never meet
They stare with plastic faces
At each other,
from afar
A hundred paces,
From each other's heart.

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