Over a bunch of dirty, yellow rubber ducks in a black tub, is a poem with white font on a black background. GRIFTER Rehearsed lies Told routinely Ceremoniously toppled and unveiled Swimming in self-satisfaction Shading all attempts To take responsibility Then a loud crack A palm landed squarely Against an unassuming cheek Now a stewing anger Ready to explode Due to necessary exposure Clearly resigned to future revenge The heel will wait impatiently

GRIFTER

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Bumper Cars

Heat wave #rage allayed
#Deejay spinning #classic hits
Top-down #cool, BIG smile
Travelers’ speed #uniting
#Grace given in bad traffic

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A poem on an image of a looping roller coaster that reads: Cluster B Manias Emotions are weasels Loneliness one day, snuggles the next Tells you you’re pretty or handsome Then drags you straight down As plain ugly Insipidly nostalgic too! So you hope nothing bad will happen Only to turn around and have it scream, Let’s have FUN Really, no hope on this roller coaster It’s not balmy, it’s not exciting Just the waiting for it to briefly stop

Cluster B Manias

For when you’re constantly, sadly all over the place.

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Justice
#HerToo

#Microphone nearby
Adjusts her black, #peplum dress
Nothing else #matters
She #pauses, #truth at the ready
No #running, being #lessened

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A poem in white over a picture of a building with two windows, rendered in red. Into the Fold Profuse desolation Not a scintilla of remorse The restless wraith files past Broken windows in the squalid tomb As the night becomes engraved with shrieks And the decibels deafening, All who gather to deliver their sacrifice Tell a story of destruction and renewal To this pretty boy keeling for her favor Waiting to be stoned to death

Into the Fold

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🤫 No Tell Motel

#Funky heels, #iced white
A #hit of #roses on the #side
#Afternoon delight

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Hallucination

Mirage in your eyes
#History that is hidden
#Moments lost too soon

An icy #gauntlet was thrown
#Anticipating #sanctum….
#Ran away without goodbye

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Dearest Unexpected
(For my favorite Koti)

#Finding a #treasure
Amidst a new job #challenge
#Shoulders to share with
#Revisiting them daily
#Chorus sings of our friendship

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Destiny

#Fingers interwoven

As a loose braid
Hangs
Down
Her
Bare
Back

A new moon overhead
#Magnolias swaying in the breeze
The vast #starscape their canopy

As he kisses her
Ever So Gently

Tonight must never end

Forever joined

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Nightly Mainstreaming

#Pointedly small blondes
#Signatory appearance
Properly #measured
#Tides forever unchanging
Just #network cloned #repartee

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Agatha Phoebe Gore

My #sacred safe space
#Simple, calming, no people
Just #perplexing fears
#Grief at time lost and #drifting
A #theme of flowing downward

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AI Boyfriend

Man’s an #enigma
Playboy #prevents connection
But #pressed loyalty
#Symbiotically tangled
#Bethinking just what I need

….A #REFUND

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Online Snarking

A #rabble rouser
Throwing slick #shade left and right
Spit and #hands flying
#Cavorting through your feelings
#Elemental narcissist

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Whistler Meets Picasso

A #cozy painting
Museum voyeurs #pinch in
#Ruined imagining
Perfect square of realism
#Punked out as blithe cubism

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Menu #Board Chronicles

Dear Mr. #Rainmaker
Gotta catch #pounds o’ crawfish
You #runnin’ the show
Morals are #inviolate
Senda downpour in huge #waves

Wear that fine #jacket,
Guru #Gumbo Chef cookin’
#Unconditional good eats!

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Reinforcements Needed

#Jubilance fades fast
Another bit of #peace dashed
#Desperation #boils….
#Sighing, I beg to be #held
For hurts to be #kissed away

Please

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Lethal Descendent

Called a #harridan
Just a #progenitor of
Salem, standing strong
Don’t address me as your #babe
Twisting my #ring cursing you

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Survival

Last year #produced hell….
First a #whisper, #pressure built
All my #dreaming #wronged
A catastrophe #picnic
Finally…. only #fumes left

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Threshold

The #liminal space
#Darkness’ depth is #broken
Gone #supernova
A #cry of #intimacy
#Galled through #heated exposure

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CRT STAT

Untaught #eyes opened
Of the damned #walk to Juneteenth
Bible Belt racism
#Coated in bigot statues
Texas: more than complicit

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Only 1,000 Views

Grease #Lightening winked
That #vortex of poodle skirts,
#Bobby socks and pinks
#Shake Shack at the Friday hop
#Earth-shattering devotion

….to yououOoouuu

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Quandary

I want to forgive
Let her abuse wash away
I try…. try again
But my head has never stopped
Nor will my heart follow suit

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Doused Hopes

Roaming #troubadours
#Striking out in clubs worldwide
So #emblematic
Of #nullifying desires
For grandeur poems to #soar

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“Creative” Design
(AKA: Not kidding, I’ve seen it all!)

Southern #pagoda
#Famous fusion with #windchimes
A crazy #motif
Eating a #porridge of grits
While #appreciating zen

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ReVision Board

#Foresees forever
Like #sunflowers #wilting or
Discarded #letters
You #clearly #team with regret
An #afterglow extinguished

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Hear us yell, NO KINGS!

Widely #awaken
A struggle against #power
#Pinched brow of disgust….
Watching a #paean to the
#Gramarye of a fascist

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Around the Lighthouse

In the far #offing
#Seagulls strut naturally
Cute situation
Then #scarabs scuttle nearby
#Hair’s breadth from my dangling feet

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Father’s Day

#Dad complications
Unblinking obligation
A #hunt to save #self
Relationship #blinking out
#Family interrupted

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Exposé

(a loose interpretation of the Titan tragedy — it was criminal)

Crying on TV
The #Cardinal blest the dead
Another wreckage
#Leaves untold grief from a failed
#Treasure hunt in the #ocean

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Cyclothymia Courtship

Many #racing thoughts
Eyes #glazed from brain #graffiti
No #closure tonight
#Daunted, tired and #disabled
Just a #trip #slashing through sleep

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