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Guests in leis raised Mai Tais to toast before
the couple edged towards the coconut coast
framed in yellow hibiscus at the door.
 

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It was while in volumes of Poe engrossed
that I found myself in tune with a dream
as real as any daytime dreamer's ghosts
 

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Purple dress and white shoes clash
with an evening clutch jetty black
captured the worse dressed news flash
 

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Swimming through the water midnight black
gooseflesh pimpled with each swift sure stroke
with the full moon riding it bare-back
 

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with the full moon riding it bare-back
god's country made a picturesque landscape
like finding a needle in a haystack
 

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Haystack rolled out to be dried
sat wondering how is the sky so blue
before it was about to be tied.
 

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but the dewy apple's fresh appeal did
nothing for my existential thirst
so i am throat-quenched, and yet i feel dead
 
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My final draft stands proudly o'er my first,
yet shrinks before the greats of ages past,
my best a pale shadow of their worst.
 

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both the knees were either scuffed or grassed
on any pair of trousers I could find
I dressed for church, and mother was aghast
 
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Some would like to think me unkind,
but I prefer ferociously honest--
Perhaps then kindness is all in the mind?
 

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I call it as I see it, astonished
at the rampant disregard for candor
cutting to the quick; short, sweet - as promised.
 

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I stand in the vestibule eying the manor,
it's hung with fine art, has a roaring fire;
I try to walk softly and not stir up rancor


(ugh, candor was hard for me. :))
 

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A full-length Venus in oil stirs desire.
Candles cast shadows and glint in her eye.
Cherish her frame and her bid you'll acquire.
 

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One day, I'll be just a regular guy...
the poet no more than a dormant dream,
and in my fading age I'll find a new pastime.
 

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One day I'll fulfill my ultimate scheme:
to look out the window and dream all day,
take my words for a ride and float downstream
 

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sandals on the bus! not shaved since tuesday!
lee morgan on the pod... commuter equals daydream:
raffish, louche, effete, and distingué
 
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With purpose in heart and smile full of beam,
she sees each car as pods of energy.
She rubs her belly and longs for ice cream.
 

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misery warms to mystery
and close calm attends a cup of tea
but leaves: a ring and sodden augury
 
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Ashamed of her predictability,
she patches the shadows under each eye,
clocks into her virulent entropy.
 

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modesty's a poke in the poet's eye
a tongue craves texture: nipple, scar,
and elbowed syllable - your ear knows why