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Death

  • the other side of everything

    it’s ending! it’s ending! all colors are blending i can’t say i want to die but i’d love to close my eyes and open…

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    second story

    in the spring another fall for the stubborn leaves that cling to the now new budding branches life pushes death out of the way…

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    i am winter

    1/4/2001 i am winter come to ruin the promise of last spring with freezing rain on window panes i am death of everything there…

  • dallas

      you died somewhere overe dallas the sky was so clear that day as we wept it hid itself behind a mournful gray so…

  • 9/11/02

    so many stories remain untold hidden by crumbling walls cut short phone calls eighty story falls we trade these imaginations of unwitnessed scenes over…

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    rainmakers

    watch the water claim the valley hear all the rainmaker’s brag we finally got what we asked for now we can’t give it back…

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    blue tie

    a guy in a blue tie told me you had died i didn’t believe him but i sat right down and cried he said…

  • cold weather

      cold weather comes sliding down that hill and barges through open doors like bad news cold weather flees in one morning of sun…

  • flight 93

    kiss me, my darling, before i go my flight leaves at 8 am i’ll see you when i get home i’ll call you from…

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    we will rebuild

    i’m struck by the beauty i now see in you i’ve long ignored the red white and blue has someone switched you in the…

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