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Emily’s List
You don’t know how to have me,This matchstick girl’s dream of fire,The circus dancing around you, The fame that gets you higher and higher. I don’t want you to fall beloved, Tell the preacher I’m keeping herUp there in the rarified air –This wish in my hands forever. Let go of my balloon Our lies…
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A Girl Called September
You took me out to a sweet Midsummer’s dream, To tell me all about the sleepy Shadow’s play, And the two hands it takes to move the darkness The Lady who gives, and the one that takes away. Feeding those pretty vampires at the petting zoo, I gave them a little of me, you gave…
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News Prints
Time has left you there by yourself,Left its shadows to conquer your heart,To wilt the flowers and poison the will, The death that made pretty also makes ill. Cooling embers that flare with breath,Life flashing in the rumour of fire –I am burnt like those yesterdays, Ready to open myself and free the seed. We…
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Squaring the Circle
Buried in my wishes and portraits, Deep in a syncopated longing,I had to break through the shell of you, And climb out of your wreckage,To see myself untamed and wild. Maybe you might understand me, Why RAGE is the name I give, To this way out of this darkness.When they drag you down to THEIR…
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Dark Appetites
Rolling time into my bodyStop go stop go,Dissolve and emerge,Pushing, breaking, consuming,The blood is boiling off, The soul, evaporating,Only the beating heart,Of the beast keeps time,To separate the mindFrom body, from soul,The sounds of this silence,In the rushing rivers,And the creaking bones,And the breaking thoughts,The unliving mockery,That serves the violentEcho of brutality,Tumbling down deeper,Underground to…
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The Nobody Mouse
Come now like the rain,With your cold tin roof acclaim,Into the haunted house,Of the nobody mouse, With the tom cats and the spectres,And an empty room of hecklers.Waiting out this storm of tears,For the halcyon days….. To reclaim your fears. Before we rip ourselves to pieces,Let me hold you still tonightWith my one good eye…
A Fantazien Window 