Best Baits Poems

Exhuming dreams buried in time;
you're in a state of denial.
And concealing your misery;
the truth's hidden behind a smile.

Forged upon empty yesterdays;
delusion warps reality.
And you're lost in a fantasy;
where hurt's a matter of degree.

Illusion has confused your heart;
for lies are never what they seem.
And though scattered...

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An autopsy was being conducted
with brutality
to silence the rising dialogue,

pulling out the lethal crunch
of scripted history.
You want the kiss of a parting grain.

A secondhand face crops 
up in a newspaper. Are you ashamed
of curtains ? They have covered

all the skeletons. The tangerines,
why do I remember...

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The devil and I have been good.
Together from childhood.
Like childhood friends.
I remember at the beginning
At the dining table of peccancy
With my long fork hardly missing any mark.

They say if you must eat with the devil,
Do so with a long fork or spoon

So my fork was...

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a photo from
my future was
imprinted on
a piece of wood

then taken to
a jigsaw and
made into
pieces

these became me 
to shape
my test to
tell how i was

to look and to
see how others
would see me
creating myself

but not quite
understanding
the concept for
having no finish

ed form to know
when i was
done other
then using

every piece
i...

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