Best Chapped Poems

bewildered, i try to find a chapter in which a comforting compromise is inevitable
awestruck, i seek the majestic bookmark that restores that definitvive warmth to my hypothermiated soul
i need your warm hand on my heart until forever becomes a limited mute
i need the central base...

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They no doubt enjoyed drinks and pleasantries; 
perhaps weights torn from chests 
that I'd kept heavy for weeks now.

If that distance to fondness corollary should hold
we might find a more somber truth in its negation;
for proximity makes us color blind and somewhere,
not too far from...

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chapped lips,
unkissed for many years,
cracked and swollen,
like my stone cold heart,
these lips see only tears
hardly a reason for them to part

do they make chap-stick
for the lost and lonely heart?
if they do, tell me, don't lie
how would I apply it
the comforting balm
of waxy protection
from the ache...

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