Best Extras Poems

It's the irreverent soda stain which irks me today
swelling the wood milky white in a ring
and satisfying that place in my brain's back pocket
which daily refuses to be satisfied.
Lipstick on the coffee cup at Waffle House 
- it isn't mine.
Daily "free" newspapers wrapped in orange...

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Only when my costume’s
Been hissed at with steel
Do my garments ripple in small, stormless waves.

Only when my mask
Has been greased in pale mud
Do my blemishes blend with the sea of my face.

Only when my hair’s
Met a shower of glue
Does it cow to the waves that...

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