Best Staple Poems

smiles for the unpredictable
anger for the bitter-hearted
humility for the divine-hearted...

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Are there Staples in this staple sandwich?
I ask in the ER in the hallway

Where my bed for the night is

Where I need earplugs
To dim the constant sound of my mind

There is no room  in this overbooked
Busy mind of mine

Red, blue and yellow thumbtacks, like...

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The pursuit is not as much to attain
The full ripeness of self-confidence,
But to rather pass through it,
To observe its gears from the mind's
Eternal shore, its brass and bravado.

I saw three orange lights on New Years Eve
In the dark and smoky distance
Of my parent's neighborhood.
Then above...

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this surgery is never guaranteed
some come away looking terrific
they don’t publicize those left dead
buried in a foreign grave
my friends will take the risk
dreams of being thin
not me this time
I shall stay
alive
fat...

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As the mirror photographs eyes, 
Tongues running laps read glazed signs,
Broken phone calls your label
Talking fire cuts fixed cable,
Voices piling in rooms behind. 

Snapshotting darkness as I dine,
Mailing timepiece's vessel skies,
Painkillers rocking the cradle, 
As the mirror photographs eyes. 

The brain's carcass sees the sun...

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